LIBROS DEL AUTOR: brien brown

4 resultados para LIBROS DEL AUTOR: brien brown

  • The River People
    Brien Brown
    The early 18th century was a time of turmoil and change in America. England and France fought each other to establish American colonies and formed alliances with the great competing Iroquois and Algonquin confederations. European colonists staked claims to native lands. Native people resisted those claims. European diseases and technology changed the continent in ways few under...
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    37,77 €

  • People, Place, Race, and Nation in Xinjiang, China
    David O’Brien / Melissa Shani Brown
    In one of the only works drawing on interviews with both Uyghurs and Han in Xinjiang, China, and postcolonial perspectives on ethnicity, nation, and race, this book explores how forms of banal racism underpin ideas of self and other, assimilation and modernisation, in this restive region. Significant international attention has condemned the CCP’s use of forced internment in ’r...
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    47,69 €

  • Abigail’s Tale
    Brien Brown
    Abigail's husband is lost, presumed dead, in the great fire that destroys their home in colonial West Jersey. She refuses to believe he is dead.Without a man to support her, Abigail struggles to provide for herself and her baby, taking in laundry, spinning, weaving, sewing. Then she takes in Tilly, a young orphan girl.While gathering thistle they meet Caesar, a young escape...
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    22,60 €

  • The Fourth Son
    Brien Brown
    The fourth son of the Comte d’ Artois was raised to be a French noble. Nothing but his swordsmanship prepared him for life after his father’s death. The first son inherited the title. Arrangements had been made for his brothers and sisters. Why were none made for Jean-Marc? Forced to be self-supporting at sixteen, he accepts an offer of passage to New France. Stranded on the co...
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    23,47 €