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  • The Industrial Turn in World History
    Peter Stearns
    This book focuses on the worldwide shift from agricultural societies to industrial societies over the past two centuries, putting the implications for individuals and societies in global context while considering the limits of generalization across regions and cultures. ...
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    281,82 €

  • School Memories
    This book reveals how school memories offer not only a tool for accessing the school of the past, but also a key to understanding what people today know (or think they know) about the school of the past. It describes, in fact, how historians’ work does not purely and simply consist in exploring school as it really was, but also in the complex process of defining the memory of s...
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    206,36 €

  • Children in the Roman Empire
    Christian Laes
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    59,86 €

  • Philosophies of Multiculturalism
    This edited collection offers a comparative approach to the topic of multiculturalism, including different authors with contrasting arguments from different philosophical traditions and ideologies. It puts together perspectives that have been largely neglected as valid normative ways to address the political and moral questions that arise from the coexistence of different cultu...
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    268,08 €

  • Cosmopolitan Outsiders
    Katherine Sorrels
    This book reconstructs the intellectual and social context of several influential proponents of European unity before and after the First World War. Through the lives and works of the well-known promoter of Pan-Europe, Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi, and his less well-known predecessor, Alfred Hermann Fried, the book illuminates how transnational peace projects emerged from indiv...
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    120,04 €

  • Antisemitism in the German Military Community and the Jewish Response, 1914-1938
    Brian E. Crim / Brian ECrim
    Antisemitism in the German Military Community and the Jewish Response, 1914–1938 explores how German World War I veterans from different social and political backgrounds contributed to antisemitic politics during the Weimar Republic. The book compares how the military, right-wing veterans, and Jewish veterans chose to remember their war experiences and translate these memories ...
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    63,96 €

  • A Canadian Childhood
    Carolyn D. Redl / Carolyn DRedl
    Carolyn D. Redl’s memoir of growing up on a northern Saskatchewan farm in the 1940s and ’50s captures, in the vivid memories of one girl, a way of life that is a vital part of Canada’s social history. But it is much more than a recollection of rural life. A Canadian Childhood is, above all, a beautifully realized coming-of-age story, the story of a girl with an adventurous and ...
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    49,23 €

  • A Canadian Childhood
    Carolyn D. Redl / Carolyn DRedl
    Carolyn D. Redl’s memoir of growing up on a northern Saskatchewan farm in the 1940s and ’50s captures, in the vivid memories of one girl, a way of life that is a vital part of Canada’s social history. But it is much more than a recollection of rural life. A Canadian Childhood is, above all, a beautifully realized coming-of-age story, the story of a girl with an adventurous and ...
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    36,19 €

  • A French Slave in Nazi Germany
    Elie Poulard
    The Required Work Service Law, or Service du Travail Obligatoire, was passed in 1943 by the Vichy government of France under German occupation. Passage of the law confirmed the French government’s willing collaboration in providing the Nazi regime with French manpower to replace German workers sent to fight in the war. The result was the deportation of 600,000 young Frenchmen t...
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    37,11 €

  • Beautiful Legacy
    Mindy Lee Hopman
    Beautiful Legacy: Our Roots Run DeepIt was a moment etched in time for author Mindy Hopman, as she and her grandfather watched her children play. Her grandfather turned to her, and with tear-filled eyes whispered naches, Yiddish for unspeakable delight. That precious moment encouraged Hopman to wonder if she brought similar joy to her heavenly Father. Thus was born the premise ...
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    17,61 €

  • Power Lines
    Andrew Needham
    How high energy consumption transformed postwar Phoenix and deepened inequalities in the American SouthwestIn 1940, Phoenix was a small, agricultural city of sixty-five thousand, and the Navajo Reservation was an open landscape of scattered sheepherders. Forty years later, Phoenix had blossomed into a metropolis of 1.5 million people and the territory of the Navajo Nation was h...
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    35,98 €

  • Media Archaeologies, Micro-Archives and Storytelling
    Martin Pogačar
    This book argues that today we live in the culture of the past that delimits our world and configures our potentialities. It explores how the past invades our presents and investigates the affective uses of the past in the increasingly elusive present. Remembering and forgetting are part of everyday life, popular culture, politics, ideologies and mythologies. In the time of the...
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    132,41 €

  • The Greatest Witch I Ever Met
    Dennis Meadows
    This book is about many people and many things that have happened in my life. The book is about how many people have stolen from me and lied for money. It is about witches. I call them that for the evil things they have done; they tried to ruin my life because of their power or position. It will open the eyes of many people. It is about some of the wickedness that is going on a...
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    12,04 €

  • A Cultural History of Rio de Janeiro after 1889
    Tom Winterbottom
    This book studies architecture and literature of Rio de Janeiro, the 'Marvellous City,' from the revolution of 1889 to the Olympics of 2016, taking the reader on a journey through the history of the city. This study offers a wide-ranging and thought-provoking insight that moves from ruins to Modernism, from the past to the future, from futebol to fiction, and from beach to fave...
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    64,88 €

