Resultaten gefilterd op "ACLS History E-Book Project"

Freedom, Loyalty, Dissent

Henry Steele Commager

• Paperback | Engels
• Collected essays that expound on freedom--in all forms--as a necessity for national and human prosperity. Lees meer

Jefferson, Nationalism, and the Enlightenment

Henry Steele Commager

• Paperback | Engels
• A collection of essays and lectures from Henry Steele Commager, one of America's eminent historians. The focus is on the age of enlightenment, with pa... Lees meer

On the African Waterfront

Frederick Cooper

• Paperback | Engels
• A study of work in the European-African colonial relationship during the first half of the 20th century. Labor relations became increasingly tense dur... Lees meer

Crusaders For Freedom

Henry Steele Commager

• Paperback | Engels
• Written for children and young adults, Crusaders for Freedom features brief biographies of famous activists and intellectuals throughout history. Biog... Lees meer

New Spain's Century of Depression

Woodrow Wilson Borah

• Paperback | Engels
• An analysis, using demographic data, of the Mexican colonial economy in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Lees meer

Tomorrow a New World

Paul Keith Conkin

• Paperback | Engels
• This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is i... Lees meer

The Neandertals

Erik Trinkaus, Pat Shipman

• Paperback | Engels | ACLS Humanities E-Book
• To most 19th-century scholars, the Neandertals' fierce, ridged brows were evidence of a moral darkness that set them apart from humans. Yet by the 197... Lees meer

Exploration and Empire

William H Goetzmann

• Paperback | Engels
• From early mountain men searching for routes through the Rockies to West Point soldier-engineers conducting topographical expeditions, the exploration... Lees meer

The Economy and Society of Pompeii

Willem M Jongman

• Hardcover | Engels
• In this study, Jongman examines Pompeii's prosperity and social structure, which was marked by vast inequality between classes. Lees meer

Black Banners from the East II

Moshe Sharon

• Paperback | Engels
• The second part of Sharon's history of the Abbasid dynasty's defeat of the Umayyad. Lees meer

Price Trends of Some Basic Commodities in Central Mexico, 1531-1570

Woodrow Wilson Borah, Sherburne F Cook

• Paperback | Engels
• Covering central Mexico in the 16th century, a resource with tables and graphs of basic commodities such as maize and cloth, accompanied with explanat... Lees meer

The Art of American Car Design

C Edson Armi

• Paperback | Engels
• An examination of American car design as art, plus interviews with car designers such as Frank Hershey. Lees meer

The Eskimos and Aleuts

Don E Dumond

• Paperback | Engels
• A study of the prehistory of the Eskimo-Aleut peoples who live along the Alaska Peninsula and the Aleutian Islands. Lees meer

Mohammed and Charlemagne

Henri Pirenne

• Paperback | Engels
• Remarkable classic that developed the revolutionary theory of how the advance and influence of Islam caused the Europe of the Roman Empire to evolve i... Lees meer

The Search for a Usable Past and Other Essays in Historiography

Henry Steele Commager

• Paperback | Engels
• Essays on the historiography of American history. Lees meer

The Defeat of the Confederacy

• Paperback | Engels
• A collection of essays from various historians that analyze the reasons for the defeat of the Confederate army. Lees meer

The Commonwealth of Learning

Henry Steele Commager

• Paperback | Engels
• A collection of wide-ranging essays on American education. Lees meer

The Life of Sir Philip Sidney

Malcolm William Wallace

• Paperback | Engels
• Excerpt from The Life of Sir Philip Sidney In telling the story, however, I have constantly tried to remember that details find their chief value in t... Lees meer

Imagined Destinies

Russell McGregor

• Paperback | Engels
• An exploration of the doomed race theory and its place in the Western imagination. This study applies observations to the relationship between white A... Lees meer

The True History of the Conquest of New Spain, Volume 3

Bernal Diaz del Castillo

• Hardcover | Engels
• Bernal Diaz del Castillo (1492 1584) was a foot soldier in the army of Mexico's conqueror Hernan Cortes, and participated in the campaigns that led to... Lees meer

The Journey from Eden

Brian M Fagan

• Paperback | Engels
• A history of Homo sapiens and the spread of humanity across the continents. Line illustrations are included. Lees meer

Lester Ward and the Welfare State

• Paperback | Engels
• A chronologically ordered collection of Lester Ward's writings on the welfare state. Lees meer

Arnold J. Toynbee

William H McNeill

• Paperback | Engels
• Arnold Toynbee was one of the most remarkable thinkers of the 20th century, a man of far-reaching imagination, extraordinary erudition, and an infinit... Lees meer

Burial and Ancient Society

Ian Morris

• Hardcover | Engels
• This study of the changing relationships between burial rituals and social structure in Early Iron Age Greece will be required reading for all archaeo... Lees meer