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Empire of Friends: Soviet Power and Socialist Internationalism in Cold War Czechoslovakia
Rachel Applebaum
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• Author(s): Rachel Applebaum • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Russia & the Former Soviet UnionThe familiar story of Soviet power in Cold War Eastern Europe focuses on political repr...
View full detailsThe Poor and the Perfect: The Rise of Learning in the Franciscan Order, 1209-1310
Neslihan Şenocak
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• Author(s): Neslihan Şenocak • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Europe - MedievalOne of the enduring ironies of medieval history is the fact that a group of Italian lay penitents, begging...
View full detailsBeyond the Asylum: Mental Illness in French Colonial Vietnam
Claire E. Edington
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• Author(s): Claire E. Edington • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Asia - Southeast AsiaThis book is a must-read for any specialist in the history of colonial and post-colonial psychiatry,...
View full detailsOn Roman Religion: Lived Religion and the Individual in Ancient Rome
Jörg Rüpke
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• Author(s): Jörg Rüpke • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Ancient - RomeProvocative reading for anyone interested in Roman culture in the late Republic and early Empire.â- Religious Studi...
View full detailsThe Shaping of Africa: Cosmographic Discourse and Cartographic Science in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe
Francesc Relaño
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• Author(s): Francesc Relaño • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Europe - MedievalThis title was first published in 2002. This book aims to trace the origins of the idea of Africa and its evolution in Renaissance though...
View full detailsВосхождение и гибель реа
Козинk, Финкеl
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• Author(s): Козинk | Финкеl • Publisher: Monda Asembleo Socia • Publisher Imprint: Monda Asembleo Socia • BISAC: Russia & the Former Soviet UnionЭта книга -- попытка марксистского анализа причин как возникновения, так и гибели социалистичес...
View full detailsYoungblood
Seoras Wallace
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• Author(s): Seoras Wallace • Publisher: Clann Wallace • Publisher Imprint: Clann Wallace • BISAC: Military - GeneralFollowing the mysterious death of 'Glorious' Alexander III, Scotland became a land of great uncertainty and unrest, where once be...
View full detailsThe Complete Military Medal Roll 1914-19: Volume 3 N-Z
Peter Warrington
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• Author(s): Peter Warrington • Publisher: Naval & Military Press • Publisher Imprint: Naval & Military Press • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - World War IThis is a fully revised and reworked edition of Peter Warrington's work that now exte...
View full detailsThe Complete Military Medal Roll 1914-19: Volume 2 G-M
Peter Warrington
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• Author(s): Peter Warrington • Publisher: Naval & Military Press • Publisher Imprint: Naval & Military Press • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - World War IThis is a fully revised and reworked edition of Peter Warrington's work that now exte...
View full detailsThe Complete Military Medal Roll 1914-19: Volume 1 A-F
Peter Warrington
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• Author(s): Peter Warrington • Publisher: Naval & Military Press • Publisher Imprint: Naval & Military Press • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - World War IThis is a fully revised and reworked edition of Peter Warrington's work that now exte...
View full detailsThe Memoirs of Marshal Foch
Marshal Foch, T. Bentley Mott
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• Author(s): Marshal Foch | T. Bentley Mott • Publisher: Naval & Military Press • Publisher Imprint: Naval & Military Press • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - World War IFoch's pre-war contributions as a military theorist and lecturer have l...
View full detailsR.N.A.S. Operations Reports: Volume 3: October 1917 to March 1918 Parts 44 to 53
Royal Naval Operations Division
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• Author(s): Royal Naval Operations Division • Publisher: Naval & Military Press • Publisher Imprint: Naval & Military Press • BISAC: Military - Aviation & SpaceThe entire text of the R.N.A.S. OPERATIONS REPORTS from November 1915 To...
View full detailsR.N.A.S. Operations Reports: Volume 1: November 1915 To June 1917 Parts 1 to 36
Naval Staff Operations Division
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• Author(s): Naval Staff Operations Division • Publisher: Naval & Military Press • Publisher Imprint: Naval & Military Press • BISAC: Military - Aviation & SpaceThe entire text of the R.N.A.S. OPERATIONS REPORTS from November 1915 To...
