Catálogo de libros: Historia regional y nacional

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  • Hopelessly Alien
    Louis Corsino
    An in-depth sociological investigation of 'hope' as it applies to the Italian immigrant experience in the blue-collar suburb of Chicago Heights between 1910 and 1950. ...
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    127,28 €

  • Class-Conscious Coal Miners
    Alan J. Singer
    Multifaceted study of Pennsylvania’s coal miners during the post-World War One era. ...
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    126,99 €

  • Settlement, Struggle and Success
    Bill Bunbury / Jenny Bunbury
    At a place like Margaret River, it must be remembered there is no sanitary service, and no milk supply. We must attend to our own pans, and may have to consider keeping our own cow. This was the WA Public Health Department’s assessment of the situation when the first Margaret River Hospital opened in 1924.The Group Settlement Scheme (1922-1930) encouraged mainly British settler...
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    36,00 €

  • The Beginner’s Guide to Cemetery Sleuthing
    Erin E. Moulton
    Make your next outdoor adventure a historic one! Let’s go to a cemetery. Bring your curiosity and this workbook with you as you walk through those hallowed gates. Get ready to seek out images and symbols-such as death’s-heads, soul effigies, beehives, willow trees, and more. Take your time to search, scribble, and sketch. Next, bring this book to the archives to explore the lif...
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    17,99 €

  • Iowa Northern Railway
    Barton Jennings
    On December 6, 2023, Canadian National announced that it had signed and closed an agreement to acquire Iowa Northern Railway (IANR), a railroad started on August 7, 1981, by shippers on a recently closed route of the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific. Starting as a selection of isolated routes used to keep grain moving for a few elevators, by 2023 the IANR operated approximately 2...
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    19,90 €

  • The Conquest of New Spain
    Bernal Diaz del Castillo
    Originally titled Historia Verdadera de la Conquista de la Nueva España (The True History of the Conquest of New Spain), this first-person narrative by the military adventurer, conquistador, and settler Bernal Díaz del Castillo (1492-1584) recounts the fall of Aztec Emperor Moctezuma II, the defeat of the Aztec Empire, and his participation in the Spanish military campaigns tha...
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    40,47 €

  • Grand Old Unraveling
    John Kenneth White
    It didn’t begin with Donald Trump. The unraveling of the Grand Old Party has been decades in the making. Since the time of FDR, the Republican Party has been home to conspiracy thinking, including a belief that lost elections were rigged. And when Republicans later won the White House, the party elevated their presidents to heroic status--a predisposition that eventually posed ...
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    38,03 €

  • The Sandinista Revolution
    Mateo Jarquín
    The Sandinista Revolution and its victory against the Somoza dictatorship in Nicaragua gripped the United States and the world in the 1980s. But as soon as the Sandinistas were voted out of power in 1990 and the Iran Contra affair ceased to make headlines, it became, in Washington at least, a thing of the past. Mateo Jarquin recenters the revolution as a major episode in the hi...
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    126,67 €

  • The Sandinista Revolution
    Mateo Jarquín
    The Sandinista Revolution and its victory against the Somoza dictatorship in Nicaragua gripped the United States and the world in the 1980s. But as soon as the Sandinistas were voted out of power in 1990 and the Iran Contra affair ceased to make headlines, it became, in Washington at least, a thing of the past. Mateo Jarquin recenters the revolution as a major episode in the hi...
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    37,81 €

  • The Violent World of Broadus Miller
    Kevin W. Young
    In the summer of 1927, an itinerant Black laborer named Broadus Miller was accused of killing a fifteen-year-old white girl in Morganton, North Carolina. Miller became the target of a massive manhunt lasting nearly two weeks. After he was gunned down in the North Carolina mountains, his body was taken back to Morganton and publicly displayed on the courthouse lawn on a Sunday a...
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    127,02 €

  • The Violent World of Broadus Miller
    Kevin W. Young
    In the summer of 1927, an itinerant Black laborer named Broadus Miller was accused of killing a fifteen-year-old white girl in Morganton, North Carolina. Miller became the target of a massive manhunt lasting nearly two weeks. After he was gunned down in the North Carolina mountains, his body was taken back to Morganton and publicly displayed on the courthouse lawn on a Sunday a...
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    38,16 €

