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  • Honoring Native Warriors
    Gary Robinson
    This compilation of the author’s previous works includes a history of American Indian service in the US military, an examination of the code talkers of WWI and WWII, plus links to documentaries produced by the author, and profiles and interviews with Native American men and women who served. ...
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    45,45 €

  • The Creole Incident
    John Hyde Barnard
    The Creole Incident was more than a simple conspiracy of nineteen individuals seeking their freedom. The layers of history surrounding this event conceal a careful, step-by-step process of subterfuge, cunning and boldness taken by a select group of individuals who acted in concert to save the Union from the domination of slavocracy. The Creole Incident reveals an undeniable lin...
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    19,01 €

  • Butterfield Overland National Historic Trail Across Faulkner County, Arkansas
    Bob O Crossman
    After twenty years of effort by the Heritage Trail Partners, and Arkansas Senator John Boozman, in December of 2022, the US Congress established this route as The Butterfield National Historic Trail. That historic decision brings up the task of determining exactly where that trail crossed Faulkner County. This book outlines the two year process the author followed to determine ...
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    25,90 €

  • United We Stand
    Tom O’Lincoln
    In the state-run prison that was early New South Wales, pockets of capitalism sprang up like sturdy weeds. with them came wage labour and class struggle. Australian workers were organisiing well before the gold rushes, and later a mass labour movement confronted the employers across the continent, opening the way for bitter confrontations.Controversy surrounds the colonial labo...
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    18,73 €

  • Abraham Lincoln and Women in Film
    Frank J Wetta / Martin A Novelli
    Frank J. Wetta and Martin A. Novelli’s Abraham Lincoln and Women in Film investigates how depictions of women in Hollywood motion pictures helped forge the myth of Lincoln. Exploring female characters’ backstories, the political and cultural climate in which the films appeared, and the contest between the moviemakers’ imaginations and the varieties of historical truth, Wetta an...
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    56,46 €

  • The Breath Of Life
    John Burroughs
    'The Breath of Life' is a 1915 book by American naturalist John Burroughs. It contains a number of essays related to his observations as he travelled around New England. Beautifully written and thought provoking, 'The Breath of Life' will appeal to lovers of nature writing. John Burroughs (1837 - 1921) was an American naturalist, essayist, and active member of the U.S. conserva...
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    14,33 €

  • Sensational News
    Jeremy Agnew
    Sensationalistic stories have attracted readers for as long as reading has been a popular form of entertainment. Readers have been frightened, revolted, yet fascinated by stories of death, thievery, kidnapping, murder, rape, scandal, love triangles, and colorful miscreants. Starting in the 1830s this morbid interest in lurid stories fueled the unprecedented growth of sensationa...
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    71,93 €

  • Great Epochs in American History, Volume I - Voyages Of Discovery And Early Explorations
    Francis W. Halsey
    Schoolboys have been taught from their earliest years that Columbus discovered America. Few events in prehistoric times seem more probable now than that Columbus was not the first to discover it. The importance of his achievement over that of others lay in his own faith in his success, in his definiteness of purpose, and in the fact that he awakened in Europe an interest in the...
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    15,40 €

  • CHOSEN VESSELS
    Dr. Elizabeth Branch / Elizabeth Grady Branch
     Part 1 introduces CHOSEN VESSELS: PROMOTING THE UNITY OF AMERICA’S PROMISES BEFORE THE SEMIQUINCENTENNIAL. I started our project by sharing and exploring a bit of historical information passed down through schooling, informally or formally.  Chapters 1-14 consist of lived experiences and real life 'learnings.' Quotes, discussions, conversations, primary firsthand and researche...
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    22,11 €

  • Tracy
    Cyclone Tracy demolished Darwin, capital of the Northern Territory when it struck during the night of Christmas Eve and Christmas Morning, 1974. Over almost ten hours the small, intense, but slow-moving weather system left a swathe of destruction across the entire town. Few buildings escaped.Sixty-six people died, many of them on vessels which put to sea, while many hundreds we...
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    27,26 €

