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Inn Civility: Urban Taverns and Early American Civil Society
Vaughn Scribner
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• Author(s): Vaughn Scribner • Publisher: New York University Press • Publisher Imprint: New York University Press • BISAC: United States - Colonial PeriodExamines the critical role of urban taverns in the social and political life of colonial an...
View full detailsThe Thousand and One Nights and Orientalism in the Dutch Republic, 1700-1800: Antoine Galland, Ghisbert Cuper and Gilbert de Flines
Richard Leeuwen, Arnoud Vrolijk
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• Author(s): Richard Leeuwen | Arnoud Vrolijk • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Europe - GeneralThis book explores the reception of the 1001 Nights in eighteenth-century Dutch literature and scholarship, and the bibli...
View full detailsThe Strange Careers of the Jim Crow North: Segregation and Struggle Outside of the South
Brian Purnell, Jeanne Theoharis, Komozi Woodard
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• Author(s): Brian Purnell | Jeanne Theoharis | Komozi Woodard • Publisher: New York University Press • Publisher Imprint: New York University Press • BISAC: African American & BlackDid American racism originate in the liberal North? An inqui...
View full detailsThe Strange Careers of the Jim Crow North: Segregation and Struggle Outside of the South
Brian Purnell, Jeanne Theoharis, Komozi Woodard
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• Author(s): Brian Purnell | Jeanne Theoharis | Komozi Woodard • Publisher: New York University Press • Publisher Imprint: New York University Press • BISAC: African American & BlackDid American racism originate in the liberal North? An inqui...
View full detailsThe Wise Merchant
Barlaeus, Anna-Luna Post, Corinna Vermeulen
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• Author(s): Barlaeus | Anna-Luna Post | Corinna Vermeulen • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Modern - 17th CenturyOn 9 January 1632, at the inauguration of the Amsterdam Illustrious School - the predecessor of the cit...
View full detailsSixteen Days Riding Private Varnish
Charles H. Bogart
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• Author(s): Charles H. Bogart • Publisher: Lulu.com • Publisher Imprint: Lulu.com • BISAC: GeneralThe Wisconsin railcar had been built in 1948 in the Milwaukee Railroad Shops as the railroad's president's car. To insure his safety, the car was a...
View full detailsApplied Arts in British Exile from 1933: Changing Visual and Material Culture
Marian Malet, Rachel Dickson, Sarah Macdougall
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• Author(s): Marian Malet | Rachel Dickson | Sarah Macdougall • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: Social HistoryYearbook Volume 19 continues an investigation which began with Arts in Exile in Britain 1933-45 (Volume 6, 2004). T...
View full detailsThe Works of Ibn Wāḍiḥ Al-Yaʿqūbī (Volume 2): An English Translation
Matthew S. Gordon, Chase F. Robinson, Everett K. Rowson
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• Author(s): Matthew S. Gordon | Chase F. Robinson | Everett K. Rowson • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: Asia - GeneralThe Works of Ibn Wāḍiḥ al-Yaʿqūbī, a three volume set, contains a fully annotated translation of the extan...
View full detailsThe Formation and Development of the Angolan Armed Forces
Miguel Junior
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• Author(s): Miguel Junior • Publisher: Authorhouse UK • Publisher Imprint: Authorhouse UK • BISAC: Military - GeneralThis book describes the structuring grounds of Angola's national army as well as their historical background. Likewise, it portr...
View full detailsThe Formation and Development of the Angolan Armed Forces
Miguel Junior
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• Author(s): Miguel Junior • Publisher: Authorhouse UK • Publisher Imprint: Authorhouse UK • BISAC: Military - GeneralThis book describes the structuring grounds of Angola's national army as well as their historical background. Likewise, it portr...
View full detailsSectarianism in Medieval India: Saiva, Vaisnava, and Syncretistic Temple Architecture in Karnataka
Naseem A. Banerji
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• Author(s): Naseem A. Banerji • Publisher: Lexington Books • Publisher Imprint: Lexington Books • BISAC: Asia - India & South AsiaThis study investigates how the teachings of religious leaders and the movements they promulgated influenced th...
