Old Is Gold

Mit diesem Buch schliesst Michael Alberti eine Forschungslucke in der Gesamtgeschichte des Holocaust. Auf der Basis deutscher, polnischer und israelischer Archivbestande rekonstruiert er die Verfolgung und Vernichtung der judischen Minderheit im Warthegau und zeichnet die Entwicklung der nationalsozialistischen Judenpolitik, die schliesslich im September 1941...

Buraimi is an oasis in an otherwise bleak desert on the border between Oman and the UAE. In the early twentieth century, it shot to notoriety as oil brought the world's attention to this corner of the Arabian Peninsula, and the ensuing battle over...

This is a fascinating account of the geography, chronology and sociology of one of the major cultural movements in European history.Author: BurkePublisher: John Wiley & SonsPublished: 10/19/1998Pages: 304Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.20lbsSize: 9.25h x 6.21w x 0.85dISBN: 9780631198451About the AuthorPeter Burke is Professor of Cultural...

At Kingdom's Edge investigates how life in a conquered colony both revealed and shaped what it meant to be English outside of the British Isles. Considering the case of Jeronimy Clifford, who rose to become one of Suriname's richest planters, Jacob Selwood examines the...

Clever, attractive and ambitious, intellectually daring and physically courageous, Cornelia Sorabji was a truly remarkable woman. As India's first female lawyer, she was original and often outspoken in her views - for example, in her criticism of Gandhi and her surprising friendship with Katherine...

Emma Goldman's life and work offer countless perspectives for study and analysis. As an anarchist activist she always attacked any form of inequality and was a lifelong agent for freedom. Goldman, who lived a transnational life, in her writings and actions offers a kaleidoscopic...

Mr. Davidson's history of Wilkinson County takes on added importance owing to the 1852 fire in the county courthouse that destroyed a number of the county's pre-Civil War records. Indeed, the middle quarter of the book includes abstracts of several thousand Wilkinson County marriage...

This is an open access book available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read on the Oxford Academic platform and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. Following the centenary...

This is an analytical history of the role Tigrinya-speakers have played and are still playing in the history of Ethiopia and Eritrea, from Tigray's very ancient incipience to the origins of today's tragically fratricidal war. Drawing from his huge corpus of publications on the...

In 1864, the Prussian Navy, core element of what was to become the Imperial German Navy in future, acquired its first ironclad vessels from Great Britain and France. To that point, it had existed as a rather insignificant force for more or less 20...

Orig. Pub. 1894, Reprinted 1995, 784 pages, Hard Cover, New Index, ISBN #0-89308-106-X. It contains the history of 29 Arkansas counties and 26 Missouri counties, as well as some 660 biographical sketches of individuals in this region. Genealogical data is to be found on...

BY: Folks Huxford, Pub. 1943, reprinted 2021, 702 pages, Index, soft cover, ISBN #978-1-63914-030-5.Brooks county is located in the southern portion of the state while sharing a border with Florida. This are of Georgia is often times referred to as the Wiregrass Region. This...

In 1993, sociologist Nancy Ammerman published an edited collection, Southern Baptists Observed, that assayed the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) as the conservative takeover of the denomination was triumphant and expanding. This volume examines the state of the SBC now that it has been under...

At the turn of the twentieth century, Alexandria, Egypt, was a bustling transimperial port city, under nominal Ottoman and unofficial British imperial rule. Thousands of European subjects lived, worked, and died there. And when they died, the machinery of empire had to negotiate for...

This book looks at the physical manifestations - buildings and structures - of the Cold War in England. Illustrated with contemporary and archive photographs, site and building plans it looks at the buildings within their military and political context.Author: Wayne D. Cocroft, Roger C....

U.S. Trotskyism 1928-1965 Part I: Emergence is the first of a documentary trilogy on a revolutionary socialist split-off from the U.S. Communist Party, reflecting Leon Trotsky's confrontation with Stalinism in the global communist movement. Spanning 1928 to 1940, this volume surveys important U.S. labor...

Throughout his two-term presidency, Dwight D. Eisenhower faced the challenge of managing a period of peacetime prosperity after more than two decades of depression, war, and postwar inflation. The essential issue he addressed was how the country would pay for the deepening Cold War...

By: Silas Emmett Lucas, Jr., Pub. 1989, Reprinted 2016, 634 pages, Hard Cover, Index, ISBN #0-89308-648-7.This book contains records from UNION COUNTY: Will Book "A" 1792-1815, Deed Books "A&B" 1785-1791, Miscellaneous Records Book "1&2" and Probate Office 1785-1800; PICKENS COUNTY: Real Estate Sales Book...

From the flights of the Wright brothers through the mass journeys of the jet age, airplanes inspired Americans to reimagine their nation's place within the world. Now, Jenifer Van Vleck reveals the central role commercial aviation played in the United States' rise to global...

The rural county of Poyang, lying in northern Jiangxi Province, goes largely unmentioned in the annals of modern Chinese history. Yet records from the Public Security Bureau archive hold a treasure trove of data on the every day interactions between locals and the law....