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  • House of War
    James Carroll
    'A masterful achievement...[Carroll’s] prose is elegant, his viewpoint bold.' --Howard Zinn, author of The People’s History of the United States'One cannot understand the impact of the Pentagon on US foreign policy. . . without reading James Carroll’s House of War.' --Lawrence Korb, former Undersecretary of Defence under Ronald ReaganFrom the National Book Award-winning author ...
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    17,50 €

  • The Popol Vhu
    Steven Selby
    Set in a new world recently created by the Plumed Serpent and Hurikan the Mayan Gods of Creation, the Popol Vuh is the story of how the first humans were created. It is an epic story of the struggle of good over evil set in the oasis of this new world. From the only four remaining Mayan codices, scholars believe that the original Popol Vuh was a collection of intricate calcul...
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    18,90 €

  • Ned Kelly
    Bill Denheld
    The Ned Kelly narrative lacks historical accuracy from the outset. Political figures aim to erase the underlying causes of the 1880s Kelly outbreak, leading to a skewed version of history. Ned Kelly’s personal connections with influential figures of the time are disregarded and omitted from historical records for political expediency. As they say, it’s easier to gloss over inc...
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    65,25 €

  • A savage song
    Margarita Aragon
    This book examines key moments of violent social unrest in the twentieth-century United States. Investigating the centrality of constructions of gender to American racism, it asks how African and Mexican American men responded to the violence of racism, and how their resistance was understood by law enforcement, politicians, and press. ...
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    34,64 €

  • Knox County, Tennessee Minutes of the County Court, 1792-1795
    Works Projects Administration
    By: WPA, Pub. 1941, reprinted 2024, 296 pages, soft cover, Index, ISBN #0-89308-642-8.  These court minutes begin with the creation of the county in 1792. Knox County was created out of Greene & Hawkins and was one of the many Eastern Tennessee counties that saw a great influx of settlers migrating West. In these minutes of pleas & quarters sessions you will find appointments o...
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    45,85 €

  • ORURO: IV Siglos En La Eternidad 1606-2006
    Freddy Sanjinés Montán
    Oruro: IV SIGLOS EN LA ETERNIDAD. Breve visión multifacética de un departamento de Bolivia enclavado en el altiplano de los Andes. Además de valorar los aportes civilizatorios y culturales de la prístina cultura milenaria en Sudamérica, incide en su historia de los últimos cuatrocientos años, en su vida colonial y republicana, desde su fundación como Villa (1606), hasta el naci...
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    54,09 €

  • Great Epochs in American History, Vol. II - The Planting Of The First Colonies
    Francis W. Halsey
    This book 'Great Epochs in American History (Volume 2)- The Planting of the First Colonies: 1562-1733' has been considered important throughout the human history. It has been out of print for decades.So that this work is never forgotten we have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has b...
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    15,84 €

  • A Mountain Boyhood
    Joe Mills
    A Mountain Boyhood, is a classical and a rare book, that has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we at Alpha Editions have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted, retyped and redesigned. These books are not ...
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    23,67 €

  • Mountain life in Algeria
    Edgar Barclay
    Mountain life in Algeria, is a classical and a rare book, that has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we at Alpha Editions have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted, retyped and redesigned. These books ar...
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    21,92 €

  • Apaches
    Víctor Orozco
    Los apaches o Ndee en su propio idioma, formaron una nación que peleó contra españoles, novohispanos (llamémosles así a falta de un gentilicio aceptado) y mexicanos al menos durante dos siglos, desde que fueron identificados entre los habitantes del territorio que hoy ocupan parcialmente Estados Unidos y México. Se caracterizaron por su idioma, su nomadismo, su resistencia a la...
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    26,00 €

  • An American Planter
    Martha Jane Brazy
    Extraordinarily wealthy and influential, Stephen Duncan (1787-1867) was a landowner, slaveholder, and financier with a remarkable array of social, economic, and political contacts in pre-Civil War America. In this, the first biography of Duncan, Martha Jane Brazy offers a compelling new portrait of antebellum life through exploration of Duncan’s multifaceted personal networks i...
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    38,23 €

