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The River War - An Account of the Reconquest of the Sudan

The River War: An Account of the Reconquest of the Sudan, a classical and rare book that has been considered essential throughout human h...

Kilenge - West New Britain. Papua New Guinea. A Pictorial Ethnography

In 1977-78, right after Papua New Guinea had achieved its political independence, Derk van Groningen was living among the Kilenge people ...

A history of the jews

The Kennedy -Khrushchev Letters

120 personal letters between John F. Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev, kept secret until almost the year 2000, have been published for the f...

Remembering Dixie - The Battle to Control Historical Memory in Natchez, Mississippi, 1865-1941

Nearly seventy years after the Civil War, Natchez, Mississippi, sold itself to Depression-era tourists as a place "Where the Old South St...

Remembering Tampa

By the late nineteenth century, the city of Tampa was a vibrant, cultural center. Through the early twentieth century, two world wars, an...

The Organic Machine - The Remaking of the Columbia River

The Hill and Wang Critical Issues Series: concise, affordable works on pivotal topics in American history, society, and politics. In this...

Civilization and its discontents

Remembering Julius Nyerere in Tanzania. History, Memory, Legacy

This edited volume is about the rekindled investment in the figure of the first president Julius K. Nyerere in contemporary Tanzania. It ...

The Education of Henry Adams

Flying aces 1914-1918

This book on the flying aces of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy has appeared to mark the centenary of the First World War. A result of long...

The rise and fall of the third reich - Védőborító nélkül

Ottoman Empire - Devlet-i Aliye

Part I of the book deals with 6 Centuries of Ottoman Empire's birth, growth, plateau and peak, stagnation and then the eventual downfall....

Athens Burning - The Persian Invasion of Greece and the Evacuation of Attica

Between June 480 and August 479 BC, tens of thousands of Athenians evacuated, following King Xerxes' victory at the Battle of Thermopylae...

A National Park for Women's Rights - The Campaign That Made It Happen

"The story of the challenges faced in the creation of the Women's Rights National Historical Park in Seneca Falls, NY, as told by the fou...

Thatcher's Progress

Examines a pioneering programme of urban development to rewrite the history of Britain's transition from social democracy to neoliberalism.

A history of the Middle East

Der Untergang des alten Dresden in der Bombennacht vom 13./14. Februar 1945 - The Destruction of Dresden in the Night of 13-14 February 1945

Populärwissenschaftliche Darstellung von Ursachen, Ablauf und Auswirkungen der sinnlosen Zerstörung der Elbestadt kurz vor Ende des Zweit...

Virginia Barbecue - A History

Cape Coral

Many are surprised to discover that Cape Coral's history dates back further than the boom of the 1960s. Indeed, homesteader families were...

Auburn

According to local lore, Auburn's name comes from "Sweet Auburn, loveliest village of the plain," a line from Oliver Goldsmith's poem, "T...

England in the eighteenth century 7.

California - A Bicentennial History

From the earliest Spanish explorations in the late 1500s through the present, California's history and growth have been both tumultuous a...

Attila the Hun - A Captivating Guide to the Ruler of the Huns and His Invasions of the Roman Empire

If you want to discover the captivating history of Attila the Hun, then keep reading... In the popular imagination, Attila the Hun is amo...

Traders and Raiders - The Indigenous World of the Colorado Basin, 1540-1859

The Colorado River region looms large in the history of the American West, vitally important in the designs and dreams of Euro-Americans ...

German History 1789-1871 - From the Holy Roman Empire to the Bismarckian Reich

During recent years, there has been a noticeable increase in interest in the nineteenth century, resulting in many fine monographs. Howev...

The Travel Journals of Henrietta Marchant Liston - North America and Lower Canada, 1796-1800

Travel writing has a long history, the accounts as varied as the reasons why people travel. Although most travel publications of the eigh...

The Hungarians

This is a comprehensive history of a legendarily proud and passionate but lonely people. Much of Europe once knew them as "child-devourin...

Colours of London - A History

Peter Ackroyd tells the history of London through the lens of colour - with specially commissioned colourised photographs from Dynamichro...

Das schöne Hildesheim / Beautiful Hildesheim / La belle Hildesheim

Hildesheim profitiert bis heute von seiner verkehrsgünstigen Lage: Als Wasserweg dient der Stichkanal des Mittellandkanals, die Bundesstr...

