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  • Dandelion Wishes
    Lisa King
    'Choice is power, and Coral has none.'For nine-year-old Coral, life revolves around her family. Dad says finding the old boarding house in Fitzroy is fortuitous, given war is just around the corner. Coral doesn’t know what that word means, only that they’re together. But Melbourne in 1940 is anything but predictable, and Coral and her brothers find themselves in the care of the...
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    20,72 €

  • The 7 Deadly Myths
    Alex Ryvchin
    This revised and supplemented second edition features some of the author’s most probing essays and speeches on antisemitism, published here for the first time.'With clarity and penetrating insight, Alex Ryvchin unravels the mystery of antisemitism… Mandatory reading for anyone concerned with the ethical fate of the human race.' ― Isaac Herzog, President of the State of IsraelTh...
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    21,25 €

  • The Famous Lady Lovers
    Cookie Woolner
    Black queer women have shaped American culture since long before the era of gay liberation. Decades prior to the Stonewall Uprising, in the 1920s and 1930s, Black 'lady lovers'—as women who loved women were then called—crafted a queer world. In the cabarets, rent parties, speakeasies, literary salons, and universities of the Jazz Age and Great Depression, communities of Black l...
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    31,79 €

  • The Famous Lady Lovers
    Cookie Woolner
    Black queer women have shaped American culture since long before the era of gay liberation. Decades prior to the Stonewall Uprising, in the 1920s and 1930s, Black 'lady lovers'—as women who loved women were then called—crafted a queer world. In the cabarets, rent parties, speakeasies, literary salons, and universities of the Jazz Age and Great Depression, communities of Black l...
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    127,17 €

  • Reciprocal Mobilities
    Mark Dizon
    Throughout the eighteenth century, independent Indigenous people from the borderlands of the Philippines visited the centers of Spanish colonial rule in the archipelago. Their travels are the counternarratives to one-dimensional stories of Spanish conquest of, and Indigenous resistance in, interior frontiers. Indigenous inhabitants on the island of Luzon constantly moved about—...
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    126,92 €

  • Reciprocal Mobilities
    Mark Dizon
    Throughout the eighteenth century, independent Indigenous people from the borderlands of the Philippines visited the centers of Spanish colonial rule in the archipelago. Their travels are the counternarratives to one-dimensional stories of Spanish conquest of, and Indigenous resistance in, interior frontiers. Indigenous inhabitants on the island of Luzon constantly moved about—...
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    38,06 €

  • Popular Radicalism and the Unemployed in Chicago during the Great Depression
    Chris Wright
    In a time when mass joblessness and precarious employment are becoming issues of national concern, it is useful to reconsider the experiences of the unemployed in an earlier period of economic hardship, the Great Depression. Focusing on the bellwether city of Chicago, this book reevaluates their struggles, revealing the kernel of political radicalism and class resistance in pra...
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    50,04 €

  • The Dream of Social Justice and Bad Moral Luck
    Alice Nakhimovsky
    This volume examines the intertwined lives of six women and three men, Russian Jews in the first half of the twentieth century, as their belief in the Soviet dream unraveled. Under what circumstances did they bow to political pressures, and under what circumstances did they resist, even heroically?  ...
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    185,96 €

  • Black Cultural Capital
    In antebellum America, Black children, even those of tax-paying Blacks in most states could not attend White public schools or in some states any schools. Nevertheless, with the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863, Blacks assumed they would receive all inalienable rights granted to them as American freedmen. For most, the right to a proper public education for thei...
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    71,30 €

  • Black Cultural Capital
    In antebellum America, Black children, even those of tax-paying Blacks in most states could not attend White public schools or in some states any schools. Nevertheless, with the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863, Blacks assumed they would receive all inalienable rights granted to them as American freedmen. For most, the right to a proper public education for thei...
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    127,57 €

