The English and their History

Laboring Women: Reproduction and Gender in New World Slavery, Paperback - Jennifer L. Morgan

167,99 RON

When black women were brought from Africa to the New World as slave laborers, their value was determined by their ability to work as well as their ...

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Confederate South Carolina: True Stories of Civilians, Soldiers and the War, Paperback - Karen Stokes

105,99 RON 113,99 RON

Reducere. The Civil War never left South Carolina, from its beginning at Fort Sumter in 1861 through the destructive, harrowing days of Sherman's march throu...

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The Cambridge History of Russia, Paperback - Dominic Lieven

302,99 RON

The second volume of The Cambridge History of Russia covers the imperial period (1689-1917). It encompasses political, economic, social, cultural, ...

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Humble Pie and Cold Turkey. English Expressions and Their Origins, Hardback - Caroline Taggart

62,99 RON

An entertaining and informative look at thousands of years of history to shed light on the words and phrases we use most often - and where they cam...

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Knitting in Plain English, Paperback - Maggie Righetti

124,99 RON 133,99 RON

Reducere. The first edition of this indispensable classic gave knitters easy-to-follow (and fun-to-read) advice on producing the knits of their dreams. Drawi...

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Old English Legal Writings, Hardcover - ***

247,99 RON

Archbishop Wulfstan of York (d. 1023) was a powerful clergyman and the most influential political thinker of pre-Conquest England. An advocate for ...

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World War II Dunkirk: A History From Beginning to End, Paperback - Hourly History

68,99 RON 94,99 RON

Reducere. World War II DunkirkThe movie Dunkirk premiered in 2017, decades after the event that turned certain defeat into a military miracle that inspired t...

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Ireland in the Virginian Sea: Colonialism in the British Atlantic, Paperback - Audrey Horning

237,99 RON 254,99 RON

Reducere. In the late sixteenth century, the English started expanding westward, establishing control over parts of neighboring Ireland as well as exploring ...

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The Pilgrim's Progress, Paperback - John Bunyan

56,99 RON

A new edition of one of the greatest allegorical stories ever written A masterpiece of the English Puritan tradition, The Pilgrim's Progress is ric...

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East India Company and Dutch East India Company: A History From Beginning to End, Paperback - Hourly History

110,99 RON

DescriptionEast India Company and Dutch East India Company* * *Download for FREE on Kindle Unlimited + Free BONUS Inside * * * The East India Compa...

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Hand-To-Hand Fighting: A System of Personal Defence for the Soldier (1918), Paperback - A. E. Marriott

89,99 RON 96,99 RON

Reducere. As men with a background in combat sports began returning from night raids at greater number than those lacking, it soon became obvious to both the...

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Tainos and Caribs: The Aboriginal Cultures of the Antilles, Paperback - Sebastian Robiou Lamarche

167,99 RON 179,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionThis book was published originally in Spanish under the title Ta nos y caribes, las culturas abor genes antillanas. Since its publicatio...

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Black Pupils Matter: Our Experience Of The English Education System 1950 - 2000, Paperback - Wasuk Godwin Sule-Pearce

180,99 RON 193,99 RON

Reducere. Black Pupils Matter: Our Experiences of the English Education System is a study of the effect of the English education system on children from dive...

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The Lady in the Tower, Paperback - Jean Plaidy

100,99 RON 108,99 RON

Reducere. One of history's most complex and alluring women comes to life in this classic novel by the legendary Jean Plaidy. Young Anne Boleyn was not beauti...

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The Maid: A Novel of Joan of Arc, Paperback - Kimberly Cutter

99,99 RON 106,99 RON

Reducere. "Was she a saint or a witch? A visionary or a madwoman? Or an extraordinary peasant girl who, at God's bidding, led an army, saved France, and paid...

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Western Armenian Dictionary & Phrasebook: Armenian-English/English-Armenian, Paperback - Nicholas Awde

68,99 RON 73,99 RON

Reducere. Western Armenian is the language spoken by most of the seven million Diaspora Armenians who live outside their historic homeland. Its speakers form...

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Saxo Grammaticus: The History of the Danes, Books I-IX: I. English Text; II. Commentary, Paperback - Hilda Ellis Davidson

185,99 RON

In the early years of the thirteenth century the Danish writer Saxo Grammaticus provided his people with a History of the Danes, an account of thei...

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The Scots Irish of Early Pennsylvania: A Varied People, Paperback - Judith A. Ridner

126,99 RON 135,99 RON

Reducere. The Scots Irish were one of early Pennsylvania's largest non-English immigrant groups. They were stereotyped as frontier ruffians and Indian haters...

