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  • 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 €

  • Captain Philip Beaver’s African Journal
    Captain Philip Beaver’s journal, originally published in 1805, recounts his attempt to establish a colony in West Africa with British settlers to demonstrate that cooperation between Africans and Europeans could supply the tropical produce provided by West Indian plantations, so proving the unhumanitarian transatlantic slave trade to be unnecessary. ...
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    237,80 €

  • 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 €

  • The Rise and Demise of the Largest Sailing Ships
    Allan B Wood
    Immerse yourself in the height of the 'Golden Age of Sail' in the early 1900s, when America’s insatiable appetite for coal and building materials encouraged shipbuilders to design and construct the world’s largest sailing ships. Ten original giant six-masted schooners and the only seven-masted vessel, the Thomas W. Lawson, were built between 1900-1909, all measuring over the le...
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    36,35 €

  • The Rise and Demise of the Largest Sailing Ships
    Allan B Wood
    Immerse yourself in the height of the 'Golden Age of Sail' in the early 1900s, when America’s insatiable appetite for coal and building materials encouraged shipbuilders to design and construct the world’s largest sailing ships. Ten original giant six-masted schooners and the only seven-masted vessel, the Thomas W. Lawson, were built between 1900-1909, all measuring over the le...
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    23,81 €

  • 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 €

  • If These Walls Could Talk
    Shirley R Hawkins
    If These Walls Could Talk is a fascinating journey into the world of the blind and vision impaired. It is the story of 508 St. James Street in the historical Jackson Ward district in Richmond, Virginia. ...
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    21,72 €

  • 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 €

  • Acknowledging Radical Histories
    Chris Time Steele / Gerald Horne
    In this collection of conversations, Dr. Horne confronts the history of settler colonialism and fighting fascism while giving dazzling insights on Jazz, Claude Barnett, Paul Robeson, W.E.B. Du Bois, and Shirley Graham Du Bois, while delivering deeper insights into the histories of Kenya, Zimbabwe, and South Africa. Chris Steele’s curiosity as an interviewer creates dialogues wh...
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    22,29 €

  • 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 €

  • I Woke Up Black | What My Eyes Have Seen, My Ears Have Heard, and My Heart Has Felt
    Marvin Michael O’Bryant
    'I Woke Up Black' by Marvin Michael O’Bryant is a story inspired by real-life experiences. It follows the life of Marvin, who has witnessed decades of depression, poverty, and a lack of motivation in a nation struggling with love and respect. Despite these challenges, Marvin believes in the importance of respecting one another and finding value in every individual to bring out ...
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    20,81 €

  • The Moorish Guide
    Gov V Taylor El - Minister Khnum / Gov V Taylor El / Minister Khnum
    Wake UpAll ascended masters whom common men call prophets have concluded that the vast majority of humanity are sleeping their way through life, never experiencing the true reality of life. Most people’s beliefs are falsely assumed and even more corruptly practiced while the truth about life is kept locked away in secret societies for both of their preservation. Ignorance is on...
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    34,55 €

  • Manor on the Viridian Sea
    Eleanor P Sam / Eleanor P Sam
    Jemma Worley, a Canadian millennial, has manipulated her lover, a wealthy architect, into purchasing the seaside manor of her dreams. Located on a palm-fringed Caribbean Island, it seems the fulfillment of her fantasies and lifestyle ambitions. But no sooner has she moved in than the ground of her familiar assumptions gives way. She is sent spiralling through a series of revela...
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    16,03 €

  • Black Trivia Book
    Lance D. Williams
    This book has 38 rounds of wide-ranging information about Black history, sports, entertainment, business, education, politics, and many other things with African Americans and Black people worldwide. You can do the 800 multiple-choice trivia by yourself to see how much you know. Or do this activity with others to see how much they know. ...
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    21,76 €

  • ​India​
    F. Max Muller
    'India: What Can it Teach Us?' is a collection of lectures delivered by Friedrich Max Müller, a prominent 19th-century German philologist and Orientalist. The book was first published in 1882 and is a compilation of seven lectures where Müller delves into the ancient sacred texts and philosophical traditions of India. He explores the rich cultural and spiritual heritage of Ind...
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    30,05 €