  • Multatuli
    Christopher Ford / Multatuli
    "Multatuli: Leven en Werken" is een diepgaande verkenning van het leven en de literaire nalatenschap van Eduard Douwes Dekker, beter bekend onder zijn pseudoniem Multatuli. Dit boek werpt een helder licht op de verschillende facetten van zijn leven, zijn invloedrijke werken en zijn impact op de Nederlandse literaire en intellectuele geschiedenis.De roman "Max Havelaar" neemt ee...
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    19,76 €

  • Spectacles and the Victorians
    Gemma Almond-Brown
    This book explores how the Victorians standardised vision and transformed spectacle use. It offers new insights into how technology and its adoption in medical and non-medical contexts shaped, and continues to shape, our understanding of sensory perception and the assimilation of assistive devices. ...
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    157,15 €

  • Introducing Roman Declamation
    Mario Lentano / William Short
    A new overview of Roman declamation, one of the least studied but most important genres of ancient literature. Letano presents an original way of looking at aspects of major relevance to Roman culture of the imperial period. ...
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    111,36 €

  • Captain Philip Beaver’s African Journal
    Captain Philip Beaver’s journal, originally published in 1805, recounts his attempt to establish a colony in West Africa with British settlers to demonstrate that cooperation between Africans and Europeans could supply the tropical produce provided by West Indian plantations, so proving the unhumanitarian transatlantic slave trade to be unnecessary. ...
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    237,80 €

  • Radical Play
    Rob Goldberg
    In Radical Play Rob Goldberg recovers a little-known history of American children’s culture in the 1960s and 1970s by showing how dolls, guns, action figures, and other toys galvanized and symbolized new visions of social, racial, and gender justice. From a nationwide movement to oppose the sale of war toys during the Vietnam War to the founding of the company Shindana Toys by ...
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    138,29 €

  • Radical Play
    Rob Goldberg
    In Radical Play Rob Goldberg recovers a little-known history of American children’s culture in the 1960s and 1970s by showing how dolls, guns, action figures, and other toys galvanized and symbolized new visions of social, racial, and gender justice. From a nationwide movement to oppose the sale of war toys during the Vietnam War to the founding of the company Shindana Toys by ...
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    36,43 €

  • The Rise and Demise of the Largest Sailing Ships
    Allan B Wood
    Immerse yourself in the height of the 'Golden Age of Sail' in the early 1900s, when America’s insatiable appetite for coal and building materials encouraged shipbuilders to design and construct the world’s largest sailing ships. Ten original giant six-masted schooners and the only seven-masted vessel, the Thomas W. Lawson, were built between 1900-1909, all measuring over the le...
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    36,35 €

  • The Rise and Demise of the Largest Sailing Ships
    Allan B Wood
    Immerse yourself in the height of the 'Golden Age of Sail' in the early 1900s, when America’s insatiable appetite for coal and building materials encouraged shipbuilders to design and construct the world’s largest sailing ships. Ten original giant six-masted schooners and the only seven-masted vessel, the Thomas W. Lawson, were built between 1900-1909, all measuring over the le...
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    23,81 €

  • Contradictions
    Barbara Gothard
    In Contradictions - Bringing The Past Forward, artist Barbara Gothard visually interprets and honors the legacy of twenty-three African-AmericanHomesteaders, who settled in the Eastern Mojave Desert in 1910, in the context of her own lived experience as an African American female artist living in the desert, share their stories via public presentations. The research-based m...
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    34,01 €

  • The British Empire through buildings
    John M MacKenzie / John M. MacKenzie
    Imperialism is strikingly represented in its buildings. This work illuminates the dispersal of colonial culture and religious forms, social classes, and racial divisions over two centuries, from the establishment of colonial rule to a post-colonial world. It will be a vital reading for all students of imperial history and global material culture. ...
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    54,86 €

  • If These Walls Could Talk
    Shirley R Hawkins
    If These Walls Could Talk is a fascinating journey into the world of the blind and vision impaired. It is the story of 508 St. James Street in the historical Jackson Ward district in Richmond, Virginia. ...
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    21,72 €

