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Discovering Lot West Ackley and Descendants in Oswego County, NY, 1813-1984 - null

This book traces the descendants of Nicholas Ackley in the fifth through the eighth generations in Oswego County, NY: Lot West Ackley, Ar...

The Key to My Neighbor's House - Seeking Justice in Bosnia and Rwanda

Examining competing notions of justice in Bosnia and Rwanda, award-winning Boston Globe correspondent Elizabeth Neuffer convinces readers...

Danville

Danville, known as the City of Firsts and Birthplace of the Bluegrass, is nestled in the heart of Kentucky. Its location on a branch of t...

A Cultural History of Hungary I-II.

I. From the Begginings to the Eighteenth Century II. In the Ninetenth and Twentieeth Centuries

A múlt öröksége - The Heritage of the Past

A Pesti Szegénygyermek Kórház – I. Sz. Gyermekklinika története és relikviái 1839-től. The History and Relics Beginning from 1839 of the...

That Old-Time Religion in Modern America - Evangelical Protestantism in the Twentieth Century

Although evangelicals entered the century as full partners in the Protestant denominations and agencies that molded American cultural and...

Saving Nature Under Socialism

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

Beaver Dam - : 1841-1941

In the fall of 1840, Thomas Mackie and his son-in-law discovered rich soil and abundant timber on land along a stream south of Fox Lake. ...

The Cambridge History of Japan, Volume 3 - Medieval Japan

Survey of the historical events and developments in medieval Japan's polity, economy, society and culture.

The Nourisher of Apollo - Miletos from Xerxes to Diocletian

This is the first modern monograph of Miletos from the Classical Age until the Late Empire, concerned with history rather than with archa...

The Palgrave Handbook of Women and Gender in Twentieth-Century Russia and the Soviet Union

This handbook brings together recent and emerging research in the broad areas of women and gender studies focusing on pre-revolutionary R...

Youth Culture and Social Change - Making a Difference by Making a Noise

This book brings together historians, sociologists and social scientists to examine aspects of youth culture. The book's themes are riots...

India in the Indian Ocean World - From the Earliest Times to 1800 CE

The book integrates the latest scholarly literature on the entire Indian Ocean region, from East Africa to China. Issues such as India's ...

Prisoners of War and Local Women in Europe and the United States, 1914-1956 - Consorting with the Enemy

This book brings together historians from Great Britain, the United States, Germany, France, Canada, Austria, and Latvia who have worked ...

The New Deal - The Depression Years, 1933-1940

Mr. Badger's notably successful history is not simply another narrative of the New Deal, nor does the figure of Franklin Roosevelt loom a...

Ground Crew - The Fight to End Segregation at Georgia State

The Hunt v. Arnold decision of 1959 against the state of Georgia marked a watershed moment in the fight against segregation in higher edu...

Reading and Rebellion in Catholic Germany, 1770-1914

Interrogates the belief that the clergy defined German Catholic reading habits, showing that readers frequently rebelled against their ch...

North Shore of O'Ahu

The North Shore of O'ahu has been recognized as a special place for as long as people have been on the island. Once the site of the large...

Red closet - The hidden history of gay oppression in the USSR

Based on unique and previously undiscovered sources, this is the first book to tell the story of the oppression of LBGT people in the USSR.

Meditation the Ancient Egyptian Path to Enlightenment

MEDITATION The Ancient Egyptian Path to Enlightenment Many people do not know about the rich history of meditation practice in Ancient Eg...

Akkon - Venedig - Marienburg - Mobilität und Immobilität im Deutschen Orden. Vorträge der Tagung der Internationalen Historischen Kommission zur Erforschung des Deutschen Ordens in Venedig 2018

Der Band enthält die Vorträge der Tagung sowie zwei thematisch ergänzende Beiträge. Das Spektrum reicht vom Heiligen Land über Ungarn und...

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...

The Constitutional Origins of the American Revolution

Explores the constitutional issues at the heart of the conflict between Britain and its American colonies in the eighteenth century.

The Assassination of King Shaka

In this riveting new book, John Laband, pre-eminent historian of the Zulu Kingdom, tackles some of the questions that swirl around the as...

