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  • Genealogy and Identity
    Zoe A. Pappas
    This book is a reprint of an academic treatise completed and copyrighted in 2008. Its objective was to illuminate unobserved connections between genealogical statements in the ancient Greek myths and the historical shift of political power westward from the Greek cities of coastal Asia Minor to the well-known metropoleis of mainland Greece. This shift characterized the centurie...
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    36,77 €

  • Cold is the Dawn
    Charles Egan
    Hunger deepened in Ireland in 1848 as the potato crop failed again.In London, the government, alarmed by austerity in England and revolution in Europe, refused to re-open the soup kitchens in Ireland. But, worse still, they refused to halt food exports from the starving country.Emigration quickened as many were evicted, and many more fled from a wasted land. They worked the wat...
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    41,33 €

  • Durch Bosnien und die Hercegovina kreuz und quer
    Heinrich Renner
    Heinrich Renner's travelogue was published 14 years after Austria-Hungary had occupied Bosnia and Herzegovina based on the mandate of the Berlin Treaty of 1878. When Renner, in 1892, describes the effects of this annexation, he himself speaks of an 'achievement unprecedented in colonial history' – a wording which classifies the annexation as one particular phenomenon of the...
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    35,01 €

  • Ancient Scottish Lake Dwellings Or Crannogs
    Robert Munro
    Ancient Scottish Lake Dwellings Or Crannogs: With A Supplementary Chapter On Remains Of Lake-Dwellings In EnglandThis book is a result of an effort made by us towards making a contribution to the preservation and repair of original classic literature.In an attempt to preserve, improve and recreate the original content, we have worked towards:1. Type-setting & Reformatting: The ...
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    21,89 €

  • The British Empire through buildings
    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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    52,53 €

  • A U-Turn to the Future
    From local bike-sharing initiatives to overhauls of transport infrastructure, mobility is one of the most important areas in which modern cities are trying to realize a more sustainable future. Yet even as politicians and planners look ahead, there remain critical insights to be gleaned from the history of urban mobility and the unsustainable practices that still impact our e...
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    174,82 €

  • Stonewall’s Prussian Mapmaker
    Prussian-born cartographer Oscar Hinrichs was a key member of Stonewall Jackson’s staff, collaborated on maps with Jedediah Hotchkiss, and worked alongside such prominent Confederate leaders as Joe Johnston, Richard H. Anderson, and Jubal Early. After being smuggled along the Rebel Secret Line in southern Maryland by John Surratt Sr., his wife Mary, and other Confederate sympat...
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    50,66 €

  • Geographers
    Women are the exclusive focus of the 38th volume of Geographers. For the first time in the serial’s history, the entire volume is devoted to important work of distinguished female geographers, amply demonstrating how these scholars’ professional lives enrich the discipline’s history. It also illustrates how reading and writing their biographies not only expands our understandin...
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    284,94 €

  • Genealogy and Identity
    Zoe A. Pappas
    This book is a reprint of an academic treatise completed and copyrighted in 2008. Its objective was to illuminate unobserved connections between genealogical statements in the ancient Greek myths and the historical shift of political power westward from the Greek cities of coastal Asia Minor to the well-known metropoleis of mainland Greece. This shift characterized the centurie...
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    55,71 €

  • Writing Cities
    James Amelang / James S. Amelang
    Only one out of ten early modern Europeans lived in cities. Yet cities were crucial nodes, joining together producers and consumers, rulers and ruled, and believers in diverse faiths and futures. They also generated an enormous amount of writing, much of which focused on civic life itself. But despite its obvious importance, historians have paid surprisingly little attention to...
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    35,46 €

  • History of United Arab Emirate
    David Mills
    History of United Arab Emirate. Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Sharjah, Ras Al Khaimah, Ajman, Umm Al Quwain, Fujairah, Travel and Tourism Information Guide United. Arab Emirates is a federation of seven emirates along the eastern coast of the Arabian Peninsula. The largest of these emirates, Abu Dhabi (Abū Ẓaby), which comprises more than three-fourths of the federation’s total land area, ...
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    37,25 €

  • 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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    115,58 €

  • Josefina Fierro
    Ph.D. Carlos Larralde / Ph.D. Michael Lynch III / Ph.DCarlos Larralde / Ph.DMichael Lynch III
    This work is the second in a series of studies illuminating important, yet overlooked and forgotten Latino Civil Rights activists. Each study is unique and a standalone presentation of an individual and the times in which that individual lived. Each study is neither a biography nor monograph, but an introduction to that activist and the situations in which the individual was re...
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    35,61 €

  • The Periplus of the Erythræan sea; travel and trade in the Indian Ocean
    Wilfred H. Schoff
    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. We have represented this book in the same form as it was first published. Hence any marks seen are left intentionally to preserve its true nature. 3 ...
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    13,44 €

  • The History of Chile
    John Rector
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    88,26 €

