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Leisure and Class in Victorian England by Peter Bailey
epub |eng | 2014-01-14 | Author:Peter Bailey [Bailey, Peter]

Though he was apprehensive at the dangers that the popularity of athletic sports posed to intellectual life at the universities, Stephen allowed that they met the need for physical recreation ...
( Category: England February 26,2023 )
A Land Twice Promised by Noa Baum
epub |eng | 2016-06-07 | Author:Noa Baum [Baum, Noa]

Hearing Muna’s stories convinced me that the stories from 1967 were not the only ones I needed to tell. It was not enough to hear Jumana’s story and for her ...
( Category: Israel & Palestine February 26,2023 )
A Letter from Frank by Stephen J. Colombo
epub |eng | 2011-09-20 | Author:Stephen J. Colombo [Colombo, Stephen J.]

Member of the German army in winter camouflage clothes and skis. (Bundesarchiv, Bild 146-1969-140-57, photographer: Blaurock) For the most part they travelled on trails made by previous patrols. The parallel ...
( Category: Canada February 26,2023 )
Let Us Have Peace by Brooks D. Simpson
epub |eng | 2014-06-30 | Author:Brooks D. Simpson [Simpson, Brooks D.]

Southern rejection of the Fourteenth Amendment forced Grant’s hand. Efforts at compromise had failed. Southern whites remained defiant, and Johnson’s inflexibility only stiffened their resolve. Even Sherman complained that “outrages ...
( Category: Reconstruction February 26,2023 )
Lenin's Revolution by David R. Marples
epub |eng | 2014-06-06 | Author:David R. Marples [Marples, David R.]

UKRAINE AND OTHER NON-RUSSIAN TERRITORIES On 9 February 1918 the German High Command and the Austro-Hungarian Empire had signed a separate treaty with the Ukrainian People’s Republic, which recognized Ukraine ...
( Category: History February 26,2023 )
Leisure in the Industrial Revolution by Hugh Cunningham
epub |eng | 2016-07-01 | Author:Hugh Cunningham [Cunningham, Hugh]

5 THE MAKING OF LEISURE, c. 1850–c. 1880 There is widespread agreement that a new phase in the history of leisure opens in the mid-nineteenth century. ‘The leisure patterns of ...
( Category: 19th Century February 26,2023 )
Le Morvan, [A District of France,] Its Wild Sports, Vineyards and Forests; with Legends, Antiquities, Rural and Local Sketches by Henri de Crignelle
epub |eng | 2021-02-24 | Author:Henri de Crignelle [Crignelle, Henri de]

* * * CHAPTER XIV. Mare No. 2.—Description of it—Not sought after by the sportsman—The sick banker—The doctor's prescription—The patient's disgust at it—Is at length obliged to yield—Leaves Paris for ...
( Category: France February 26,2023 )
Laura Clay and the Woman's Rights Movement by Paul E. Fuller
epub |eng | 2021-10-21 | Author:Paul E. Fuller [Fuller, Paul E.]

VII STRUGGLE FOR CONTROL OF THE NATIONAL SUFFRAGE MOVEMENT 1309-1911 THE INTERNAL DISSENSION that marred Laura Clay’s last months on the Official Board was similar, in some respects, to the ...
( Category: South February 26,2023 )
Lenin and the End of Politics by A. J. Polan
epub |eng | 2017-04-21 | Author:A. J. Polan [Polan, A. J.]

THE PARTY PROBLEM It is common in critiques of the Soviet state to attribute its deficiencies to the authoritarian structure of the Bolshevik party from its earliest pre-revolutionary days. Its ...
( Category: Russia February 26,2023 )
Leroy Pope Walker by William C. Harris
epub |eng | 2021-05-03 | Author:William C. Harris [Harris, William C.]

CHAPTER VI—Administering the War Department DURING THE EARLY PART of the South’s struggle for independence, Confederate Secretaries of War adhered to a simple plan of army organization and administration. To ...
( Category: 19th Century February 26,2023 )
Lessons Unlearned: The U.S. Army's Role in Creating the Forever Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq by Pat Proctor
epub, pdf |eng | 2020-03-09 | Author:Pat Proctor [Proctor, Pat]

Before the Army could embark on finding the Army After Next, however, it had some housekeeping to do. The Joint Staff had published the Joint Vision 2010, and the Army ...
( Category: Afghan War February 26,2023 )
Letters and Papers of Professor Sir John Knox Laughton, 1830-1915 by Andrew Lambert
epub |eng | 2019-08-15 | Author:Andrew Lambert [Lambert, Andrew]

173. Laughton to Browning 18 January 1898 I am obliged by your note, and will enter Ryan's name. Those errata are an infernal bother. It was a most unlucky chance ...
( Category: History February 26,2023 )
Letters of a Russian Traveler, 1789-1790 by N. M. Karamzin Florence Jonas
epub |eng | 1976-04-02 | Author:N. M. Karamzin, Florence Jonas [N. M. Karamzin, Florence Jonas]

Paris, April 2, 1790 “I am in Paris!” This thought produces in my soul a kind of peculiar, agitated, inexplicable, delightful sensation. “I am in Paris!” I tell myself as ...
( Category: Switzerland February 26,2023 )
Less is Better by Malcolm Chalmers
epub |eng | 2015-02-20 | Author:Malcolm Chalmers [Chalmers, Malcolm]

8 UN Department of Public Information (SC/9746), ‘Historic Summit of Security Council Pledges Support for Progress on Stalled Efforts to End Nuclear Weapons Proliferation’, 24 September 2009, <http://www.un.org/News/Press/docs/2009/sc9746.doc>, accessed 8 ...
( Category: Military February 26,2023 )
The Life and Character of King Henry the Fifth by J. Endell Tyler
epub |eng | 2020-12-17 | Author:J. Endell Tyler [Tyler, J. Endell]

We, the underwritten, and company, having on the 1st of November last suffered such irreparable losses and damage by the dreadful earthquake and fire which destroyed this city and other ...
( Category: History February 26,2023 )

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