Out of the House of Bondage: The Transformation of the Plantation Household

Reducere. Louis Hughes was born a slave in Virginia and at age 12 was sold away from his mother, whom he never saw again. After a few interim owners, he was ...

Reducere. The purpose of this book is to illustrate the magnificence of the fabless semiconductor ecosystem, and to give credit where credit is due. We trace...

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

Reducere. DescriptionAt the age of nineteen Emily Wharton married Charles Sinkler and moved eight hundred miles from her Philadelphia home to a cotton planta...

Publisher: Rudolf Steiner PressAuthor(s): Van JamesIllustration(s): colour plates and over 200 b&w illustrationsNumber of pages: 288Publication dat...

A collection of significant lectures and essays by Karl Koenig, inspired by Rudolf Steiner, arguing that the greatest part of humankind exists beyo...

This book analyses the food revolution that has occurred in Russia since the late 1980s, documenting the transformation in systems of production, s...

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Even the most seasoned Middle East observers were taken aback by the events of early 2011. Protests born of oppression and socioeconomic frustratio...

Reducere. When Jean-François Champollion rediscovered how to translate the Egyptian hieroglyphs in the early nineteenth century he described them as "....a c...

The seventeenth-century house of the seven gables shelters an old curse and a terrible secret. The lives of the Pyncheon family are ruined by greed...

Reducere. The true story of one of the oldest plantations in central Virginia and the people that lived there over a span of centuries. This story is about t...

Publisher: Princeton University PressAuthor(s): Nancy FonerIllustration(s): 1 b/w illus. 1 table. 1 map.Number of pages: 232Publication date: 2022D...

'Emer O'Sullivan has made an indispensable contribution to Wildean literature ...Compelling, informative and fascinating' Stephen Fry Oscar Wilde's...

The generation of young men and women who joined the British Army during the mid to late 1980s would serve their country during an unprecedented pe...

In this study Harvey Levenstein tells of the remarkable transformation in how Americans ate that took place from 1880 to 1930. It devotes special a...

We begin - at the turn of the century, in an unnamed South American country - in the childhood home of the woman who will be the mother and grandmo...

Publisher: Olympia PublishersAuthor(s): Dr. Serge ValcourtNumber of pages: 288Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 140 x 204 x 25Cover type: Paperback...

The Poet's Great War: Violence, Revolution and Modernism

Reducere. A major new history of the Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire, set in a larger global context than previous accounts Previous accounts of the fall...

Through a compilation of essays written by professional historians with expertise in a diverse array of eras and fields, Michael Gagnon and Matthew...

Reducere. Aurora West is on the verge of solving the mystery of her mother's death, but it's hard keeping her efforts a secret from her grieving father, the ...

Reducere. For the fans of the best-selling House of Night series, the Wisdom of the House of Night Oracle Cards provides a unique interactive experience with...

Publisher: CaneloAuthor(s): Paul DohertyNumber of pages: 304Collection: The Brother Athelstan MysteriesPublication date: 2021Dimensions: 129 x 198 ...

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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 ...

Explores the history of the world's greatest elective office and the role each incumbent has played in changing the scope of its powers. Using indi...

Reducere. Claudio Saunt vividly depicts a dramatic transformation in the eighteenth century that overturned the world of the powerful and numerous Creek Indi...

DescriptionThe year 59 BC--when Gaius Julius Caesar and Marcus Calpurnius Bibulus served as joint consuls--marked a major turning point in the hist...

Reducere. DescriptionThey were average New Yorkers.But in the aftermath, they became American refugees . . . When the planes hit the Twin Towers, Christina R...

Reducere. Cura ao's historic plantation houses showcase unique architecture that resulted from the use of European, especially Dutch, building styles adapted...

In letter written at the end of 1960, J. R. R. Tolkien wrote that, while parts of The Lord of the Rings, "owe something to Northern France after th...

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Reducere. At the turn of the nineteenth century, James Vann, a Cherokee chief and entrepreneur, established Diamond Hill in Georgia, the most famous plantati...

Reducere. DescriptionDon't Blame Us traces the reorientation of modern liberalism and the Democratic Party away from their roots in labor union halls of nort...

Despite popular images of priests seeking enlightenment in snow-covered mountain temples, the central concern of Japanese Buddhism is death. This t...

DescriptionHigh above the steamy jungle of the Amazon basin, rise the flat plateaus known as the Tepui, the House of the Gods. Lost worlds of unkno...

A sweeping, lavishly illustrated one-volume history of the rise of American naval power during World War IIPublisher: Yale University PressAuthor(s...

Reducere. From Arthur C. Clarke, the brilliant mind that brought us 2001: A Space Odyssey, and Stephen Baxter, one of the most cogent SF writers of his gener...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Alex KitnickIllustration(s): 56 halftonesNumber of pages: 224Publication date: 2021Dimensions:...

Reducere. By the late 1810s, a global revolution in cotton had remade the U.S.-Mexico border, bringing wealth and waves of Americans to the Gulf Coast while ...

Scotland, 1477: Nicholas de Fleury, former banker and merchant, has re-appeared in the land that, four years earlier, he had brought very close to ...

At its height Renaissance Florence was a centre of wealth, power and influence. A republican city-state funded by trade and banking, its bloody pol...

Reducere. This Brief History tells the story of The House of Windsor. Starting with George V and going through Charles, Prince of Wales, all the way to Queen...

This book is the only one of its kind, providing a clear and exhaustive analysis of the different approaches to the future of Britain's second cham...

Reducere. The internationally bestselling author of The Rose Labyrinth returns with a love story of magic and healing that takes readers from the heartache o...