View full detailsR.N.A.S. Operations Reports: Volume 2: July 1917 to October 1917 Parts 37 to 43
Royal Naval Operations Division
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• Author(s): Royal Naval Operations Division • Publisher: Naval & Military Press • Publisher Imprint: Naval & Military Press • BISAC: Military - Aviation & SpaceThe entire text of the R.N.A.S. OPERATIONS REPORTS from November 1915 To...
View full detailsOn to Vicksburg!: The Mississippi Central Railroad Campaign
Jr. McCluney Larry Allen
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• Author(s): Jr. McCluney Larry Allen • Publisher: Lulu Publishing Services • Publisher Imprint: Lulu Publishing Services • BISAC: GeneralMaj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant became commander of all federal forces in the region of Mississippi and east Loui...
View full detailsSelections from the Dispatches and General Orders of Field Marshal the Duke of Wellington
John Gurwood
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• Author(s): John Gurwood • Publisher: Naval & Military Press • Publisher Imprint: Naval & Military Press • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - Napoleonic WarsAn important selection of dispatches that include Wellington's campaigns in India, th...
View full detailsOn to Vicksburg!: The Mississippi Central Railroad Campaign
Jr. McCluney Larry Allen
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• Author(s): Jr. McCluney Larry Allen • Publisher: Lulu Publishing Services • Publisher Imprint: Lulu Publishing Services • BISAC: GeneralMaj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant became commander of all federal forces in the region of Mississippi and east Loui...
View full detailsThe Chronicle of Michael the Great (The Edessa-Aleppo Syriac Codex): Books XV-XXI. From the Year 1050 to 1195 AD
Amir Harrak
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• Author(s): Amir Harrak • Publisher: Gorgias Press • Publisher Imprint: Gorgias Press • BISAC: Middle East - GeneralMichael the Great was elected patriarch of the Syriac Orthodox church in a most instable period. He nevertheless, found time, cla...
View full detailsOeuvres tome 13
Jean Jaures
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• Author(s): Jean Jaures • Publisher: Fayard • Publisher Imprint: Fayard • BISAC: GeneralAprès de longues années de préparation, Jaurès rédige en quelques mois de l'année 1910 L'Armée nouvelle, ouvrage important sur la défense nationale comme sur...
View full detailsHistoire de la IVe République Vol.6. De Gaulle à Matignon
Elgey-G
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• Author(s): Elgey-G • Publisher: Fayard • Publisher Imprint: Fayard • BISAC: Europe - FranceLes six derniers mois de la Quatrième République, pendant lesquels le général de Gaulle fut président du Conseil des ministres, constituent une période ...
View full detailsMaurice et Jeannette. Biographie du couple Thorez
Wieviorka-A
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• Author(s): Wieviorka-A • Publisher: Fayard • Publisher Imprint: Fayard • BISAC: GeneralLe 3 février 1934, Maurice Thorez, secrétaire général du Parti communiste français dit à Jeannette Vermeersch, jeune militante déjà en vue, en prenant le bus...
View full detailsQuand Francais Cherchaient Fortune a Caraibes
Doucet-L
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• Author(s): Doucet-L • Publisher: Fayard • Publisher Imprint: Fayard • BISAC: Caribbean & West Indies - General
The Locusts: British Critics of Portugal Before the First World War
Gary Thorn
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• Author(s): Gary Thorn • Publisher: Liverpool University Press • Publisher Imprint: Liverpool University Press • BISAC: Europe - Spain & PortugalThe book title comes from Aubrey Bells Portugal of the Portuguese (1916): Since the murder of Ki...
View full detailsVorvong and Saurivong: A Cambodian Tale
Joel Montague, Jim Mizerski, Marie-Helene Arnauld
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• Author(s): Joel Montague | Jim Mizerski | Marie-Helene Arnauld • Publisher: DatASIA, Inc. • Publisher Imprint: DatASIA, Inc. • BISAC: Asia - Southeast AsiaBased on a 19th century Cambodian palm leaf manuscript, "Vorvong and Saurivong" dramatize...
View full detailsSnapshot of Past and Present Historical Events in African Countries
Funso E. Oluyitan Ed D.
