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A Forgotten Empress: Anna Ivanovna and Her Era, 1730-1740
Describes the Russian empress' personal and diplomatic life and contributions to Russian culture.
From Disunity to Disintegration
This is a book about Bulgarian life and politics in the Middle Ages. In it, Anna Ivanova Buxton looks at the history of the Second Bulgarian kingdom and searches for the reasons of its demise. She discusses weak central control and dominant boyars, resulting in partitioning the kingdom in the 14th century. She evaluates the effect of the factions, created around children of former foreign royal spouses, which would deepen the divisions. The reader will assess the effect of the increased separation of Church from State, which led to the loss of its unique leadership role with the population, at the time of the Ottoman invasion. With notable exceptions, the Church behaved as just an observer, ...
Regional Economic Outlook, April 2015: Western Hemisphere Department
The economic outlook for Latin America and the Caribbean remains very challenging. Regional growth is projected to decline for a fifth consecutive year in 2015, dipping below 1 percent. Weakness is concentrated among South America's commodity exporters, where falling global commodity prices have compounded country-specific challenges. Meanwhile, growth is projected to be steady or stronger for most of the Caribbean, Central America, and Mexico, supported by lower oil bills for importers and robust economic recovery in the United States. The analysis in this report examines core challenges facing the region: the impact of lower commodity prices on fiscal and external positions, the drivers of the slowdown in investment, and the role of economic diversification for longer-term growth prospects.
Russian Women, 1698-1917
"This collection offers a treasure trove of primary sources of interest to students of women's history. Carefully introduced and annotated, these documents illustrate the diversity of Russian women's lives." -- Barbara Alpern Engel "There is no other work that offers such a wide variety of documents and such a successful combination of literary and historical materials." -- Ann Hibner Koblitz This rich anthology of source materials makes available for the first time in any language a multitude of primary sources on the lives of Russian women from the reign of Peter the Great to the Bolshevik revolution. The selections are drawn from a wide variety of documents, published and unpublished, including memoirs, diaries, legal codes, correspondence, short fiction, poetry, ethnographic observations, and folklore. Primacy is given to sources produced by women and previously unavailable in English translation. Organized thematically, the documents focus on women's family life, work and schooling, public activism, creative self-expression, and sexuality and spirituality, as well as on the cultural ideals and legal framework which constrained women of all social classes.
Anna Ivanova Un Destin Peu Commun
Pendant et apres la campagne de Russie de Napoleon, au temps du tsar Alexandre 1er, on decouvre comment Anna Ivanova de la noblesse russe prend fait et cause pour ses serfs.
Abstract Extremely Short
Time is the thing we wish we could sell and buy, we might be lost seeking the way to do it only we still have this short option called life and the powers to make it our way. It is our parallel life, our free fantasy going its ways during the whole saturated with events busy days in everyday life, hard decisions and the caused need of bringing back to life all our inner world to make us alive.
Anna Ivanova Et Ses Serfs
Anna Ivanova, qui n'a jamais été amoureuse de son mari le général comte russe Ivanov, beaucoup plus âgé qu'elle, épousera en secondes noces Helmut, son ami d'enfance, après le décès du général lors de la campagne de Russie. Dans un premier temps, on la suit sur sa troïka lorsqu'elle s'embarque pour Nijni-Novgorod au plus fort de l'hiver afin d'intercéder en la faveur d'Helmut, prussien, prisonnier des Russes car il a servi dans les troupes de Napoléon. Après avoir épousé Helmut, elle s'implique dans la vie de ses serfs, voyage beaucoup, notamment en France qui devient sa seconde patrie.
Anna Ivanova, De La Russie Des Tsars Paris Et Autres Nouvelles
La premi�re histoire : "Anna Ivanova, de la Russie des tsars � Paris" montre la vie d'une comtesse russe contemporaine de la campagne de Russie de Napol�on. Son mari le g�n�ral comte Ivanov perd la vie lors d'un combat contre les troupes de l'empereur des Fran�ais, Anna Ivanova �pousera son ami d'enfance, prussien, ayant servi dans les rangs de Napol�on. Elle lib�rera ses serfs puis fera de la France sa seconde patrie.La seconde nouvelle nous montre d'abord deux jeunes enfants qui se rencontrent apr�s le drame de Tchernobyl, plus tard l'Ukrainienne et le Fran�ais se marieront, on assiste � leurs aventures dans l'ex-URSS, cette histoire s'oriente vers le "policier".Enfin la troisi�me relate les aventures d'un "marin d'eau douce" (Allain) aux prises avec des douaniers et gendarmes qu'on peut suspecter de faire partie d'un "r�seau" proche de la cause russe et dont le but est de permettre la livraison d'un Mistral � Poutine.
Modern Wonders
Modern Wonders, a title in the five-title series Frameworks: Science, Technology, and the Built Environment, illuminates the science, technology, art and architecture, and history of the world's greatest architectural and engineering achievements, including the Eiffel Tower, St. Louis Gateway Arch, World Trade Center, Mt. Rushmore, and the Millennium Wheel. Modern Wonders provides an interdisciplinary, visual approach that combines informative text, fascinating background information, and basic scientific principles with dozens of full-color photographs, illustrations, and other visuals (e.g. diagrams and equations). Appropriate for a broad audience of students, teachers, librarians, and general interest readers, Modern Wonders is an excellent supplemental resource for subjects covered throughout the curricula: science, technology, and society; art and architecture; economics; and world history and culture.
