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Author: Talbot, Frederick Arthur
Publisher : Goldberg Press
ISBN : 9781408610459
Author: Various
Publisher : Gayley Press
ISBN : 9781408610350
Author: North, Sydney H.
Publisher : Goodale Press
ISBN : 9781408610473
Author: Nunez Cabeza De Vaca, Alvar
Publisher : University of California Press
ISBN : 9780520070639
This enthralling story of survival is the first major narrative of the exploration of North America by Europeans (1528-36). The author of Castaways ( Naufragios ), Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca, was a fortune-seeking nobleman and the treasurer of an expedition to claim for Spain a vast area that includes today's Florida, Louisiana, and Texas. A shipwreck forced him and a handful of men to make the lo
Author: Ervand Abrahamian
Publisher : University of California Press
ISBN : 9780520085039
Fanatic, dogmatic, fundamentalist --these are the words most often used in the West to describe the Ayatollah Khomeini. The essays in this book challenge that view, arguing that Khomeini and his Islamic movement should be seen as a form of Third World political populism--a radical but pragmatic middle-class movement that strives to enter, rather than reject, the modern age.Ervand Abrahamian, while
Author: David Turley
Publisher : Blackwell Publishers
ISBN : 9780631167310
This book is a cross-cultural examination of slavery. It draws material from the many regions, and widely separated historical periods, in which slavery has existed - ancient Greece and Rome, medieval Europe, the Muslim societies of the Middle East and Africa, sub-Saharan Africa and the Americas. With such a wide geographic and chronological scope, Slavery will provoke historians and sociologists
Author: March, Francis A. ;Beamish, Richard J.
Publisher : Dodo Press
ISBN : 9781406536942
This is a popular narrative history of the world's greatest war. Written frankly from the viewpoint of the United States and the Allies, it visualizes the bloodiest and most destructive conflict of all the ages from its remote causes to its glorious conclusion and beneficent results. Published in 1919.
Author: James Harrington, Harrington
Publisher : Book Jungle
ISBN : 9781604245066
The Commonwealth of Oceana is the first and only volume written by Harrington. It was published in 1660. Harrington had a great influence on political thought in this era. His theories about the civil revolution in England are discussed in this volume. The revolt was the result of social change, which led to the failure of the political environment of the time.
Author: King, Phillip P.
Publisher : Dodo Press
ISBN : 9781406519501
Admiral Phillip Parker King (1793-1856) was an early explorer of the Australian coast. He wrote Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia based on his own experiences.
Author: King, Phillip P.
Publisher : Dodo Press
ISBN : 9781406519495
Admiral Phillip Parker King (1793-1856) was an early explorer of the Australian coast. He wrote Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia based on his own experiences.
Author: Peter J. Taylor
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN : 9780471965862
Is it Americas historic destiny to be the 'last of the hegemons? Hegemonic states are very special countries that have simultaneously dominated the world both economically and politically and it seems increasingly likely that no country can follow the USA in this role. In this intellectual and creative tour de force, Peter Taylor, famous as the creator of world-systems political geography, examine
Author: Mike Gascoigne
Publisher : Unknown
ISBN : 9780954392208
This book examines some of the very earliest histories, beginning with the Babylonian ten kings before the flood, the story of Gilgamesh, and the foundation of Troy. The claims of the Greek philosopher Euhemerus are considered, that all the gods were deified kings. The story continues with the destruction of Troy, the flight of Aeneas to Italy and the arrival of his great-grandson Brutus in Britai
Author: Susan Ossman
Publisher : University of California Press
ISBN : 9780520084032
In Picturing Casablanca, Susan Ossman probes the shape and texture of mass images in Casablanca, from posters, films, and videotapes to elections, staged political spectacles, and changing rituals. In a fluid style that blends ethnographic narrative, cultural reportage, and the author's firsthand experiences, Ossman sketches a radically new vision of Casablanca as a place where social practices, t
Author: van Loon, Hendrik Willem
Publisher : Kessinger Publishing
ISBN : 9780548319574
This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other reproduction issues beyond our con
Author: Chambers, Neil (EDT)
Publisher : PICCA
ISBN : 9781851968350
Author: Johonnot, James
Publisher : Dodo Press
ISBN : 9781406534658
The great events in history are those where, upon special occasions, a man or a people have made a stand against tyranny, and have preserved or advanced freedom for the people. Sometimes tyranny has taken the form of the oppression of the many by the few in the same nation, and sometimes it has been the oppression of a weak nation by a stronger one.
