Anno Domini, 1400. In den gro?en Kathedralen, Domen und Munstern von Koln, Strassburg, Regensburg, Chartres und Amiens sturzen auf unerklarliche Weise Pfeiler ein, bersten Treppen, losen sich Schlusssteine aus den Gewolben. In der Bevolkerung bricht Hysterie aus, die Dombaumeister stehen vor einem Ratsel. Ist dies die Strafe Gottes oder des Teufels Werk? Afra, die schone Tochter eines Bibliothekars und heimliche Geliebte des beruhmten Dombaumeis ...
Too often, the study of Israel/Palestine has focused on elite actors and major events. <i>Struggle and Survival in Palestine/Israel </i>takes advantage of new sources about everyday life and the texture of changes on the ground to put more than two dozen human faces on the past and present of the region. With contributions from a leading cast of scholars across disciplines, the stories here are drawn from a variety of sources, from s ...
Das Haus Pilaster, eine der angesehensten Bankiersfamilien Londons, wird insgeheim von der schonen Augusta beherrscht. Rucksichtslos treibt sie ihre ehrgeizigen Plane voran, die schon bald das Finanzimperium ins Wanken bringen. Wird es Hugh Pilaster gelingen, den drohenden Ruin des Bankhauses abzuwenden und damit sein Lebensgluck und das vieler anderer Menschen zu retten? ...
Delving beneath Southern California’s popular image as a sunny frontier of leisure and ease, this book tells the dynamic story of the life and labor of Los Angeles’s large working class. In a sweeping narrative that takes into account more than a century of labor history, John H. M. Laslett acknowledges the advantages Southern California’s climate, open spaces, and bucolic character offered to generations of newcomers. At the same time, he demon ...
From the Jaws of Victory: The Triumph and Tragedy of Cesar Chavez and the Farm Worker Movement is the most comprehensive history ever written on the meteoric rise and precipitous decline of the United Farm Workers, the most successful farm labor union in United States history. Based on little-known sources and one-of-a-kind oral histories with many veterans of the farm worker movement, this book revises much of what we know about the UFW. Matt G ...
Violence has been a central feature of America’s history, culture, and place in the world. It has taken many forms: from state-sponsored uses of force such as war or law enforcement, to revolution, secession, terrorism and other actions with important political and cultural implications. Religion also holds a crucial place in the American experience of violence, particularly for those who have found order and meaning in their worlds through reli ...
England im Jahre 1327. Es ist der Tag nach Allerheiligen. In der Stadt Kingsbridge trifft sich im Schatten der Kathedrale das Volk. Vier Kinder fluchten vor dem Trubel in den nahe gelegenen Wald. Dort werden sie Zeugen eines Kampfes – und eines todlichen Geheimnisses. Merthin, ein Nachfahre von Jack Builder, dem Erbauer der Kathedrale, hat dessen Genie und rebellische Natur geerbt. Sein starker Bruder Ralph strebt den Aufstieg in die Ritterschaf ...
Carlo Ginzburg’s brilliant and timely new essay collection takes a bold stand against naive positivism and allegedly sophisticated neo-skepticism. It looks deeply into questions raised by decades of post-structuralism: What constitutes historical truth? How do we draw a boundary between truth and fiction? What is the relationship between history and memory? How do we grapple with the historical conventions that inform, in different ways, all wri ...
