Murder, Mayhem, Pillage, and Plunder: The History of the Lebanon in the 18th and 19th Centuries by Mikhayil Mishaqa (1800-1873), Paperback - Wheeler M

Reducere. The author's analysis of the internecine strife and fierce clan rivalry rampant in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries puts into perspective th...

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Publisher: Leonaur LtdAuthor(s): F N MaudeIllustration(s): IllustrationsNumber of pages: 168Publication date: 2013Dimensions: 139 x 215 x 15Cover t...

Reducere. The Historical Heroines Coloring Book: Pioneering Women in Science from the 18th and 19th Centuries celebrates 31 women who passionately pursued th...

Publisher: Pearson Education LimitedAuthor(s): Adam KidsonCollection: Edexcel GCE History 2015Publication date: 2015Dimensions: 221 x 276 x 19Cover...

Reducere. The world of Cajsa Andersdotter is a non-fictional book which lets the reader follow the fate of an impoverished Swedish family from about 1760 to ...

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DescriptionMalleson's essential text enhanced with many maps and illustrationsMany English language readers may have discovered Prince Eugene of Sa...

This collective volume aims at studying a variety of labour history themes in Southern Europe, and investigating the transformations of labour and ...

Reducere. The pleasant neighborhoods of the Crescenta Valley offer no hint of the many violent and heinous crimes that have occurred between the San Gabriel ...

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Reducere. Boston's history is checkered with violence and heinous crimes. In 1845, a woman lured into prostitution was murdered at the hands of her jealous l...

Murder and dark deeds shadowed the extravagance of the Gilded Age in the Berkshires of Massachusetts. In the summer of 1893, a tall and well-dresse...

Dark City is the first book to explore how London became a criminals' paradise during the Second World War

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In 1144, the mutilated body of William of Norwich, a young apprentice leatherworker, was found abandoned outside the city's walls. The boy bore dis...

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Reducere. Nashville is known for its bold, progressive flair, but few are aware of the city's malevolent past. A rowdy red-light district called ``Smoky Row`...

Akbarnāma, or The History of Akbar, by Abu'l-Fazl (d. 1602), is one of the most important works of Indo-Persian history and a touchstone of prose a...

DescriptionAn equal parts haunting and hilarious deep-dive review of history's most notorious and cold-blooded serial killers, from the creators of...

Reducere. The excitement and vibrancy of big-city thrills take a deadly turn when they hit Staten Island. Edward Reinhardt murdered his wife and rolled her b...

Reducere. In the mid-17th century, the Iroquois Confederacy launched a war for control of the burgeoning fur trade industry. These conflicts, known as the Be...

"Stepchildren of the Shtetl considers marginal peoples in East European Jewish society and culture--the disabled, mentally ill, and indigent--and h...

Reducere. Gambling, prostitution and bootlegging have been going on in Steubenville for well over one hundred years. Its Water Street red-light district drew...

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Centuries of Meditations is a devotional manual from the English literary Thomas Traherne; undiscovered for over 200 years, this manuscript was fir...

Reducere. With the Israeli-Palestinian crisis reaching wartime levels, where is the latest confrontation between these two old foes leading? Robert Fisk's ex...

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

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DescriptionApril 13, 1861: Rebel troops are across the Potomac River, only 800 feet from the White House and President Lincoln--but a murderer is e...

Ann Granger is the author of four highly accliamed crime series. This gripping collection of 18 short stories has been brought together for the fir...

Reducere. Crime ran rampant at the turn of the twentieth century across Central Washington, from jail breaks, lethal bootleggers and assassinations in Kittit...

A fascinating insight into life in the Highlands and Islands as the forces of law and order battled to bring peace to a troubled land.

DescriptionA Revival and Celebration of the Golden Age of Typography Any type user and enthusiast will doubtless derive joy from the letters and or...

Desperadoes like Frank and Jesse James earned Missouri the nickname of the "Outlaw State" after the Civil War, and that reputation followed the reg...

Reducere. *Includes pictures *Includes accounts of the Famine written by survivors and newspapers *Includes a bibliography for further reading "I have called...

*Includes pictures *Includes accounts of the gold rush written by participants *Includes a bibliography for further reading *Includes a table of co...

This book offers a general introduction to historical sources in the history of psychiatry, delving into the range of sources that can be used to i...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdAuthor(s): Athanasios MarkopoulosNumber of pages: 372Collection: Variorum Collected StudiesPublication date: 2018Dim...

Reducere. Gambling, prostitution and bootlegging have been going on in Steubenville for well over one hundred years. Its Water Street red-light district drew...

This book reveals the myths and mayhem which accompanied the three waves of wartime evacuation and documents the experiences of evacuees in their o...

This book addresses the multifaceted history of the domestic sphere in Europe from the Age of Reformation to the emergence of modern society. By fo...

Examines the administrative system and function of stamp impressions on storage jars in ancient Israel, illustrating the history of Judah during si...

Reducere. Over the last three decades, a new generation of conceptual artists has come to the fore in the Arab Middle East. As wars, peace treaties, sanction...

The bucolic image of central Massachusetts belies a dark and sometimes deadly past. Grisly crimes and grim misdeeds reach back to colonial settleme...

Explore the chilling history behind some of southwestern Pennsylvania's most horrifying murders.In 1907, a young girl was found dead in the Lyric T...

Reducere. When celebrated mahjar writer Ameen Rihani returned to his native Lebanon from his long stay in New York, he set out on nine journeys through the L...