  • The War That Made America
    This collection of original essays reveals the richness and dynamism of contemporary scholarship on the Civil War era. Inspired by the lines of inquiry that animated the writings of the influential historian Gary W. Gallagher, this volume includes nine essays by leading scholars in the field who explore a broad range of themes and participants in the nation’s greatest conflict,...
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    126,90 €

  • Taiwan Lives
    Niki J. P. Alsford
    Stories of migration, displacement, democratization, and transformationFrom a cradle of Austronesian expansion to the dynamic economic powerhouse and successful democracy it is today, Taiwan is layered in colonial histories. In Taiwan Lives, Niki J. P. Alsford presents a comprehensive examination of the island nation’s rich and complex past, told through the life stories of tho...
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    134,65 €

  • Taiwan Lives
    Niki J. P. Alsford
    Stories of migration, displacement, democratization, and transformationFrom a cradle of Austronesian expansion to the dynamic economic powerhouse and successful democracy it is today, Taiwan is layered in colonial histories. In Taiwan Lives, Niki J. P. Alsford presents a comprehensive examination of the island nation’s rich and complex past, told through the life stories of tho...
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    40,62 €

  • The new politics of Russia
    Andrew Monaghan
    This book offers a crash course in contemporary Russian politics. An updated version of the bestselling 2016 edition, it explores the decline in western relations since the early 2000s, from the disagreements over European security and the war in Syria right up to the invasion of Ukraine. ...
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    25,99 €

  • The new politics of Russia
    Andrew Monaghan
    This book offers a crash course in contemporary Russian politics. An updated version of the bestselling 2016 edition, it explores the decline in western relations since the early 2000s, from the disagreements over European security and the war in Syria right up to the invasion of Ukraine. ...
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    157,50 €

  • ’Abdu’l-Bahá in New York
    Hillary Chapman / Hussein Ahdieh
    Of all the historical, religious and cultural events in the history of the United States, the arrival of ’Abdu’l-Bahá in 1912 was the most important one of all. Many people-from all facets of society-had the honor to meet Him, attend His talks, benefit from His wisdom and witness His benevolence and humility. Their encounter with ’Abdu’l-Bahá was life-altering: He touched the d...
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    10,96 €

  • The History of Silver Lake
    Kathleen Webb / Scott Webb
    The History Of Silver Lake is a captivating book that takes you on a journey through time. With over 135 photos and 20 eclectic chapters, this book will transport you to eras worth reliving. Whether you’re reading for your own pleasure or sharing the book with loved ones, this is a treasure to be cherished for generations to come.Searching through old county archives, the autho...
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    27,33 €

  • Um Boato Assentou Praça No Rossio
    Jorge Artur Dos Santos
    Um boato ronda há século e meio o monumento erigido no centro do Rossio, em Lisboa. Conta-se que a estátua que encima a coluna para homenagear d. Pedro IV - o d. Pedro I brasileiro - representava originalmente Maximiliano da Áustria, fugaz imperador do México. Boato falso, porém resiliente, é ouvido ainda hoje ao pé do monumento. Este texto, resultado de pesquisa em arquivos e ...
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    15,25 €

  • Oceanside History of Alaska
    Mike Coppock
    A history of Alaska’s seaports settled by fisherman, gold seekers, Scandinavians, Native peoples and Russin trappers. It is a time a violent history as these diverse people carved their own isolated world from forests, cliff faces and raging seas. This is a tale of wild men and intrepid women looking for a home from the world they rejected.It is the story of empire builders lik...
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    16,30 €

