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  • The Great Murdering-Heir Case
    William B. Meyer
    Uncovers the facts behind the celebrated 1889 case of Riggs v. Palmer and shows how they transform our understanding of the decision. ...
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    127,10 €

  • The Birth Certificate
    Susan J. Pearson
    For many Americans, the birth certificate is a mundane piece of paper, unearthed from deep storage when applying for a driver’s license, verifying information for new employers, or claiming state and federal benefits. Yet as Donald Trump and his fellow 'birthers' reminded us when they claimed that Barack Obama wasn’t an American citizen, it plays a central role in determining i...
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    34,99 €

  • The Punitive Turn in American Life
    Michael S. Sherry
    In 1965, President Lyndon Johnson insisted that 'the policeman is the frontline soldier in our war against crime,' and police forces, arms makers, policy makers, and crime experts heeded this call to arms, bringing weapons and practices from the arena of war back home. The Punitive Turn in American Life offers a political and cultural history of the ways in which punishment and...
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    37,90 €

  • Beatriz Allende
    Tanya Harmer
    This biography of Beatriz Allende (1942–1977)—revolutionary doctor and daughter of Chile’s socialist president, Salvador Allende—portrays what it means to live, love, and fight for change. Inspired by the Cuban Revolution, Beatriz and her generation drove political campaigns, university reform, public health programs, internationalist guerrilla insurgencies, and government stra...
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    37,63 €

  • Arguing until Doomsday
    Michael E. Woods
    As the sectional crisis gripped the United States, the rancor increasingly spread to the halls of Congress. Preston Brooks’s frenzied assault on Charles Sumner was perhaps the most notorious evidence of the dangerous divide between proslavery Democrats and the new antislavery Republican Party. But as disunion loomed, rifts within the majority Democratic Party were every bit as ...
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    37,76 €

  • Writing Kit Carson
    Susan Lee Johnson
    In this critical biography, Susan Lee Johnson braids together lives over time and space, telling tales of two white women who, in the 1960s, wrote books about the fabled frontiersman Christopher 'Kit' Carson: Quantrille McClung, a Denver librarian who compiled the Carson-Bent-Boggs Genealogy, and Kansas-born but Washington, D.C.- and Chicago-based Bernice Blackwelder, a singer ...
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    40,38 €

  • Inventing Disaster
    Cynthia A. Kierner
    When hurricanes, earthquakes, wildfires, and other disasters strike, we count our losses, search for causes, commiserate with victims, and initiate relief efforts. Amply illustrated and expansively researched, Inventing Disaster explains the origins and development of this predictable, even ritualized, culture of calamity over three centuries, exploring its roots in the revolut...
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    35,34 €

  • Emerging from the Shadows
    Richard M. Yon
    First-of-its-kind study offering a model for understanding vice-presidential influence in the modern era. ...
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    126,35 €

  • Charles Masson of Afghanistan
    Gordon Whitteridge
    Masson was one of the most remarkable of British explorers, who wandered over the Punjab, Baluchistan and Afghanistan, between 1827 and 1840, usually alone and on foot. In Kabul he collected vast quantities of coins which revealed previously unknown Graeco-Bactrian and Kushan monarchs and excavated a large number of Buddhist monuments. During his Afghan sojourn he became both a...
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    33,10 €

  • A Face Illumined
    Edward Payson Roe
    'A Face Illumined' is an ancient romance story book written by Edward Payson Roe. It’s basically an affair and redemption tale with an exam of social conventions and expectancies. The narrative worries Maurice Wynne, a younger guy disappointed through the shallowness of his affluent society. When he meets the alive Faith Gilbert, he will become attracted to her true kindness an...
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    19,50 €

  • Did The Catholic Church Order Abraham Lincoln’s Assassination?
    James Battell
    Dive into the riveting world of historical intrigue with 'Did The Catholic Church Order Abraham Lincoln’s Assassination?' as it unravels a compelling narrative that challenges conventional wisdom. In this thought-provoking exploration, the author delves into the shadowy corridors of history, meticulously examining the conspiracies and controversies surrounding one of America’s ...
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    10,84 €

  • República e civilização: um olhar brasileiro
    Gabriel Cohn
    São as exigências e dificuldades da vida civilizada e republicana em contexto como o brasileiro que formam o núcleo dos artigos aqui recolhidos, escritos em diferentes momentos. Isso se aplica desde o mais abrangente deles, sobre civilização, cidadania e barbárie, até o mais específico sobre o fascismo em sua possível versão brasileira, passando por uma mescla de reflexão mais ...
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    12,48 €

