Catálogo de libros: Historia: acontecimientos y temas específicos

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  • Good Blood, Second Edition
    Irit Schaffer
    When she was a child, her father said he had 'good blood' and that is why he and his wife survived and healed from the Holocaust. The author searched for the meaning and significance of her father’s words over two continents and through four generations. Her journey uncovered a unique voice of wisdom revealing mysteries of the healing powers within us and the existence of light...
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    26,94 €

  • Tracing Roots African American Genealogy Unearthed
    Jeannette Golden
    Tracing Roots: African American Genealogy Unearthed is a captivating journey through the depths of African American ancestry, intertwining spoken word artistry with the profound impact of slavery on familial histories. This step-by-step guide illuminates the paths to uncovering hidden narratives, untold stories, and long-lost connections within the rich tapestry of Black herita...
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    9,78 €

  • Putnam County, Tennessee, Richard F. Cook’s Survey or Plat Book, 1825-1839
    WPA Records
    These documents provide a collection of plat records for Putnam County, Tennessee, spanning the years 1825 through 1839, with a full-name index which refers to the page number in the original document. (1939, ?), 2023, 8½x11, paper, index, 424 pp. ...
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    64,28 €

  • The Hebrew Falcon
    Roman Vater
    A pioneering study of a formative chapter in Middle East intellectual history, examining the historical myth that underlies the 'Canaanite' brand of Israeli nationalist anti-Zionism. ...
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    126,41 €

  • 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 €

  • Women in exile in early modern Europe and the Americas
    Women in exile in early modern Europe and the Americas presents the important yet largely untold stories of a diverse group of women exiled across the Atlantic world in the early modern period. The book provides a new vantage point from which to enrich the study of exile and also contributes important new scholarship to the history of women. ...
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    169,60 €

  • Celebrities, heroes and champions
    Simon James Morgan
    Celebrities, heroes and champions examines the popular politician in British and Irish society from the Napoleonic Wars to the Second Reform Act. Covering a range of political movements, it offers a unique perspective on contemporary political culture including the connections between popular politics and an evolving culture of celebrity. ...
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    43,96 €

  • An empire of many cultures
    Diane Robinson-Dunn
    Based upon original research and bringing to life the words and actions of Bahá’í, Muslim, and Jewish leaders during the early 20th century, this study sheds light on each found meaning and value in the diversity that characterised the British Empire, enabling the creation of relationships that would have an impact on future generations. ...
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    157,26 €

  • Sexual Violence and American Slavery
    Shannon Eaves
    It is impossible to separate histories of sexual violence and the enslavement of Black women in the antebellum South. Rape permeated the lives of all who existed in that system: Black and white, male and female, adult and child, enslaved and free. Shannon C. Eaves unflinchingly investigates how both enslaved people and their enslavers experienced the systematic rape and sexual ...
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    127,06 €

  • Sexual Violence and American Slavery
    Shannon Eaves
    It is impossible to separate histories of sexual violence and the enslavement of Black women in the antebellum South. Rape permeated the lives of all who existed in that system: Black and white, male and female, adult and child, enslaved and free. Shannon C. Eaves unflinchingly investigates how both enslaved people and their enslavers experienced the systematic rape and sexual ...
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    35,59 €

  • United We Stand Divided We Fall
    Wallace Walker III
    For those of you that have raised the same questions and picked up this book looking for an answer. This isn’t it. ’United We Stand, Divided We Fall’, is a complex rough correlation of historical events with a modern day vantage point of American and World History. In a raw and uncut lens, the negative, and the positive. As Where’s Waldo of an effort the latter may be to find a...
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    25,86 €

  • The Nordic Minuet
    Anne Fiskvik / Egil Bakka / Petri Hoppu
    This major new anthology of the minuet in the Nordic countries comprehensively explores the dance as a historical, social and cultural phenomenon. One of the most significant dances in Europe, with a strong symbolic significance in western dance culture and dance scholarship, the minuet has evolved a distinctive pathway in this region, which these rigorous and pioneering essays...
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    67,81 €

  • The Nordic Minuet
    Anne Fiskvik / Egil Bakka / Petri Hoppu
    This major new anthology of the minuet in the Nordic countries comprehensively explores the dance as a historical, social and cultural phenomenon. One of the most significant dances in Europe, with a strong symbolic significance in western dance culture and dance scholarship, the minuet has evolved a distinctive pathway in this region, which these rigorous and pioneering essays...
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    84,91 €

  • Stories My Father Told Me
    Dvora Treisman
    These are stories from far off places, in far off and very different times, stories of everyday people doing everyday things. With his brilliant memory and attention to detail, Rafał Feliks Buszejkin explained what he and the other children did in Russia in the 1910s to entertain themselves in the winter. He never attended cheder, but with a tutor, he memorized his speech for h...
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    17,48 €

