Russian officials claim today that the USSR never possessed an offensive biological weapons program. In fact, the Soviet government spent billions of rubles and hard currency to fund hugely expensive research that added nothing to the country's security. This history is the firs…
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Paper Memory tells of one man's mission to preserve for posterity the memory of everyday life in sixteenth-century Germany. Lundin takes us inside the mind of an undistinguished German burgher, Hermann Weinsberg, whose early-modern writings sought to make sense of changes that w…
In the first book to trace the Russian state's citizenship policy throughout its history, Lohr argues that to understand the citizenship dilemmas Russia faces today, we must return to the less xenophobic and isolationist pre-Stalin period--before the drive toward autarky after 1…
Mother Russia -- Pioneers of liberty -- The trio -- Autonomists -- Homestead -- Attentat -- Judgment -- Buried alive -- Blackwell's and brady -- The tunnel -- Red Emma -- The assassination of McKinley -- E.G. Smith -- Resurrection -- The wine of sunshine and liberty -- The insid…
Why did World War I end with a whimper--an arrangement between two weary opponents to suspend hostilities? Why did the Allies reject the option of advancing into Germany and taking Berlin? Most histories of the Great War focus on the avoidability of its beginning. This book focu…
Main description: Before the First World War, the British Admiralty conceived a plan to win rapid victory in the event of war with Germany-economic warfare on an unprecedented scale. This secret strategy called for the state to exploit Britain's effective monopolies in banking, …
Retóricas del cuerpo amerindio
by Pitarch Ramón, Pedro, Gutiérrez Estévez, Manuel
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Formado por los trabajos de once especialistas en historia y antropología americanas, analiza las "retóricas" de las culturas amerindias, históricas y contemporáneas, sobre el cuerpo humano.
Here is the first detailed investigation of plantation slave life in Barbados from earliest times until 1838. The authors have visited slave village sites, and their intensive excavation of a slave cemetery has yielded a wealth of material pertaining to mortuary practices and ot…