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An Empire Transformed: Remolding Bodies and Landscapes in the Restoration Atlantic, Hardcover - Kate Luce Mulry

289,99 RON 310,99 RON

Reducere. Examines the efforts to bring political order to the English empire through projects of environmental improvement When Charles II ascended the Engl...

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Kenya's Freedom Struggle: The Dedan Kimathi Papers, Paperback - Maina Wa Kinyatti

103,99 RON 111,99 RON

Reducere. The British captured extensive archives belonging to the Mau Mau, which to this day have not been made public. Here for the first time, as a result...

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The English Wife, Paperback - Lauren Willig

113,99 RON

DescriptionFrom New York Times bestselling author Lauren Willig comes The English Wife, a scandalous novel set in the Gilded Age full of family sec...

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Ottavia E I Gatti Di Roma - Octavia and the Cats of Rome: A Bilingual Picture Book in Italian and English, Paperback - Claudia Cerulli

99,99 RON 106,99 RON

Reducere. An adventurous story of two cats who call the ancient monuments of Rome their home. Follow Octavia and Julius in their tour of the best-loved sight...

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The Boys King Arthur: Illustrated, Paperback - Sidney Lanier

63,99 RON 68,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionThe Boys King Arthur (1880) by the American poet Sidney Lanier is a re-working of the original Sir Thomas Malory's "History of King Arth...

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Literary Britten: Words and Music in Benjamin Britten's Vocal Works, Hardcover - Kate Kennedy

581,99 RON

DescriptionBritten is the most literary British composer of the twentieth century. His relationship to the many and varied texts that he set was de...

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She Weeps Each Time You're Born, Paperback - Quan Barry

103,99 RON 111,99 RON

Reducere. Vietnam, 1972: under a full moon, on the banks of the Song Ma River, a baby girl is pulled out of her dead mother's grave. This is Rabbit, who is b...

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Okinawa: The History of an Island People, Paperback - George Kerr

135,00 RON

``The first full-length monograph on the history of the Ryukyu Islands in any Western language...a standard work.``--Pacific Affairs Okinawa: The H...

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Modern War, Paperback - Richard English

56,99 RON

Warfare is the most dangerous threat faced by modern humanity. It is also one of the key influences that has shaped the politics, economics, and so...

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Ceremonies of Possession in Europe's Conquest of the New World, 1492 1640, Paperback - Patricia Seed

133,99 RON 143,99 RON

Reducere. This work of comparative history explores the array of ceremonies that the English, the Spanish, the French, the Portuguese and the Dutch performed...

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The Sense of Reality: Studies in Ideas and Their History, Paperback - Isaiah Berlin

122,99 RON 131,99 RON

Reducere. A New York Times Notable Book of the YearIsaiah Berlin's The Sense of Reality contains an important body of previously unknown work by one of our c...

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Speech to Print: Language Essentials for Teachers, Paperback - Louisa Cook Moats

327,99 RON 350,99 RON

Reducere. For two decades, Speech to Print has been a bestselling, widely adopted textbook on explicit, high-quality literacy instruction. Now the anticipate...

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The Winning of the West, Vol. III (in four volumes): The Founding of the Trans-Alleghany Commonwealths, 1784-1790 - Theodore Roosevelt

159,99 RON 171,99 RON

Reducere. "During the past three centuries the spread of the English-speaking peoples over the world's waste spaces has been not only the most striking featu...

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The Collected Toppi Vol.5: The Eastern Path, Hardcover - Sergio Toppi

148,99 RON 159,99 RON

Reducere. The fifth volume in this popular library of works by celebrated master storyteller Sergio Toppi contains six tales of folklore set in Eastern Europ...

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A History of Modern Irish Women's Literature, Hardcover - Heather Ingman

291,99 RON

DescriptionThis book offers the first comprehensive survey of writing by women in Ireland from the seventeenth century to the present day. It cover...

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The Targums: A Critical Introduction - Paul V. M. Flesher

590,99 RON 632,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionThe value and significance of the targums--translations of the Hebrew Bible into Aramaic, the language of Palestinian Jews for centuries...

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The American Heritage Dictionary of Indo-European Roots, Paperback - Calvert Watkins

128,99 RON 138,99 RON

Reducere. The American Heritage Dictionary of Indo-European Roots traces over 13, 000 words, representing nearly 1, 350 basic roots, to their origins in Prot...