  • The Story of the 1881 Cumberland Valley Cook and General Recipe Book
    Thomas Kelchner
    In 1875, J.B. Morrow, editor of the Newville Pennsylvania Star and Enterprise, got the idea for a cookbook. He would solicit readers of his newspaper for their recipes and give a free copy of the proposed Newville Cook and General Recipe Book to the contributors. He got swamped. Readers sent him over 700 recipes!Half a year into the effort Morrow realized it wasn’t going to be ...
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    11,98 €

  • The Underground Railroad in Bedford County Pennsylvania
    Kevin Mearkle
    The Pennsylvania Historical Museum Commission sponsored a study of the Underground Railroad in 2000. The study noted, 'of all the counties in southwestern Pennsylvania, Bedford County probably had the most active free black population and rigorous Underground Railroad traffic.' Several factors influenced the flow of freedom seekers. Two slave states were nearby. Bedford County ...
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    45,91 €

  • Les Victimes de Bokhara
    Philarète Chasles
    ' Ce qui me toucherait le plus, si je mettais le pied dans ces grands pays du Gange, de l’Indus et de l’Oxus, ce ne seraient pas les mœurs curieuses des vieilles monarchies asiatiques, ni le combat qu’elles soutiennent contre l’envahissement occidental, mais une douzaine de tombes européennes éparses sur ces domaines ; il y a là le Français Victor Jacquemont, le bon évêque Hébe...
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    9,74 €

  • Mœurs et avenir de la société anglo-hindoue
    Philarète Chasles
    ' Les hommes politiques ne voient dans la formation et la consolidation de l’empire anglo-hindou qu’un fait, l’étrange et périlleux accroissement de la puissance britannique. Oui, c’est une conquête digne d’étude. En moins de soixante ans, cette vaste péninsule, dévorée ou escamotée par quelques négociants occidentaux, leur livre ses richesses, mais non ses coutumes. Elle cède ...
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    11,63 €

  • Gates County, North Carolina Minutes of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions, 1794-1799. (Volume #2)
    Fouts / Raymond Parker Fouts
    By: Raymond Parker Fouts, Pub. 1984, reprinted 2024, 154 pages, Index, soft cover, ISBN #978-1-63914-182-1.  Gates County was created in 1778 from Hertford, Chowan and Perquimans counties, N.C. It is located in the Northeastern corner of the state bordering Virginia. It is surrounded by the counties of Camden, Chowan, Hertford, Pasquotank, Perquimans counties N.C. and by Nansem...
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    41,53 €

  • Gates County, North Carolina Minutes of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions, 1800-1805. (Volume #3)
    Fouts / Raymond Parker Fouts
    By: Raymond Parker Fouts, Pub. 1985, reprinted 2024, 148 pages, Index, soft cover, ISBN #978-1-63914-183-8.  Gates County was created in 1778 from Hertford, Chowan and Perquimans counties, N.C. It is located in the Northeastern corner of the state bordering Virginia. It is surrounded by the counties of Camden, Chowan, Hertford, Pasquotank, Perquimans counties N.C. and by Nansem...
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    41,44 €

  • Gates County, North Carolina Minutes of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions, 1818-1823. (Volume #6)
    Fouts / Raymond Parker Fouts
    By: Raymond Parker Fouts, Pub. 1987, reprinted 2024, 190 pages, Index, soft cover, ISBN #978-1-63914-186-9.  Gates County was created in 1778 from Hertford, Chowan and Perquimans counties, N.C. It is located in the Northeastern corner of the state bordering Virginia. It is surrounded by the counties of Camden, Chowan, Hertford, Pasquotank, Perquimans counties N.C. and by Nansem...
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    48,41 €

  • Gates County, North Carolina Minutes of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions, 1812-1817. (Volume #5)
    Fouts / Raymond Parker Fouts
    By: Raymond Parker Fouts, Pub. 1986, reprinted 2024, 172 pages, Index, soft cover, ISBN #978-1-63914-185-2.  Gates County was created in 1778 from Hertford, Chowan and Perquimans counties, N.C. It is located in the Northeastern corner of the state bordering Virginia. It is surrounded by the counties of Camden, Chowan, Hertford, Pasquotank, Perquimans counties N.C. and by Nansem...
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    44,31 €

