Family Histories of World War II: Survivors and Descendants, Gearoid Barry, Roisin Healy
Автор: Aronson Theo Название: A Family of Kings: The Descendants of Christian IX of Denmark ISBN: 1839012579 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781839012570 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 14710.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
In 1863, Queen Victoria decreed that her son Edward, Prince of Wales, should marry Princess Alexandra, daughter of the obscure and unsophisticated heir to the Danish throne.
The beauty, grace and charm of Prince Christian's daughter had prevailed over the Queen's intense dislike of the Danish royal house. Even the embarrassingly difficult Bertie was persuaded to agree to the match.
Thus began the fairy-tale saga of a family that handed on its good looks, unaffectedness and democratic manners to almost every royal house of modern Europe. For, in the year that Alexandra became Princess of Wales, her brother Willie was elected King of the Hellenes; her father at last succeeded to the Danish throne; her sister Dagmar was soon to become wife of the future Tsar Alexander III of Russia; and her youngest sister Thyra later married the de jure King of Hanover.
A Family of Kings is the story of the crowned children and grandchildren of Christian IX and Queen Louise of Denmark, focusing on the half-century before the First World War. It is an intimate, domestic study of a close-knit family, their individual personalities, and the courts to which they came.
Автор: Aronson Theo Название: Grandmama of Europe: The Crowned Descendants of Queen Victoria ISBN: 1839012587 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781839012587 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 19530.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
Understanding the vital role of marriage in upholding Britain`s power and influence over Europe, Queen Victoria asserted herself as royal matchmaker. This is a study of how a family shaped Europe.
Название: Histories ISBN: 0199534705 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199534708 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 12660.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Polybius` account of Rome`s rise to world power and her method of rule is a major source for the history of the years 220-146 BC. This new translation includes Books 1-5 in their entirety and all of the fragmentary Books 6 and 12 on the Roman constitution and historiography. It is accompanied by an illuminating introduction and notes.
Koreans are known for their keen interest in genealogy and inherited ancestral status. Yet today's ordinary Korean would be hard pressed to explain the whereabouts of ancestors before the twentieth century. With A Family of No Prominence, Eugene Y. Park gives us a remarkable account of a nonelite family, that of Pak T?khwa and his descendants (which includes the author). Spanning the early modern and modern eras over three centuries (1590–1945), this narrative of one family of the chungin class of people is a landmark achievement.
What we do know of the chungin, or "middle people," of Korea largely comes from profiles of wealthy, influential men, frequently cited as collaborators with Japanese imperialists, who went on to constitute the post-1945 South Korean elite. This book highlights many rank-and-file chungin who, despite being better educated than most Koreans, struggled to survive. We follow Pak T?khwa's descendants as they make inroads into politics, business, and culture. Yet many members' refusal to link their family histories and surnames to royal forebears, as most other Koreans did, sets them apart, and facilitates for readers a meaningful discussion of identity, modernity, colonialism, memory, and historical agency.
One day, quite by accident, genealogist Laurence Overmire came across a document that contained some bits of information that proved to be the explosive piece of evidence that completely demolished a previously impenetrable brick wall of centuries-old McDonald ancestry.
As the author of A Revolutionary American Family: The McDonalds of Somerset County, New Jersey (Indelible Mark Publishing, 2015) and the world's foremost authority on this most ancient line of the McDonald family in America, Overmire understood immediately the significance of the information he had uncovered. Like an archaeologist digging through the layers of earth and sand to expose the long-buried entrance to an Egyptian tomb, he immediately went to work to verify the discovery and to trace all the descendants that he could find.
These mysterious McDonalds, as it turns out, were pioneers of Lansingburgh, Rensselaer County, New York, and were descended from Revolutionary War veteran Maj. Richard McDonald of Bedminster, Somerset County, New Jersey.
This particular branch of the McDonald tree has been lost for generations - until now. None of the living descendants retained the memory of their illustrious forebears who played such an important role in the Revolutionary War and whose forefathers set sail for America during the turbulent period known as "The Killing Time" in 17th century Scotland.
This special book is a family treasure chest filled with gold nuggets of well-documented history that you can proudly share and pass down to your children. It traces all the known descendant lines of Richard and Catharine (Lansing) McDonald of Lansingburgh complete with biographies and family stories.
