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  • Coffee, Society, and Power in Latin America
    A distinguished international group of historians, anthropologists, and sociologists examines the production, processing, and marketing of coffee. Using this important commodity as a common denominator and focusing on landholding patterns, labor mobilization, class structure, and political ideologies, the authors examine how Latin American countries of the late 19th and early 2...
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    43,15 €

  • The Danish Revolution, 1500 1800
    Kjaergaard Thorkild / Thorkild Kj Rgaard / Thorkild Kjaergaard
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    206,37 €

  • Peasantry to Capitalism
    G. Ran Hoppe / Goran Hoppe / GRan Hoppe / John Langton
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    211,90 €

  • From the Gulf to Central Asia
    The demise of the Soviet Union, and the emergence of independent republics, have had profound implications for the regions on its periphery such as the Caucasus and Central Asia. This book explores the complex ways in which these republics have found both independence and a new regional identity in their relations with the neighbouring Middle East. ...
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    51,06 €

  • Royalist Political Thought During the French Revolution
    James L. Osen / James LOsen
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    95,90 €

  • Hasidism
    Moshe Idel
    Approaches Hasidism as an important stage in Jewish mysticism, rather than as a mere reaction to or result of historical and social forces. ...
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    46,48 €

  • Funeral Register of the First Presbyterian Church of Belfast, 1712-36
    Jean Agnew
    The first and second Presbyterian congregations of Belfast, in Rosemary Street, owned a collection of palls, cloaks and hats which were hired out for funerals. They were used by most of the better-off inhabitants of Belfast, regardless of religion, and many of the gentry, clergy and substantial farmers in the surrounding countryside. This register, which covers the years 1712 t...
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    11,43 €

  • Hasidic Williamsburg
    George Kranzler
    Hasidic Williamsburg recounts the dramatic emergence of this unique community in the face of major crises. It is the story of the loyalty of its members to their rebbes and their teachings and to the milieu they created in an old Jewish neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York. Based on his previous book Williamsburg: A Jewish Community in Transition, which reported the transformatio...
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    155,34 €

  • Princess Anne County, Virginia, Land and Probate Records
    Anne Maling
    Princess Anne County, Virginia, was formed from part of lower Norfolk County in 1691, and, as of 1962, was incorporated into the city of Virginia Beach, Virginia (by which name it is known today). This book contains abstracts from eighteen deed books — containing both deeds and wills — that chronicle the years 1691 to 1783 in Princess Anne County. Considerable genealogical info...
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    31,54 €

  • Sweeter the Juice
    Shirlee T. Hazlip / Shirlee Taylor Haizlip / Shirlee THazlip
    The Sweeter the Juice is a provocative memoir that goes to the heart of our American identity. Shirlee Taylor Haizlip, in an effort to reconcile the dissonance between her black persona and her undeniably multiracial heritage, started on a journey of discovery that took her over thousands of miles and hundreds of years. While searching for her mother’s family, Haizlip confronte...
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    17,27 €

  • The Middling Sort of People
    Christopher Brooks / Jonathan Barry
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    66,55 €

  • Twenty Florida Pirates
    Kevin M McCarthy / Kevin M. McCarthy
    Blackbeard, Jose Gaspar, Jean Lafitte—the names conjure up a romantic, swashbuckling figure with a black patch over one eye, a cutlass in his teeth, and a brace of pistols tucked into his waistband. Actors such as Errol Flynn did much to create that devil-may-care attitude glamorized on the silver screen, but in fact, real pirates were not so admirable; for the most part they w...
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    21,57 €

  • American Consuls in the Holy Land, 1832-1914
    Ruth Kark
    This volume provides new insights into the role of U.S. consuls in the Ottoman Middle East in the special context of the Holy Land. The motivations and functioning of the American consuls in Jerusalem, and of the consular agents in Jaffa and Haifa, are analyzed as part of the US diplomatic and consular activity throughout the world, and of Western involvement in the Ottoman Emp...
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    77,69 €

  • Poisoned Embrace
    Lawrence Osborne
    Since the days of the Early Fathers, sex and death have formed a theological equation known as 'sexual pessimism'--an aversion to the carnal which consequently elevates the virginal and the chaste. Here, Osborne gives a bracing account of how we imagine one of the most intimate aspects of our lives. ...
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    16,87 €

  • The Black Death
    Rosemary Horrox
    This book surveys contemporary responses to the Black Death. The sources illustrate the fear that spread with the disease and the diverse ways that such terror influenced social behaviour. ...
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    29,17 €