Chinese Heirs to Muhammad - Writing Islamic History in Early Modern China

How was the past imagined by Hui Muslims in late nineteenth and early twentieth century China? Chen argues that this was a productive tim...

A short History of the World

A Concise History of Nazi Germany, Fifth Edition

This balanced history offers a concise, readable introduction to Nazi Germany. Combining compelling narrative storytelling with analysis,...

The Watergate Crisis

The Watergate crisis marked the beginning of the age of cynicism in America. This readable and insightful account examines what happened ...

Bellaire

Soviet Man and His World.

The prince of Wales

Secularism in Afghanistan

For years, many have debated the relationship between religion and politics. In Secularism in Afghanistan, author Shukoor Zardushtian dir...

The Political Prophecy In England

This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowle...

The Balfour Declaration - The Origins of the Arab-Israeli Conflict

Winner of the National Jewish Book Award Issued in London in 1917, the Balfour Declaration was one of the key documents of the twentieth ...

Lippe - Die schönsten Bilder einer historischen Landschaft

Dieser Bild- und Textband fu¿hrt den Leser auf Entdeckungsreise durch das Lipperland. Präsentiert wird eine Vielzahl von Schlössern, Burg...

The Thames

This work by Mortimer Menpes was originally published in 1906. Complete with numerous illustrations, this work lovingly details the path ...

Movin' On - The Legacy of Ron West and the Rock Band Missouri

Coming of age during the British Invasion of the early 1960s, Ron West was inspired to pursue a career in music. His interest in bands li...

Dance If Ye Can - A Dictionary of Scottish Battles

Dance If Ye Can is an introduction to the huge variety of battles fought in Scotland, or fought by the Scots in the nearly nine hundred y...

The Greek and Roman Myths - A Guide to the Classical Stories

Who was Pandora and what was in her famous box? Why is a famous brand named after the goddess Nike? How did Achilles get his Achilles hee...

Pennsylvania Dutch Country, The

Taking the name Pennsylvania Dutch from a corruption of their own word for themselves, "Deutsch," the first German settlers arrived in Pe...

Cuban Missile Crisis - The Essential Reference Guide

Drawing on revealing new research, this richly informative volume is the definitive concise introduction to the crisis that took the worl...

The History of Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka-an island nation located in the Indian Ocean- has a population of approximately 19 million. Despite its diminuative size, howev...

Die Mannheimer Feuerwehr in der NS-Zeit - Aufarbeitung

Welche Auswirkungen hatte die NS-Zeit auf die Feuerwehr? Was geschah nach 1933 in und mit der Mannheimer Feuerwehr? Wer waren die verantw...

A brief history of chinese fiction

The Secret War Against the Jews - How Western Espionage Betrayed the Jewish People

A hugely controversial work that exposes a series of scandals from Oliver North to the British royal family, The Secret War Against the J...

The Wars of the Jews; Or, The History of the Destruction of Jerusalem

Titus Flavius Josephus born Yosef ben Matityahu was a first-century Romano-Jewish historian who was born in Jerusalem-then part of Roman ...

Tybee Island - The Long Branch of the South

From Guale Indians and Spanish explorers to its glory days as the queen of south Atlantic beach resorts and beyond, Tybee Island's quiet ...

Transposition By Clef - New England Conservatory Course In Transposition (1900)

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notation...

The Prague of Charles IV, 1316-1378

This publication, written by Czech professor of art history Jan Royt, renders a vivid image of the capital of the Bohemian Kingdom in the...

Amsterdam - A History of the World's Most Liberal City

An endlessly entertaining portrait of the city of Amsterdam and the ideas that make it unique, by the author of the acclaimed Island at t...

The Cambridge History of Japan, Volume 3 - Medieval Japan

Survey of the historical events and developments in medieval Japan's polity, economy, society and culture.

Resistance and Integration - Peronism and the Argentine Working Class, 1946 1976

This book analyses the relationship between Peronism and the Argentine working class from the foundation of the Peronist movement in the ...

The Court and Reign of Francis the First, King of France

This two-volume 1849 work attempts to remove the accretions of myth clinging to Francis I and to his court.

The Chronicle of Pierre de Langtoft - Volume 1

A popular history of England in Anglo-Norman French verse, from the legendary Brutus to the death of King Stephen.