Commemorating Peterloo. Violence, Resilience and Claim-Making During the Romantic Era, Paperback - ***

Two hundred years after the massacre of protestors in Manchester, known as Peterloo, distinguished scholars of Romantic-era literature join togethe...

Vladimir Horowitz plays Beethoven, Schubert, Chopin, Schumann, Liszt, Saint-Saens, Bizet, Mendelssohn

Pulitzer-prize winning author David Halberstam's eyewitness account provides a riveting narrative of how the United States created a major foreign ...

Reducere. Life of Chopin by Franz LisztFrédéric François Chopin was a Polish composer and virtuoso pianist of the Romantic era who wrote primarily for solo p...

This contributed volume reflects on the collective wisdom and ongoing efforts of the social work profession that has been in the forefront of the g...

How does it feel to be a police officer? Jessica Miller uses the most recent neuroscience and real-life examples to explore risks to individual res...

Traces the history of yellowface, the theatrical convention of non-Asian actors putting on makeup and costume to look East Asian. Using specific ca...

'A breathtaking story' Daily Mail 'Extraordinary' The Telegraph on the Cook sisters Desperate circumstances can cause ordinary women to achieve ext...

Reducere. In The Devil's Town, Philip Leigh, a rising star among American historians, tells the unique and colorful story of the small resort city of Hot Spr...

How has the Chinese central government been able to avoid the crippling hyperinflation that has bedeviled so many developing and centrally planned ...

Contributor(s): Editor: Daniel LerchContribution by: Sarah ByrnesContribution by: Chuck CollinsThe sustainability challenges of yesterday have beco...

As the Nazis staged their takeover in 1933, instances of antisemitic violence began to soar. Hermann Beck examines the types of antisemitic violenc...

Reducere. This timeless memoir documents two sisters' bravery leading up to WWII--a singular historical account that shines a light on one of humanity's dark...

This book is about stagecoach travel during the Napoleonic War, the era of Austen and Dickens, and the early years of Queen Victoria. Its covers tr...

This book presents a comprehensive overview of pelvic and sexual pain disorders in women and equips therapists to treat these issues in a culturall...

Drawing on examples from the ancient world to the two world wars, from the conquest of the Americas to Muslim Central Asia, this collection of essa...

Reducere. DescriptionNamed to Kirkus Reviews Best Books of 2015 The Newspaper Boy is a remarkable collection of memories and personal reflections of the deep...

Reducere. The British colony of West Florida--which once stretched from the mighty Mississippi to the shallow bends of the Apalachicola and portions of what ...

Appointed by Abraham Lincoln to the U.S. Supreme Court during the Civil War, Samuel Freeman Miller (1816--1890) served on the nation's highest trib...

Reducere. As Southern California was reimagining leisure and positioning it at the center of the American Dream, African American Californians were working t...

The relationship between Mexico and Cuba grabbed international headlines early in the 21st century due to a rift in a relationship generally unders...

Mary Kaldor's New and Old Wars has fundamentally changed the way both scholars and policy-makers understand contemporary war and conflict.

*Includes pictures *Includes contemporary accounts of the scramble *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading "The British S...

Reducere. In the nineteenth century, Texas's advancing western frontier was the site of one of America's longest conflicts between white settlers and native ...

Reducere. Named One of the "Best Art Books of 2018" by the New York Times Fifty years after Martin Luther King Jr.'s death--and at a time when race relations...

Reducere. The novel, Widow of the Free State of Jones, is about the courage of one woman who managed to survive the ravages of the Civil War as well as the w...

Reducere. Description*Includes pictures *Includes contemporary accounts of the scramble *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading "Th...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Erika LeeWith the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, Chinese laborers became the first group in American history to be excluded...

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Publisher: Harvard University PressAuthor(s): Beth Lew-WilliamsIllustration(s): 6 MapsNumber of pages: 360Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 156 x 2...

The story of a defining moment in the history of British democracy: the horrific Peterloo massacre of 1819.

Reducere. DescriptionDear Teenager, Breathe a sigh of relief. Here it is. The book you've been waiting for.After working with people your age for more than 2...

DescriptionIn 2017, Myanmar's military launched a campaign of violence against the Rohingya minority that UN experts later said amounted to a genoc...

Reducere. As Southern California was reimagining leisure and positioning it at the center of the American Dream, African American Californians were working t...

Reducere. The service of African Americans in defense of the Union during the Civil War required African American nurses, doctors and surgeons to heal those ...

Reducere. New and Old Wars has fundamentally changed the way both scholars and policy-makers understand contemporary war and conflict. In the context of glob...

Twelve Japanese scholars of American studies tell their stories of how they encountered ""America"" and came to dedicate their careers to studying ...

Publisher: Hal Leonard CorporationNumber of pages: 96Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 238 x 305 x 15Cover type: BookRedescopera farmecul lecturii ...

Reducere. Like that other British TV favorite, Call The Midwife, Downton Abbey has found a special, solid place in our hearts. It was an instant hit when it ...

Publisher: Arkose PressAuthor(s): Robert Studley VidalIllustration(s): Illustrations, black and whiteNumber of pages: 572Publication date: 2015Dime...

Reducere. Senator Joseph Lieberman offers a master class in effective government by probing his forty years in elective office--from the Vietnam War era to t...

Mark Shirk examines historical and contemporary state responses to transnational violence to develop a new account of the making of global orders. ...

Reducere. A promise keeps them apart until WWII threatens to destroy their love foreverFonzaso Italy, between two wars Nina Argenta doesn't want the traditio...

Reducere. A promise keeps them apart until WWII threatens to destroy their love foreverFonzaso Italy, between two wars Nina Argenta doesn't want the traditio...

Illustrates how states appeal to popular morality to forge new group identities and mobilize violence against perceived threats. In an era where st...

The definitive account of a landmark in the development of democracy - and the bloodiest political event of the nineteenth century on English soil.

Reducere. DescriptionEven before Japan joined Nazi Germany in the Axis Alliance, its leaders clarified to the Nazi regime that the attitude of the Japanese g...

The Peterloo massacre of 1819 is one of the landmarks of British history. Notwithstanding the weeks of legal argument and the decades of noisy disp...

Reducere. British TV series, Call The Midwife, was an instant hit when it first came to our screens on PBS. Based on the memoirs of a real-life midwife, Jenn...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): OEzge Baykan (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands) CalafatoIllustration(s): 110 colour illusNum...