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O presente livro reúne capítulos formados a partir de textos de egressos e egressas do Programa de Pós-Graduação em História Social (PPGHS) da Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (Uerj), submeti

Introduzione, traduzione, e breve commento delle principali fonti contemporanee allepoca dei fatti relative al rogo dellultimo maestro Templare, Jacques de Molay, avvenuto a Parigi il 18 marzo 1314. I testi indagati provengono dalla Continuazione della Cronaca di Guillaume de Nangis, dalla Chroniquemetrique attribuita a Godefroy de Paris, e dalla Cronaca del Templare di Tiro.

Gli inizi della immigrazione extracomunitaria a Modena negli anni 1987-1990. Il racconto dellatteggiamento della Cisl e degli altri sindacati, degli enti locali, della chiesa e del volontariato nelle cronache dei quotidiani Il Resto del Carlino, La Gazzetta di Modena, LUnita e il confronto tra le loro diverse linee editoriali.

First published in 1913, "Behind the Veil at the Russian Court" is a book by Princess Catherine Radziwill, a Polish-Russian aristocrat.Catherine Radziwill was a prominent figure at the Imperial courts in Germany and Russia, but became involved in a series of scandals. She combined her love for the luxury of the courts, social life, gossip and intrigue with her literary talent and she wrote two dozen books on European royalty and the Russian court, including "Behind the Veil at the Russian Court."

First appeared in the 1130s and originally composed in Latin as "Historia regum Britanniae", "The History of the Kings of Britain" by Geoffrey of Monmouth claims to be a history of Britains kings from the islands founding by Trojan descendent Brutus in 1200 BCE, to the Britons abandonment of the island in the seventh century CE."The History of the Kings of Britain" was immediately popular, inspiring retellings and adaptations by writers and artists through the centuries. Because its historical merit is almost non-existent, it has been called an epic in prose and treated as a literary text whose primary purpose is patriotic. It is credited with introducing the figure of Merlin and elevating King Arthur to mythic status.

Rudyard Kiplings "The Eyes of Asia" takes the reader on a remarkable journey of discovery into the heart and soul of four soldiers of the Indian Army who fought for King and the British Empire in the First World War.First published in 1918, "The Eyes of Asia" contains four letters purporting to be written to relations or friends at home in India by soldiers of the Indian Army (part of the normal British Forces in that country down to 1947) at the time of World War I, 1914-18. They were on active service in Europe and Africa, 1915-18.The articles forming "The Eyes of Asia" appeared in the American Saturday Evening Post in six parts over the month of May and the beginning of June 1917 and were published in book form in 1918."The Eyes of Asia" consists of four stories that read as letters home from soldiers from India and the North-West Frontier, which take place in 1915 and 1916. A Retired Gentleman and The Fumes of the Heart are both fictionalized letters written from the perspective of wounded Indian soldiers, a Rajput and a Sikh, to their families. The second is cast as a dictated letter from a Sikh soldier to his brother and has dramatic asides and digressions from the injured soldier punctuating the text. As for the remaining two stories, The Private Account is presented as a scene showing an Afghan family reading and responding to a letter from their son on the Western Front, and the final story, A Trooper of Horse, takes the form of a letter from an unwounded Muslim soldier in France to his mother.

In "With the Allies", first published in 1914, Richard Harding Davis says the Great War was not a war against the Germans, but a war against the military aristocracy of Germany. Harding Davis speaks of the lack of knowledge in the United States about the war and he blames censorship and the lack of understanding of the massive scale of the war. The author believes that America had to take part in the action, because the fight in Europe was not a fair fight.In conclusion, "With the Allies" is an early appeal by Richard Harding Davis, American war correspondent, to denounce neutrality and take an active role in the conflict on the side of the Triple Entente, making his case from German crimes of aggression.

First published in 1920, "Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil" is a collection of fiery essays, sketches, and poems the distinguished American civil rights leader, William Edward Burghardt Du Bois first published individually more than 100 years ago in the Atlantic, the Journal of Race Development, and other periodicals.Part essay, part autobiography, "Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil" explicitly addresses significant issues, such as the oppression of women and Eurocentric standards of beauty, the historical rise of the idea of whiteness, and the abridgement of democracy along race, class, and gender lines. Reflecting the authors ideas as a politician, historian, and artist, this volume has long moved and inspired readers with its militant cry for social, political, and economic reforms for black Americans."Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil" is an essential reading for students of African-American history.

