Catálogo de libros: Historia: acontecimientos y temas específicos

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  • Mountain Environments in Prehistoric Europe
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    88,08 €

  • Manifesto of the Communist Party
    Karl Marx
    The Communist Manifesto was first published on February 21, and it is one of the world’s most influential political tracts. Commissioned by the Communist League and written by communist theorists Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, it laid out the League’s purposes and program. The Manifesto suggested a course of action for a proletarian (working class) revolution to overthrow the ...
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    18,06 €

  • My Family History
    Brian Duncan
    The results of family history research carried out by Brian Duncan. This is the second volume in the series, and is about the McKennie branch of the family. The first volume was about The Duncans, and future volumes will be about Dinwiddies, Frends, Brackens & Hirsts, Farringtons and Macleods. ...
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    17,30 €

  • Through the Eyes of Rebel Women
    Iris Morales
    THROUGH THE EYES OF REBEL WOMEN: The Young Lords, 1969-1976 iTHROUGH THE EYES OF REBEL WOMEN: The Young Lords, 1969-1976 is the first account of women members — a 'story within a story' told from the inside out. The Young Lords Organization emerged in the late sixties to fight poverty, racial and gender inequality, and the colonial status of Puerto Rico. Women joined to build a...
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    31,39 €

  • Schizophrenic America
    Anni Damgaard
    Schizophrenic America explores a fundamental conflict in the United States between what we believe to be our inalienable rights and what we experience in every-day-life. This conflict induces a schism in our minds, leading to a 'cultural schizophrenia' in America. This book facilitates the process of reflection. It is a layman’s guide to cultural awareness, written for young a...
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    17,00 €

  • MY FOLK
    James Timothy Connelly
    This is the story of the coming together of families of British and Irish stock, translated from the Old World to the New. The Hazards of ancient English lineage, conjoined with the Tooths of similar English background, joined in the new land of Australia with the Connellys from Ireland. Here, subsequent generations flourished. How much do they owe to their European forebears? ...
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    12,72 €

  • The Adventures of Thomas Pellow
    Thomas Pellow
    In the summer of 1716, a Cornish cabin boy named Thomas Pellow was captured at sea by Barbary pirates and sold into human bondage to the despotic sultan of Morocco. This riveting memoir of a slave narrative is a story of pluck, and endurance in the face of barbaric splendour and suffering. A remarkable testament to the strength of the human spirit and to all those snatched from...
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    18,25 €

  • Retracing Our Roots
    Ashley L. McClellan / Ashley LMcClellan
    Retracing Our Roots gives an in-depth look at family lineage and family relations through extensive research of the Jackson, Mathes and Shade families. It reveals ancestors and introduces descendants through biographical pages, family trees and photographs. ...
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    129,25 €

  • Jews in Service to the Tsar
    Lev Berdnikov / Nora Favorov
    Benjamin Disraeli advised, “Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.” With Jews in Service to the Tsar, Lev Berdnikov offers us 28 biographies spanning five centuries of Russian Jewish history, and each portrait opens a new window onto the history of Eastern Europe’s Jews, illuminating dark corners and challenging widely-held conceptions about th...
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    22,05 €

  • Discoverers and Explorers
    Edward R. Shaw
    The practice of beginning the study of geography with the locality in which the pupil lives, in order that his first ideas of geographical conceptions may be gained from observation directed upon the real conditions existing about him, has been steadily gaining adherence during the past few years as a rational method of entering upon the study of geography.After the pupil has f...
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    11,08 €

  • Horodetz
    Gorodets (present day Horodzets, Belarus) was a small but commercially busy town in southwest Belarus situated along a major railway line about halfway between Brisk and Pinsk. It was home to 254 Jews in 1766, a number that grew to 648 (among 1761 non-Jews) in 1897. The town had been absorbed into the Russian empire in the late 18th century until it became part of Poland after ...
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    51,83 €

  • Lucky Valley
    Catherine Hall
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    44,87 €

  • Woman in the Nineteenth Century
    Margaret Fuller Ossoli
    'It has been thought desirable that such papers of Margaret Fuller Ossoli as pertained to the condition, sphere and duties of Woman, should be collected and published together. The present volume contains, not only her 'Woman in the Nineteenth Century,'-which has been before published, but for some years out of print, and inaccessible to readers who have sought it,-but also sev...
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    17,10 €

  • Census of the Osage Indians of Osage Agency, Oklahoma, 1906-1929
    Jeff Bowen
    During the 1920’s and 1930’s many of the Osage people faced perilous times through greed, jealousy and heinous acts; characters claiming to be their friends. The labels or designations next to the names of many in these censuses alone openly show or self-identify the oncoming corruption they faced. They were truly at war with many, even from within. The Osage have proven to be ...
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    63,30 €

  • Dancehalls, Glitterballs and DJs
    Bruce Lindsay
    The history of disco and its predecessors is often portrayed as one of glamour and excess. Dancehalls, Glitterballs and DJs expands this history to encompass tatty but much-loved provincial dancehalls, mobile DJs with home-made light shows and rusty vans, one-hit wonders on the chicken-in-a-basket circuit, and nights out with Jane Austen. It’s a vital, fun-packed history of a c...
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    60,89 €

  • Imperial Inequalities
    This volume examines the unequal politics of economic governance across European empires and the ongoing legacies of such histories. It focuses on processes of colonial taxation and, primarily, national welfare to examine the ways in which today’s global inequalities are the result of such connected histories. ...
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    43,83 €

