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Esta edición digital en formato ePub se ha realizado a partir de una edición impresa digitalizada que forma parte de los fondos de la Biblioteca Nacional de España. El proyecto de creación de ePubs a partir de obras digitalizadas de la BNE pretende enriquecer la oferta de servicios de la Biblioteca Digital Hispánica...

Few if any 20th century warships were more justly acclaimed than the destroyers of the U.S. Navy's Fletcher class. Admired as they were for their advanced and rakish design, it was their record as workhorses of the Pacific War that placed them among the most battle-tested and successful fighting ships of all time. T...

Doing Feminist Urban Research introduces the reader to the newly emerging 21st-century global landscape of feminist urban research. It showcases decolonising practices, partnerships and teamwork, new standards such as EDI, geo-ethnographic methodologies, software-enhanced qualitative data analysis, and knowledge mob...

The 2024 edition of Warship, the celebrated annual publication featuring original research on the history, development, and service of the world's warships. For over 45 years, Warship has been the leading annual resource on the design, development, and deployment of the world's combat ships. Featuring a broad range ...

This book will mealy try to synthesize the findings of other writers more expert in this culture. Further this book looks at the pre-industrial Islamic cities with a focus on the eastern end of the Mediterranean. That being said we will look initially at the models of Islamic cities, look at the component parts in t...

**A New York Times Notable Book • A Financial Times Best Book of the Year *"*A learned, formidable and vivid story… Readers around the world will study and ponder this monumental work of history, agreeing and arguing with it, all the while affirming its generational importance, for decades to come." ー Marcus Redike...

A monograph that digs into the history of Tocai Friulano, a popular Italian grape mostly grown in Friuli Venezia Giulia. Author Mike Madaio searches through northeast Italy, Hungary and France to try to determine the true origins of this important wine.

This book investigates the relationship between the process of Europeanization – the expected rise of a common culture – and the role played by the media in the different regions. Drawing on a comparative model, the analysis is structured around frameworks related to the action of the media in shaping national ident...

This study offers a radically new perspective on Dutch Neorealism, one that emphasizes the role of film as an apparatus, the effects of which, when emulated in painting, can reproduce the affective experience of film-watching. More of a tendency than a tightly defined style or "ism," Neorealism is the Dutch variant ...

From Appomattox to World War I, Black Americans continued their quest for a secure position in the American system. The problem was how to be both black and Americanーhow to find acceptance, or even toleration, in a society in which the boundaries of normative behavior, the values, and the very definition of what it...

Carshalton began as a village to the south of London and has a rich history and legacy of public houses. The pub crawl is a British tradition of drunken revelry, requiring several pubs within walking distance, for which Carshalton is well-suited. The book, though, is a sober history of its inns and taverns, brewers ...

This volume explores the life of Bjargey “Bíbí” Kristjánsdóttir (1927–1999), an Icelandic woman with intellectual disabilities, through analysis of her autobiography and personal archive on the basis of the research disciplines of critical disability studies and microhistory. Bíbí, who grew up in northern Iceland on...

Este segundo volumen, analiza los dos meses transcurridos entre el triunfo de Salvador Allende en las elecciones presidenciales y su asunción, el 4 de noviembre de 1970, unos de los períodos más álgidos de la historia de la República.

This edited volume delves into the intricate landscape of educational internationalism during the Cold War, providing an in-depth examination of its diverse forms, impulses, and global impacts. Through multilingual archival research, the chapters uncover a variety of experiences that have fostered cross-border excha...

The story of the westward expansion of this country does not stop with the hardships encountered by travelers on the Mormon Trail, the discomforts endured by early settlers in sod houses, the bravery of the Pony Express riders, the romantic solitude of the cowboys, or the sufferings of the Indians forced to abandon ...