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  • Exile From Argentina
    Eduardo D. Faingold
    Eduardo Faingold chronicles his family’s experiences before, during, and after the military dictatorship in Argentina (1976-1983). He uses his diaries, interviews in Latin America and Israel, documents and pictures given to him by his family and friends and studies the works of political scientists, historians and journalists. He begins with his family history from the time whe...
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    128,33 €

  • The Radical Isaac
    Adi Mahalel
    Examines the Yiddish-Hebrew writer I. L. Peretz’s alignment with the Jewish working-class in Eastern Europe and his devotion to progressive politics. ...
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    46,98 €

  • Pieces of Us
    Rob Sheffield
    Shops, churches, pubs, social clubs, libraries, parks, schools, streets, windowsills, gardens, pavements... These public spaces can have an extraordinary effect on well-being in a community. They bring people together and form the bonds that lead to people supporting each other. With vivid descriptions and heartfelt anecdotes, Pieces of Us is a moving tribute to the people who ...
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    14,44 €

  • The Back Stories of History featuring Freedmen’s Town
    Priscilla T Graham
    Historic Freedmen’s Town, Fourth Ward is a living laboratory of African American History and Life. The Historic 5 square mile District was founded after the Civil War on June 19, 1865. The Freedmen migrated to Houston from the small farms and plantations south and southwest of Houston along the Brazos River by way of San Felipe Road. Many Freedmen settled on the uninhabitabl...
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    64,26 €

  • The Shochet
    Pinkhes-Dov Goldenshteyn
    This unique book is the memoirs of a kosher slaughterer, a Jewish functionary, who lived in Ukraine and Crimea from the middle of the nineteenth century until the First World War. For the first time, it gives us a snapshot of Jewish life from a functionary’s point of view in the last century of Tsarist rule, and at the same time deals with the eternal questions of antisemitism,...
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    30,27 €

  • The Shochet
    Pinkhes-Dov Goldenshteyn / Michoel Rotenfeld
    This unique book is the memoirs of a kosher slaughterer, a Jewish functionary, who lived in Ukraine and Crimea from the middle of the nineteenth century until the First World War. For the first time, it gives us a snapshot of Jewish life from a functionary’s point of view in the last century of Tsarist rule, and at the same time deals with the eternal questions of antisemitism,...
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    219,13 €

  • Invisible Activists
    Lee Sartain
    Behind the historical accounts of the great men of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People lies the almost forgotten story of the black women who not only participated in the organization but actually helped it thrive in the early twentieth-century South. In Invisible Activists, Lee Sartain examines attitudes toward the gender, class, and citizenship of ...
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    38,34 €

  • Shalom, Berlin!
    Howard M. Berlin
    Shalom, Berlin! is a comprehensive 391-page travel guide for the Jewish traveler visiting those places that are linked to Berlin’s historical Jewish origins and its fall and rise of its Jewish population from the ashes of the Holocaust. In 12 chapters, historical information is provided for 140 sites that cover 10 of 12 Berlin’s Bezirke, or municipal districts. These sites cove...
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    57,43 €

  • Secularism and Its Ambiguities
    Carlo Ginzburg
    In the best micro-historical tradition, Carlo Ginzburg, himself one of the founders and icons of this genre of historiography, dissects four moments of European intellectual history. This book relives the experience that participants in the Natalie Zemon Davis Lecture Series at the Budapest campus of Central European University had in 2019 listening to Ginzburg’s eloquent and e...
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    17,70 €

  • In the Land of Marvels
    Paola Bertucci
    How a journey through Italy casts light on secrets, stereotypes, and the manipulation of information in eighteenth-century science.In 1749, the celebrated French physicist Jean-Antoine Nollet set out on a journey through Italy to solve an international controversy over the medical uses of electricity. At the end of his nine-month tour, he published a highly influential account ...
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    67,37 €

  • They’ve Left Us Behind
    Maureen Francesconi-Carroll
    Stanley Lawrence Carroll and Doreen McGlinn were ordinary West Australians who lived through the Great Depression and World War II and went on to raise a close and loving family.Their ancestors came to Australia between 1830 and 1871 as free settlers, convicts, military men, and others, all wanting to make a new life in a new country. The stories outline the hardships this fami...
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    24,79 €

  • The Roman Catholic Bishops of Lancaster
    Paul Severn
    In a series of biographical portraits Paul Severn tells the story of the seven diocesan and one auxiliary bishop in the Roman Catholic diocese of Lancaster. ...
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    20,44 €

  • Ukrainian Witchcraft Trials
    Kateryna Dysa
    Accusations and beliefs lying beneath the Ukrainian witchcraft trials of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. ...
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    35,32 €

  • Dandelion Wishes
    Lisa King
    'Choice is power, and Coral has none.'For nine-year-old Coral, life revolves around her family. Dad says finding the old boarding house in Fitzroy is fortuitous, given war is just around the corner. Coral doesn’t know what that word means, only that they’re together. But Melbourne in 1940 is anything but predictable, and Coral and her brothers find themselves in the care of the...
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    20,72 €

  • The 7 Deadly Myths
    Alex Ryvchin
    This revised and supplemented second edition features some of the author’s most probing essays and speeches on antisemitism, published here for the first time.'With clarity and penetrating insight, Alex Ryvchin unravels the mystery of antisemitism… Mandatory reading for anyone concerned with the ethical fate of the human race.' ― Isaac Herzog, President of the State of IsraelTh...
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    21,25 €