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The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary, Paperback - Simon Winchester

73,99 RON

"The greatest enterprise of its kind in history, " was the verdict of British prime minister Stanley Baldwin in June 1928 when The Oxford English D...

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North America: A Fold-Out Graphic History, Hardcover - Sarah Albee

94,99 RON

DescriptionA richly illustrated, foldout graphic history of the United States, Mexico, and the islands of the Caribbean.North American history unfo...

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Time and Reality in the Thought of the Maya, Paperback - Miguel Le n-Portilla

197,00 RON

In this second English-language edition of one of his most notable works, Miguel Le n-Portilla explores the Maya Indians' remarkable concepts of ti...

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Confederate South Carolina: True Stories of Civilians, Soldiers and the War, Hardcover - Karen Stokes

164,99 RON 176,99 RON

Reducere. The Civil War never left South Carolina, from its beginning at Fort Sumter in 1861 through the destructive, harrowing days of Sherman s march throu...

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Hildegard Von Bingen's Physica: The Complete English Translation of Her Classic Work on Health and Healing, Hardcover - Priscilla Throop

104,99 RON 143,99 RON

Reducere. One of two major medical treatises by medieval healer Hildegard von Bingen, presented in its entirety for the first time in English during the 900t...

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The Rise and Fall of Khoqand, 1709-1876: Central Asia in the Global Age, Paperback - Scott C. Levi

206,99 RON

Contributor(s): Author: Scott C. LeviThis book analyzes how Central Asians actively engaged with the rapidly globalizing world of the eighteenth an...

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Salento by 5: Friendship, Food, Music and Travel Within the Heel of Italy's Boot, Paperback - Audrey Fielding

138,99 RON 148,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionSALENTO BY 5 is an informative book about Salento, a region at the southern tip of Puglia, in the heel of Italy's boot. The book is writ...

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Indescribable Ordeal: The History of the German 65th Infantry Division 1942-1945, Hardcover - Michael Dorosh

632,99 RON 677,99 RON

Reducere. Germany's fast-hitting Panzer divisions made history with their astonishing victories in the opening years of World War II, but the bulk of the Arm...

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Call My Name, Clemson: Documenting the Black Experience in an American University Community, Paperback - Rhondda Robinson Thomas

110,99 RON 118,99 RON

Reducere. Between 1890 and 1915, a predominately African American state convict crew built Clemson University on John C. Calhoun's Fort Hill Plantation in up...

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Belair Stud: The Cradle of Maryland Horse Racing, Hardcover - Kimberly Gatto

158,99 RON

From their opening in 1740 through the 1955 closing, Belair Stud Farm became known as one of the most important stables in American racing. Althoug...

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A History of Belarus, Hardcover - Lubov Bazan

267,99 RON 286,99 RON

Reducere. Rare materials on Belarus are a potential treasure trove for the English language reader. A blank spot on the map for many, Belarus is an undiscove...

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Blacks of the Land: Indian Slavery, Settler Society, and the Portuguese Colonial Enterprise in South America, Paperback - James Woodard

200,99 RON

DescriptionOriginally published in Portuguese in 1994 as Negros da Terra, this field-defining work by the late historian John M. Monteiro has been ...

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Selected 300 Poems of Chinese Tang Dynasty, Paperback - Bai Li

105,99 RON 113,99 RON

Reducere. Tang Dynasty (AD618-907) is one of most powerful and prosperous dynasties in Chinese history, it is also a great era of cultural development, the p...

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Richard Jefferies: A Miscellany, Paperback - Richard Jefferies

62,99 RON

DescriptionJohn Richard Jefferies (6 November 1848 - 14 August 1887) was an English nature writer, noted for his depiction of English rural life in...

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Reading, Wanting, and Broken Economics: A Twenty-First-Century Study of Readers and Bookshops in Southampton Around 1900 - Simon R. Frost

279,99 RON 299,99 RON

Reducere. Combining historical study, theorization, and experimental fiction, this book takes commodity culture and book retail around 1900 as the prime exam...

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The Historical Phonology of Tibetan, Burmese, and Chinese, Hardcover - Nathan Hill

775,99 RON

DescriptionThe discovery of sound laws by comparing attested languages is the method which has unlocked the history of European languages stretchin...

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History of the Popes, Volume II: Their Church and State, Paperback - Leopold Von Ranke

186,99 RON 200,99 RON

Reducere. "...The history of the renovated popedom would be but imperfectly understood, did we limit our attention to its centre only. Its essential importan...

