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Encyclopedia of the History of Astronomy and Astrophysics

Informative and accessibly written, this Encyclopedia offers a comprehensive guide to the history of astronomy and astrophysics. Each sec...

Interweaving Histories - Itineraries between Switzerland and India (1900-1950)

By looking at the itineraries of specific individual Indian and Swiss actors going back and forth between India and Switzerland during th...

Ghosts of Segregation - American Racism, Hidden in Plain Sight

"Seven years ago, Richard Frishman embarked on a 25,000-mile journey in his car that took him from his home state of Washington to Maine,...

Science, Vine and Wine in Modern France

Science, Vine and Wine in Modern France examines the role of science in the civilization of wine in modern France. Viticulture, the scien...

Verglichene Körper - Normieren, Urteilen, Entrechten in der Vormoderne

Menschliche Körper sind in vielfältige Praktiken eingebunden, darunter solche der Wahrnehmung und Herrschaft. Körper wurden normiert, beu...

Multitribal Indians In Search of No Man's Land - The American Expansion and the Chickamaugans between Resistance and Migration

During the American westward expansion, Chickamaugans, originally Cherokees, prioritized resistance to the U.S. government and Euro-Ameri...

The Dispatches and Letters of Vice Admiral Lord Viscount Nelson - Volume 4

This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfectio...

Rethinking the Andesamazonia Divide - A Cross-Disciplinary Exploration

Rethinking the Andes-Amazonia Divide brings together archaeologists, linguists, geneticists, anthropologists, ethnohistorians and histori...

13th Fighter Command in World War II: Air Combat Over Guadalcanal and the Solomons - Air Combat over Guadalcanal and the Solomons

In the savage air combat over Guadalcanal and then the equally bloody air battles up Solomon chain, New Georgia and Bougainville, 13th Fi...

ZEIT - Von Dürer bis Bonvicini - Kat. Kunsthaus Zürich

Zeit - das große Rätsel Die Zeit zählt zu den großen Rätseln der Zivilisationsgeschichte, ihre Definitionen sind zahlreich und finden sic...

Yizkor (Memorial) Book of Horodenka, Ukraine - Translation of Sefer Horodenka

This book is the translation of the Memorial (Yizkor) Book of the town of Horodenka, Ukraine (Sefer Horodenka) The history of the Jewish ...

Give Me Liberty!

Give Me Liberty! is beloved by instructors and students alike because it delivers an authoritative, concise, and integrated American hist...

Historical Culture by Restitution? - A Debate on Art, Museums, and Justice

Looted art, art theft, colonial collections of cultural objects - not only since the controversy over the Nigerian Benin bronzes at the H...

Seals - Naval Special Warfare in Action

SEALs: Naval Special Warfare in Action is the first book in the new "United We Stand" series that celebrates America's armed forces. It p...

The Industrialisation of Soviet Russia: Volume 2: The Soviet Collective Farm, 1929-1930

During the events described in The Socialist Offensive the collective farms achieved a commanding position in the Soviet countryside. The...

The Political Cult of the Dead in Ukraine - Traditions and Dimensions from the First World War to Today

The Ukrainian Euromaidan in 2013-14 and the ongoing Russian-Ukrainian war in the Eastern part of the country have posed new questions to ...

'Gold Fever' and Women - Transformations in Lives, Health Care and Medicine in the 19th Century American West

Throughout its history, the American West symbolized a place of hope and new beginnings, where anything was possible, especially for men....

Indian Army and the First World War

The Indian Army which was the bulwark of the British Empire in South Asia functioned as an imperial fire brigade force during the Great W...

On Air Defense

This book is a study of all aspects of air defense from its beginnings during the French Revolution when artillery gunners tried to hit p...

Choosing Survival - Strategies for a Jewish Future

Susser and Liebman paint a disturbing portrait of the decline of Judaism in in both Israel and in the United States and the various--and ...

Battleships of the III Reich - Volume 2

This book is a compilation in which we will find in one place (two volumes) the stories of all the German battleships that were in Kriegs...

The Nile - History's Greatest River

"[A] vivid travelogue." New Statesman "Has much to offer." The Spectator "Sparks the imagination." BBC History Magazine "A fascinating st...

A Pipeline Runs Through It - The Story of Oil from Ancient Times to the First World War

"A Pipeline Runs Through It is a fresh, comprehensive in-depth look at the social, economic, political and geopolitical forces involved i...

Life and Afterlife in Ancient China

A Prospect Book of the Year An epic new history of Ancient China told through the prism of a dozen extraordinary tombs The three millenni...

Lockheed F-117 Night Hawks: A Stealth Fighter Roll Call - A Stealth Fighter Roll Call

This pictorial book is a history of the F-117 Night Hawk Stealth Fighter containing over 400 color photographs. It is a Roll Call of the ...

World Heritage, Place Making and Sustainable Tourism - Towards Integrative Approaches in Heritage Management

The management of World Heritage Cities and sites is a challenging task. Getting visitor flows and the enormous traffic under control and...

Encountering the Afo / Eloyi People of Northern Nigeria - The Visual Documents of Elsy Leuzinger and Jolantha Tschudi 1954-1955

In 1954-55, two Swiss women-Elsy Leuzinger, later director of the Museum Rietberg in Zurich, and aviation pioneer Jolantha Tschudi-undert...

