The History of Archaeology

In the Shadow of the Ancestors: The Prehistoric Foundations of the Early Arabian Civilization in Oman, Paperback - Maurizio Tosi

802,99 RON

This book, first published in 2007, offered the first and only summary of decades of archaeological research in the Oman Peninsula. The original el...

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Individuals and Small Groups in Jewish Resistance to the Holocaust. A Case Study of a Young Couple and their Friends, Hardback - Ben Braber

799,99 RON

Publisher: Anthem PressAuthor(s): Ben BraberNumber of pages: 162Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 160 x 235 x 19Cover type: HardbackRedescopera far...

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Black Marxism, Revised and Updated Third Edition: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition, Hardcover - Cedric J. Robinson

796,99 RON 852,99 RON

Reducere. In this ambitious work, first published in 1983, Cedric Robinson demonstrates that efforts to understand Black people's history of resistance solel...

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West of Slavery: The Southern Dream of a Transcontinental Empire, Hardcover - Kevin Waite

791,99 RON 847,99 RON

Reducere. When American slaveholders looked west in the mid-nineteenth century, they saw an empire unfolding before them. They pursued that vision through di...

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Stuart: A History of the American Light Tank, Vol. 1, Hardcover - R. P. Hunnicutt

784,99 RON

In Stuart: A History of the American Light Tank (Vol. I), Richard Hunnicutt outlines the development history of the American light tank and its ass...

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The Language of the English Street Sign, Hardback - Vivian Cook

783,99 RON

This book opens readers' eyes to something they see all the time but take for granted: street signs. It is a portrait of the signs on modern Englis...

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Archaeologies of the Heart, Hardcover - Kisha Supernant

781,99 RON

Archaeological practice is currently shifting in response to feminist, indigenous, activist, community-based, and anarchic critiques of how archaeo...

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Critically Reading the Theory and Methods of Archaeology. An Introductory Guide, Hardback - Guy Gibbon

778,99 RON

All archaeology students, instructors, and practitioners need this book to learn how to critically read and think about theory and methods or to im...

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The Life of the Red Sea Dhow: A Cultural History of Seaborne Exploration in the Islamic World, Hardcover - Dionisius a. Agius

775,99 RON

DescriptionFew images are as evocative as the silhouette of the Arab dhow as, under full sail, it tacks to windward on glittering waters of Red Sea...

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A Biography of Power: Research and Excavations at the Iron Age 'oppidum' of Bagendon, Gloucestershire (1979-2017), Paperback - Tom Moore

775,99 RON

This book explores the changing nature of power and identity from the Iron Age to the Roman period in Britain. It provides fresh insights into the ...

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All the Nations Under Heaven. Immigrants, Migrants, and the Making of New York, Revised Edition, Hardback - Robert Snyder

775,99 RON

All the Nations Under Heaven is an unparalleled chronicle of the role of immigrants and migrants in shaping the history and culture of New York Cit...

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Walter Besant. The Business of Literature and the Pleasures of Reform, Hardback - ***

775,99 RON

In the 1880s and 1890s, Walter Besant was one of Britain's most lionized living novelists. Today he is comparatively unknown. Bringing together lit...

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Seawomen of Iceland: Survival on the Edge, Hardcover - Margaret Willson

775,99 RON 830,99 RON

Reducere. Finalist for the 2017 Washington State Book Award in General Nonfiction / HistoryThe plaque said this was the winter fishing hut of Thurídur Einars...

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Historical Dictionary of the Clinton Era, Hardback - Richard S. Conley

770,99 RON

Publisher: Scarecrow PressAuthor(s): Richard S. ConleyIllustration(s): Illustrations, unspecified; Tables; Black & White IllustrationsNumber of pag...

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Worlds Together, Worlds Apart. A History of the World from the Beginnings of Humankind to the Present, Sixth Edition - Robert (Princeton University) T

768,99 RON

Master teachers focused on engaging introductory students and non-majors.Publisher: WW Norton & CoAuthor(s): Robert (Princeton University) TignorNu...

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Protecting the Empire's Humanity. Thomas Hodgkin and British Colonial Activism 1830-1870, Hardback - Zoe (University of Melbourne) Laidlaw

767,99 RON

Laidlaw lays bare the contradictions of mid-nineteenth-century imperial Britain. Missionaries, scientists and imperial officials all claimed an int...

