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CliffsQuickReview U.S. History I
Wiley 2004; US$ 9.95CliffsQuickReview course guides cover the essentials of your toughest classes. Get a firm grip on core concepts and key material, and test your newfound knowledge with review questions. CliffsQuickReview U.S. History I provides you with an overview of United States history from before the colonial period through the end of Reconstruction. You can... more...
The Education of Henry Adams
The Floating Press 1918; US$ 7.99The Education of Henry Adams is the autobiography of the Bostonian Henry Adams. As he approached his seventieth birthday when "the mind wakes to find itself looking blankly into the void of death," Adams wrote and privately printed 100 copies of his "Education", a reflection on the incredible events of the 19th century. Adams meditates... more...
Memoirs of an Obscure Professor
TCU Press 2013; US$ 15.95During the heyday of McCarthyism, the Chicago Tribune , offended by something he had written, contemptuously dismissed Paul Boller as "an obscure professor" - he was then teaching at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas. Some forty-five years later, reflecting on the incident, Boller wrote an essay on what it was like to be an obscure professor... more...
Passing of the Frontier
The Floating Press 2011; US$ 3.99Midwesterner Emerson Hough nurtured a life-long interest in the Wild West, and after receiving his law degree, he set up shop as an attorney in a rural town in New Mexico. Based on his experiences in the region, he penned a series of histories of the Old West. This volume contains a series of insightful essays about the meaning of the frontier and... more...
Mein schwacher Wille geschehe
Campus Verlag 2009; US$ 18.47Hauptbeschreibung Wollten Sie auch schon öfter mit dem Rauchen aufhören, die Steuererklärung endlich abgeben, das Chaos im Wohnzimmer beseitigen oder jetzt wirklich gesünder essen? Und haben Sie es dann doch nicht getan? Dann sind Sie nicht allein. Die Willensschwäche und das Laster sind kleine Fluchten in einer Welt, die uns immer mehr Leistung... more...
Document-Based Assessment Activities
Shell Education 2009; US$ 99.99Take students beyond textbook history to explore various people and events from ancient Egypt through the 20th Century using primary sources. Students will develop critical-thinking and essay writing skills as they analyze the various documents including photographs, posters, letters, maps, and more. Multiple social studies topics are included for... more...
Das erste Epos aus Amerika und die Aeneis Vergils: Der Aufbau von Anchietas De Gestis Mendi de Saa und die klassische Epik
Diplomica Verlag 2011; US$ 38.19Hauptbeschreibung Die Studie von Arias-Schreiber hat das Ziel, den Aufbau des Epos Anchietas De gestis Meni de Saa darzustellen und herauszuarbeiten, ob dieser sich an die klassische Tradition der historischen Epik, namentlich an die Aeneis Vergils anlehnt. Das Epos wurde von José de Anchieta, dem "Apostel Brasiliens" (1980 selig gesprochen) und... more...
Presidents and the Dissolution of the Union
Princeton University Press 2013; US$ 24.95The United States witnessed an unprecedented failure of its political system in the mid-nineteenth century, resulting in a disastrous civil war that claimed the lives of an estimated 750,000 Americans. In his other acclaimed books about the American presidency, Fred Greenstein assesses the personal strengths and weaknesses of presidents from George... more...
Dokumente zur Geschichte der Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika.
Duncker & Humblot 2007; US$ 76.09Hauptbeschreibung Die anlässlich des Kolumbus-Jahres im Jahre 1993 erschienene 1. Auflage dieser Anthologie hatte das Ziel, durch einen Rückblick auf die Geschichte der USA die Entwicklung der Vereinigten Staaten anhand wichtiger politischer und rechtlicher Dokumente nachzuzeichnen. Die lange demokratische Geschichte der USA im historischen Spannungsfeld... more...
Conspiracy Theories in American History
ABC-CLIO 2003; US$ 185.00This work is a comprehensive history of conspiracies and conspiracy theories in the USA. It focuses on the motives and political and social origins of the people arguing the conspiracy. It covers assassinations and sneak attacks, political intrigues, and witch-hunts. more...