  • A Brief History of Valence House
    In 2021 Valence House commissioned Dr Nick Holder and Anna Mason to produce a historical narrative for Valence House, using existing knowledge and new research. The result was an extensive and comprehensive document detailing the history of Valence House and its estate from the 1250s through to the present day.For a small rural estate that was not of high status, Valence is exc...
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    10,68 €

  • Acknowledging Radical Histories
    Chris Time Steele / Gerald Horne
    In this collection of conversations, Dr. Horne confronts the history of settler colonialism and fighting fascism while giving dazzling insights on Jazz, Claude Barnett, Paul Robeson, W.E.B. Du Bois, and Shirley Graham Du Bois, while delivering deeper insights into the histories of Kenya, Zimbabwe, and South Africa. Chris Steele’s curiosity as an interviewer creates dialogues wh...
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    22,29 €

  • The Personality of Paris
    Alan R. H. Baker
    What was the personality of 19th-century Paris? To answer that question, this book eschews the conventional narrative and chronological route taken by most histories of Paris. Instead, it thematically analyses the complex personality traits of Paris from the onset of the Revolution of 1789 to the beginning of the Great War. Starting with the topographical and cultural legacies ...
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    57,88 €

  • I Woke Up Black | What My Eyes Have Seen, My Ears Have Heard, and My Heart Has Felt
    Marvin Michael O’Bryant
    'I Woke Up Black' by Marvin Michael O’Bryant is a story inspired by real-life experiences. It follows the life of Marvin, who has witnessed decades of depression, poverty, and a lack of motivation in a nation struggling with love and respect. Despite these challenges, Marvin believes in the importance of respecting one another and finding value in every individual to bring out ...
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    32,34 €

  • The Moorish Guide
    Gov V Taylor El - Minister Khnum / Gov V Taylor El / Minister Khnum
    Wake UpAll ascended masters whom common men call prophets have concluded that the vast majority of humanity are sleeping their way through life, never experiencing the true reality of life. Most people’s beliefs are falsely assumed and even more corruptly practiced while the truth about life is kept locked away in secret societies for both of their preservation. Ignorance is on...
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    34,55 €

  • Manor on the Viridian Sea
    Eleanor P Sam / Eleanor P Sam
    Jemma Worley, a Canadian millennial, has manipulated her lover, a wealthy architect, into purchasing the seaside manor of her dreams. Located on a palm-fringed Caribbean Island, it seems the fulfillment of her fantasies and lifestyle ambitions. But no sooner has she moved in than the ground of her familiar assumptions gives way. She is sent spiralling through a series of revela...
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    16,03 €

  • Black Trivia Book
    Lance D. Williams
    This book has 38 rounds of wide-ranging information about Black history, sports, entertainment, business, education, politics, and many other things with African Americans and Black people worldwide. You can do the 800 multiple-choice trivia by yourself to see how much you know. Or do this activity with others to see how much they know. ...
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    21,76 €

  • ​India​
    F. Max Muller
    'India: What Can it Teach Us?' is a collection of lectures delivered by Friedrich Max Müller, a prominent 19th-century German philologist and Orientalist. The book was first published in 1882 and is a compilation of seven lectures where Müller delves into the ancient sacred texts and philosophical traditions of India. He explores the rich cultural and spiritual heritage of Ind...
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    30,05 €

  • Grace O’Malley
    History Nerds
    Entdecken Sie die faszinierende Geschichte von Grace O’Malley - der Piratin, Ehefrau, Mutter und Kriegerin, die in einer Zeit, in der Frauen unterdrückt wurden, ihren eigenen Weg ging. In diesem Buch finden Sie eine spannende Zusammenfassung von Graces Leben und ihrem Vermächtnis, das bis heute als Symbol für Freiheit und Unabhängigkeit steht.Erfahren Sie, wie Grace ihr Leben a...
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    10,57 €


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