Many interrelated and descendant families are discussed including those with the surnames Ackley, Adams, Augustine, Baker, Calden, Collard, DeLamater, Gale, Goodwin, Harlow, Hun, Kelley, Kerr, Ladewig, Lang, Lansing, MacAdams, MacDonald, Main, Marsland, McAllen, McCurley, Miles, Miller, Morris, Peltz, Ransom, Robinson, Russell, Schmidt, Siek, Smith, Stapf, Tucker, Turner, Unger, Van Arnum, Wahlstrom, Wells, White, and Williams.
This is a must read for anyone who descends from Richard and Catharine (Lansing) McDonald, as well as all those who are descended from any branch of the Maj. Richard McDonald family tree originating in Somerset County, New Jersey.
You will meet cousins here that you never knew you had, some of whom might even be living nearby. After all, the descendants of the McDonalds spread all across America and have contributed in many ways, large and small, to making our country what it is today.
Автор: Julia Moses Название: Marriage, Law and Modernity: Global Histories ISBN: 1350112380 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781350112384 Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic Рейтинг: Цена: 35890.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
Marriage, Law and Modernity offers a global perspective on the modern history of marriage. Widespread recent debate has focused on the changing nature of families, characterized by both the rise of unmarried cohabitation and the legalization of same-sex marriage. However, historical understanding of these developments remains limited. How has marriage come to be the target of national legislation? Are recent policies on same-sex marriage part of a broader transformation? And, has marriage come to be similar across the globe despite claims about national, cultural and religious difference?
This collection brings together scholars from across the world in order to offer a global perspective on the history of marriage. It unites legal, political and social history, and seeks to draw out commonalities and differences by exploring connections through empire, international law and international migration.
Автор: Sidney Greenblatt Название: The People of Taihang: An Anthology of Family Histories ISBN: 1138644382 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138644380 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 96970.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: The Taihang Mountains lay on the border between Shansi and Hopei in China and originally published in 1972, this edited anthology collates family histories as told by the people who lived there. This title will be of interest to students of Asian studies and Anthropology.
Автор: Cohen Stephen F. Название: The Victims Return: Survivors of the Gulag After Stalin ISBN: 1780761376 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781780761374 Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic Рейтинг: Цена: 21110.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Stalin`s reign of terror in the Soviet Union has been called `the other Holocaust`. During the Stalin years, it is thought that more innocent men, women and children perished than in Hitler`s destruction of the European Jews. This book tells the story of the survivors.
Автор: Sarah Longair Название: Cracks in the Dome: Fractured Histories of Empire in the Zanzibar Museum, 1897-1964 ISBN: 147243787X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781472437877 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 148010.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: As one of the most monumental and recognisable landmarks from Zanzibar’s years as a British Protectorate, the distinctive domed building of the Zanzibar Museum (also known as the Beit al-Amani or Peace Memorial Museum) is widely known and familiar to Zanzibaris and visitors alike. Yet the complicated and compelling history behind its construction and collection has been overlooked by historians until now. Drawing on a rich and wide range of hitherto unexplored archival, photographic, architectural and material evidence, this book is the first serious investigation of this remarkable institution. Although the museum was not opened until 1925, this book traces the longer history of colonial display which culminated in the establishment of the Zanzibar Museum. It reveals the complexity of colonial knowledge production in the changing political context of the twentieth century British Empire and explores the broad spectrum of people from diverse communities who shaped its existence as staff, informants, collectors and teachers. Through vivid narratives involving people, objects and exhibits, this book exposes the fractures, contradictions and tensions in creating and maintaining a colonial museum, and casts light on the conflicted character of the ’colonial mission’ in eastern Africa.
Автор: Malcolm, Noel (senior Research Fellow, Senior Research Fellow, All Souls College, Oxford) Название: Rebels, believers, survivors ISBN: 0198857292 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780198857297 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 59130.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Albania and Kosovo have long, fascinating histories of connection with the wider European world. These essays explore this history from the 15th century to the 20th, through stories of Italian pilgrims, British diplomats, Albanian village girls converting to Islam, Muslims practising secret Christianity, and Ottoman men enslaving fellow citizens.
Название: Migrant britain: histories from the 17th to the 21st centuries ISBN: 1138065145 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138065147 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 40820.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Britain has largely been in denial of its migrant past along with an assumption of tolerance towards minorities. Colin Holmes was the first and most important historian to challenge this view. This book celebrates his achievements, but explores the state of migrant historiography (including responses to migrants) in the twenty first century.
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