The Pursuit of Ruins: Archaeology, History, and the Making of Modern Mexico, Paperback - Christina Bueno

Famous for its majestic ruins, Mexico has gone to great lengths to preserve and display the remains of its pre-Hispanic past. The Pursuit of Ruins ...

Reducere. DescriptionPuebloan Ruins of the Southwest offers a complete picture of Puebloan culture from its prehistoric beginnings through twenty-five hundre...

Reducere. In October 1839, a Windsor cabinet meeting votes to begin the first Opium War against China. Bureaucratic fumbling, military missteps, and a health...

Reducere. During the civil rights era, Atlanta thought of itself as "The City Too Busy to Hate, " a rare place in the South where the races lived and thrived...

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Swashbuckling tales of valiant gauchos roaming Argentina and Uruguay were nineteenth-century Latin American bestsellers. But when the stories jumpe...

Reducere. Majestic and lyrically written, The Conquest of Nature traces the rise of Germany through the development of water and landscape. David Blackbourn ...

Reducere. Acclaimed historian Elizabeth Catte, author of What You Are Getting Wrong About Appalachia, returns with a lacerating analysis of the history of st...

Reducere. Chosen as one of the top history book of the year by The Economist From one of our leading historians, an important new history of the Greek War of...

Publisher: Penguin Books LtdAuthor(s): Mark MazowerNumber of pages: 608Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 166 x 240 x 44Cover type: HardbackRedescop...

In 1869, when the final spike was driven into the Transcontinental Railroad, few were prepared for its seismic aftershocks. Once a hodgepodge of sh...

Reducere. From Pulitzer Prize winner Michael Hiltzik, the epic tale of the clash for supremacy between America's railroad titans In 1869, when the final spik...

A compelling account of the crucial year in post-war history, in the tradition of Margaret MacMillan's award-winning and bestselling }The Peacemake...

Khaled Fahmy offers a new interpretation of modern Egyptian history and the rise of Egyptian nationalism in a theoretically informed study. The boo...

It is a fundamental term of the social contract that people trade allegiance for protection. In the nineteenth century, as millions of people made ...

What drives the drug trade, and how has it come to be what it is today? A global history of the acquisition of progressively more potent means of a...

In an accessible and timely work of scholarship, celebrated historian Joshua B. Freeman tells the story of the factory and examines how it has refl...

Winner of the Pulitzer PrizeIn this groundbreaking biography of the Japanese emperor Hirohito, Herbert P. Bix offers the first complete, unvarnishe...

Reducere. The steady immigration of black populations from Africa and the Caribbean over the past few decades has fundamentally changed the racial, ethnic, a...

Reducere. Many visitors to Mexico City's 1886 Electricity Exposition were amazed by their experience of the event, which included magnetic devices, electroni...

Reducere. The modern Middle East emerged out of the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, when Britain and France partitioned the Ottoman Arab lands into several n...

Reducere. A rich gathering of essays that evoke the unique and mysterious appeal that New Mexico has had for some of the twentieth century's best known write...

Reducere. Many non-New Mexicans envision New Mexico as one large desert, yet New Mexico is very much a mountain state, with more than one hundred named mount...

DescriptionOriginally published in 1983, Leo Steinberg's classic work has changed the viewing habits of a generation. After centuries of repression...

Reducere. Emperor Diocletian's palace is a historic marvel - this book and its sketches, published by architect Robert Adam in the 1760s, aided the rediscove...

Reducere. The Powder River country of what is now north central Wyoming was one of the most resource-rich regions of the northern plains in the nineteenth ce...

Reducere. In the tradition of Why Nations Fail, this book solves one of the great puzzles of history: Why did the West become the most powerful civilization ...

A vivid and authoritative account of the making of the modern Middle East, from the BBC's long-serving correspondent in the region.Publisher: Pan M...

Publisher: MIT Press LtdAuthor(s): Peter PesicIllustration(s): 143 figuresNumber of pages: 360Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 203 x 231 x 28Cover...

The Marine Corps has always considered itself a breed apart. Since 1775, America's smallest armed service has been suspicious of outsiders and deep...

Reducere. A Financial Times and The Economist Best Book of the Year and a New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceA SURPRISING, GRIPPING NARRATIVE DEPICTIN...

Description"Flawless . . . Makdisi] reminds us of the critical declarations of secularism which existed in the history of the Middle East."--Robert...

Reducere. DescriptionFor the past sixty years, countries have conducted military and civilian activities in space, often for competitive purposes. But they h...

Winner of the New Jersey Studies Academic Alliance Authors Award for Nonfiction New Jersey's land records and deeds are unlikely sources for a thri...

Description"Magnificent."--Robert L. Tignor, Princeton University From the early nineteenth century through to the 1960s, the Greeks formed the lar...

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