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  • Jonestown
    H. J. Jones
    After the heartbreaking loss of her own father, the youngest daughter, Mary, found a replacement in Reverend Jim Jones. But as a member of his Peoples Temple in California, she soon became overworked, underfed, and was beaten. Meanwhile, her family back home watched helplessly as she slowly disappeared into Jim Jones’s clutches. Then, just as her parents’ generation once search...
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    15,71 €

  • Negotiating relief and freedom
    Oscar Webber
    This book investigates both short- and long-term responses to disaster in the British Caribbean. It is the first to examine the informal negotiations that took place on the ground between the colonial authorities and the African-Caribbean population, and the formal negotiations undertaken by colonies as they sought financial aid from Parliament. ...
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    157,59 €

  • Reciprocal Mobilities
    Mark Dizon
    Throughout the eighteenth century, independent Indigenous people from the borderlands of the Philippines visited the centers of Spanish colonial rule in the archipelago. Their travels are the counternarratives to one-dimensional stories of Spanish conquest of, and Indigenous resistance in, interior frontiers. Indigenous inhabitants on the island of Luzon constantly moved about—...
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    126,92 €

  • Reciprocal Mobilities
    Mark Dizon
    Throughout the eighteenth century, independent Indigenous people from the borderlands of the Philippines visited the centers of Spanish colonial rule in the archipelago. Their travels are the counternarratives to one-dimensional stories of Spanish conquest of, and Indigenous resistance in, interior frontiers. Indigenous inhabitants on the island of Luzon constantly moved about—...
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    38,06 €

  • Grand Duchess Elena Pavlovna, Princess Isabel and the Ending of Servile Labour in Russia and Brazil
    Shane O’Rourke
    Grand Duchess Elena Pavlovna and Princess Isabel were key players in the political struggle ending servile labor in the empires of Russia and Brazil. This book chronicles the political activity of the two royal women to end servile labor in their respective countries ...
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    50,67 €

  • Comprehensive World History
    Ajay Vaid
    Through a focus on a number of historical themes, debates, and different sources, the History curriculum introduces the students to a number of significant historical events and processes. Students may learn about the events and procedures through a discussion of these topics, but they could also experience the thrill of reading historical accounts. However, a useful method of ...
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    23,02 €

  • Echoes of the Past
    Jim Stephens
    'Echoes of the Past: Unveiling History’s Secrets' is a captivating journey through the hidden truths of some of the most iconic historical events of the past. From the fall of the Roman Empire to the rise and fall of the Aztecs, this book delves deep into the secrets that have been kept from us for centuries. The author takes a critical look at the accepted narratives of histor...
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    24,51 €

  • STUMPED
    Thomas A. Schupbach
    When Michigan joined the Union, in 1837, it acquired nearly 14 million acres of land from the 1836 treaty. It took several years to survey the land, at which point the complex process of land 'disposal' began, ultimately resulting in private ownership. This occurred just in time for the lumber industry to move its focus from exhausted lands in New England to the great pine fore...
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    15,58 €

  • Hell Comes To Play
    Lee Ralph
    Myth and fabrication have dominated the re-telling of the Bender’s story. Now, for the first time-ever, new facts are presented, documented and sourced to tell the true story of The Bloody Benders, as never before told!Many American pioneers lost their lives in their trek westward. Among those taking this risk were the Bender family who settled on the barren Kansas prairie, in ...
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    19,34 €

  • Beale Treasure Revelations
    Albert Atwell
    For decades researchers have tried to find the famed Beale Treasure without knowing the exact location and details of the transactions that surround it. Today that changes with the publication of all new research including: deeds, letters, bills of sale, inventories and genealogical information that relates the family who possessed it. This book will contain the genealogy of R...
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    68,61 €

  • Pioneers Of the American West Vol III.
    Larry W Jones
    'Pioneers Of the American West' comes in four volumes, in chronological order. The history of the American West is the story of trail-makers, pioneers in every sense of the word. Blazing the way for all, came the men and women who explored and ploughed and planted the wilderness. Many of the most stirring of these chronicles have passed out of print and are now inaccessible eve...
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    44,82 €

  • Friends and enemies
    Karen Garner
    This history examines the fraternal friendships and embittered masculine conflicts among British, American, and Irish leaders and their Dublin-based advisers during the Second World War, as those leaders sought to secure - or reject - Ireland’s alliance with the Western Allied powers in their existential conflict with the fascist Axis powers. ...
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    35,64 €

  • Pioneers Of the American West Vol II.
    Larry W Jones
    'Pioneers Of the American West' comes in four volumes, in chronological order. The history of the American West is the story of trail-makers, pioneers in every sense of the word. Blazing the way for all, came the men and women who explored and ploughed and planted the wilderness. Many of the most stirring of these chronicles have passed out of print and are now inaccessible eve...
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    45,85 €

  • Our Suffering Brave
    Alice May Evans
    163 boys and men from Waitsfield, Vermont joined the Union Army and fought in the Civil War. Their individual stories of bravery as well as suffering-from wounds, sickness, and/or deprivation during imprisonment-tell quite a story of the fight to save the United States. Some made it home, others did not. They should not be forgotten. ...
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    26,35 €

  • In the Service of Empire
    Fae Dussart
    Despite recent research, the 19th-century history of domestic service in empire and its wider implications is underexplored. This book sheds new light on servants and their masters in the British Empire, and in doing so offers new discourses on the colonial home, imperial society identities and colonial culture. Using a wide range of source material, from private papers to news...
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    51,05 €

