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  • The Life and Death of States
    Natasha Wheatley
    An intellectual history of sovereignty that reveals how the Habsburg Empire became a crucible for our contemporary world orderSprawled across the heartlands of Europe, the Habsburg Empire resisted all the standard theories of singular sovereignty. The 1848 revolutions sparked decades of heady constitutional experimentation that pushed the very concept of “the state” to its limi...
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    56,83 €

  • The Creation of Modern Quaker Diversity, 1830-1937
    Stephen Angell
    A collection of essays examining the history of Quakerism from 1830 to 1937, tracing the resurgence of missionary work and the development of Quakerism as a global faith. ...
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    179,61 €

  • The Pastor’s Fire-side Vol. 3 (of 4)
    Jane Porter
    The Pastor’s Fire-side Vol. 3 (of 4) by Jane Porter has been regarded as significant work throughout human history, and in order to ensure that this work is never lost, we have taken steps to ensure its preservation by republishing this book in a contemporary format for both current and future generations. This entire book has been retyped, redesigned, and reformatted. Since th...
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    24,28 €

  • Conquering the maharajas
    Harrison Akins
    Conquering the maharajas demonstrates that the political and military clashes between the Indian and Pakistani governments and the princely states, a legacy of the layered sovereignty of British indirect rule in India, was a product of the competing ideas of state sovereignty leading up to and following the transfer of power in 1947. ...
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    157,22 €

  • Ireland’s Great Famine, Britain’s Great Failure
    William H. A. Williams
    This book provides readers with a unique, in-depth understanding of the background to the Irish Famine and a detailed account of the crisis as it unfolded, as well as the immediate and long-term results of the catastrophe. In addition to ecological and agriculture factors, this work reveals how cultural as well as economic and political influences shaped British reaction to the...
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    49,80 €

  • Colonial Urbanism in the Age of the Enlightenment
    Claudia Murray
    This book tells the story of how the monarchy aimed at creating a new capital city in a remote and forgotten area of the empire and shows how the local Creole bourgeoisie rapidly assumed the role of urban developers and enhanced their economic status by investing in and controlling the Buenos Aires’ property market. ...
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    158,26 €

  • Ron’s World
    Ron Autrey
    This riveting 72-year journey through modern history is packed with mankind’s amazing advancements in technology, medicine, and exploration, along with accounts of the world’s inevitable wars, famine, and natural disasters. The author punctuates the compelling historic chronicle with personal recollections-some of them near-death experiences that slam home the fragility of huma...
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    21,89 €

  • Russian Sources on Iran, 1719-1748
    Willem Floor
    In Russian Sources on Iran, 1719-1748, polyglot scholar Willem Floor brings together annotated translations of reports by officials in Russian service that so far have either been used rarely by scholars, or not at all. It includes a detailed account of the mapping of the Caspian Sea by a Russian team from 1719 to 1720; and the Russian occupations of Derbend in 1722, of Baku in...
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    140,76 €

  • The Spirit Of Spain
    Harold Raley
    IntroductionFor centuries Spain has been a country foreigners love to hate and Spaniards hate to love. Yet visitors swarm to it by the millions, seduced by the very things they publicly decry. It may be the most visited and most reviled country in modern times. Few nations have been more studied and probably none more persistently misunderstood. ...
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    26,63 €

  • Shackled Again
    Tony Watkins
    Are we still shackled? In his debut title, author Tony Watkins explores the deep and lasting stain left by the institution of slavery on our country by chronicling events and personalities from the Civil War to the Civil Rights movement. He examines just how far America has moved forward (or regressed) in regards to race and equality in the age of Obama and Trayvon Martin, and ...
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    29,82 €

  • Danuta
    Maria Szonert Binienda
    The story of Danuta gives readers the human side of Poland’s fate in World War II. This book presents the war’s impact on the life of a young woman and her family while telling their stories in connection with the saga of the destruction of the independent Polish State and its people’s resistance to German and Soviet extermination operations.The joint German and Russian aggress...
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    29,22 €

  • Narrative painting in nineteenth-century Europe
    Nina Lübbren
    How do pictures tell stories? This ground-breaking book analyses visual narrative in nineteenth-century history and genre paintings across Europe. It reveals how artists constructed plots via objects, managing the tension between narrative and style and prompting viewers to weave their own tales. ...
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    135,02 €

  • The Wanderings of Peoples
    A. C. Haddon
    Written by the founder of Britain’s Cambridge University’s Anthropology Department, this pioneering work traces the origins of the world’s nations as they are found on all continents in terms of their ancestral migrations across the globe.Starting with an overview of the basic concepts involved (defining a mass migration, the driving forces for such movements, religious fervour...
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    21,15 €

  • A critique of theology of prayer in contemporary Christianity
    Abraham Adebanjo Okunade
    The book seeks to correct the anomaly in the theology of prayer among contemporary Christians who have replaced hard work with prayer thereby presenting God as a magician. The book reveals that everything should be subjected to reasonable faith to avoid extreme nihilism and rationalism.There’s no conflict between faith and reason as the duo compliment each other. There is the n...
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    85,81 €

  • Examining Colonial Wars and Their Impact on Contemporary Military History
    Colonial wars have been a very active part of 19th and 20th century history and their importance has often been overlooked. Their study and analysis, in order to understand the contemporary world and current international relations, is as necessary as it is interesting. Examining Colonial Wars and Their Impact on Contemporary Military History approaches the phenomenon of coloni...
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    281,98 €

  • Examining Colonial Wars and Their Impact on Contemporary Military History
    Colonial wars have been a very active part of 19th and 20th century history and their importance has often been overlooked. Their study and analysis, in order to understand the contemporary world and current international relations, is as necessary as it is interesting. Examining Colonial Wars and Their Impact on Contemporary Military History approaches the phenomenon of coloni...
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    216,13 €

