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The Red Atlantic - American Indigenes and the Making of the Modern World, 1000-1927

From the earliest moments of European contact, Native Americans have played a pivotal role in the Atlantic experience, yet they often hav...

The Hessians

A study of the German auxiliaries who fought with the British against the American colonists.

France in the Later Middle Ages 1200-1500

This volume traces the development of France and its identity in a period replete with crisis, from the Albigensian crusades in the first...

Harding Affair - Love and Espionage During the Great War

< Warren Harding fell in love with his beautiful neighbor, Carrie Phillips, in the summer of 1905, almost a decade before he was elected ...

Berlin Now - The Rise of the City and the Fall of the Wall

In Berlin Now, and on the 25th Anniversary of the fall of the Wall, a legendary Berliner tells the inside story of the city. Over the las...

The African Origin of Civilization - Myth or Reality A Deep Dive

This chapter by chapter review of Cheikh Anta Diop's foundational work, The African Origin of Civilization, offers some perspective here ...

Frontier Fictions - Shaping the Iranian Nation, 1804-1946

In Frontier Fictions, Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet looks at the efforts of Iranians to defend, if not expand, their borders in the nineteenth a...

Potsdam

Red sandstone, lumber, paper, cows, and college students feature prominently in Potsdam. With its selection of two hundred stunning photo...

The prince of Wales

Vikings - An Encyclopedia of Conflict, Invasions, and Raids

For three centuries, the Vikings changed the political world of northern and western Europe. This encyclopedia explores exactly how they ...

A Short Environmental History of Italy - Variety and Vulnerability

The Richness and the Fragility of Italy's Humanised Environment This book, a translation of the author's original Italian Breve Storia de...

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...

"Mein Stendal" - Ein Stadtporträt in Fotos und Gedanken

Stendal ist ... ja, was eigentlich? Eine Stadt mit Geschichte und Gegenwart, das kann man sagen. Eine Rolandstadt und auch eine der Backs...

Black American History For Dummies

Go deeper than the Black History you may think you know! Black American History For Dummies reveals the terrors and struggles and celebra...

Hungarian Liberals

Romans and Natives in the Danubian Provinces (1st-6th C. AD)

This volume presents the proceedings of the 5th International Conference on the Roman Danubian Provinces, held at the University "Alexand...

A concise history of Hungary - Millenniumi magyar történet

The Britannias - An Island Quest

SHORTLISTED FOR THE EDWARD STANFORD TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR 'A dazzlingly brilliant book' Hannah Dawson 'Fascinating, often exhilarating ...

Du Bois on Religion

Phil Zuckerman here gathers together Du Bois's writings on religion, and makes a compelling case for Du Bois to be recognized among the l...

The rise and fall of the great powers

Alpine Passes of Switzerland - Journey to Modernity

For centuries, the Alps were an almost insurmountable barrier on the way from Europe's north to the south, and vice versa. The Romans rep...

Ancient Advanced Technology in South America

There are a host of ancient ruins in South America, claimed by the Inca, inherited by the Inca, conquered by the Inca and built by the In...

ISRAEL - CENTER OF HISTORY and CENTER OF THE WORLD

The Bible shows at great length and depth that Israel is God's special, chosen Covenant nation and people. That Divine Choice and Covenan...

The Last Days of Pompeii - 1887

Fa'a Siamani - Germany in Micronesia, New Guinea and Samoa 1884-1914

The Independent State of Samoa, Papua New Guinea, the Federated States of Micronesia, the Republics of the Marshall Islands, of Nauru and...

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

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 ...

Boon Island - A True Story Of Mutiny, Shipwreck, And Cannibalism

A harrowing true tale of fraud, mutiny, shipwreck, and cannibalism on the desolate rock known as Boon Island.

Report Made to the Chamber of Deputies on the Abolition of Slavery in the French Colonies

This scarce antiquarian book contains a report made to the Chamber of Deputies concerning the abolition of slavery in the French colonies...

Edgar Allan Poe in Richmond

Edgar Allan Poe, the renowned author of tales of mystery and madness, arrived in Richmond in 1810 at the age of one and left the city for...

The Abbey and Bishopric of Ely

A study of the formation of a large estate by Ely Abbey during the tenth and eleventh centuries.

A History of East Asia - From the Origins of Civilization to the Twenty-First Century

The second edition of Charles Holcombe's acclaimed introduction to East Asian history from the dawn of history to the twenty-first century.

Illustrated Military History of Hungary

Egy könyv, amely olvasmányos formában, ugyanakkor a tudományos követelményekből nem engedve mutatja be Magyarország hadtörténetét. Egy ha...

Maulbronn

Bildband mit ausführlicher historischer, theologischer und kunstgeschichtlicher Beschreibung des Klosters Maulbronn. Die Fotografien stam...

A short History of the World

Venice - City of Pictures

A visual journey through five centuries of the city known for centuries as, "La Serenissima"--a unique and compelling story for both love...

Culture and Society in Eighteenth-Century Hungary

A History of Britain in Just a Minute

The story of us - without hesitation, repetition or deviation. Join national treasure and Just a Minute regular Gyles Brandreth on a hila...

A Wall in Palestine

The West Bank Barrier is expected to be completed in 2010. Declared illegal by the United Nations International Court of Justice, this ne...

A history of the jews

The magyars the birth of a european nation

Traveler, Scholar, Political Adventurer - A Transylvanian Baron at the Birth of Albanian Independence: The memoirs of Franz Nopcsa

The Austro-Hungarian aristocrat of Transylvanian origin, Baron Franz Nopcsa (1877-1933), was one of the most adventuresome travelers and ...

Discovering Texas History

"Broad in scope, yet succinct, Discovering Texas History is a thorough, informative, and readable guide to modern Texas history from seve...

Berlin - Gestern und heute / Yesterday and Today

Keine andere Stadt Mitteleuropas wandelte ihr Stadtbild in den vergangenen 100 Jahren schneller als Berlin. Zunächst war es die Entwicklu...

Native Peoples A to Z (Volume One) - A Reference Guide to Native Peoples of the Western Hemisphere

The Native Peoples of the Americas flourished in the Western Hemisphere for thousands of years prior to contact with Europeans. These Nat...

Early New England People - Some Account Of The Ellis, Pemberton, Willard, Prescott, Titcomb, Sewall, And Longfellow, And Allied Families

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. ...

The Dutch Republic in the Seventeenth Century

"First edition published in Dutch as "Gouden eeuw. Het raadsel van de Republiek" by Uitgeverij SUN, Nijmegen, 2002 and à Uitgeverij SUN, ...

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...

A short history of Africa

Frontiers of Citizenship

An engaging, innovative history of Brazil's black and indigenous people that redefines our understanding of slavery, citizenship, and nat...

1939-1940 New York World's Fair

After enduring 10 harrowing years of the Great Depression, visitors to the 1939-1940 New York World's Fair found welcome relief in the fa...

White Shell Water Place (Softcover)

This anthology, a companion to the Santa Fe 400th Anniversary Commemoration publication, "All Trails Lead to Santa Fe," affords Native Am...

A history of the United States

The Árpád-line

The Defence system of the Hungarian royal Army in the Eastern Carpathians 1940-1944

Japan: Profile of a nation

Dannemora

The discovery of iron ore near Chateaugay Lake in 1831 started the settlement later known as the town of Dannemora. In 1832, several loca...

The History of Saudi Arabia

The revised edition of this comprehensive survey follows the political, military, religious, economic, and diplomatic history of the King...

Civilization and its discontents

The Habsburg monarchy 1809-1918