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Common Understandings, Poetic Confusion. Playhouses and Playgoers in Elizabethan England, Hardback - Professor William N. West

766,99 RON

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Professor William N. WestNumber of pages: 312Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 158 x 237 x 25C...

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Politics of the Dunes: Poetry, Architecture, and Coloniality at the Open City, Hardcover - Maxwell Woods

766,99 RON

Founded in the late 1960s on Chile's Pacific coast, the Open City (la Ciudad Abierta) has become an internationally recognized site of cutting-edge...

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The Shah's Imperial Celebrations of 1971: Nationalism, Culture and Politics in Late Pahlavi Iran, Hardcover - Robert Steele

766,99 RON

In October 1971 Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Shah of Iran, held a celebration to commemorate the 2500th anniversary of the founding of the Persian Empire...

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Blurring Timescapes, Subverting Erasure: Remembering Ghosts on the Margins of History, Hardcover - Sarah Surface-Evans

765,99 RON

What happens when we blur time and allow ourselves to haunt or to become haunted by ghosts of the past? Drawing on archaeological, historical, and ...

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The Disturbed State of the Russian Realm, Hardback - Edward Orchard

764,99 RON

This translation of the memoirs of a German mercenary who lived in Russia throughout the first decade of the seventeenth century makes available a ...

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The Global History of Portugal. From Pre-History to the Modern World, Hardback - ***

758,99 RON

Publisher: Sussex Academic PressNumber of pages: 460Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 176 x 252 x 31Cover type: HardbackEditor(s): Jose Pedro Paiva...

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'Adolf Island'. The Nazi Occupation of Alderney, Hardback - ***

756,99 RON

Drawing on more than a decade's worth of historical, forensic and archaeological research, this book presents the first detailed investigation of t...

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The Talk of the Town. Information and Community in Sixteenth-Century Switzerland, Hardback - ***

756,99 RON

The Talk of the Town explores everyday communication in a sixteenth-century small town and the role it played in the circulation of information acr...

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Familial Fitness. Disability, Adoption, and Family in Modern America, Hardback - Sandra M. Sufian

752,99 RON

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Sandra M. SufianIllustration(s): 5 halftones, 2 line drawings, 1 tablesNumber of pages: 360Pub...

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The Greeks and Romans in the Black Sea and the Importance of the Pontic Region for the Graeco-Roman World - ***

752,71 RON

The proceedings of the Sixth International Congress on Black Sea Antiquities (Constanta, 2017) is dedicated to the 90th birthday of Prof. Sir John ...

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Gladiators in Suits: Race, Gender, and the Politics of Representation in Scandal, Hardcover - Ronald L. Jackson

748,99 RON

DescriptionOne of the most popular shows to come out of Shondaland, Shonda Rhimes's production company, is ABC's political drama Scandal (2012-18)-...

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Alva Ixtlilxochitl's Native Archive and the Circulation of Knowledge in Colonial Mexico, Hardback - Amber E. Brian

748,99 RON

How history was saved in seventeenth-century Mexico

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The Cambridge History of the First World War, Hardback - ***

746,99 RON

This first volume of The Cambridge History of the First World War provides a comprehensive account of the war's military history. It charts how the...

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The Cambridge History of the First World War, Hardback - ***

746,99 RON

Volume 3 of The Cambridge History of the First World War explores the social and cultural history of the war and considers the role of civil societ...

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Zoroastrian Scholasticism in Late Antiquity. The Pahlavi Version of the Yasna Hapta?H?Iti, Hardback - Arash Zeini

741,99 RON

Zeini challenges the view that considers the Zand's study an auxiliary science to Avestan studies, framing the text instead within the exegetical c...

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The Cambridge History of the Second World War 3 Set, Paperback - Evan Mawdsley

738,99 RON

The Cambridge History of the Second World War is an authoritative new account of the conflict that unfolded between 1939 and 1945. With contributio...

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Open Wounds. Holocaust Theater and the Legacy of George Tabori, Hardback - David Z. Saltz

730,99 RON

This volume collects original essays on Hungarian-German playwright and screenwriter George Tabori (1914-2007) and his remarkable contributions to ...

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Tangible and Intangible Cultural Landscape of Wadi Bani Kharus. Investigations in the Sultanate of Oman, Paperback - Laura M. Strachan

729,99 RON

This survey aimed to gain greater understanding of the past and present of Wadi Bani Kharus (Oman) through its tangible and intangible cultural her...

