Catálogo de libros: Historia

194948 Catálogo de libros: Historia

  • Roman Military Law
    C. E. Brand / CEBrand
    Rome was the law-giver for much of the modern world. She was also the greatest military power of antiquity, operating her military organization with remarkable efficiency and effectiveness throughout most of the then-known world. In view of the importance of both the legal and military aspects of the Roman Empire, an account of their combination in a system of disciplinary cont...
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    33,56 €

  • History of Ancient Greece
    Jean Hatzfeld / Jean Hatzfield
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    19,77 €

  • Savagism and Civilization
    Roy Harvey Pearce
    Pearce presents a study of the concept of savagism as reflected in the American writings on Indians that appeared in political pamphlets, drama, poetry, and other writings. ...
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    43,34 €

  • The Desert Lake
    Sessions S. Wheeler
    National park officials have called the Pyramid Lake 'the most beautiful desert lake in North America.' Here is the pre-history and history of the basin, including its famous Indian battles. Early white exploration and settlement, the decline and restoration of the lake’s giant cutthroat trout, and shore fishing. ...
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    9,06 €

  • Alexander the Great
    Ulrich Wilcken / G. C. Richards / GCRichards
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    21,41 €

  • Confederate Morale and Church Propaganda
    James W. Silver / James WSilver
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    14,23 €

  • Historians Against History
    David W. Noble / David WNoble
    Historians Against History was first published in 1967. 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.Professor Noble examines the basic philosophy and writing of six American historians, George Bancroft, Frederick Jackson, Charles A. B...
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    72,08 €

  • The Jeffersonian Republicans
    Noble E. Cunningham Jr. / Noble ECunningham Jr.
    The rise of the Jeffersonian party is a phenomenon in American history that has often attracted the attention of historians. However, little examination has been made of the actual instrumentalities with which the principles of Jeffersonian democracy were implemented or rejected. This book traces, from its nebulous beginnings to its first great victory in 1800, the formation of...
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    64,16 €

  • Yazoo
    C. Peter Magrath / CPeter Magrath
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    17,40 €

  • Charisma and Factionalism in the Nazi Party
    Joseph Nyomarkay
    Charisma and Factionalism in the Nazi Party was first published in 1967. 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.Few aspects of the history of the German Nazi party have had as little scholarly attention as has the nature or patte...
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    57,67 €

  • Stranger and Friend
    Hortense Powdermaker
    "There are few books which are as informative of what it means to be a field-worker in social science as Hortense Powdermaker'sStranger and Friend. This book should be must reading both for scholars and students." --Seymour M. Lipset, Harvard University  "Stranger and Friend is a passionate plea for anthropology as a human discipline as well as a science, as an all-engrossi...
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    19,00 €

  • Herbert Hoover and the Great Depression
    Harris Gaylord Warren
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    21,50 €

  • Sino-Soviet Relations, 1964-1965
    William E. Griffith / William EGriffith
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    57,55 €

  • The Unwritten Philosophy and Other Essays
    Cornford / F. M. Cornford / FMCornford
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    58,41 €

  • American and British Technology in the Nineteenth Century
    H. J. Habakkuk / HJHabakkuk
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    28,57 €

  • Character and Opinion in the United States
    George Santayana
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    17,40 €

  • Seventeenth-Century America
    James Morton Smith
    In this series of provocative essays, nine specialists in early American history examine some of the more important aspects of the seventeenth-century colonial experience, presenting an impressive sampling of modern historical research on such topics as colonists and Indians, people and society, church and state, and history and historians.Originally published 1959.A UNC Press ...
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    64,32 €

  • The Story of Tobacco in America
    Joseph C. Robert / Joseph CRobert
    This history of tobacco in America begins with the country’s earliest times. The author gives the broadest possible interpretation to his assignment, tracing not only the industry itself in its various aspects--plantation, leaf market, factory, and fluctuating nicotine manners--but also the effect of tobacco on political, economic, and social life in America through the years.O...
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    60,69 €

