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 Cultures of the Jews: A New History 
 Author: David Biale Cultures of the Jews: A New History Schocken 2002 Format: PDF, ePub Size: 18+15 Mb Language: English Who are “the Jews”? Scattered over much of the world throughout most of their three-thousand-year-old history, are they one people or many? How do they resemble and how do they differ from Jews in other places and times? What have their relationships been to the cultures of their neighbors? To address these and similar questions, twenty-three of the finest scholars of our day—archaeologists, cultural historians, literary critics, art historians , folklorists, and historians of relation, all affiliated with major academic institutions in the United States, Israel, and France—have contributed their insight to Cultures of the Jews. The premise of their endeavor is that although Jews have always had their own autonomous traditions, Jewish identity cannot be considered immutable, the fixed product of either ancient ethnic or religious origins. Rather, it has shifted and assumed new forms in response to the cultural environment in which the Jews have lived.
Roman Conquests: Italy
 Author: Ross Cowan Hitler's Paratrooper: The Life and Battles of Rudolf Witzig Pen and Sword Military 2009 Format: EPUB Pages: 192 Size: 4 Mb First in an exciting series, charting Rome's bloody road to empireRecounts the desperate struggles for survival of the young Roman republicDescribes how and why Roman Armies eventually beat their Etruscan, Samnite, Celtic and other neighbours to dominate all of ItalyDiscover how the Roman legion fared in its first battles against Hellenistic pike phalanxes and war elephants.For who is so worthless or indolent as not to wish to know by what means...the Romans have succeeded in subjecting nearly the whole inhabited world to their sole government- a thing unique in history?
Time Frame - The Rise of Cities
 Author: Collective Time Frame - The Rise of Cities Time-Life Books 1990 Format: PDF Pages: 184 Language: English Size: 28.2 MB Content: The Urban Pioneers The Classical Achievement Essay: Life in the Shadows The Orient Ascendant Rebirth in the West Essay: Cities of the Imagination The Grand Design Essay: Urban Oases The Age of Metropolis
Curious Walks Around London
 Author: David Brandon (Author), Alan Brooke Curious Walks Around London Amberley 2011 Format: PDF Size: 32.6 Mb Language: English Curious Walks Around London provides an informative and entertaining selection of walks around well-known and some less-visited parts of London. The guide includes Bloomsbury with its literary connections and garden squares; the historic Borough; Whitechapel and Stepney in the East End; Clerkenwell and its associations with monastic orders, prisons and radicalism; parts of the historic and ancient City of London; the stylish area of St James's and Mayfair; Fleet Street, once synonymous with the printing industry, but also with its religious and legal connections; for those who like their horrible histories the Smithfield walk includes tales of executions, hauntings, plague and debauchery; the execution route from Newgate to Tyburn better known now as the Old Bailey to Marble Arch; Bankside, once the home to theater, bear baiting and brothels, has seen some of the most dynamic changes in London; and the sedate area of Marylebone with its famous streets and squares. The visitor will see en route many famous landmarks and there will be passing allusions to the supernatural or illegal activities and to interesting buildings. However the book concentrates on oddities, curiosities, strange stories, bizarre connections or those things to be seen in the streets which are so familiar that they are frequently overlooked. The seemingly mundane or the understated can on investigation often turn out to be as fascinating as the best-known of London's historic monuments. The book is hopefully designed for the reader to walk, look, be informed and entertained and frequently say 'I never knew that.'