  • Isle of the Amazons in the Vermilion Sea
    Adventurer Gregory MacDonald narrates recollections of Baja California and the Sea of Cortéz—from the mid-sixteenth century to the present—as told by well-known authors and those who have been moved to record their personal impressions and experiences. Original illustrations by award-winning printmaker Judith Palmer transform Isle of the Amazons in the Vermilion Sea into a mast...
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    35,61 €

  • The South Seas
    Chris Dixon / Sean Brawley
    The South Seas charts the idea of the South Seas in popular cultural productions of the English-speaking world, from the beginnings of the Western enterprise in the Pacific until the eve of the Pacific War. Building on the notion that the influences on the creation of a text, and the ways in which its audience receives the text, are essential for understanding the historical si...
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    58,21 €

  • Legal Murder
    David McQuade
    Legal Murder is the true story of the courtroom shoot-out that occurred in Hillsville, Virginia, in 1911. The events leading to the shooting and its tragic aftermath involve a large, well-positioned family and corrupt government officials who coveted their land. The true story is as strange, complicated, and exciting as any novel could be. 3 ...
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    10,49 €

  • The New Brooklyn
    Kay Hymowitz / Kay S. Hymowitz / Kay SHymowitz
    In The New Brooklyn, Kay Hymowitz chronicles the policies and events that transformed Brooklyn so dramatically in such a short period of time. Her portrait of the dramatic transformation of one urban center offers prescriptions that any city can employ and will be required reading for everyone interested in the rebirth of America’s cities. ...
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    15,76 €

  • THE SECOND INVASION OF NORTH AMERICA ABOVE MEXICO, THE FIRST NINETY YEARS, Indigenous Americans’ Successful Defense against Europeans, 1521 to 1610
    Jr. Calvin D. Trowbridge / JrCalvin DTrowbridge
    For ninety years, from the first European invasion of North America above Mexico in 1521 until 1610, Spanish, French, and English would-be colonists repeatedly mounted incursions into eastern Canada and in the United States from Maine to Florida and across the south from North Carolina to California. By June 7, 1610, less than a thousand Europeans resided permanently in North A...
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    17,33 €

  • Isle of the Amazons in the Vermilion Sea
    Adventurer Gregory MacDonald narrates recollections of Baja California and the Sea of Cortéz—from the mid-sixteenth century to the present—as told by well-known authors and those who have been moved to record their personal impressions and experiences. Original illustrations by award-winning printmaker Judith Palmer transform Isle of the Amazons in the Vermilion Sea into a mast...
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    47,66 €

  • Central Places and Un-Central Landscapes
    This volume examines the applicability of central place theory in contemporary archaeological practice and thought in light of ongoing developments in landscape archaeology, by bringing together ‘central places’ and ‘un-central landscapes’ and by grasping diachronically the complex relation between town and country, as shaped by political economies and the availability of natur...
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    75,88 €

  • Talks with Mussolini
    Emil Ludwig
    The following conversations took place in the Palazzo di Venezia at Rome, being held almost daily for an hour at a time between March 23 and April 4, 1932, boti dates inclusive, We talked Italian, and each conversation was recorded by me in German as soon as it was finished. Only a few sentences from earlier conversations have been introduced into this book. The German manuscri...
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    28,44 €

  • An Elementary Geography of India, Burma and Ceylon
    Henry F. Blanford
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    9,01 €

  • The River, the Plain, and the State
    Ling Zhang
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    35,54 €

  • Home, Nature, and the Feminine Ideal
    Elaine Stratford
    Take three things: the home, nature, and the feminine ideal-a notional and perfected femininity. Constitute them as inexorably and universally connected. Enrol them in diverse strategies and tactics that create varied anatomo-politics of the body and biopolitics of the population. Enlist those three things as the 'handmaidens' of the government of individuals and groups, places...
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    204,83 €

  • European Regions and Boundaries
    It is difficult to speak about Europe today without reference to its constitutive regions--supra-national geographical designations such as "Scandinavia," "Eastern Europe," and "the Balkans." Such formulations are so ubiquitous that they are frequently treated as empirical realities rather than a series of shifting, overlapping, and historically constructed concepts. This volum...
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    25,72 €

  • Changes in the Air
    Eleonora Rohland
    Hurricanes have been a constant in the history of New Orleans. Since before its settlement as a French colony in the eighteenth century, the land entwined between Lake Pontchartrain and the Mississippi River has been lashed by powerful Gulf storms. Time and again, these hurricanes have wrought immeasurable loss and devastation, spurring reinvention and ingenuity on the part ...
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    177,34 €

  • The Creation of the American States
    A. Ward Burian
    The Creation of the American States teaches readers how and why all fifty American states were formed and carved into becoming a part of mankind’s greatest social experiment. ...
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    22,76 €

  • The Irish in Manchester c.1750-1921
    Mervyn Busteed
    Examines the development of the Irish community in Manchester, one of the most dynamic cities of nineteenth century Britain. ...
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    36,71 €


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