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Bankers and Empire. How Wall Street Colonized the Caribbean, Hardback - Peter Hudson

729,99 RON

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The Lords of Tetzcoco. The Transformation of Indigenous Rule in Postconquest Central Mexico, Hardback - ***

729,99 RON

The book examines Spanish conquest and early colonialism from the vantage point of the indigenous nobility of Tetzcoco, one of the most important c...

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A Most Splendid Company: The Coronado Expedition in Global Perspective - Richard Flint

728,99 RON

DescriptionThis magisterial volume unveils Richard and Shirley Flint's deep research into the Latin American and Spanish archives in an effort to t...

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The Break-Up of Greater Britain, Hardback - ***

727,99 RON

Turning the conventional Break-Up of Britain narrative inside-out, this book scans the horizon of overseas projections of British identities that u...

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The Age of Mass Child Removal in Spain. Taking, Losing, and Fighting for Children, 1926-1945, Hardback - ***

727,99 RON

This book examines the ideas and practices underpinning state removal of children. Early twentieth century Spanish juvenile courts were involved in...

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Ireland's English Pale, 1470-1550. The Making of a Tudor Region, Hardback - Professor Steven G Ellis

727,99 RON

Challenges the argument that the English Pale was contracting during the early Tudor period.Publisher: Boydell & Brewer LtdAuthor(s): Professor Ste...

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Witness Between Languages: The Translation of Holocaust Testimonies in Context, Hardcover - Peter Davies

727,99 RON

A growing body of scholarship is making visible the contribution of translators to the creation, preservation, and transmission of knowledge about ...

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The genres of Renaissance tragedy, Hardcover - Daniel Cadman

727,99 RON

DescriptionThis collection of newly commissioned essays explores the extraordinary versatility of Renaissance tragedy and shows how it enables expl...

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'an Alien Ideology': Cold War Perceptions of the Irish Republican Left, Hardcover - John Mulqueen

727,99 RON

An 'Irish Cuba' - on Britain's doorstep? This book studies perceptions of the Soviets' influence over Irish revolutionaries during the Cold War. Th...

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Reading and Shaping Medieval Cartularies - Multi-Scribe Manuscripts and their Patterns of Growth. A Study of the Earliest Cartularies of Gla, Hardback

727,99 RON

The physical nature of the medieval cartulary examined alongside its textual contents.

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Celebrities, Heroes and Champions: Popular Politicians in the Age of Reform, 1810-67, Hardcover - Simon James Morgan

727,99 RON

Celebrities, heroes and champions explores the role of the popular politician in British and Irish society from the Napoleonic Wars to the Second R...

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Spain in the Nineteenth Century. New Essays on Experiences of Culture and Society, Hardback - ***

727,99 RON

Confronted by a complex new society, nineteenth-century Spaniards wrestled with how to envisage their lives. From trying to be universal through to...

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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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Creating Political Presence: The New Politics of Democratic Representation, Hardcover - Dario Castiglione

720,99 RON

DescriptionFor at least two centuries, democratic representation has been at the center of debate. Should elected representatives express the views...

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First World War Diary of Noel Drury, 6th Royal Dublin Fusiliers. Gallipoli, Salonika, The Middle East and the Western Front, Hardback - ***

714,99 RON

The diary of an officer in the 6th Royal Dublin Fusiliers covering 1914-19 and four theatres of war.Publisher: Army Records SocietyIllustration(s):...

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A Traitor's Guard: Quisling's bodyguard, the German occupation of Norway and Norwegian collaboration in the Second World War - Hugh Page Taylor

714,99 RON 765,99 RON

Reducere. Vidkun Quisling, Norway's infamous Nazi collaborator, was perhaps the world's most renowned traitor. In early 1942, when he rose to power in occupi...

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The French Revolution and Napoleon. Crucible of the Modern World, 2 ed, Hardback - ***

714,99 RON

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Jack R. (George Mason University, USA) CenserIllustration(s): 15 MapsNumber of pages: 296Publication...

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A Great and Rising Nation. Naval Exploration and Global Empire in the Early US Republic, Hardback - Michael A. Verney

709,99 RON

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Michael A. VerneyIllustration(s): 16 halftonesNumber of pages: 312Collection: American Beginni...

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The Politics of Art: Dissent and Cultural Diplomacy in Lebanon, Palestine, and Jordan, Hardcover - Hanan Toukan

708,99 RON 758,99 RON

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...