Author: Lefkowitz, Mary R. (EDT)/ Rogers, Guy MacLean (EDT)/ Lefkowitz, Mary R.
Publisher : University of North Carolina Press
ISBN : 9780807845554
Was Western civilization founded by ancient Egyptians and Phoenicians?Can the ancient Egyptians usefully be called black?Did the ancient Greeks borrow religion, science, and philosophy from the Egyptians and Phoenicians?Have scholars ignored the Afroasiatic roots of Western civilization as a result of racism and anti-Semitism?In this collection of twenty essays, leading scholars in a broad range o
Author: Johnson;Gordon Johnson
Publisher : 101 Productions
ISBN : 9780521619653
This is a study of the Indian National Congress, the first political association to approach the government of India at an all-India level. The Congress became the most important national party in twentieth century India, and the whole history of the freedom movement is closely bound up with its fortunes. National politics, however, were influenced by regional and local affairs. In the early twent
Author: Eric Hobsbawm
Publisher : New Press
ISBN : 9781565846982
One of the few genuinely great historians of our century according to the New Republic, Eric Hobsbawm has produced a canon of landmark books -- including The Age of Capital, The Age of Revolution, Bandits, and The Age of Extremes -- that has both set the standard for radical scholarship and influenced historical thinking across the political spectrum.Now back in print after thirty years, Revolutio
Author: Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Ephraim Lessin
Publisher : Book Jungle
ISBN : 9781604245035
Lessing's Nathan the Wise from written in 1779. The setting is Jerusalem at the time of the Crusades. The themes include; anti Semitism, wealth, love and duty, and the nature of God. This is an excellent study volume for college students
The Oil Conquest of the World
Author: Talbot, Frederick Arthur Publisher : Goldberg Press
ISBN : 9781408610459
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Official Record of the Tasmanian International Exhibition, Held at Launceston, 1891-92
Author: Various Publisher : Gayley Press
ISBN : 9781408610350
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Oil Power
Author: North, Sydney H. Publisher : Goodale Press
ISBN : 9781408610473
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Castaways
Author: Nunez Cabeza De Vaca, AlvarPublisher : University of California Press
ISBN : 9780520070639
This enthralling story of survival is the first major narrative of the exploration of North America by Europeans (1528-36). The author of Castaways ( Naufragios ), Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca, was a fortune-seeking nobleman and the treasurer of an expedition to claim for Spain a vast area that includes today's Florida, Louisiana, and Texas. A shipwreck forced him and a handful of men to make the lo
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Khomeinism: Essays on the Islamic Republic
Author: Ervand AbrahamianPublisher : University of California Press
ISBN : 9780520085039
Fanatic, dogmatic, fundamentalist --these are the words most often used in the West to describe the Ayatollah Khomeini. The essays in this book challenge that view, arguing that Khomeini and his Islamic movement should be seen as a form of Third World political populism--a radical but pragmatic middle-class movement that strives to enter, rather than reject, the modern age.Ervand Abrahamian, while
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Slavery
Author: David TurleyPublisher : Blackwell Publishers
ISBN : 9780631167310
This book is a cross-cultural examination of slavery. It draws material from the many regions, and widely separated historical periods, in which slavery has existed - ancient Greece and Rome, medieval Europe, the Muslim societies of the Middle East and Africa, sub-Saharan Africa and the Americas. With such a wide geographic and chronological scope, Slavery will provoke historians and sociologists
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History of the World War. Volume I (Illustrated Edition) (Dodo Press)
Author: March, Francis A. ;Beamish, Richard J. Publisher : Dodo Press
ISBN : 9781406536942
This is a popular narrative history of the world's greatest war. Written frankly from the viewpoint of the United States and the Allies, it visualizes the bloodiest and most destructive conflict of all the ages from its remote causes to its glorious conclusion and beneficent results. Published in 1919.
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The Commonwealth of Oceana
Author: James Harrington, Harrington Publisher : Book Jungle
ISBN : 9781604245066
The Commonwealth of Oceana is the first and only volume written by Harrington. It was published in 1660. Harrington had a great influence on political thought in this era. His theories about the civil revolution in England are discussed in this volume. The revolt was the result of social change, which led to the failure of the political environment of the time.
