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Captives of War
Clare Makepeace
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• Author(s): Clare Makepeace • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - World War II - GeneralThis is a pioneering history of the experience of captivity of British pris...
View full detailsThe Rebel and the Imam in Early Islam
Najam Haider
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• Author(s): Najam Haider • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Middle East - GeneralEngaging with contemporary debates about the sources that shape our understanding of the early Muslim ...
View full detailsThe Plundering of the Vanquished: The Economic Repression During Early Francoism
Julio Prada Rodríguez
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• Author(s): Julio Prada Rodríguez • Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W • Publisher Imprint: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W • BISAC: GeneralEconomic repression became a keystone of the social exclusion policie...
View full detailsThe History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: (Abridged, annotated)
Edward Gibbon, Amn
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• Author(s): Edward Gibbon | Amn • Publisher: Ancient Wisdom Publications • Publisher Imprint: Ancient Wisdom Publications • BISAC: Ancient - RomeAccording to Gibbon, the Roman Empire succumbed to barbarian invasions in large part due to the grad...
View full detailsHow They Survived and Why We Lost: Central Intelligence Agency Analysis, 1966: The Vietnamese Communists' Will to Persist
Thomas Fensch
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• Author(s): Thomas Fensch • Publisher: New Century Books • Publisher Imprint: New Century Books • BISAC: Military - Vietnam WarThe Vietnam war began for the United States in 1954; by 1966, the Central Intelligence Agency undertook a major analys...
View full detailsHerbert Grundmann (1902-1970): Essays on Heresy, Inquisition, and Literacy
Jennifer Kolpacoff Deane
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• Author(s): Jennifer Kolpacoff Deane • Publisher: York Medieval Press • Publisher Imprint: York Medieval Press • BISAC: Europe - MedievalIn the field of medieval religious history, few scholars have matched the originality of the German academic...
View full detailsRwanda Inhumanness
Lewis Sano
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• Author(s): Lewis Sano • Publisher: Xlibris Us • Publisher Imprint: Xlibris Us • BISAC: ReferenceThe author talks about the testimony of two boys who successively lost their parents during the massacres in the Republic Democratic of Congo, DRC (...
View full detailsRwanda Inhumanness
Lewis Sano
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• Author(s): Lewis Sano • Publisher: Xlibris Us • Publisher Imprint: Xlibris Us • BISAC: ReferenceThe author talks about the testimony of two boys who successively lost their parents during the massacres in the Republic Democratic of Congo, DRC (...
View full detailsThe Trial and Death of Socrates: Euthyphro, The Apology of Socrates, Crito, and Phædo
Plato, Benjamin Jowett, Henry Cary
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• Author(s): Plato | Benjamin Jowett | Henry Cary • Publisher: Benediction Books • Publisher Imprint: Benediction Books • BISAC: Ancient - GreeceThe Trial and Death of Socrates is the ideal compendium for a person wanting to learn more about the ...
View full detailsRoger of Lauria (C.1250-1305): Admiral of Admirals
Charles D. Stanton
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• Author(s): Charles D. Stanton • Publisher: Boydell Press • Publisher Imprint: Boydell Press • BISAC: Europe - MedievalJust before Vespers on 30 March 1282 at the Church of the Holy Spirit on the outskirts of Palermo, a drunken soldier of the oc...
View full detailsPolitics, Religion and Ideas in Seventeenth- And Eighteenth-Century Britain: Essays in Honour of Mark Goldie
John Coffey, Justin Champion, Tim Harris
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• Author(s): John Coffey | Justin Champion | Tim Harris • Publisher: Boydell Press • Publisher Imprint: Boydell Press • BISAC: Modern - 17th CenturyThis volume, a tribute to Mark Goldie, traces the evolution of Whig and Tory, Puritan and Anglican...
View full detailsThe Trial and Death of Socrates: Euthyphro, The Apology of Socrates, Crito, and Phædo
Plato, Benjamin Jowett, Henry Cary
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• Author(s): Plato | Benjamin Jowett | Henry Cary • Publisher: Benediction Books • Publisher Imprint: Benediction Books • BISAC: Ancient - GreeceThe Trial and Death of Socrates is the ideal compendium for a person wanting to learn more about the ...
