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  • Jerusalem
    F E Peters / FEPeters / Francis Edward Peters
    This remarkable portrayal of Jerusalem has become a favorite of many readers interested in this city’s dramatic past. Through a collection of firsthand accounts, we see Jerusalem as it appeared through the centuries to a fascinating variety of observers--Jews, Christians, Muslims, and secularists, from pilgrim to warrior to merchant. F. E. Peters skillfully unites these moving ...
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    372,96 €

  • Peasant Classes
    Hermann Rebel
    Focusing on peasant family life in Upper Austria, this study moves beyond generalizations about the growth of the modern state to ask what social relations existed in the early modern period and how they worked.Originally published in 1983.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the disti...
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    208,58 €

  • Broken Lunch
    Simon Dewhurst
    An intimate and fast moving memoir, sometimes laugh-out-loud, recalling Simon Dewhurst's privileged and eccentric upbringing in an upper-class English family after the last war. He has no time for misery and self-flagellation. Instead, the narrative glides seamlessly and predictably from one hilarious disaster to the next.Family life, blood sports, private education (Eton) ...
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    9,46 €

  • Black Women in Brazil in Slavery and Post-Emancipation
    This collection of essays brings together leading experts on the history of Black women in Brazil and newly expands what we know about the subject. The essays take us through cities, plantations, and mining areas from the north to the south and across the eighteenth, nineteenth, and first decades of the twentieth century. Grounded in original research that draws from diverse so...
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    37,37 €

  • The Creative Spark
    Agustín Fuentes
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    34,23 €

  • Palgrave Handbook of Research in Historical Culture and Education
    This volume comprises a broad interdisciplinary examination of the many different approaches by which contemporary scholars record our history. The editors provide a comprehensive overview through thirty-eight chapters divided into four parts: a) Historical  Culture and Public Uses of History; b) The Appeal of the Nation in History Education of Postcolonial Societies; c) ...
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    363,39 €

  • Contemporary Chinese Films and Celebrity Directors
    Shenshen Cai
    This new text examines recent popular Chinese films and derivative cultural phenomena, with a focus on films directed by celebrity directors such as Han Han, Guo Jingming, Xu Jinglei and Zhao Wei. In opposition to Fifth and Sixth Generation Chinese filmmakers who explored the grand-narratives of history, the oppression of the pre-socialist and socialist eras, and those marginal...
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    120,47 €

  • Football and the Boundaries of History
    The essays in this volume use football to create a dialogue between history and other disciplines, including art criticism, philosophy, and political science. The study of football provides fertile ground for interdisciplinary initiatives and this volume explores the disciplinary boundaries that are shifting 'beneath our feet.' Traditional disciplines in the humanities and soci...
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    49,02 €

  • Ethiopia and the Origin of Civilization
    John G. Jackson / John GJackson
    2017 Reprint of 1939 Edition.   This essay is an effort to highlight the influence of Ethiopia in the history of Civilization.  It also devotes consider time to suggesting that Ethiopia’s contribution has been either misunderstood or intentionally ignored by mainstream historians and scholars.  Jackson culls research from Archaeology, Comparative Religion, History and Classical...
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    9,09 €

  • Motherhood in Antiquity
    This edited collection examines concepts and realities of motherhood in the ancient world. The collection uses essays on the Roman Empire, Mesoamerica, the Philippines, Egypt, and India to emphasize the concept of motherhood as a worldwide phenomenon and experience. While covering a wide geographical range, the editors arranged the collection thematically to explore themes incl...
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    132,27 €

  • Protest and the politics of space and place, 1789-1848
    Katrina Navickas
    An accessible and innovative analysis of how political groups used and contested spaces and places in protest. It uses a wide range of interesting sources, from Home Office correspondence to local magistrates, diaries and autobiographies, local newspapers, together with spatial analysis of sites of political protest plotted on historical maps. ...
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    36,67 €

  • Masculinity and the Metropolis of Vice, 1550-1650
    A. Bailey / R. Hentschell
    Leading authors in the field of early modern studies explore a range of bad behaviours - like binge drinking, dicing, and procuring prostitutes at barbershops - in order to challenge the notion that early modern London was a corrupt city that ruined innocent young men. ...
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    48,06 €

  • Kissed by God-Holy Women Create!
    Shirley Cunningham
    “Shirley Cunningham offers us a lovely feast!”You’re invited to join a pilgrimage with Holy Women whose creativity has blessed our world. These ancestors, foremothers, and sisters tell their archetypal stories: Miriam, the dancer; Hildegard, the artist and musician; Teresa of Avila, the writer; women of ancient times—Mary Magdalene and the Samaritan Woman—and more recent women,...
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    20,22 €

  • Women Presidents and Prime Ministers
    Richard O'Brien
    Women Presidents, Prime Ministers and Leaders 2018 features all 107 women who have been President or Prime Minister of their respective nations. These inspiring women have come from all backgrounds; they have been scientists, factory workers, police officers, flight attendants, lawyers, doctors, teachers, journalists, psychologists, organic chemists, accountants, stay-at-home m...
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    18,70 €

  • Broken Heart / Broken Wholeness
    Ber Kotlerman
    The book examines the Soviet Yiddish writer Der Nister’s (Pinkhas Kahanovitsh, 1884-1950) vision of a post-Holocaust Jewish reconstruction, challenging the Jewish 'homelessness' in the Diaspora. ...
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    76,82 €

