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Hijacking History by Kathleen Wellman
epub |eng | 2021-06-15 | Author:Kathleen Wellman

This account distills America’s success in forming a republic to adherence to biblical Christianity. It gave Americans “virtue and character.” Other countries have not succeeded in forming such a government ...
( Category: History & Theory June 13,2023 )
A Cultural History of Democracy in the Medieval Age by David Napolitano;Kenneth J. Pennington;
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:David Napolitano;Kenneth J. Pennington;

CHAPTER SEVEN Ethnicity, Race, and Nationalism WALTER POHL This is a troubled field, distorted by manifold political and ideological misuses that continue to weigh heavily on scholarly debates. After 1945, ...
( Category: Politics & Social Sciences June 13,2023 )
A History of the Grandparents I Never Had by Jablonka Ivan
epub |eng | 2016-06-15 | Author:Jablonka, Ivan [Jablonka, Ivan]

6 THE PROVIDENTIAL DENTIST Gitla Leszcz is in the last stages of life. Her spindly arm, nothing left but veins and tendons, emerges from her yellow “Hospitals of Paris” bedsheet. ...
( Category: France June 13,2023 )
A Cultural History of Sport in the Age of Enlightenment by Rebekka von Mallinckrodt
epub, pdf |eng | 2021-10-06 | Author:Rebekka von Mallinckrodt [Mallinckrodt, Rebekka von]

TOWARDS A REGULATION OF RECREATIONAL CONFLICT Much has been written about the decline of violent exercise games, which was undeniable in the second modernity, in favor of parlor games and ...
( Category: History June 13,2023 )
A Little Gay History of Wales by Daryl Leeworthy
epub |eng | | Author:Daryl Leeworthy

There was a clear sense of separation between gay and non-gay patrons, either using back bars, separate lounges, or through the careful intervention of the bar staff to maintain a ...
( Category: History June 13,2023 )
English History Made Brief, Irreverent, and Pleasurable by Lacey Baldwin Smith
epub |eng | 2007-06-15 | Author:Lacey Baldwin Smith

The Angry Path to Political Democracy (1832–1913) The current of political change became a torrent when, first in 1867, the electorate was doubled (1.3 to 2.4 million) by enfranchising urban ...
( Category: United Kingdom June 13,2023 )
Rats, Lice and History by Allen Grimshaw & Gerald N. Grob
epub |eng | | Author:Allen Grimshaw & Gerald N. Grob

Since Procopius himself believed these things, his account reflects the terrified helplessness and panic which spread with this pestilence. Four months the plague remained in Byzantium. At first, few died ...
( Category: Medicine June 13,2023 )
A Cultural History of Democracy in the Age of Enlightenment by Michael Mosher;Anna Plassart;
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Michael Mosher;Anna Plassart;

FIGURE 6.1 Jacques-Louis David, The Lictors Bring to Brutus the Bodies of His Sons, 1789. David’s immediately prerevolutionary painting captures the divide between male and female stereotypes to come. Photograph ...
( Category: Politics & Social Sciences June 13,2023 )
A Cultural History of Sport in the Modern Age by Steven A. Riess
epub, pdf |eng | 2021-10-07 | Author:Steven A. Riess [Riess, Edited by Steven A.]

RELIGION, GAMBLING, AND VIOLENCE From the mid nineteenth century, organized sport had been promoted by religious leaders across the Atlantic world and by Christian groups and missionaries in Africa and ...
( Category: History June 13,2023 )
The Evil Eye: the History, Mystery, and Magic of the Quiet Curse by Antonio Pagliarulo
epub |eng | | Author:Antonio Pagliarulo

The Table Nazar It doesn't matter if you're hosting a cozy dinner for three or a party for twenty-five—the Eye is always ready to strike. While this amulet is easy ...
( Category: New Age & Spirituality June 13,2023 )
A Cultural History of Sport in the Renaissance by Alessandro Arcangeli
epub |eng | 2021-10-07 | Author:Alessandro Arcangeli [Arcangeli, Alessandro]

FIGURE 5.1: Races and competitions at the shooting competition camps of Augsburg, 1509. Universitütsbibliothek Erlangen, Cod. B 213, 175v–176r. Tennis also belonged to the group of games which could be ...
( Category: Reference June 13,2023 )
Family History for the Older and Wiser by Susan Fifer
epub |eng | 2010-06-15 | Author:Susan Fifer

Reproduced by permission of The National Archives Figure 7.10 Like an Internet search, each result has three parts: a link to more information about the source; some details of what ...
( Category: Reference June 13,2023 )
The Bible in History by David W. Kling
epub, pdf |eng | 2022-06-15 | Author:David W. Kling

A hermeneutic constructed around proof-texts is not unique to Pentecostals. Other Christian groups have engaged in a similar hermeneutic of exegeting certain practices from historical or descriptive passages. One could ...
( Category: Religious Studies June 13,2023 )
The Architecture of Art History by Crinson Mark;Williams Richard J.;
epub |eng | 2019-11-22 | Author:Crinson, Mark;Williams, Richard J.;

FIGURE 4.3 Cutaway section of ventilation system, Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast from Reyner Banham, The Architecture of the Well-Tempered Environment, 1969. Courtesy: Mary Banham. is one of the most monumental ...
( Category: Arts & Photography June 13,2023 )
We Were Not the Savages, First Nations History by Daniel N.  Paul
epub |eng | 2022-09-16 | Author:Daniel N.  Paul

Island of Cape Breton, 520 Western District, including Annapolis, Digby, Yarmouth, Shelburne, Queens, and Lunenburg Counties, 415 Pictou County, 100 Kings County, 35 County of Sydney (Afton) 90 Total 1425 ...
( Category: First Nations June 13,2023 )

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