  • Trade and Urban Development in Poland
    F. W. Carter / Francis W. Carter / Francis WCarter / FWCarter
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    231,37 €

  • Idlewild and Woodland Park, Michigan an African American Remembers
    Rose Louise Hammond
    Idlewild and Woodland Park, Michigan is one of the countries first African American resorts, owned and operated by African Americans. This book is a historical compilation of interviews conducted during the summers of 1994 and 1995 with some of the few original owners or families still holding property ownership in Idlewild and Woodland Park, Michigan The reader will see some...
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    9,38 €

  • Birth, Death, and Motherhood in Classical Greece
    Nancy Demand
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    49,76 €

  • Jews of Spain
    Jane S. Gerber / Jane SGerber
    The history of the Jews of Spain is a remarkable story that begins in the remote past and continues today. For more than a thousand years, Sepharad (the Hebrew word for Spain) was home to a large Jewish community noted for its richness and virtuosity. Summarily expelled in 1492 and forced into exile, their tragedy of expulsion marked the end of one critical phase of their histo...
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    23,26 €

  • Migration of Symbols
    Count Goblet D'Alviella / Count Goblet D’Alviella / Goblet d'Alviella
    The Migration of Symbols by Count Goblet d’Alviella is a seminal work in the field of comparative religion and anthropology. Originally published in 1894, this book explores the origins and evolution of religious symbols and their migration across different cultures and civilizations. The author argues that symbols are not static but are constantly changing and adapting to new ...
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    37,33 €

  • Gringo Justice
    Alfredo Mirandé
    Gringo Justice is a comprehensive analysis and interpretation of the experiences of the Chicano people with the legal and judicial system in the United States. Beginning in 1848 and working to the present, a theory of Gringo justice is developed and applied to specific areas-displacement from the land, vigilantes and social bandits, the border, the police, gangs, and prisons. A...
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    41,09 €

  • 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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    41,26 €

  • An Historical Geography of France
    Xavier De Planhol / Janet Lloyd
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    237,29 €

  • The Jacobites
    D. Szechi / Daniel Szechi / DSzechi
    This work provides a pan-European survey of the Jacobite phenomenon. It examines Jacobitism in all three kingdoms and offers an interpretation of the impact of the Jacobites on the history of Britain and Europe. ...
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    26,09 €

  • U.S. Military Records
    James C Neagles / James C. Neagles
    From the earliest days of the United States, millions of Americans have served their country in the military. Indeed, most families have seen one or more members serve in America’s armed forces. For this reason, genealogists and others wisely look to military records for information needed to enhance their research. Enlistment forms, muster rolls, pension applications . . . re...
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    40,23 €

  • The Masterless
    Wilfred M. McClay / Wilfred MMcClay
    In this provocative book, Wilfred McClay considers the long-standing tension between individualism and social cohesion in conceptions of American culture. Exploring ideas of unity and diversity as they have evolved since the Civil War, he illuminates the historical background to our ongoing search for social connectedness and sources of authority in a society increasingly domin...
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    70,34 €

  • Feminine Ingenuity
    Anne L. MacDonald / Anne LMacDonald
    'What useful things have American women conceived of and developed that have contributed to the progress of technology, science, and engineering?' Raise that question, even among educated feminists of the 1990s, and you are likely to be met with a fumbling for names. Raise it among the skeptics of women’s creative talents and they will reply 'Where, after all, is the historical...
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    22,81 €

  • African-American Voices in Young Adult Literature
    Karen Patricia Smith
    Now in paperback! A collection of fourteen essays that address major issues related to significant works of African-American young adult literature. ...
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    128,26 €

  • On the Edge of Destruction
    Celia S. Heller
    On the Edge of Destruction, focusing on the Jews of Poland between the two World Wars, illuminates a critical time in the recent Jewish past that has received surprisingly little attention. The Holocaust virtually destroyed the Jews of Poland, once a community of more than three million, constituting ten percent of the population, and the oldest continuous Jewish community in a...
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    34,65 €

  • Lay My Burden Down
    Jerrold I. Hirsch
    This collection of nearly 300 narratives tells the real story of life under slavery, as told by those who actually lived it. 'Every historian, every teacher, every citizen who is concerned about the problem of intercultural education and understanding will want to read this book'.--Christian Science Monitor. 16 pages of photos. ...
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    17,52 €


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