Название: Hitler's British Nazis: The Hidden Story of the Fascist Movement in the UK
Автор: Norman Ridley
Издательство: Frontline Books
ISBN: 1399033344
Год: 2024
Формат: EPUB, PDF
Страниц: 211
Размер: 10,2 МБ
Язык: Английский

Following the end of the First World War, many countries experienced economic decline. Unemployment, high inflation, low wages and poor working conditions led to widespread unrest. This manifested itself in the rise of powerful militaristic leaders, first in Italy where fascism was born, and then in Germany and elsewhere.

Название: Catherine de' Medici: The Life and Times of the Serpent Queen
Автор: Mary Hollingsworth
Издательство: Pegasus Books
ISBN: 1800244762
Год: 2024
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 480
Размер: 30,0 МБ
Язык: Английский

A new biography of Catherine de' Medici, the most powerful woman in sixteenth-century Europe, whose author uses neglected primary sources to recreate the life and times of a remarkable – and remarkably traduced – woman.

Название: Великий Октябрь и прогрессивная Америка
Автор: Краснов И.М.
Издательство: Мысль
Год: 1967
Формат: djvu
Страниц: 352
Размер: 10 Мб
Язык: русский

Предлагаемый читателю сборник документов и материалов «Великий Октябрь и прогрессивная Америка» состоит из не опубликованных в СССР работ, статей и выступлений выдающихся представителей прогрессивной Америки — писателей, журналистов, деятелей рабочего и коммунистического движения США, документов и материалов Коммунистической партии США, Рабочей партии (Workers'' Party), профсоюзов, Общества друзей Советской России, Общества технической помощи Советской России и других организаций, выступавших в защиту пролетарской революции и строительства нового общества в России.

Название: America's Unending Civil War: The Enduring Conflict from Jamestown through to Recent Elections
Автор: Nester William
Издательство: Frontline Books
ISBN: 1399081187
Год: 2024
Формат: EPUB, PDF (conv)
Страниц: 288
Размер: 11,4 МБ
Язык: Английский

Explores the Civil War’s related and enduring conflicts of ideas and principles through four centuries of a nation’s history. The Civil War fascinates Americans like no other war in their history. Many Americans are still fighting some of the war’s issues in an Odyssey that stretches back to the first settlement and will persist until the end of time.

Название: In Search of Human Evolution: Field Research in Diverse Environments
Автор: Michael H. Crawford
Издательство: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0197679404
Год: 2024
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 209
Размер: 14,8 МБ
Язык: Английский

Why would a researcher be willing to subject themselves to scorching heat, frigid conditions, or swarms of Anopheles mosquitoes? In Search of Human Evolution synthesizes more than 50 years of Crawford's research on the effects of migration on the evolution of human populations relocated to a series of unique environments.

Название: Nepal: A History from the Earliest Times to the Present
Автор: Axel Michaels
Издательство: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0197650937
Год: 2024
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 433
Размер: 36,3 МБ
Язык: Английский

Until 1951 Nepal was closed to the world, landlocked between the strongest Asian powers, India and China. With its exceptional landscape, it touts the highest mountains and the greatest biodiversity on earth. It is best known as the home of Mt. Everest and holds particular fascination for those interested in climbing the Himalayas.

Название: Twentieth-Century Spain: A History
Автор: Julian Casanova, Carlos Gil Andres
Издательство: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107016967
Год: 2014
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 380
Размер: 4,2 МБ
Язык: Английский

This is a much-needed new overview of Spanish social and political history which sets developments in twentieth-century Spain within a broader European context. Julián Casanova, one of Spain's leading historians, and Carlos Gil Andrés chart the country's experience of democracy, dictatorship and civil war and its dramatic transformation from an agricultural and rural society to an industrial and urban society fully integrated into Europe.

Название: To the Ends of the Earth: How Ancient Conquerors, Explorers, Scientists, and Traders Connected the World
Автор: Raimund J. Schulz, Robert Savage
Издательство: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019766802X
Год: 2024
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 561
Размер: 50,6 МБ
Язык: Английский

A sweeping history of ancient exploration, the first full-scale account in over a century. Odysseus. Jason and the Argonauts. Heracles. Greek mythology is full of tales of heroes setting out for the unknown. Such tales reflected and instilled a sense of confidence in the Greeks as they explored the limits of their world.

Название: A Primer for Teaching Indian Ocean World History: Ten Design Principles (The World Readers)
Автор: Edward A. Alpers, Thomas F. McDow
Издательство: Duke University Press Books
Год: 2024
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 216
Размер: 9,8 МБ
Язык: Английский

A Primer for Teaching Indian Ocean World History is a guide for college and high school educators who are teaching Indian Ocean histories for the first time or who want to reinvigorate their courses. It can also serve those who are training future teachers to prepare their own syllabi, as well as those who want to incorporate Indian Ocean histories into their world history courses.

Название: Strabo's Geography: A Translation for the Modern World
Автор: Sarah Pothecary
Издательство: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691243131
Год: 2024
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 1105
Размер: 16,8 МБ
Язык: Английский

A lively new translation of Strabo's completeGeography—an encyclopedic guide to the ancient world of the first century CE—connecting it with the world of the twenty-first century
Strabo'sGeography is an encyclopedic description of the ancient world as it appeared to a contemporary observer in the early Roman empire.