Catálogo de libros: Historia: acontecimientos y temas específicos

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  • Olukumi Kingdom
    George Benin Nkemnacho
    In a world that is increasingly being aware, in a political and cultural sense, of issues surrounding marginalised communities, this book gives a riveting account of the history, culture and politics of the Olukumi people, a marginalised Yoruba community unlike others that had hitherto been the subject of mainstream literature and debates.The Olukumi people are a bilingual (bot...
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    26,92 €

  • Our Sunburnt Country
    Arthur J Baillie / Molly G Johnson
    First published in 1964 this book was written by a young schoolteacher. It was a bestseller. It was updated and republished in 2013 by the original author who was still a passionate researcher of Australian history. Our Sunburnt Country tells the story of Australia’s heritage. It includes Aboriginal settlement, Dreamtime stories, European explorers, the First Fleet’s arrival, t...
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    27,00 €

  • Exile From Argentina
    Eduardo D. Faingold
    Eduardo Faingold chronicles his family’s experiences before, during, and after the military dictatorship in Argentina (1976-1983). He uses his diaries, interviews in Latin America and Israel, documents and pictures given to him by his family and friends and studies the works of political scientists, historians and journalists. He begins with his family history from the time whe...
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    72,06 €

  • Exile From Argentina
    Eduardo D. Faingold
    Eduardo Faingold chronicles his family’s experiences before, during, and after the military dictatorship in Argentina (1976-1983). He uses his diaries, interviews in Latin America and Israel, documents and pictures given to him by his family and friends and studies the works of political scientists, historians and journalists. He begins with his family history from the time whe...
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    128,33 €

  • The Radical Isaac
    Adi Mahalel
    Examines the Yiddish-Hebrew writer I. L. Peretz’s alignment with the Jewish working-class in Eastern Europe and his devotion to progressive politics. ...
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    46,98 €

  • Pieces of Us
    Rob Sheffield
    Shops, churches, pubs, social clubs, libraries, parks, schools, streets, windowsills, gardens, pavements... These public spaces can have an extraordinary effect on well-being in a community. They bring people together and form the bonds that lead to people supporting each other. With vivid descriptions and heartfelt anecdotes, Pieces of Us is a moving tribute to the people who ...
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    14,44 €

  • Let Justice and Mercy Flow
    Ken Boutwell
    Ken Boutwell and I became fast friends soon after he sent me a manuscript to publish as his first book in 2016. He was referred to my publishing company by a mutual friend who was his pastor at First Baptist Church in Tallahassee, Florida..He told me at that time that he was also working on a second book which would address racism and bigotry throughout history with an invitati...
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    37,64 €

  • The History of Hip Hop
    Eric Reese
    Taboo-breaking jams. Explicit album covers. How hip hop forced America to drop its conservative lens.Discover hip hop’s explosive crossover into the mainstream during the 2000s digital revolution in Eric Reese’s 'The History of Hip Hop: Volume 4'. This book navigates an era where scrappy stars like Eminem, Outkast and Nelly evolved from raw hip hop sounds into chart-topping ico...
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    21,54 €

  • The History of Hip Hop
    Eric Reese
    From Bronx block parties to Obama’s White House - hip hop steps into the political arena.The 2010s cemented hip hop as the soundtrack of culture and change. 'The History of Hip Hop: Volume 5' explores rap’s relentless progression in the last decade.Perfect for both newcomers and lifelong hip hop heads, you’ll discover:Streaming’s seismic impact - how Spotify, SoundCloud and Tid...
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    21,43 €

  • The History of Trap
    Eric Reese
    Trap beats, pink cars and hip hop’s materialistic reinvention down South.Southern struggle birthed a sound that conquered hip hop. 'The History of Trap' charts trap music’s underground rise and explosive pop culture breakout.Perfect for both newcomers and lifelong trap fans, you’ll discover:Trap’s gritty Atlanta origins - pioneers mixing stark lyrics with aggressive beatsKey in...
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    20,84 €

  • The Back Stories of History featuring Freedmen’s Town
    Priscilla T Graham
    Historic Freedmen’s Town, Fourth Ward is a living laboratory of African American History and Life. The Historic 5 square mile District was founded after the Civil War on June 19, 1865. The Freedmen migrated to Houston from the small farms and plantations south and southwest of Houston along the Brazos River by way of San Felipe Road. Many Freedmen settled on the uninhabitabl...
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    64,26 €

  • The break-up of Greater Britain
    Turning the conventional Break-Up of Britain narrative inside-out, this book scans the horizon of overseas projections of British identities that unravelled during the decades of global decolonisation ...
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    43,93 €

  • Civil war London
    Jordan S. Downs
    London’s mobilisation proved crucial to parliament’s success in the English Civil War. Through a rigorous investigation of archival and print sources, this book shows how and why the City aligned its interests with parliament and how, ultimately, this alignment led to the establishment of an army that would defeat the king of England. ...
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    43,87 €

  • Military Strategy for Writers
    Stephen Kenneth Stein
    Sun Tzu said, 'Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.' Your characters deserve your best strategic thinking. Are you ready to learn the secrets known by Sun Tzu, Alexander the Great, Napoleon, Mao, Clauswitz, and other famed strategists? War: A source of enduring fascination to readers and the crucible that reveals character. Quality strategic thinking transforms ...
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    16,18 €

  • The Shochet
    Pinkhes-Dov Goldenshteyn
    This unique book is the memoirs of a kosher slaughterer, a Jewish functionary, who lived in Ukraine and Crimea from the middle of the nineteenth century until the First World War. For the first time, it gives us a snapshot of Jewish life from a functionary’s point of view in the last century of Tsarist rule, and at the same time deals with the eternal questions of antisemitism,...
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    30,27 €