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• Author(s): Funso E. Oluyitan Ed D. • Publisher: Authorhouse • Publisher Imprint: Authorhouse • BISAC: GeneralIn this book you will read about the 57 African countries. The history of each country begins with the original settlers followed by th...
View full detailsLegal Development in Colonial Massachusetts 1630-1686
Charles J. Hilkey
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• Author(s): Charles J. Hilkey • Publisher: Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. • Publisher Imprint: Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. • BISAC: United States - Colonial PeriodExplores a fascinating aspect of the early colony's legal system: its denial of the binding for...
View full detailsModern Bookbinding Practically Considered - A Lecture
William Matthews
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• Author(s): William Matthews • Publisher: Old Hand Books • Publisher Imprint: Old Hand Books • BISAC: GeneralFirst published in 1889, "Modern Bookbinding Practically Considered" contains an interesting lecture on the subject of bookbinding by Wi...
View full detailsA Scientific Guide to Practical Cutting - Every Style of Garment to Fit the Human Form
William Glencross
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• Author(s): William Glencross • Publisher: Old Hand Books • Publisher Imprint: Old Hand Books • BISAC: GeneralFirst published in 1873, this vintage book contains a detailed guide to tailoring, focusing on cutting a variety of garments for both m...
View full detailsA Treatise on Navigation and Nautical Astronomy - Including the Theory of Compass Deviations - Prepared for Use as a Textbook for the U. S. Naval Acad
W. C. P. Muir
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• Author(s): W. C. P. Muir • Publisher: White Press • Publisher Imprint: White Press • BISAC: GeneralCelestial navigation refers to the ancient practice of position fixing that allows a navigator to move through a space without the need of estima...
View full detailsThe Worshipful Master's Special Help - A Monitor for The Master of the Lodge - Containing all Information Proper to be Published, Which is Necessary t
John C. W. Bailey
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• Author(s): John C. W. Bailey • Publisher: White Press • Publisher Imprint: White Press • BISAC: GeneralOut of all the societies that exist in the world, there is perhaps no other considered to be as mysterious as the fraternal organization of t...
View full detailsPlutarch's Lives - Vol. IV
Plutarch, Aubrey Stewart, George Long
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• Author(s): Plutarch | Aubrey Stewart | George Long • Publisher: White Press • Publisher Imprint: White Press • BISAC: Military - AncientPlutarch's "Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans", often simply referred to as "Plutarch's Lives", is a seri...
View full detailsAlchemy - The Turba Philosophorum or Assembly of the Sagas
Arthur Edward Waite
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• Author(s): Arthur Edward Waite • Publisher: White Press • Publisher Imprint: White Press • BISAC: General"The Turba Philosophorum", also known as "Assembly of the Philosophers", is one of the oldest European alchemical texts, translated from th...
View full detailsWives of the American Presidents, 2d ed.
Carole Chandler Waldrup
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• Author(s): Carole Chandler Waldrup • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - General Their personalities often set the tone for Washington society, from Julia Tyler's open hospita...
View full detailsThe Making of the Human Sciences in China
Howard Chiang
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• Author(s): Howard Chiang • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: GeneralThis volume provides a history of how "the human" has been constituted as a subject of scientific inquiry in China from the seventeenth century to the present.
Women and Gender in the Early Modern Low Countries, 1500 - 1750
Sarah Joan Moran, Amanda C. Pipkin
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• Author(s): Sarah Joan Moran | Amanda C. Pipkin • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: Europe - RenaissanceWomen and Gender in the Early Modern Low Countries, 1500-1750 brings together research on women and gender across the Low ...
View full details(Re)Using Ruins: Public Building in the Cities of the Late Antique West, A.D. 300-600
Douglas R. Underwood
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• Author(s): Douglas R. Underwood • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: Europe - MedievalIn (Re)using Ruins, Douglas Underwood presents a new account of the use and reuse of Roman urban public monuments in a crucial period of tra...
View full detailsChronicle of Sylhetis of United Kingdom
Mayar Akash
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• Author(s): Mayar Akash • Publisher: Ma Publisher • Publisher Imprint: Ma Publisher • BISAC: GeneralMore than what you wanted to know about this placid community who in just 46 years have cemented their place in the world. A community that has t...