View full detailsThings That Didn't Happen: Writing, Politics and the Counterhistorical, 1678-1743
John McTague
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• Author(s): John McTague • Publisher: Boydell Press • Publisher Imprint: Boydell Press • BISAC: Modern - 18th CenturyJames Francis Edward Stuart, the Prince of Wales born in 1688, was not a commoner's child smuggled into the queen's birthing cha...
View full detailsPostcolonial Nation and Narrative III: Literature & Cinema: Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau and São Tomé e Príncipe
Paulo De Medeiros, Cláudia Pazos-Alonso, Ana Mafalda Leite
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• Author(s): Paulo De Medeiros | Cláudia Pazos-Alonso | Ana Mafalda Leite • Publisher: Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publis • Publisher Imprint: Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publis • BISAC: Africa - GeneralThis volume investiga...
View full detailsMaria Baldwin's Worlds: A Story of Black New England and the Fight for Racial Justice
Kathleen Weiler
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• Author(s): Kathleen Weiler • Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Massachusetts Press • BISAC: United States - State & Local - New England (CT, MA, ME, NH,Maria Baldwin (1856-1922) held a special p...
View full detailsSelf-Devouring Growth: A Planetary Parable as Told from Southern Africa
Julie Livingston
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• Author(s): Julie Livingston • Publisher: Duke University Press • Publisher Imprint: Duke University Press • BISAC: Africa - South - GeneralUnder capitalism, economic growth is seen as the key to collective well-being. In Self-Devouring Growth J...
View full detailsInter imperiismo kaj revolucio: La bazoj de la revolucio ĉe la unuopa ekzemplo de Kartvelujo
Leo Trocko, Vilhelmo Lutermano
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• Author(s): Leo Trocko | Vilhelmo Lutermano • Publisher: Monda Asembleo Socia • Publisher Imprint: Monda Asembleo Socia • BISAC: Russia & the Former Soviet UnionTiu ĉi verko pri la sendependa Kartvelujo de la socialdemokrata reĝimo estas jam...
View full detailsRoyal Family of Baroda: Gaekwad's
Anirudh Sethi
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• Author(s): Anirudh Sethi • Publisher: Notion Press Media Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Notion Press Media Pvt Ltd • BISAC: Asia - South - GeneralVadodara is one of four cities in the State with a population of over 1 million. It is also known as...
View full detailsReformation Without End: Religion, Politics and the Past in Post-Revolutionary England
Robert Ingram
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• Author(s): Robert Ingram • Publisher: Manchester University Press • Publisher Imprint: Manchester University Press • BISAC: GeneralReformation without end conceives of eighteenth-century English history as a late chapter in the nation’s long Re...
View full detailsElbridge Durbrow's War in Vietnam: The Ambassador's Influence on American Involvement, 1957-1961
Ronald Bruce Frankum
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• Author(s): Ronald Bruce Frankum • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military - Vietnam War Elbridge Durbrow served as the third United States ambassador to the Republic of Vietnam from 1957...
View full detailsMy Soviet Youth: A Memoir of Ukrainian Life in the Final Years of Communism
Irina Rodríguez
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• Author(s): Irina Rodríguez • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Russia & the Former Soviet Union Putting on gas masks and learning how to shoot Kalashnikov rifles in grade school made So...
View full detailsGeorge Humphrey, Charles Wilson and Eisenhower's War on Spending
James Worthen
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• Author(s): James Worthen • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - 20th Century The first Republican president since the Great Depression, Dwight Eisenhower was the victorious su...
View full detailsThe Quaestorship in the Roman Republic
Francisco Pina Polo, Alejandro Díaz Fernández
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• Author(s): Francisco Pina Polo | Alejandro Díaz Fernández • Publisher: de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter • BISAC: Ancient - GreeceThe lack of evidence has proved to be the greatest obstacle involved in reconstructing the quaestorship a...
View full detailsNew Approaches in Demotic Studies: Acts of the 13th International Conference of Demotic Studies
Franziska Naether
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• Author(s): Franziska Naether • Publisher: de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter • BISAC: Ancient - EgyptThe present volume collects current research on manuscripts written in the demotic language, which have recently been discovered in exc...