  • The Famous Lady Lovers
    Cookie Woolner
    Black queer women have shaped American culture since long before the era of gay liberation. Decades prior to the Stonewall Uprising, in the 1920s and 1930s, Black 'lady lovers'—as women who loved women were then called—crafted a queer world. In the cabarets, rent parties, speakeasies, literary salons, and universities of the Jazz Age and Great Depression, communities of Black l...
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    31,79 €

  • The Famous Lady Lovers
    Cookie Woolner
    Black queer women have shaped American culture since long before the era of gay liberation. Decades prior to the Stonewall Uprising, in the 1920s and 1930s, Black 'lady lovers'—as women who loved women were then called—crafted a queer world. In the cabarets, rent parties, speakeasies, literary salons, and universities of the Jazz Age and Great Depression, communities of Black l...
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    127,17 €

  • Popular Radicalism and the Unemployed in Chicago during the Great Depression
    Chris Wright
    In a time when mass joblessness and precarious employment are becoming issues of national concern, it is useful to reconsider the experiences of the unemployed in an earlier period of economic hardship, the Great Depression. Focusing on the bellwether city of Chicago, this book reevaluates their struggles, revealing the kernel of political radicalism and class resistance in pra...
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    50,04 €

  • The Dream of Social Justice and Bad Moral Luck
    Alice Nakhimovsky
    This volume examines the intertwined lives of six women and three men, Russian Jews in the first half of the twentieth century, as their belief in the Soviet dream unraveled. Under what circumstances did they bow to political pressures, and under what circumstances did they resist, even heroically?  ...
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    185,96 €

  • Black Cultural Capital
    In antebellum America, Black children, even those of tax-paying Blacks in most states could not attend White public schools or in some states any schools. Nevertheless, with the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863, Blacks assumed they would receive all inalienable rights granted to them as American freedmen. For most, the right to a proper public education for thei...
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    71,30 €

  • Black Cultural Capital
    In antebellum America, Black children, even those of tax-paying Blacks in most states could not attend White public schools or in some states any schools. Nevertheless, with the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863, Blacks assumed they would receive all inalienable rights granted to them as American freedmen. For most, the right to a proper public education for thei...
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    127,57 €

  • Multatuli
    Christopher Ford / Multatuli
    "Multatuli: Leven en Werken" is een diepgaande verkenning van het leven en de literaire nalatenschap van Eduard Douwes Dekker, beter bekend onder zijn pseudoniem Multatuli. Dit boek werpt een helder licht op de verschillende facetten van zijn leven, zijn invloedrijke werken en zijn impact op de Nederlandse literaire en intellectuele geschiedenis.De roman "Max Havelaar" neemt ee...
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    19,76 €

  • Spectacles and the Victorians
    Gemma Almond-Brown
    This book explores how the Victorians standardised vision and transformed spectacle use. It offers new insights into how technology and its adoption in medical and non-medical contexts shaped, and continues to shape, our understanding of sensory perception and the assimilation of assistive devices. ...
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    157,15 €

  • Introducing Roman Declamation
    Mario Lentano / William Short
    A new overview of Roman declamation, one of the least studied but most important genres of ancient literature. Letano presents an original way of looking at aspects of major relevance to Roman culture of the imperial period. ...
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    111,36 €

  • Radical Play
    Rob Goldberg
    In Radical Play Rob Goldberg recovers a little-known history of American children’s culture in the 1960s and 1970s by showing how dolls, guns, action figures, and other toys galvanized and symbolized new visions of social, racial, and gender justice. From a nationwide movement to oppose the sale of war toys during the Vietnam War to the founding of the company Shindana Toys by ...
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    138,29 €

  • Radical Play
    Rob Goldberg
    In Radical Play Rob Goldberg recovers a little-known history of American children’s culture in the 1960s and 1970s by showing how dolls, guns, action figures, and other toys galvanized and symbolized new visions of social, racial, and gender justice. From a nationwide movement to oppose the sale of war toys during the Vietnam War to the founding of the company Shindana Toys by ...
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    36,43 €

  • Contradictions
    Barbara Gothard
    In Contradictions - Bringing The Past Forward, artist Barbara Gothard visually interprets and honors the legacy of twenty-three African-AmericanHomesteaders, who settled in the Eastern Mojave Desert in 1910, in the context of her own lived experience as an African American female artist living in the desert, share their stories via public presentations. The research-based m...
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    34,01 €

  • The British Empire through buildings
    John M MacKenzie / John M. MacKenzie
    Imperialism is strikingly represented in its buildings. This work illuminates the dispersal of colonial culture and religious forms, social classes, and racial divisions over two centuries, from the establishment of colonial rule to a post-colonial world. It will be a vital reading for all students of imperial history and global material culture. ...
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    54,86 €

  • A Brief History of Valence House
    In 2021 Valence House commissioned Dr Nick Holder and Anna Mason to produce a historical narrative for Valence House, using existing knowledge and new research. The result was an extensive and comprehensive document detailing the history of Valence House and its estate from the 1250s through to the present day.For a small rural estate that was not of high status, Valence is exc...
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    10,68 €

  • The Personality of Paris
    Alan R. H. Baker
    What was the personality of 19th-century Paris? To answer that question, this book eschews the conventional narrative and chronological route taken by most histories of Paris. Instead, it thematically analyses the complex personality traits of Paris from the onset of the Revolution of 1789 to the beginning of the Great War. Starting with the topographical and cultural legacies ...
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    57,88 €


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