View full detailsForgotten Revolution [The Centenary Edition] The Limerick Soviet 1919
Liam Cahill
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• Author(s): Liam Cahill • Publisher: Liam Cahill • Publisher Imprint: Liam Cahill • BISAC: Europe - IrelandIn Limerick, the workers and their representatives take over running the city and their action is declared a 'Soviet'. The British authori...
View full detailsFauquier County, Virginia Deeds, 1778-1785
John K. Gott
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• Author(s): John K. Gott • Publisher: Heritage Books • Publisher Imprint: Heritage Books • BISAC: United States - State & Local - South (AL,AR,FL,GA,KY,LA,MS,Fauquier County was created in 1759, and is one of the few Virginia counties to hav...
View full detailsRoman Tombs and the Art of Commemoration
Barbara E. Borg
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• Author(s): Barbara E. Borg • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Ancient - GeneralThe history of funerary customs in Rome contains many unanswered questions and controversial debates, e...
View full detailsSecret History of the Canary Islands
Jaime Rubio Rosales
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• Author(s): Jaime Rubio Rosales • Publisher: Lulu.com • Publisher Imprint: Lulu.com • BISAC: GeneralThis is a short History of the Canary Islands by the professor and journalist, Jaime Rubio Rosales. This book begins with the mysterious origin o...
View full detailsLaw and Politics Under the Abbasids: An Intellectual Portrait of Al-Juwayni
Sohaira Z. M. Siddiqui
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• Author(s): Sohaira Z. M. Siddiqui • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Middle East - GeneralAbu Ma'ali al-Juwayni (d.478/1085) lived in a politically tumultuous period. The rise of pow...
View full detailsThe Cambridge Companion to Virgil
Charles Martindale, Fiachra Mac Góráin
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• Author(s): Charles Martindale | Fiachra Mac Góráin • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Ancient - GeneralThe poet Virgil remains the most significant and influential figure in Latin li...
View full detailsThe Cambridge Companion to Virgil
Charles Martindale, Fiachra Mac Góráin
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• Author(s): Charles Martindale | Fiachra Mac Góráin • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Ancient - GeneralThe poet Virgil remains the most significant and influential figure in Latin li...
View full detailsThe Cult of St Edmund in Medieval East Anglia
Rebecca Pinner
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• Author(s): Rebecca Pinner • Publisher: Boydell Press • Publisher Imprint: Boydell Press • BISAC: Europe - MedievalLonglisted for the Katharine Briggs Award 2016 St Edmund, king and martyr, supposedly killed by Danes (or "Vikings") in 869, was o...
View full detailsOrderic Vitalis: Life, Works and Interpretations
Charles C. Rozier, Daniel Roach, Elisabeth M. C. Van Houts
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• Author(s): Charles C. Rozier | Daniel Roach | Elisabeth M. C. Van Houts • Publisher: Boydell Press • Publisher Imprint: Boydell Press • BISAC: Europe - MedievalThe Gesta Normannorum ducum and Historia ecclesiastica of Orderic Vitalis are widely...
View full detailsThe Book of Llandaf as a Historical Source
Patrick Sims-Williams
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• Author(s): Patrick Sims-Williams • Publisher: Boydell Press • Publisher Imprint: Boydell Press • BISAC: Europe - MedievalThe early-twelfth-century Book of Llandaf is rightly notorious for its bogus documents - but it also provides valuable info...
View full detailsFront Lines to Headlines: The World War I Overseas Dispatches of Otto P. Higgins
James J. Heiman, J. Bradley Bace
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• Author(s): James J. Heiman | J. Bradley Bace • Publisher: Woodneath Press (Mid-Continent Pub. Library) • Publisher Imprint: Woodneath Press (Mid-Continent Pub. Library) • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - World War IFront Lines to Headlines: The Wo...
View full detailsFront Lines to Headlines: The World War I Overseas Dispatches of Otto P. Higgins
James J. Heiman, J. Bradley Pace
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• Author(s): James J. Heiman | J. Bradley Pace • Publisher: Woodneath Press (Mid-Continent Pub. Library) • Publisher Imprint: Woodneath Press (Mid-Continent Pub. Library) • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - World War IFront Lines to Headlines: The Wo...
