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  • Crowns and colonies
    Explores the multiple connections between European monarchs and their overseas colonies ...
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    46,28 €

  • Women in American Cartography
    Judith Tyner
    Although women have been involved in mapping throughout history, their story has largely been hidden. The standard histories of cartography have focused on men. A woman’s name is rarely found. In Women in American Cartography, Judith Tyner argues that women were not deliberately erased but overlooked because of the types of maps they made and the jobs they held.Tyner looks at o...
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    54,66 €

  • THESSALONIKI WALKING AROUND KASSANDROU STREET
    IOANNIS ARTOPOULOS
    The term ’history’ is used here to describe a compilation of events that were captured as memories, information and images in literature, family photos or postcards of the area of Kassandrou street an integral part of the 'upper city'. The top part of the 'upper city' is marked by the northern part of the ancient and Byzantine walls, which once surrounded the city. This used t...
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    28,55 €

  • The 1825 Voyage Of HMS Blonde
    Larry W Jones
    Scottish botanist James Macrae traveled with Lord Byron on HMS Blonde during its 1824-1825 voyage from England to the Hawaiian Islands. A primary purpose of the expedition was to return the bodies of King Kamehameha II (Liholiho) and Queen Kamāmalu, both of whom had died of measles during a diplomatic visit to Britain. Macrae also brought plants to Hawai’i and made observations...
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    48,59 €

  • Buffalo
    A. E. Richmond / AERichmond
    The New Wonder of the World. Buffalo: The Electric City. This public domain work is a republishing of A. E. Richmond’s 1892 book explaining the evolution of Buffalo - from the Queen City of the Lakes to the Electric City of the World - thanks to the limitless energy provided by the mighty Niagara River. ...
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    11,78 €

  • Dependant Brethren of Sussex and Surrey
    Roger Nash
    A history of a Christian sect called The Dependant Brethren, known locally as Cokelers, founded in 1850 by preacher John Sirgood in Loxwood and other villages on the Sussex-Surrey borders. Larger communities set up 'Combination Stores' selling absolutely everything, and spent long hours in their small chapels. The book includes detailed descriptions of each community together w...
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    34,70 €

  • The Poverty of Planning
    Benno Engels
    Using a neo-Marxian perspective, Benno Engels examines the absence of urban planning in nineteenth-century England. In his analysis of urbanization in England, Engels considers the influences of property owners, inheritance laws, local government structures, fiscal crises of the local and central state, shifts in voter sentiments, fluctuating economic conditions, and class-base...
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    197,03 €

  • Galápagos
    Randy Moore
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    141,33 €

  • Shipwrecked
    Jamin Wells
    Reframing the American story from the vantage point of the nation’s watery edges, Jamin Wells shows that disasters have not only bedeviled the American beach--they created it. Though the American beach is now one of the most commercialized, contested, and engineered places on the planet, few people visited it or called it home at the beginning of the nineteenth century. By the ...
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    126,98 €

  • Shipwrecked
    Jamin Wells
    Reframing the American story from the vantage point of the nation’s watery edges, Jamin Wells shows that disasters have not only bedeviled the American beach--they created it. Though the American beach is now one of the most commercialized, contested, and engineered places on the planet, few people visited it or called it home at the beginning of the nineteenth century. By the ...
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    41,46 €

  • Letters from a Troopship
    Seymour McCarraher
    This is a time when the world was in utter disarray. Germany had capitulated and victory over the Japanese lay just around the corner. Military personnel found themselves far from home and it was the job of the S.S. Strathaird and countless ships like her to repatriate their human cargo (both allied and enemy) to the far outreaches of the globe.Seymour’s letters home take us fr...
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    13,83 €

  • Socio-Environmental Dynamics Along the Historical Silk Road
    Hans-Rudolf Bork / Steffen Mischke / Xiuqi Fang
    This open access book discusses socio-environmental interactions in the middle to late Holocene, covering specific areas along the ancient Silk Road regions. Over twenty chapters provide insight into this topic from various disciplinary angles and perspectives, ranging from archaeology, paleoclimatology, antiquity, historical geography, agriculture, carving art and literacy. Th...
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    92,45 €

  • Socio-Environmental Dynamics Along the Historical Silk Road
    Hans-Rudolf Bork / Steffen Mischke / Xiuqi Fang
    This open access book discusses socio-environmental interactions in the middle to late Holocene, covering specific areas along the ancient Silk Road regions. Over twenty chapters provide insight into this topic from various disciplinary angles and perspectives, ranging from archaeology, paleoclimatology, antiquity, historical geography, agriculture, carving art and literacy. Th...
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    106,81 €

  • Martin Waldseemüller’s ’Carta Marina’ of 1516
    Chet Van Duzer
    This open access book presents the first detailed study of one of the most important masterpieces of Renaissance cartography, Martin Waldseemüller’s Carta marina of 1516. By transcribing, translating into English, and detailing the sources of all of the descriptive texts on the map, as well as the sources of many of the images, the book makes the map available to scholars in a ...
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    72,70 €

  • Martin Waldseemüller’s ’Carta Marina’ of 1516
    Chet Van Duzer
    This open access book presents the first detailed study of one of the most important masterpieces of Renaissance cartography, Martin Waldseemüller’s Carta marina of 1516. By transcribing, translating into English, and detailing the sources of all of the descriptive texts on the map, as well as the sources of many of the images, the book makes the map available to scholars in a ...
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    57,18 €

  • Entre Mers-Outre-mer
    Kolditz Sebastian / Nikolas Jaspert
    The history of individual seascapes has recently become a vibrant and innovative field of research. Nonetheless, connections between seas (entre mers) and the imagination of lands „beyond the Sea' (Outre-mer) have only rarely been focused in these contexts. This is precisely the main aim of the present collection of essays, which results from a conference held at Heidelberg Uni...
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    54,05 €

