Catálogo de libros: Historia: acontecimientos y temas específicos

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  • The Politics of Safety
    Shannon King
    For much of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, public officials in cities like New York, Chicago, and Baltimore have criminalized uprisings as portending Black 'thugs' throwing rocks at police and plundering private property to undermine complaints of police violence. Liberal mayors like Fiorello H. La Guardia have often been the deftest practitioners of this strategy. A...
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    37,65 €

  • India and the End of Empire
    Daniel O’Connor
    This collection of the writings of Daniel O’Connor, edited and introduced by David Jasper, is a treasure trove for all interested in the Church in India in the twentieth century. ...
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    28,58 €

  • Addressing Social Problems
    Sara Towe Horsfall
    Addressing Social Problems: Advocacy at Work’ offers invaluable learning tools, including study questions for comprehension reinforcement, thought-provoking questions to stimulate critical thinking and discussion, a glossary of key terms, and a research worksheet for investigating advocacy organizations. It is a call to action, as well as an invitation to analyze social issues ...
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    49,80 €

  • Addressing Social Problems
    Sara Towe Horsfall
    Addressing Social Problems: Advocacy at Work’ offers invaluable learning tools, including study questions for comprehension reinforcement, thought-provoking questions to stimulate critical thinking and discussion, a glossary of key terms, and a research worksheet for investigating advocacy organizations. It is a call to action, as well as an invitation to analyze social issues ...
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    59,48 €

  • Great Wall for Kids
    Ched Ed
    Get enchanted with Great Wall history and its remarkable events. Are you struggling to make sense of what happened at that specific point in history? Do you want to learn all of the historical stories in an easier manner? Pick up this overview history book today to learn the inspiring history behind Great Wall! This is the perfect book for history fans for all kids to enjoy. T...
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    10,65 €

  • A Brief History of the Titanic - Fascinating Historical Facts of Titanic’s Tragic Tale
    Scott Matthews
    Eager to uncover the truths behind the Titanic’s legendary voyage? Fascinated by the tales of luxury and disaster aboard the iconic liner? Ready to dive into the depths of this century-old story?A Brief History of the Titanic brings to life the captivating narrative of the world’s most famous ship. This book isn’t just about a tragedy; it’s about the people, the dreams, and the...
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    30,62 €

  • A Brief History of the Titanic - Fascinating Historical Facts of Titanic’s Tragic Tale
    Scott Matthews
    Eager to uncover the truths behind the Titanic’s legendary voyage? Fascinated by the tales of luxury and disaster aboard the iconic liner? Ready to dive into the depths of this century-old story?A Brief History of the Titanic brings to life the captivating narrative of the world’s most famous ship. This book isn’t just about a tragedy; it’s about the people, the dreams, and the...
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    12,24 €

  • Was I Your First?
    Derk R. Mattocks
    Derk Mattocks was raised during a time when the fight for social justice was at its peak in the United States. Instead of shying away, he learned to challenge the circumstances and not let them dictate how he would live his life. Of course, Derk would say while he does not consider himself a fighter, there was something innate that led him to the top of a career field that was ...
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    28,38 €

  • Was I Your First?
    Derk R. Mattocks
    Derk Mattocks was raised during a time when the fight for social justice was at its peak in the United States. Instead of shying away, he learned to challenge the circumstances and not let them dictate how he would live his life. Of course, Derk would say while he does not consider himself a fighter, there was something innate that led him to the top of a career field that was ...
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    24,65 €

  • Black Africa and the US Art World in the Early 20th Century
    P. A. Mullins
    This book explores several critical connections between Black African objects and white Western aesthetics and artwork in the United States from the late 1800s until 1939. ...
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    158,19 €

  • Return of the Fallen Ones
    Jason M. Breshears
    In ancient times there are stories of the gods who appeared on Earth and brought knowledge and civilization to mankind. The oldest stories were from ancient Sumer and these gods were called the Anunnaki, or Nephilim, also known as the Fallen Ones. They were considered fallen after co-mingling with the daughters of men, so their realm became the Earth rather than the 'heaven' fr...
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    24,04 €

  • Selections from the Judicial Records of Renfrewshire (Scotland), Illustrative of the Administration of the Laws in the County and Manners and Conditions of the Inhabitants in the 17th and 18th Centuri
    William Hector
    A fascinating collection of articles and original documents culled from the public records of the county of Renfrew, Scotland and the town of Paisley. This material is drawn primarily from the Judicial Records of the Courts of the Heritable Sheriffs and Bailies of Barony, including Registers of Writs, Court Minute Books and a number of other registers containing reports on vari...
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    55,93 €

  • Radical Assimilation in the Face of the Holocaust
    Tom Navon
    An intellectual-political biography of Otto Heller, the most prominent and prolific communist theoretician of the Jewish question. ...
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    126,57 €

  • The Revolutionary Anti-Imperialism of the Apostle Paul
    Shahidi Islam
    A Demystified Portrayal of the Apostle Paul and His MessageIf you wish to gain greater ammunition to fight against historical threats like White supremacy or misogyny, this book is for you. If you wish to learn the story and outlook of the apostle Paul based on information contained in a large number of historically lost or buried documents that have only in recent years come t...
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    13,22 €

  • Myths of the CHEROKEE and Sacred Formulas of the CHEROKEES
    James Mooney
    By: James Mooney, Pub. 1901, reprinted 2023, 726 pages, Index, soft cover, ISBN #978-1-63914-145-6.  The author is recognized as the foremost student of Cherokee lore. This book is considered the most comprehensive and authoritative handbook on the folklore, religion, and myths of the largest tribe of North American aborigines. Together these two monographs constitute the fines...
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    81,99 €

