Catálogo de libros: Historia regional y nacional

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  • In the Beginning
    Michael Lienesch
    The current controversy over teaching evolution in the public schools has grabbed front-page headlines and topped news broadcasts all across the United States. In the Beginning investigates the movement that has ignited debate in state legislatures and at school board meetings. Reaching back to the origins of antievolutionism in the 1920s, and continuing to the promotion of int...
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    47,60 €

  • Scapegoats of the Empire
    George Witton
    According to persistent rumours, the Australian government suppressed the book because its untold story of a slice of colonial history was an embarrassment to the British Empire.  Opens a window on the Boer War, politics of the empire, and the life of enlisted soldiers of the time. George Witton’s Scapegoats of the Empire was published in 1907; however, only seven copies of th...
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    23,91 €

  • North Carolina Women of the Confederacy
    Lucy London Anderson
    Long out of print, this volume of recollections, stories, and verse provides a glimpse of women's lives on the home front-and sometimes in the thick of battle-during the War between the States. Nearly fifty years after the American Civil War, Lucy Worth London Anderson (Mrs. John Huske Anderson) of Fayetteville, N.C., compiled one of the first memorial collections honoring the...
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    17,20 €

  • A Walk Through the Past - People and Places of Florence and Lauderdale County Alabama
    William Lindsey McDonald
    Descended from early pioneers of Florence and Lauderdale County, Alabama, the author, William Lindsey McDonald began collecting historical information about the Muscle Shoals more than a half century ago. This research has involved personal interviews with Civil War veterans,former slaves, and descendants of both Native Americans and families of the frontier who were among the ...
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    33,34 €

  • Living Dangerously in Korea
    Donald N. Clark
    Korea was “discovered” by the West after World War II when it became a flashpoint in the Cold War. Before the war, however, it was home to many hundreds of Westerners who experienced life there under Japanese colonial rule. These included missionaries who opened Korea as a field for evangelism, education, and medicine; speculators who risked much and reaped riches from mining c...
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    27,92 €

  • Remembering Sweetwater - The Mansions, the Mills, the People
    William L. McDonald
    Remembering Sweetwater gives an historical account of the Sweetwater area of Florence, Alabama in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Mr. McDonald gives detailed accounts of such notable people from the area such as Governor Robert Miller Patton, teacher and writer Maud Lindsay, Judge William B. Woods, as well as many others. He also covers the major industries and business...
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    23,86 €

  • Indians' New South
    James Axtell
    In this concise but sweeping study, James Axtell depicts the complete range of transformations in southeastern Indian cultures as a result of contact, and often conflict, with European explorers and settlers in the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries. Stressing the dynamism and constant change in native cultures while showing no loss of Indian identity, Axtell effe...
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    24,01 €

  • Canadians and War Volume 1
    Alexander Fitzgerald-Blac / Maryanne Lewell / W. A. Leavey
    Canadians and War Volume 1 brings together four diverse works of research from four Canadian scholars. Canada’s military history is a living, breathing thing, with endless perspectives and accounts to be heard, and this collection seeks to bring some of those little-known stories to light. See the effects of Canada’s proud military history throughout the world and the century. ...
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    13,41 €

  • Name Construction in Mediæval Japan
    Solveig Throndardottir
    Name Construction in Mediæval Japan examines Japanese names from earliest records to the close of the medieval period in 1600. Like ancient Greek or Latin names or Arabic names, ancient and medieval Japanese names express the social role of the individual in Japanese society. The main text and accompanying notes provide a guide to the origin and social role of formal names, com...
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    47,55 €

  • Secrets of Catoctin Mountain
    James Rada Jr.
    Catoctin Mountain runs from northern Frederick County, Md., to northern Loudoun County, Va., crossing the Potomac River as it does. Its natural history dates back to prehistoric times. Its history during the era of man is more recent and more fascinating filled with crimes, secrets, monsters, and drama. Hunt the snallygaster and dwayyo, legendary monsters that roam the mount...
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    14,62 €