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Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia. Volume II (Illustrated Edition) (Dodo Press)
Author: King, Phillip P. Publisher : Dodo Press
ISBN : 9781406519501
Admiral Phillip Parker King (1793-1856) was an early explorer of the Australian coast. He wrote Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia based on his own experiences.
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Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia. Volume I (Illustrated Edition) (Dodo Press)
Author: King, Phillip P. Publisher : Dodo Press
ISBN : 9781406519495
Admiral Phillip Parker King (1793-1856) was an early explorer of the Australian coast. He wrote Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia based on his own experiences.
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Way the Modern World Works: World Hegemony to World Impasse
Author: Peter J. TaylorPublisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN : 9780471965862
Is it Americas historic destiny to be the 'last of the hegemons? Hegemonic states are very special countries that have simultaneously dominated the world both economically and politically and it seems increasingly likely that no country can follow the USA in this role. In this intellectual and creative tour de force, Peter Taylor, famous as the creator of world-systems political geography, examine
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Forgotten History of the Western People: From the Earliest Origins
Author: Mike GascoignePublisher : Unknown
ISBN : 9780954392208
This book examines some of the very earliest histories, beginning with the Babylonian ten kings before the flood, the story of Gilgamesh, and the foundation of Troy. The claims of the Greek philosopher Euhemerus are considered, that all the gods were deified kings. The story continues with the destruction of Troy, the flight of Aeneas to Italy and the arrival of his great-grandson Brutus in Britai
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Picturing Casablanca: Portraits of Power in a Modern City
Author: Susan OssmanPublisher : University of California Press
ISBN : 9780520084032
In Picturing Casablanca, Susan Ossman probes the shape and texture of mass images in Casablanca, from posters, films, and videotapes to elections, staged political spectacles, and changing rituals. In a fluid style that blends ethnographic narrative, cultural reportage, and the author's firsthand experiences, Ossman sketches a radically new vision of Casablanca as a place where social practices, t
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The Fall of the Dutch Republic
Author: van Loon, Hendrik Willem Publisher : Kessinger Publishing
ISBN : 9780548319574
This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other reproduction issues beyond our con
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Indian and Pacific Correspondence of Sir Joseph Banks, 1768-1820
Author: Chambers, Neil (EDT)Publisher : PICCA
ISBN : 9781851968350
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Ten Great Events in History (Dodo Press)
Author: Johonnot, James Publisher : Dodo Press
ISBN : 9781406534658
The great events in history are those where, upon special occasions, a man or a people have made a stand against tyranny, and have preserved or advanced freedom for the people. Sometimes tyranny has taken the form of the oppression of the many by the few in the same nation, and sometimes it has been the oppression of a weak nation by a stronger one.
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Black Athena Revisited
Author: Lefkowitz, Mary R. (EDT)/ Rogers, Guy MacLean (EDT)/ Lefkowitz, Mary R.Publisher : University of North Carolina Press
ISBN : 9780807845554
Was Western civilization founded by ancient Egyptians and Phoenicians?Can the ancient Egyptians usefully be called black?Did the ancient Greeks borrow religion, science, and philosophy from the Egyptians and Phoenicians?Have scholars ignored the Afroasiatic roots of Western civilization as a result of racism and anti-Semitism?In this collection of twenty essays, leading scholars in a broad range o
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Provincial Politics and Indian Nationalism
Author: Johnson;Gordon JohnsonPublisher : 101 Productions
ISBN : 9780521619653
This is a study of the Indian National Congress, the first political association to approach the government of India at an all-India level. The Congress became the most important national party in twentieth century India, and the whole history of the freedom movement is closely bound up with its fortunes. National politics, however, were influenced by regional and local affairs. In the early twent
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Revolutionaries
Author: Eric HobsbawmPublisher : New Press
ISBN : 9781565846982
One of the few genuinely great historians of our century according to the New Republic, Eric Hobsbawm has produced a canon of landmark books -- including The Age of Capital, The Age of Revolution, Bandits, and The Age of Extremes -- that has both set the standard for radical scholarship and influenced historical thinking across the political spectrum.Now back in print after thirty years, Revolutio
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Nathan the Wise
Author: Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Ephraim LessinPublisher : Book Jungle
ISBN : 9781604245035
Lessing's Nathan the Wise from written in 1779. The setting is Jerusalem at the time of the Crusades. The themes include; anti Semitism, wealth, love and duty, and the nature of God. This is an excellent study volume for college students
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