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  • Capitão José De Almeida Pereira
    Fábio Miranda Rodrigues Miron
    Este é o segundo levantamento documental da série Dossiê, organizado cronologicamente e que apresenta a transcrição de importantes documentos, o qual tem como principal personagem o Capitão José de Almeida Pereira, um grande proprietário de terras no Carurú do século XVIII. Os documentos foram catalogados e apresentados nesta obra, que traça a linha do tempo desta grande person...
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    7,94 €

  • All Rights for All
    Rose O’Keefe
    My dad was born in London. My grandparents were English and they became citizens. Their British outlook on life didn’t match my mother’s Brooklyn Irish Catholic ways or what I had learned from living in France with my family as a girl. Growing up, I watched generational and cultural clashes at holiday meals and saw how grown-ups believed their opinions were right. Reading becam...
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    9,68 €

  • Ancient Stone Sites of New England and the Debate Over Early European Exploration, 2d ed.
    David Goudsward
    In New England today there are megalithic stones, stone chambers and structures, carvings and petroglyphs, even an unidentified skeleton in armor that defy easy explanation. From Maine to Massachusetts, this work examines various unexplained historical remains in New England, exploring not only the layout and dimensions of such sites--some reminiscent of Stonehenge with their h...
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    58,61 €

  • Fannie Hardy Eckstorm - Short Stories and Essays (Annotated)
    Fannie Hardy Eckstorm
    Fannie Hardy Eckstorm was an interpreter of nature, an ornithologist, and expert on early Maine history with scientific habits and a mind for detail. This edition compiles many never before published river-driving stories from Fannie Hardy Eckstorm.In this book you will read about Maine characters Big Sebattis Mitchell, Lewey Ketchum, Life Gulliver, Dan Golden, and the notoriou...
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    23,63 €

  • The Garza War in South Texas
    Thomas Ty Smith
    South Texas and northern Mexico formed a seedbed of revolt in the late nineteenth century. In the 1890s, two decades after he had launched his own successful revolution from South Texas, Mexican president Porfirio Díaz faced a cross-border insurgency intent on toppling his government. The Garza War, so named for the revolutionary firebrand and editor Catarino Erasmo Garza, actu...
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    41,70 €

  • The Big Book of State Facts
    O. Michael Maysam
    Get ready to uncover the United States like never before with 'The Big Book of State Facts.'Dive into 2600+ facts about all 50 states, Washington, DC, and more, revealing the astonishing tapestry of America’s history, culture, and geography.Whether you’re a history buff, a traveler, or just curious, this comprehensive guide promises to enrich your understanding of the diverse a...
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    20,84 €

  • A Brief History of the Salem Witch Trials - Witchcraft Hysteria and Justice in 17th Century Massachusetts
    Scott Matthews
    Are you fascinated by history’s darkest mysteries and the intricate tapestry of human nature? Curious about the forces that led to one of the darkest periods in American history? Wondering how superstition and fear could ignite a whirlwind of chaos and injustice?Dive into the gripping world of 17th-century Massachusetts, where accusations of witchcraft ignited a blaze of hyster...
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    8,51 €

  • Invisible Activists
    Lee Sartain
    Behind the historical accounts of the great men of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People lies the almost forgotten story of the black women who not only participated in the organization but actually helped it thrive in the early twentieth-century South. In Invisible Activists, Lee Sartain examines attitudes toward the gender, class, and citizenship of ...
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    38,34 €

  • Civil War Q&A
    Eric J. Wittenberg / Lloyd W. Klein
    This Civil War sourcebook organizes the crucial details of the war in an inventive format designed to enhance the reader’s knowledge base and big-picture understanding of key events and outcomes. The war’s causes, political and economic issues, important personalities, campaigns and battles are examined. Nearly 200 reader challenges stimulate reviews of critical moments, with s...
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    42,46 €

  • Behind the Controversy
    Roberto Miguel Rodriguez
    "Behind the Controversy" offers a comprehensive exploration into the complex, multifaceted history and operational intricacies of the U.S. Guantanamo Naval Base, commonly known as Guantanamo Bay or Gitmo. Situated on the southeastern tip of Cuba, this facility has been the focal point of numerous international legal and political debates since the turn of the century.Key featur...
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    21,48 €

