Historical Study & Educational Resources
epub |eng | | Author:Luc Sante

Les soliloques du pauvre, by Jehan Rictus, cover by Théophile Steinlen, 1897 The Lapin Agile in winter, circa 1910 Still, the early bohemians in Montmartre did not have an easy ...
( Category: Europe August 23,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-04-22 | Author:Saval, Nikil [Saval, Nikil]

“Today,” Harrington concludes, ruefully, “you see such formerly robust individuals, now mild of mien, poking along our corridors in groups and committees with administrative papers in their hands. They have ...
( Category: Business Culture August 22,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-11-12 | Author:Linklater, Andro [Linklater, Andro]

Chapter Fifteen The End of Serfdom and Slavery In the 1850s, a Russian aristocrat who owned an estate, Yasnaya Polyana, about 120 miles south of Moscow kept a detailed diary ...
( Category: Historical Study & Educational Resources August 22,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-12-15 | Author:Nicholas Gage [Gage, Nicholas]

The government soldiers never advanced beyond the lower boundary of the Haidis property. By 2 A.M. on March 3, the tide of battle had turned and the government troops were ...
( Category: Europe August 22,2017 )
epub |eng | 2011-09-14 | Author:Maloney, Alison [Maloney, Alison]

An early advertisement for a wrought-iron mangle The Wash House In the ‘big houses’, the work was done in a wash house, which was either a few rooms attached to ...
( Category: Europe August 22,2017 )
epub, azw3, mobi |eng | 1990-01-02 | Author:H. G. Bissinger [Bissinger, H. G.]

All around them the world seemed to be caving in; the way of life that had existed in Odessa for sixty years was badly shaken. Wherever you looked the economic ...
( Category: Football (American) August 22,2017 )
epub |eng | 1999-12-31 | Author:Andrew Hussey

28. The Bourgeois World of Louis-Philippe Despite the ferocity of the rioting during the events of the trois glorieuses, there had been relatively few casualties in comparison with previous conflicts ...
( Category: Europe August 22,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2002-08-21 | Author:Betsy Israel

One read about these women on very slow news days, in stories that often seemed more like public-service announcements. Women who made the news were valorous like Eleanor Roosevelt, brave ...
( Category: World August 21,2017 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Diana Palmer [Palmer, Diana]

She shook her head. "Not really." "All these long years," he said, brushing the unruly hair back from his broad forehead. His eyes closed. "It makes me sick when women ...
( Category: Schools & Teaching August 21,2017 )
epub |eng | 2014-12-06 | Author:David Crane

7 p.m. Noblesse Oblige Colonel Thomas Nicholl was old-fashioned enough to have long since finished his dinner. Down in town smarter men might be edging the time of the meal ...
( Category: Europe August 21,2017 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Diana Palmer [Palmer, Diana]

Chapter 8 Her first sight of the Tetons as she and Egan flew over Jackson Hole made Kati catch her breath. Seated beside Egan in the ranch's small jet, she ...
( Category: Schools & Teaching August 21,2017 )
epub |eng | 2013-03-18 | Author:Bob Carruthers

Archbishop Stigand from the Bayeux Tapestry [A.D. 1052. And went so to the Isle of Wight, and there took all the ships which could be of any service, and hostages, ...
( Category: Encyclopedias & Subject Guides August 21,2017 )
epub |eng | 2017-08-18 | Author:9780307449832

DELAYED RECOVERY, PROLONGED DEPRESSION In 1931, in some of the darkest days of the Great Depression and the middle of the Hoover administration, the national unemployment rate stood at 17.4 ...
( Category: Politics & Government August 21,2017 )
epub |eng | 2015-08-20 | Author:James H. S. McGregor

Islamic conquests in the seventh to ninth centuries stretched from Spain across North Africa to the Levant and beyond. Victory in the east was followed by a western campaign against ...
( Category: Earth Sciences August 20,2017 )
epub |eng | 2017-04-14 | Author:John T. Edge

When Dupree thought it useful, she played the Old South card. She spoke to white, privileged, and recalcitrant readers when she wrote in New Southern Cooking, her 1986 breakout book, ...
( Category: Americas August 20,2017 )