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  • Lucky Medicine
    Lester W Thompson
    A remarkable, personal glimpse of Black student life at Indiana University in the early 1960s. In 1961, a skinny African American boy from Indianapolis arrived at Indiana University Bloomington determined to become a doctor. For the next three years, Lester Thompson kept a detailed, intimate diary of his journey to graduation. In Lucky Medicine, Lester returns to his long-ago j...
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    22,80 €

  • Lucky Medicine
    Lester W Thompson
    A remarkable, personal glimpse of Black student life at Indiana University in the early 1960s. In 1961, a skinny African American boy from Indianapolis arrived at Indiana University Bloomington determined to become a doctor. For the next three years, Lester Thompson kept a detailed, intimate diary of his journey to graduation. In Lucky Medicine, Lester returns to his long-ago j...
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    85,45 €

  • Kent to Kefalonia
    LucyAnn Curling
    Kent to Kefalonia is the second volume of LucyAnn Curling’s series Curling Wisps & Whispers of History. In Volume 1, Thanet to Tasmania, fortune did not smile on the Curling family in Van Diemen’s Land (Tasmania). At the beginning of Volume 2 they are back in England, struggling to find a financial foothold in society. Second son, Edward, has an unrewarding job in an attorney’s...
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    37,76 €

  • The Time Tree
    Kathleen Olson
    The Tree was born of unusual and tragic circumstances in the pre-Columbian prairie that would become Nebraska. As a young tree, it was fortunate that it was not the victim of a tornado or other weather denizens. Once The Tree was a hundred years old, it was able to take the arrows of young Pawnee honing their skills as well as being part of their festivals. Slaves fleeing the S...
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    13,03 €

  • Globalization and the American Southwest
    Charles Ynfante
    The influence of globalization in the American Southwest is not a new or recent trend. It is a process that is more than five hundred years old. The phenomenon began with the arrival of the first Spanish and the French, among others, in the late fifteenth century. From there, the American Southwest was subjected to the proufound influences of economic, political, military, and ...
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    32,57 €

  • God, Nazis and Genocide
    Charles Ynfante
    The Holocaust. God. Nazis. Genocide. Auschwitz. Atomic Bomb. Africa. There pare profound questions about God’s role in the Holocaust. There are deep concerns about whether or not the Holocaust of the mid-twentieth century --- not long ago from our time --- should be included in the Bible. But what exactly doe the "Holocaust" mean? These are issues for our Cultural Memory. An ev...
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    30,53 €

  • The Compact History of Mankind
    James Gault
    A compact no-nonsense text that lists and addresses the milestones that mark the journey of humans from the beginning to where we are today (updated to December 2023). ...
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    12,90 €

  • The Mis-education of the Negro
    Dr. Carter G. Woodson
    'History shows that it does not matter who is in power... those who have not learned to do for themselves and have to depend solely on others, never obtain any more rights or privileges in the end than they did in the beginning.'Dr. Carter G. Woodson was an extraordinary scholar and an important figure in the Afrocentrism movement. Being one of the first people to study African...
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    15,69 €

  • The Mis-education of the Negro
    Dr. Carter G. Woodson
    'History shows that it does not matter who is in power... those who have not learned to do for themselves and have to depend solely on others, never obtain any more rights or privileges in the end than they did in the beginning.'Dr. Carter G. Woodson was an extraordinary scholar and an important figure in the Afrocentrism movement. Being one of the first people to study African...
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    22,76 €

  • Student Life in Nineteenth-Century Cambridge
    This book tells the story of John Wright, a talented but poor student at Cambridge who was deprived of success and impelled to make a living as hack writer in London, where he was often imprisoned for debt. His memoir, along with the in-depth commentary and detailed scholarly notes presented here, offers extraordinary reading. ...
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    127,91 €

  • FREEDOM LIES ACROSS THE RIVER
    CARRIE ELDRIDGE
    Slavery, manumission, the Baptist Church, and the Underground Railroad have been a major part of American History.The future without slavery began in the Northwest Territory only after an Ordinance was issued, which declared the new western lands of the United States to be free of slavery. Subsequently, the southeast corner of the region became the State of Ohio in 1803, which ...
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    17,41 €

