One Long Night: A Global History of Concentration Camps, Paperback - Andrea Pitzer

Description"Masterly" -- The New Yorker A Smithsonian Magazine Best History Book of the YearA groundbreaking, haunting, and profoundly moving histo...

The first definitive history of the Nazi concentration camp system, KL will remain an essential read for years to come.

Reducere. In 1923, the Soviet state decided to create a prison camp on the Solovki archipelago, the site of a former monastery. It became the laboratory of t...

Describes in detail the concentration camps run in Scotland, which held Jews, communists and homosexuals.Publisher: Pen & Sword Books LtdAuthor(s):...

Nazi concentration camps are by no means the only examples of these 'extreme institutions'; Dan Stone sets out the fuller story, from the Boer War ...

Reducere. In 1942 Norwegian Odd Nansen was arrested by the Nazis, and he spent the remainder of World War II in concentration camps--Grini in Oslo, Veidal ab...

Reducere. DescriptionWhen Mako Takahashi was five years old, her family was swept up in the turmoil and devastation of World War II. The FBI arrested Mako's ...

Looking at the eleventh century to the twentieth century, Kuroda explores how money was used and how currencies evolved in transactions within loca...

One of the greatest stories of survival and adventure in the Arctic that inspired Shakespeare and Jules VernePublisher: Simon & Schuster LtdAuthor(...

The powerful, poignant true story of a group of child survivors of concentration camps, by the author of the bestselling THE HOLOCAUST. 'A masterpi...

Reducere. In the bestselling tradition of Hampton Sides's In the Kingdom of Ice, a "gripping adventure tale" (The Boston Globe) recounting Dutch polar explor...

A history of the global nature of the radical union, The Industrial Workers of the World

Publisher: Penguin Books LtdAuthor(s): James PoskettNumber of pages: 464Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 175 x 242 x 38Cover type: HardbackRedesco...

DescriptionThe collapse of the Berlin Wall has come to represent the entry of an isolated region onto the global stage. On the contrary, this study...

Mennonite Farmers is a pioneering work that brings faith into conversation with the land in distinctive ways.Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Pr...

One of the greatest stories of survival and adventure in the Arctic that inspired Shakespeare and Jules VerneIllustrations: TBC

This book follows the emergence and transformation of the watch industry throughout the world from the beginning of the nineteenth century to the p...

For millennia, cavalry was the premier combat arm. Horses gave armies mobility and speed; often cavalry charges, either on the enemy's flanks and i...

The collapse of the Berlin Wall has come to represent the entry of an isolated region onto the global stage. On the contrary, this study argues tha...

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DescriptionA global history of restaurants beyond white tablecloths and ma tre d's, Dining Out presents restaurants both as businesses and as venue...

Reducere. Why do stock and housing markets sometimes experience amazing booms followed by massive busts and why is this happening more and more frequently? I...

Sul's history of the international ginseng trade reveals the cultural aspects of international capitalism and the impact of this single commodity o...

DescriptionCompassion traces the ways in which various societies across the globe have responded to the vulnerable among them from early human hist...

Why do stock and housing markets sometimes experience amazing booms followed by massive busts and why is this happening more and more frequently? B...

A definitive history of mescaline that explores its mind-altering effects across cultures, from ancient America to Western modernity Mescaline beca...

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Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Publisher: Johns Hopkins University PressAuthor(s): Rens BodIllustration(s): 11 Illustrations, black and white; 2 Illustrations, black and whiteTra...

The first truly global history of sport, covering everything from football to baseball, boxing to motor racing.Illustrations: 98 illustrations

DescriptionJulian Baggini's How the World Thinks is there to fill the Sapiens-size hole in your life' Observer's guide to Autumn in culture In this...

DescriptionCoal, gas, and oil have powered our societies for hundreds of years. But the pace at which we use them changed dramatically in the twent...

For fashion buffs, romantics, and brides-to-be, a fascinating collection of wedding garb and glamour through pop culture and history.The Way We Wed...

This is the history of temperance and prohibition as you've never read it before: redefining temperance as a progressive, global, pro-justice movem...

This book provides the first broad history of the evolution of combined operations since antiquity. Jeremy Black provides a balanced assessment of ...

Reducere. As late as the 1960s, tacos were virtually unknown outside Mexico and the American Southwest. Within fifty years the United States had shipped taco...

In this fascinating study, Matthew J. Kuiper the story of how Islam became a world religion and cultural phenomenon of immense scale, astonishing d...

The first historical account of the development of prison gangs world-wide.Illustrations: 70 illustrations

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The global coffee industry, which fuels the livelihoods of farmers, entrepreneurs, and consumers around the world, rests on fragile ecological foun...

An astonishing tale of romance, resistance and bravery 'A sad and beautiful book, shining a light on quiet heroism in dark times.' Lucy Adlington, ...

A monumental history of the nineteenth century, The Transformation of the World offers a panoramic and multifaceted portrait of a world in transiti...

Reducere. Richard Davenport-Hines examines how licit medicines developed into a huge illegal business. Drawing on evidence from different continents and cult...

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