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Author: P. Ashton
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2008-12-11
Total Pages: 317
ISBN-13: 0230234461
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this innovative and original collection, people are seen as active agents in the development of new ways of understanding the past and creating histories for the present. Chapters explore forms of public history in which people's experience and understanding of their personal, national and local pasts are part of their current lives.
Author: Margaret MacMillan
Publisher: House of Anansi
Published: 2015-09-08
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 1487000073
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPart of the CBC Massey Lectures Series In History’s People internationally acclaimed historian Margaret MacMillan gives her own personal selection of figures of the past, women and men, some famous and some little-known, who stand out for her. Some have changed the course of history and even directed the currents of their times. Others are memorable for being risk-takers, adventurers, or observers. She looks at the concept of leadership through Bismarck and the unification of Germany; William Lyon MacKenzie King and the preservation of the Canadian Federation; Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the bringing of a unified United States into the Second World War. She also notes how leaders can make huge and often destructive mistakes, as in the cases of Hitler, Stalin, and Thatcher. Richard Nixon and Samuel de Champlain are examples of daring risk-takers who stubbornly went their own ways, often in defiance of their own societies. Then there are the dreamers, explorers, and adventurers, individuals like Fanny Parkes and Elizabeth Simcoe who manage to defy or ignore the constraints of their own societies. Finally, there are the observers, such as Babur, the first Mughal emperor of India, and Victor Klemperer, a Holocaust survivor, who kept the notes and diaries that bring the past to life. History’s People is about the important and complex relationship between biography and history, individuals and their times.
Author: Göran Burenhult
Publisher:
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 468
ISBN-13: 9781877019302
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book tells the human story from the origins of humankind to the end of the Stone Age around 2000 BC. It explores our links with other primates and examines theories of evolution, the beginnings of language, the rise of art and religion, and the global expansion that precipitated remarkable adaption and diversity. Then follows a survey of the revolutionary upheaval associated with the development of agriculture - a story of dramatic climate change, the domestication of plants and animals, massive population increase, the founding of urban centres, and long-distance trade networks. This momemtous transition is followed from Europe to the highlands of New Guinea and lowland Maya farmers, from Africa to Asia and the New World.
Author: Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Publisher: NYU Press
Published: 2010-09-01
Total Pages: 290
ISBN-13: 0814732658
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExplores the family trees and genealogical identity of twelve remarkable Americans: Stephen Colbert, Louise Erdrich, Eva Longoria, Yo Yo Ma, and others. Since 2007, the Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr., has been helping African Americans find long-buried details about their ancestors by researching their family trees and then, when the paper trail ends, by analyzing their DNA and marrying that information to a wealth of historical data. Now, in Faces of America, Gates explores the family trees of twelve of America’s most recognizable and extraordinary citizens, individuals who learn that they are of Asian, English, French, German, Irish, Italian, Jamaican, Jewish, Latino, Native American, Swiss, and Syrian ancestry: Inaugural poet Elizabeth Alexander, chef Mario Batali, comedian and television personality Stephen Colbert, writer Louise Erdrich, writer Malcolm Gladwell, actress Eva Longoria, cellist Yo Yo Ma, writer and director Mike Nichols, former monarch of Jordan Queen Noor, surgeon and author Dr. Mehmet Oz, actress Meryl Streep, and Olympic gold medalist and figure skater Kristi Yamaguchi. In addition, each of the subjects in Faces of America underwent dense genotyping to trace their genetic ancestry on their father’s line, their mother’s line, and their percentages of European, Asian, Native American, and African ancestry. Readers will share in the surprise and delight, the shock and sadness of these twelve individuals themselves as Gates unveils their rich family stories, traced back to their arrival on America’s shores, and beyond, deep into the history of their ancestors’ countries of origin. In this compelling book, Gates demonstrates that where we come from profoundly and fundamentally informs who we are today.
Author: Joachim Fromhold
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 0557708427
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Joachim Fromhold
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published: 2012-03-10
Total Pages: 251
ISBN-13: 110558724X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe only listing of historic persons and birth, deaths and affiliations for western Canadian native peoples and fur trade workers for the Fur Trade eras of 1600 to 1900.
Author: Joachim Fromhold
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published: 2010-08-14
Total Pages: 180
ISBN-13: 055754940X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe only existant listing of historic Fur Trade and aboriginal personages with births, deaths and affiliations for western Canada and adjacent areasfrom 1600-1900.
Author: Joachim Fromhold
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 266
ISBN-13: 055799019X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: IDP Research Division
Publisher: Islamic Digital Publishing
Published: 2018-04-26
Total Pages: 225
ISBN-13: 8828315717
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book makes mention about some other stories and incidents from the Qur'an and Ahadeeth that have taken place in previous times, apart from the lives of the Prophets. This includes those stories that took place between the time of Jesus and Muhammad (may peace be upon them), the Period of Ignorance (al-Jahiliyyah). These have all occurred before the lifetime of the Prophet Muhammad (S). Wherever necessary, the views and opinions of other notable scholars of Islam has also been recorded. This eBook is compiled utilizing some of the highest quality and best standards of formatting in order to preserve and distinguish the layout of the eBook. It is an excellent work which caters for a large audience of the English speaking world and can be read by virtually all age groups. Guaranteed to be enjoyed by all those who read it. Contents of the Book: About this Book 01 The Story of Dhul Qarnayn 02 The Story of the Companions of the Cave 03 The Story of a Believer and a Disbeliever 04 The Story of the Owners of the Garden 05 The Story of the Sabbath Breakers 06 The Story of Luqman 07 The Story of the Companions of the Pit 08 The Story of Three Infants who Spoke in the Cradle 09 The Story of Barsisa 10 The Story of Three Men who were Locked in a Cave 11 The Story of the Blind, the Leper and the Bald 12 The Story of the Genealogy of the Arabs 13 The Story of Saba' 14 The Story of Rabi'a and the Two Soothsayers 15 The Story of Sayf ibn Dhu Yazaan 16 The Story of Al-Saatirun 17 The Story of the Sons of Isma'eel (AS), and the Ka'bah 18 The Story of 'Amr ibn Luhayy 19 The Story of Khalid ibn Sinaan (the alleged prophet) 20 The Story of Haatim al-Ta'i 21 The Story of 'Abdullah ibn Jud'aan 22 The Story of Imru' al-Qays ibn Hujr al-Kindi 23 The Story of Umayya ibn Abu al-Salt al-Thaqafee 24 The Story of Quss ibn Sa'eeda al-Iyaadi 25 The Story of Ka'b ibn Lu'ayy 26 The Story of Zayd ibn 'Amr ibn Nufayl 27 The Story of As'ad Abu Karib 28 The Story of Abraha and Aryaat 29 The Story of 'Abdul-Muttalib, the Zamzam Well, and his Son's Marriage to Aamina Visit our eBook Store at: www.payhip.com/idpebooks Contact us at: [email protected]
Author: Andrew J. Strathern
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2004-06-11
Total Pages: 195
ISBN-13: 1403982422
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHow have the Aluni Valley Duna people of Papua New Guinea responded to the challenges of colonial and post-colonial changes that have entered their lifeworld since the middle of the Twentieth-Century? Living in a corner of the world influenced by mining companies but relatively neglected in terms of government-sponsored development, these people have dealt creatively with forces of change by redeploying their own mythological themes about the cosmos in order to make claims on outside corporations and by subtly combining features of their customary practices with forms of Christianity, attempting to empower their past as a means of confronting the future.