  • A Man for the Ages
    Irving Bacheller
    'A Man for the Ages: A Story of the Builders of Democracy' is a historical novel written by Irving Bacheller. The book was first published in 1919 and is set against the backdrop of the American Civil War. Irving Bacheller was an American journalist and novelist, and he gained fame for his works that often celebrated American ideals and historical events. The novel follows the ...
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    21,22 €

  • Bielski Brothers, The
    Peter Duffy
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    15,31 €

  • Joseph Karo and Shaping of Modern Jewish Law
    Roni Weinstein
    The book provides a global perspective on the history of Jewish law during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, focusing on the codification works of R. Joseph Karo. ...
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    50,09 €

  • Ha-Tov v’ha-Meitiv
    The book presents a group of distinguished scholars who examine key themes in Jewish religious life. Their essays revolve around the dimensions of rabbinic, intellectual, cultural, communal, educational, political, and social leadership, as well as a reflective look at one of the most tragic events in Jewish experience, towards the hope of repairing the world and not repeating ...
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    185,75 €

  • JOURNEY TO THE JONES ACT
    Charlie Papavizas
    The 'Jones Act' is the most newsworthy U.S. maritime policy law.Most of the attention is focused on the preservation of U.S. domestic maritime trade. Some is focused on the law as a means for mariners to recover for injuries.But this attention is too narrow. The 'Jones Act' was originally understood to mean the whole of the 1920 Merchant Marine Act, which deals with far more th...
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    21,91 €

  • YUTKA And the Voyage of the Parita
    Marcia Breece
    Based on a true story of courage, grief, and love. Jewish youth nearly starve to death as the rescue ship Parita tries to break the British blockade to reach the Land of Israel. Meanwhile, the Nazis carry out unspeakable acts of violence against the families left leave behind. Based on an incredible true story of courage, grief, and love, YUTKA And the Voyage of the Parita, is ...
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    15,46 €

  • The Search for King SOLOMON’S TREASURE
    Anna Zamoranos / Timothy Schwab
    You are about to embark on the most monumental journey of all archaeological discoveries. The mother lode that would make the likes of Indiana Jones salivate. The true land of gold in all of history which leads to the location of the Garden of Eden and Land of Creation identifying the Rivers from Eden en route. Why is this important? You will never understand geography, history...
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    23,83 €

  • Colonised Minds
    Akira O’Connor / Erin Robbins
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    31,23 €

  • Colonised Minds
    Akira O’Connor / Erin Robbins
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    100,20 €

  • Divided Kingdom
    Patrick Fleckney
    The journey of writing this book has been both challenging and enlightening. It has required sifting through various perspectives, analysing an extensive array of political manoeuvres, and interpreting the broader implications of Brexit on the global stage. The narrative is constructed through a rigorous examination of historical documents, speeches, and first-hand accounts, su...
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    59,52 €

  • From Past to Present
    Judy Helm Wright
    Imagine sitting at the kitchen table talking with your dad or beloved auntie. What anecdotes will they share about their lives and the sagas of your ancestors? Are you a caregiver wanting to document the interesting tales you are told while you work? This is your opportunity to gather family stories and history. Perhaps you want to interview a grandparent, teacher, or colleague...
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    24,56 €

  • The Carceral City
    John Bardes
    Americans often assume that slave societies had little use for prisons and police because slaveholders only ever inflicted violence directly or through overseers. Mustering tens of thousands of previously overlooked arrest and prison records, John K. Bardes demonstrates the opposite: in parts of the South, enslaved and free people were jailed at astronomical rates. Slaveholders...
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    126,29 €

  • The Carceral City
    John Bardes
    Americans often assume that slave societies had little use for prisons and police because slaveholders only ever inflicted violence directly or through overseers. Mustering tens of thousands of previously overlooked arrest and prison records, John K. Bardes demonstrates the opposite: in parts of the South, enslaved and free people were jailed at astronomical rates. Slaveholders...
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    43,96 €

  • No Life Without You
    Franklin Felsenstein
    The letters and journals of Ernst Moritz (’Mope’) and Vera Hirsch Felsenstein, two German Jewish refugees experiencing the tumultuous years leading up to the Second World War, form the core of this book. Abridged in an English translation from the original German, this vast correspondence and diaries has been expertly compiled and annotated by their son, Franklin Felsenstein, w...
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    60,94 €

  • Storming Bedlam
    Sasha Warren
    Mental health care and its radical possibilities reimagined in the context of its global development under capitalism.The contemporary world is oversaturated with psychiatric programs, methods, and reforms promising to address any number of 'crises' in mental health care. When these fail, alternatives to the alternatives simply pile up and seem to lead nowhere. In an original a...
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    26,35 €

  • When Colonialism Wins
    Jose Torres Pabon
    A Bold Decolonial Argument and interrogation of Puerto Rico’s future within the American Nation. This book has been acknowledged and utilized by members of the U.S. Congress and Congressional Staff as a timely and insightful resource regarding Puerto Rico.When Colonialism Wins, The Case Against American Statehood for Puerto Rico, by former U.S. Marine, DIA, and CIA officer Torr...
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    21,20 €


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