  • Vintage St. Pete & Pinellas Volume 3
    Bill DeYoung
    The third volume in the Vintage St. Pete series takes another long, loving, deeply nostalgic look at life in Florida’s fastest-growing city before the dawn of the twenty-first century. These lavishly-illustrated stories will strike a chord with anyone who’s ever called St. Petersburg, or Pinellas County, home. Here are the cherished traditions and legends: The annual Festival o...
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    45,15 €

  • PROFILES IN CHARACTER
    J. Phillip London / Jennifer London / Taylor Kiland
    PROFILES IN CHARACTER delves into individual character attributes that shaped and informed these sixteen Americans in their vital roles in history. What singular attribute gave each of them the strength to take monumental risks for a cause or a belief? Was it an early childhood experience? A family dynamic or role model? Their faith? Readers can glean the difficulty in the life...
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    12,72 €

  • Scamps, Scoundrels & Heroes
    Jim Douglas
    Discover the incredible stories of twenty-nine Civil War soldiers from Washington County, Pennsylvania, as told by best-selling author Jim Douglas. With meticulous research, Jim has uncovered the complete story of the soldiers from this county who marched off to war, answering the call of patriotism.Through his book, Jim takes us on a fascinating journey, sharing the lives of t...
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    34,26 €

  • THE COLOR OF ANGELS
    RUSTY KONTOS
    A point of view from the Jim Crow Era no one dared to speak on....until now. The Color of Angels follows a little girl named Sissy who grew up during the late 1950’s. When her father Billy Joe joined the KKK, her family was turned upside down. His hatred for anything not deemed pure by the Klan fueled him to commit unspeakable acts, not only against humanity, but within his fam...
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    36,19 €

  • Energizing Neoliberalism
    Caleb Wellum
    How the 1970s energy crisis facilitated a neoliberal shift in US political culture.In Energizing Neoliberalism, Caleb Wellum offers a provocative account of how the 1970s energy crisis helped to recreate postwar America. Rather than think of the crisis as the obvious outcome of the decade’s 'oil shocks,' Wellum unpacks the cultural construction of a crisis of energy across diff...
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    75,93 €

  • The SideRoad Kids-Book 2
    Sharon Kennedy
    The SideRoad Kids Book 2: A Summer of Discovery takes place throughout the summer of 1958 in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. Readers familiar with The SideRoad Kids: Tales from Chippewa County will be reacquainted with their favorite twelve-year-old characters and their discoveries. Blew learns who his father was. Flint discovers why Uncle Leo is mean. Shirley shares her fears with...
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    16,88 €

  • The SideRoad Kids-Book 2
    Sharon Kennedy
    The SideRoad Kids Book 2: A Summer of Discovery takes place throughout the summer of 1958 in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. Readers familiar with The SideRoad Kids: Tales from Chippewa County will be reacquainted with their favorite twelve-year-old characters and their discoveries. Blew learns who his father was. Flint discovers why Uncle Leo is mean. Shirley shares her fears with...
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    27,36 €

  • Case Files of the Rocky Mountain Paranormal Research Society Volume 1
    Bryan Bonner / Robert Lewis
    Do you enjoy a good ghost story?For nearly a quarter of a century, the Rocky Mountain Paranormal Research Society has investigated ghosts, aliens, cryptids, and all manner of bizarre claims and happenings in Colorado and beyond. Combining historic and scientific research with a love of the weird and scary, they’ve researched and documented some of the best paranormal stories in...
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    23,18 €

  • Escapes from Cayenne
    Léon Chautard / Michaël Roy
    In September 1857, Léon Chautard, Charles Bivors, and Hippolyte Paon arrived in Salem, Massachusetts. These refugees from the French Revolution of 1848 were 'homeless, penniless, friendless, strangers in a strange land, among a people of strange speech,' as one of their advocates, the abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison, later put it. The only thing they had was a story to tell...
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    165,95 €