View full detailsIndianization, the Officer Corps, and the Indian Army: The Forgotten Debate, 1817-1917
Chandar S. Sundaram
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• Author(s): Chandar S. Sundaram • Publisher: Lexington Books • Publisher Imprint: Lexington Books • BISAC: Asia - India & South AsiaThe decision by the British Raj in 1917 to permit Indians into the Indian Army's officer corps was a key turn...
View full detailsMonsoon Islam
Sebastian R. Prange
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• Author(s): Sebastian R. Prange • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: World - GeneralBetween the twelfth and sixteenth centuries, a distinct form of Islamic thought and practice develope...
View full detailsTragedy and History: The German Influence on Raymond Aron's Political Thought
Scott B. Nelson
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• Author(s): Scott B. Nelson • Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W • Publisher Imprint: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W • BISAC: Europe - FranceThis work examines the cohesion of Raymond Aron's political thought...
View full detailsThe Chrysanthemum and the Sword: Patterns of Japanese Culture
Ruth Benedict
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• Author(s): Ruth Benedict • Publisher: Albatross Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Albatross Publishers • BISAC: Asia - Japan2019 Reprint of the 1946 Edition by Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston. Noted American anthropologist Ruth Benedict wrote th...
View full detailsFanshawe's Indian Summer: The private letters of Lt. Col. Thomas Basil Fanshawe from Kamptee 1875
Thomas Basil Fanshawe, Deirdre Marculescu, Derek Alexander
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• Author(s): Thomas Basil Fanshawe | Deirdre Marculescu | Derek Alexander • Publisher: Valence House Publications • Publisher Imprint: Valence House Publications • BISAC: Military - General'You seem to think dearest Mother that I am an evergreen....
View full detailsHistoire du mouvement fasciste
Gioacchino Volpe, Vincent Vauclin, Massimo Magliaro
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• Author(s): Gioacchino Volpe | Vincent Vauclin | Massimo Magliaro • Publisher: Reconquista Press • Publisher Imprint: Reconquista Press • BISAC: Europe - ItalyProfesseur d'histoire moderne à la Faculté des sciences politiques de Rome, secrétaire...
View full detailsKearsley - An Illustrated History
Simon Colley, Arron Raw
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• Author(s): Simon Colley | Arron Raw • Publisher: Paragon Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Paragon Publishing • BISAC: Europe - Great Britain - GeneralThe town of Kearsley, between Bolton and Manchester, has a rich and fascinating history. With a...
View full detailsKearsley: An Illustrated History
Simon Colley, Arron Raw
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• Author(s): Simon Colley | Arron Raw • Publisher: Paragon Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Paragon Publishing • BISAC: Europe - Great Britain - GeneralThe town of Kearsley, between Bolton and Manchester, has a rich and fascinating history. With a...
View full detailsArkansas: A Concise History
Jeannie M. Whayne, Thomas A. Deblack, George Sabo
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• Author(s): Jeannie M. Whayne | Thomas A. Deblack | George Sabo • Publisher: University of Arkansas Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Arkansas Press • BISAC: United States - State & Local - South (AL,AR,FL,GA,KY,LA,MS,Distilled from A...
View full detailsUrban Transformations: From Liberalism to Corporatism in Greater Berlin, 1871-1933
Parker Daly Everett
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• Author(s): Parker Daly Everett • Publisher: University of Toronto Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Toronto Press • BISAC: Europe - GermanyUrban Transformations is a theoretical and empirical account of the changing nature of urbanizatio...
View full detailsMakers of Democracy: A Transnational History of the Middle Classes in Colombia
A. Ricardo López-Pedreros
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• Author(s): A. Ricardo López-Pedreros • Publisher: Duke University Press • Publisher Imprint: Duke University Press • BISAC: Latin America - South AmericaIn Makers of Democracy A. Ricardo López-Pedreros traces the ways in which a thriving middle...
View full detailsFaces of Hastings: Diversity in a Rural Nebraska Community
Jessica Henry
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• Author(s): Jessica Henry • Publisher: Hastings College Press • Publisher Imprint: Hastings College Press • BISAC: Social HistoryFaces of Hastings celebrates difference and diversity in a small town at the heart of America--Hastings, Nebraska. C...