  • Personal Politics in the Postwar World
    Susanna Erlandsson
    Unravelling the mechanisms of daily diplomacy in the mid-20th century, this book follows one Dutch diplomatic couple, the van Kleffens, on their postings from the 1930s to the 1950s to offer a new perspective on how non-officials and personal politics shaped the postwar world. Combining private and public source materials, Erlandsson foregrounds the political culture of diploma...
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    48,55 €

  • The Toxic Ship
    Simone M. Müller
    An infamous voyage explores the hazardous waste trade and environmental justiceIn 1986 the Khian Sea, carrying thousands of tons of incinerator ash from Philadelphia, began a two-year journey, roaming the world’s oceans in search of a dumping ground. Its initial destination and then country after country refused to accept the waste. The ship ended up dumping part of its load in...
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    38,17 €

  • Growing Up Canadian
    Clyde Woolman
    The generation that came of age from 1960 to 1980 had front-row seats to the events and personalities that laid the foundation for the Canada we know today. As the generation matured, so too did the country.Chapters range from TV to sports, music to business, and stage to screen. A section includes the lengths individuals went to be 'cool.' Another features Canada’s attempts to...
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    18,31 €

  • FOREIGN AFFAIRS CRIMES
    José Luis Cabada Delgado
    This book tells us the synthesis of forty years of journalistic investigation of José Luis Cabada Delgado through the monthly Peru News Review, edited and distributed in Los Angeles - California - USA. Winner of the Inter-American Press Community - IAPA award in the Human Rights category in Guadalajara, Mexico, for his denunciations of the mistreatment of Sheepherders in Califo...
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    138,64 €

  • The Lure of Economic Nationalism
    Kenneth A. Reinert
    The Lure of Economic Nationalism addresses the continued appeal of economic nationalism, placing it in both historical and contemporary contexts. It also considers its alternative, a rules-based, multilateral trading system.The book argues that going beyond zero-sum outcomes is better suited to address current problems, including rising tides of ethnonationalism and even pandem...
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    158,33 €

  • Modern Conveniences That Would’ve Rewritten History
    Riya Aarini
    Life is more comfortable today than ever in history, thanks to a dizzying array of modern conveniences we never imagined we could live without. But if King Henry VIII, Mahatma Gandhi, or Alexander the Great had access to the modern conveniences we currently enjoy, from motivating nutrition apps to sweeping social media and life-saving antibiotics, history would’ve taken a drama...
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    10,54 €

  • Sonic Histories of Occupation
    This open access book examines how auditory environments in different contexts have contributed to understanding foreign occupation and colonialism, and how they have given rise to historical music cultures. How are sound and music implicated in the control and discipline of people under occupation? Exploring case studies of foreign occupation and colonialism from around the wo...
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    51,03 €

  • A culture of curiosity
    Leonie Hannan
    This book reveals the eighteenth-century home as a site of emergence for science. By rejecting the limiting associations of ’domestic life’, this book re-imagines a culture of enquiry populated by apprentices and housewives as much as Fellows of the Royal Society. ...
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    157,26 €

  • Echoes of the Past
    Jim Stephens
    'Echoes of the Past: Unveiling History’s Secrets' is a captivating journey through the hidden truths of some of the most iconic historical events of the past. From the fall of the Roman Empire to the rise and fall of the Aztecs, this book delves deep into the secrets that have been kept from us for centuries. The author takes a critical look at the accepted narratives of histor...
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    14,60 €

  • Do good unto all
    This volume explores the ideas, institutions, and experiences that shaped Catholic, Lutheran, Calvinist, and Anabaptist charity in early modern Europe. ...
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    169,57 €

  • The Lost Time of TB
    Eileen Sypher
    This book is a daughter’s late-life piecing together of her father’s short life. These were years of lost time, time when she knew only the silence surrounding him. He died in 1952 from tuberculosis, leaving behind a wife, a five-year-old daughter and a two-year-old son. Like so many who suffered from tuberculosis in that time1 he left no words about what he went through, his w...
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    19,09 €

  • Three Points Shy - The True Story of Seminole High’s Quest For The 1980 Florida High School State Basketball Championship
    Joe DeSantis
    'Three Points Shy' is the season-long journey of one of the greatest high school basketball teams in the history of Seminole County, Florida. Coached by skilled tactician and savvy motivator Bill Payne, and led by seniors Bruce McCray, Reggie Butler, David Thomas, Keith Whitney, and Glenn Stambaugh, the Fighting Seminoles of Sanford, FL., would punctuate their record-breaking s...
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    17,07 €

  • After Kant
    Michael Sonenscher
    Tracing the origins of modern political thought through three sets of arguments over history, morality, and freedomIn this wide-ranging work, Michael Sonenscher traces the origins of modern political thought and ideologies to a question, raised by Immanuel Kant, about what is involved in comparing individual human lives to the whole of human history. How can we compare them, or...
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    169,23 €

  • Texas and Her Fifty-Nine Flags
    Lawrence Drake Williams
    Texans are fiercely proud of their 'Lone Star' flag. It has flown from foxholes, been displayed at military bases around the world, and even been to space. Most Americans don’t even know that the state has had a grand total of fifty-nine different flags over the course of its great history. Texas and Her Fifty-Nine Flags explores the standards for a different approach to a hist...
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    74,16 €

  • Texas and Her Fifty-Nine Flags
    Lawrence Drake Williams
    Texans are fiercely proud of their 'Lone Star' flag. It has flown from foxholes, been displayed at military bases around the world, and even been to space. Most Americans don’t even know that the state has had a grand total of fifty-nine different flags over the course of its great history. Texas and Her Fifty-Nine Flags explores the standards for a different approach to a hist...
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    83,92 €


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