View full detailsCrossing Borders, Crossing Cultures: Popular Print in Europe (1450-1900)
Massimo Rospocher, Jeroen Salman, Hannu Salmi
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• Author(s): Massimo Rospocher | Jeroen Salman | Hannu Salmi • Publisher: de Gruyter Oldenbourg • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter Oldenbourg • BISAC: Modern - GeneralThis volume explores the challenges and possibilities of research into the Europea...
View full detailsDie Nachfolgepartei: Die Integration Der Pds in Das Politische System Der Bundesrepublik Deutschland 1990-2005
Thorsten Holzhauser
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• Author(s): Thorsten Holzhauser • Publisher: de Gruyter Oldenbourg • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter Oldenbourg • BISAC: Europe - GermanyDie Integration der PDS war lange Zeit eine der gro en Streitfragen der deutschen Politik. Von vielen als komm...
View full detailsInnovationsräume
Thilo Lang, Martin Graffenberger, Lukas Vonnahme
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• Author(s): Thilo Lang | Martin Graffenberger | Lukas Vonnahme • Publisher: de Gruyter Oldenbourg • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter Oldenbourg • BISAC: Modern - GeneralDieser Band hinterfragt die Zusammenhänge von Innovation und Raum und beleuchte...
View full detailsCiceros Rede >Cum Senatui Gratias Egit: Ein Kommentar
Tobias Boll
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• Author(s): Tobias Boll • Publisher: de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter • BISAC: Ancient - GeneralAm Tag nach seiner Rückkehr aus dem Exil hielt Cicero eine Dankesrede vor dem Senat. Mit dieser Arbeit liegt erstmals ein moderner Kommenta...
View full detailsDer Österreichische Werbefilm: Die Genese Eines Genres Von Seinen Anfängen Bis 1938
Karin Moser
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• Author(s): Karin Moser • Publisher: de Gruyter Oldenbourg • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter Oldenbourg • BISAC: Modern - 20th Century - GeneralMit der Erfindung des Films gegen Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts etablierte sich ein neues Werbemittel, das ...
View full detailsAnimal Kingdom of Heaven: Anthropozoological Aspects in the Late Antique World
Ingo Schaaf
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• Author(s): Ingo Schaaf • Publisher: de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter • BISAC: Ancient - GeneralZu den Forschungstrends der j�ngeren Vergangenheit z�hlt ohne Zweifel die kulturwissenschaftliche Untersuchung von Tier-Mensch-Beziehungen,...
View full detailsGreek Medical Papyri: Text, Context, Hypertext
Nicola Reggiani
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• Author(s): Nicola Reggiani • Publisher: de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter • BISAC: Ancient - GeneralThe volume collects papers presented at the International Conference "Greek Medical Papyri - Text, Context, Hypertext" held at the Univ...
View full detailsTransnational Cultures of Expertise: Circulating State-Related Knowledge in the 18th and 19th Centuries
Lothar Schilling, Jakob Vogel
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• Author(s): Lothar Schilling | Jakob Vogel • Publisher: de Gruyter Oldenbourg • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter Oldenbourg • BISAC: Modern - 17th CenturyBuilding on the new critical historiography about the evolution of the European state, the boo...
View full detailsConrad Gessner (1516-1565)
Urs Leu, Peter Opitz
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• Author(s): Urs Leu | Peter Opitz • Publisher: de Gruyter Oldenbourg • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter Oldenbourg • BISAC: Europe - RenaissanceDer Zürcher Arzt, Naturforscher und Universalgelehrte Conrad Gessner begründete die moderne Zoologie, gi...
View full detailsGive a Manor Take a Manor: The Rise and Decline of a Medieval Manor
Murray Johnston
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• Author(s): Murray Johnston • Publisher: New Generation Publishing • Publisher Imprint: New Generation Publishing • BISAC: Europe - MedievalDomestic rebellions and foreign wars, the king's rule, murder, traitors and execution, crippling debt, ar...
View full detailsGive a Manor Take a Manor: The Rise and Decline of a Medieval Manor
Murray Johnston
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• Author(s): Murray Johnston • Publisher: New Generation Publishing • Publisher Imprint: New Generation Publishing • BISAC: Europe - MedievalDomestic rebellions and foreign wars, the king's rule, murder, traitors and execution, crippling debt, ar...
