Making History

The Opium War: Drugs, Dreams, and the Making of Modern China, Paperback - Julia Lovell

146,99 RON 157,99 RON

Reducere. In October 1839, a Windsor cabinet meeting votes to begin the first Opium War against China. Bureaucratic fumbling, military missteps, and a health...

overlook press, carti, carte straina, history & archaeology, history

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Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution, Paperback - Jack N. Rakove

118,99 RON 127,99 RON

Reducere. What did the U.S. Constitution originally mean, and who has understood its meaning best? Do we look to the intentions of its framers at the Federal...

vintage, carti, carte straina, history & archaeology, history

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Making Sense of Humanity: And Other Philosophical Papers, 1982-1993, Paperback - Bernard Williams

165,99 RON 177,99 RON

Reducere. Like the two earlier volumes of Bernard Williams' papers published by Cambridge University Press, Problems of the Self and Moral Luck, Making Sense...

cambridge university press, carti, carte straina, history & archaeology, history

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White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of Modern Conservatism, Paperback - Kevin M. Kruse

209,99 RON 224,99 RON

Reducere. During the civil rights era, Atlanta thought of itself as "The City Too Busy to Hate, " a rare place in the South where the races lived and thrived...

princeton university press, carti, carte straina, history & archaeology, history

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Leonardo's Paradox: Word and Image in the Making of Renaissance Culture, Hardcover - Joost Keizer

228,99 RON

DescriptionLeonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) was one of the preeminent figures of the Italian Renaissance. He was also one of the most paradoxical. He ...

reaktion books, carti, carte straina, history & archaeology, history

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Mexicans in the Making of America, Paperback - Neil Foley

136,99 RON 146,99 RON

Reducere. A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the YearAccording to census projections, by 2050 nearly one in three U.S. residents will be Latino, and the ...

belknap press: an imprint of harvard universi, carti, carte straina, history & archaeology, history

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The Making of a Philosopher: My Journey Through Twentieth-Century Philosophy, Paperback - Colin McGinn

91,99 RON 98,99 RON

Reducere. Description Part memoir, part study, The Making of a Philosopher is the self-portrait of a deeply intelligent mind as it develops over a life on bo...

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Jefferson, Madison, and the Making of the Constitution, Hardcover - Jeff Broadwater

147,99 RON 158,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionThomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of Independence, and James Madison, "Father of the Constitution, " were two of the most impo...

university of north carolina press, carti, carte straina, history & archaeology, history

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Making Mongol History. Rashid Al-Din and the Jami? Al-Tawarikh, Hardback - Stefan Kamola

593,99 RON

This book examines the life and work of Rashid al-Din Tabib (d. 1318), the most powerful statesman working for the Mongol Ilkhans in the Middle East.

edinburgh university press, carti, carte straina, history & archaeology

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Making Gullah: A History of Sapelo Islanders, Race, and the American Imagination, Paperback - Melissa L. Cooper

232,99 RON 249,99 RON

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Melissa L. CooperDuring the 1920s and 1930s, anthropologists and folklorists became obsessed with uncovering connections be...

university of north carolina press, carti, carte straina, history & archaeology, history

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Eileen. The Making of George Orwell, Paperback - Sylvia Topp

62,99 RON

Zelda, Nora, Vera, and now Eileen - this is the story of George Orwell's first wife, a woman who shaped, supported and even saved the life of one o...

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Making Civilizations. The World before 600, Hardback - ***

225,99 RON

From the History of the World series, Making Civilizations traces the origins of large-scale organized human societies. Led by archaeologist Hans-J...

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Eileen. The Making of George Orwell, Hardback - Sylvia Topp

157,99 RON

Zelda, Nora, Vera, and now Eileen - this is the story of George Orwell's first wife, a woman who shaped, supported and even saved the life of one o...

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Behemoth: A History of the Factory and the Making of the Modern World, Paperback - Joshua B. Freeman

83,99 RON

In an accessible and timely work of scholarship, celebrated historian Joshua B. Freeman tells the story of the factory and examines how it has refl...

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Behind the Mask: The Making of Republic's Lone Ranger Serials, Paperback - Ed Hulse

73,99 RON

DescriptionIn addition to being the most profitable chapter play in the 20-year-history of Republic Pictures-generating more than $1.1 million in w...

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The Willie Lynch Letter and the Making of a Slave, Paperback - Willie Lynch

43,99 RON 47,99 RON

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Willie Lynch"The Willie Lynch Letter" written by Willie Lynch is widely considered to be one of the top 100 most controvers...

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The Rise of Rome: The Making of the World's Greatest Empire, Paperback - Anthony Everitt

112,99 RON 120,99 RON

Reducere. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THEKANSAS CITY STAR From Anthony Everitt, the bestselling author of acclaimed biographies of Cicero, Aug...

