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  • The Adventures of a Prisoner of War, 1863-1864
    Decimus et Ultimus Barziza
    This journal is the exciting personal narrative of a Texan who was a prisoner of the Union Army during the Civil War, escaped to Canada, and finally made his way back into the Confederacy through the blockade. It was written while the war was still in progress.The journal was issued anonymously in Houston early in 1865. Its author, Decimus et Ultimus Barziza, was a colorful, co...
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    27,00 €

  • Revolution on the Pampas
    James R. Scobie / James RScobie
    On the Argentine pampas, between the years 1860 and 1910, a dramatic social and agricultural revolution took place. The haunts of wild cattle, native peoples, and gauchos were transformed into cultivated fields and rich pastures. A land that had produced only scrawny sheep and cattle became one of the world’s leading exporters of wheat, corn, beef, mutton, and wool. A country t...
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    33,62 €

  • The Taft Ranch
    A. Ray Stephens / ARay Stephens
    For fifty years the progressive Coleman-Fulton Pasture Company, popularly known as the Taft Ranch, led in the development of South Texas, and in the early twentieth century achieved national and international repute for its contributions to agriculture. The story of the ranch reaches its climax as the firm is absorbed into the community growing up around it-the same community t...
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    40,21 €

  • American Interests and Policies in the Middle East, 1900-1939
    John A. DeNovo / John ADeNovo
    American Interests and Policies in the Middle East, 1900-1939 was first published in1963. 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.Scholars concerned with the diplomatic history of the United States have largely neglected the subje...
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    85,47 €

  • Treasure of the Sangre de Cristos
    Arthur L. Campa / Arthur LCampa
    This collection of tales and traditions from the Southwest includes stories of lost mines stacked with bars of gold, mule loads of silver cached away in outlaw hoards, and fabulous Jesuit treasures buried when that order was expelled from New Spain. Some treasure locations would be rediscovered by chance or by an old map-and somehow always lost again.But not all these folk teas...
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    31,11 €

  • The Burman
    John K. Musgrave / John KMusgrave / Shway Yoe
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    26,93 €

  • The Iron Curtain
    Bonaro Overstreet / Harry Overstreet
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    16,59 €

  • Classics of Greek Literature
    Harry E. Wedeck / Harry EWedeck
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    35,54 €

  • Democracy in Africa
    Ivor Jennings
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    31,28 €

  • Travels in North America in the Years 1780, 1781, and 1782
    Marquis de Chastellux / Howard C. Rice Jr. / Howard Rice
    This is a definitive edition of an American classic of great literary and historical value. Chastellux, one of three major generals who accompanied Rochambeau and the French Expeditionary Forces to America, was a man of letters and a member of the French Academy. His absorbing journal is a deeply and clearly etched portrait of a country and its people. This is Volume I of two v...
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    109,45 €

  • Travels in North America in the Years 1780, 1781, and 1782
    Marquis de Chastellux / Howard C. Rice Jr. / Howard Rice
    This is a definitive edition of an American classic of great literary and historical value. Chastellux, one of three major generals who accompanied Rochambeau and the French Expeditionary Forces to America, was a man of letters and a member of the French Academy. His absorbing journal is a deeply and clearly etched portrait of a country and its people. This is Volume II of 2 vo...
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    109,68 €

  • Seedtime of Reform
    Clarke A. Chambers / Clarke AChambers
    Seedtime of Reform was first published in 1963. 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 social welfare movement in the United States during the period from the end of World War I to the inaugurati...
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    86,02 €

  • Portugal’s Other Kingdom
    Dan Stanislawski
    A land of long ago on the brink of tomorrow. That is the Algarve, the southernmost province of Portugal, a land that knew the Phoenicians, Carthaginians, Greeks, Romans, Visigoths, Moslems-and yet retained its own distinctive personality. In the 1950s it first felt the impact of industrialization, and from that situation the author developed this book.In presenting this descrip...
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    38,94 €

  • Profile of Man and Culture in Mexico
    Samuel Ramos
    Profile of Man and Culture in Mexico, originally written in 1934, is addressed to the author’s compatriots, but it speaks to people, wherever they are, who are interested in enriching their own lives and in elevating the cultural level of their countries. And it speaks with a peculiar timeliness to citizens of the United States who would understand their neighbors to the south....
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    33,72 €

  • If I Can Do It Horseback
    John Hendrix
    John Hendrix drew upon his own varied experiences for this panoramic view of West Texas ranch life, presented here in an integral compilation of flavorful articles written originally for The Cattleman. Touching upon virtually every facet of the cattle industry, they examine economic influences and technological changes as well as the personal and emotional aspects of range life...
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    49,65 €