  • Hertford County, North Carolina Inventories and Sales of Estates, 1832-1834. (Volume #2)
    Fouts / Raymond Parker Fouts
    By: Raymond Parker Fouts, Pub. 1989, reprinted 2024, 154 pages, 8 1/2' x 11', soft cover, ISBN #978-1-63914-197-5.  Hertford County was created in 1759 from parts of Bertie, Chowan, and Northampton Counties and later itself gave up parts of itself to help create Gates County. Hertford County is a BURNED County. These are some of the few earlier records that have been preserved....
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    41,53 €

  • Gates County, North Carolina Minutes of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions, 1828-1831. (Volume #8)
    Fouts / Raymond Parker Fouts
    By: Raymond Parker Fouts, Pub. 1990, reprinted 2024, 164 pages, Index, 8 1/2' x 11', soft cover, ISBN #978-1-63914-188-3.  Gates County was created in 1778 from Hertford, Chowan and Perquimans counties, N.C. It is located in the Northeastern corner of the state bordering Virginia. It is surrounded by the counties of Camden, Chowan, Hertford, Pasquotank, Perquimans counties N.C....
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    44,21 €

  • Abstracts from the State Gazette of North Carolina, 1792-1795, Volume #2
    Fouts / Raymond Parker Fouts
    By: Raymond Parker Fouts, Pub. 1982, reprinted 2024, 140 pages, Index, 8 1/2' x 11', Second Edition, ISBN #978-1-63914-202-6. This newspaper was located New Bern, NC which is a town located in Craven County, NC. which is in the eastern portion of the state. Craven County is the parent county to: Carteret, Johnston, and New Hanover. It is the second oldest town settled by Europe...
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    30,90 €

  • Shackled Again?
    Tony Watkins
    Tony Watkins, in his second book, brings us these powerful women who are in this incredible collection of first-hand accounts. Each have a unique fingerprint within the Civil Rights Movement. Their contributions to this country are impeccable, and it is time that we all learn who they are. In this historically accurate work, Tony, through interviews, recordings, and transcripti...
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    30,61 €

  • Shajara ya Mwana Mzizima 4
    Alhaji Abdallah Mohammed Tambaza
    This is the fourth part in the series of the history of Dar es salaam. This book is about Kariakoo, the first area where Africans were allowed to live and stay. It traces the history of the area before independence and up till the 1970’s.Kitabu hiki ni mfululizo wa vitabu vya kumbukumbu ya sehemu na watu mashuhuri katika jiji la Dar es Salaam. Kitabu hiki ni cha tatu ambacho ki...
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    39,49 €

  • History of New Zealand
    Thomas Estrada
    This meticulously researched and engaging book delves deep into the captivating history of new zealand, offering readers an insightful narrative that spans centuries. Discover the land’s pre-european roots, as the indigenous maori people cultivated a vibrant polynesian culture, setting the stage for a unique and enduring heritage.Dive into the pivotal treaty of waitangi, a docu...
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    16,03 €

  • Halrai 51
    Halrai
    A collection of portraits and pictures of Halrai being Halrai. ...
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    81,85 €

  • The Dark Road from Romarong
    Wilfred Kanu / Wilfred Kanu Jr.
    How did the region of West Africa called Romarong become what we know as Freetown, the capital of Sierra Leone? Romarong was a hotbed. The Mali Empire collapsed, and the Songhai came into prominence. There were the Arab and European slave trades. This story concludes when the British colonized the region. Exploring this anecdote from the natives’ perspective fits Freddy Will’s ...
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    35,02 €

  • Trois ans dans l’Amérique du sud
    Albert Gras
    ... Généralement pieds nus, le gaucho chausse pourtant volontiers des bottes européennes achetées dans une pulperia ; mais les botas de potro font l’objet de sa prédilection : une jument est abattue, les pattes de derrière sont écorchées sans fendre la peau, cette peau est rasée et amincie au couteau, puis frottée dans les mains pour la rendre souple ; la partie d’en bas, resté...
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    10,54 €

  • Americans Recaptured
    Molly K. Varley
    It was on the frontier, where 'civilized' men and women confronted the 'wilderness,' that Europeans first became Americans-or so authorities from Frederick Jackson Turner to Theodore Roosevelt claimed. But as the frontier disappeared, Americans believed they needed a new mechanism for fixing their collective identity; and they found it, historian Molly K. Varley suggests, in ta...
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    42,80 €


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