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Stolpersteine / Stumbling Stones - Zur Erinnerung an Menschen aus Düsseldorf, Erkrath, Langenfeld, Mettmann, Monheim und Ratingen / Remembering people from Düsseldorf, Erkrath, Langenfeld, Mettmann, Monheim und Ratingen

"Stolpersteine" des Künstlers Gunter Demnig erinnern an Männer, Frauen und Kinder, die von den Nationalsozialisten ermordet wurden. Vor d...

The Lombards - The Ancient Longobards

The Lombards, also known as the Longobards, were a Germanis tribe whose fabled origins lay in the barbarian realm of Scandinavia. After c...

The Little Book of Welsh Landmarks

A fact-filled journey through Welsh landmarks, from the snowy peaks of Snowdonia to the glorious Wales Coastal Path.

The Conflicts of the Aegean in the 20th Century

This study deals with the conflicts in the Aegean in the 20th century It is the English translation of "Friede in der Ägäis" published 30...

Fabrica Historiae - 20 Schlüssel zur Landesgeschichte - Festschrift zum 70. Geburtstag von Wolfgang Wüst (1953-2023)

In 20 Beiträgen aus der Landesgeschichte arrangiert der Autor, Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Wüst, einen bunten Strauß süddeutscher Themen. Interdis...

Der Krönungsweg - Das Herz der neuen Frankfurter Altstadt - Stadtführung mit 7 Bastelbögen

Frankfurt hat es gewagt - die Stadt hat einen Teil ihrer im Zweiten Weltkrieg zerstörten Altstadt wieder auferstehen lassen! Das Projekt ...

Dämonenglaube und Hexenprozess - im Zeitalter von Renaissance, Humanismus, Reformation

Der Autor Rüdiger Gollnick unternimmt zunächst mit dem Leser bzw. der Leserin eine Zeitreise in eine historische Umbruchsituation vom Mit...

Violence and Gender in Africa's Iberian Colonies - Feminizing the Portuguese and Spanish Empire, 1950s¿1970s

This book examines how and why Portugal and Spain increasingly engaged with women in their African colonies in the crucial period from th...

The Power of Persuasion - Becoming a Merchant in the 18th Century

Lucas Haasis found a time capsule: A complete mercantile letter archive of the merchant Nicolaus Gottlieb Luetkens who lived in 18th cent...

Salt Lake Country

A story about the Salzkammergut region as the heart of Austria - European Capital of Culture 2024. Naturally compact, with its characteri...

London Fog - The Biography

The classic London fogs¿thick yellow "pea-soupers¿¿were born in the industrial age and remained a feature of cold, windless winter days u...

The Boleyns of Hever Castle

Hever Castle is a picture-postcard fortified manor house nestled in the Kent countryside. It is famous for its links with the Boleyns, an...

The Ring and the Cross

As barbarian hordes storm once-civilized lands, ordinary people must rescue what they can of morality and faith, building a Christian Age...

Compton

Compton is a city of myth and misunderstandings. Today, it is known as the city of "hip-hop dreams and gangsta fantasies." Its history, h...

William Wallace - Scotland's Great Freedom Fighter

The history of the Scottish nation is full to the brim with glorious heroes and epic struggles. Throughout the centuries of its fight for...

From The Caves And Jungles Of Hindostan

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

Croatia - A History from the Middle Ages to the Present Day

An updated fourth edition of the comprehensive guide to the key dynamics and legacy events of the Croatian story, taking in the early Cro...

Der jüdische Friedhof Weißensee / The Jewish Cemetery Weissensee - Momente der Geschichte / Moments of History

Der jüdische Friedhof Weißensee gleicht einem verwunschenen Ort. Er verbindet Menschen an den verschiedensten Punkten der Welt, deren Her...

Dresden in Flames

In 1944 the Soviet armed forces approach Hungary. As a result, Germany offers the opportunity to the Hungarian university students to con...

Twentieth-Century Europe - 1900 to the Present

Provides an engaging narrative account of modern European history, featuring new chapters on modern Europe and the post-Cold War world Tw...

Sacred Language of the Abakuá

In 1988, Lydia Cabrera (1899-1991) published La lengua sagrada de los Ñáñigos, an Abakuá phrasebook that is to this day the largest work ...

LAST OF THE TRIBE

Throughout the centuries, the Amazon has yielded many of its secrets, but it still holds a few great mysteries. In 1996 experts got their...

In Our Own Words - Extraordinary Speeches of the American Century

"Settle down to ten decades of American history", writes Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Doris Kearns Goodwin in her rousing Foreword to...

Caltrain and the Peninsula Commute Service

The rail line now called Caltrain was started in the 1860s to create a faster alternative to stagecoaches and ships between the key citie...

American Evangelicalism - George Marsden and the State of American Religious History

No living scholar has shaped the study of American religious history more profoundly than George M. Marsden. His work spans U.S. intellec...

Touching History - The Untold Story of the Drama That Unfolded in the Skies Over America on 9/11

Now in paperback, the riveting story of the response of the heroic pilots and air traffic controllers who found themselves on the front l...

Lincoln at Home - Two Glimpses of Abraham Lincoln's Family Life

By the acclaimed two-time Pulitzer prize winner, author of the definitive "Lincoln," a beautifully packaged and affordable portrait of th...

Twelve Years a Slave - The Black History Classic

DISCOVER A TALE OF UNIMAGINABLE ADVERSITY Twelve Years a Slave tells the story of Solomon Northup, a free-born man of colour who was kidn...

The French Way - How France Embraced and Rejected American Values and Power

How the French have used American culture to define a unique modern identity There are over 1,000 McDonald's on French soil. Two Disney t...

Gareth Jones - Eyewitness to the Holodomor

Gareth Jones (1905-1934), the young Welsh investigative journalist, is revered in Ukraine as a national hero and is now rightly recognise...

Prizefighting and Civilization - A Cultural History of Boxing, Race, and Masculinity in Mexico and Cuba, 1840-1940

In Prizefighting and Civilization: A Cultural History of Boxing, Race, and Masculinity in Mexico and Cuba, 1840-1940, historian David C. ...

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...

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...

"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...

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...

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...

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...

Maulbronn

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

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...

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...

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. ...

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...

The History of Saudi Arabia

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

'Tell it All' - the Ordeals of a Woman Against Polygamy Within the Mormon Church During the 19th Century

A 'first wife' tells the story of her life The author of 'Wife No. 19,' Ann Young was in measure inspired in her own literary efforts and...

SHORT HIST AMERN REVOLUTION PB

The first one-volume survey of the American Revolution that is both objective and comprehensive, this outstanding narrative history trace...