  • Ardent Spirit
    J. K. Royce
    Magdelaine Marcotte La Framboise was inducted into the Michigan Women’s Hall of Fame in 1984. Two centuries after her birth, she was recognized for her achievements in business. She is a role model, an inspiration and a woman who earned her rightful place in history.Born Magdelaine Marcotte in 1780, she was the daughter of a French fur trader and granddaughter of powerful Odawa...
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    20,26 €

  • New Bern History 101
    Edward Barnes Ellis Jr
    'Entertaining, funny, highly readable' The Essential Facts for the Native, Newcomer or Visitor to the Colonial Capital of North Carolina. Here's what you'll discover in New Bern History 101: -Why New Bern bears stick out their tongues. -Once and for all, what a Palatine is. -Where all the local Indians went. -The Richard Dobbs Spaight autopsy.  -How New Bern and sidebur...
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    13,03 €

  • Quilombo dos Palmares
    Glenn Alan Cheney
    A comprehensive history of the 17th century maroon nation, Brazil's Quilombo dos Palmares. An additional chapter discusses the myths and values emanating from Palmares. Another chapter explores the history and current problems of Conceição das Crioulas, Pernambuco, a present-day quilombo. ...
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    29,59 €

  • The Raffle Gods
    Dan Holliday
    When Beastly nearly kills a friend, he knows it is time to take a rest from his job, as a Kings Cross night club bouncer, and get out of town for a while. Travel with Beastly as he heads out bush to find his sense of self again. In a sense, a 'coming of age' story, with a difference, set in Australia in the 70s or 80s, you will find yourself drawn in from the first page...
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    20,12 €

  • Dearest Umeno
    Nancy Tamura Shikashio / Rose Tsunekawa
    Born January 8, 1895, and the third son of Katsusada and Yoshiko Ishii Tamura, Katsuchika was born into a samurai family whose ancestors were vassals of the Kujo family, Imperial court nobles. He traveled to the United States in 1920 to study. He graduated from the University of California at Berkeley with a BA in English Literature. This book details his life and times,which i...
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    24,79 €

  • The Dirty Thirties
    Brinkley Howard / HistoryCaps
    The Dust Bowl was the largest ecological disaster in United States history, coinciding with the nation’s worst economic crisis, the Great Depression of the 1930s. Massive dust storms, combined with nearly a decade of drought, wreaked havoc on parts of Colorado, New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, and Arkansas. The storms were a relentless threat to the environment an...
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    6,64 €

  • Latinos of Boulder County, Colorado, 1900-1980
    Marjorie Keniston McIntosh
    The two volumes in this set present stories of struggle, survival, and joy in the Latino community of one Colorado county between 1900 and 1980. It is impossible to read this study without being struck by the parallels with recent events in the U.S, especially as anti-immigrant political rhetoric escalates. The history of Hispanics in Boulder County refutes that rhetoric by dem...
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    12,32 €

  • State Facts for Fun! Florida
    Wyatt Michaels
    State Facts for Fun! Florida is an educational and entertaining experience for the whole family. Kids will love the humor and pictures that are contained within this book; while parents will love that their children are learning (and enjoying every minute of it). Kids will learn fascinating facts from subjects like history and geography, and will remember them well because of t...
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    7,62 €

  • Presidential Facts for Fun! Taylor to Cleveland
    Wyatt Michaels
    In Presidential Facts for Fun! Taylor to Cleveland, you'll find a veritable library of information about numerous American presidents, all of which is presented in a fun, game-like format. The book contains numerous facts, both well-known and lesser known, and is sure to not only provide a fun way to spend time, but a great way to learn and brush up on your knowledge of preside...
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    7,59 €

  • The Moon Year - A Record of Chinese Customs and Festivals
    Igor Mitrophanow / Juliet Bredon
    The Moon Year is a facinating recording the mysterious and somewhat elusive traditions of the Chinese. Juliet Bredon and Igor Mitrophanow trace their way through the intimate life of Chinese religion, superstitions, philosophies, customs, and society. Only after a year’s residence in China are the authors able to gather an intimate perspective on this age-old civilization that ...
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    22,63 €