  • Tent City, Seattle
    Tony Sparks
    Transforms our understanding of being unhoused in the United StatesTent City 3 provides Seattle’s unhoused people with a place to create and sustain not just shelter but a home. In 2000 it became one of the first organized, peer-operated tent encampments in the city, a type of community that has become more common throughout the West Coast and the United States in the interveni...
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    135,10 €

  • The Mansfield Riots of 1900
    Robert A. Carter
    The Mansfield Riots of 1900. The summer of 1900 was a dangerous time in Mansfield, Ohio, when faith healer John Dowie lost his touch, his patients lost their lives, the crowds lost their calm, the police lost control, Mayor Brown lost his patience and a would-be prophet in Chicago lost his mind. Historian and author Robert A. Carter leads you through the angry months of 1900 wi...
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    29,58 €

  • 50 Useful Tips On China
    Ralph Jennings
    Why do Chinese people do so much voluntary overtime at work? Who is the key mastermind behind traditional marriages, and how come their jokes are funny but yours are not? 50 Useful Tips helps to unravel the many mysteries of the Middle Kingdom. The author, Ralph Jennings, isn’t Chinese and while that gives him a certain objectivity, it also inevitably leaves him partly in the d...
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    22,04 €

  • Four Speeches About Faith and Struggle
    Carl Malamud
    Four Speeches About Faith and Struggle are four speeches by Carl Malamud, delivered from 2022-2024. The speeches include 'Gyan Satyagraha' at Hampi University, 'Full Faith and Credit' at Harvard Law School, 'Gandhi Jayanti' at the Gandhi Bhavan, and 'Democracy’s Library' at the Internet Archive. The book is also available at https://archive.org/details/four.speeches.about.faith...
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    9,46 €

  • Snow, Fire and Gold
    Stephen Whiteside
    Stephen Whiteside knew that Spargo’s Hut in the Australian mountains near Mt Hotham had been abandoned for many years. However, when he first visited it in 1982, he got a shock. It looked like it was still inhabited. Could he have been mistaken? Closer inspection revealed that it was, indeed, abandoned. However, its remoteness had allowed it to remain crammed full of all the it...
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    22,82 €

  • Unwhitewashing American History
    Oswald D. B.
    In 'Unwhitewashing American History,' author Oswald D. B. embarks on a powerful and eye-opening journey, shattering the whitewashed versions of America’s past that have long dominated the mainstream narrative. Through meticulous research and a captivating storytelling style, this book challenges readers to confront the uncomfortable truths that have been systematically suppress...
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    21,98 €

  • Keeper of Lost Places
    Matthew Bruen
    Discover the Hidden Wonders of America!Unearth the secrets of forgotten landscapes with Matthew Bruen as your guide. 'Keeper of Lost Places' invites you on an extraordinary journey to ten captivating American locations, each brimming with history and mystery. Embark on an adventure to America’s 'Highway to Hell,' where subterranean fires still rage. Explore the desolate Delawar...
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    16,20 €

  • Becoming the Lost Colony
    Charles R. Ewen / Jr. E. Thomson Shields
    Headlines declare after each new hint of evidence that the Lost Colony--the English colonists left on Roanoke Island in 1587, including Virginia Dare--has been found. None of these claims pass muster as the historical, archaeological, and literary evidence presented here demonstrate. This book analayzes several hypotheses and demonstrates why none have been shown to be mo...
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    42,88 €

  • Oshkosh Remembered
    Mike Hert / Ron La Point
    The book, I believe, helps us to understand and appreciate our city’s past. The first and perhaps most important of the 24 stories is of the wood and lumber industry located along the Fox River, Lake Winnebago and nearby waterways. This industry would become the primary force for the growth and development of our city.Also featured is our German heritage, Prohibition, racial se...
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    14,30 €

