Historical Study & Educational Resources
azw3, epub, pdf |eng | 1986-08-05 | Author:Sidney W. Mintz [Mintz, Sidney W.]

With you I see, in ages yet unborn, Thy votaries the British Isles adorn, With joy I see enamour’d youths despise The goblet’s luster for the false one’s eyes; Till ...
( Category: World May 21,2018 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2017-08-28 | Author:Peter Guardino [Guardino, Peter]

CHAPTER 7 The People of the Town Were Firing THE AMERICANS had mixed feelings about the Battles of Padierna and Churubusco. Padierna had clearly been a victory for the Americans ...
( Category: Americas May 17,2018 )
epub |eng | 2011-05-31 | Author:Smedley, Audrey; Smedley, Brian D.;

NOTES 1 See Kuhn 1962 for one view of the processes of scientific growth. This view and model has its critics. Greene 1981, for example, poses a much broader paradigm ...
( Category: Sociology May 17,2018 )
azw3, epub, pdf |eng | 2017-11-07 | Author:Nikhil Pal Singh [Singh, Nikhil Pal]

CHAPTER FIVE The Present Crisis This war has to be fought with the scale and duration and savagery that is only true of civil wars. We are lucky in this ...
( Category: Americas May 15,2018 )
epub |eng | 2011-05-13 | Author:Johnson, James H.; [Johnson, James H.]

The “beautiful order” of a population aligned in ranks, from kings down to slaves, is immaculately preserved in Gozzi’s fables, whose stratification extends to character and speech. Nobles exhibit magnanimous ...
epub |eng | | Author:MacKinnon, Aran; MacKinnon, Elaine McClarnand;

Map 7.2. Istanbul Under Mehmed the Conqueror, 1453–1481 Following the conquest Mehmed II consciously preserved great continuity in the urban fabric. He turned the Hagia Sophia into a mosque, built ...
epub |eng | | Author:Robert L. Kelly

CHAPTER 6 Kings and Chains The Beginning of the State The past always looks better than it was. It’s only pleasant because it isn’t here. —Finley Peter Dunne If you ...
( Category: Anthropology May 12,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Kathryn Babayan & Michael Pifer

Intertwined Histories: The Balkans The decade between the end of the Balkan Wars in 1913 and the establishment of the Republic of Turkey in 1923 witnessed a series of cataclysmic ...
( Category: Asia May 12,2018 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2018-05-08 | Author:Jon Meacham

* * * — And of Lyndon Johnson’s. In the months after the Kennedy assassination, the new president pressed his old colleagues on Capitol Hill to give the civil rights ...
( Category: Americas May 12,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Ian Graham

THE DANDY PRINCE Like his grandfather and great-grandfather, George III wasn’t much of a ladies’ man. There were rumors that he secretly married a Quaker girl called Hannah Lightfoot, but ...
( Category: World May 12,2018 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2018-05-08 | Author:Zora Neale Hurston

XII Alone One night Seely wake up in de night and say, ‘Cudjo wake up. I dream about our chillun. Look lak dey cold.’ I tell her she think too ...
( Category: Social Sciences May 10,2018 )
epub |eng | 2017-06-15 | Author:Lord Acton

To men in general I would justify the stress I am laying on Modern History, neither by urging its varied wealth, nor the rupture with precedent, nor the perpetuity of ...
( Category: Europe May 9,2018 )
epub |eng | 2012-05-09 | Author:Paul Slack

Hard choices The fuller the sources become over time, the easier it is to test the accuracy of those sweeping statements of chroniclers about the havoc created by plague, and ...
( Category: Medicine May 9,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-03-28 | Author:Zora Neale Hurston

XII Alone One night Seely wake up in de night and say, ‘Cudjo wake up. I dream about our chillun. Look lak dey cold.’ I tell her she think too ...
( Category: Social Sciences May 8,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Agnès Poirier

CHAPTER NINE LOVE, STYLE, DRUGS, AND LONELINESS HUSBANDS, LOVERS, AND FRIENDS The tall, handsome, and brooding Nelson Algren, of Jewish, Swedish, and German descent, whom Simone de Beauvoir had briefly ...
( Category: Historical May 5,2018 )