yale university press apr 2008 (6 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Treacherous, power-hungry, untempered by moral restraint, and embittered by physical deformity, Richard, the younger brother of King Edward IV, is ablaze with ambition to take England's throne. 'Richard III,' Shakespeare's long chronicle of Richard's machinations to be king, is a tale of murder upon murder. He gains the throne, but only briefly. In a terrible dream, the ghosts of his victims visit the now-despised monarch to foretell his demise. Richard's death in battle the next day concludes his reign of evil, ushering in at last a new and hopeful era of peace for England.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Historian Richardson ties the North and West into the post-Civil War story that usually focuses narrowly on the South, encompassing the significant people and events of this profoundly important era and weaving together the experiences of real individuals.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The Gallipoli campaign of 1914-15 is one of the discussed events of the First World War. This book provides the account of the Allied submarine and related German U-boat activity, integrated with an analysis of the strategies and actions of various lands, seas and air forces.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A renowned art historian confronts the specific powers of painting, and the hold of the visual image on the viewer's imagination.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Steam locomotives gripped the imagination when they first appeared in nineteenth-century Europe and America. Aboard these great machines, passengers travelled at faster speeds than ever before. This work captures both the fear and excitement of early train travel as it probes the artistic response to steam locomotion within its social setting.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The Soviet-Polish peace treaty of 1921, also known as the 'Riga peace,' ended the war of 1919-1920 and may be considered the most important Eastern European treaty of the interwar period. This deeply researched book offers the first post-Soviet account of how Bolshevik Russia and Poland came to sign the treaty--a pact that established the central part of the Soviet western border and provided Eastern Europe with a measure of stability that lasted until 1939. Jerzy Borzecki draws on a wealth of untapped materials in Russian and Polish archives to recreate the negotiations and behind-the-scenes maneuvers leading to and surrounding the treaty. He examines the significance of the agreement not only to its signatories but also to Ukraine, Belarus, Lithuania, and Latvia. The Riga peace represented an authentic compromise between Poland and Bolshevik Russia, Borzecki shows, and he offers new interpretations of other crucial aspects of the negotiations as well.