  • Pirates in The Caribbean
    Paul Nunez
    Pirates of the Caribbean tells the narrative of Reinaldo, a Cuban teenager who grew up listening to rock and roll and RandB on American radio stations. Reinaldo, seventeen, got caught up in the Cuban Revolution of 1959, which quickly turned socialist; and all expectations of keeping up with the latest American songs and trends vanished.As a result, Cuba’s new leadership pledged...
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    14,06 €

  • Pirates in The Caribbean
    Paul Nunez
    Pirates of the Caribbean tells the narrative of Reinaldo, a Cuban teenager who grew up listening to rock and roll and RandB on American radio stations. Reinaldo, seventeen, got caught up in the Cuban Revolution of 1959, which quickly turned socialist; and all expectations of keeping up with the latest American songs and trends vanished.As a result, Cuba’s new leadership pledged...
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    21,93 €

  • Hebrewisms of West Africa
    Joseph J. Williams
    In this massive work, Joseph J. Williams documents the Hebraic practices, customs, and beliefs, which he found among the people of Jamaica and the Ashanti of West Africa. He initially examines the close relationship between the Jamaican and the Ashanti cultures and the folk beliefs. He then studies the language and culture of the Ashanti (of whom many Jamaicans have descended) ...
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    16,57 €

  • Through My Eyes
    Margaret Munro
    Through My Eyes are the diaries of Belle Munro as imagined by her grand-daughter, Frances Margaret Munro. It chronicles the life and times of the Munro family from their arrival in Saskatoon in 1908 through to the end of the First World War. Through My Eyes provides an intimate picture of both the early days of Saskatoon and of a family living in extraordinary times. ...
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    24,71 €

  • The Peculiar Lord Timothy Dexter
    Stefan James Madison
    Lord Timothy Dexter, the fortunate cynic, has made a mark in history with his many outrageous business ventures. From exporting coal to Newcastle and bed warmers to the tropics, he seemed destined to find success regardless of what endeavor he set out on. But beyond these quirky scruples and perhaps questionable assets, Lord Timothy was also known for his kind heart. He found s...
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    21,40 €

  • A Handful of Corn
    David E. Stafford
    A Handful of Corn traces the lineage of the true Baptist Church from Christ to the Missionary Baptist Churches of Middle Tennessee. David E. Stafford, a Missionary Baptist minister and educator, skillfully leads the reader through a voyage from the time of Christ to the frontier settlements of Middle Tennessee and the South. The great persecutions of the true believers of Chr...
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    38,10 €

  • The Death Census of Black ’47
    Donald M Macraild / Donald M. MacRaild / Lewis Darwen / Liam Kennedy
    The Great Irish Famine claimed the lives of one million people, mainly from the lower classes. In recent decades, its history has become the focus of considerable scholarly and popular attention, but much remains to be retrieved and reconstructed, particularly at the level of the rural poor. This book fills that gap. ...
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    157,98 €

  • Spingarn Brothers
    Katherine Reynolds Chaddock
    An absorbing account of how two Jewish brothers devoted themselves to the struggle for racial equality in the United States.In the late nineteenth century, Joel and Arthur Spingarn grew up in New York City as brothers with very different personalities, interests, and professional goals. Joel was impetuous and high-spirited; Arthur was reasoned and studious. Yet together they wo...
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    41,23 €

  • Souwesto Lives
    Donald S. Hair
    As the author notes in his introduction, this fascinating and insightful book is 'family history with a context.' Placing the lives of his parents, John Hair and Alice Runnalls, at the centre of the narrative, Dr. Hair explores the history and culture of Southwestern Ontario, that great peninsula of fertile farmland lying between Lake Erie and Lake Huron.Dubbed 'Souwesto' in th...
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    28,23 €

