Kategoria BISAC: History >> Reference

The classic irreverent look at the past--now updated with even more appalling facts

Fourteen billion or so years ago, the Big Bang exploded--and it's been downhill from there. For every spectacular discovery throughout history, there have been hundreds of devastating epidemics; for every benevolent despot, a thousand like Vlad the Impaler; for every cup half-full, a larger cup half-empty. This enthralling, enlightening, and devilishly entertaining chronicle of disasters and dastardly deeds brings to light the darkest events in history and the most abysmal calamities to strike the...

Short-listed for the 2002 Award for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research

In the seventy years since 1931, various organizations large and small, including several semi-private ones, have issued or re-issued various original 78 rpm recordings from original metal plates. No comprehensive listing of these has ever before appeared; this is the first, and gathers together all the various information of ongoing interest. This is a most important addition to the record-collecting bibliography.

Die vorliegende Festschrift geht von der Auffassung aus, da die Wurdigung eines hervorragenden Reprasentanten einer wissenschaftlichen Disziplin bzw. eines bestimmten wissenschaftlichen Ansatzes umso glaubwurdiger ist, je konsequenter sie auf den einschlagigen Fachdiskurs bezogen wird. Ihre Herausgeber haben sich deshalb darauf verstandigt, die ublichen affirmativreputativen Elemente zuruckzustellen zugunsten einer Losung, die man den Versuch einer 'kritischen' Festschrift nennen konnte.

Historians and Nature considers five cutting-edge questions facing environmental historians today. How can we historicize nature? Is nature a historical actor? How have human beings interacted with nature and what patterns have emerged? How do we understand the ecology of urban spaces? What is the history of environmental diplomacy? Focusing on the United States and Germany, the book takes a comparative approach in examining environmental history. The authors draw on a range of interdisciplinary perspectives, including history, cultural studies, human geography, biology and ecology....