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Empire and Ecology in the Bengal Delta: The Making of Calcutta, Paperback - Debjani Bhattacharyya

168,99 RON

DescriptionWhat happens when a distant colonial power tries to tame an unfamiliar terrain in the world's largest tidal delta? This history of drama...

cambridge university press, carti, carte straina, history & archaeology, history

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Racial Propositions: Ballot Initiatives and the Making of Postwar California - Daniel Martinez Hosang

259,99 RON 278,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionThis book looks beyond the headlines to uncover the controversial history of California's ballot measures over the past fifty years. As ...

university of california press, carti, carte straina, history & archaeology, history

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Patient Zero and the Making of the AIDS Epidemic, Paperback - Richard A. McKay

282,99 RON

The search for a ``patient zero``--popularly understood to be the first person infected in an epidemic--has been key to media coverage of major inf...

university of chicago press, carti, carte straina, history & archaeology, history

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The Making of Tron: How Tron Changed Visual Effects and Disney Forever, Paperback - William Kallay

170,99 RON 182,99 RON

Reducere. In 1982, Walt Disney Productions was in serious trouble. Its films were no longer drawing audiences into theaters. In the era of "Star Wars" and "R...

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The Culture of Bronze: Making and Meaning in Italian Renaissance, Hardcover - Peta Motture

239,99 RON

The Italian Renaissance was a golden age for bronze sculpture, both on a grand scale--such as Ghiberti's Gates of Paradise, or Cellini's Perseus--a...

victoria & albert museum, carti, carte straina, history & archaeology, history

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America and the Making of an Independent Ireland: A History, Hardcover - Francis M. Carroll

287,99 RON 308,99 RON

Reducere. Examines how the Irish American community, the American public, and the American government played a crucial role in the making of a sovereign inde...

new york university press, carti, carte straina, history & archaeology

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Power and Time: Temporalities in Conflict and the Making of History, Hardcover - Dan Edelstein

307,99 RON

Time is the backdrop of historical inquiry, yet it is much more than a featureless setting for events. Different temporalities interact dynamically...

university of chicago press, carti, carte straina, history & archaeology

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Making History / Making Blintzes: How Two Red Diaper Babies Found Each Other and Discovered America, Hardcover - Mickey Flacks

259,99 RON

Making History/Making Blintzes is a chronicle of the political and personal lives of progressive activists Richard (Dick) and Miriam (Mickey) Flack...

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Mr. Selfridge in Chicago: Marshall Field's, the Windy City & the Making of a Merchant Prince, Hardcover - Gayle Soucek

163,99 RON 175,99 RON

Reducere. Explore the fascinating story of Harry Gordon Selfridge in Chicago, Illinois.

history press library editions, carti, carte straina, history & archaeology, history

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The Last Ottoman Generation and the Making of the Modern Middle East, Paperback - Michael Provence

169,99 RON 181,99 RON

Reducere. The modern Middle East emerged out of the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, when Britain and France partitioned the Ottoman Arab lands into several n...

cambridge university press, carti, carte straina, history & archaeology, history

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Newsprint Metropolis. City Papers and the Making of Modern Americans, Paperback - Julia Guarneri

218,99 RON

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the university of chicago press, carti, carte straina, history & archaeology, history

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Africa and Africans in the Making of the Atlantic World, 1400-1800, Paperback - John Thornton

173,99 RON 186,99 RON

Reducere. This book explores Africa's involvement in the Atlantic world from the fifteenth through the eighteenth centuries. It focuses especially on the cau...

cambridge university press, carti, carte straina, history & archaeology, history

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The Framers' Coup: The Making of the United States Constitution, Hardcover - Michael J. Klarman

237,99 RON 254,99 RON

Reducere. Americans revere their Constitution. However, most of us are unaware how tumultuous and improbable the drafting and ratification processes were. As...

oxford university press, usa, carti, carte straina, history & archaeology, history

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American Gospel: God, the Founding Fathers, and the Making of a Nation, Paperback - Jon Meacham

101,99 RON 109,99 RON

Reducere. The American Gospel literally, the good news about America is that religion shapes our public life without controlling it. In this vivid book, New ...

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Forces of Habit: Drugs and the Making of the Modern World, Paperback - David T. Courtwright

207,99 RON

What drives the drug trade, and how has it come to be what it is today? A global history of the acquisition of progressively more potent means of a...

harvard university press, carti, carte straina, history & archaeology, history

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On Every Tide. The making and remaking of the Irish world, Hardback - Sean Connolly

149,99 RON

On Every Tide is an immensely impressive, authoritative history of the Irish diaspora.Publisher: Little, Brown Book GroupAuthor(s): Sean ConnollyNu...

