Historic Documents of 2014
CQ Press has published Historic Documents annually since 1972. The approximately 750-page book pairs 70 original, comprehensive narratives ( 140,000 words total) with important documents chosen by SAGE and the volume editor, Heather Kerrigan, to chronicle the major events of the year. Organized chronologically, each volume covers the same wide range of U.S.-based and global topics: business, the economy and labor; energy, environment, science, technology, and transportation; government and po...
Polish Folkways in America
by Eugene E. Obidinski and Helen Stankiewicz Zand
Collects the valuable and oft-quoted articles on Polish American folkways which Helen Stankiewicz Zand published in various issues of Polish American Studies between 1949 and 1961. Co-published with the Polish American Historical Association.
With some 2,500 entries, this dictionary, the first reference guide of its kind, is designed as a comprehensive reference work on all aspects of American immigration history. All American ethnic groups are included, with essay-entries on general subjects, e.g., immigration, patterns of immigrant settlement in the US, socialization, acculturation, and related themes. Biographical entries on individuals important in the history of immigration are included, along with notices of immigrant historica...
This encyclopedia offers authoritative coverage of the concepts, traditions, events, and individuals that shaped United States' foreign relations from the American Revolution to the present. Belligerents, Brinkmanship, and the Big Stick: A Historical Encyclopedia of American Diplomatic Concepts is the first comprehensive encyclopedic work to focus specifically on America's extraordinary history of political engagement with the world. With hundreds of alphabetically organized entries and a rich...
Old maps provide a rich source of information for all those interested in their local history and they are also a popular field for collectors. Dr. Hindle’s describes the different types of map produced, explains what they were intended to show and where to find them. " This is excellent value for money, a scholarly, helpful and extremely well-illustrated book at the sort of price that other publishers simply can't match. His study is much to be recommended." Archives
Es war vor 150 Jahren - Deutschlands Eisenhuttenwesen ist auf der UEberholspur.
by Wolfgang Piersig
Der evangelische Religionsunterricht der Volksschule ab 1850
by Christopher Knapp
Eine Unterrichtskonzeption zum Thema Schah-Besuch in Deutschland und Tod von Benno Ohnesorg
by Stefan Westkemper and Laura Schmitz
American Eras: Primary Sources is a fascinating, student-friendly reference that's patterned after the Gale's award-winning American Decades: Primary Sources series. Like its predecessor, each volume of American Eras: Primary Sources offers full or excerpted primary sources representing a diversity of views that provide insight into the seminal issues, themes, movements, and events from each era. Also included are concise contextual information, notes about the author, further resources, and ful...
Kirche Und Stadt - Entwicklung Einer Unterrichtsstunde ber Das Mittelalter
by Elisabeth Weise
Jefferson's Memorandum Books, Volume 1 (Princeton Legacy Library) (Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Second)
by Thomas Jefferson
Among the Second Series of "The Papers of Thomas Jefferson", this volume has the most detailed coverage of his day-to-day life. These disciplined records of personal expenditures, and of various other daily observations, furnish valuable information about prices and availability of commodities of the period and provide abundant evidence of Jefferson's devotion to a systematic way of living and of his insatiable curiosity.
Leeds: A Historical Dictionary of People, Places and Events
by David Thornton
This turn-of-the century conflict pitched the might of the British Empire against 80,000 Boers. It is one of the most significant wars in military history bringing to the fore many household names such as Lord Kitchner, Robert Baden-Powell and even Winston Churchill. An in-depth study of the Boer War's strategies, politics and social implication, this text features eye-witness accounts that describe the brutality of the conflict from both British and Boer viewpoints.
Historical Dictionary of Socialism (Historical Dictionaries of Religions, Philosophies, and Movements, #73)
by Peter Lamb and James C Docherty
Primarily concerned with the historical roots and contemporary condition of socialism, the second edition of the Historical Dictionary of Socialism offers information on writers, activists, ideas, political parties, institutions, and movements that sought—and in many cases are still seeking—to change the social and political order. It reflects the diversity in the broad movement of the left, the many variants of which include reformist social democracy, revolutionary Marxism, the New Left, and c...
India's history and culture is ancient and dynamic, spanning back to the beginning of human civilization. Beginning with a mysterious culture along the Indus River and in farming communities in the southern lands of India, the history of India is punctuated by constant integration with migrating peoples and with the diverse cultures that surround the country. Placed in the center of Asia, history in India is a crossroads of cultures from China to Europe, as well as the most significant Asian con...
What you may not know about Narrows and Haverhill-Bath Covered Bridge
by James E Hobbs
A Report Of The Record Commissioners Of The City Of Boston
by William Henry Whitmore and William S. Appleton
The Mountain Encyclopedia
by Frederic V Hartemann and Robert Hauptman
This outstanding reference work is the first English-language A-Z compendium on all topics related to mountains, including geological, geographical, and zoological terms, as well as many entries on significant explorers, surveyors, mountaineers, rock climbers, and skiers. Numerous entries also cover related pursuits such as logging, mining, skiing, climbing, and mountaineering. Definitions, explanations, and clarifications are contained in more than 2,300 entries that vary in length from a brie...
A People's History of the United States (New Press People's History, #1) (Perennial Classics)
by Howard Zinn
This is a new edition of the radical social history of America from Columbus to the present. This powerful and controversial study turns orthodox American history upside down to portray the social turmoil behind the "march of progress". Known for its lively, clear prose as well as its scholarly research, A People's History is the only volume to tell America's story from the point of view of - and in the words of - America's women, factory workers, African-Americans, Native Americans, the wor...
Scotland, Ireland, and the Romantic Aesthetic (Bucknell Studies in Eighteenth Century Literature and Culture)
In this ground-breaking comparative study of Scottish and Irish Romanticism, leading scholars examine literary relations between Scotland, Ireland, and England in the period 1760-1830, an age of political upheaval and constitutional change that witnessed the Irish Rebellion, the Act of Union, major internal migration, and the cultural repositioning of Ireland and Scotland within a newly conceived "United Kingdom." Adopting an "archipelagic" approach, contributors reveal how national and regional...
This is a counter-revisionist examination of John F. Kennedy and his administration, which presents a policy history of major US legislative efforts between 1961 and 1963. Irving Bernstein focuses on administrative and congressional progress under Kennedy in civil rights, education, taxes, unemployment, Medicare and the Peace Corps. He contends that many of Kennedy's campaign promises were well on their way to being enacted by the third year of his first term. The author also declares that many...