  • The Governor and the Rebel
    Wilcomb E. Washburn / Wilcomb EWashburn
    This is the definitive study of the unsuccessful rebellion in Virginia led in 1676 by the younger Nathaniel Bacon, celebrated in history as the rebel, against Sir William Berkeley, the colonial governor of Virginia and one of the lords proprietors of Carolina. Using all known English and American sources, Washburn sheds light on many misconceptions surrounding the episode.A UNC...
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    64,26 €

  • Origins of the War with Mexico
    Glenn W. Price / Glenn WPrice
    In the spring of 1846 James K. Polk announced that the Mexican Army had invaded United States territory and had 'shed American blood upon the American soil.' This political rhetoric, as Glenn W. Price establishes in Origins of the War with Mexico: The Polk-Stockton Intrigue, is part of the myth of American innocence. It represents the 'internal contradiction between professed v...
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    26,81 €

  • Steel and Economic Growth in Mexico
    William Edward Cole
    Iron ore is widely distributed over the world and has been mined from ancient times, but Mexico, with a good supply of ore, was a relative newcomer to the ranks of iron- and steel-producing nations. This distinctive book offers a history of the Mexican iron and steel industry through the 1960s.Archaeological evidence, the author states, shows that the indigenous peoples of Mexi...
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    26,87 €

  • The Brazilians
    José Honório Rodrigues
    Brazil has long been a country in search of its own meaning and mission. Early in their history Brazilians began to puzzle over their surroundings and their relation to them. The eighteenth century produced an entire school of nativistic writers who, with the advent of independence, became fiery nationalists, still pursuing introspective studies of their homeland. Throughout th...
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    33,75 €

  • Spain and the Abolition of Slavery in Cuba, 1817-1886
    Arthur F. Corwin / Arthur FCorwin
    This book explores the abolition of African slavery in Spanish Cuba from 1817 to 1886-from the first Anglo-Spanish agreement to abolish the slave trade until the removal from Cuba of the last vestige of black servitude. Making extensive use of heretofore untapped research sources from the Spanish archives, the author has developed new perspectives on nineteenth-century Spanish ...
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    50,89 €

  • The Inter American Press Association
    Mary A. Gardner / Mary AGardner
    The Inter American Press Association (IAPA) has been a pioneer in the concept of an inter-American professional, independent, and self-sufficient pressure group that acts on its own initiative and subsists on its own resources. This study first traces the development of IAPA from the initial meeting in 1926 through the mid-1940’s, when a small group of dedicated Latin American ...
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    33,62 €

  • Origins of the American Indians
    Lee Eldridge Huddleston
    The American Indian-origin, culture, and language-engaged the best minds of Europe from 1492 to 1729. Were the Indians the result of a co-creation? Were they descended from the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel? Could they have emigrated from Carthage, Phoenicia, or Troy? All these and many other theories were proposed.How could scholars account for the multiplicity of languages among ...
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    26,88 €

  • Distaff Diplomacy
    Nancy Nichols Barker
    The Empress Eugénie, wife of Napoleon III and one of the most beautiful women ever to grace a throne, was the victim of her own inconstant mind. A daughter of an aristocratic Spanish family, she had a natural reverence for legitimate monarchy; yet her high-spirited temperament and chivalric outlook made her admire instinctively the boldness and aura of glory that she associated...
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    33,52 €

  • Aspects of the Renaissance
    The Renaissance has long posed a problem to scholars. It has been generalized as an emergence of intellect and will in all fields of human endeavor, but because it is diversely manifested in varying attitudes and forms at various times in the Western world, this vast era of Western European history has resisted definitive boundaries.To help clarify the problems inherent in the ...
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    26,85 €

  • An Affair of Honor
    Robert E. Quirk / Robert EQuirk
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    16,72 €

  • Paths to the Ancient Past
    Tom B. Jones / Tom BJones
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    24,50 €

  • The Seventeenth Century 1600-1715
    Andrew Lossky
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    25,00 €