Historical Study & Educational Resources
epub |eng | 2013-06-13 | Author:Ian Crofton [Crofton, Ian]

timeline 1637 Descartes outlines his system of methodical doubt in Discourse on Method 1686–7 Newton states his laws of motion and gravitation in Principia Mathematica 1688–9 Constitutional monarchy established in ...
( Category: World June 14,2017 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 1991-05-15 | Author:Christopher Lasch [Lasch, Christopher]

begun to think for themselves, it was almost irrelevant whether they institutionalized their achievement. The "epic state of mind," in fact, was inherently resistant to institutionalization. Moral heroism and the ...
( Category: Politics & Government June 14,2017 )
epub |eng | 2008-10-10 | Author:Waldron, Lamar [Waldron, Lamar]

The efforts of Banister and others working for the Mafia would not be wasted. Much of what they had Oswald do in the winter and spring of 1963 would make ...
( Category: World June 14,2017 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-04-12 | Author:Eric Berkowitz

Typically the witches’ misdeeds were announced in detail to the assembled onlookers before the flame was lit. In one Spanish auto-da-fé, whereby twenty-nine witches were set afire (among fifty-nine heretics), ...
( Category: Legal History June 14,2017 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2004-03-26 | Author:James C. Davis

EVERYWHERE THE PROBLEM was the same: how could people produce more, so that everyone could have more? The answer was industrialization. This lengthy word means, simply, raising your output by ...
mobi |eng | 2013-07-30 | Author:Michael Paterniti

* Eventually I would sort out some of the names for the land, and I offer one last refresher here: The land above—what was identified as arriba by those in ...
( Category: Regional & International June 14,2017 )
epub |eng | 2011-07-22 | Author:David Nicolle

The Adriatic and Aegean areas, c.1202 The simple floor mosaics in the church of San Giovanni Evangelistica in Ravenna were made shortly after the Fourth Crusade and include a representation ...
( Category: Military June 13,2017 )
epub |eng | 2011-12-26 | Author:Joe Nickell [Nickell, Joe]

Recommended Works Cescinsky, Herbert. The Gentle Art of Faking Furniture. 1931; reprint, New York: Dover, 1967. Specialized treatise on how antique furniture is faked and how the fakery is detected; ...
epub |eng | 2010-10-03 | Author:Josh MacPhee

ARTWORK: JOSHUA KAHN RUSSELL Walter Rodney (1942-1980) “What I am trying to say is this: The revolution is made by ordinary people, not by angels, made by people from all ...
( Category: Sociology June 13,2017 )
epub |eng | 2012-05-27 | Author:Jeff Kingston

Chinese Migrants Most of the 655,000 Chinese-born people residing in Japan as of 2008 came after the mid-1980s, making them the fastest-growing ethnic community. Between 1990 and 2005, 58,879 Chinese ...
( Category: Asia June 13,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2011-01-05 | Author:Flanders, Judith [Flanders, Judith]

Adelaide Bartlett had a background that sounds suspiciously like that of a penny-dreadful heroine. Some contemporary crime historians have suggested that she was the illegitimate daughter of a son of ...
( Category: True Crime June 13,2017 )
epub |eng | 2010-11-24 | Author:Martin Jay [Jay, Martin]

The central theme of the work is a relatively new concept -- the rise of an "anthropological" species we call the authoritarian type of man. - MAX HORKHEIME.R The war ...
( Category: Europe June 13,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Kerwin Lee Klein

The assimilationist drift of The Modern World-System carried it away from the interests of those seeking to show the importance of non-European actors. Wallerstein's introductory comment that "in general, in ...
( Category: Anthropology June 13,2017 )
epub |eng | 2008-06-07 | Author:Douglas A. Blackmon [Blackmon, Douglas A.]

IX A RIVER OF ANGER The South Is "an armed camp." In the three months since Reese began his slavery investigation, the guilt of every defendant called to court had ...
( Category: African-American Studies June 8,2017 )
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:C. P. Snow [SNOW, C.P.]

2 INTELLECTUALS AS NATURAL LUDDITES The reasons for the existence of the two cultures are many, deep, and complex, some rooted in social histories, some in personal histories, and some ...
( Category: Modern June 8,2017 )