  • Humanitarianism and the Greater War, 1914-24
    This book offers fresh perspectives on the history of humanitarianism and its impact on domestic and international politics in the era of the Great War. ...
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    44,01 €

  • Taking travel home
    Emma Gleadhill
    This book provides a new cultural history of the travel souvenir. It uncovers how eighteenth-century British women enlisted the objects they collected during their European travels to realise their ambitions in the arenas of connoisseurship, science and friendship, and to stake their claims to agency and authority as travelling subjects. ...
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    46,63 €

  • The breakup of India and Palestine
    Victor Kattan
    These chapters provide deeply researched narratives of the links between partition in India and Palestine in 1947. It focuses on the shared dynamics that shaped both regions, such as violence, the role of religion in politics, majoritarian politics, and the persistence of imperial modes of power. ...
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    44,02 €

  • Transnational solidarity
    This book excavates forgotten histories of solidarity which were vital to radical political imagination during the long sixties. It decentres the conventional Western loci of this critical historical moment by instead foregrounding transnational solidarity with, and across, anticolonial and anti-imperialist liberation struggles. ...
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    43,59 €

  • The Last Lullaby
    Roberta Kagan
    'I can’t leave you, Mama. I can’t go,' Lily sobbed. 'Then don’t say goodbye,' Chloe whispered, pressing the cherished family heirloom into her daughter’s palm. 'Just say: until we meet again.'Paris, 1923. Lily Levin boards a train with her baby daughter Mimi and American husband, leaving behind her beloved mother Chloe for a new life across the ocean. Carrying her mother’s prec...
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    16,62 €

  • Women’s Zionism Worldwide, 1897-1948
    Mira Katzburg-Yungman
    Offering the first comprehensive historiographic exploration of women’s roles in the Zionist movement worldwide, this geographically wide-ranging study explores the ideologies, goals, strategies, activities, accomplishments and failures of women’s organizations and individuals in Europe, the United States, Latin America, the Middle East, and North Africa. Covering the period fr...
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    204,06 €

  • Negotiating the Secular and the Religious in the German Empire
    Rebekka Habermas
    With its rapid industrialization, modernization, and gradual democratization, Imperial Germany has typically been understood in secular terms. However, religion and religious actors actually played crucial roles in the history of the Kaiserreich, a fact that becomes particularly evident when viewed through a transnational lens. In this volume, leading scholars of sociology, rel...
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    47,25 €

  • Good in the Midst of Evil
    Dana Fast / Yvona Fast
    A detailed, invaluable first-hand narrative of Holocaust survival in Poland. With help from her daughter Yvona, Dana Fast tells the story of her incredible childhood experiences-life among the horrors of the Warsaw ghetto, studying at a forbidden secret school there, escape to relatives, in hiding passing as a Catholic girl in the countryside, under a new identity at a Catholic...
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    19,34 €

  • Staten Island’s Elliottville
    James A. Kaser
    The story of a 19th century Staten Island town that nurtured the careers of nationally significant reformers, abolitionists, and transcendentalists.This book traces five decades of community life in a nineteenth-century Staten Island neighborhood informally called Elliottville, where extraordinary people lived. Its history illuminates the impact of transformative cultural, soci...
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    167,20 €

  • Power & Protest - The Long Fight for Social Justice Through Sport
    Luca Carrera
    From gladiators in ancient arenas to athletes with raised fists on Olympic podiums, Power & Protest traces the electrifying, often dangerous intersection of sport and social justice across more than a century. In thirty-two vivid, deeply researched chapters, this sweeping narrative uncovers how athletes have used their platforms to confront racism, sexism, nationalism, colonial...
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    28,38 €

  • Miniatures
    Demonstrates that the ’big picture’ in history is best seen through the study of individual and local stories. By collecting a diverse range of primary sources alongside critical commentaries from the researchers who use them, we demonstrate the appeal and potential of studying everyday life as a means of understanding how history unfolded. ...
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    169,33 €

  • Loyal To The End
    Francis Wann
    On February 7, 1906, a male infant was born in Beijing, and the court official Wen Su was called upon to choose a name for him. He chose the name Pu Yi, and also, according to one version of the story, personally placed the boy on the Dragon throne in 1908, just three years before the Qing Dynasty fell.Wen Su was one of the top imperial officials right at the end of the China’s...
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    17,39 €

  • Leitfaden Der Physikalischen Und Politischen Geographie
    Christoph Herold
    'Leitfaden Der Physikalischen Und Politischen Geographie' (Guide to Physical and Political Geography) offers a comprehensive overview of global geography, blending physical and political elements. Penned by Christoph Herold, this book serves as an insightful guide, exploring the intricate relationships between the earth’s physical features and its political landscapes. It provi...
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    20,24 €

  • Gleanings of the Histories of Holywell, Flint, Saint Asaph, and Rhuddlan; Their Antiquities ..., Wit
    J. Poole
    'Gleanings of the Histories of Holywell, Flint, Saint Asaph, and Rhuddlan' offers a detailed exploration into the antiquities and historical narratives of these significant Welsh locations. J. Poole delves into the rich tapestry of medieval Britain, presenting insights into local history, notable figures, and pivotal events that shaped the region. This meticulously researched w...
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    33,79 €


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