Catálogo de libros: Historia

194948 Catálogo de libros: Historia

  • Protestant Diplomacy and the Near East
    Joseph L. Grabill / Joseph LGrabill
    Protestant Diplomacy and the Near East was first published in 1971. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.For understand of the Middle East today, it is essential to know something of the historical background of that region, tr...
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    85,65 €

  • Brierfield
    Frank Edgar Jr. Everett
    Brierfield: Plantation Home of Jefferson Davisby Frank Edgar Everett, Jr.This is the story of a house, 'Brierfield,' and incidentally of a man, Jefferson Davis, and his family. The author traces the story of 'Brierfield' from its construction in the antebellum period to its final disappearance in the twentieth century, a victim of war, floods, and fire. Most people associate Je...
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    50,44 €

  • Fort Supply, Indian Territory
    Robert C. Carrick / Robert C. Carrike
    This book chronicles all the years Fort Supply remained active. In the first ten years of the post’s existence, from 1868 to 1878, its personnel were involved in three Indian uprisings and yet found time to protect the Cheyennes and Arapahoes from depredations by other Indian tribes, white stock thieves, and whisky traders from Kansas and New Mexico. In the decade of the 1880’s...
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    35,18 €

  • Taoism
    Holmes H. Welch / Holmes Welch
    Called 'a first rate piece of work' by T.S. Eliot, this book offers a comprehensive discussion of Taoism, one of the world’s major religions, as well as a study of the Tao te ching, the best known Taoist text and Lao-tzu as a Taoist prototype.'Clarifies a large area of literature and history that has been a mystery to the West and makes fascinating reading even for those whose ...
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    16,12 €

  • The Republic in Peril
    Roger H. Brown / Roger HBrown
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    15,56 €

  • The Doctrine and Covenants, of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
    Joseph Smith
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    107,67 €

  • Lord and Peasant in Russia
    Jerome Blum
    To understand Russian history without understanding serfdom--the peasant-lord relationship that shaped Russia for centuries--is impossible. Still, before Jerome Blum, no scholar had tackled the subject in depth. Monumental in scope and pathbreaking in its analysis, Lord and Peasant in Russia garnered immediate attention upon its publication in 1961, a year that also marked the ...
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    91,36 €

  • Athens in the Age of Pericles
    Charles A. Robinson
    The challenge of Periclean Athens to the students of civilizations is unmistakable: the city and its empire reached a level of culture and well-being scarcely paralleled in the history of man elsewhere. And like the characters in a Greek tragedy, the city and its leaders and citizens were busy in their time of glory making provision for their own tragic decline.'I have tried to...
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    35,76 €

  • If Germany Attacks
    Priscill Wayne
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    53,24 €

  • Roots of Involvement
    Elie Abel / Marvin Kalb
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    18,91 €

  • Aftermath of Revolution
    Charles R. Ritcheson / Charles RRitcheson
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    23,71 €

  • The Emergence of Indian Nationalism
    A. Seal / Anil Seal / ASeal
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    70,79 €

  • A Historical Geography of Ghana
    K. B. Dickson / KBDickson / Kwamina B. Dickson / Kwamina BDickson
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    43,92 €

  • But We Were Born Free
    Elmer Holmes Davis
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    82,68 €

  • The Ways of the Desert
    Eugène Daumas
    The Ways of the Desert, translated from the French, offers an introduction to the North African Arab nomads-their way of life, customs, dress, and religion. The companion to this volume, The Horses of the Sahara, provides a detailed description and history of the great breeds of Arab horses. While part of this book is devoted to descriptions of the various animals that are both...
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    33,74 €

  • Negro Militia and Reconstruction
    Otis A. Singletary / Otis ASingletary
    Much of the violence that characterized Reconstruction was directly associated with the Negro militia movement organized by Radical politicians to support their precarious regimes in Southern states. This book is the story of that ill-fated movement, a story with important implication for later times.Most Southern whites did not disguise their hostility toward the governments t...
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    26,86 €

  • Seven Interpretive Essays on Peruvian Reality
    José Carlos Mariategui
    'Once again I repeat that I am not an impartial; objective critic. My judgments are nourished by my ideals, my sentiments, my passions. I have an avowed and resolute ambition: to assist in the creation of Peruvian socialism. I am far removed from the academic techniques of the university.'-From the Author’s NoteJose Carlos Mariátegui was one of the leading South American social...
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    44,26 €

  • Crisis in Costa Rica
    John Patrick Bell
    The Costa Rican revolution of 1948 capped an extended period of social tension and political unrest. This book analyzes the circumstances of 1940-1948 that led to a successful armed uprising. A secondary and related theme is the role of José Figueres Ferrer in marshaling disparate groups into a movement sufficiently cohesive to seize and hold power.In the 1940s the Communists, ...
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    26,81 €

  • Agricola
    UNKNOWN / William Emerton Heitland
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    120,43 €

  • Black Gods of the Metropolis
    Arthur Huff Fauset
    Black Gods of the MetropolisNegro Religious Cults of the Urban NorthArthur Huff Fauset. Foreword by Barbara Dianne Savage. Introduction by John Szwed'A foundational text in fields as diverse as religion and urban studies, Black studies and anthropology--a must read!'--Lee D. Baker, author of From Savage to Negro'Fauset’s falls into the select group that includes works of Ralph ...
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    32,02 €

  • Progress, Coexistence, and Intellectual Freedom
    Andrei D. Sakharov / Andrei DSakharov
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    16,68 €

  • The Romans and Their Gods in the Age of Augustus
    R. M. Ogilvie / Rm Ogilvie / RMOgilvie
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    15,05 €

  • Germany’s First Bid for Colonies, 1884-1885
    A. J. P. Taylor / AJPTaylor / Alan J. P. Taylor / Alan JPTaylor
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    16,13 €

  • Victorian Studies in Scarlet
    Richard D. Altick / Richard DAltick
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    18,83 €

  • The Hellenistic Age
    E. A. Barber / EABarber / Edwyn Bevan / J. B. Bury / JBBury
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    15,03 €

  • Descriptive Inventories of Collections in the Social Welfare History Archives Center
    University Of Minnesota
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    120,11 €

  • Railroads and Regulation, 1877-1916
    Gabriel Kolko
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    19,13 €

  • Unbind Your Sons
    Alex Campbell
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    19,68 €

  • To the Farewell Address
    Felix Gilbert
    Washington’s Farewell Address comprises various aspects of American political thinking. It reaches beyond any period limited in time and reveals the basic issue of the American attitude toward foreign policy: the tension between Idealism and Realism. Settled by men who looked for gain and by men who sought freedom, born into independence in a century of enlightened thinking and...
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    47,72 €

  • Cultures of the Pacific
    Cultures of the Pacific offers a selection of 28 readings representing anthropological research interests & cultural variation in the Pacific. The selections emphasize anthropological significance and relevance rather than substantive and geographical coverage. The articles are divided into 6 topical areas of major importance: Culture History Technology & Economics Social Life ...
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    23,88 €