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  • Ideas of Jewish History
    Michael A Meyer
    Despite the vicissitudes of their anomalous historical experience, the Jews survive as am identifiable entity. They have withstood one challenge after another — both physical and intellectual — somehow maintaining an historical continuity. How Jewish writers have dealt with this enigma serves as the subject of this volume. With these words from the Preface, Michael A. Meyer ch...
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    34,77 €

  • Oxen, Women, or Citizens?
    Paul Virgil McCracken Flesher
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    26,71 €

  • Goyim
    Gary G. Porton / Gary GPorton
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    42,27 €

  • Dedan Kĩmathi Speaks
    Maina wa Kinyatt
    Extensive archives belonging to the Mau Mau were long held by the British and were not made available widely. This book, written by one of the foremost researchers on the Mau Mau, is a result of years of village-level research which also recovered some of the movements most important papers. Translated into English, they clarify the movement’s own perspectives on their struggle...
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    43,28 €

  • A Living Tree
    Arthur Rosett / Arthur Rossett / Elliot N. Dorff / Elliot NDorff
    This book examines biblical and rabbinic law as a coherent, continuing legal tradition. It explains the relationship between religion and law and the interaction between law and morality. Abundant selections from primary Jewish sources, many newly translated, enable the reader to address the tradition directly as a living body of law with emphasis on the concerns that are pri...
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    45,79 €

  • The Mystical Experience in Abraham Abulafia
    Moshe Idel
    The first wide-scale presentation of a major Jewish mystic, the founder of the ecstatic Kabbalah. ...
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    43,35 €

  • Imperialism and Popular Culture
    John M. MacKenzie
    Popular culture is invariably a vehicle for the dominant ideas of its age. Never was this more true than in the late-19th and early 20th centuries, when it reflected the nationalist and imperialist ideologies current throughout Europe. This text examines the various media through which nationalist ideas were conveyed in late-Victorian and Edwardian times - in the theatre, 'ethn...
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    33,11 €

  • The History of al-Ṭabarī Vol. 4
    Moshe Perlmann
    In this volume Ṭabarī takes up the history of the ancient world, focusing on the Iranians and the Israelites after the time of Solomon. He establishes a comparative chronology between the two nations; viewing Bahman, the Persian king, as the son of Esther, and his daughter, Khumani, the mother of Darius. Ṭabarī’s synchronization also leads him into a discussion of North and Sou...
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    42,20 €

  • Pitfalls in Genealogical Research
    Milton Rubincam
    Written with both wit and academic integrity, the eminent Mr. Rubincam’s monograph is a must-read for all genealogists. This book alerts novices to common mistakes and frauds, and reminds more seasoned researchers what constitutes good genealogy. ...
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    8,36 €

  • Moral Imperium
    Paul Worth / Ronald Kent Richardson
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    82,71 €

  • Zanzibar in Contemporary Times
    Robert Nunez Lyne
    'It has been my endeavour in the following chapters to describe briefly the most interesting persons and events that are connected with the history of the Rulers of Zanzibar and their Dominions on the East Coast of Africa during the nineteenth century, and do give some account of this Island of the Southern East, its people and industries.'So writes the author in his preface to...
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    70,94 €

  • A Shtetl and Other Yiddish Novellas
    Ruth Wisse
    The five short novellas which comprise this anthology were written between 1890 and World War I. All share a common setting—the Eastern European Jewish town or shtetl, and all deal in different ways with a single topic—the Jewish confrontation with modernity. The authors of these novellas are among the greatest masters of Yiddish prose. In their work, today's reader will di...
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    39,40 €

  • The Antislavery Rank and File
    Edward Magdol / Unknown
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    95,78 €

  • The Enduring South
    John Shelton Reed
    First published in 1972, The Enduring South challenges the conventional wisdom that economic development, urbanization, and the end of racial segregation spelled the end of a distinctive Southern culture. In this edition, John Reed updates the public opinion data to the 1980s and reinforces the book’s original conclusions: Southerners are different and are likely to stay that w...
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    54,88 €

  • East of the Jordan
    Selah Merrill
    First published in 1881, East of the Jordan recounts the results of an archaeological expedition organised by the American Palestine Exploration Society in 1875-77. In two years the expedition members covered much of the region between Lake Tiberias (Sea of Galilee) and the Dead Sea, in the upper and lower Jordan Valley. Along with meticulous descriptions of the major towns and...
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    82,41 €