  • Censo de la prensa española del sexenio democrático 1868-1874 (y relación de fuentes)
    Antonio Checa Godoy
    «Censo de la prensa española del sexenio democrático 1868-1874 (y relación de fuentes)» recoge todas las publicaciones periódicas que salieron en España durante los turbulentos años (1868-1874), divididas por regiones; incluye también las fuentes en Francia. Además del listado de publicaciones nos añade, a parte de sus características básicas, la hemeroteca en la que se puede e...
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    15,00 €

  • What Ifs of Jewish History
    Gavriel D. Rosenfeld
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    48,34 €

  • TRAVELING BEYOND HER SPHERE
    Bess Beatty
    The nineteenth-century ideal of domesticity identified home as women’s proper sphere, but the ideal was frequently challenged, profoundly so when woman left home and country to travel in foreign lands. This book explores the reasons for and ramifications of women making a Grand Tour, a trip to Europe, between 1814 and 1914; this century between major European wars witnessed the...
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    28,40 €

  • TRAVELING BEYOND HER SPHERE
    Bess Beatty
    The nineteenth-century ideal of domesticity identified home as women’s proper sphere, but the ideal was frequently challenged, profoundly so when woman left home and country to travel in foreign lands. This book explores the reasons for and ramifications of women making a Grand Tour, a trip to Europe, between 1814 and 1914; this century between major European wars witnessed the...
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    41,08 €

  • Household Medicine in Seventeenth-Century England
    Anne Stobart
    How did 17th-century families in England perceive their health care needs? What household resources were available for medical self-help? To what extent did households make up remedies based on medicinal recipes?Drawing on previously unpublished household papers ranging from recipes to accounts and letters, this original account shows how health and illness were managed on a da...
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    206,29 €

  • Figures in a Famine Landscape
    Ciarán Ó Murchadha
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    206,60 €

  • From victory to Vichy
    Chris Millington / Christopher Millington
    Explores the political mobilisation of the two largest French veterans’ associations during the interwar years, the Union fédérale (UF) and the Union nationale des combattants (UNC). ...
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    42,05 €

  • Jewish Women in Europe in the Middle Ages
    Simha Goldin
    Looks at the relationships between men and women within Jewish communities living in Germany, northern France and England in the late Middle Ages. ...
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    36,95 €

  • Jews on trial
    Katherine Aron-Beller
    This book explores the Papal Inquisition in Modena and the status of Jews in an early modern Italian duchy. Its purpose is to deepen existing insights into the role of the former and thus lead to a better understanding of how the tribunal assumed jurisdiction over a practicing Jewish community in the seventeenth century. ...
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    36,73 €

  • The Engineered Downfall of America
    Michael A. Cordner
    Americans are increasingly concerned about the disintegration of our nation and are unable to explain how and why we got here, and where we are going. In The Engineered Downfall of America, author Michael Cordner explains: How the liberal Left has come to dominate American politics and society. How the Cold War – which never really ended – continues to undermine our country. H...
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    9,97 €

  • The Story of a Great Schoolmaster
    H. G. Wells / HGWells
    This is H. G. Wells’ 1924 biography of Frederick William Sanderson, 'The Story of a Great Schoolmaster'. Frederick William Sanderson (1857 - 1922) was the headmaster at Oundle School between 1892-1922 and was a an esteemed reformer of education at Oundle and Dulwich College. Wells was a close friend of Sanderson’s, and even sent his own sons to his school. Contents include: 'Sa...
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    20,27 €

  • Ancient Hawaiian State
    Robert J Hommon
    The well-known list of 'cradles of civilization' primary states from which all modern nation states ultimately derive, has traditionally been limited to Egypt, Mesopotamia, the Indus Valley, China, Mesoamerica, and Andean South America. However, by drawing on archaeological and ethnohistorical sources, Robert J. Hommon demonstrates that Polynesia, with primary states in both Ha...
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    69,01 €

  • Migrations in the German Lands, 1500-2000
    Migration to, from, and within German-speaking lands has been a dynamic force in Central European history for centuries. Exemplifying some of the most exciting recent research on historical mobility, the essays collected here reconstruct the experiences of vagrants, laborers, religious exiles, refugees, and other migrants during the last five hundred years of German history. Wi...
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    184,17 €

  • From Craftsmen to Capitalists
    Frederick L McKitrick
    Politically adrift, alienated from Weimar society, and fearful of competition from industrial elites and the working class alike, the independent artisans of interwar Germany were a particularly receptive audience for National Socialist ideology. As Hitler consolidated power, they emerged as an important Nazi constituency, drawn by the party's rejection of both capitalism a...
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    183,99 €

  • Life as a Hunt
    Stuart Marks
    The extensive wilderness of Zambia’s central Luangwa Valley is the homeland of the Valley Bisa whose cultural practices have enriched this environment for centuries. Beginning with the intrusions of warlords and later British colonials, successive generations have experienced the callousness and challenges of colonialism. Their homeland, a slender corridor surrounded by three ...
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    243,73 €

  • Before the Fires
    Bob Gumbs / Mark D. Naison / Mark DNaison
    People associate the South Bronx with gangs, violence, drugs, crime, burned-out buildings, and poverty. This is the message that has been driven into their heads over the years by the media. As Howard Cosell famously said during the 1977 World's Series at Yankee Stadium, "There it is, ladies and gentlemen, the Bronx is burning." In this new book, Naison and Gumbs provide a ...
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    35,56 €


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