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In a history mainly composed of the incidents that indicate the growth of a community, and the direction and character of it, where few are important enough to require an extended narration, and the remainder afford little material, it is not easy to construct a continuous narrative, or to so connect the unrelated points as to prevent the work taking on the aspect of a pretentious directory. In this case, however, the author presents us an almost perfect history of the town of Indianapolis, including all townships, and Marion County, Indiana. This is volume two out of two.

Yang Jishengs The World Turned Upside Down is the definitive history of the Cultural Revolution, in withering and heartbreaking detail.As a major political event and a crucial turning point in the history of the Peoples Republic of China, the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution (19661976) marked the zenith as well as the nadir of Mao Zedongs ultra-leftist politics. Reacting in part to the Soviet Unions "revisionism" that he regarded as a threat to the future of socialism, Mao mobilized the masses in a battle against what he called "bourgeois" forces within the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). This ten-year-long class struggle on a massive scale devastated traditional Chinese culture as well as the nations economy.Following his groundbreaking and award-winning history of the Great Famine, Tombstone, Yang Jisheng here presents the only history of the Cultural Revolution by an independent scholar based in mainland China, and makes a crucial contribution to understanding those years lasting influence today.The World Turned Upside Down puts every political incident, major and minor, of those ten years under extraordinary and withering scrutiny, and arrives in English at a moment when contemporary Chinese governance is leaning once more toward a highly centralized power structure and Mao-style cult of personality.

The Battle of Clonmult was the IRAs greatest loss of volunteers in a single engagement against Crown Forces. On Sunday, 20 February 1921, at Clonmult near Midleton in County Cork, almost the entire east Cork flying column was wiped out having been surprised by a British Army patrol later reinforced by Auxiliary Police. Only one IRA man escaped the attack. Twelve were killed, seven after they had surrendered, and two of the eight captured were later executed.In this balanced and factual account of the Battle of Clonmult, Tom ONeill includes the formation of the column, the events leading to the battle, a detailed account of that terrible day for the IRA locally and nationally, the aftermath, trials, executions and reprisals. This book goes into detail of how the British Army located the column even though the informer had mistakenly directed them to the wrong house, and this revised edition draws on the original 1921 Military Court file of the Clonmult prisoners to provide new information on the battle.

While knowledge of history can explain our contemporary situation, an awareness of the myths and misuses of our history can bring a broader and more conciliatory approach to current political and social challenges. History or, more correctly, views of the past or historical myths have shaped politics in both Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. These views served in part to cause and sustain the Troubles. Eventually, many historical perceptions were challenged, which helped to promote the peace process. New ideas of revised and shared history were important. These changes are explored here. The public expression of history in Ireland through commemoration of important historical events and persons is investigated in a number of chapters. The impact of historical developments on identity is studied not just in Ireland, north and south, but also among the Irish diaspora, especially in America. In Irish History Matters, Brian M. Walker uses three decades of research to explore the effects historical events have had on Irish politics and society, and why they still have an important influence today.

Envolto em mistério até aos nossos dias, o nome do juiz Roland Freisler está fortemente ligado ao sistema judicial da Alemanha nazi. Além de de Secretário de Estado do Ministério da Justiça do Reich, Freisler foi o presidente do Tribunal do Povo o homem diretamente responsavel por milhares de sentenças de morte. O Tribunal do Povo nazi escreveu um dos capitulos mais sombrios da historia alem, ja que foi o tribunal que decretou a maioria das sentenças de morte na Alemanha de Hitler e tinha apenas uma funço: liquidar toda a oposiço ao regime de Hitler. Os interrogatorios do Tribunal do Povo eram filmados com a intenço de se usarem posteriormente as imagens como propaganda. Quase todos os reus eram considerados culpados e condenados a morte por enforcamento, com as sentenças executadas no prazo de duas horas apos a aprovaço dos veredictos.O dominio das leis e a destreza verbal nos tribunais fizeram de Roland Freisler o juiz mais temido do terceiro Reich. Nos seus interrogatorios, alternava entre a frieza e a aço metodica com a impulsividade, os gritos e furiosas exaltaçes teatrais exercidas contra os reus.Esta e a historia, manchada de sangue, de um juiz implacavel, numa epoca sem piedade, uma personagem enigmatica, terrivel e desprovida de coraço, que foi morta em fevereiro de 1945 durante um ataque aereo dos Aliados.Criticas de imprensaHelmut Ortner descreve na perfeiço o demonio Freisler e o mundo de terror nazi.Der SpiegelO Executor de Helmut Ortner e de leitura obrigatoria para todos os amantes de Historia. Neues DeutschlandO livro de Ortner expe toda uma elite alem que no perdeu relevancia, mesmo depois de passados muitos anos desde o fim da Segunda Guerra Mundial. Literaturkritik.de

Aqueles que não testemunharam do Holocausto, às vezes, têm dificuldade em perceber o quão profundamente isso afetou a vida na Europa durante os decénios de 30 e 40 do século XX. À medida que a Aleman