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Reliving the Trenches. Memory Plays by Veterans of the Great War, Hardback - Alan Filewod

707,99 RON

Presents in print for the first time three plays written by soldiers who served in the Great War with the Canadian Expeditionary Force in France an...

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Dreams of Germany: Musical Imaginaries from the Concert Hall to the Dance Floor, Hardcover - Neil Gregor

705,99 RON

Description For many centuries, Germany has enjoyed a reputation as the 'land of music'. But just how was this reputation established and transform...

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Borderlands Curanderos: The Worlds of Santa Teresa Urrea and Don Pedrito Jaramillo, Hardcover - Jennifer Koshatka Seman

705,99 RON 755,99 RON

Reducere. Santa Teresa Urrea and Don Pedrito Jaramillo were curanderos--faith healers--who, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, worked outs...

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Provocative Eloquence: Theater, Violence, and Antislavery Speech in the Antebellum United States, Hardcover - Laura L. Mielke

703,99 RON

DescriptionIn the mid-19th century, rhetoric surrounding slavery was permeated by violence. Slavery's defenders often used brute force to suppress ...

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Balfour and Foreign Policy. The International Thought of a Conservative Statesman, Hardback - Jason Tomes

702,99 RON

Arthur James Balfour was British Prime Minister (1902-5) and Foreign Secretary (1916-19), a conservative and an intellectual. This is the first ana...

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Tiny You: A Western History of the Anti-Abortion Movement, Hardcover - Jennifer L. Holland

702,99 RON 752,99 RON

Reducere. Tiny You tells the story of one of the most successful political movements of the twentieth century: the grassroots campaign against legalized abor...

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Trowels in the Trenches: Archaeology as Social Activism, Hardcover - Christopher P. Barton

702,99 RON 752,99 RON

Reducere. Presenting examples from the fields of critical race studies, cultural resource management, digital archaeology, environmental studies, and heritag...

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People and a Nation. A History of the United States, Brief 10th Edition, Paperback - Jane Kamensky

697,99 RON

Offers a narrative that tells the stories of all people in the United States.

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The Sanctuary of Demeter and Kore. Terracotta Figurines of the Classical, Hellenistic, and Roman Periods, Hardback - Gloria S. Merker

695,99 RON

About 24, 000 figurines and fragments have been found on Acrocorinth, and this study greatly increases our understanding of the way in which this a...

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Tear Down the Walls. White Radicalism and Black Power in 1960s Rock, Hardback - Patrick Burke

693,99 RON

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Dorwart's History of the Office of Naval Intelligence 1865-1945, Hardcover - Jeffery M. Dorwart

692,99 RON

DescriptionThis refreshingly impartial history of the Office of Naval Intelligence is important both because ONI was the first official American in...

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Judea under Roman Domination. The First Generation of Statelessness and Its Legacy, Hardback - Nadav Sharon

692,99 RON

Publisher: Society of Biblical LiteratureAuthor(s): Nadav SharonNumber of pages: 552Publication date: 2017Dimensions: 158 x 237 x 39Cover type: Har...

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A History of Chinese Classical Scholarship, Volume I, Zhou: Confucius, the Six Classics, and Scholastic Transmission - David M. Honey

690,99 RON 739,99 RON

Reducere. The first volume of David M. Honey's comprehensive history of Chinese thought offers a close study of Confucius, that tradition's proto-classicist....

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The Bridge to the New Testament: A Comprehensive Guide to the Forgotten Years of the Inter-Testament Period, Hardcover - Denny Sissom

689,99 RON 738,99 RON

Reducere. The time between the historical end of the Old Testament and the beginning of the New Testament was approximately 420 years. Bible-study classes ra...

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A New Handbook of Rhetoric. Inverting the Classical Vocabulary, Hardback - ***

689,99 RON

A collection of essays addressing the relevance, explanatory power, and exclusionary effects of the technical vocabulary of rhetorical theory.Publi...

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Liberty, Equality, Power. A History of the American People, Concise Edition, 6 ed, Paperback - Norman (Macalester College) Rosenberg

688,99 RON

Publisher: Cengage Learning, IncAuthor(s): Norman (Macalester College) RosenbergNumber of pages: 896Publication date: 2013Dimensions: 276 x 218 x 3...

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Partisan Ruptures: Self-Management, Market Reform and the Spectre of Socialist Yugoslavia, Hardcover - Gal Kirn

684,99 RON

Yugoslavia's twentieth-century bore witness to civil war, sharp ideological struggles and a series of 'partisan ruptures'; revolutionary events tha...

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