  • 'Huzza!'
    Timothy Symington
    Raising a glass to toast someone at a wedding or birthday is a familiar and usually informal occurrence, but at one time it was a carefully orchestrated ritual. They were planned, revised, given at an event, and then printed in newspapers. Americans learned who was or was not toasted for early national celebrations: King George III, George Washington, the Fourth of July, Washin...
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    57,27 €

  • Sins of My Brothers
    Phillip Anthony Perry / Phillip A Perry
    Sins of My Brothers is the historic account of a harrowing and gritty tale of survival, a true story fueled by greed, corruption, and incompetence. The confluence of disastrous decisions result in heartbreaking consequences.Canadian-born Robert Knox Sneden answers the call to quell the rebellion enlisting as a 29-year-old map maker. Captured by 'The Gray Ghost' and imprisoned i...
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    35,76 €

  • A Narrative from an Old Confederate
    James W Harmon
    Born in Maury County, Tennessee, in 1843, James Harmon was the eldest of three children whose family’s roots traced back to their grandfather’s service in the War of 1812. After moving to Florence, Alabama, Harmon helped in his family’s furniture business until leaving for school at LaGrange Military Academy.Things changed abruptly for Harmon in the years 1860-61, as political ...
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    4,58 €

  • South Carolina Marriage and Death Notices 1863
    Baron Munson
    This is the third Volume in the series, South Carolina Marriage and Death Notices, and this compilation of names was taken from the following newspapers: Enfield Advertiser, Yorkville Enquirer, Lancaster Ledger, Abbeville Press, The Camden Confederate, and The Southern Enterprise. There are over 300 names indexed, among them deceased citizens and. South Carolina Confederate ...
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    18,62 €

  • Queen City Yesterdays
    William C. Smith
    In 'Queen City Yesterdays,' William C. Smith describes the everyday life of his youth in the West End of 1880s Cincinnati. Short chapters describe in detail material and cultural life in urban Cincinnati: Central Avenue, School Days, Games, Chores, Literary Fare, Eating Habits, Social Customs, Entertainment, Sartorial Scenery, Cincinnati Saloon, Tailpiece. This is a reprint of ...
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    18,67 €

  • Negotiating relief and freedom
    Oscar Webber
    This book investigates both short- and long-term responses to disaster in the British Caribbean. It is the first to examine the informal negotiations that took place on the ground between the colonial authorities and the African-Caribbean population, and the formal negotiations undertaken by colonies as they sought financial aid from Parliament. ...
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    157,59 €

  • Muddy Ground
    John William Nelson
    In early North America, carrying watercraft—usually canoes—and supplies across paths connecting one body of water to another was essential in the establishment of both Indigenous and European mobility in the continent’s interior. The Chicago portage, a network of overland canoe routes that connected the Great Lakes and Mississippi watersheds, grew into a crossroads of interacti...
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    38,02 €

  • Making the Latino South
    Cecilia Márquez
    In the 1940s South, it seemed that non-Black Latino people were on the road to whiteness. In fact, in many places throughout the region governed by Jim Crow, they were able to attend white schools, live in white neighborhoods, and marry white southerners. However, by the early 2000s, Latino people in the South were routinely cast as 'illegal aliens' and targeted by some of the ...
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    126,89 €

  • Making the Latino South
    Cecilia Márquez
    In the 1940s South, it seemed that non-Black Latino people were on the road to whiteness. In fact, in many places throughout the region governed by Jim Crow, they were able to attend white schools, live in white neighborhoods, and marry white southerners. However, by the early 2000s, Latino people in the South were routinely cast as 'illegal aliens' and targeted by some of the ...
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    35,42 €

  • Muddy Ground
    John William Nelson
    In early North America, carrying watercraft—usually canoes—and supplies across paths connecting one body of water to another was essential in the establishment of both Indigenous and European mobility in the continent’s interior. The Chicago portage, a network of overland canoe routes that connected the Great Lakes and Mississippi watersheds, grew into a crossroads of interacti...
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    126,88 €

  • 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 €


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