HerStory: 50 Women and Girls Who Shook the World (Stories That Shook Up the World)

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While Reed couldn’t be as impartial as he intended as a journalist, this book is still a useful insight into one of the most important moments in modern history.

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This book did a decent job at pouting out how the women's contributions matter, but in some cases, it failed to do so well. In the book of the same name (previously known as Appeasing Hitler), the reasoning behind such a policy — despite the Nazis’ blatant antisemitism and aggressive nationalism — reveals how that led to World War II. For an overview of the history of the US, try this impressive treatise by historian and political scientist Howard Zinn. Throughout human history, countless women and girls have fought in great and small ways to make their mark on the world and change the future.Little did they know that Leningrad (modern-day St Petersburg) was not about to go down without a vicious fight. Ansary discusses the history of the Islamic world from the time of Mohammed, through the various empires that have ruled the Middle Eastern region and beyond, right up to contemporary conflicts and the status of Islam in a modern, globalizing world. There are 5 categories - "Believe and Lead", "Imagine and Create", "Help and Heal", "Think and Solve", and "Hope and Overcome". And there was a part she said something about if she was a man this would be celebrated and I thought really?

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Elizabeth I is an exception, a queen who helped solidify England’s place as a nation with world-wide impact. This collection of essays, personal reflections, and short stories is written by ninety different authors, all providing unique insights into the experiences of Black Americans throughout history. In this book, Frankopan goes one step further, to claim that there has been more than one silk road throughout history — and that the region stretching from the Mediterranean to China (modern-day Iraq, Iran, and Afghanistan) remains the crossroads of civilization and the center of global affairs. In a way, Burgess was made for the job — he was born into a wealthy family, attended prestigious schools like Eton and Cambridge, worked at the BBC and then for MI6, making him entirely beyond suspicion in the eyes of his own people. I went back and found some good books I had read (primarily Russian Revolution and Cuba) and added those; I can't reasonably add anything I haven't read, but have added some "want to reads" from the wider world.Katherine Halligan grew up near the beach in California with her nose in a book and her toes in the sand. H. Carr’s foray into historiography (that is, the study of written history) was panned by critics at first.

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If you’re a fan of history books, then you’ve probably heard of Barbara Tuchman: she was a historian and author who twice won the Pulitzer Prize, once for this very book.In his essays, Sen presents careful and considered analysis on a range of subjects that other academics have often tiptoe around, from the nature of Hindu traditions to the major economic disparities existing in certain regions today (and what their roots might be). Cooney’s When Women Ruled The World shifts the spotlight away from the more frequently discussed Egyptian pharaohs, placing attention on the likes of Hatshepsut, Nefertiti, and Cleopatra, all of whom commanded great armies, oversaw the conquering of new lands, and implemented innovative economic systems. The suspects are members of the Irish Republican Army (IRA), known to have executed people they believed were spying on them for the British.

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But while their composers mostly don’t emerge as pioneers, the collection is jam-packed with superbly crafted and rewarding pieces.The book begins in 1972, in the middle of the Troubles — a 30-year conflict between the Catholic Irish, who wanted to leave the UK, and the Protestants who wanted to stay. While this isn’t strictly a history book, Four Hundred Souls is certainly an eye-opening volume if you’re looking to explore oft-hidden aspects of history. Childbirth as a rite of passage: key elements of childbirth as a rite of passage and the role of care providers (setting the scene for Part Two). Sommers defined herstory as an attempt to infuse education with ideology at the expense of knowledge.