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  • Civil War Ghosts of Georgia
    Courtney McInvale
    Courtney begins our haunted history journey with Volume One on Civil War Ghosts of Georgia surveying the sites of bloody engagements as the Civil War raged through Georgia, starting in the mountains of northwest Georgia at Chickamauga through the Atlanta Campaign and the infamous March to the Sea the following year. But, Georgia’s time in the war truly began in 1861. As the war...
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    15,72 €

  • Land of the Oneidas
    Daniel Koch
    Presents the history of central New York State from the Ice Age to the present day. ...
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    29,88 €

  • San Mateo de Cangrejos
    Gilberto Aponte Torres / Karen Juanita Carrillo
    Establishes the central role of Afro-Puerto Ricans in the island’s history and the creation of its capital city, San Juan. ...
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    17,80 €

  • THE BEAUTY OF PUERTO RICO
    Raul Chao
    AN EXOTIC PARADISE OF NATURAL WONDERS, MANGROVE ISLANDS, RAIN FORESTS, CORAL REEFS, STUNNING BEACHES, MISTERIOUS CAVES, VERY GOOD AND NICE PEOPE, AND A UNIQUE CULTURAL HERITAGE. ...
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    70,35 €

  • Virgin Islands Bay Rum
    Enrique Corneiro
    Virgin Islands Bay Rum is the story of the people who created and made Virgin Islands Bay Rum the best and most highly demanded aftershave and multipurpose product around the turn of the century. Then came Prohibition and all the challenges associated with trying to market and sell a product containing alcohol when it was illegal to do so. ...
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    24,11 €

  • A War of Sections
    Steve Suitts
    In a sweeping reinterpretation of the history of disfranchisement, Steve Suitts illuminates how a century of political conflicts in Alabama came to shape both some of America’s best achievements in voting rights and its continuing struggles over voter suppression. A War of Sections tells the unknown political history symbolized today by the annual pilgrimage of presidents and c...
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    164,25 €

  • Nooks and Corners of Old New York
    Charles Hemstreet
    A detailed, historic guide to the rich physical history of New York City, from its founding by Dutch settlers to the turn of the twentieth century. ...
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    25,21 €

  • Nooks and Corners of Old New York
    Charles Hemstreet / E. C. Peixotto
    A detailed, historic guide to the rich physical history of New York City, from its founding by Dutch settlers to the turn of the twentieth century. ...
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    127,42 €

  • 50 Barn Cupolas
    Karl Johnson
    50 Barn Cupolas explains how old New England dairy barns came to have cupolas and presents fifty beautiful color images of unusual cupolas. Take a trip back to the nineteenth century when dairy farmers turned a ventilation problem into an opportunity to express their individuality.Each cupola is different, and each one expresses the pride that its original owner took in his bar...
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    11,67 €

  • Antônio Vieira De Mello
    Fábio Miranda Rodrigues Miron
    O Ararobá era desconhecido e selvagem, mas era necessário tomar posse da sesmaria de seu pai e fazê-la prosperar. Antônio Vieira de Mello, ainda muito jovem, conhece um sertão pouco habitado e em seu estado primitivo. Foram cerca de 50 anos vividos no seu quinhão e que através de sua sagacidade e mão forte, cresceu e prosperou. Muitos conflitos ocorreram entre Antônio Vieira de...
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    8,64 €

  • Capitão José De Almeida Pereira
    Fábio Miranda Rodrigues Miron
    Este é o segundo levantamento documental da série Dossiê, organizado cronologicamente e que apresenta a transcrição de importantes documentos, o qual tem como principal personagem o Capitão José de Almeida Pereira, um grande proprietário de terras no Carurú do século XVIII. Os documentos foram catalogados e apresentados nesta obra, que traça a linha do tempo desta grande person...
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    7,94 €

  • Fannie Hardy Eckstorm - Short Stories and Essays (Annotated)
    Fannie Hardy Eckstorm
    Fannie Hardy Eckstorm was an interpreter of nature, an ornithologist, and expert on early Maine history with scientific habits and a mind for detail. This edition compiles many never before published river-driving stories from Fannie Hardy Eckstorm.In this book you will read about Maine characters Big Sebattis Mitchell, Lewey Ketchum, Life Gulliver, Dan Golden, and the notoriou...
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    23,63 €

  • All Rights for All
    Rose O’Keefe
    My dad was born in London. My grandparents were English and they became citizens. Their British outlook on life didn’t match my mother’s Brooklyn Irish Catholic ways or what I had learned from living in France with my family as a girl. Growing up, I watched generational and cultural clashes at holiday meals and saw how grown-ups believed their opinions were right. Reading becam...
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    9,68 €

  • Ancient Stone Sites of New England and the Debate Over Early European Exploration, 2d ed.
    David Goudsward
    In New England today there are megalithic stones, stone chambers and structures, carvings and petroglyphs, even an unidentified skeleton in armor that defy easy explanation. From Maine to Massachusetts, this work examines various unexplained historical remains in New England, exploring not only the layout and dimensions of such sites--some reminiscent of Stonehenge with their h...
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    58,61 €

  • The Garza War in South Texas
    Thomas Ty Smith
    South Texas and northern Mexico formed a seedbed of revolt in the late nineteenth century. In the 1890s, two decades after he had launched his own successful revolution from South Texas, Mexican president Porfirio Díaz faced a cross-border insurgency intent on toppling his government. The Garza War, so named for the revolutionary firebrand and editor Catarino Erasmo Garza, actu...
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    41,70 €

  • The Big Book of State Facts
    O. Michael Maysam
    Get ready to uncover the United States like never before with 'The Big Book of State Facts.'Dive into 2600+ facts about all 50 states, Washington, DC, and more, revealing the astonishing tapestry of America’s history, culture, and geography.Whether you’re a history buff, a traveler, or just curious, this comprehensive guide promises to enrich your understanding of the diverse a...
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    20,84 €

