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Saving Nature Under Socialism

Traces the evolution of environmental policy and protest in East Germany and central Europe during the Cold War.

Reinventing French Aid

Handouts for british history

Women in Twentieth-Century Africa

During a turbulent colonial and postcolonial century, African women struggled to control their own marital, sexual and economic lives and...

Frontiers of Citizenship

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

Crime and Law in England, 1750 1840 - Remaking Justice from the Margins

Study of the making of law in England in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

The Second Part of the Chronicle of Peru - Volume 2

The Popular Guide to the International Exhibition of 1862

Featuring many contemporary advertisements, this helpful guide for visitors to London's International Exhibition of 1862 highlights Victo...

The Hessians

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

Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom - Or, the Escape of William and Ellen Craft from Slavery

This compelling narrative, first published in 1860, recounts how spouses William and Ellen Craft courageously escaped from slavery in Ame...

History of England from the Accession of James I to the Outbreak of the Civil War, 1603 1642

This ten-volume edition of Gardiner's history of the period 1603 to 1642 was published in 1883-4.

Afghanistan - A Short History of Its People and Politics

A fascinating chronicle of a nation's turbulent history. Reaching back to earliest times, Martin Ewans examines the historical evolution ...

Igazságot Erdélynek! - Justice for Transylvania!

"Amellett, hogy sűrített és hiteles áttekintést adunk Erdély földrajzáról, történelméről és kultúrájáról, szükségesnek érezzük azt is, ho...

The Japanese Myths - A Guide to Gods, Heroes and Spirits

The perfect introduction to the world of Japanese myth and legend. This is a smart and succinct guide to the rich tradition of Japanes...

Greek Mythology - A Guide to Ancient Greece and Greek Mythology including Titans, Hercules, Greek Gods, Zeus, and More!

GREEK MYTHOLOGY Stories from Ancient Greece have been passed down for thousands of centuries, and have been the inspiration for many book...

The Way of the Barbarians - Redrawing Ethnic Boundaries in Tang and Song China

Shao-yun Yang challenges assumptions that the cultural and socioeconomic watershed of the Tang-Song transition (800?1127 CE) was marked b...

Pursuit of the Nazi Mind - Hitler, Hess, and the Analysts

The story of how psychoanalysis was used in the war against Nazi Germany - in the crucial quest to understand the Nazi mind. Daniel Pick ...

Whaling on Long Island

The story of whales and the whalers who followed them is inextricably tied with Long Island's rich maritime history. Before the Long Isla...

Migrant City - A New History of London

Panikos Panayi explores the vibrant history of London's immigration scene. Ranging from Jewish and German immigrants in the Victorian per...

History of the Adriatic - A Sea and Its Civilization

The Adriatic is 'the small Mediterranean' - a sea within a sea, part of the Mediterranean and at the same time detached from it, a largel...

A Short History of Florence and the Florentine Republic

The innovative city culture of Florence was the crucible within which Renaissance ideas first caught fire. With its soaring cathedral dom...

Tiberius - A Captivating Guide to the Life of Ancient Rome's Second Emperor and How He Ruled the Roman Empire

If you want to discover the captivating life of Tiberius, then keep reading... Compared with the preceding rulers, Julius Caesar and Augu...

Marriage and Power in Mongol Eurasia - A History of the Chinggisid Sons-in-law

Since the beginning of his rise to power, Chinggis Khan used matrimonial relations between the members of his family and his allies in or...

Paris - A Short History

A concise history of Paris and the great events and personalities, from prehistory to the present, that have shaped its unique cultural l...

Budapest 1956 - Locations of Drama. What Happened? Where? Why?

Budapest 1956 - what happened, where and why? Using a wide range of sources, both historical and modern, Bob Dent tells the story of the ...

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...

Jihad in Central Asia - Foreign Fighters, the Islamic State of Khorasan, the Chechens and Uyghur Islamic Front in China

The book discussed the issues regarding the prospect of nuclear terrorism in Central Asia and possibly in Russia and the risk of a comple...

February 1933 - The Winter of Literature

It all happened in a flash. February 1933 was the month in which the fate of German writers, as for so many others, was decided. In a ten...

Broadcloth and Britches - The Santa Fe Trade

Hundreds of miles from its supply center in Chihuahua and just freed from the grip of Spain's mercantilist colonial policies, New Mexico ...

