Worlds Before Adam. The Reconstruction of Geohistory in the Age of Reform, Paperback - Martin J. S. Rudwick

Presents an account of the reconstruction of prehuman history of the earth. This title takes readers from the post-Napoleonic Restoration in Europe...

DescriptionDuring a revolution of discovery in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, geologists reconstructed the immensely long hist...

Earth has been witness to mammoths and dinosaurs, global ice ages, continents colliding or splitting apart, and comets and asteroids crashing catas...

Celebrities, heroes and champions explores the role of the popular politician in British and Irish society from the Napoleonic Wars to the Second R...

During the pivotal 19th-century 'decade of reform', British politicians wrestled over the best ways to address Irish agrarian violence - branded as...

Contributor(s): Author: W. Caleb McDanielWinner of the Merle Curti Award Winner of the SHEAR James Broussard First Book PrizeIn The Problem of Demo...

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Reducere. Since its original publication in 1984, Manning Marable's Race, Reform, and Rebellion has become widely known as the most crucial political and soc...

Reducere. From the bestselling author of The Storm Before the Storm and host of the Revolutions podcast comes the thrilling story of the Marquis de Lafayette...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Adam KielmanIllustration(s): 14 halftones, 6 line drawings, 1 tablesNumber of pages: 216Collec...

Reducere. If you want to discover the captivating history of the Gilded Age, then keep reading...From a modern perspective, it may seem that the United State...

Reducere. If you want to discover the captivating history of the Gilded Age, then keep reading...From a modern perspective, it may seem that the United State...

DescriptionAttitudes to fashion have changed radically in the twenty-first century. Dress is increasingly approached as a means of self-expression,...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdNumber of pages: 313Publication date: 2018Dimensions: 155 x 233 x 24Cover type: Paperback / softbackEditor(s): Henri...

What if racialized mass incarceration is not a perversion of our criminal justice system's liberal ideals, but rather a natural conclusion? Adam Ma...

Reducere. Illusions of Empire adopts a multinational view of North American borderlands, examining the ways in which Mexico's North overlapped with the U.S. ...

Publisher: Hirmer VerlagAuthor(s): Stiftung Humboldt Forum im Berliner SchlossIllustration(s): 226 Illustrations, colorNumber of pages: 160Publicat...

Reducere. The stone tape theory suggests that moments of history can be recorded in the landscape and 'replay' themselves in the current world, reliving lost...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Adam KielmanIllustration(s): 14 halftones, 6 line drawings, 1 tablesNumber of pages: 216Collec...

The literature on Our Lady of Guadalupe dominates the study of shrines and religious practices in Mexico. But there is much more to the story of sh...

Recent challenges to US maritime predominance suggests a return to great power competition at sea, and this new volume looks at how navies in previ...

In design history, globalization is deeply intertwined with a long-held bias towards Western, industrialized nations. By reassessing the role of re...

DescriptionIn this fascinating narrative history, internationally recognized military expert Martin van Creveld narrates the rise and fall of the m...

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Reducere. Evidence is accumulating that in many contemporary work environments people are literally working themselves to death. But what do we really know a...

This volume brings together a range of prominent and emerging voices within American and European Islamic studies to share the latest developments ...

Reducere. A journey in search of Middle-earthIn 1911, at the age of nineteen, J. R. R. Tolkien embarked on an adventurous journey through the Swiss Alps; wit...

Reducere. "John Wesley and Karl Marx, unmistakably, are the two most influential characters of all modern history." So argues J. Wesley Bready in this classi...

Summarizes the results of the MARGO international working group, with the aim to develop a reconstruction of sea surface temperatures and sea-ice e...

Civil War in Central Europe argues that Polish independence after the First World War was forged in the fires of the post-war conflicts which shoul...

Light of the Stars tells the story of humanity's coming of age as we awaken to the possibilities of life on other worlds and their sudden relevance...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Adam D. ShprintzenVegetarianism has been practiced in the United States since the country's founding, yet the early years o...

Reducere. From flying saucer crashes to underground alien bases, a number of modern mythologies have come into being since the advent of the UFO era in the 1...

Reducere. Fleet of Worlds marks Larry Niven's first full novel-length collaboration within his Known Space universe, the playground he created for his bestse...

DescriptionThe Somme sector of the Western Front was held by French forces until early 1916, when the British and Dominions Third and Fourth Armies...

Publisher: Princeton University PressAuthor(s): R. Douglas ArnoldIllustration(s): 40 b/w illus. 16 tables.Number of pages: 328Publication date: 202...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Mohammad IqbalIntroduction by: Javed MajeedThe Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam (1930) is Muhammad Iqbal's majo...

Reducere. DescriptionThe era between empire and communism is routinely portrayed as a catastrophic interlude in China's modern history. But in this book, Fra...

Reducere. With a new look at the 1880s financial reforms in Japan, Steven J. Ericson's Financial Stabilization in Meiji Japan overturns widely held views of ...

Sex, Gender, and Episcopal Authority in an Age of Reform, 1000–1122 - Megan McLaughlin