  • The Awakening of Europe
    M. B. Synge / MBSynge
    The Awakening of Europe covers the reformation in Germany, the Netherlands, France, and England, as well as the settlement of colonies in America. The rise of England and the Netherlands as sea powers, and the corresponding fall of Spain, as well as the rise of Russia, Austria, and the German states are also presented. ...
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    20,29 €

  • Foreign Conspiracy Against the Liberties of the United States
    Samuel FB Morse
    The Society of Jesus, the Jesuits, employed the Vatican, Austrian Prince Metternich and his St. Leopold Foundation to infiltrate the United States of America.  Samuel F.B. Morse spent several years in Europe, mostly near Rome, studying the actions and behaviors of the Jesuits, and conferring with dignitaries and others who had intimate knowledge of the Jesuits and their intri...
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    25,55 €

  • The Autobiography of RosaMae Woodward Sterling
    RosaMae Woodward Sterling
    RosaMae Woodward Sterling, b. 1910, tells the story of her life lived in Washington State.  Photographs of farm life in Eastern Washington in the early 1900's, and of relatives of the Pittman, Woodward, and Sterling families, are included. 3 ...
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    41,04 €

  • Raised in the Shadow of the Bomb
    Deborah Leah Steinberg
    This story began before I was born, when my father, Ellis P. Steinberg, and uncle Bernard Abraham worked on the secret undertaking that developed the first atomic bombs. These later were dropped over Hiroshima and Nagasaki. It was not only my extended nuclear family that experienced and was affected by growing up at this time in history, but a whole generation of other children...
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    13,46 €

  • An Early History of Red Lodge, Montana
    Bruce H Blevins
    An Early History of Red Lodge, Montana is a concise history of this intriguing town. It starts at the beginning with the geological prehistory, goes through ice age humans, Plains Indians, the fur trade era, the founding of the city, the mining boom, and through to modern times. This second and revised edition includes editing updates, improved explanations and additional illus...
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    4,93 €

  • Dalton's Gold
    Peter D Matthews
    Renowned historian, philosopher and author, Dr Peter Matthews, has illuminated the events of the Eureka Stockade like never before. This book is the culmination of three years research after his Grandfather, Francis Dalton, shared this amazing story just before he passed away in 1995. John Thomas Dalton was swindled out of the find of the century by the very forces sent to pro...
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    23,70 €

  • When Concord was King!
    Jim Warren
    The beginnings of a wine industry in Eastern Canada are rooted in mystery. Why did imported European vinifera grapes, not indigenous here, prove impossible to grow for more than 300 years? What were our original winemaking grapes and where and when did they originate? Who were our first winemakers and what kinds of wines did they produce? What inspired them to start their winer...
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    14,37 €

  • How the Other Half Lives
    Jacob A. Riis / Jacob ARiis
    During the 1890s many people in upper- and middle-class society were unaware of the dangerous conditions in the slums among poor immigrants. Jacob Riis, a Danish immigrant who himself could not originally find much work, hoped to expose the squalor of the 19th-century Lower East Side of Manhattan. After a successful career as a police reporter, he decided to publish a photojour...
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    37,06 €

  • The Table of Truth
    Jacob M Carter
    The Kennedy assassination is a vital part of our national history, but for those who study it, it becomes something more, something…personal. That personalization of history creates a healthy passion that drives research forward. But it also carries the risk of becoming dangerous if researchers lose sight of the original goal for studying this pivitol event—the truth. ere are ...
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    10,86 €

  • The Face of Crazy Horse
    Cesare Marino / Pietro Abiuso
    First published in J.W. Vaughn's classic, With Crook at the Rosebud more than sixty years ago, the'Crazy Horse' tintype has long been the subject of controversy. Most Indians and non-Indians have denied the existence of any possible photographic portrait of the Lakota mystic warrior, including the tintype. With an open-minded approach, The Face of Crazy Horse looks at the p...
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    19,18 €


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