  • Through the Lens of a Teenage Sharecropper
    Dr. Gwen Sturrup Coverson
    Although slavery was a practice of forced labor and restricted liberties, as a teenager that was not a part of my consciousness. During the summer months, I enjoyed the outdoors and being with family. Fast forward 50 years, I can only imagine the mounting debt that families endured.  Heads of households had to prioritize cash crops and could not spend time planting personal gar...
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    13,99 €

  • Through the Lens of a Teenage Sharecropper
    Dr. Gwen Sturrup Coverson
    Although slavery was a practice of forced labor and restricted liberties, as a teenager that was not a part of my consciousness. During the summer months, I enjoyed the outdoors and being with family. Fast forward 50 years, I can only imagine the mounting debt that families endured.  Heads of households had to prioritize cash crops and could not spend time planting personal gar...
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    26,43 €

  • Poisoning the Wells
    In the United States, antisemitism has once again risen, and is spread in all our major institutions and political and cultural venues.  In a series of essays by leading scholars, this work provides a detailed analysis of contemporary antisemitism and examines its origins, development, and alarming implications for the future. ...
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    91,98 €

  • The Heartbeat of an Intentional Community
    Rhoda Walter
    This memoir describes the underlying spirit of the small intentional community that collectively participated in writing the New York Times best-selling manual for living a low-consumption, high-fulfillment lifestyle, Your Money or Your Life. It describes this close-knit group, known as the New Road Map Foundation, through the eyes of one of its members. It is the story of the ...
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    9,31 €

  • Resisting Redemption at the Georgia Polls
    Richard Hogan
    After the Civil War, as Black freedmen prepared to exercise their new voting rights in Georgia, white supremacist groups rose to restrict their ability. Georgians faced a new prospect for brokering a class-based electoral coalition of white yeomen and Black freedmen. The failure of Reconstruction echoes today as Georgia remains a voting rights battleground. This book detai...
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    109,66 €

  • The New Normal
    Cassandra Thomas-Clark
    As COVID-19 gripped the world, Cassandra Thomas-Clark found herself in an unparalleled vantage point: a packaging buyer for a global food firm. The New Normal: Madness in the Making is her chronicle of a world in chaos.At first, it was a tale of unity and perseverance, but soon the narrative twisted into one of crises, governmental decisions, and the human psyche’s desperate re...
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    15,37 €

  • Growing Up Kingsborough
    Carrol Arnold
    Growing up Kingsborough (KB) is a non-fictional work that chronicles the lives of group of former residents who grew up in a Brooklyn, New York Public Housing Project - The Kingsborough Houses. Told from a first-person perspective of the author and friends, the work focuses on two decades - the mid-1960s and 1970s - and the impact the two decades had on our lives. Beginning wit...
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    18,99 €

  • The Stolen Whistle and Flute
    George Major
    George Major’s story is a remarkable testament of resilience and determination. Abandoned by his mother in the 1940s, he embarked on a relentless quest to find her, fuelled by his deep connection to the vibrant pearly king tradition, which he knew was rooted in her family. Despite facing an abusive father and the chilling presence of his maiden Auntie Hilda, young George was se...
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    39,19 €

  • Migrations
    Judy DePue
    Genealogy can be used to find our ancestors and as a means to tell their stories. Thus, Migrations takes us back 400 years of French-Canadian history. With the DePue/Dupee/Dupuis and Allor/Allard families, going back in time, we find individuals who were actors in this history. They were part of Detroit’s automotive boom. They were farmers, lumbermen, and waterway voyageurs. Th...
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    32,84 €

  • The Power Matrix
    Peter Hetherington
    America seems divided as never before, segregated into political tribes with antithetical beliefs. But are these sides really that different? Does virtue lie at just one political extreme? On what are our political opinions and affiliations based? Is one side correct and the other wrong? Is the divide really a conflict between socialism and capitalism, and if so, what do these ...
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    25,36 €

  • Royals on tour
    Travel by European and ’native’ monarchs and other royals between Europe, Asia and Africa developed as a new form of personal and international politics in the late 1800s and early 1900s. The pageantry and politics of royal tours during the age of empire provides great insight into modern monarchy, colonialism and transnational cultural encounters. ...
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    35,48 €

  • The Stolen Whistle and Flute
    George Major
    George Major’s story is a remarkable testament of resilience and determination. Abandoned by his mother in the 1940s, he embarked on a relentless quest to find her, fuelled by his deep connection to the vibrant pearly king tradition, which he knew was rooted in her family. Despite facing an abusive father and the chilling presence of his maiden Auntie Hilda, young George was se...
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    35,32 €

  • FROM THE ALPS TO THE CASCADES
    Wendy Negley
    The story of a family living for hundreds of years in a small village in the Italian Alps then journeying to the New World To live in a small town in the Washington Cascades. The use of Family memoirs and interviews brings the people to life. This is as American a story as the Mayflower. ...
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    27,20 €

  • White Man’s Work
    Joseph O. Jewell
    In the financial chaos of the last few decades, increasing wealth inequality has shaken people’s expectations about middle-class stability. At the same time, demographers have predicted the 'browning' of the nation’s middle class—once considered a de facto 'white' category—over the next twenty years as the country becomes increasingly racially diverse. In this book, Joseph O. J...
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    127,19 €

  • White Man’s Work
    Joseph O. Jewell
    In the financial chaos of the last few decades, increasing wealth inequality has shaken people’s expectations about middle-class stability. At the same time, demographers have predicted the 'browning' of the nation’s middle class—once considered a de facto 'white' category—over the next twenty years as the country becomes increasingly racially diverse. In this book, Joseph O. J...
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    38,33 €


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