  • Mexico
    Charles Reginald Enock
    'The purpose of this work is to treat of Mexico as a topographical and political entity, based upon a study of the country from travel and observation; a method such as has found favour in my book upon Peru. The method of viewing a country as a whole, with its people, topography, and general conditions in natural relation to each other, is one which commands growing acceptance ...
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    18,77 €

  • The History of Tea Book 2
    Laszlo Montgomery
    Laszlo Montgomery’s award-winning podcasts on Chinese history have swept the world and gained many thousands of fans, including people who want to learn about Chinese history and those who want to improve their English. Each book in this series contains transcripts from Laszlo’s Podcasts for you to follow as you listen.    In this volume, the history of tea takes a tumultuous t...
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    22,77 €

  • History of Mexico
    Billy Wellman
    Discover the Story of Mexico, From Ancient Secrets to Modern TimesTwo manuscripts in one book:Mexican History: An Enthralling Guide to the History of Mexico, from Its Ancient Civilizations, the Spanish Conquest, and War of Independence to the PresentHistory of Ancient Mexico: An Enthralling Guide to Pre-Columbian Mexico and Its Civilizations, Such as the Olmecs, Maya, Zapotecs,...
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    24,40 €

  • Canada’s Legacy
    Valerie Anderson
    Canada’s Legacy offers a compelling exploration of the entrenched reality of racism in Canada through the lens of Valerie Anderson. Drawing from her own experiences with racism and discrimination, as well as those of other visible minority groups, Anderson unveils a poignant narrative that delves into the complexities of systemic prejudice and its enduring impact.Through meticu...
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    19,40 €

  • The Loyalists of Pennsylvania
    Wilbur H. Siebert
    By: Wilbur H. Siebert, Pub. 1920, reprinted 2024, 118 pages, Index, soft cover, ISBN #978-1-63914-230-9. The author discusses the Loyalists through chapters on: the Loyalists of the Upper Ohio, the Loyalists of Northeastern Pennsylvania, the repression of Loyalists and Neutrals in Southeastern Pennsylvania, the British invasion of Southeastern Pennsylvania, Whig reprisals upon...
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    27,00 €

  • Life in the Backwoods
    Susanna Moodie
    'Life in the Backwoods' is a book written by Susanna Moodie, a British-born Canadian author, and early settler. The full title of the book is often cited as 'Life in the Clearings versus the Bush.' The work was first published in 1853. Susanna Moodie and her husband, J.W. Dunbar Moodie, were among the many British immigrants who settled in Canada in the 19th century. 'Life in t...
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    13,43 €

  • We Called Him Jeb
    Lochlainn Seabrook
    During the War for the Constitution (1861-1865) the Southern armies could boast of dozens of dazzling and accomplished cavalry leaders, all of them both adored by their faithful troopers and the envy of the Yankee high command. One of those who was on everyone’s list of favorites was celebrated Confederate General James Ewell Brown Stuart (better known by his initials, Jeb), a ...
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    25,18 €

  • We Called Him Jeb
    Lochlainn Seabrook
    During the War for the Constitution (1861-1865) the Southern armies could boast of dozens of dazzling and accomplished cavalry leaders, all of them both adored by their faithful troopers and the envy of the Yankee high command. One of those who was on everyone’s list of favorites was celebrated Confederate General James Ewell Brown Stuart (better known by his initials, Jeb), a ...
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    43,43 €

  • A Life in the Lost Years
    Marie-Rose Rurangirwa
    As we ran for safety to the only place we considered safe - church, we were soon thrown out by a pastor, along with any other Tutsi families. Within a few miles we come to a roadblock and suddenly a towering, bulky man, recognises me. He calls me forward, ’hey, you in a red jumper!’ He holds a machete in one hand, and a rifle in another. Looking down, not to watch my steps but ...
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    17,65 €

  • Art and Museum in Africa
    Emery Patrick Effiboley
    This book is a collection of essays on the history of museums and art in Africa. The publication addresses the decolonization of African museums before analysing forms and encounter, a major aspect in the African artistic creation. The issue of repatriation is also addressed not only in the complexity of the phenomenon but also as resulting to conflicting sovereignties in Afric...
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    37,42 €


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