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  • Essential Lewis and Clark, The
    Landon Y. Jones
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    13,88 €

  • A History of Argentina
    Ezequiel Adamovsky
    In A History of Argentina, originally published in Spanish in 2020, Ezequiel Adamovsky presents over five hundred years of Argentine economic, political, social, and cultural history. Adamovsky highlights the experiences of women, Indigenous communities, and other groups that have traditionally been left out of the historical archive. He focuses on harmful aspects of Spanish co...
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    140,64 €

  • A History of Argentina
    Ezequiel Adamovsky
    In A History of Argentina, originally published in Spanish in 2020, Ezequiel Adamovsky presents over five hundred years of Argentine economic, political, social, and cultural history. Adamovsky highlights the experiences of women, Indigenous communities, and other groups that have traditionally been left out of the historical archive. He focuses on harmful aspects of Spanish co...
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    37,47 €

  • The Prestes Column
    Jacob Blanc
    In The Prestes Column, Jacob Blanc offers a new interpretation of the legendary rebellion, in which a band of rebel officers and soldiers marched fifteen thousand miles through the vast interior regions of Brazil between 1924 and 1927. Blanc’s analysis of the Prestes Column is a showcase of what he calls 'interior history.' At a pivotal moment in national politics, the long mar...
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    138,47 €

  • The Prestes Column
    Jacob Blanc
    In The Prestes Column, Jacob Blanc offers a new interpretation of the legendary rebellion, in which a band of rebel officers and soldiers marched fifteen thousand miles through the vast interior regions of Brazil between 1924 and 1927. Blanc’s analysis of the Prestes Column is a showcase of what he calls 'interior history.' At a pivotal moment in national politics, the long mar...
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    36,61 €

  • Annabellas Story
    Mary Jo Schell
    Annabella, Bella to her family and friends, was sixteen years old when the US Civil War started. Now two years into the war, her Uncle Edwin and cousin Marie are dead, most of the four hundred slaves have run away, and she is responsible--responsible for the one-thousand-acre Johnson Plantation just outside Vicksburg, Mississippi, and the care and safety of her mother and three...
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    12,94 €

  • Abstracts from the Old North State, Pasquotank County, North Carolina, 1849-1850.
    Fouts
    By: Raymond Parker Fouts, Pub. 1996, reprinted 2024, 164 pages, 8 1/2' x 11' soft cover, Index, ISBN #978-1-63914-207-1. Pasquotank County was created in 1739 with the county seat being named Elizabeth City. It lies in the extreme northeast corner of the state located on the Albemarle Sound. Many of her early settlers were from Virginia. This newspaper was published out of Eliz...
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    41,60 €

  • Abstracts from the Edenton Gazette and Farmer’s Palladium, Chowan County, North Carolina, 1830-1831
    Raymond Parker Fouts
    By: Raymond Parker Fouts, Pub. 2006, reprinted 2024, 166 pages, 8 1/2' x 11' soft cover, Index, ISBN #978-163914-208-8. Chowan County was created in 1739 with a county seat named Edenton. It lies in the northeastern corner of the state along the Albemarle Sound. These abstracts not only pertain to persons of Chowan County but surrounding counties of: Bertie, Gates, Halifax, Her...
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    41,63 €

  • 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 pa...
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    71,99 €

  • From the Holy Roman Empire to the Land of the Tsars
    Martin Alexander M. / Barash Olga
    ENGIn a manuscript in a Russian archive, an anonymous German eyewitness describes what he saw in Moscow during Napoleon’s Russian campaign. Who was this nameless memoirist, and what brought him to Moscow in 1812? The search for answers to those questions uncovers a remarkable story of German and Russian life at the dawn of the modern age.Johannes Ambrosius Rosenstrauch (1768-18...
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    61,67 €

  • Up from Bondage
    Peterson Dale E. / Garichev Dmitrii
    ENGDuring the nineteenth century literate Russians and educated American blacks encountered a dominant Western narrative of world civilization that consigned Slavs and African Americans to the status of unhistoric peoples. In response, generations of Russian and American black intellectuals have asserted eloquent counterclaims for the cultural significance of a collective natio...
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    40,97 €