  • Steel and the Presidency - 1962
    Grant McConnell
    The events, the aftermath, and the implications of a crucial test of presidential power. ...
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    13,32 €

  • A History of Ankole
    H. F. Morris
    This book, which takes the history of the Banyankore from earliest times to the year 1914, is the first history of this region to be published in English. The material, much of which was originally published in various volumes of Uganda Journal, has been brought together in one volume for the first time. Dr H. F. Morris studied the history and the language of the Banyankore in A...
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    42,22 €

  • History as a System, and Other Essays Toward a Philosophy of History
    Jose Ortega y. Gasset / Jose Ortega yGasset / Helene Weyl
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    17,39 €

  • Indian Traders
    Frank McNitt
    'A superior account of the little-known world of the Indian traders.'Library Journal'A gallery of the Southwest crowded with character and incident.'Los Angeles Times'We have no concept of Indian traders to match our nearly universal picture of the American cowboy, the cavalryman of Indian-fighting days, or the pioneer settler who followed in their wake,' wrote Frank McNitt. In...
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    34,70 €

  • The Two Faces of TASS
    Theodore Eduard Kruglak
    The Two Faces of TASS was first published in 1962. 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.What is TASS and how does it operate? As the Soviet Union’s international news agency does TASS serve other purposes besides the gathering ...
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    71,75 €

  • Murder in Minnesota
    Walter N. Trenerry / Walter NTrenerry
    This treasury of vintage crime offers a vivid picture of Minnesota from the time it achieved statehood in 1858 through 1917. It also traces the gradual changes in social attitudes from the days of frontier justice to the abolishment of capital punishment in 1911. ...
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    17,34 €

  • Life in the Saddle
    Frank Collinson
    Volume 21 in the Western Frontier Library SeriesEnglishman Frank Collinson went to Texas in 1872, when he was seventeen, to work on Will Noonan’s ranch near Castroville. He lived the rest of his life in the southwestern United States, and at the age of seventy-nine began writing about the Old West he knew and loved. He had a flair for writing, a phenomenal memory, and a passion...
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    31,03 €

  • Finland and Europe
    Juhani Paasivirta
    Finland and Europe was first published in 1982. 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.In 1808 the Grand Duchy of Finland, part of the Swedish kingdom since the thirteenth century, was invaded and in 1809 annexed by Russia -- eve...
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    71,71 €

  • My Life
    Ahmadu Bello / Alhaji Sir Ahmadu Bello
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    57,92 €

  • Ovid Surveyed
    L. P. Wilkinson / LPWilkinson
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    55,58 €

  • Metternich’s Diplomacy at its Zenith, 1820-1823
    Paul W. Schroeder / Paul WSchroeder
    What Metiernich wanted at the peak of his career, why he wanted it, and the methods by which he achieved his goals are questions brilliantly answered in this survey and analysis of the Austrian chancellor’s diplomacy during the period when he was the pre-eminent figure in European politics.Metternich’s single-minded objective during 1820-1823 was to preserve the Austrian hegemo...
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    40,30 €

  • The Viceregency of Antonio María Bucareli in New Spain, 1771-1779
    Bernard E. Bobb / Bernard EBobb
    When Antonio María Bucareli took up his duties in 1771 as the forty-sixth viceroy of New Spain, he assumed command of a magnificent complexity of land areas, large and small, whose people constituted a cultural and social entity ranging from the traditional Apache to the European gentleman of the Enlightenment.He governed a key area at a significant time. Shortly before Bucarel...
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    44,27 €

  • The Golden Frontier
    Herman Francis Reinhart
    The gold rush was Herman Francis Reinhart’s life for almost twenty years. From the summer of 1851 when, as a boy in his late teens, he traveled the Oregon trail to California, until a January day in 1869 when he climbed aboard an eastbound train at Evanston, Wyoming, he was a part of every gold discovery that stirred the West.Reinhart dipped his pan in the streams of northern C...
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    46,84 €

  • Taming the Nueces Strip
    George Durham
    Only an extraordinary Texas Ranger could have cleaned up bandit-plagued Southwest Texas, between the Nueces River and the Rio Grande, in the years following the Civil War. Thousands of raiders on horseback, some of them Anglo-Americans, regularly crossed the river from Mexico to pillage, murder, and rape. Their main objective? To steal cattle, which they herded back across the ...
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    22,24 €

  • The War Called Peace
    Bonaro Overstreet / Harry Overstreet
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    20,62 €


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