Catálogo de libros: Historia

194948 Catálogo de libros: Historia

  • Serf, Seigneur, and Sovereign
    William E. Wright / William EWright
    Serf, Seigneur, and Sovereign was first published in 1966. 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.This is a detailed history of the agrarian reforms which took place in Bohemia during the reigns of the Habsburg rulers Maria There...
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    71,96 €

  • The American Revolution in Its Political and Military Aspects 1763-1783
    Eric Robson
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    17,39 €

  • The Wagonmasters
    Henry Pickering Walker
    'A colorful account of a great breed of men.' Chicago Tribune 'Certainly of interest to scholars and historians, The Wagonmasters should appeal too, to more serious Western history buffs because of its straightforward, coherent story of an important phase of the American West.' Sandra Dallas, Denver Post From 1882, when the first wagons were used in the Santa Fe trade, until ...
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    27,98 €

  • Modern Britain
    Henry Pelling
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    16,54 €

  • North to the Orient
    Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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    15,06 €

  • Origins of the Russian Intelligentsia
    Marc Raeff
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    18,31 €

  • Stalin’s Failure in China
    Conrad Brandt
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    17,45 €

  • Everyday Life in Babylon and Assyria
    G. Contenau / GContenau / Georges Contenau
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    18,79 €

  • The Sable Arm
    Cornish / Dudley Taylor Cornish
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    19,76 €

  • Ulster Emigration to Colonial America 1718-1775
    R. J. Dickson / RJDickson
    First published in 1966, R. J. Dickson’s Ulster Emigration to Colonial America 1718-1775 remains the acknowledged work of scholarship on migration in the eighteenth century of a quarter of a million people from Ulster to the New World. It combines detailed investigation of the economic, social and political background to the exodus with information on the emigrant trade and a...
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    19,71 €

  • Indian Fights
    J. W. Vaughn / JWVaughn
    In Indian Fights, J. W. Vaughn gives detailed accounts of the battles, careful descriptions of the battlefields, and interesting asides on the U.S. Army officers and soldiers serving in the West during and after the Civil War.Using a metal detector, Vaughn uncovered cartridge cases, bullets, and other debris marking battle situations, allowing him to reconstruct many little-kno...
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    30,94 €

  • North Carolina in Maps
    William P. Cumming / William PCumming
    Presents a detailed introduction to each of the following maps: White 1585 MS, White-DeBry 1590, Mercator-Hondius 1606, Comberford 1657 MS, Ogilby-Moxon ca. 1672, Moseley 1733, Collet 1770, Mouzon 1775, Price-Strother 1808, MacRae-Brazier 1833, Colton 1861, Bachmann 1861, U.S. Coast Survey 1865, Kerr-Cain 1882, and Post Route 1896. ...
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    5,79 €

  • Catholic Influence on American Colonial Policies, 1898-1904
    Frank T. Reuter / Frank TReuter
    At the close of the Spanish-American War the United States found itself in possession of a colonial empire. The role played by the American Catholic Church in influencing administrative policy for the new, and predominately Catholic, dependencies is the subject of this incisive study by Frank T. Reuter.Reuter discusses the centuries-old intricate involvement of the Spanish crow...
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    26,82 €

  • Sketches of Early Texas and Louisiana
    Frédéric Gaillardet
    A lively report of travels in early nineteenth-century Texas and Louisiana and a fascinating account of the discovery, exploration, and settlement of those areas is presented in the work of this ebullient young French dramatist and journalist who traveled to Louisiana in 1837 and to Texas in 1839.Frédéric Gaillardet, an alert and talented writer of the romantic school, was lure...
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    26,85 €

  • Travelers In Texas, 1761-1860
    Marilyn Mcadams Sibley
    History passed in review along the highways of Texas in the century 1761-1860. This was the century of exploration and settlement for the big new land, and many thousands of people traveled its trails: traders, revolutionaries, missionaries, warriors, government agents, adventurers, refugees, gold seekers, prospective settlers, land speculators, army wives, and filibusters. The...
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    33,56 €