The decades since the end of the Second World War have seen massive change sweep across Britains social, cultural and political landscape. Yet throughout this period, one thing has remained constant and unchanging: the thorny question of our relationship with Europe.Europe, and Britains place in or out of it, has always been a hugely divisive factor on either side of the political spectrum creating warring camps in both the Labour and Conservative parties. Famous Europhiles to put their heads above the parapets over the years have included Conservatives Ted Heath and David Cameron, as well as Tony Blair for Labour, while leading Europhobes count among their number the former Conservative Prime Ministers Anthony Eden and Margaret Thatcher.Born out of a series of Oxford University lectures devised by the former director of the Number 10 Policy Unit, Andrew Adonis, Half in, Half Out presents a comprehensive and enlightening look at Britains Prime Ministers of the past seven decades and explores their often hugely differing attitudes towards our neighbours on the other side of the Channel.Starting with the premiership of Sir Winston Churchill, and ending with Theresa May, the book examines in fascinating and forensic detail the crucial relationships between our leaders and Europe.With each chapter written by a prominent political figure, including Sir Nicholas Soames, David Owen and Rachel Reeves, the book provides some hugely revealing portraits of Britains former leaders, shining a light on their sometimes warm, and at other times downright hostile, attitudes towards Europe.

Todas as nações do mundo têm tido épocas de brilhantismo; esta verdade apresenta-se naturalmente ao espírito quando se indagam os seus anais: aqueles de Portugal são assaz interessantes. Desde há mui

O Farmacêutico de Auschwitz relata a história pouco conhecida de Victor Capesius, um vendedor de produtos farmacêuticos que, em 1943, entrou para a SS e rapidamente se tornou o farmacêutico-chefe de

How to Steal a Country describes the vertiginous decline in political leadership in South Africa from Mandela to Zuma and its terrible consequences. Robin Renwicks account reads in parts like a novel a crime novel for Sherlock Holmes old adversary, Professor Moriarty, the erstwhile Napoleon of Crime, would have been impressed by the ingenuity, audacity and sheer scale of the looting of the public purse, let alone the impunity with which it has been accomplished.Based on Renwicks personal experiences of the main protagonists, it describes the extraordinary influence achieved by the Gupta family for those seeking to do business with state-owned enterprises in South Africa, and the massive amounts earned by Gupta related companies from their associations with them.The ensuing scandals have engulfed Bell Pottinger, KPMG, McKinsey and other multinationals. The primary responsibility for this looting of the state however, rests squarely with President Zuma and key members of his government.But South Africa has succeeded in establishing a genuinely non-racial society full of determined and enterprising people, offering genuine hope for the future. These include independent journalists, black and white, who refuse to be silenced, and the judges, who have acted with courage and independence. The book concludes that change will come, either by the ruling party reverting to the values of Mandela and Archbishop Tutu, or by the reckoning it otherwise will face one day.

In Part 1 Keane gives a brief introduction to the period and outlines the most important events that took place during the course of the fight against the British in Cork from 1916 to 1921 and during the Civil War of 192223. This includes the burning of Cork city, the ambush at Kilmichael (which is examined in great detail), Crossbarry and the story of Tom Barrys trench coat. In Part 2 Keane uses a wealth of new sources to reconstruct every death that can be ascribed to the war, including those caught in the crossfire and some accidental deaths that can be directly linked to one side or the other. Some individuals who did not die in the county, but who were central to the conduct of the war there, are also included. One such example is Terence MacSwiney, who died in Brixton prison in London in October 1920, but was both head of the IRA in Cork and lord mayor of the city, having assumed the role after his predecessor, Tomas MacCurtain, had been assassinated earlier that year.

From humble beginnings in Perth in the early nineteenth century Matthew Gloag established a thriving whisky business that found favour with the royal household and the Scottish public alike. The family business he established struck gold in 1896 when they created the The Famous Grouse - a blended whisky that became a national favourite. Through innovative and entertaining marketing campaigns it has developed into a much-loved and bestselling brand. Celebrated whisky writer Charles MacLean has been granted unique access to the company archives and granted interviews with surviving family descendants and compiled a fascinating story rich in anecdote and social historical commentary. Illustrated throughout in full colour.

AUTOR VENCEDOR DO PRÊMIO CAMÕES 2014!Em 2003 A manilha e o libambo recebeu o Prêmio Jabuti, da Câmara Brasileira do Livro, e o Prêmio Sérgio Buarque de Holanda, da Fundação Biblioteca Nacional."Livro

China: The Stealth Empire asks why it is that China despite its size and once advanced culture and technology did not become a world power centuries ago? Burman traces the answer through Chinese innate sense of superiority which made foreign conquest and trade an irrelevance. This is about to change with the evolution of what is termed the Stealth Empire characterised by world dominance in the production of consumer goods, a growing share of world manufacturing and a strong sense of nationalism. The Chinese believe that they need to do nothing as they evolve by the middle of the century into the dominant world power. Burmans book opens a window onto this history and growing sense of national destiny. It will be essential reading for anyone wanting to understand what is going on in the Stealth Empire.