View full detailsThe Wealth Explosion: The Nature and Origins of Modernity
Stephen Davies
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• Author(s): Stephen Davies • Publisher: Edward Everett Root • Publisher Imprint: Edward Everett Root • BISAC: Social HistoryHow did the modern dynamist economy of wealth and opportunity come about? This major new analytical work emphasizes the o...
View full detailsAnd Then SPARKS Flew: South Park High School's Fallen Warriors in Air Units
Matthew E. Parsons, Sarah Castro
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• Author(s): Matthew E. Parsons | Sarah Castro • Publisher: Rock / Paper / Safety Scissors • Publisher Imprint: Rock / Paper / Safety Scissors • BISAC: Military - Vietnam WarAnd Then SPARKS flew studies 70 former students from South Park High Sch...
View full detailsASEAN's Half Century: A Political History of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations
Donald E. Weatherbee
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• Author(s): Donald E. Weatherbee • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • BISAC: Asia - Southeast AsiaThis authoritative book offers a critical analysis of the conventional wisdo...
View full detailsASEAN's Half Century: A Political History of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations
Donald E. Weatherbee
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• Author(s): Donald E. Weatherbee • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • BISAC: Asia - Southeast AsiaThis authoritative book offers a critical analysis of the conventional wisdo...
View full detailsAuthor in Chief: The Presidents as Writers from Washington to Trump
Michael B. Costanzo
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• Author(s): Michael B. Costanzo • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - General With the publication of his Personal Memoirs in 1885, Ulysses S. Grant established what is today k...
View full detailsNorthern Light: Norway Past and Present
Nils-Johan Jørgensen
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• Author(s): Nils-Johan Jørgensen • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Europe - ScandinaviaThis title discusses what it means to be Norwegian, in the past and now. It briefly turns to Norway's history in a European conte...
View full detailsEarly Church Records of Delaware County, Pennsylvania, Volume 3: The Welsh Tract
John Pitts Launey
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• Author(s): John Pitts Launey • Publisher: Heritage Books • Publisher Imprint: Heritage Books • BISAC: United States - State & Local - Middle AtlanticWelsh traditions and language date well before the Roman invasion. Early names consisted of...
View full detailsThe Chinese and the Iron Road: Building the Transcontinental Railroad
Gordon H. Chang, Shelley Fisher Fishkin
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• Author(s): Gordon H. Chang | Shelley Fisher Fishkin • Publisher: Stanford University Press • Publisher Imprint: Stanford University Press • BISAC: United States - 19th CenturyThe completion of the transcontinental railroad in May 1869 is usuall...
View full detailsA Mortuary of Books: The Rescue of Jewish Culture After the Holocaust
Elisabeth Gallas, Alex Skinner
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• Author(s): Elisabeth Gallas | Alex Skinner • Publisher: New York University Press • Publisher Imprint: New York University Press • BISAC: HolocaustWinner, 2020 JDC-Herbert Katzki Award for Writing Based on Archival Material, given by the Jewish...
View full details康熙大帝:领导力是如何炼成的!
关河五十州
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• Author(s): 关河五十州 • Publisher: China National Publications Import & Export C • Publisher Imprint: China National Publications Import & Export C • BISAC: General"康熙皇帝可以说是历史上最成功的帝王之一。他雄才大略,有"千古一帝"的美誉;文治武功,双峰并峙,是个全能型的英雄。从幼时与疾病抗争,登基之初与权臣搏杀,到...
View full detailsHistoire de l'Acadie - Tome 2: 1710-1763: De la fondation aux déportations
André-Carl Vachon
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• Author(s): André-Carl Vachon • Publisher: La Grande Maree • Publisher Imprint: La Grande Maree • BISAC: Canada - Pre-Confederation (to 1867)L'auteur trace les grandes lignes de l'histoire acadienne en cinq périodes importantes, réparties en deu...
View full detailsIran's Emissaries of Terror: How mullahs' embassies run the network of espionage and murder
Ncri U. S. Representative Office, National Council of Resistance of Iran, Ncri- Us
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• Author(s): Ncri U. S. Representative Office | National Council of Resistance of Iran | Ncri- Us • Publisher: National Council of Resistance of Iran-Us Off • Publisher Imprint: National Council of Resistance of Iran-Us Off • BISAC: Middle East -...