View full detailsThe Ottoman Balkans: 1750-1830
Frederick F. Anscombe
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• Author(s): Frederick F. Anscombe • Publisher: Markus Wiener Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Markus Wiener Publishers • BISAC: Europe - Baltic StatesThe decades after 1750 saw the Ottoman empire undergo tremendous stresses that culminated in the...
View full detailsIlluminating Jesus in the Middle Ages
Jane Beal
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• Author(s): Jane Beal • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: Europe - MedievalIn Illuminating Jesus in the Middle Ages, editor Jane Beal and other scholars analyse the reception history of images and ideas about Jesus in medieval...
View full detailsSpecial Campaign Series: THE RUSSO-TURKISH WAR 1877: A Strategical Sketch
F. Maurice
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• Author(s): F. Maurice • Publisher: Naval & Military Press • Publisher Imprint: Naval & Military Press • BISAC: Military - Wars & Conflicts (Other)Part of the acclaimed "Special Campaign" series of works intended for serious professi...
View full detailsSpecial Campaign Series: 1859 Magenta and Solferino
H. Wylly
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• Author(s): H. Wylly • Publisher: Naval & Military Press • Publisher Imprint: Naval & Military Press • BISAC: Military - Wars & Conflicts (Other)Part of the acclaimed "Special Campaign" series of works intended for serious profession...
View full detailsKey to the New World: A History of Early Colonial Cuba
Luis Martínez-Fernández
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• Author(s): Luis Martínez-Fernández • Publisher: University of Florida Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Florida Press • BISAC: Caribbean & West Indies - CubaFlorida Book Awards, Bronze Medal for General Nonfiction International Latin...
View full detailsChronicling Calcutta
Sukhamaya Swain
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• Author(s): Sukhamaya Swain • Publisher: Notion Press Media Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Notion Press Media Pvt Ltd • BISAC: Asia - India & South AsiaDid you know that Kolkata has the country's largest library? The city gave India its first ...
View full detailsConflict and Cooperation: Reflections on the New Deal in Texas
Milton S. Jordan, George Cooper
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• Author(s): Milton S. Jordan | George Cooper • Publisher: Stephen F. Austin University Press • Publisher Imprint: Stephen F. Austin University Press • BISAC: United States - 20th CenturyFrom its beginnings in the spring of 1933 to its close with...
View full detailsIran Reframed: Anxieties of Power in the Islamic Republic
Narges Bajoghli
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• Author(s): Narges Bajoghli • Publisher: Stanford University Press • Publisher Imprint: Stanford University Press • BISAC: Middle East - IranAn inside look at what it means to be pro-regime in Iran, and the debates around the future of the Islam...
View full detailsA History of the Greek Resistance in the Second World War: The People's Armies
Spiros Tsoutsoumpis
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• Author(s): Spiros Tsoutsoumpis • Publisher: Manchester University Press • Publisher Imprint: Manchester University Press • BISAC: Ancient - GreeceThis book tells the story of the Greek resistance to Axis occupation during the Second World War a...
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Fluchtweg Bulgarien: Die verlaengerte Mauer an den Grenzen zur Tuerkei, Jugoslawien und Griechenland
Fluchtweg Bulgarien: Die verlaengerte Mauer an den Grenzen zur Tuerkei, Jugoslawien und Griechenland
Jochen Staadt, Stefan Appelius
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• Author(s): Jochen Staadt | Stefan Appelius • Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W • Publisher Imprint: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W • BISAC: Europe - GermanySeit dem Bau der Berliner Mauer im Sommer 1961 suc...
View full detailsIngenieure auf der Leinwand: Technische Visionen und Ordnungsvorstellungen im deutschen Zukunftsfilm der 1930er Jahre
Hans-Joachim Braun, Anke Woschech
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• Author(s): Hans-Joachim Braun | Anke Woschech • Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W • Publisher Imprint: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W • BISAC: GeneralDiese Studie wurde vom VDI mit dem Conrad-Matscho -Preis...
View full detailsDark Matters: Delusions, Illusions, Lost Causes and Absurdities in Modern America
David Bouchier
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• Author(s): David Bouchier • Publisher: Lulu Publishing Services • Publisher Imprint: Lulu Publishing Services • BISAC: General"The twenty-first century was never supposed to look like this. The second half of the twentieth century was a self-co...