Right before his death in 1900, American essayist Charles Dudley Warner delivered in Washington an essential lecture about African Americans, education and citizenship, "The Education of the Negro". This short lecture begins this way:At the close of the war for the Union about five millions of negroes were added to the citizenship of the United States. By the census of 1890 this number had become over seven and a half millions. I use the word negro because the descriptive term black or colored is not determinative. There are many varieties of negroes among the African tribes, but all of them agree in certain physiological if not psychological characteristics, which separate them from all other races of mankind; whereas there are many races, black or colored, like the Abyssinian, which have no other negro traits.Charles Dudley Warner, author, critic, an editor, is best known today for his collaboration with Mark Twain on "The Gilded Age". His essays in social and literary criticism generally favoured social and literary reform, albeit of a limited kind. In "The Education of the Negro", he encouraged African American suffrage and education, he nonetheless argued that manual training and a designedly slow pace of racial assimilation was necessary.

Il presente Diario e stato scritto dal Dott. Guglielmo Muelhon, membro del Comitato direttivo delle officine Krupp, che era in rapporti di intimita con il Dott. Helfferich e con il capo della casa Krupp. I giudizi di questo tedesco sui suoi compatriotti sono interessanti a conoscersi, non solo per la guerra, ma anche e specialmente per il dopoguerra.

First published in 1912, Herbert Allen Giles provides in "China and the Manchus" a very short summary of the history of China under the Manchu rule. He covers the historical period from roughly the 17th Century to the start of the 20th Century and he does so in a very efficient, if brief manner.Giles provides an overview of how the Manchus became an influence and a danger on the borders of China, how they found themselves in a position to take over from the Ming Dynasty and how they maintained themselves in power until the 20th Century.He provides both a broad historical sweep of events as well as various ethnographic details such as differences in hairstyle and footwear habits between the Manchus and the Chinese.

Se il Cristianesimo e incompatibile con listituzione della schiavitu, tanto che ha avuto il potere di dissolverla e sradicarla - come dicono alcuni - dal mondo antico, come mai puo spiegarsi che la schiavitu sia riuscita a risorgere e svilupparsi nel seno stesso della civilta cristiana, perdurando sino a ieri in paesi che piu tenevano a chiamarsi cristiani sotto legida delle leggi cristiane, sotto legida e gli auspici dei governi e sovrani, che si atteggiavano a depositari, privilegiati e difensori della fede cristiana?In questo studio del 1903 troverete molteplici risposte e accuse rivolte alla Santa Romana Chiesa e ai successori di Pietro.

In 1896, before the start of the Spanish-American War, newspaper mogul William Randolph Hearst, owner of the New York Journal, sent star reporter Richard Harding Davis and acclaimed illustrator Frederic Remington to Cuba to cover the guerilla war in Cuba. Remington grew restless at his post and assured his employer that nothing newsworthy was likely to occur; Hearst reputedly replied, "Please remain. You furnish the pictures and Ill furnish the war."This controversial 1897 book, "Cuba in War Time", played an integral part in the United States involvement in the conflict. Richard Harding Davis was among the most famous and widely read journalists of his era. His sensational reports, which combined a sense of adventure with a highly personal perspective, anticipated the more literary journalism of later decades. Daviss accounts of Spanish atrocities and misconduct helped pave the way for a war that led to the establishment of American colonies in the Caribbean and Pacific.

un breve manoscritto del 1848 di autore anonimo:".....Una nuova lega di Pontida, e una nuova battaglia di Legnano possono cancellare la macchia che ha contaminato il nome Italiano, possono togliere il velo dinfamia che ha coperto le nostre glorie.....Col furore della vendetta e col grido di redenzione passate a torrenti quel Ticino ....Passatelo... e qui voi troverete ancora fratelli che vi abbraccieranno collamplesso della riconoscenza, fratelli che avranno un cuore ardente come il vostro per la liberta e lindipendenza, e che avranno ancora nelle vene del sangue da spargere per esse!....La nostra causa per Dio! e giusta, e deve trionfare!"