Ancient Mexican History - Olmec, Maya, Teotihuacan, Zapotec, Toltec, & Aztec Civilizations

¿¿¿¿ Explore the Wonders of Ancient Mexican History ¿¿¿¿ Unearth the mysteries of Mexico's ancient civilizations with our captivating boo...

Alaska's Bush Pilots

Bush pilots are known as rough, tough, resourceful people who fly their aircraft into tight spots in the worst of weather. Alaska's bush ...

Kim Jong-Il Production

An Amazon Best of The Year Nonfiction Selection Library Journal Top Ten Book of the Year! The Extraordinary True Story of Kim Jong-Il's k...

The incredible incas and their timeless land

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 ...

The American Museum of Natural History and How It Got That Way

Tells the story of the building of the American Museum of Natural History and Hayden Planetarium, a story of history, politics, science, ...

Downtown Vancouver

Named for a British sea explorer, Vancouver was conceived in the early 1800s when Lewis and Clark camped at the waterfront and deemed the...

Impossible City - Paris in the Twenty-First Century

'Kuper is a shrewd observer [in] this entertaining mix of memoir and anthropology' The Sunday Times From the bestselling author of Chums ...

The River War - An Account of the Reconquest of the Sudan

The River War: An Account of the Reconquest of the Sudan, a classical and rare book that has been considered essential throughout human h...

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...

Kilenge - West New Britain. Papua New Guinea. A Pictorial Ethnography

In 1977-78, right after Papua New Guinea had achieved its political independence, Derk van Groningen was living among the Kilenge people ...

A history of the jews

The Kennedy -Khrushchev Letters

120 personal letters between John F. Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev, kept secret until almost the year 2000, have been published for the f...

Remembering Dixie - The Battle to Control Historical Memory in Natchez, Mississippi, 1865-1941

Nearly seventy years after the Civil War, Natchez, Mississippi, sold itself to Depression-era tourists as a place "Where the Old South St...

Amsterdam - A History of the World's Most Liberal City

An endlessly entertaining portrait of the city of Amsterdam and the ideas that make it unique, by the author of the acclaimed Island at t...

Remembering Tampa

By the late nineteenth century, the city of Tampa was a vibrant, cultural center. Through the early twentieth century, two world wars, an...

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...

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...

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...

Beyond Coal and Steel - A Social History of Western Europe after the Boom

In the 1970s, the economic and social foundations of Western Europe underwent an unprecedented transformation. Old industries like coal a...

The Organic Machine - The Remaking of the Columbia River

The Hill and Wang Critical Issues Series: concise, affordable works on pivotal topics in American history, society, and politics. In this...

Civilization and its discontents

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...

The Prince (Reader's Library Classics)

The lion cannot guard himself from the toils, nor the fox from wolves. A Prince must therefore be a fox to discern toils, and a lion to d...

Matthaei Parisiensis Chronica Majora - Volume 4

This seven-volume work, published 1872-83, is a rich source for English history from the Creation to 1259.

Remembering Julius Nyerere in Tanzania. History, Memory, Legacy

This edited volume is about the rekindled investment in the figure of the first president Julius K. Nyerere in contemporary Tanzania. It ...

The Education of Henry Adams

Flying aces 1914-1918

This book on the flying aces of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy has appeared to mark the centenary of the First World War. A result of long...

Igazságot Erdélynek! - Justice for Transylvania!

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

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,...

The rise and fall of the third reich - Védőborító nélkül

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...

Ottoman Empire - Devlet-i Aliye

Part I of the book deals with 6 Centuries of Ottoman Empire's birth, growth, plateau and peak, stagnation and then the eventual downfall....

Athens Burning - The Persian Invasion of Greece and the Evacuation of Attica

Between June 480 and August 479 BC, tens of thousands of Athenians evacuated, following King Xerxes' victory at the Battle of Thermopylae...

A National Park for Women's Rights - The Campaign That Made It Happen

"The story of the challenges faced in the creation of the Women's Rights National Historical Park in Seneca Falls, NY, as told by the fou...

Thatcher's Progress

Examines a pioneering programme of urban development to rewrite the history of Britain's transition from social democracy to neoliberalism.