  • The Arab and the African
    S Tristram Pruen
    This little-know work, first published in 1891 and here reproduced in facsimile, provides a first-hand account of the slave trade in British and German East Africa during the latter years of the nineteenth century.The author, a Christian missionary, tempers his descriptions of this shocking trade with an unusually sympathetic view of both the African slave and the Arab trader. ...
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    47,73 €

  • The French Peasantry in the Seventeenth Century
    Pierre Goubert / Ian J. Patterson / Ian JPatterson
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    38,18 €

  • Plymouth Colony
    Eugene Aubrey Stratton
    This is the first truly complete treatment of the history and genealogy of Plymouth Colony. It includes a concise history of the colony, both chronologically and topically, and more than 300 biographical sketches of its inhabitants. Richly documented and illustrated with maps and photographs, the three-dimensional Plymouth Colony: Its History & People, 1620-1691 was written for...
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    33,19 €

  • Plymouth Colony
    Eugene Aubrey Stratton
    This is the first truly complete treatment of the history and genealogy of Plymouth Colony. It includes a concise history of the colony, both chronologically and topically, and more than 300 biographical sketches of its inhabitants. Richly documented and illustrated with maps and photographs, the three-dimensional Plymouth Colony: Its History & People, 1620-1691 was written for...
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    25,36 €

  • Texas Quilts
    Texas Heritage Quilt Society
    (From the introduction) Collectively, these quilts and their stories tell the story of the women of Texas-hardships endured and overcome, friendships made, churches, schools, and communities established, of births, marriages, deaths-all the myriad experiences of mothers, daughters, sisters who created from whatever resources available, a bit of beauty in their quilts...These 't...
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    25,59 €

  • Texas Quilts
    Texas Heritage Quilt Society
    (From the introduction) Collectively, these quilts and their stories tell the story of the women of Texas-hardships endured and overcome, friendships made, churches, schools, and communities established, of births, marriages, deaths-all the myriad experiences of mothers, daughters, sisters who created from whatever resources available, a bit of beauty in their quilts...These 't...
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    39,96 €

  • The Countryside in the Age of Capitalist Transformation
    This volume represents one of the first efforts to harvest the rapidly emerging scholarship in the field of American rural history. Building on the insights and methodologies that social historians have directed toward urban life, the contributors explore the past as it unfolded in the rural settings in which most Americans have lived during most of American history.The essays...
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    70,41 €

  • An Old Creed for the New South
    John David Smith
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    121,26 €

  • Reliving the Past
    Charles Tilly / David William Cohen / Olivier Zunz
    Five historians uncover the ties between people’s daily routines and the all-encompassing framework of their lives. They trace the processes of social construction in Western Europe, the United States, Latin America, Africa, and China, discussing both the historical similarities and the ways in which individual history has shaped each area’s development. They stress the need fo...
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    70,49 €

  • How to Run a Traditional Jewish Household
    Blu Greenberg
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    26,47 €

  • The Great Sahara
    Tristram
    The Rev. Henry Baker Tristram (1822-1906), divine and naturalist, was among the most celebrated of Victorian clergyman-travellers. His journeys took him as far afield as China, Japan and North America, but his writings mostly concern the natural history of the Middle East, particularly Palestine and Egypt. However, the present volume, first published in 1860, resulted from a tw...
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    59,58 €

  • A Journey Through the Yemen
    Walter B Harris
    'My recollections of the country are ones that I shall always treasure, in spite of the dangers and sickness, in spite of long marches and days in prison, the Yemen will always be for me, Arabic Felix.'First published in 1893, A Journey Through the Yemen appeared at a critical time in the turbulent history of the Yemen. The Turkish Empire had seized much of the country in an at...
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    70,65 €

  • Privateering and Colonization in the Reign of Elizabeth I
    Privateering, ship design, English society, the lost colonists, the drawing of John White, and the adoption of Sir Walter Raleigh as an American folk hero are among the topics covered in this volume. Illustrated. ...
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    41,23 €

  • The French Nobility in the Eighteenth Century
    Guy Chaussinand-Nogaret / William Doyle
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    76,28 €

  • People’s Poland
    Wladysla Majowski / Wladyslaw Majkowski
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    82,42 €


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