Historiography category: 1227 books
Madame de Chevreuse
Nouvelles études sur les femmes illustres et la société du XVIIe siécle ( Edition intégrale ) annoté
Language: French
Release Date: October 12, 2018
Les deux biographies de Mme de Chevreuse et de Mme de Hautefort, font partie d’un ouvrage où nous avons essayé de peindre, dans toute sa vérité et sous toutes ses faces, la lutte mémorable que le cardinal Mazarin eut à soutenir, en 1643, au début de son ministère et de la Régence d’Anne...
Le Château de Versailles et ses dépendances
L'histoire et l'art ( Edition intégrale ) illustré - annoté
Language: French
Release Date: July 23, 2018
J’ai voulu présenter dans ce livre, condensée en un seul volume, une histoire générale du Château de Versailles et de ses dépendances, depuis l’origine jusqu’à nos jours.
Une œuvre de ce genre, épuisée aujourd’hui, fut écrite par Dussieux en 1881 ; voilà bientôt trente ans. C’était...
Henry IV
Makers of History
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2018
History is our Heaven-appointed instructor. It is the guide for the future. The calamities of yesterday are the protectors of to-day.
The sea of time we navigate is full of perils. But it is not an unknown sea. It has been traversed for ages, and there is not a sunken rock or a treacherous...
Seven Events That Made America America
And Proved That the Founding Fathers Were Right All Along
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
A conservative historian examines some of the pivotal, yet often ignored, moments that shaped our history
All students of American history know the big events that dramatically shaped our country. The Civil War, Pearl Harbor, the assassination of John F. Kennedy, and 9/11 are just a few.
But...
by George Macdonald
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2016
“The Seaboard Parish” is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial...
Die besten Geschichten des Altertums: Alexander der Große und das Weltgriechentum + Frauen der Antike + Zur Kulturgeschichte Roms + Charakterbilder Spätroms und die Entstehung des modernen Europa
Römische Charakterköpfe + Legenden aus verklungenen Zeiten und mehr
Language: German
Release Date: May 15, 2014
Dieses eBook: "Die besten Geschichten des Altertums: Alexander der Große und das Weltgriechentum + Frauen der Antike + Zur Kulturgeschichte Roms + Charakterbilder Spätroms und die Entstehung des modernen Europa + Römische Charakterköpfe + Legenden aus verklungenen Zeiten und mehr" ist...
by Hernán Cortés
Language: Spanish
Release Date: October 12, 2015
Language: Spanish
Release Date: October 12, 2015
Las "Cartas de relación" escritas por Hernán Cortés, fueron dirigidas al emperador Carlos V. En estas cartas, Cortés describe su viaje a México, su llegada a Tenochtitlán, capital del imperio azteca, y algunos de los eventos que resultarían en la conquista de México.
Hernán...
Lies Across America
What Our Historic Sites Get Wrong
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2010
A fully updated and revised edition of the book USA Today called “jim-dandy pop history,” by the bestselling, American Book Award–winning author
From the author of the national bestseller Lies My Teacher Told Me, a completely updated—and more timely than ever—version of the myth-busting...
by Aleksandr Vasilevich Viskovatov
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2017
Compiled at Saint Petersburg during the year from 1837 and 1851, the Historical Description of the Clothing and Arms of the Russian Army has had an enormous impact and great importance for the study on the history of Russian costume and uniformology development over the past centuries . There is various...
by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2008
From admired historian—and coiner of one of feminism's most popular slogans—Laurel Thatcher Ulrich comes an exploration of what it means for women to make history.
In 1976, in an obscure scholarly article, Ulrich wrote, "Well behaved women seldom make history." Today these words...
by Thaddeus Russell
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2010
In this groundbreaking book, noted historian Thaddeus Russell tells a new and surprising story about the origins of American freedom. Rather than crediting the standard textbook icons, Russell demonstrates that it was those on the fringes of society whose subversive lifestyles helped legitimize the...
The Night Lives On: The Untold Stories and Secrets Behind the Sinking of the "Unsinkable" Ship—Titanic
The Untold Stories and Secrets Behind the Sinking of the "Unsinkable" Ship—Titanic
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2012
Three decades after his landmark work A Night to Remember, Walter Lord revisits the Titanic
Years after A Night to Remember stoked the fires of public interest in the doomed RMS Titanic, the clamor for details about April 14, 1912, has not abated. As die-hard professional and amateur historians—“rivet...
Une Année à Florence
( Edition intégrale )
Language: French
Release Date: March 7, 2019
Pendant l’été Florence est vide. Encaissée entre ses hautes montagnes, bâtie sur un fleuve qui pendant neuf mois ne roule que de la poussière, exposée sans que rien l’en garantisse à un soleil ardent que reflètent les dalles grisâtres de ses rues et les murailles blanchies de ses palais,...