Basic books mai 2022 (3 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - From a New York Times bestselling historian, the "truly revelatory" (Wall Street Journal) story of how the alphabet ordered our worldA Place for Everything is the first-ever history of alphabetization, from the Library of Alexandria to Wikipedia. Once we've learned our ABCs as children, few of us ever think of them again, but alphabetical order plays a material role in our adult lives. From school registers to electoral rolls, from dictionaries and encyclopedias to library shelves, the alphabet has ordered our lives, often invisibly. Yet the birth of alphabetization was a constant struggle: Medieval clergy feltthat its use would upend the divine order of creation; elite institutions like Harvard and Yale long ranked students by the social status of their parents, rather than ordering them from A to Z. But eventually alphabetical order triumphed.With wry humor, historian Judith Flanders offers a fascinating history of how the alphabet ordered our world.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The definitive history of a powerful family dynasty who dominated Europe for centuries-from their rise to power to their eventual downfall.'A feat of both scholarship and storytelling.' -Wall Street Journal In The Habsburgs, Martyn Rady tells the epic story of a dynasty and the world it built-and then lost-over nearly a millennium. From modest origins, the Habsburgs gained control of the Holy Roman Empire in the fifteenth century. Then, in just a few decades, their possessions rapidly expanded to take in a large part of Europe, stretching from Hungary to Spain, and parts of the New World and the Far East. The Habsburgs continued to dominate Central Europe through the First World War. Historians often depict the Habsburgs as leaders of a ramshackle empire. But Rady reveals their enduring power, driven by the belief that they were destined to rule the world as defenders of the Roman Catholic Church, guarantors of peace, and patrons of learning. The Habsburgs is the definitive history of a remarkable dynasty that forever changed Europe and the world.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A bold new history of theorigins and aftermathof theTexas Revolution,revealing how Indians, Mexicans, and Americansbattled forsurvival in one of the continent's most diverse regionsThe Texas Revolution haslongbeen cast as an epic episode in theoriginsof the American West. As the storygoes,larger-than-life figures like Sam Houston, David Crockett,and William Barret Travis foughtto free Texas from repressive Mexican rule.InUnsettled Land, historian Sam Haynes revealsthe realitybeneaththis powerful creationmyth.He shows howthe lives of ordinary peoplewhite Americans, Mexicans, Native Americans, and those of African descentwere upended byextraordinary eventsovertwenty-five years. After thebattle of San Jacinto,racial lines snapped tautasa new nation, the Lone Star republic, sought to expel Indians, marginalize Mexicans, and tighten its grip on the enslaved.This is a revelatory and essential newnarrative ofa major turning point inthe history of North America.…