Author: Laura Almagor
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 152616115X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
Global biographies provides an advanced and comprehensive analytical framework for historians to use biography as a method to write global history. Moving beyond the state-of-the-art, the volume defines and operationalises three uniquely tailored approaches to global biographies: ‘time and periodisation’, ‘exceptional normal’ and ‘space and scales’. From Icelandic communists and Jewish medical students, via Zambian Third Worldism and Albanian nationalism, to the Black/White Atlantic and Australian internationalists, the volume tests the prospects and pitfalls of the approaches it launches.
Global biographies
Author: Laura Almagor
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 152616115X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
Global biographies provides an advanced and comprehensive analytical framework for historians to use biography as a method to write global history. Moving beyond the state-of-the-art, the volume defines and operationalises three uniquely tailored approaches to global biographies: ‘time and periodisation’, ‘exceptional normal’ and ‘space and scales’. From Icelandic communists and Jewish medical students, via Zambian Third Worldism and Albanian nationalism, to the Black/White Atlantic and Australian internationalists, the volume tests the prospects and pitfalls of the approaches it launches.
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 152616115X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
Global biographies provides an advanced and comprehensive analytical framework for historians to use biography as a method to write global history. Moving beyond the state-of-the-art, the volume defines and operationalises three uniquely tailored approaches to global biographies: ‘time and periodisation’, ‘exceptional normal’ and ‘space and scales’. From Icelandic communists and Jewish medical students, via Zambian Third Worldism and Albanian nationalism, to the Black/White Atlantic and Australian internationalists, the volume tests the prospects and pitfalls of the approaches it launches.
Galileo
Author: Philip Steele
Publisher: National Geographic Kids
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 74
Book Description
Publisher Description
Publisher: National Geographic Kids
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 74
Book Description
Publisher Description
Alexander Graham Bell
Author: Mary Kay Carson
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
ISBN: 9781402749513
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
An introduction to the life and career of the inventor of the telephone, who was also accomplished in many other ways.
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
ISBN: 9781402749513
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
An introduction to the life and career of the inventor of the telephone, who was also accomplished in many other ways.
Thomas Paine's Rights of Man
Author: Christopher Hitchens
Publisher: Grove Press
ISBN: 9780802143839
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Thomas Paine's "Rights of Man" has been celebrated, criticized, maligned, suppressed, and co-opted, but Hitchens marvels at its forethought and revels in its contentiousness. In this book, he demonstrates how Paine's book forms the philosophical cornerstone of the U.S.
Publisher: Grove Press
ISBN: 9780802143839
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Thomas Paine's "Rights of Man" has been celebrated, criticized, maligned, suppressed, and co-opted, but Hitchens marvels at its forethought and revels in its contentiousness. In this book, he demonstrates how Paine's book forms the philosophical cornerstone of the U.S.
World History Biographies: Leonardo Da Vinci
Author: John Phillips
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 9781426302480
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
Examines the life and accomplishment of Leonardo da Vinci.
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 9781426302480
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
Examines the life and accomplishment of Leonardo da Vinci.
Joan of Arc
Author: Philip Wilkinson
Publisher: National Geographic World Hist
ISBN: 1426304153
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
A look at the life, death, and continuing influence of Joan of Arc.
Publisher: National Geographic World Hist
ISBN: 1426304153
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
A look at the life, death, and continuing influence of Joan of Arc.
Disney's World
Author: Leonard Mosley
Publisher: Scarborough House
ISBN: 158979656X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Documents the stunning accomplishments of Disney's imaginative genius. It is not a flattering portrait. Library Journal
Publisher: Scarborough House
ISBN: 158979656X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Documents the stunning accomplishments of Disney's imaginative genius. It is not a flattering portrait. Library Journal
Christopher Columbus
Author: Emma Carlson Berne
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
ISBN: 9781402760563
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
Christopher Columbus and his crew had been sailing for five weeks into uncharted waters before finally reaching land one blazing hot day in 1492. It was a difficult journey that many predicted would be impossible, but Columbus proved them wrong and his voyage changed the world. Columbus had done it: he was the first man to reach the East by sailing west, and he was heralded as the Father of the New World. Columbus would take three more voyages to different places, but he remains best known as the pioneer who opened routes to the exploration and settlement of the Americas. Book jacket.
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
ISBN: 9781402760563
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
Christopher Columbus and his crew had been sailing for five weeks into uncharted waters before finally reaching land one blazing hot day in 1492. It was a difficult journey that many predicted would be impossible, but Columbus proved them wrong and his voyage changed the world. Columbus had done it: he was the first man to reach the East by sailing west, and he was heralded as the Father of the New World. Columbus would take three more voyages to different places, but he remains best known as the pioneer who opened routes to the exploration and settlement of the Americas. Book jacket.
Hatshepsut
Author: Ellen Galford
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 9781426301339
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
Biography of Hatshepsut's palace childhood and her adult life as Egypt's female pharaoh.
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 9781426301339
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
Biography of Hatshepsut's palace childhood and her adult life as Egypt's female pharaoh.
Transnational Biographies
Author: Gabriele Rosenthal
Publisher: Universitätsverlag Göttingen
ISBN: 3863955714
Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Every day many people leave the place where they live and move to some other place, where they settle permanently or stay for many years. The contributions to this volume are based on the results of three empirical research projects which set out to investigate the situation of migrants in Jordan, Brazil, Germany and other European countries. The articles focus on migrants at their place of arrival and ask questions such as: How do they look back on their life histories and migration paths? What dynamics and processes led up to their migration projects and how do they explain their motives? The studies in this volume show that leaving and arriving are interrelated: leaving one’s home region is part of a long process, partly planned and partly unplanned, which is determined by complex collective, familial and individual constellations, and which has significant consequences for the action patterns and participation strategies of migrants in their arrival societies. This book also shows which constellations enable some migrants to realize their goals in their present situation, and which constraints or obstacles make it impossible for others to do so.
Publisher: Universitätsverlag Göttingen
ISBN: 3863955714
Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Every day many people leave the place where they live and move to some other place, where they settle permanently or stay for many years. The contributions to this volume are based on the results of three empirical research projects which set out to investigate the situation of migrants in Jordan, Brazil, Germany and other European countries. The articles focus on migrants at their place of arrival and ask questions such as: How do they look back on their life histories and migration paths? What dynamics and processes led up to their migration projects and how do they explain their motives? The studies in this volume show that leaving and arriving are interrelated: leaving one’s home region is part of a long process, partly planned and partly unplanned, which is determined by complex collective, familial and individual constellations, and which has significant consequences for the action patterns and participation strategies of migrants in their arrival societies. This book also shows which constellations enable some migrants to realize their goals in their present situation, and which constraints or obstacles make it impossible for others to do so.