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Match Made in Hell: The Jewish Boy and the Polish Outlaw Who Defied the Nazis, Paperback - Larry Stillman

115,99 RON 124,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionConjoined twins have long been a subject of fantasy, fascination, and freak shows. In this first collection of its kind, Millie-Christin...

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Eat My Words: Reading Women's Lives Through the Cookbooks They Wrote, Paperback - Janet Theophano

150,99 RON 161,99 RON

Reducere. Some people think that a cookbook is just a collection of recipes for dishes that feed the body. In Eat My Words: Reading Women's Lives through the...

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Yiayia and Papou, Paperback - Christine Skoutelas

103,99 RON 111,99 RON

Reducere. Tom and Glykeria share memories of their early years living as goat herders in a remote mountain village in Greece as their daughter-in-law, Christ...

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King Henry VI Part 3: Third Series, Paperback - William Shakespeare

95,99 RON

In their lively and engaging edition of this sometimes neglected early play, Cox and Rasmussen make a strong claim for it as a remarkable work, rev...

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Amharic English, English Amharic Dictionary: A Modern Dictionary of the Amharic Language, Paperback (2nd Ed.) - Endale Zenawi

255,99 RON 273,99 RON

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Endale ZenawiDictionaries can be something of a personal matter; people become very attached to their favorite. In the abov...

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How to Date Furniture: An Easy Reference Guide, Paperback - Trevor Yorke

48,00 RON

DescriptionThis illustrated, easy reference guide is packed with all the information you need to help you date English furniture and bring its hist...

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English Rugby 101: A Pocket Guide in 101 Moments, Stats, Characters and Games, Paperback - John Griffiths

74,99 RON

DescriptionEnglish Rugby 101 is a compendium of fascinating facts, stats, stories, personalities and trivia - perfect for all fans of English rugby...

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Angel in the Whirlwind: The Triumph of the American Revolution, Paperback - Benson Bobrick

144,99 RON 155,99 RON

Reducere. Angel in the Whirlwind is the epic tale of the American Revolution, from its roots among tax-weary colonists to the triumphant Declaration of Indep...

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Viandier of Taillevent: An Edition of All Extant Manuscripts, Hardcover - Terrence Scully

259,99 RON 278,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionThis volume is the first to present all four extant manuscripts of the Viandier de Taillevent. The texts of the 220 recipes are in their...

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The Jacobite Rebellions 1689-1745, Paperback - Michael Barthorp

73,99 RON

DescriptionBetween the first Jacobite rising in 1689 and the final collapse of the cause in 1746, the hopes of the House of Stuart were centred chi...

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The True Story of the Acadians, 93rd Anniversary Edition with Index, Paperback - M. M. Le Blanc

395,99 RON 423,99 RON

Reducere. This is the true history of the French Acadians, who settled French Acadia (now Nova Scotia) in the 1500's, only to live under British rule when Ki...

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German Prisoners of the Great War: Life in a Yorkshire Camp, Hardcover - Anne Buckley

157,99 RON

In Munich in 1920, just after the end of the First World War, German officers who had been prisoners of war in England published a book they had wr...

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Memorial Book of Kobylnik (Narach, Belarus): Translation of Sefer Kobylnik, Hardcover - Yitzhak Siegelman

267,99 RON

This is the Memorial Book of the destroyed Jewish community of Kobylnik Belarus, also known as Narach. It contains the history of the community, fi...

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Armies of the Baltic Independence Wars 1918-20, Paperback - Nigel Thomas

81,99 RON

DescriptionThis fascinating book concisely tells the story of the birth of three Baltic nation states: Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.Immediately fo...

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Orkneyinga Saga: The History of the Earls of Orkney, Paperback - Anonymous

56,99 RON

Written around AD 1200 by an unnamed Icelandic author, the Orkneyinga Saga is an intriguing fusion of myth, legend and history. The only medieval c...

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Jerusalem. Blake, Parry, and the Fight for Englishness, Hardback - ***

199,99 RON

A reception history of William Blake's 'Jerusalem' that traces the hymn's increasing associations with national identity and explores how different...

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Portrait of a Marriage: Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson, Paperback - Nigel Nicolson

104,99 RON 112,99 RON

Reducere. Vita Sackville-West, novelist, poet, and biographer, is best known as the friend of Virginia Woolf, who transformed her into an androgynous time-tr...

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Memorial (Yizkor) Book of the Jewish Community of Ostrow Mazowiecka, Hardcover - Aba Gordin

365,99 RON

This book is the translation of the Memorial (Yizkor) Book of the destroyed Jewish Community of Ostrow Mazowiecka, Poland, (in Hebrew: Sefer ha-zik...

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