Historical Study & Educational Resources
epub |eng | 2009-01-05 | Author:Adrienne Rich

Foreword to Directed by Desire: The Collected Poems of June Jordan, ed. Jan Heller Levi and Sara Miles (Port Townsend, Wash.: Copper Canyon Press, 2005). This version was first published ...
( Category: Essays January 6,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2006-01-15 | Author:Stewart, Matthew [Stewart, Matthew]

SOMEWHERE ON THE left bank of the Seine, another individual was beginning to trace the contours of the new world. In light of the new ideas radiating from The Hague, ...
( Category: History & Surveys January 6,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-12-02 | Author:Sven Beckert [Beckert, Sven]

Famine victims, probably 1899, India (illustration credit 11.12) Experiencing a new kind of uncertainty thanks to world market integration, and squeezed by moneylenders, cotton growers in India, Brazil, Mexico, and ...
( Category: Trades & Tariffs January 4,2015 )
epub |eng | 2013-01-15 | Author:Prakash, Gyan [Prakash, Gyan]

DREAMING RED A collective identity forged from the neighborhood ties of village, caste, and kin did not automatically translate into a proletarian mobilization against capital. It was one thing to ...
( Category: India December 31,2014 )
azw3 |eng | 2013-01-15 | Author:Prakash, Gyan [Prakash, Gyan]

DREAMING RED A collective identity forged from the neighborhood ties of village, caste, and kin did not automatically translate into a proletarian mobilization against capital. It was one thing to ...
( Category: India December 31,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2013-12-02 | Author:Johnson, Nicholas [Johnson, Nicholas]

Fig. 6.3. Dr. Ossian Sweet. (Courtesy of the Burton Historical Collection, Detroit Public Library.) The case of State v. Sweet et al. ended in the acquittal of eight defendants and ...
( Category: African-American Studies December 29,2014 )
epub |eng | 1987-07-14 | Author:Steven Runciman [Runciman, Steven]

1146: Murder of Zengi In May 1146 Zengi moved to Aleppo to prepare for his Syrian expedition. As he passed through Edessa he learnt of an attempt by the Armenians ...
( Category: Christianity December 29,2014 )
epub |eng | 2008-12-28 | Author:Barbara Mertz

EGYPTIAN MAGIC Since we have just demonstrated, at some length, that we ought to try to look at the world as the Egyptians looked at it, we will have to ...
( Category: Historical Study & Educational Resources December 29,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-08-06 | Author:Dillon, Patrick [Dillon, Patrick]

* * * It didn’t seem to put them off. Three months into prohibition, the gin was still flowing. And if reformers and politicians spent Christmas looking for signs of ...
( Category: Great Britain December 27,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2014-01-20 | Author:Cohen, David [Cohen, David]

6 Victoria, Albert and the Dangers of Great Expectations (1821–63) George III’s fourth son, Edward, the Duke of Kent and Strathearn, played just a small part in the dramas of ...
( Category: Great Britain December 27,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-12-26 | Author:Lewis, Dan [Lewis, Dan]

BACON OF THE SEA WHERE PIGS SWIM The Bahamas is made up of roughly 700 islands scattered southeast of Florida and north of Cuba. One of those islands, Staniel Cay, ...
( Category: Trivia December 27,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-10-12 | Author:Watson, Peter [Watson, Peter]

Valerie Flint’s reconstruction of Columbus’ known reading shows that, in addition to Italian, he was adept at Latin, Castilian and Portuguese and that his books–many heavily annotated to the point ...
( Category: Civilization & Culture December 27,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-11-15 | Author:Samanth Subramanian

I had come to Mangalore expecting to fall completely in love with its fish curry, but I lusted instead, for much of my time there, after another dish, before I ...
( Category: Travel December 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-11-17 | Author:Robert Beachy [Beachy, Robert]

Anti-Semitism was Blüher’s defensive response to the criticism he received from the Wandervogel establishment for the third volume of his study. In 1913 Dr. H. Albrecht, a leading member of ...
( Category: LGBT December 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-02-24 | Author:Leon Davidovich Trotzky [Leon Davidovich Trotzky]

* * * To give his high-souled supporters, male and female, a complete picture of the moral level of the Russian proletariat, Kautsky adduces, on page 172 of his book, ...
( Category: Democracy December 27,2014 )