  • The Normans in South Wales, 1070-1171
    Lynn H. Nelson / Lynn HNelson
    A frontier has been called 'an area inviting entrance.' For the Norman invaders of England the Welsh peninsula was such an area. Fertile forested lowlands invited agricultural occupation; a fierce but primitive and disunited native population was scarcely a formidable deterrent.In The Normans in South Wales, Lynn H. Nelson provides a comprehensive history of the century during ...
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    33,71 €

  • Green Russell and Gold
    Elma Dill Russell Spencer
    The family history of the Russells of Georgia is a saga of the Westward Movement during the middle fifty years of the nineteenth century. The 'Russell boys,' as prospectors and miners, moved with the frontier as it followed fresh discoveries of gold, from Georgia to California to Colorado. Then, after the interlude of the Civil War, they settled in the new territories, turning ...
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    33,56 €

  • The Political Evolution of the Mexican People
    Justo Sierra
    Are the Mexican people the children of Moctezuma or the children of Cortés? This question, long the central problem of Mexican historians, Justo Sierra answered by saying, 'The Mexicans are the sons of the two peoples, of the two races ... to this we owe our soul.'Because Sierra recognized the dual parentage, he was able to view his country’s history as an evolutionary process....
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    53,58 €

  • Prologue to Conflict
    Holman Hamilton
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    17,41 €

  • A History of American Labor
    Joseph G. Rayback / Joseph GRayback
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    25,59 €

  • Forts of the West
    Robert Frazer
    The number and variety of forts and posts, together with changes of location, name, and designation, have posed perplexing problems for students of western history. Now Robert W. Frazer has prepared a systematic listing of all presidios and military forts, which were ever, at any time and in any sense, so designated.The lists of posts are arranged alphabetically within the boun...
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    19,05 €

  • Photographer on an Army Mule
    Maurice Frink
    'A detailed and fascinating picture of Army life.' Western Books Roundup Rebelling against the nineteenth-century compulsory peacetime military service of his fatherland, Bavarian-born Christian Barthelmess demonstrated his independent spirit by migrating to America and spending the greater part of his life in the United States Regular Army. Beginning as an army musician, he s...
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    28,31 €

  • Ritual of the Bicabs
    Ralph L. Roys
    'Roys has provided anthropologists, student of linguistics, and historians with an exceptional study of interest and value.' The Americas 'It deserves to rank with Popol Vuh and The Book of Chilam Balam of Chumayel as the greatest of Maya documents yet published.' Journal of the West The Mayas believed the four gods, the Bacabs, held up the sky. The Bacabs were also invoked...
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    28,57 €

  • The United States 1830-1850
    Frederick Jackson Turner
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    26,95 €

  • A History of Jewish Crafts and Guilds
    Mark Wischnitzer
    A sociologist and historian reviews the story of Jewish artisanship from its beginnings, in biblical times, through the late eighteenth century. He details Jewish involvement in a variety of craft activities and demonstrates how Jewish guilds were used as political pawns by the rulers of the countries where the artisans lived. This title, originally published in 1965, is availa...
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    49,11 €

  • Mary Austin Holley
    Mary Austin Holley
    Mary Austin Holley (1784-1846), a cousin of Stephen F. Austin, journeyed to Texas on three separate occasions. Her first visit, in 1831, resulted in the publication of her book, Texas. Her second and third trips, in 1835 and 1837, were depicted in her diary. This witty, observant, and highly perceptive woman captured the infant Texas in her journal-the Mexican state moving towa...
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    31,69 €

  • With MacArthur in Japan
    William Sebald
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    18,93 €

  • American Revolutionaries in the Making
    Charles S. Sydnor / Charles SSydnor
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    24,69 €

  • The Life and Death of Colonel Albert Jennings Fountain
    Arrell M. Gibson
    The last Thursday in January, 1896, Colonel Albert Jennings Fountain, accompanied by his eight-year-old son, Henry, left Lincoln, New Mexico, in a buckboard to drive to his home in Las Cruces. He never arrived. Later a pool of blood and a blood-soaked handkerchief pointed to murder. Although indictments were returned, no one was convicted of that murder, one of New Mexico’s mos...
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    30,77 €

  • Teapot Dome
    Burl Noggle
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    17,40 €