Thunder Below!: The USS *Barb* Revolutionizes Submarine Warfare in World War II - The USS *Barb* Revolutionizes Submarine Warfare in World War II

The thunderous roar of exploding depth charges was a familiar and comforting sound to the crew members of the USS Barb, who frequently fo...

War In The Shadows - The Guerrilla in History

Sexual Politics in Modern Iran

Charts the history of Iran's sexual revolution from the nineteenth century to today.

Khanty Mythology

The Encyclopaedia of Uralic Mythologies offers a comparative base for the study of the roots and present forms of Finno-Ugrian and Samoye...

Henry VIII - Saját képpel

Dentistry: An illustrated history

A Companion to the History of Crime and Criminal Justice

This valuable book provides concise but robust definitions of key terms and concepts. It includes entries from expert contributors in a u...

Großes Kino / The Big Screen - Filmplakate aller Zeiten / Film Posters of All Time

Eine Leseprobe finden Sie unter "https://verlag.sandstein.de/reader/98-777_GrossesKinol" Seit es Kino gibt, ist das Plakat das wichtigste...

The Road to Socialism - Transport Infrastructure in Socialist Bulgaria and Yugoslavia (1945-1989)

The book is the first comprehensive empirical study of transport infrastructure in two socialist countries in the years 1945-1989. In the...

Kairos - Human Responses to the Flow of Time in the Dynamic Formation Process of Western Civilization

In our psyche, kairos is firmly anchored. Research on the key concept kairos has opened the path for a solid assessment of an essential s...

The Contest over National Security - FDR, Conservatives, and the Struggle to Claim the Most Powerful Phrase in American Politics

National security once was not limited to physical defense. FDR equated national security with safety from foreign attack and economic wa...

Kiev 1941 - Hitler's Battle for Supremacy in the East

An account of one of the largest battles of World War II and its place in Germany's Eastern campaign.

Bolts from the Blue: From Cold War Warrior to Chief of the Air Staff - From Cold War Warrior to Chief of the Air Staff

Air Chief Marshal Sir Richard Johns reflects on his career in the RAF, expressing balanced yet forthright views throughout.

Masonic Abolitionists - Freemasonry and the Underground Railroad in Illinois

Masonic Abolitionists provides a view of the Masonic Order which has rarely been seen. It identifies abolitionists as the founders of the...

A History Of The Black Watch, Royal Highlanders - 42nd & 73rd 1725-1907

The Black Watch was one of the many distinguished Scottish regiments to have played a long and often glorious part in the history of the ...

Judgment at Tokyo - World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia

"In the weeks after Japan finally surrendered to the Allies, the world turned to the question of how to move on from years of carnage and...

The Jewish Unions in America - Pages of History and Memories

Newly arrived in New York in 1882 from Tsarist Russia, the sixteen-year-old Bernard Weinstein discovered an America in which unionism, so...

Off Shore - Perspectives on Atlantic Pleasure Travel since the 19th Century

The book highlights facets of people's experiences since the 19th century with Atlantic space and the design of their stay on board ships...

Morgenthau: Power, Privilege, and the Rise of an American Dynasty

"Since their arrival in the United States from Germany in 1866, the Morgenthaus have been a linchpin in American history -- losing everyt...

History of the Caucasus Volume 2 - In the Shadow of Great Powers

In the Shadow of Great Powers is the second volume of Christoph Baumer's History of the Caucasus. It covers the period from the Seljuk do...

Death - A Graveside Companion

A volume of unprecedented breadth and sinister beauty, Death: A Graveside Companion examines a staggering range of cultural attitudes to ...

Keynes, J: INDIAN CURRENCY & FINANCE

Breslau / Wroclaw 1933-1949 - Studien zur Topographie der Shoah

Im schlesischen Breslau (seit 1945 Wroclaw/Polen) lebte in der Zwischenkriegszeit die drittgrößte jüdische Gemeinde des Deutschen Reichs ...

Creators of Modern China - 100 Lives from Empire to Republic 1796-1912 (British Museum)

Brings together brief biographies of 100 women and men whose activities in the 19th century laid the foundations of modern China and the ...

From Genghis Khan to Tamerlane - The Reawakening of Mongol Asia

An epic account of how a new world order under Tamerlane was born out of the decline of the Mongol Empire

A Brutal Reckoning - Andrew Jackson, the Creek Indians, and the Epic War for the American South

"From acclaimed historian Peter Cozzens, the pivotal struggle between the Creek Indians and an insatiable United States for control over ...

The Reckoning - From the Second Slavery to Abolition, 1776-1888

How was slavery defeated in the Americas? The Reckoning is Robin Blackburn’s compelling and authoritative account

Rules - A Short History of What We Live By

"We are, all of us, everywhere, always, enmeshed in a web of rules and constraints. Rules fix the beginning and end of the working day an...

They Called It Peace - Worlds of Imperial Violence

This new book by historian Lauren Benton offers a novel five-century history of violence in European empires from 1400 to 1900. Her focus...

History of the Lincolnshire Regiment 1914-1918

Making Humanitarian Crises - Emotions and Images in History

This open access book explores the emotional agency of images in the construction of ¿humanitarian crises¿ from the nineteenth century to...

Stalingrad: The Defeat of the German 6th Army - The Defeat of the German 6th Army

With the 50th Anniversary of the battle of Stalingrad approaching, we present Paul Carell's first eastern front work in over twenty-five ...

Timelines of World History

This highly accessible guide to world history brings key milestones and events to life in visual timelines. Packed with illustrations and...