View full detailsLanguage Attitudes, National Identity and Migration in Catalonia: What the Women Have to Say
Mandie Iveson
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• Author(s): Mandie Iveson • Publisher: Liverpool University Press • Publisher Imprint: Liverpool University Press • BISAC: Europe - Spain & PortugalThis book examines language, nation and identity from a gendered perspective and investigates...
View full detailsThe Aroma of Vanuatu: Four years of adventures in the South Pacific
Mercedes Lopez-Tomlinson, Ana M. Briongos
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• Author(s): Mercedes Lopez-Tomlinson | Ana M. Briongos • Publisher: Trotamundas Press • Publisher Imprint: Trotamundas Press • BISAC: OceaniaVanuatu is a country with 83 islands in the South Pacific between Australia and Fiji. Its one of the few...
View full detailsButterfly in the Well: Village Opinions with Exploratory Knack
Robert Ewing
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• Author(s): Robert Ewing • Publisher: Authorhouse UK • Publisher Imprint: Authorhouse UK • BISAC: Europe - IrelandChurchill had one ear for history and the other for politics, and certainly listened to Chamberlain, who said long before he said i...
View full detailsAmerindians, Capuchins & Cedulants: A Brief History of Couva from Earliest Times to 1797
Steve H. Dixon
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• Author(s): Steve H. Dixon • Publisher: Authorhouse • Publisher Imprint: Authorhouse • BISAC: GeneralCouva is a modern pulsating town in Trinidad-an island once owned by Spain-that is prosperous and sufficiently well populated. But the town wasn...
View full detailsAmerindians, Capuchins & Cedulants: A Brief History of Couva from Earliest Times to 1797
Steve H. Dixon
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• Author(s): Steve H. Dixon • Publisher: Authorhouse • Publisher Imprint: Authorhouse • BISAC: GeneralCouva is a modern pulsating town in Trinidad-an island once owned by Spain-that is prosperous and sufficiently well populated. But the town wasn...
View full detailsConspicuous Consumption in Africa
Ilana Van Wyk, Deborah Posel
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• Author(s): Ilana Van Wyk | Deborah Posel • Publisher: Wits University Press • Publisher Imprint: Wits University Press • BISAC: Africa - South - Republic of South AfricaFrom early department stores in Cape Town to gendered histories of sartoria...
View full detailsR.N.A.S. Operations Reports: 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 detailsTheorizing 'Religion' in Antiquity
Nickolas P. Roubekas
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• Author(s): Nickolas P. Roubekas • Publisher: Equinox Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Equinox Publishing • BISAC: Ancient - GreeceThis volume brings theoretical and methodological discussions from religious studies, ancient history, and classics...
View full detailsTheorizing 'Religion' in Antiquity
Nickolas P. Roubekas
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• Author(s): Nickolas P. Roubekas • Publisher: Equinox Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Equinox Publishing • BISAC: Ancient - GreeceThis volume brings theoretical and methodological discussions from religious studies, ancient history, and classics...
View full detailsThe Seventies: The Personal, the Political and the Making of Modern Australia
Michelle Arrow
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• Author(s): Michelle Arrow • Publisher: NewSouth Books • Publisher Imprint: NewSouth Books • BISAC: Australia & New Zealand - GeneralIn 1970 homosexuality was illegal, God Save the Queen was our national anthem and women pretended to be marr...
View full detailsThe Enemy in Italian Renaissance Epic: Images of Hostility from Dante to Tasso
Andrea Moudarres
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• Author(s): Andrea Moudarres • Publisher: University of Delaware Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Delaware Press • BISAC: Europe - GeneralIn The Enemy in Italian Renaissance Epic, Andrea Moudarres examines influential works from the lit...
View full detailsThe Enemy in Italian Renaissance Epic: Images of Hostility from Dante to Tasso
Andrea Moudarres
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• Author(s): Andrea Moudarres • Publisher: University of Delaware Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Delaware Press • BISAC: Europe - GeneralIn The Enemy in Italian Renaissance Epic, Andrea Moudarres examines influential works from the lit...
