Gleanings for the Curious from the Harvest Fields of Literature
Author : Charles Carroll Bombaugh
Publisher :
Page : 876 pages
File Size : 31,45 MB
Release : 1874
Category : Literary curiosa
ISBN :
The World Says No to War
Author : Stefaan Walgrave
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 42,76 MB
Release :
Category :
ISBN : 145291513X
Book Description
On February 15, 2003, the largest one-day protest in human history took place as millions of people in hundreds of cities marched in the streets, rallying against the imminent invasion of Iraq. This was activism on an unprecedented scale. The World Says No to Warstrives to understand who spoke out, why they did, and how so many people were mobilized for a global demonstration. Using surveys collected by researchers from eight countries—Belgium, Britain, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland, and the United States—The World Says No to Waranalyzes how the new tools of the Internet were combined with more conventional means of mobilization to rally millions, many with little experience in activism, around common goals and against common targets. Contributors: W. Lance Bennett, U of Washington; Michelle Beyeler, U Bern; Christian Breunig, U of Toronto; Mario Diani, U of Trento; Terri E. Givens, U of Texas, Austin; Bert Klandermans, Free U Amsterdam; Donatella della Porta, European U Institute; Wolfgang Rüdig, U of Strathclyde; Sidney Tarrow, Cornell U; Peter Van Aelst, U of Antwerp.
Facts and Fancies for the Curious from the Harvest-fields of Literature
Author : Charles Carroll Bombaugh
Publisher :
Page : 666 pages
File Size : 39,68 MB
Release : 1905
Category : Literary curiosa
ISBN :
Book Description
Duty and Desire Book Club Edition
Author : Anju Gattani
Publisher :
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 46,20 MB
Release : 2021-01-27
Category :
ISBN : 9781953100092
Book Description
To uphold family honor and tradition, Sheetal Prasad is forced to forsake the man she loves and marry playboy millionaire Rakesh Dhanraj while the citizens of Raigun, India, watch in envy. On her wedding night, however, Sheetal quickly learns that the stranger she married is as cold as the marble floors of the Dhanraj mansion. Forced to smile at family members and cameras and pretend there's nothing wrong with her marriage, Sheetal begins to discover that the family she married into harbors secrets, lies and deceptions powerful enough to tear apart her world. With no one to rely on and no escape, Sheetal must ally with her husband in an attempt to protect her infant son from the tyranny of his family.sion.
Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf
Author : Lawrence Sondhaus
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 15,69 MB
Release : 2021-10-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9004475788
Book Description
Did you ever wonder how and why Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf (1852-1925) earned his reputation for brilliance, while failing so miserably during the First World War? In examining Conrad’s life and career, including his years as a military writer, teacher of tactics, and a peacetime troop commander before 1906, this first modern biography offers a fascinating and impressive explanation of his thoughts and actions. Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf (1852-1925) served as Austro-Hungarian chief of the general staff between 1906 and 1917, and was a leading figure in the origins and conduct of the First World War. In no other country did a single general serve as the leading prewar tactician, prewar and wartime strategist, and wartime army commander. Because Conrad filled all of these roles in Austria-Hungary, he had no equal among the military men leading the old order of Europe to destruction in 1914-1918.
Austro-Hungarian Red Book
Author : Austro-Hungarian Monarchy. Ministerium des K. und K. Hauses und des Äussern
Publisher :
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 49,79 MB
Release : 1915
Category : World War, 1914-1918
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Book Description
The Origins of World War I
Author : Richard F. Hamilton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 558 pages
File Size : 10,78 MB
Release : 2003-02-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521817356
Book Description
Discusses and examines the possible causes of World War I.
The Acharnians
Author : Aristophanes
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 32,75 MB
Release : 2019-09-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3734064104
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: The Acharnians by Aristophanes
The Viennese Café and Fin-de-Siècle Culture
Author : Charlotte Ashby
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 12,49 MB
Release : 2013-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0857457659
Book Description
The Viennese café was a key site of urban modernity around 1900. In the rapidly growing city it functioned simultaneously as home and workplace, affording opportunities for both leisure and intellectual exchange. This volume explores the nature and function of the coffeehouse in the social, cultural, and political world of fin-de-siècle Vienna. Just as the café served as a creative meeting place within the city, so this volume initiates conversations between different disciplines focusing on Vienna at the beginning of the twentieth century. Contributions are drawn from the fields of social and cultural history, literary studies, Jewish studies and art, and architectural and design history. A fresh perspective is also provided by a selection of comparative articles exploring coffeehouse culture elsewhere in Eastern Europe.
An Improbable War?
Author : Holger Afflerbach
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 17,13 MB
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 0857453106
Book Description
The First World War has been described as the "primordial catastrophe of the twentieth century." Arguably, Italian Fascism, German National Socialism and Soviet Leninism and Stalinism would not have emerged without the cultural and political shock of World War I. The question why this catastrophe happened therefore preoccupies historians to this day. The focus of this volume is not on the consequences, but rather on the connection between the Great War and the long 19th century, the short- and long-term causes of World War I. This approach results in the questioning of many received ideas about the war's causes, especially the notion of "inevitability."