Este segundo volume do Dicionário de História da África, de Nei Lopes e José Rivair Macedo, complementa aquele lançado em 2017, que aborda os séculos VII a XVI. Esta obra busca mostrar o que representou, sob a otica dos vencidos, a presença europeia na Africa desde o seculo XVI. E em que consistiu o processo que, apos tres seculos, culminou na partilha do continente e na instauraço do colonialismo, tendo como fator principal o trafico negreiro. Pois o comercio humano foi a pedra fundamental do crescimento economico do qual adveio o pretenso "supremacismo" europeu, que continua regendo as relaçes humanas na maior parte do mundo, acarretando a africanos e descendentes as piores consequencias. Alem disso, este livro, pelo grande numero de verbetes biograficos, toponimicos, etnograficos e conceituais, apoiados em extensa bibliografia, pode ser uma importante ferramenta na apreenso de novos conteudos para estudantes, pesquisadores e demais interessados no tema.

At the outbreak of war in 1939, ordinary people were quickly forced to adapt to the realities of a nation under dire threat. But it soon became known as the Phoney War, a time when official incompetence reigned supreme. Theatres and cinemas were closed and football matches cancelled, only for the government to realise belatedly that morale was plunging as a result. Thousands of women and children were evacuated to the countryside, only for many to flood back to the cities, preferring the dangers to separation from their families. Censorship of news was heavy-handed and bred widespread resentment. In fact, the period from September 1939 to May 1940 was a time of intense political and military activity - the blitzkrieg on Poland, the start of the U-boat menace, the disastrous Norwegian campaign, the political manoeuvrings that brought Churchill to power. Barry Turner skilfully weaves these events into a compelling home front narrative which evokes the fears and dangers but also the humour and the absurdities of everyday life in the dark days of 1939-1940.

Who was Merlin? Is the famous wizard of Arthurian legend based on a real person? In this book, Merlins origins are traced back to the story of Lailoken, a mysterious wild man who is said to have lived in the Scottish Lowlands in the sixth century AD. The book considers the question of whether Lailoken belongs to myth or reality. It looks at the historical background of his story and discusses key characters such as Saint Kentigern of Glasgow and King Rhydderch of Dumbarton, as well as important events such as the Battle of Arfderydd. Lailokens reappearance in medieval Welsh literature as the fabled prophet Myrddin is also examined. Myrddin himself was eventually transformed into Merlin the wizard, King Arthurs friend and mentor. This is the Merlin we recognise today, not only in art and literature but also on screen. His earlier forms are less familiar, more remote, but can still be found among the lore and legend of the Dark Ages. Behind them we catch fleeting glimpses of an original figure who perhaps really did exist: a solitary fugitive, tormented by his experience of war, who roamed the hills and forests of southern Scotland long ago.

Recovering the oft-neglected role of women in Ottoman high society and power politics, this book brings to life the women who made their mark in a male domain. Though historical records tend to favour the glitter of palaces over the trials of daily life, Goodwin also reconstructs ordinary womens domestic toil. As the Ottoman Empire first expanded and then shrank, women travelled its width and breadth whether out of necessity or merely for pleasure. Some women owned slaves while others suffered the misfortune of being enslaved. Goodwin examines the laws, which governed womens lives from the harem to the humblest tasks. This perceptive study of Ottoman life culminates with the nineteenth century and explores the advent of modernity and its impact on women at a time of imperial decline.

From the fifteenth to the sixteenth century, the janissaries were the scourge of Europe. With their martial music, their muskets and their drilled march, it seemed that no one could withstand them. Their loyalty to their corps was infinite as the Ottomans conquered the Balkans as far as the Danube, and Syria, Egypt and Iraq. They set up semi-independent states along the North African coast and even fought at sea. Their political power was such that even sultans trembled. Who were they? Why were they an elite? Why did they decline and what was their end? These are some of the questions which this book attempts to answer. It is the story of extraordinary personalities in both victory and defeat.

As Stuart Laycocks book All the Countries Weve Ever Invaded: and the Few We Never got Round to shows, the British have not been backward in coming forward when it comes to aggressive forays abroad. But it hasnt all been one way. In 1193 for example, the Danes teamed up serial offenders, the French, for a full-scale invasion. The French Prince Louis the Lion came close to success exactly 150 years after the Battle of Hastings. The 100 Years War saw multiple raids on British towns and ports by the Spanish and French. Following the Armada, there was the bloodless invasion of 1688, Bonnie Prince Charlies march south, the remarkable American John Paul Jones attack on Whitehaven during the American War of Independence, the German occupation of the Channel Islands and the great what if of British, perhaps world history the threat of Operation Sealion. Ian Hernon brings his journalistic flair to bear in this dramatic narrative of the survival of an island race over 900 years sometimes, surprisingly, against the odds. Whilst such a history (one leaving out the boring bits) is bound to entertain, it also cannot fail to inform: where were shots last exchanged with an enemy on the mainland? At Graveney Marsh in Kent.