  • The Old Faith and the Russian Land
    Douglas Rogers / Rogers Douglas / Shubina Polina
    ENGThe Old Faith and the Russian Land is a historical ethnography that charts the ebbs and flows of ethical practice in a small Russian town over three centuries. The town of Sepych was settled in the late seventeenth century by religious dissenters who fled to the forests of the Urals to escape a world they believed to be in the clutches of the Antichrist. Factions of Old Beli...
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    61,93 €

  • An Aide to Custer
    Edward Granger / Sandy Barnard / Thomas Singelyn
    In August 1862, nineteen-year-old Edward G. Granger joined the 5th Michigan Cavalry Regiment as a second lieutenant. On August 20, 1863, the newly promoted Brig. Gen. George Armstrong Custer appointed Granger as one of his aides, a position Granger would hold until his death in August 1864. Many of the forty-four letters the young lieutenant wrote home during those two years, i...
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    42,48 €

  • Bacon’s Rebellion, 1676-1677
    Paul Otto / Verdis LeVar Robinson
    In the early seventeenth century, Virginia’s Chesapeake region saw the emergence of a multiracial society centered around the profitable tobacco industry. While Native Americans, free and enslaved Africans, and Europeans coexisted and interacted, a hierarchical order formed with a small elite planting class, led by Governor William Berkeley, wielding power over land, labor, and...
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    39,05 €

  • The Russian Army and the Japanese War, Volume. 1; Being Historical and Critical Comments on the Military Policy and Power of Russia and on the Campaign in the Far East
    A. N. Kuropatkin
    The Russian Army and the Japanese War, Volume. 1; Being Historical and Critical Comments on the Military Policy and Power of Russia and on the Campaign in the Far East, is a classical and a rare book, that has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we at Alpha Editions have made efforts in its preservation by republishin...
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    25,07 €

  • The Russian Army and the Japanese War, Volume. 2; Being Historical and Critical Comments on the Military Policy and Power of Russia and on the Campaign in the Far East
    A. N. Kuropatkin
    The Russian Army and the Japanese War, Volume. 2; Being Historical and Critical Comments on the Military Policy and Power of Russia and on the Campaign in the Far East, is a classical and a rare book, that has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we at Alpha Editions have made efforts in its preservation by republishin...
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    25,46 €

  • The Silk Road
    Billy Wellman
    Journey on the Silk Road, and discover trade, cultures, and adventures from the ancient world!Step onto the fabled Silk Road, an epic network of ancient trade routes that spanned thousands of miles and linked the East and West for centuries. In The Silk Road, embark on a captivating voyage through time and terrain, where cultures converged, goods flowed, and history unfolded.Th...
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    21,03 €

  • Taipan Snake Pit
    Michael Guard
    TAIPAN SNAKE PIT discloses the tribulations of the Vietnam helicopter war, and provides deeply moving insight into the lives of those crewman who routinely flew combat assault missions. Written in narrative non-fiction, the book reveals the rarely told account of air to ground combat exposed for the first time to their mortality. In 1969 sex, drugs, and rock-n-roll dominated mo...
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    20,72 €

  • The Aspiring Devotee’s Path to Isese Lagba
    Naja Freeman
    Whether you are a novice or expert, this book is for you! The Aspiring Devotee’s Path is a roadmap to understanding the history and tenets of West African Traditional Yoruba religion. Inside, you will discover the breakdown of various spirits and energies. For temple leaders, spiritual guides, and teachers, there is a curriculum included to assist you with developing a learni...
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    73,82 €

  • Troublemakers
    Rebekah Brewster
    Sometimes the only way to do right is to do wrong. Sometimes the only way to change the rules is to break them. Sometimes the only way to save lives is to disrupt them. These are true stories of people who broke the rules to protect the ones they loved. ...
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    11,85 €

