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  • Manhattan Country Doctor
    Milton J. Slocum / Milton Jonathan Slocum
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    17,85 €

  • Out of Weakness
    Andrew Bard Schmookler / Andrew Schmookler
    A sweeping social critique in the tradition of Christopher Lasch’s The Culture of Narcissism that explores the irrational and unconscious forces that drive people to make war. ...
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    16,36 €

  • ’At Duty’s Call’
    W. J. Reader / WJReader
    In this book, Reader attempts to understand the extraordinary mass voluntary enlistment of two and a half million men in the British army in the first sixteenth months of the Great War ...
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    32,53 €

  • Studies in Ecstatic Kabbalah
    Moshe Idel
    This book presents important topics regarding the more mystical trend of Kabbalah-the ecstatic Kabbalah. It includes the mystical union, the world of imagination, and concentration as a spiritual technique. The emphasis in the text is on the interaction between the 'original' Spanish stage of Kabbalah and Muslim mysticism in the East, mainly in the Galilee. The influence of ...
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    41,00 €

  • Persistence and Flexibility
    Using a variety of anthropological approaches, the authors illustrate how the Jewish identity has persisted in the United States despite great subcultural variation and a wide range of adaptations. Within the various essays, attention is given to both mainstream Jews and to the Hasidim, Yemenites, Indian Sephardim, Soviet Emigres, and 'Jews for Jesus.' Institutions such as the...
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    43,13 €

  • Dictionary of Medieval Knighthood and Chivalry
    Bradford Broughton
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    103,37 €

  • British Intelligence and the Formation Of a Policy Toward Russia, 1917-18
    Darvin Babiuk
    Internal collapse and a succession of varying Russian governments in 1917 necessitated the need for British policy makers to re-evaluate their attitudes toward Russia. It is well-known that this ultimately evolved into hostility towards Bolshevism. What is not so evident is how this decision was arrived at. Nor was it as clear-cut as one might believe. This book makes use of bo...
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    29,36 €

  • Photographing Your Heritage
    Wilma Sadler Shull
    Your camera can help add to your written family legacy. Photographing documents in a library, reading gravestones in a cemetery, copying photographs, and many other useful techniques are fully explained by the author. This informative book was written to address the needs of the novice and the avid shutterbug alike. It offers a complete description of how to use photography in ...
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    21,15 €

  • Photographing Your Heritage
    Wilma Sadler Shull
    Your camera can help add to your written family legacy. Photographing documents in a library, reading gravestones in a cemetery, copying photographs, and many other useful techniques are fully explained by the author. This informative book was written to address the needs of the novice and the avid shutterbug alike. It offers a complete description of how to use photography in ...
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    7,75 €

  • Burning Lights
    Bella Chagall / Norbert Guterman
    This is a charming portrait of childhood in the Russian market town where the great painter and his wife grew up. Bella’s warm, humorous stories of her pious Jewish family are illustrated by 36 of her husband’s pen-and-ink line drawings. ...
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    16,83 €

  • Ideas of Jewish History
    Michael A Meyer
    Despite the vicissitudes of their anomalous historical experience, the Jews survive as am identifiable entity. They have withstood one challenge after another — both physical and intellectual — somehow maintaining an historical continuity. How Jewish writers have dealt with this enigma serves as the subject of this volume. With these words from the Preface, Michael A. Meyer ch...
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    34,77 €

  • Oxen, Women, or Citizens?
    Paul Virgil McCracken Flesher
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    26,71 €

  • Goyim
    Gary G. Porton / Gary GPorton
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    42,27 €

  • Dedan Kĩmathi Speaks
    Maina wa Kinyatt
    Extensive archives belonging to the Mau Mau were long held by the British and were not made available widely. This book, written by one of the foremost researchers on the Mau Mau, is a result of years of village-level research which also recovered some of the movements most important papers. Translated into English, they clarify the movement’s own perspectives on their struggle...
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    43,28 €

  • A Living Tree
    Arthur Rosett / Arthur Rossett / Elliot N. Dorff / Elliot NDorff
    This book examines biblical and rabbinic law as a coherent, continuing legal tradition. It explains the relationship between religion and law and the interaction between law and morality. Abundant selections from primary Jewish sources, many newly translated, enable the reader to address the tradition directly as a living body of law with emphasis on the concerns that are pri...
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    45,79 €

  • The Mystical Experience in Abraham Abulafia
    Moshe Idel
    The first wide-scale presentation of a major Jewish mystic, the founder of the ecstatic Kabbalah. ...
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    43,35 €