  • Cross-Border Cosmopolitans
    Wendell Nii Laryea Adjetey
    African American history from 1900 to 2000 cannot be told without accounting for the significant influence of Pan-African thought, just as the story of twentieth-century U.S. foreign policy cannot be told without accounting for fears of an African World. In the early 1900s, Marcus Garvey and his followers perceived the North American mainland, particularly Canada following U.S....
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    126,32 €

  • The Red Record
    Ida B. Wells-Barnett
    The investigative journalist and activist Ida B. Wells, later Wells-Barnett, spearheaded the anti-lynching movement in the United States. Expanding on her groundbreaking exposé Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases (1892), A Red Record used mainstream white newspapers to document a resurgence of white mob violence, finding that ­more than 10,000 African Americans had be...
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    15,15 €

  • Revisiting Herstories
    Iris Morales
    In the late 1960s, the Young Lords mobilized for the rights of Puerto Ricans in the United States and the end of colonialism in Puerto Rico. Women members brought attention to gender issues, ushering in a new militancy for women’s rights. They organized campaigns to end sterilization abuse and gender violence and for the right to abortion, equal pay, and childcare, among other ...
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    32,71 €

  • Studies of China and Chineseness since the Cultural Revolution
    How did the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution affect everyone’s lives? Why did people re/negotiate their identities to adopt revolutionary roles and duties? How did people, who lived with different self-understandings and social relations, inevitably acquire and practice revolutionary identities, each in their own light?This book plunges into the contexts of these concerns ...
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    105,93 €

  • Catholic Women and Mexican Politics, 1750-1940
    Margaret Chowning
    How women preserved the power of the Catholic Church in Mexican political lifeWhat accounts for the enduring power of the Catholic Church, which withstood widespread and sustained anticlerical opposition in Mexico? Margaret Chowning locates an answer in the untold story of how the Mexican Catholic church in the nineteenth century excluded, then accepted, and then came to depend...
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    57,03 €

  • The Sword Of Antietam A Story Of The Nation’S Crisis
    Joseph A. Altsheler
    The Sword of Antietam is a novel by Joseph A. Altsheler set during the American Civil War. The story follows three young Union lieutenants, Dick Mason, George Warner, and Frank Pennington, as they prepare for the Battle of Antietam. The opening chapter sees the trio surveying the countryside, searching for any sign of Confederate General Stonewall Jackson’s forces. The three bo...
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    16,37 €

  • The Scouts Of Stonewall The Story Of The Great Valley Campaign
    Joseph A. Altsheler
    'The Scouts of Stonewall' is a novel by Joseph A. Altsheler set during the American Civil War. The story follows Harry Kenton, a young officer on the staff of Colonel Talbot, commander of the Invincibles, a South Carolina regiment that has been transferred to the command of Stonewall Jackson in the Shenandoah Valley. Despite suffering losses in previous battles, the Invincibles...
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    17,48 €

  • The Guns Of Bull Run
    Joseph A. Altsheler
    'The Guns of Bull' is a historical novel written by Joseph A. Altsheler, set during the American Civil War. The book tells the story of two young soldiers, Harry Kenton, and Dick Mason, who fight on opposite sides of the conflict. Harry Kenton is a young Confederate soldier from Kentucky. The story follows both characters as they experience the horrors of war and the emotional ...
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    16,37 €

  • The Shades Of The Wilderness A Story Of Lee’S Great Stand
    Joseph A. Altsheler
    'The Shades of the Wilderness' by Joseph A. Altsheler is a novel set during the American Civil War, specifically after the Battle of Gettysburg. Lee’s army is retreating, wounded soldiers fill the wagons, and Harry Kenton, a young Confederate cavalryman, is sent to observe and report on the enemy’s movements. Harry reflects on the loss of the Confederate army’s lieutenant, Ston...
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    17,49 €

  • The Guns Of Europe
    Joseph A. Altsheler
    'The Guns of Europe' is a historical novel written by Joseph A. Altsheler. The book is set during World War I and follows the adventures of an American reporter, John Scott, as he witnesses and reports on the conflict from various locations across Europe. Scott begins his journey in Germany and witnesses the build-up to the war, including the tensions between Germany and Austri...
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