  • España 1900-1936: Historia de un fracaso
    Pascual Hernández del Moral
    Adéntrate en el corazón de un periodo histórico que moldeó a España entre sombras y luces. «España, 1900-1936. Historia de un fracaso», de Pascual Hernández del Moral, no es solo un ensayo; es una invitación a explorar treinta y seis años de turbulencias, esperanzas y desencantos. Desde la coronación de Alfonso XIII hasta el preludio de una Guerra Civil que marcaría el destino ...
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    31,20 €

  • 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 €

  • Alabama Short Stories
    Shawn Wright
    Alabama Short Stories, Volume 2, invites you on a journey through the vibrant history and culture of Alabama. This collection of 30 true tales, both timeless and contemporary, unveils the state’s unique charm and spirit.Explore intriguing stories such as the search for Cudjo and the Clotilda, Carrie Tuggle’s transformative educational efforts, and Claudette Colvin’s brave stand...
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    12,97 €

  • The Vote Collectors, Second Edition
    Michael Graff / Nick Ochsner
    In November 2018, Baptist preacher Mark Harris beat the odds, narrowly fending off a blue wave in the sprawling Ninth District of North Carolina. But word soon got around that something fishy was going on in rural Bladen County. At the center of the mess was a local political operative named McCrae Dowless. Dowless had learned the ins and outs of the absentee ballot system from...
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    28,88 €

  • El Salvador
    George Thurlow
    On April 29, 1981 American journalist George Thurlow was shot by members of the El Salvador Treasury Police on a jungle road in San Salvador. His 29-year-old driver, Gilberto Moran, was killed and Associated Press photographer Joaquin Zuniga was seriously injured in the shooting. Thurlow left El Salvador two days later to receive medical treatment in the U.S. In 2000 he began a...
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    25,24 €

  • 逍遙聖人--熊競超Blog
    Xiong Jingchao / 熊競超
    本書是輯錄作者熊競超開始籌備《大同世界文化中心》以來所寫的文章,從2022年六月開始,他開始在舊金山唐人街活動,發覺人們並不知道什麼是大同。故此,他決定寫點文章,以修身、齊家、治國平天下的方式,先籌建舊金山灣區家園,注冊為機構,出書加以解釋。幾個月後,《舊金山灣區家園》出版,同時英文版以AUTOMATED ERA的名稱,增添了一些內容,在美國出版此書。為了推廣大同世界的價值觀與管理架構,他寫信及傳真游說美國各級議會的議員立法,但是沒有效果。他還與台灣的一些政黨溝通,卻無法建立聯繫。為此他決定自己競選加州的州參議員,以推動大同家園的成長。《逍遙聖人--熊競超Blog》記錄著壹年來,他的思想變化,圍繞著介紹大同世界文化的內容,他還把消失兩千多年的百越民族構建出來,規劃東亞家園聯盟以和平演變共產主義造成的災難。讀了他的文章,可以了解一下聖賢的成長過程,見證...
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    33,24 €

  • Honoring Native Warriors
    Gary Robinson
    This exhaustive examination of American Indian service in the United States military includes a history of that service from the Revolutionary War to modern times and an in-depth look at Native America 'Code Talkers' in WWI and WWII. It also includes links to documentary films produced by the author that can be viewed on the Internet. ...
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    30,12 €

  • Convict Australia
    Jennifer Twemlow
    Where is the missing fortune that James Dingle and his convict crew stole in a huge bank heist in 1828 that equates to about 20 million dollars by today’s standards? How did a small group of convicts manage to steal a leaky ship and sail halfway across the world? How did Joseph Samuels become the man they couldn’t hang? From astonishing escapes to tragic shipwrecks, piratical s...
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    20,27 €

  • Li Dazhao
    Patrick Fuliang Shan
    Biography of a major figure in modern Chinese history. ...
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    126,71 €

  • The Origins of Chinese Literary Hermeneutics
    Martin Svensson Ekström
    Explores how China’s oldest poetry collection was interpreted in a Confucian exegetical text-the Mao Commentary-in the mid-second century BCE. ...
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    125,96 €