  • Indigenous Data Sovereignty
    Megan Dennis
    Indigenous Data Sovereignty: Empowering Indigenous Communities in the Digital Age is a groundbreaking exploration of the importance of Indigenous Data Sovereignty in the digital era, covering key concepts, challenges, and opportunities while providing practical guidance and inspiring case studies. This comprehensive book is a compelling call to action, urging readers to support...
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    103,88 €

  • History of American Abolitionism - From 1787 to 1861
    F. G. De Fontaine
    'The following pages originally appeared in the NEW YORK HERALD, of February 2d, 1861. By request, they have been reproduced in their present shape, with the view of preserving, in a form more compact than that of a newspaper, the valuable facts embraced. Without an extensive range of research it is almost impossible to acquire the information which is thus compiled, and, at th...
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    12,08 €

  • Temple in the Sand
    Marjorie Vernelle
    Seti I is most frequently known as the father of Ramesses II, but in fact, he was a great pharaoh himself, though with a relatively short reign of just eleven years. A great warrior king, a strategic thinker, and a man who knew the life of the ordinary people, he was an extraordinary ruler. His brand was excellence, and he used that in many forms to win his people to a king who...
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    15,90 €

  • Temple in the Sand
    Marjorie Vernelle
    Seti I is most frequently known as the father of Ramesses II, but in fact, he was a great pharaoh himself, though with a relatively short reign of just eleven years. A great warrior king, a strategic thinker, and a man who knew the life of the ordinary people, he was an extraordinary ruler. His brand was excellence, and he used that in many forms to win his people to a king who...
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    23,85 €

  • Death by Socialism
    J. M. Rock
    This book is a philosophical and pragmatic insight into the methods and disguises of socialism. It offers a set of remedies and an urgent call-to-action in response to the unique forms of socialism evolving today within the United States. The book combines historical and economic truths with a scientific approach to analyzing the tenets and the tragedy of socialism. Every year,...
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    15,00 €

  • Mexico and Her People of To-day
    Nevin Otto Winter
    'Many books have been written about Mexico, but several of the best works were written a quarter of a century ago and are now out of print. This fact and the developments of the past few years leads the author to believe that there is a field for another book on that most interesting country; a book that should present in readable form reliable information concerning the custom...
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    19,78 €

  • Blowing up Ukraine
    Michael Stanchev / Yuri Felshtinsky
    Blowing up Ukraine is a first history of democracy in Ukraine since 1991 and the lethal methods Russia has used over a quarter of a century to regain Ukraine as a vazal state - culminating in a full-blown unprovoked war in 2022 and mounting war crimes. Over twenty years, the Kremlin skilfully manipulated Ukraine’s self-serving politicians and oligarchs, only to be thwarted time...
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    23,70 €

  • The American Empire
    Scott Nearing
    The American Empire is a book written by Scott Nearing, an American economist and social activist, that explores the growth and impact of American capitalism.In this book, Nearing argues that the American Empire, characterized by its expansive economic and military power, has been built through the exploitation of labor and natural resources both domestically and abroad. He exa...
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    17,76 €

  • Primary Importance
    Roger Pickenpaugh
    Prior to 1960, presidential nominees were largely selected in the infamous ''smoke filled rooms'' of state party conventions. In 1960 two serious contenders for the Democratic nomination, Hubert Humphrey and John F. Kennedy, realized their weaknesses with party bosses would make this path nearly impossible. For Kennedy his youth, his Catholic faith, and his aloofness toward par...
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    71,99 €

  • The Flag Revelation
    Christopher Maddish
    Unlock the hidden secrets of America’s soul inside the 50 American state flagsSome people may look at all 50 American state flags and see an amazing collection of US history woven in. But have you ever wondered if there’s more to America’s state flags than meets the eye? Beyond the colorful designs, a hidden realm awaits, where flags hold the keys to stories you never knew exis...
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    30,19 €