View full detailsProceedings of the 53e Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale: Vol. 1, Part 2: Language in the Ancient Near East (2 parts)
L. Kogan, N. Koslova, S. Loesov
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• Author(s): L. Kogan | N. Koslova | S. Loesov • Publisher: Eisenbrauns • Publisher Imprint: Eisenbrauns • BISAC: Ancient - GeneralIn July 2007, the 53rd Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale (the annual meeting of the International Association...
View full detailsProceedings of the 53e Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale: Vol. 1: Language in the Ancient Near East (2 parts)
L. Kogan, N. Koslova, S. Loesov
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• Author(s): L. Kogan | N. Koslova | S. Loesov • Publisher: Eisenbrauns • Publisher Imprint: Eisenbrauns • BISAC: Ancient - GeneralIn July 2007, the 53rd Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale (the annual meeting of the International Association...
View full detailsThe Casablanca Connection: French Colonial Policy, 1936-1943
William A. Hoisington
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• Author(s): William A. Hoisington • Publisher: University of North Carolina Press • Publisher Imprint: University of North Carolina Press • BISAC: Europe - FranceThe Casablanca Connection examines France's colonial policy in Morocco from the Pop...
View full detailsPlutarch's Lives - Vol. III
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 detailsPlutarch's Lives - Vol. II: Translated from the Greek, with Notes and a Life of Plutarch
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 detailsThe Rise of the Dutch Kingdom: A Short Account of the Early Development of the Modern Kingdom of the Netherlands
Hendrik Willem Van Loon
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• Author(s): Hendrik Willem Van Loon • Publisher: Read & Co. History • Publisher Imprint: Read & Co. History • BISAC: Europe - GeneralFirst published in 1914, this vintage book contains a detailed historical account of the Dutch Kingdom b...
View full detailsPerspectives on the Entangled History of Communism and Nazism: A Comnaz Analysis
Klas-Göran Karlsson, Johan Stenfeldt, Ulf Zander
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• Author(s): Klas-Göran Karlsson | Johan Stenfeldt | Ulf Zander • Publisher: Lexington Books • Publisher Imprint: Lexington Books • BISAC: Europe - GeneralThis collection explores the questions of whether, how, and why the histories of German Naz...
View full detailsLegal History of Mississippi: Race, Class, and the Struggle for Opportunity
Joseph a. Ranney
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• Author(s): Joseph a. Ranney • Publisher: University Press of Mississippi • Publisher Imprint: University Press of Mississippi • BISAC: United States - State & Local - South (AL,AR,FL,GA,KY,LA,MS,In A Legal History of Mississippi: Race, Clas...
View full detailsCheshire - Its Traditions and History - Including a Record of the Rise and Progress of Freemasonry in This Ancient Province
Alfred Ingham
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• Author(s): Alfred Ingham • Publisher: White Press • Publisher Imprint: White Press • BISAC: General"Cheshire - Its Traditions and History" is a fascinating account of the history of Cheshire, a county in North West England. This concise history...
View full detailsPearls and Pearling Life
Edwin W. Streeter
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• Author(s): Edwin W. Streeter • Publisher: White Press • Publisher Imprint: White Press • BISAC: GeneralPearls are glistening, solid object created within the tissue of a living mollusc or other shelled animals. Pearls of the highest quality are...
View full detailsHopeful: A Story of African Childhood Dreams and the Relentless love and sacrifice of Poor Parents to give their children an Education.
Asa Ahimbisibwe
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• Author(s): Asa Ahimbisibwe • Publisher: FriesenPress • Publisher Imprint: FriesenPress • BISAC: Africa - CentralHopeful describes the real life stories of children who were born in a rural poor village in an African country-Uganda. One of them,...
View full detailsHopeful: A Story of African Childhood Dreams and the Relentless love and sacrifice of Poor Parents to give their children an Education.
Asa Ahimbisibwe
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• Author(s): Asa Ahimbisibwe • Publisher: FriesenPress • Publisher Imprint: FriesenPress • BISAC: Africa - CentralHopeful describes the real life stories of children who were born in a rural poor village in an African country-Uganda. One of them,...
View full detailsCorruption and Justice in Colonial Mexico, 1650-1755
Christoph Rosenmüller
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• Author(s): Christoph Rosenmüller • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Latin America - MexicoCorruption is one of the most prominent issues in Latin American news cycles, with charges d...
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