Beschreibung der Reise von Konstanz nach Jerusalem
 Author: Konrad von Grunenberg Beschreibung der Reise von Konstanz nach Jerusalem Konrad von Grunenberg 1487 Language: German Pages: 102 Format: PDF Size: 94,42 mb
A Pictorial Record of the Qing Dynasty - Manchurian Railway
 A Pictorial Record of the Qing Dynasty - Manchurian Railway Author: Lushun Museum Gale Asia 2008 ISBN: 9814246182 Pages: 284 Language: English Format: PDF (e-book) Size: 43 MB A Pictorial Record of the Qing Dynasty Manchurian Railway records the early stage of the Manchurian Railway (1906-1911), covering its operations along the railway and in its accessory lands. Consisting of 500 photographs taken from Lushun Museum's special archive on the Manchurian Railway, the book provide first-hand resources for studying the history of Japan's invasion of China dating from the late Qing Dynasty. After winning the Russo-Japanese War, the Japanese founded the Southern Manchurian Railway Corporation to build a railway system based on the former Russian-owned railway. Centered on Dalian, the railway extended to many parts of northeastern China. At the same time, the corporation also initiated a large-scale development of mineral mines, ports, towns, and villages along the railway. Originally taken to build up the archive for the Manchurian Railway Investigation Department, all the photographs collected in the book are clearly dated, information-packed, and of exceptional academic value. KEY FEATURES - Manchurian Railway is the fourth book in A Pictorial Record of the Qing Dynasty series. The other three books are entitled Business bocuments (Released May 2008), Old Manchu Capital (Released June 2008), and Rivers and Sites (Released October 2008) - Most of these precious historical photographs collected in this book are available to the public for the first time - Content ranging from railway construction, port facilities, agriculture, industry, mining, culture, education, and health - More than 500 original photographs
Hunting Evil: The Nazi War Criminals Who Escaped and the Quest to Bring Them to Justice
 Author: Guy Walters Hunting Evil: The Nazi War Criminals Who Escaped and the Quest to Bring Them to Justice Broadway 2010 Format: PDF Pages: 526 Language: English Size: 30.7 MB At the end of the Second World War some of the highest ranking members of the Nazi party escaped from justice. Some of them are names that have resonated deeply in twentieth-century history - Eichmann, Mengele, Martin Bormann and Klaus Barbie - not just for the monstrosity of their crimes, but also because of the shadowy nature of their post-war existence, holed up in the depths of Latin America, always one step ahead of their pursuers. The nature of their escape was as gripping as any good thriller. They were aided and abetted by corrupt Catholic priests in the Vatican, they travelled down secret 'rat lines', hid in foreboding castles high in the Austrian alps, and were taken in by shady Argentine secret agents. The attempts to bring them to justice are no less dramatic, with vengeful Holocaust survivors, inept politicians, and daring plots to kidnap or assassinate the fugitives. Guy Walters has travelled the world in pursuit of the real account of how the Nazis escaped at the end of the war, the attempts, sometimes successful, to bring them to justice, and what really happened to those that got away. He has interviewed Nazi hunters, former members of Mossad, and poured through archives across the globe to bring this remarkable period of our recent history to dramatic and vivid life.
Tu, na Westerplatte
 Author: Flisowski Zbigniew Tu, na Westerplatte Ksiazka i wiedza 1974 Format: pdf Language: Polish Size: 13.12 MB Westerplatte - gdański półwysep. Tu znajdowała się polska Wojskowa Składnia Tranzytowa. 1 września 1939 roku o godzinie 4.45 pierwsze pociski pancernika "Schleswig-Holstein" spadły na Westerplatte - rozpoczęła się II wojna światowa.
Jewish People: An Illustrated History
 Jewish People: An Illustrated History Author: Shmuel Ahituv The Israel Map and Publishing Company 2006 Pages: 495 Format: PDF Size: 44 Mb Language: English This is the first atlas of its kind to document in such great detail the turbulent history of the Jewish people. A work of prodigious and meticulous scholarship by some of Israel's most brilliant scholars, this atlas portrays every aspect of Jewish history that lends itself to cartographic interpretation, from biblical times to the present day. This is the fascinating story of how an ancient people, separated from their roots and dispersed throughout the world, survived in exile for two thousand years and eventually returned and recreated itself within the framework of a modern state.Now, in one profusely illustrated volume, the reader is presented with in-depth coverage of major themes in biblical, mishnaic, talmudic, medieval, and modern Jewish history by the foremost authorities in their field.
CRKT 2014 Product Catalog
 CRKT 2014 Product Catalog Author: Collective CRKT 2014 Format: PDF Size: 16 MB Language: English Pages: 96
Illustrated History of Ships and Boats
 Illustrated History of Ships and Boats Doubleday & Company Inc. 1964 Format: PDF Pages: 278 Language: English Size: 60.2 MB Man has been devising watercraft since before the dawn of recorded history. From dugout canoe to nuclear submarine, here is a magnificent, 6000-year survey of nautical evolution.More than 300 photographs and drawings.
Orden und Ehrenzeichen aus aller Welt (Kunker Auktion №259)
 Author: Collective Orden und Ehrenzeichen aus aller Welt (Kunker Auktion №259) Fritz Rudolf Kunker GmbH & Co. KG 2015 Format: PDF (e-book) Pages: 300 Size: 70 Mb Language: German
Desert Shield – Desert Storm: 20th Anniversary of the Gulf War
 Desert Shield – Desert Storm: 20th Anniversary of the Gulf War Faircount Media Group 2011 ISBN: No Pages: 58 Language: English Format: PDF (e-book) Size: 17 MB Throughout this January and February America and its allies everywhere have been recognizing and commemorating the 20th anniversary of Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm.
