Anglo-Persian Oil (later BP) was specially formed to exploit the 60-year oil concession to drill for oil, which was signed in 1901 by the then Shah of Persia. Prompted by Winston Churchill, the British Government bought 51% of the company's shares. Persian oil soon became Britain's «single largest overseas asset». But in 1951, newly-elected Prime Minister Mossadegh declared the concession 'immoral', unilaterally cancelled it ...
Auf einem Internat fur hohere Tochter lernt Rieke, Tochter eines verarmten Offiziers, 1864 Gunda von Hartung kennen. Wahrend eines Besuchs bei deren Familie trifft sie auch auf Gundas Bruder Theo. Der verhalt sich dem selbstbewussten Madchen gegenuber anfangs au?erst schroff, doch als Riekes Vater im Kampf schwer verwundet wird, steht er ihr selbstlos zur Seite. Noch bevor die beiden einander allerdings ihre Gefuhle gestehen konnen, kommt es zu ...
It began with a handful of bedraggled pioneer survivors. It took root because of the courage of one young man. In William W. Johnstone's new blockbuster Western series, a town called Fury rises up in the midst of a hostile Arizona Territory–and lives every day as if it were its last. . .Between newcomers and original settlers, the few hundred people who inhabit Fury, Arizona, know about survival. After all, if man or nature had their way, t ...
In Water Brings No Harm, Matthew V. Bender explores the history of community water management on Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania. Kilimanjaro’s Chagga-speaking peoples have long managed water by employing diverse knowledge: hydrological, technological, social, cultural, and political. Since the 1850s, they have encountered groups from beyond the mountain—colonial officials, missionaries, settlers, the independent Tanzanian state, development age ...
From its inception, the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE) provoked controversy. Today it is widely regarded as having contributed to the end of the Cold War. Bringing together new and innovative research on the CSCE, this volume explores questions key to understanding the Cold War: What role did diplomats play in shaping the 1975 Helsinki Final Act? How did that agreement and the CSCE more broadly shape societies in Europe ...
Since unification, eastern Germany has witnessed a rapidly changing memorial landscape, as the fate of former socialist monuments has been hotly debated and new commemorative projects have met with fierce controversy. Memorializing the GDR provides the first in-depth study of this contested arena of public memory, investigating the individuals and groups devoted to the creation or destruction of memorials as well as their broader aesthetic, po ...
Конец второго века нашей эры. Огромная Ханьская империя сопоставимая по могуществу и влиянию с Римской, готовится нанести удар по Хуннской кочевой державе, широко раскинувшейся от берегов Тенгиз-моря (Байкала) до Великой китайской стены. Но для вторжения в земли степняков не хватает точных сведений. Тогда по приказу императора Линь Цзана на северные границы государства Хунну направляются два высших сановника имперской тайной службы: Минь Кунь и ...
Роман «Калинов мост» посвящён противоречивым и сложным страницам советской истории, связанным с проведением аграрной и национальной политики руководства страны в 30-х годах XX столетия в СССРСюжетной линией романа становятся события, связанные с освоением Нарымского края, Томской области, в том числе за счёт спецпереселенцев. Все эти сюжеты тесно переплетены в судьбах многочисленных жителей различных частей страны, которые в условиях политически ...