  • Nature, Human Nature, and Human Difference
    Justin E. H. Smith / Justin EHSmith / Justin Smith-Ruiu
    People have always been xenophobic, but an explicit philosophical and scientific view of human racial difference only began to emerge during the modern period. Why and how did this happen? Surveying a range of philosophical and natural-scientific texts, dating from the Spanish Renaissance to the German Enlightenment, Nature, Human Nature, and Human Difference charts the evoluti...
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    37,46 €

  • A History of Reading and Writing
    Martyn Lyons
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    60,09 €

  • Nazi-Organized Recreation and Entertainment in the Third Reich
    Julia Timpe
    This book explores the activities of the Nazi regime’s vast leisure programme. Shortly after coming to power in Germany, it began a large-scale undertaking to bring happiness and a good life to so-called ’Aryan’ Germans, carried out by the Nazi leisure organization Kraft durch Freude. Julia Timpe traces Kraft durch Freude’s practices and propaganda from 1933 through the Second ...
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    132,35 €

  • Late Cold War Literature and Culture
    Daniel Cordle
    This book analyses the 1980s as a nuclear decade, focusing on British and United States fiction. Ranging across genres including literary fiction, science fiction, post-apocalyptic fiction, graphic novels, children’s and young adult literature, thrillers and horror, it shows how pressing nuclear issues were, particularly the possibility of nuclear war, and how deeply they penet...
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    132,45 €

  • Making Slow Food Fast in California Cuisine
    Victor W. Geraci / Victor WGeraci
    This book follows the development of industrial agriculture in California and its influence on both regional and national eating habits. Early California politicians and entrepreneurs envisioned agriculture as a solution to the food needs of the expanding industrial nation. The state’s climate, geography, vast expanses of land, water, and immigrant workforce when coupled with u...
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    120,16 €

  • Breve historia de la mujer
    Sandra Ferrer Valero
    Un apasionante recorrido por el protagonismo de la mujer en el ámbito público y privado desde la prehistoria hasta nuestros días. Su papel determinante en diferentes culturas y la historia excepcional de su lucha hasta conseguir el derecho al voto y el control de su propio cuerpo. Una visión de conjunto que rompe estereotipos históricos.Acérquese a la vida privada de las mujere...
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    18,20 €

  • The politics of vaccination
    Provides a comprehensive, comparative study of global vaccine politics and their social, economic and historical context. ...
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    169,15 €

  • The Constitution of The United States of America
    Pocket Book Constitutions
    This beautiful, pocket sized 4x6 inch version of the Constitution of the United States is great to read at home or take with you on-the go! This 57-page pocket book includes The Constitution of the United States, The Bill of Rights, and all 27 Amendments.   ...
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    7,27 €

  • The Constitution of The United States of America
    Pocket Book Constitutions
    This beautiful, pocket sized 4x6 inch version of the Constitution of the United States is great to read at home or take with you on-the go! This 57-page pocket sized book includes The Constitution of the United States, The Bill of Rights, and all 27 Amendments. ...
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    7,28 €

  • The Constitution of The United States of America
    Pocket Book Constitutions
    This beautiful, pocket sized 4x6 inch version of the Constitution of the United States is great to read at home or take with you on-the go! This 57-page pocket book includes The Constitution of the United States, The Bill of Rights, and all 27 Amendments.   ...
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    7,27 €

  • Emotion, Ritual and Power in Europe, 1200-1920
    This volume spans the fourteenth to nineteenth centuries, across Europe and its empires, and brings together historians, art historians, literary scholars and anthropologists to rethink medieval and early modern ritual. The study of rituals, when it is alert to the emotions which are woven into and through ritual activities, presents an opportunity to explore profoundly importa...
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    122,55 €

  • Bernard Shaw and Beatrice Webb on Poverty and Equality in the Modern World, 1905-1914
    Peter Gahan
    This book investigates how, alongside Beatrice Webb’s ground-breaking pre-World War One anti-poverty campaigns, George Bernard Shaw helped launch the public debate about the relationship between equality, redistribution and democracy in a developed economy.The ten years following his great 1905 play on poverty Major Barbara present a puzzle to Shaw scholars, who have hitherto f...
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    132,44 €

  • The Primacy of Foreign Policy in British History, 1660-2000
    Brendan Simms / William Mulligan
    External challenges, strategic threats, and war have shaped the course of modern British history. This volume examines how Britain mobilized to meet these challenges and how developments in the constitution, state, public sphere, and economy were a response to foreign policy issues from the Restoration to the rise of New Labour. ...
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    47,52 €

  • More Than a Teardrop in the Ocean
    Neil Rolde
    Neil Rolde’s biography of Breckinridge Long exposed the tragic reality that the U.S. appointed the wrong man for the job. Ninety percent of the quota places available to immigrants from countries under German and Italian control were never filled. In 1944 President Roosevelt established the War Refugee Board with Executive Order 9417 that declared: “It is the policy of this Gov...
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    12,33 €

  • Emotions in the History of Witchcraft
    Bringing together leading historians, anthropologists, and religionists, this volume examines the unbridled passions of witchcraft from the Middle Ages to the present. Witchcraft is an intensely emotional crime, rooted in the belief that envy and spite can cause illness or even death. Witch-trials in turn are emotionally driven by the grief of alleged victims and by the fears o...
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    159,41 €


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