  • From Dubuque to Selma and Beyond
    Dave Markward
    Journey from the Heartland to the Heart of Racial Understanding: A True Story of Insight and Transformation. Embark on a transformative journey with Dave Markward as he transitions from an upbringing in an almost exclusively white community to a life enriched by diversity in From Dubuque to Selma and Beyond: My Journey to Understand Racism in America.Intertwining Dave’s persona...
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    24,24 €

  • The Creation of the Boer Identity
    Wiets Buys
    The history of the Boer identity is an epic saga. The Boer identity emerged in the isolation of an expansive landscape and evolved as a unique cultural entity deeply rooted in the principles of individualism, localism, independence, and freedom. The development of the Boer identity is an action-packed tale of sacrifice, suffering, loss, victory, and resilience that shaped the B...
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    20,60 €

  • Die Skepping van die Boeridentiteit
    Wiets Buys
    Die geskiedenis van die Boeridentiteit is ’n epiese sage. Die Boeridentiteit het in die isolasie van ’n uitgestrekte landskap, as ’n unieke kulturele entiteit ontstaan wat diep gewortel is in die beginsels van individualisme, lokalisme, onafhanklikheid en vryheid. Die ontwikkeling van die Boeridentiteit is ’n aksie-belaaide verhaal van opoffering, lyding, verlies, oorwinning, e...
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    20,56 €

  • Die Skepping van die Boeridentiteit
    Wiets Buys
    Die geskiedenis van die Boeridentiteit is ’n epiese sage. Die Boeridentiteit het in die isolasie van ’n uitgestrekte landskap, as ’n unieke kulturele entiteit ontstaan wat diep gewortel is in die beginsels van individualisme, lokalisme, onafhanklikheid en vryheid. Die ontwikkeling van die Boeridentiteit is ’n aksie-belaaide verhaal van opoffering, lyding, verlies, oorwinning, e...
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    28,55 €

  • Tallawudjah Creek ... and Me
    Elizabeth Webb
    Author and historian, Elizabeth (Bessie) Webb, traces her family roots growing up in Tallawudjah Creek near Glenreagh, on the Mid North Coast of NSW, between WWI and II. A prolific contributor to the history of the Glenreagh area, evidenced by eight other historical works she has researched and authored, Bessie shares her childhood memories. Her collection of photographs adds a...
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    22,29 €

  • Korean War
    Robert Wood
    The heart of Mig-Alley during the Korean War Learn the heartbreaking truth of the communist prison camp gulags, the cruelty of the North Korean enemy, and the propaganda attacks from friend and foe. Marvin King joined the US Air Force in peacetime but soon found him in the midst of jet age aerial combat, captured and taken into China, and later subjected to the abject horror of...
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    16,03 €

  • A Moral History of Western Society - Volume One
    Miles H Hodges
    What is it exactly that made for the greatness of Western Civilization? Why did it have its ups and downs ... and where do things seem headed today? Ultimately, this two-volume series is as much a political-moral teaching as it is a presentation of the details of the West’s wonderful (and sometimes tragic) historical record. It narrates the good and the bad choices that our lea...
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    19,80 €

  • A Moral History of Western Society - Volume One
    Miles H Hodges
    What is it exactly that made for the greatness of Western Civilization? Why did it have its ups and downs ... and where do things seem headed today? Ultimately, this two-volume series is as much a political-moral teaching as it is a presentation of the details of the West’s wonderful (and sometimes tragic) historical record. It narrates the good and the bad choices that our lea...
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    24,37 €

  • A Moral History of Western Society - Volume Two
    Miles H Hodges
    This second volume begins with the picture of the 'glory' of this new dynastic- tribal alliance of European monarchs and their fired-up nationalist people ... armed with massive industrial might enabling them to take over massive portions of the rest of the world (Asia and Africa). But this energy turns Europeans on each other when finally there are no more overseas lands to ca...
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    19,71 €

  • America in 2040 New Edition
    David Walker
    This book provides a 'Wake-up Call' regarding what the international and domestic situation could look like for America in 2040 absent a change in course. It includes an overview of the significant adverse implications of COVID-19 related activities, lessons learned from past great powers, and key concepts from our nation’s founding and past history. It summarizes a broad range...
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    23,54 €


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