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The Making of Oliver Cromwell, Hardcover - Ronald Hutton

185,99 RON

The first volume in a pioneering account of Oliver Cromwell--providing a major new interpretation of one of the greatest figures in history Oliver ...

yale university press, carti, carte straina, history & archaeology

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Making Sense of Place: Multidisciplinary Perspectives, Paperback - Ian Convery

208,99 RON

The term "sense of place" is an important multidisciplinary concept, used to understand the complex processes through which individuals and groups ...

boydell press, carti, carte straina, history & archaeology

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Violin-making: as it was and is, being a historical, theoretical, and practical treatise on the science and art of violin-making, for, Paperback - Edw

101,99 RON

This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base f...

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The Making Point: How to Succeed When You're at Your Breaking Point, Paperback - Cedric King

93,00 RON

DescriptionCedric was an Army Ranger when he stepped on an IED in a bomb-rigged village in Afghanistan. Becoming a double amputee could have been h...

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Parading Through History: The Making of the Crow Nation in America 1805 1935, Paperback - Frederick E. Hoxie

184,99 RON 197,99 RON

Reducere. This history of the Crow Indians links their nineteenth-century nomadic life and their modern existence. The Crows not only withstood the dislocati...

cambridge university press, carti, carte straina, history & archaeology

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Making Sense of the Troubles: The Story of the Conflict in Northern Ireland, Hardcover - David McKittrick

165,99 RON 177,99 RON

Reducere. Compellingly written and even-handed in its judgments, this is by far the clearest account of what has happened through the years in the Northern I...

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The First Way of War: American War Making on the Frontier, 1607-1814, Paperback - John Grenier

146,99 RON 157,99 RON

Reducere. This book explores the evolution of Americans' first way of war, to show how war waged again Indian noncombatant population and agricultural resour...

cambridge university press, carti, carte straina, history & archaeology, history

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Atomic Dreams and the Nuclear Nightmare: The Making of Godzilla (1954), Paperback - Peter H. Brothers

141,99 RON 151,99 RON

Reducere. For the first time in English print, the complete story of the making of one of the most significant and influential films of the 20th Century. Ori...

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The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism, Paperback - Edward E. Baptist

107,99 RON

Americans tend to cast slavery as a pre-modern institution--the nation's original sin, perhaps, but isolated in time and divorced from America's la...

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The Making Point: How to Succeed When You're at Your Breaking Point, Hardcover - Cedric King

178,99 RON 191,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionCedric was an Army Ranger when he stepped on an IED in a bomb-rigged village in Afghanistan. Becoming a double amputee could have been h...

atkins & greenspan writing, carti, carte straina, history & archaeology, history

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I Wanted to Be a Pilot: The Making of a Tuskegee Airman, Paperback - Franklin J. Macon

84,99 RON 90,99 RON

Reducere. Sometimes history is made by a dyslexic, mischievous boy who hates school, is a descendant of one of Frederick Douglass' half-sisters, and whose Po...

morgan james publishing, carti, carte straina, history & archaeology, history

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Oxford AQA History for A Level: The Making of a Superpower: USA 1865-1975, Paperback - Chris Rowe

324,99 RON

Retaining well-loved features, this book covers in breadth issues of change, continuity, and cause and consequence in this period of American histo...

oxford university press, carti, carte straina, history & archaeology

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Making of a Quagmire: America and Vietnam During the Kennedy Era (Revised), Paperback - David Halberstam

187,99 RON

Pulitzer-prize winning author David Halberstam's eyewitness account provides a riveting narrative of how the United States created a major foreign ...

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Protestant Empire: Religion and the Making of the British Atlantic World, Paperback - Carla Gardina Pestana

160,99 RON

The imperial expansion of Europe across the globe was one of the most significant events to shape the modern world. Among the many effects of this ...

university of pennsylvania press, carti, carte straina, history & archaeology, history

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Seeing Like a Citizen: Decolonization, Development, and the Making of Kenya, 1945-1980, Paperback - Kara Moskowitz

172,99 RON

In Seeing Like a Citizen, Kara Moskowitz approaches Kenya's late colonial and early postcolonial eras as a single period of political, economic, an...

ohio university press, carti, carte straina, history & archaeology, history

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Numbers and the Making of Us: Counting and the Course of Human Cultures, Paperback - Caleb Everett

135,99 RON

Description"A fascinating book."--James Ryerson, New York Times Book ReviewA Smithsonian Best Science Book of the YearWinner of the PROSE Award for...

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Making the World Over: Confronting Racism, Misogyny, and Xenophobia in U.S. History, Hardcover - R. Marie Griffith

154,99 RON 165,99 RON

Reducere. Political polarization and unrest are not exclusive to our era, but in the twenty-first century, we are living with seemingly unresolvable disagree...

university of virginia press, carti, carte straina, history & archaeology

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Histories of Everyday Life. The Making of Popular Social History in Britain, 1918-1979, Hardback - Laura Carter

727,99 RON

This book is a social history of popular history in Britain between the end of the First World War and the 1970s. It considers how ordinary people ...