American novelist Edith Wharton was living in Paris when World War I broke out in 1914. She obtained permission to visit sites behind the lines, including hospitals, ravaged villages, and trenches. "Fighting France, from Dunkerque to Belfort" records her travels along the front in 1914 and 1915, and celebrates the indomitable spirit of the French people.Edith Wharton was one of the first woman writers to be allowed to visit the war zones in France. This resulting collection of 6 essays presents a fascinating and unique perspective on wartime France by one of Americas great novelists. Written with Whartons distinctive literary skills to advocate American intervention in the war, this little-known war text demonstrates that she was a complex and accomplished propagandist.However, these eyewitness accounts also demonstrate a troubling awareness of the human cost of war.

"L’Aiglon" d’Edmond Rostand est un drame en six actes et en vers, représenté pour la première fois au Théâtre Sarah-Bernhardt, le 15 mars 1900.L’action débute en septembre 1830, au palais de Schoenb

No nono capítulo de A capital da vertigem, o jornalista Roberto Pompeu de Toledo reconstitui a cidade de São Paulo durante o surto de Gripe Espanhola de 1918. Em detalhes, mostra o baque nas estrutur

The "race" question has been raging all over the world since the early days of the human, but nowhere else has the debate taken dramatic proportions as in South Africa in the 20th century. A cooking pot of peoples, ethnic groups, languages, tribes and cultures, South Africa was a perfect test bed for the race question, fired up by the ambers of colonialism. How could the issue be resolved? A certain Peter Nielsen in his manuscript "The Black Mans Place in South Africa", written in 1922, gives a fascinating answer. A treatise on the so-called "Native Question" of the times, this forgotten manuscript makes fascinating reading for anyone.

Ab 1. Juli 1990 war das DDR-Papiergeld mit Einfuhrung der D-Mark kein gultiges Zahlungsmittel mehr. Die Staatsbank Berlin nahm die Banknoten zuruck und lagerte sie 1990/91 in einer Stollenanlage bei Halberstadt ein. Eingemauert und eingeschlammt war man sich sicher, dass das Geld bald verrotten wurde, was ein Gutachten 1992 bestatigte. Zeitungsartikel sahen die Banknoten daher als "Beute fur Mikroben" an bzw. sprachen davon, dass das Geld so gesichert sei wie in Fort Knox. Zweifel daran kamen 2001 auf, als auf dem Sammlermarkt muffige Geldscheine auftauchten, die nie emittiert und druckfrisch bei Halberstadt eingelagert worden waren. Eine Prufung durch die KfW - seit 1994 als Rechtsnachfolgerin der Staatsbank fur das "Milliardengrab" unter den Thekenbergen verantwortlich - ergab, dass sich Diebe illegal Zutritt zu den Stollen verschafft hatten. Zwei von ihnen wurden auf frischer Tat ertappt und zu Haftstrafen verurteilt.Um den Mythos des verborgenen Schatzes zu beenden und weitere Eindringlinge vor Gefahren im unterirdischen Labyrinth zu schutzen, entschied sich die KfW nach Abwagung verschiedener Optionen fu?r die endgultige Vernichtung der DDR-Banknoten. Hierfur wurden diese zunachst mit einem Radlader aus den Stollen herausgeholt und zur Vorbereitung einer Verbrennung in einem Trommelsieb von Steinen und Sand gereinigt. 50 Tage lang brachten taglich sechs Geld-Container mit einem Gewicht von insgesamt 3.000 Tonnen das Erbe der DDR zur Thermischen Restabfall-Vorbehandlungsanlage am Braunkohlewerk Buschhaus in Schoningen bei Helmstedt. Dort wurden die Scheine bei bis zu 1.200 C zu einem Raub der Flammen.

Charles Diehls History of the Byzantine Empire sweeps readers into the rich and complex world of one of historys most remarkable civilizations. Spanning over a thousand years, this captivating narrative unfolds the story of Byzantium, from its birth as the Eastern Roman Empire to its poignant fall in 1453. With graceful prose and meticulous attention to detail, Diehl brings the empire to life, weaving together tales of emperors and empresses, monumental architecture like the Hagia Sophia, and the fervent religious debates that defined its spirit. The book delves into the political intrigue of the imperial courts, the cultural brilliance of Byzantine art and scholarship, and the empires pivotal role as a bridge between antiquity and the modern age. More than a chronicle of events, History of the Byzantine Empire captures the essence of a civilization whose influence echoes through time. Diehls vivid storytelling and deep insight reveal a world of grandeur, resilience, and complexity, inviting readers to explore the enduring legacy of an empire that shaped the course of history.