392 Ergebnisse für: purdue
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Habsburg Lemberg: Architecture, Public Space, and Politics in the Galician ... - Markian Prokopovych - Google Ksi±¿ki
http://books.google.de/books?id=qJo9zMakmawC&pg=PA272&lpg=PA272&dq=Wincenty+Wodzinowski&source=bl&ots=JvDXzacZe0&sig=o3MoR8qoC31
When Austria annexed Galicia during the first partition of Poland in 1772, the province's capital, Lemberg, was a decaying Baroque town. By the outbreak of the First World War in 1914, Lemberg had become a booming city with a modern urban and, at the same…
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Mel Gibson's Passion: The Film, the Controversy, and Its Implications - Google Books
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Mel Gibson's film, The Passion of the Christ, was released on Ash Wednesday, February 24, 2004 to capacity audiences in theatres and auditoriums across the U.S. and other countries. Prior to the film's release, a groundswell of controversy filled the…
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Confronting the Yugoslav Controversies: A Scholars' Initiative - Google Books
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This book will present the findings of an international research initiative of over 160 leading historians, social scientists and jurists that will bring together in one volume key evidence presented by all sides in the recent Yugoslav conflicts. It…
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History of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad - John F. Stover - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=IEPCqQErPHAC&pg=PA59
Author of six earlier books about United States railroads, John F. Stover packs this narrative history with careful scholarship and colorful description which will appeal to the railroad buff and the professional historian, as well as to any reader who…
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Governance & Grievance: Habsburg Policy and Italian Tyrol in the Eighteenth ... - Miriam J. Levy - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=HiiU83zFucQC&pg=PA154&dq=%22betta+dal+toldo%22#v=onepage
Governance and Grievance touches on various aspects of Habsburg domestic policy, focusing on how the rulers influenced and were influenced by developments in both Italian and German Tyrol, and how they used to advantage the competing regional interests.
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The Politics of Ethnic Survival: Germans in Prague, 1861-1914 - Gary B. Cohen - Google Books
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The German-speaking inhabitants of the Bohemian capital developed a group identification and defined themselves as a minority as they dealt with growing Czech political and economic strength in the city and with their own sharp numerical decline: in the…
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Serbia's Great War, 1914-1918 - Andrej Mitrović - Google Books
http://books.google.de/books?id=CI5Wm8771EYC&pg=PA65&dq=Jasa+To
Mitrovic's volume fills the gap in Balkan history by presenting an in-depth look at Serbia and its role in WWI. The Serbian experience was in fact of major significance in this war. In the interlocking development of the wartime continent, Serbia's plight…
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American Agriculture: A Brief History - R. Douglas Hurt - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=h2wCj5DsRCAC&pg=PA265&dq=Penny+Auction#v=onepage
R. Douglas Hurt's brief history of American agriculture, from the prehistoric period through the twentieth century, is written for anyone coming to this subject for the first time. American Agriculture is a story of considerable achievement and success,…
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Blue Flame: Woody Herman's Life in Music - Robert C. Kriebel - Google Books
http://books.google.de/books?id=MHlX2GwpTPYC&pg=RA1-PA35&dq=The+Band+That+Play+the+Blues+herman&hl=en&sa=X&ei=d9AiT4u6K9DLtAbRrd
"All we do is try to create some kind of mood, and hopesomebody digs it" was how the likeable and talented jazzman Woody Herman(1913-87) explained his success. For an incredible fifty years and four months,Herman led a variety of always changing, always…
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A Jesuit Garden in Beijing and Early Modern Chinese Culture - Hui Zou - Google Books
http://books.google.de/books?id=fD6p-LR_G7UC&pg=PA101&lpg=PA101&dq=%22Lantai+Yi%22&source=bl&ots=FNZ25TWe_H&sig=do_-wJQn3gyXvG1p
In this volume, Hui Zou analyzes historical, architectural, visual, literary, and philosophical perspectives on the Western-styled garden that formed part of the great Yuanming Yuan complex in Beijing, constructed during the Qing dynasty. Designed and…