Catálogo de libros: Historia

194948 Catálogo de libros: Historia

  • The Lost Cause
    Andrew Rolle
    In the midst of the heartbreak, confusion, and rumors that followed Appomattox, some Southerners resolved to emigrate rather than surrender, and emigrate they did-to South America, Europe, Canada, and Mexico.Mexico’s Emperor Maximilian, trying to secure his shaky throne against Juarez’ opposition, encouraged these recalcitrant Confederates to settle in Mexico. But, doomed to de...
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    30,98 €

  • Karl Marx’s Interpretation of History
    M. M. Bober / MMBober
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    22,13 €

  • The Democratic South
    Dewey W. Grantham / Dewey WGrantham
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    14,25 €

  • The Archaeology of Crete
    J. D. S. Pendlebury / JDSPendlebury
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    21,13 €

  • The Truman-MacArthur Controversy and the Korean War
    John W. Spainer / John W. Spanier / John WSpainer / John WSpanier
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    18,97 €

  • Platos Thought in the Making
    J. E. Raven / JERaven
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    55,32 €

  • The Concise Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature, 1600 1950
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    34,54 €

  • A History of the Southern Confederacy
    Clement Eaton
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    26,21 €

  • George Washington
    James Thomas Flexner
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    38,77 €

  • Philosophy of History
    Voltaire
    Have you ever wondered how different worldviews have shaped history? How dominant religious or political groups have changed the way past events have been interpreted, written, and recorded? The greatest philosophical mind to come out of the Enlightenment has tackled these very questions in his essay Philosophy of History. Voltaire attempts to reinterpret the moral, esthetic, a...
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    23,92 €

  • Philosophy of History
    Voltaire
    Have you ever wondered how different worldviews have shaped history? How dominant religious or political groups have changed the way past events have been interpreted, written, and recorded? The greatest philosophical mind to come out of the Enlightenment has tackled these very questions in his essay Philosophy of History. Voltaire attempts to reinterpret the moral, esthetic, a...
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    15,63 €

  • The New Dictionary of American History
    GELBER / MARTIN / Leonard Gelber / Michael Rheta Martin
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    52,43 €

  • Magna Carta
    A E Dick Howard
    A classic classroom reference since its 1964 publication, this indispensable volume offers the full text of Magna Carta in English, as well as a chapter-by-chapter discussion of its history and provisions.In his newly revised commentary on this founding document in the history of constitutionally limited governments, A.E. Dick Howard places the charter in context of the extraor...
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    18,41 €

  • Merchants and Scholars
    John Parker
    Merchants and Scholars was first published in 1965. 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 volume of essays, collected in memory of James Ford Bell, reflects in some measure the broad scope and rich diversity of the James Fo...
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    73,35 €

  • Making Peace with Spain
    Whitelaw Reid
    Whitelaw Reid, according to H. Wayne Morgan, was a 'leading newspaperman, more than an occasional diplomat, a power in his party’s politics, a supporter of some of the best in his era’s culture . . . Of all his legacy, perhaps the record he left of his part in the Peace of Paris is the most significant and most interesting. It not only reveals the workings of his mind and of th...
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    40,25 €

  • Communism in Mexico
    Karl M. Schmitt / Karl MSchmitt
    The ease with which Cuba slipped into its relationship with Communism revived in the United States its recurring nightmare in which other Latin American countries, particularly Mexico, become satellites of Russia or Red China. But such an occurrence is most unlikely in Mexico, according to Karl Schmitt, former intelligence research analyst with the United States Department of S...
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    40,25 €

  • Treason in Roman and Germanic Law
    Floyd Seyward Lear
    'Treason' is a word with many connotations, a word applied to a host of varied offenses throughout the history of humanity. These essays by Floyd Seyward Lear analyze the development of the political theory of treason from its beginning in Roman Law to its transformation in the Germanic custom of the early Middle Ages.The author has presented treason as a political idea, posses...
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    40,24 €

  • Epidemic Disease in Mexico City, 1761-1813
    Donald B. Cooper / Donald BCooper
    Five deadly epidemics, chiefly typhus and smallpox, struck Mexico City in the years between 1761 and 1813, claiming a minimum of fifty thousand lives. Mexico City was at that time the major metropolis of the New World and the capital of New Spain-by far the richest and most sophisticated city in that vast empire. It had the best medicines, the best doctors, and the best hospita...
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    33,54 €

  • Development of Southern French and Catalan Society, 718-1050
    Archibald R. Lewis / Archibald RLewis
    Early in the eighth century, the current of the Muslim movement that inundated northern Spain crept over the Pyrenees to spread across a portion of the French Midi. From the north the tide of Carolingian conquest forced the Muslims back and took in these same southern French and northern Spanish provinces. During the same era the Vikings raided intermittently and with varying d...
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    60,24 €

  • Attack and Counterattack
    Joseph Milton Nance
    It is 1842-a dramatic year in the history of Texas-Mexican relations. After five years of uneasy peace, of futile negotiations, of border raids and temporary, unofficial truces, a series of military actions upsets the precarious balance between the two countries. Once more the Mexican Army marches on Texas soil; once more the frontier settlers strengthen their strongholds for d...
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    93,62 €

  • Germany Tried Democracy
    S. William Halperin / Samuel W. Halperin / Samuel WHalperin / SWilliam Halperin
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    27,14 €

  • The Sumerians
    C. Leonard Woolley / Charles Leonard Woolley / CLeonard Woolley
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    16,60 €

  • A History of Greek Religion
    Martin P. Nilsson / Martin PNilsson
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    18,97 €

  • The Shoshonis
    Maurine Carley / Virginia C. Trenholm
    'This book presents a new outlook on Indian culture which is even more interesting because it develops into a moving and necessary biography of a little publicized nation.'-Real West'A study which is an important step in the documentation of the history of Western tribes. It is the result of research of many years, and it should endure as one of the standard works on this subje...
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    34,83 €

  • The United States and the Independence of Latin of America, 1800-1830
    Arthur P. Whitaker / Arthur PWhitaker
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    26,93 €

  • The Greek State
    Victor Ehrenberg
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    19,09 €

  • The Bay of Pigs
    Haynes Bonner Johnson
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    16,88 €

  • Business Cycles and National Income
    Alvin H. Hansen / Alvin HHansen
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    19,54 €

  • The Echo of Greece
    Edith Hamilton
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    16,60 €

  • Sir Walter Mildmay and Tudor Government
    Stanford E. Lehmberg / Stanford ELehmberg
    This is the first biography of Sir Walter Mildmay, who dutifully served Queen Elizabeth I for thirty years as Chancellor of the Exchequer. Sir Walter Mildmay and Tudor Government, by Stanford E. Lehmberg, brings Mildmay into proper historical perspective alongside other prominent Tudor leaders.Virtually none of Mildmay’s writings had been printed, and his activities had not bee...
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    46,95 €