  • Aspects from the history of Jews in Romania and Hungary (1945-1953)
    Anca Oltean
    The book intends to critically evaluate the publications concerning the history of the Jews from Romania and Hungary (1945-1953) identified in Romania and Hungary, providing a description of historical context where the Jewish community developed its activity in the aftermath of the Second World War, when it severely reduced in terms of numbers, destroyed as community in terms ...
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    73,67 €

  • John Franklin
    John Wilson
    "…the best life of Franklin yet produced…(a) wonderfully engaging book." Arctic Book ReviewSir John Franklin was many things in his life: an officer in the great naval battles of Copenhagen and Trafalgar; governor of Van Diemen’s land; an explorer from Australia to the Arctic, but it is for his mysterious death and the deaths of his 128 crew that he is remembered today. The mys...
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    10,87 €

  • NO STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS
    Vladimir Livshitz
    This work is a popular science essay about the Holocaust in the town of Horki and the Horki District of the Mogilev Region of Belarus. When writing it, archival materials, encyclopedic editions, literature on the history of the Holocaust of the Jews of Belarus, archives of the YAD VASHEM museum (Israel), materials of periodicals and the Internet, the author’s archive, memoirs o...
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    92,19 €

  • Mount Sacred
    Jon Mathieu
    Mount Kailash in Asia, the Black Hills in North America, Uluru in Australia: around the globe, numerous mountains have been and continue to be attributed sacredness. Worship of these mountains involves prayer, meditation and pilgrimage. Christianity, which long showed little interest in nature, provides a foil to these practices and was one factor in the tensions that arose in ...
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    46,76 €

  • Viking History
    Ahoy Publications
    Discover Viking history through these five hundred fascinating facts!This book is your gateway to exploring one of the most exciting societies in history. You will uncover stories, myths, and facts about the Vikings. Discover their culture, religion, writing system, voyages, and much more! Dive into details about their battles and tactics and see what everyday life was like in ...
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    23,02 €

  • History of the Vikings
    Billy Wellman
    Dragonships, raiding and looting parties, hand-to-hand combat, explorers and adventures, and gods and goddesses -which of these truly describe the fearless Vikings?The word Viking conjures many images. Often, these are created as a result of the numerous movies, books, shows, and comics about the warriors. Some depictions are historically accurate, while others are developed to...
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    21,67 €

  • Time and radical politics in France
    Alexandra Paulin-Booth
    How does our perception of time shape our political ideas and commitments? This cutting-edge monograph makes a major contribution to the history of time by exploring how thinkers and activists of the French radical left and right conceived of the past, present and future in the period between the Dreyfus Affair and the First World War. ...
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    157,37 €

  • Replayed
    Henry Lowood
    A leading voice in technology studies shares a collection of essential essays on the preservation of software and history of games.Since the early 2000s, Henry Lowood has led or had a key role in numerous initiatives devoted to the preservation and documentation of virtual worlds, digital games, and interactive simulations, establishing himself as a major scholar in the field o...
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    62,48 €

  • The Reticent Archaeologist Unleashed
    Mike Wisenbaker
    THE RETICENT ARCHAEOLOGIST UNLEASHED tells the story of Mike Wisenbaker’s half-century-plus life journey, focusing mostly on the past fifty years. Although he is not famous (or infamous) enough to call for an exhaustive, in-depth autobiography, he’s traveled down some captivating and challenging paths.He reveals many morsels about the mid-twentieth century to the present zeitge...
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    43,62 €

  • The Reticent Archaeologist Unleashed
    Mike Wisenbaker
    THE RETICENT ARCHAEOLOGIST UNLEASHEDtells the story of Mike Wisenbaker’s half-century-plus life journey, focusing mostly on the past fifty years. Although he is not famous (or infamous) enough to call for an exhaustive, in-depth autobiography, he’s traveled down some captivating and challenging paths. He reveals many morsels about the mid-twentieth century to the present zeitge...
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    35,83 €

  • Texas Rangers - The Mason County War
    Larry W Jones
    James Buchanan Gillett (November 4, 1856 - June 11, 1937) was a lawman of the Old West, mostly known for his service as a Texas Ranger. He is a member of the Texas Rangers Hall of Fame. Born in Austin, he grew up working as a cowboy on local ranches. In 1875 he joined the Texas Rangers in Menard. Gillett served under Captain D. W. Roberts with 'Company D', and later with Captai...
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    44,02 €

  • Grey Feathers
    Daniel M. DeWald / TBD
    This is a story about the 4th Division, 3rd of the 12th Battalion operations in Vietnam from 1967 to 1970. It is based on operation reports, observations in the field, actual experiences and interviews, 'Espirit' magazine, an Army publication, and military procedures. Grey feather is a term from the tribes of Indians. It is awarded to each brave to insure all watch each other, ...
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    18,87 €

  • Summary of The Oqual Cycle
    Amjad Farooq
    This book is a summary of The oqual Cycle without an in-depth analysis. Briefly, almost every nation today is teetering on the brink of a societal meltdown as it finds itself in the midst of a sociopolitical upheaval, the like of which has not hitherto been witnessed in our lifetime.Yet, hardly anyone realizes that like a winter that returns every year, such a concerted turmo...
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    16,70 €

  • Grey Feathers
    Daniel M. DeWald
    This is a story about the 4th Division, 3rd of the 12th Battalion operations in Vietnam from 1967 to 1970. It is based on operation reports, observations in the field, actual experiences and interviews, 'Espirit' magazine, an Army publication, and military procedures. Grey feather is a term from the tribes of Indians. It is awarded to each brave to insure all watch each other, ...
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    12,38 €


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