  • Grace O’Malley
    History Nerds
    Entdecken Sie die faszinierende Geschichte von Grace O’Malley - der Piratin, Ehefrau, Mutter und Kriegerin, die in einer Zeit, in der Frauen unterdrückt wurden, ihren eigenen Weg ging. In diesem Buch finden Sie eine spannende Zusammenfassung von Graces Leben und ihrem Vermächtnis, das bis heute als Symbol für Freiheit und Unabhängigkeit steht.Erfahren Sie, wie Grace ihr Leben a...
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    10,57 €

  • Our Better Nature
    Philip J. Dreyfus
    A historical approach to reintegrating the city with its natural environmentFew cities are so dramatically identified with their environment as San Francisco-the landscape of hills, the expansive bay, the engulfing fog, and even the deadly fault line shifting below. Yet most residents think of the city itself as separate from the natural environment on which it depends. In Our ...
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    24,37 €

  • The breakup of India and Palestine
    These chapters provide deeply researched narratives of the links between partition in India and Palestine in 1947. It focuses on the shared dynamics that shaped both regions, such as violence, the role of religion in politics, majoritarian politics, and the persistence of imperial modes of power. ...
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    169,38 €

  • W. E. B. Du Bois’ Africa
    Taharka Ade
    W. E. B. Du Bois was one of the leading figures of Pan-African thought and activism in the twentieth century. This book delivers for the first time a comprehensive Afrocentric investigation and critique of Du Bois’s writings on Africa and Pan-Africanism. ...
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    158,60 €

  • Growing Up Canadian
    Clyde Woolman
    The generation that came of age from 1960 to 1980 had front-row seats to the events and personalities that laid the foundation for the Canada we know today. As the generation matured, so too did the country.Chapters range from TV to sports, music to business, and stage to screen. A section includes the lengths individuals went to be 'cool.' Another features Canada’s attempts to...
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    21,18 €

  • Old Lady Somerset
    Duncan Carmichael
    Old Lady Somerset is a fiercely stubborn old bird. In her lifetime she has successfully resisted five attempts at eviction. Within living memory there are two aborted attempts to relocate to Heathfield. Outwith living memory there are failed attempts to move to Carrick Street Oval (1894) and Dam Park (1914 and again in 1919). The lessons of history have been learned. It is not ...
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    22,18 €

  • Twelve Years a Slave
    Solomon Northup
    Solomon Northup was a free man, the son of an emancipated Negro Slave. Until the spring of 1841 he lived a simple, uneventful life with his wife and three children in Upstate New York. Then, suddenly, he fell victim to a series of bizarre events that make this one of the most amazing autobiographies ever written.Northup accepted an offer from two strangers in Saratoga, New York...
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    21,79 €

  • Roots of Freedom
    Tashlultum ( Sozo Keys )
    Harnessing the Power of Self-Sufficiency and HeritageRoots of Freedom: The One-Acre Debt-Free Blueprint - Harnessing the Power of Self-Sufficiency and Heritage is a well-rounded guide dedicated to African Americans intending to transform a small piece of land into a thriving market garden. By combining sustainable farming with cost-effective strategies, it enlightens readers on...
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    18,65 €

  • A Guide to Norwegian Genealogy, Emigration, and Transmigration
    Liv Marit Haakenstad / Tynlee Paige Roberts
    Ready to dive into Norwegian Genealogy? Here is all you need to start tracing your ancestor’s journey back to Norway - the emigration history, the sources, where to find them, and the methodology. It is also helpful for those who have already started doing Norwegian Genealogy. The first part of this book, 'A Guide to Norwegian Genealogy, Emigration, and Transmigration' gives an...
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    38,40 €

  • The Anthem Companion to Norbert Elias
    The book brings together authoritative chapters by leading experts in the sociology of Elias. It charts Elias’s ambition to create an integrative sociological framework across a wide range of studies and assesses its continuing relevance for addressing significant issues facing sociology today. ...
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    238,51 €

  • Women on the Yiddish Stage
    The integration of women into public Jewish performance (Yiddish-language theater by 1877 and Hebrew-language theater by about 1918) was a revolution in modern Jewish culture. While a great deal of seasoned Yiddish-speaking male talent preexisted theater in the form of cantors, choristers, and tavern singers, East European Jewish women had no experience participating in public ...
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    129,64 €


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