  • Hollywood’s Imperial Wars
    Armando José Prats
    When the Vietnam War punctured the myth of American military invincibility, Hollywood needed a new kind of war movie. The familiar triumphal narrative was relegated to history and, with it, the heroic legacy that had passed from one generation to the next for more than two hundred years.How Hollywood helped create and instill the American myth of heroic continuity, and how film...
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    63,04 €

  • Essential Lewis and Clark, The
    Landon Y. Jones
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    13,88 €

  • A History of Argentina
    Ezequiel Adamovsky
    In A History of Argentina, originally published in Spanish in 2020, Ezequiel Adamovsky presents over five hundred years of Argentine economic, political, social, and cultural history. Adamovsky highlights the experiences of women, Indigenous communities, and other groups that have traditionally been left out of the historical archive. He focuses on harmful aspects of Spanish co...
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    140,64 €

  • A History of Argentina
    Ezequiel Adamovsky
    In A History of Argentina, originally published in Spanish in 2020, Ezequiel Adamovsky presents over five hundred years of Argentine economic, political, social, and cultural history. Adamovsky highlights the experiences of women, Indigenous communities, and other groups that have traditionally been left out of the historical archive. He focuses on harmful aspects of Spanish co...
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    37,47 €

  • The Prestes Column
    Jacob Blanc
    In The Prestes Column, Jacob Blanc offers a new interpretation of the legendary rebellion, in which a band of rebel officers and soldiers marched fifteen thousand miles through the vast interior regions of Brazil between 1924 and 1927. Blanc’s analysis of the Prestes Column is a showcase of what he calls 'interior history.' At a pivotal moment in national politics, the long mar...
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    138,47 €

  • The Prestes Column
    Jacob Blanc
    In The Prestes Column, Jacob Blanc offers a new interpretation of the legendary rebellion, in which a band of rebel officers and soldiers marched fifteen thousand miles through the vast interior regions of Brazil between 1924 and 1927. Blanc’s analysis of the Prestes Column is a showcase of what he calls 'interior history.' At a pivotal moment in national politics, the long mar...
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    36,61 €

  • Annabellas Story
    Mary Jo Schell
    Annabella, Bella to her family and friends, was sixteen years old when the US Civil War started. Now two years into the war, her Uncle Edwin and cousin Marie are dead, most of the four hundred slaves have run away, and she is responsible--responsible for the one-thousand-acre Johnson Plantation just outside Vicksburg, Mississippi, and the care and safety of her mother and three...
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    12,94 €

  • Abstracts from the Old North State, Pasquotank County, North Carolina, 1849-1850.
    Fouts
    By: Raymond Parker Fouts, Pub. 1996, reprinted 2024, 164 pages, 8 1/2' x 11' soft cover, Index, ISBN #978-1-63914-207-1. Pasquotank County was created in 1739 with the county seat being named Elizabeth City. It lies in the extreme northeast corner of the state located on the Albemarle Sound. Many of her early settlers were from Virginia. This newspaper was published out of Eliz...
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    41,60 €

  • Abstracts from the Edenton Gazette and Farmer’s Palladium, Chowan County, North Carolina, 1830-1831
    Raymond Parker Fouts
    By: Raymond Parker Fouts, Pub. 2006, reprinted 2024, 166 pages, 8 1/2' x 11' soft cover, Index, ISBN #978-163914-208-8. Chowan County was created in 1739 with a county seat named Edenton. It lies in the northeastern corner of the state along the Albemarle Sound. These abstracts not only pertain to persons of Chowan County but surrounding counties of: Bertie, Gates, Halifax, Her...
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    41,63 €

  • An Aide to Custer
    Edward Granger / Sandy Barnard / Thomas Singelyn
    In August 1862, nineteen-year-old Edward G. Granger joined the 5th Michigan Cavalry Regiment as a second lieutenant. On August 20, 1863, the newly promoted Brig. Gen. George Armstrong Custer appointed Granger as one of his aides, a position Granger would hold until his death in August 1864. Many of the forty-four letters the young lieutenant wrote home during those two years, i...
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    42,48 €


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