  • A Brief History of the Salem Witch Trials - Witchcraft Hysteria and Justice in 17th Century Massachusetts
    Scott Matthews
    Are you fascinated by history’s darkest mysteries and the intricate tapestry of human nature? Curious about the forces that led to one of the darkest periods in American history? Wondering how superstition and fear could ignite a whirlwind of chaos and injustice?Dive into the gripping world of 17th-century Massachusetts, where accusations of witchcraft ignited a blaze of hyster...
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    8,51 €

  • 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 €

  • Civil War Q&A
    Eric J. Wittenberg / Lloyd W. Klein
    This Civil War sourcebook organizes the crucial details of the war in an inventive format designed to enhance the reader’s knowledge base and big-picture understanding of key events and outcomes. The war’s causes, political and economic issues, important personalities, campaigns and battles are examined. Nearly 200 reader challenges stimulate reviews of critical moments, with s...
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    42,46 €

  • Vintage St. Pete & Pinellas Volume 3
    Bill DeYoung
    The third volume in the Vintage St. Pete series takes another long, loving, deeply nostalgic look at life in Florida’s fastest-growing city before the dawn of the twenty-first century. These lavishly-illustrated stories will strike a chord with anyone who’s ever called St. Petersburg, or Pinellas County, home. Here are the cherished traditions and legends: The annual Festival o...
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    45,15 €

  • PROFILES IN CHARACTER
    J. Phillip London / Jennifer London / Taylor Kiland
    PROFILES IN CHARACTER delves into individual character attributes that shaped and informed these sixteen Americans in their vital roles in history. What singular attribute gave each of them the strength to take monumental risks for a cause or a belief? Was it an early childhood experience? A family dynamic or role model? Their faith? Readers can glean the difficulty in the life...
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    12,72 €

  • Scamps, Scoundrels & Heroes
    Jim Douglas
    Discover the incredible stories of twenty-nine Civil War soldiers from Washington County, Pennsylvania, as told by best-selling author Jim Douglas. With meticulous research, Jim has uncovered the complete story of the soldiers from this county who marched off to war, answering the call of patriotism.Through his book, Jim takes us on a fascinating journey, sharing the lives of t...
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    34,26 €

  • THE COLOR OF ANGELS
    RUSTY KONTOS
    A point of view from the Jim Crow Era no one dared to speak on....until now. The Color of Angels follows a little girl named Sissy who grew up during the late 1950’s. When her father Billy Joe joined the KKK, her family was turned upside down. His hatred for anything not deemed pure by the Klan fueled him to commit unspeakable acts, not only against humanity, but within his fam...
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    36,19 €

  • Energizing Neoliberalism
    Caleb Wellum
    How the 1970s energy crisis facilitated a neoliberal shift in US political culture.In Energizing Neoliberalism, Caleb Wellum offers a provocative account of how the 1970s energy crisis helped to recreate postwar America. Rather than think of the crisis as the obvious outcome of the decade’s 'oil shocks,' Wellum unpacks the cultural construction of a crisis of energy across diff...
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    75,93 €

  • The SideRoad Kids-Book 2
    Sharon Kennedy
    The SideRoad Kids Book 2: A Summer of Discovery takes place throughout the summer of 1958 in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. Readers familiar with The SideRoad Kids: Tales from Chippewa County will be reacquainted with their favorite twelve-year-old characters and their discoveries. Blew learns who his father was. Flint discovers why Uncle Leo is mean. Shirley shares her fears with...
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    16,88 €

  • The SideRoad Kids-Book 2
    Sharon Kennedy
    The SideRoad Kids Book 2: A Summer of Discovery takes place throughout the summer of 1958 in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. Readers familiar with The SideRoad Kids: Tales from Chippewa County will be reacquainted with their favorite twelve-year-old characters and their discoveries. Blew learns who his father was. Flint discovers why Uncle Leo is mean. Shirley shares her fears with...
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    27,36 €

  • Case Files of the Rocky Mountain Paranormal Research Society Volume 1
    Bryan Bonner / Robert Lewis
    Do you enjoy a good ghost story?For nearly a quarter of a century, the Rocky Mountain Paranormal Research Society has investigated ghosts, aliens, cryptids, and all manner of bizarre claims and happenings in Colorado and beyond. Combining historic and scientific research with a love of the weird and scary, they’ve researched and documented some of the best paranormal stories in...
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    23,18 €

  • Escapes from Cayenne
    Léon Chautard / Michaël Roy
    In September 1857, Léon Chautard, Charles Bivors, and Hippolyte Paon arrived in Salem, Massachusetts. These refugees from the French Revolution of 1848 were 'homeless, penniless, friendless, strangers in a strange land, among a people of strange speech,' as one of their advocates, the abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison, later put it. The only thing they had was a story to tell...
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    165,95 €

  • 'Huzza!'
    Timothy Symington
    Raising a glass to toast someone at a wedding or birthday is a familiar and usually informal occurrence, but at one time it was a carefully orchestrated ritual. They were planned, revised, given at an event, and then printed in newspapers. Americans learned who was or was not toasted for early national celebrations: King George III, George Washington, the Fourth of July, Washin...
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    57,27 €

  • Sins of My Brothers
    Phillip Anthony Perry / Phillip A Perry
    Sins of My Brothers is the historic account of a harrowing and gritty tale of survival, a true story fueled by greed, corruption, and incompetence. The confluence of disastrous decisions result in heartbreaking consequences.Canadian-born Robert Knox Sneden answers the call to quell the rebellion enlisting as a 29-year-old map maker. Captured by 'The Gray Ghost' and imprisoned i...
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    35,76 €


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