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: 2206.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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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.
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: 1899.00 р. 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.
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: 8870.00 р. 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.
Описание: John Grow of Ipswich, Massachusetts and Some of His Descendants places ten generations of a representative middle-class family - John and Hannah Grow of Ipswich, Mass., and one line of their descendants through nine generations - in the socioeconomic context of American history over a period of three and a half centuries.
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.
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.
Автор: Julia Moses Название: Marriage, Law and Modernity: Global Histories ISBN: 1350112380 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781350112384 Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic Рейтинг: Цена: 5384.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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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: 14545.00 р. 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: Julia Moses Название: Marriage, Law and Modernity: Global Histories ISBN: 1474276105 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781474276108 Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic Рейтинг: Цена: 19008.00 р. 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: Gearoid Barry, Roisin Healy Название: Family Histories of World War II: Survivors and Descendants ISBN: 1350201952 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781350201958 Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic Рейтинг: Цена: 3483.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Expertly contextualized by two leading historians in the field, this unique collection offers 13 accounts of individual experiences of World War II from across Europe. It sees contributors describe their recent ancestors’ experiences ranging from a Royal Air Force pilot captured in Yugoslavia and a Spanish communist in the French resistance to two young Jewish girls caught in the siege of Leningrad. Contributors draw upon a variety of sources, such as contemporary diaries and letters, unpublished postwar memoirs, video footage as well as conversations in the family setting. These chapters attest to the enormous impact that war stories of family members had on subsequent generations. The story of a father who survived Nazi captivity became a lesson in resilience for a daughter with personal difficulties, whereas the story of a grandfather who served the Nazis became a burden that divided the family. At its heart, Family Histories of World War II concerns human experiences in supremely difficult times and their meaning for subsequent generations.
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: 3166.00 р. 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.
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