  • Entre Mers-Outre-mer
    Kolditz Sebastian / Nikolas Jaspert
    The history of individual seascapes has recently become a vibrant and innovative field of research. Nonetheless, connections between seas (entre mers) and the imagination of lands „beyond the Sea' (Outre-mer) have only rarely been focused in these contexts. This is precisely the main aim of the present collection of essays, which results from a conference held at Heidelberg Uni...
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    68,41 €

  • Fish, Fishing and Community in North Korea and Neighbours
    Robert Winstanley-Chesters
    This open access book explores the histories and geographies of fishing in North Korea and the surrounding nations. With the ideological and environmental history of North Korea in mind, the book examines the complex interactions between local communities, fish themselves, wider ecosystems and the politics of Pyongyang through the lens of critical geography, fisheries statistic...
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    76,98 €

  • Fish, Fishing and Community in North Korea and Neighbours
    Robert Winstanley-Chesters
    This open access book explores the histories and geographies of fishing in North Korea and the surrounding nations. With the ideological and environmental history of North Korea in mind, the book examines the complex interactions between local communities, fish themselves, wider ecosystems and the politics of Pyongyang through the lens of critical geography, fisheries statistic...
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    62,62 €

  • The Encyclopedia of Quizzes
    Stephen R. Baker / Stephen RBaker
    The novel format of The Encyclopedia of Quizzes provides a fun way to both acquire facts and to retrieve and retain them. They are presented as active participatory exercises designed to expand your knowledge base. Each of these 730 QUIZZES consists of an ensemble of 20 or more clues and response choices sharing a common topical relationship. The answers to each quiz can be fou...
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    27,12 €

  • Seeking Our Irish Kinfolk
    Edward J. Hedican / Edward JHedican
    Even if you do not share the same surname as me, or even if your ancestors did not come from Ireland as mine did, you can still learn a lot from this book about searching for your own relatives. This book details the step-by-step process that I used to discover my own family roots and you too can follow this format just about anywhere where public and church records are kept. I...
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    35,97 €

  • Seeking Our Irish Kinfolk
    Edward J. Hedican / Edward JHedican
    Even if you do not share the same surname as me, or even if your ancestors did not come from Ireland as mine did, you can still learn a lot from this book about searching for your own relatives. This book details the step-by-step process that I used to discover my own family roots and you too can follow this format just about anywhere where public and church records are kept. I...
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    42,07 €

  • A Cornish Colony in Mexico
    Michael T. Kiernan / Michael TKiernan
    The connection between the two countries of Mexico and Cornwall is remarkable. In numerical terms, Mexico is not a destination which involved great numbers of the Cornish diaspora, the USA and Australia and, to a lesser extent, South Africa have a far more expansive story to tell. Mexico is a complex country with a different language, society and religion and, importantly, with...
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    38,21 €

  • 'THE NURSERY OF THE BREED' REGISTERED HOLSTEINS IN CENTRAL NEW YORK STATE
    Terrence Grant
    About the Author: Terrence Grant is a graduate of Central Texas Collage and the State University of New York at Brockport. He served six years in the United States Air Force in Washington D.C., eight years as a town and village justice in Caledonia, New York and four years as a town councilman in Leicester, New York. With his wife Mary and daughter Ashley they have owned regist...
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    74,62 €

  • Choose You This Day
    Dick Derksen
    The Derksen family has come to Wuestenfelde as refugees from Friesland, Mennonites that have fled the persecution of all Anabaptists, primarily due to the debacle of their takeover of Muenster in north Germany. Misguided followers of Melchior Hoffmann, a bombastic preacher that everyone loved to hate had taken over this city to make it the beginning of the Kingdom of Christ on ...
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    34,58 €

  • Choose You This Day
    Dick Derksen
    The Derksen family has come to Wuestenfelde as refugees from Friesland, Mennonites that have fled the persecution of all Anabaptists, primarily due to the debacle of their takeover of Muenster in north Germany. Misguided followers of Melchior Hoffmann, a bombastic preacher that everyone loved to hate had taken over this city to make it the beginning of the Kingdom of Christ on ...
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    30,24 €

  • Empire and mobility in the long nineteenth century
    Mobility was central to the construction, maintenance and dissolution of empires. This book reflects on the social, cultural and political significance of mobile subjects, practices and infrastructures to the British empire from the 1750s through to the 1940s. ...
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    157,55 €

  • The geographical lore of the time of the crusades; a study in the history of medieval science and tradition in western Europe
    John Kirtland Wright
    This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. So that the book is never forgotten we have represented this book in a print format as the same form as it was originally first published. Hence any marks or annotations seen are left intentionally to preserve ...
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    29,06 €

  • Where Caciques and Mapmakers Met
    Jeffrey Alan Erbig Jr.
    During the late eighteenth century, Portugal and Spain sent joint mapping expeditions to draw a nearly 10,000-mile border between Brazil and Spanish South America. These boundary commissions were the largest ever sent to the Americas and coincided with broader imperial reforms enacted throughout the hemisphere. Where Caciques and Mapmakers Met considers what these efforts meant...
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    44,58 €

  • Where Caciques and Mapmakers Met
    Jeffrey Alan Erbig Jr.
    During the late eighteenth century, Portugal and Spain sent joint mapping expeditions to draw a nearly 10,000-mile border between Brazil and Spanish South America. These boundary commissions were the largest ever sent to the Americas and coincided with broader imperial reforms enacted throughout the hemisphere. Where Caciques and Mapmakers Met considers what these efforts meant...
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    126,90 €


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