View full detailsGifts of the Gods: Silver and Gold
Thomas J. Berry
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• Author(s): Thomas J. Berry • Publisher: Booklocker.com • Publisher Imprint: Booklocker.com • BISAC: Ancient - GreeceFive men and women in Ancient Greece are set on a dangerous journey of self-discovery during the bitter conflict of the Peloponn...
View full detailsThe Central Asian Revolt of 1916: A Collapsing Empire in the Age of War and Revolution
Alexander Morrison, Cloé Drieu, Aminat Chokobaeva
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• Author(s): Alexander Morrison | Cloé Drieu | Aminat Chokobaeva • Publisher: Manchester University Press • Publisher Imprint: Manchester University Press • BISAC: Modern - 20th Century - GeneralThe 1916 Revolt was a key event in the history of C...
View full detailsUSA and The World 2019-2020
David M. Keithly
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• Author(s): David M. Keithly • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • BISAC: United States - GeneralUpdated annually and part of the renowned "World Today Series," USA and the Wo...
View full detailsAfrica 2019-2020
Francis Wiafe-Amoako
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• Author(s): Francis Wiafe-Amoako • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • BISAC: Africa - GeneralAfrica 2019-2020 provides students with vital information on all countries on the...
View full detailsEast and Southeast Asia 2019-2020
Steven A. Leibo
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• Author(s): Steven A. Leibo • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • BISAC: Asia - Southeast AsiaEast & Southeast Asia offers a concise overview of development in each of the...
View full detailsThe War in the South
Donald Barr Chidsey
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• Author(s): Donald Barr Chidsey • Publisher: Wildside Press • Publisher Imprint: Wildside Press • BISAC: United States - Revolutionary WarAn informal history of the Carolinas and Georgia in the American Revolution--when hangings were commonplace...
View full detailsInsatiable Appetite: Food as Cultural Signifier in the Middle East and Beyond
Kirill Dmitriev
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• Author(s): Kirill Dmitriev • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: Asia - GeneralInsatiable Appetite: Food as Cultural Signifier in the Middle East and Beyond explores the cultural ramifications of food and foodways in the Medite...
View full detailsInsatiable Appetite: Food as Cultural Signifier in the Middle East and Beyond
Kirill Dmitriev
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• Author(s): Kirill Dmitriev • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: Asia - GeneralInsatiable Appetite: Food as Cultural Signifier in the Middle East and Beyond explores the cultural ramifications of food and foodways in the Medite...
View full detailsCodex YHWH
Alessio de Angelis
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• Author(s): Alessio de Angelis • Publisher: Youcanprint • Publisher Imprint: Youcanprint • BISAC: General"Codex YHWH è la ricostruzione di uno dei periodi più importanti della storia dell'umanità. Il volume tratta, tra le varie ricerche, l'ident...
View full detailsThe Holy Land in Observant Franciscan Texts (C. 1480-1650): Theology, Travel, and Territoriality
Marianne P. Ritsema Van Eck
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• Author(s): Marianne P. Ritsema Van Eck • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: Europe - MedievalIn The Holy Land in Observant Franciscan Texts (c. 1480-1650) Marianne Ritsema van Eck analyses the development of the complex Observ...
View full detailsErzählte Bewegung
Susanna Fischer
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• Author(s): Susanna Fischer • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: Europe - MedievalIn Erz�hlte Bewegung. Narrationsstrategien und Funktionsweisen lateinischer Pilgertexte (4.-15. Jahrhundert), Susanna Fischer analyzes the functi...
View full detailsThe Power of Cities: The Iberian Peninsula from Late Antiquity to the Early Modern Period
Sabine Panzram
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• Author(s): Sabine Panzram • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: Ancient - GeneralThe Power of Cities focuses on Iberian cities during the lengthy transition from the late Roman to the early modern period, with a particular inte...
View full detailsThe Butcher: The Duke of Cumberland and the Suppression of the '45
William A. Speck
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• Author(s): William A. Speck • Publisher: Welsh Academic Press • Publisher Imprint: Welsh Academic Press • BISAC: Europe - Great Britain - Georgian Era (1714-1837)While there have many studies of the uprising from the Jacobite perspective, this ...
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