Historiography. Ancient, Medieval and Modern
 Author: Breisach Ernst Historiography. Ancient, Medieval and Modern The Uinversity of Chicago Press 1994 Format: PDF Size: 26 Mb Language: English In this pioneering work, Ernst Breisach presents an effective, well-organized, and concise account of the development of historiography in Western culture. Neither a handbook nor an encyclopedia, this up-to-date third edition narrates and interprets the development of historiography from its origins in Greek poetry to the present, with compelling sections on postmodernism, deconstructionism, African-American history, women’s history, microhistory, the Historikerstreit, cultural history, and more. The definitive look at the writing of history by a historian, Historiography provides key insights into some of the most important issues, debates and innovations in modern historiography.
The History of White People
 Author:Nell Irvin Painter The History of White People New York : W.W. Norton 2010 Language: English Format: epub Size: 2,1 mb Who are white people and where did they come from? Elementary questions with elusive, contradictory, and complicated answers set historian Painter's inquiry into motion. From notions of whiteness in Greek literature to the changing nature of white identity in direct response to Malcolm X and his black power successors, Painter's wide-ranging response is a who's who of racial thinkers and a synoptic guide to their work. Her commodious history of an idea accommodates Caesar; Saint Patrick, history's most famous British slave of the early medieval period; Madame de Staël; and Emerson, the philosopher king of American white race theory. Painter (Sojourner Truth) reviews the diverse cast in their intellectual milieus, linking them to one another across time and language barriers. Conceptions of beauty (ideals of white beauty [became] firmly embedded in the science of race), social science research, and persistent North/South stereotypes prove relevant to defining whiteness. What we can see, the author observes, depends heavily on what our culture has trained us to look for. For the variable, changing, and often capricious definition of whiteness, Painter offers a kaleidoscopic lens.
The Apparatus of Death
 Author: Collective The Apparatus of Death (The Third Reich Series) Time-Life Books 1991 Format: PDF Pages: 198 Language: English Size: 40 MB This is an excellent book for people who are wanting to gain a greater understanding not only of the Holocaust but also the social and societal conditions that created the capacity for such a thing to occur.
The Swiss, the Gold and the Dead
 Author:Jean Ziegler The Swiss, the Gold and the Dead Penguin Putnam Inc. 1999 Format:PDF Size:10.13 MB ISBN: 0151003343 Language: English A Swiss sociologist examines the relationship between Swiss bankers and Nazi Germany during the Holocaust, detailing how Switzerland's leading financial institutions provided Hitler with loans, favorable foreign exchanges, and the means to launder gold looted from concentration camp victims.
The Cambridge History of the Native Peoples of America
 The Cambridge History of the Native Peoples of America / 2008 Format: PDF Language: English Size: 223,47 mb - The Cambridge History of the Native Peoples of the Americas Vol. 1, part 1. North America. Bruce G. Trigger and Wilcomb E. Washburn. 1996. - The Cambridge History of the Native Peoples of the Americas Vol. 1, part 2. North America. Bruce G. Trigger and Wilcomb E. Washburn. 1996. - The Cambridge History of the Native Peoples of the Americas Vol. 2, part 1. Mesoamerica. Richard E. W. Adams and Murdo J. MacLeod. 2000. - The Cambridge History of the Native Peoples of the Americas Vol. 2, part 2. Mesoamerica. Richard E. W. Adams and Murdo J. MacLeod. 2000. - The Cambridge History of the Native Peoples of the Americas Vol. 3, part 1. South America. Frank Salomon and Stuart B. Schwartz. 1999. - The Cambridge History of the Native Peoples of the Americas Vol. 3, part 2. South America. Frank Salomon and Stuart B. Schwartz. 1999.
Naval Warfare: An International Encyclopedia - 3 Vol set
 Naval Warfare: An International Encyclopedia - 3 Vol set (Warfare Series) Author: Spencer C. Tucker ABC-CLIO ISBN: 1576072193, 1576077403 2002 Pages: 1231 Format: CHM Size: 12.4МБ Language: English Three volumes. 1,500 entries. 2,500 years of history. Seven seas. It all adds up to Naval Warfare: An International Encyclopedia, the most authoritative, comprehensive, and accessible reference work on the subject of combat at sea. Spencer C. Tucker, editor of the award winning Encyclopedia of the Vietnam War, turns his expertise in military history to the greatest war story of them all—humanity's centuries-old quest for dominance of the mighty deep. Everything's here, from the ancient Greek galleys at Salamis to the mighty American Sixth Fleet in the Persian Gulf. Written by an international team of experts, these richly illustrated volumes are the essential reference work for students, scholars, and naval history buffs. A host of features—including an extensive use of maps, an inclusive glossary of naval terms, and a lengthy bibliography—makes this encyclopedia the first—and last—place any landlubber—or self-respecting sailor—will turn to for naval history.
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