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  • The Countryside in the Age of Capitalist Transformation
    This volume represents one of the first efforts to harvest the rapidly emerging scholarship in the field of American rural history. Building on the insights and methodologies that social historians have directed toward urban life, the contributors explore the past as it unfolded in the rural settings in which most Americans have lived during most of American history.The essays...
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    70,41 €

  • Reliving the Past
    Charles Tilly / David William Cohen / Olivier Zunz
    Five historians uncover the ties between people’s daily routines and the all-encompassing framework of their lives. They trace the processes of social construction in Western Europe, the United States, Latin America, Africa, and China, discussing both the historical similarities and the ways in which individual history has shaped each area’s development. They stress the need fo...
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    70,49 €

  • How to Run a Traditional Jewish Household
    Blu Greenberg
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    26,47 €

  • A Journey Through the Yemen
    Walter B Harris
    'My recollections of the country are ones that I shall always treasure, in spite of the dangers and sickness, in spite of long marches and days in prison, the Yemen will always be for me, Arabic Felix.'First published in 1893, A Journey Through the Yemen appeared at a critical time in the turbulent history of the Yemen. The Turkish Empire had seized much of the country in an at...
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    70,65 €

  • The French Nobility in the Eighteenth Century
    Guy Chaussinand-Nogaret / William Doyle
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    71,75 €

  • People’s Poland
    Wladysla Majowski / Wladyslaw Majkowski
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    82,42 €

  • Nazis in Skokie
    Donald Alexander Downs
    In 1977, a Chicago-based Nazi group announced its plans to demonstrate in Skokie, Illinois, the home of hundreds of Holocaust survivors. The shocked survivor community rose in protest and the issue went to court, with the ACLU defending the Nazis’ right to free speech. The court ruled in the Nazis’ favor. According to the 'content neutrality doctrine' governing First Amendment ...
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    143,58 €

  • Nazis in Skokie
    Donald Alexander Downs
    In 1977, a Chicago-based Nazi group announced its plans to demonstrate in Skokie, Illinois, the home of hundreds of Holocaust survivors. The shocked survivor community rose in protest and the issue went to court, with the ACLU defending the Nazis’ right to free speech. The court ruled in the Nazis’ favor. According to the 'content neutrality doctrine' governing First Amendment ...
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    41,26 €

  • The Legal Methodology of Hai Gaon
    Tsvi Groner
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    26,73 €

  • Exegesis at Qumran
    George J. Brooke
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    37,00 €

  • Heritage
    William W. Hallo / William WHallo
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    57,26 €

  • Galveston
    Bernard Marinbach
    While the massive flow of immigrants to the Northeast was taking place, a number of Jews were finding their way to America through the port of Galveston, Texas. The descendants of these immigrants, now scattered throughout the United States, are hardly aware that their ancestors participated in a unique attempt to organize and channel Jewish immigration. From their recruitmen...
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    43,25 €

  • An American Idol
    Robert J Loewenberg / Robert J. Loewenberg / Robert JLoewenberg
    Critiques modern liberal culture by means of a textual re-evaluation of Ralph Waldo Emerson, widely considered a prime formulator and archetype of liberal culture. ...
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    78,27 €

  • Forgotten Children
    Linda A. Pollock / Linda APollock
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    71,14 €

  • The Origins of the Liberal Welfare Reforms 1906-1914
    J R Hay
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    60,64 €

  • Early British Swimming 55BC-AD1719
    Nicholas Orme
    In 1857 Everard Digby published the first scientific treatise on swimming – and one of the first on any modern sport. Nicholas Orme rehabilitates Digby as a pioneer of the history of sport. The book opens with a history of swimming in Britain from the Romans to the sixteenth century, which is followed by an account of Digby’s life and work. ...
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    37,10 €

  • Prostitution and Victorian Society
    Judith Walkowitz / Walkowitz Judith R.
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    45,29 €

  • The Slayers of Moses
    Susan A. Handelman / Susan AHandelman
    In this groundbreaking study, Susan Handelman examines the theological roots of the modern science of interpretation. She defines current structures of thought and patterns of organizing reality, clearly distinguishes them from previously reigning Hellenic modes of abstract thought, and connects them with important elements of the Rabbinic interpretive tradition. Hers is the ...
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    43,21 €

  • Elie Wiesel
    Robert McAfee Brown
    Upon presenting the 1986 Nobel Prize for Peace to Elie Wiesel, Egil Aarvick, chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Prize Committee, hailed him as 'a messenger to mankind--not with a message of hate and revenge but with one of brotherhood and atonement.' Elie Wiesel: Messenger to All Humanity, first published in 1983, echoes this theme and still affirms that message, a call to both C...
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    143,40 €

  • Pharaoh's Counsellors
    Judith R. Baskin
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    20,32 €

  • Sectarian Law in the Dead Sea Scrolls
    Lawrence H. Schiffman / Lawrence HSchiffman
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    33,36 €

  • Sepher Ha-Razim
    Michael A. Morgan / Michael AMorgan
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    17,60 €

  • Souls on Fire
    Elie Wiesel
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    15,46 €

  • The Rise of Civilization in India and Pakistan
    Bridget Allchin / Briget Allchin / Frank Raymond Allchin
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    113,86 €

  • Medieval Germany and its Neighbours, 900-1250
    Karl Leyser
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    206,28 €

  • The History of the Labor Movement in the United States, Vol. 6
    Philip S. Foner
    In 1947, at the time of completing Volume I of the History of the Labor Movement in the United States, Foner reflected on the role of a Marxist historian of labor. Foner summed up the role this way: to present an 'historical view which will enlighten our present struggles, will stimulate the foresight of labor’s thinkers and leaders, and give to the great mass of our workers th...
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    27,77 €

  • An Unacknowledged Harmony
    Alan Edelstein
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    121,62 €

  • The Hour of Our Death
    Philippe Aries
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    23,17 €

  • Peasant Organisations and the Democratisation Process in Africa
    Mohmoud Ben Romdhane
    What are the issues shaping contemporary African peasant movements? Are they fundamentally democratic or anti-democratic? Are they defensive and local in their organization and aspirations or should they be seen as taking a leading role in a wider process of economic, social, and political transformation? Are they in the state’s pocket or can they pose a threat to state power? ...
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    78,17 €

  • Women Leaders in the Ancient Synagogue
    Bernadette J. Brooten / Bernadette JBrooten
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    33,37 €