View full detailsProceedings of the Danish Institute at Athens IX
Nicolai Mariegaard, Kristina Winther Jacobsen, John Lund
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• Author(s): Nicolai Mariegaard | Kristina Winther Jacobsen | John Lund • Publisher: Aarhus University Press • Publisher Imprint: Aarhus University Press • BISAC: Ancient - GeneralProceedings of the well-esteemed Danish Institute in Athens conduc...
View full detailsCelluloid Revolt: German Screen Cultures and the Long 1968
Christina Gerhardt, Marco Abel, Andrew Stefan Weiner
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• Author(s): Christina Gerhardt | Marco Abel | Andrew Stefan Weiner • Publisher: Camden House (NY) • Publisher Imprint: Camden House (NY) • BISAC: Europe - GermanyThe epoch-making revolutionary period universally known in Germany as '68 can be ar...
View full detailsIndians on the Move: Native American Mobility and Urbanization in the Twentieth Century
Douglas K. Miller
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• Author(s): Douglas K. Miller • Publisher: University of North Carolina Press • Publisher Imprint: University of North Carolina Press • BISAC: Native AmericanIn 1972, the Bureau of Indian Affairs terminated its twenty-year-old Voluntary Relocati...
View full detailsIndians on the Move: Native American Mobility and Urbanization in the Twentieth Century
Douglas K. Miller
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• Author(s): Douglas K. Miller • Publisher: University of North Carolina Press • Publisher Imprint: University of North Carolina Press • BISAC: Native AmericanIn 1972, the Bureau of Indian Affairs terminated its twenty-year-old Voluntary Relocati...
View full detailsA Constellation of Great Men: Exploring the Character Sketches of Dr. Benjamin Rush of Pennsylvania of the Signers of the Declaration of Independenc
John R. Vile
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• Author(s): John R. Vile • Publisher: Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. • Publisher Imprint: Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. • BISAC: United States - Colonial Period (1600-1775)One of the most gifted of America's founding fathers, Dr. Benjamin Rush of Pennsylvania ...
View full detailsThe Ottoman Twilight in the Arab Lands: Turkish Memoirs and Testimonies of the Great War
Selim Deringil
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• Author(s): Selim Deringil • Publisher: Academic Studies Press • Publisher Imprint: Academic Studies Press • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - World War IThis book provides an annotated translation of memoirs of Ottoman eye-witness actors of the Gre...
View full detailsThe Ancestor: A Journey In Time Reveals A Family Mystery
Michael Meyer
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• Author(s): Michael Meyer • Publisher: Xulon Press • Publisher Imprint: Xulon Press • BISAC: United States - Civil WarA Journey in Time Reveals a Family Mystery When Daniel, a successful writer, tries to escape his midlife crisis and the current...
View full detailsPre-Modern Middle East History
Stephen Cory
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• Author(s): Stephen Cory • Publisher: Cognella Academic Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Cognella Academic Publishing • BISAC: Middle East - General
Michigan's Thumb, a Paradise for Saxonia Settlers: Conflict and Hardship While Forming Colonie Saxonia in Delaware Township, Sanilac County, Michigan
Utz H. Schmidt
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• Author(s): Utz H. Schmidt • Publisher: Lulu Publishing Services • Publisher Imprint: Lulu Publishing Services • BISAC: GeneralThe story is novel and unique with half of the source material from Germany or in German. The colorful picture is pain...
View full detailsPre-Modern Middle East History
Stephen Cory
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• Author(s): Stephen Cory • Publisher: Cognella Academic Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Cognella Academic Publishing • BISAC: Middle East - GeneralPre-Modern Middle East History provides students with the opportunity to connect directly with pre...
View full detailsProperties of Empire: Indians, Colonists, and Land Speculators on the New England Frontier
Ian Saxine
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• Author(s): Ian Saxine • Publisher: New York University Press • Publisher Imprint: New York University Press • BISAC: Indigenous - GeneralA fascinating history of a contested frontier, where struggles over landownership brought Native Americans ...
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