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Where Futures Converge. Kendall Square and the Making of a Global Innovation Hub, Hardback - Robert Buderi

181,99 RON

Publisher: MIT Press LtdAuthor(s): Robert BuderiNumber of pages: 368Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 189 x 266 x 39Cover type: HardbackRedescopera...

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Making of the Roman Army, Paperback - Lawrence Keppie

133,99 RON

The Making of the Roman Army explores how a small citizen militia guarding a village on the banks of the Tiber evolved into the professional Roman ...

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Cassius X. A Legend in the Making, Hardback - Stuart Cosgrove

133,99 RON

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Making Medicines. A Brief History of Pharmacy and Pharmaceuticals, Paperback - ***

237,99 RON

Making Medicines is a concise, chronological discussion of the history of therapeutics and pharmacy from the Egyptians through to the present day. ...

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Making of the Oxford English Dictionary, Paperback - Peter Gilliver

205,99 RON

This book tells the history of the Oxford English Dictionary from its beginnings in the middle of the nineteenth century to the present. Drawing ex...

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Making of a Royal Naval Officer, Hardback - William Carne

157,99 RON

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Christian Martyrs Under Islam: Religious Violence and the Making of the Muslim World, Hardcover - Christian C. Sahner

211,99 RON

DescriptionHow did the medieval Middle East transform from a majority-Christian world to a majority-Muslim world, and what role did violence play i...

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Breakthrough: Elizabeth Hughes, the Discovery of Insulin, and the Making of a Medical Miracle, Paperback - Thea Cooper

95,99 RON 102,99 RON

Reducere. It is 1919 and Elizabeth Hughes, the eleven-year-old daughter of America's most-distinguished jurist and politician, Charles Evans Hughes, has been...

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Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam, Paperback - Fredrik Logevall

151,99 RON 162,99 RON

Reducere. WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE Written with the style of a great novelist and the intrigue of a Cold War thriller, Embers of War is a landmark work t...

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Giant's Causeway: Frederick Douglass's Irish Odyssey and the Making of an American Visionary, Paperback - Tom Chaffin

115,99 RON

Contributor(s): Author: Tom ChaffinIn 1845, seven years after fleeing bondage in Maryland, Frederick Douglass was in his late twenties and already ...

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Oxford AQA History for A Level: The Making of Modern Britain 1951-2007, Paperback - J M A Hugh

297,99 RON

Retaining all the well-loved features, this book explores in depth the key political, economic, social and international changes which helped to mo...

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Medicalizing Blackness: Making Racial Difference in the Atlantic World, 1780-1840, Paperback - Rana A. Hogarth

217,99 RON 233,99 RON

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Rana A. HogarthIn 1748, as yellow fever raged in Charleston, South Carolina, doctor John Lining remarked, "There is somethi...

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The Conquest of Nature: Water, Landscape, and the Making of Modern Germany, Paperback - David Blackbourn

166,99 RON 178,99 RON

Reducere. Majestic and lyrically written, The Conquest of Nature traces the rise of Germany through the development of water and landscape. David Blackbourn ...

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A/AS Level History for AQA The Making of Modern Britain, 1951-2007 Student Book, Paperback - Richard Kerridge

287,99 RON

Approved by AQA this print Student Book covers The Making of Modern Britain, 1951-2007 Depth component and provides valuable background information...

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'is The Turk A White Man?'. Race and Modernity in the Making of Turkish Identity, Paperback - Murat Ergin

222,99 RON

A critical study of race, racialization and representation in the context of Turkish modernization

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They Called Him 'Roose': Pauulu Kamarakafego and the Making of A Bermudian Revolutionary, Paperback - Colwyn Burchall

96,99 RON 103,99 RON

Reducere. Penned by educator and author Colwyn Burchall, Jr., "They Called Him 'Roose': Pauulu Kamarakafego and the Making of a Bermudian Revolutionary" is a...

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The Bonds of Inequality. Debt and the Making of the American City, Paperback - Destin Jenkins

179,99 RON

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Destin JenkinsIllustration(s): 26 halftones, 10 tablesNumber of pages: 320Publication date: 20...

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Making Mead (Honey Wine): History, Recipes, Methods and Equipment, Paperback - Roger A. Morse

166,99 RON 178,99 RON

Reducere. The first major book on making mead that continues to be a best seller, this book contains the essence of what you need to know about making honey ...

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Making Sense of Somali History: (Volume Two), Paperback - Abdurahman Abdullahi

207,99 RON

DescriptionThe collapse of the postcolonial Somali state in 1991 and the consequent outbreak of civil war drastically transformed the socio-politic...

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