  • The Shochet
    Pinkhes-Dov Goldenshteyn / Michoel Rotenfeld
    This unique book is the memoirs of a kosher slaughterer, a Jewish functionary, who lived in Ukraine and Crimea from the middle of the nineteenth century until the First World War. For the first time, it gives us a snapshot of Jewish life from a functionary’s point of view in the last century of Tsarist rule, and at the same time deals with the eternal questions of antisemitism,...
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    219,13 €

  • Invisible Activists
    Lee Sartain
    Behind the historical accounts of the great men of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People lies the almost forgotten story of the black women who not only participated in the organization but actually helped it thrive in the early twentieth-century South. In Invisible Activists, Lee Sartain examines attitudes toward the gender, class, and citizenship of ...
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    38,34 €

  • Shalom, Berlin!
    Howard M. Berlin
    Shalom, Berlin! is a comprehensive 391-page travel guide for the Jewish traveler visiting those places that are linked to Berlin’s historical Jewish origins and its fall and rise of its Jewish population from the ashes of the Holocaust. In 12 chapters, historical information is provided for 140 sites that cover 10 of 12 Berlin’s Bezirke, or municipal districts. These sites cove...
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    57,43 €

  • Secularism and Its Ambiguities
    Carlo Ginzburg
    In the best micro-historical tradition, Carlo Ginzburg, himself one of the founders and icons of this genre of historiography, dissects four moments of European intellectual history. This book relives the experience that participants in the Natalie Zemon Davis Lecture Series at the Budapest campus of Central European University had in 2019 listening to Ginzburg’s eloquent and e...
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    17,70 €

  • Ancestors of Steven D Blanchard - Extended Lineages Part 1
    Diana Muir
    This volume contains the extended pedigree of Steven D Blanchard, however because books are limited to 800 pages, it is printed in 2 volumes with the index at the end of the 2nd volume. This pedigree is 134 generations and takes the reader back through Europe, Great Britain, and the Levant countries all the way to Adam. Along the way you’ll find Kings, Queens, Lords and famous...
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    89,84 €

  • In the Land of Marvels
    Paola Bertucci
    How a journey through Italy casts light on secrets, stereotypes, and the manipulation of information in eighteenth-century science.In 1749, the celebrated French physicist Jean-Antoine Nollet set out on a journey through Italy to solve an international controversy over the medical uses of electricity. At the end of his nine-month tour, he published a highly influential account ...
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    67,37 €

  • They’ve Left Us Behind
    Maureen Francesconi-Carroll
    Stanley Lawrence Carroll and Doreen McGlinn were ordinary West Australians who lived through the Great Depression and World War II and went on to raise a close and loving family.Their ancestors came to Australia between 1830 and 1871 as free settlers, convicts, military men, and others, all wanting to make a new life in a new country. The stories outline the hardships this fami...
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    24,79 €

  • Leveling the Playing Field
    David p Marc
    Leveling the Playing Field tells the story of the African American members of the 1969-70 Syracuse University football team who petitioned for racial equality on their team. The petition had four demands: access to the same academic tutoring made available to their white teammates; better medical care for all team members; starting assignments based on merit rather than race; a...
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    37,95 €

  • The Roman Catholic Bishops of Lancaster
    Paul Severn
    In a series of biographical portraits Paul Severn tells the story of the seven diocesan and one auxiliary bishop in the Roman Catholic diocese of Lancaster. ...
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    20,44 €

  • Ukrainian Witchcraft Trials
    Kateryna Dysa
    Accusations and beliefs lying beneath the Ukrainian witchcraft trials of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. ...
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    35,32 €

  • Titanic Coloring Book
    Ali Ihsan Saydan
    Step aboard the magnificent marvel that was the RMS Titanic and embark on a marvelous coloring journey like no other. This Titanic Coloring Book invites you to relive the grandiosity and splendor of the world’s most iconic ship and promises to satisfy your Titanic Buff cravings! ����Let your imagination set sail as you bring to life the structural brilliance of this engineering...
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    10,15 €

  • Dandelion Wishes
    Lisa King
    'Choice is power, and Coral has none.'For nine-year-old Coral, life revolves around her family. Dad says finding the old boarding house in Fitzroy is fortuitous, given war is just around the corner. Coral doesn’t know what that word means, only that they’re together. But Melbourne in 1940 is anything but predictable, and Coral and her brothers find themselves in the care of the...
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    20,72 €

  • The 7 Deadly Myths
    Alex Ryvchin
    This revised and supplemented second edition features some of the author’s most probing essays and speeches on antisemitism, published here for the first time.A 2023 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Finalist in the Religion Category'With clarity and penetrating insight, Alex Ryvchin unravels the mystery of antisemitism… Mandatory reading for anyone concerned with the ethical fa...
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    21,25 €

  • The Famous Lady Lovers
    Cookie Woolner
    Black queer women have shaped American culture since long before the era of gay liberation. Decades prior to the Stonewall Uprising, in the 1920s and 1930s, Black 'lady lovers'—as women who loved women were then called—crafted a queer world. In the cabarets, rent parties, speakeasies, literary salons, and universities of the Jazz Age and Great Depression, communities of Black l...
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    31,79 €

  • The Famous Lady Lovers
    Cookie Woolner
    Black queer women have shaped American culture since long before the era of gay liberation. Decades prior to the Stonewall Uprising, in the 1920s and 1930s, Black 'lady lovers'—as women who loved women were then called—crafted a queer world. In the cabarets, rent parties, speakeasies, literary salons, and universities of the Jazz Age and Great Depression, communities of Black l...
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    127,17 €


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