Mass and Elite in Democratic Athens - Rhetoric, Ideology, and the Power of the People

This book asks an important question often ignored by ancient historians and political scientists alike: Why did Athenian democracy work ...

The Árpád-line

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

Disputed Messiahs - Jewish and Christian Messianism in the Ashkenazic World during the Reformation

Disputed Messiahs: Jewish and Christian Messianism in the Ashkenazic World during the Reformation is the first comprehensive study that s...

Culture and Society in Eighteenth-Century Hungary

The North American Indian Volume 1 - The Apache, The Jicarillas, The Navajo

Volume #1 of 20 in The North American Indian series contains detailed information on the The Apache, The Jicarillas, The Navajo. The subj...

Liberty over London Bridge - A History of the People of Southwark

The first complete history of Southwark, London’s stubbornly independent community over the Thames

Familial Undercurrents - Untold Stories of Love and Marriage in Modern Iran

Not long after her father died, Afsaneh Najmabadi discovered that her father had a secret second family and that she had a sister she nev...

Cypria - A Journey to the Heart of the Mediterranean -- A Gripping New History of Cyprus

An evocative and lyrical history of Cyprus and the Mediterranean. Think of a place where can you stand at the intersection of Christian a...

Transylvania

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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...

Lodi

Originally founded as the town of Mokelumne in 1869, Lodi formed when a group of settlers persuaded the Central Pacific Railroad to build...

Potsdam

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

Blood on the Stone - Greed, Corruption and War in the Global Diamond Trade

'Blood on the Stone' is a gripping account of the cartel, warlords, gun runners and shadowy traders who populated Africa's bloody diamond...

Empire of Difference - The Ottomans in Comparative Perspective

This book is a comparative study of imperial organization and longevity in the Ottoman Empire.

Augsburg - Mit Texten in Deutsch, Englisch, Italienisch

Augsburg hat Gesicht und Geschichte: ein Stadtbild, geprägt von der Renaissance, eine Altstadt, durchzogen von Wasserkanälen und -türmen,...

Estonia as a Captive Nation - International Cooperation in Exile within the Assembly of Captive European Nations, 1954-1972

The book expands the history of the Cold War to Eastern European emigrants and their networks. The "Assembly of Captive European Nations"...

Dresden in drei Zeiten | Dresden in three eras - Damals. Zerstört im Zweiten Weltkrieg. Heute | Then. Ruined during World War II. Nowadays

Zu Beginn des 18. Jahrhunderts lässt August der Starke Dresden zum barocken Gesamtkunstwerk umbauen. Im Zweiten Weltkrieg wird das Floren...

The French Revolution - A Study In Democracy

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

A Brief History of Hungary - with 62 Pictures in Colour

Some five hundred years after the fall of the Roman empire, three warlike and rapacious pagan peoples were tearing at a Europe already la...

Illustrated Military History of Hungary

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

Islam

Sarum

Sarum is the towering story of five families through 100 centuries of turmoil, tyranny, passion and prosperity. In a novel of extraordina...

Verhaftet Interniert Verhungert - Vom Rheinwiesenlager Rheinberg zum Internierungslager Staumühle

Inhalt: An einem persönlichen Schicksal wird der Weg eines Menschen, der hier am unteren Niederrhein lebte, vom amerikanisch-britischen R...

Cambodian History - A Captivating Guide to the History of Cambodia and the Khmer Empire

If you want to discover the captivating history of Cambodia, then keep reading... Two captivating manuscripts in one book:History of Camb...

Regensburg - 3-sprachige Ausgabe in Deutsch, Englisch, Italienisch

Über 2000 Jahre Geschichte haben Regensburg - Bayerns früheste und erste Stadt - geprägt. Der Band nimmt den Leser mit auf eine Entdeckun...

From Partition to Brexit - The Irish Government and Northern Ireland

From Partition to Brexit provides an authoritative and accessible analysis of how successive Irish governments have tried to overcome the...

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...

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...

The incredible incas and their timeless land

Behind the Wall - My Brother, My Family and Hatred in East Germany

Germany, like many countries, has witnessed the rise of extremist far-right groups and parties in recent years, and no more so than in th...

Five Days in London, May 1940

John Lukacs reconstructs five tense and decisive days during which Churchill and the British War Cabinet debated the future of the war