  • Imperialism and Popular Culture
    John M. MacKenzie
    Popular culture is invariably a vehicle for the dominant ideas of its age. Never was this more true than in the late-19th and early 20th centuries, when it reflected the nationalist and imperialist ideologies current throughout Europe. This text examines the various media through which nationalist ideas were conveyed in late-Victorian and Edwardian times - in the theatre, 'ethn...
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    33,11 €

  • The History of al-Ṭabarī Vol. 4
    Moshe Perlmann
    In this volume Ṭabarī takes up the history of the ancient world, focusing on the Iranians and the Israelites after the time of Solomon. He establishes a comparative chronology between the two nations; viewing Bahman, the Persian king, as the son of Esther, and his daughter, Khumani, the mother of Darius. Ṭabarī’s synchronization also leads him into a discussion of North and Sou...
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    42,20 €

  • Pitfalls in Genealogical Research
    Milton Rubincam
    Written with both wit and academic integrity, the eminent Mr. Rubincam’s monograph is a must-read for all genealogists. This book alerts novices to common mistakes and frauds, and reminds more seasoned researchers what constitutes good genealogy. ...
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    8,36 €

  • Moral Imperium
    Paul Worth / Ronald Kent Richardson
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    82,71 €

  • Zanzibar in Contemporary Times
    Robert Nunez Lyne
    'It has been my endeavour in the following chapters to describe briefly the most interesting persons and events that are connected with the history of the Rulers of Zanzibar and their Dominions on the East Coast of Africa during the nineteenth century, and do give some account of this Island of the Southern East, its people and industries.'So writes the author in his preface to...
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    70,94 €

  • A Shtetl and Other Yiddish Novellas
    Ruth Wisse
    The five short novellas which comprise this anthology were written between 1890 and World War I. All share a common setting—the Eastern European Jewish town or shtetl, and all deal in different ways with a single topic—the Jewish confrontation with modernity. The authors of these novellas are among the greatest masters of Yiddish prose. In their work, today's reader will di...
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    39,40 €

  • The Antislavery Rank and File
    Edward Magdol / Unknown
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    95,78 €

  • The Enduring South
    John Shelton Reed
    First published in 1972, The Enduring South challenges the conventional wisdom that economic development, urbanization, and the end of racial segregation spelled the end of a distinctive Southern culture. In this edition, John Reed updates the public opinion data to the 1980s and reinforces the book’s original conclusions: Southerners are different and are likely to stay that w...
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    54,88 €

  • The Arab and the African
    S Tristram Pruen
    This little-know work, first published in 1891 and here reproduced in facsimile, provides a first-hand account of the slave trade in British and German East Africa during the latter years of the nineteenth century.The author, a Christian missionary, tempers his descriptions of this shocking trade with an unusually sympathetic view of both the African slave and the Arab trader. ...
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    47,73 €

  • East of the Jordan
    Selah Merrill
    First published in 1881, East of the Jordan recounts the results of an archaeological expedition organised by the American Palestine Exploration Society in 1875-77. In two years the expedition members covered much of the region between Lake Tiberias (Sea of Galilee) and the Dead Sea, in the upper and lower Jordan Valley. Along with meticulous descriptions of the major towns and...
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    82,41 €

  • The French Peasantry in the Seventeenth Century
    Pierre Goubert / Ian J. Patterson / Ian JPatterson
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    35,88 €

  • Plymouth Colony
    Eugene Aubrey Stratton
    This is the first truly complete treatment of the history and genealogy of Plymouth Colony. It includes a concise history of the colony, both chronologically and topically, and more than 300 biographical sketches of its inhabitants. Richly documented and illustrated with maps and photographs, the three-dimensional Plymouth Colony: Its History & People, 1620-1691 was written for...
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    33,19 €

  • Plymouth Colony
    Eugene Aubrey Stratton
    This is the first truly complete treatment of the history and genealogy of Plymouth Colony. It includes a concise history of the colony, both chronologically and topically, and more than 300 biographical sketches of its inhabitants. Richly documented and illustrated with maps and photographs, the three-dimensional Plymouth Colony: Its History & People, 1620-1691 was written for...
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    25,36 €

  • Texas Quilts
    Texas Heritage Quilt Society
    (From the introduction) Collectively, these quilts and their stories tell the story of the women of Texas-hardships endured and overcome, friendships made, churches, schools, and communities established, of births, marriages, deaths-all the myriad experiences of mothers, daughters, sisters who created from whatever resources available, a bit of beauty in their quilts...These 't...
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    25,59 €


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