The Violent Century

Return of the Barbarians: Confronting Non-State Actors from Ancient Rome to the Present, Paperback - Jakub J. Grygiel

143,99 RON

Barbarians are back. These small, highly mobile, and stateless groups are no longer confined to the pages of history; they are a contemporary reali...

cambridge university press, carti, carte straina, history & archaeology, history

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War in Japan 1467-1615, Paperback - Stephen Turnbull

143,99 RON 154,99 RON

Reducere. In 1467 the Onin War ushered in a period of unrivalled conflict and rivalry in Japan that came to be called the Age of Warring States or Sengoku Ji...

osprey publishing (uk), carti, carte straina, fiction & related items, fiction: general & literary

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The Woodwitch (Valancourt 20th Century Classics), Paperback - Stephen Gregory

143,99 RON 154,99 RON

Reducere. Description'A thorough reinvention of the Gothic landscape . . . Gregory's voice and vision are wholly original.' - Ramsey Campbell 'Admirable . . ...

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Mount St. Helens, Hardcover - David A. Anderson

143,99 RON

The story of Mount St. Helens is that of an active volcano and human interaction with it. The mountain is culturally important to the regional nati...

arcadia publishing library editions, carti, carte straina, history & archaeology

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1919 the Year That Changed America, Hardcover - Martin W. Sandler

144,99 RON 155,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionAcclaimed author Sandler examines the pinnacle events of 1919 and their relevance to significant issues in American life today.1919 was ...

bloomsbury publishing plc, carti, carte straina, history & archaeology, history

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Divided We Fall: America's Secession Threat and How to Restore Our Nation, Hardcover - David French

144,99 RON

David French warns of the potential dangers to the country--and the world--if we don't summon the courage to reconcile our political differences. T...

st. martin's press, carti, carte straina, society & social sciences

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Oil, Paperback - Gavin Bridge

145,99 RON

Oil pulses through our daily lives. It is the plastic we touch, the food we eat, and the way we move. Oil politics in the twentieth century was abo...

polity press, carti, carte straina, society & social sciences, politics & government

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Bugsy Siegel: The Dark Side of the American Dream, Hardcover - Michael Shnayerson

145,99 RON

The story of the notorious Jewish gangster who ascended from impoverished beginnings to the glittering Las Vegas strip "Fast-paced and absorbing. ....

yale university press, carti, carte straina, biography

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Against a Crimson Sky (The Poland Trilogy Book 2), Hardcover - James Conroyd Martin

148,99 RON

A magnificent and sweeping epic, Against a Crimson Sky is an unforgettable tale of love, secrets, valor, and the enduring strength of the human spi...

hussar quill press, carti, carte straina, fiction & related items, generational sagas

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Margaret of Anjou - Queenship and Power in Late Medieval England, Paperback - Helen E. Maurer

148,99 RON

Margaret of Anjou was a vengeful and violent woman, or so we have been told, whose vindictive spirit fuelled the fifteenth-century dynastic conflic...

boydell & brewer ltd, carti, carte straina, history & archaeology

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Spanish Missions of Texas, Hardcover - Byron Browne

148,99 RON

After the conquest of Mexico by Hernan Cortes in the sixteenth century, conquistadors and explorers poured into the territory of Nueva Espana. The ...

history press library editions, carti, carte straina, history & archaeology

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Sunniness in Painting: From Edward Hopper to David Hockney, Paperback - Nicola Vitale

149,99 RON

DescriptionSince the middle of the twentieth century, visual art has displayed an ambivalent nature, torn between the poles of abstractionism and r...

mimesis, carti, carte straina, the arts, the arts: general issues

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Atrocities in Action, Library Binding - Kevin P. Winn

150,99 RON 161,99 RON

Reducere. The Racial Justice in America: Histories series explores moments and eras in America's history that have been ignored or misrepresented in educatio...

cherry lake publishing, carti, carte straina, children's

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Empire of Guns: The Violent Making of the Industrial Revolution, Paperback - Priya Satia

150,99 RON 161,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionA rich and ambitious history reframing the Industrial Revolution, the expansion of the British empire, and the emergence of industrial c...

stanford university press, carti, carte straina, earth sciences

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Twentieth-Century German Poetry, Paperback - Michael Hofmann

150,99 RON 161,99 RON

Reducere. This groundbreaking anthology will serve as the standard for years to come. Editor Michael Hofmann has assembled brilliant translations of the majo...

farrar strauss & giroux-3pl, carti, carte straina, fiction & related items, fiction: general & literary

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A Life in Peace and War, Paperback - Brian Urquhart

151,99 RON 162,99 RON

Reducere. How can peace be encouraged and sustained in a violent world? For nearly half a century at the United Nations, ultimately as Under Secretary-Genera...

w. w. norton & company, carti, carte straina, fiction & related items, fiction: general & literary

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Global Jihad: A Brief History, Paperback - Glenn E. Robinson

153,99 RON 164,99 RON

Reducere. Most violent jihadi movements in the twentieth century focused on removing corrupt, repressive secular regimes throughout the Muslim world. But fol...

stanford university press, carti, carte straina, society & social sciences

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To Poison a Nation: The Murder of Robert Charles and the Rise of Jim Crow Policing in America, Hardcover - Andrew Baker

153,99 RON 164,99 RON

Reducere. An explosive, long-forgotten story of police violence that exposes the historical roots of today's criminal justice crisis A deeply researched and ...

new press, carti, carte straina, history & archaeology

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All Things Left Wild, Hardcover - James Wade

153,99 RON 164,99 RON

Reducere. After an attempted horse theft goes tragically wrong, sixteen-year-old Caleb Bentley is on the run with his mean-spirited older brother across the ...

blackstone publishing, carti, carte straina, children's

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Violent Victorians. Popular Entertainment in Nineteenth-Century London, Paperback - Rosalind Crone

153,99 RON

First book to bring together the wide range of violent entertainments that characterised popular culture in nineteenth-century London and seriously...

manchester university press, carti, carte straina, society & social sciences

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Nothing But Freedom: Emancipation and Its Legacy, Paperback - Eric Foner

159,99 RON 171,99 RON

Reducere. Nothing But Freedom examines the aftermath of emancipation in the South and the restructuring of society by which the former slaves gained, beyond ...

lsu press, carti, carte straina, history & archaeology

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Ned Christie: The Creation of an Outlaw and Cherokee Hero, Hardcover - Devon Abbott Mihesuah

160,99 RON 172,99 RON

Reducere. Who was Nede Wade Christie? Was he a violent criminal guilty of murdering a federal officer? Or a Cherokee statesman who suffered a martyr's death ...

university of oklahoma press, carti, carte straina, biography

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The Invention of Power: Popes, Kings, and the Birth of the West, Hardcover - Bruce Bueno de Mesquita

161,99 RON 173,99 RON

Reducere. In the tradition of Why Nations Fail, this book solves one of the great puzzles of history: Why did the West become the most powerful civilization ...

publicaffairs, carti, carte straina, history & archaeology

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The War of Jenkins' Ear: The Forgotten Struggle for North and South America: 1739-1742, Hardcover - Robert Gaudi

161,99 RON 173,99 RON

Reducere. Filled with unforgettable characters and maritime adventure, the incredible story of a forgotten war that shaped the fate of the United States--and...

pegasus books, carti, carte straina, history & archaeology

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Muhammad: Prophet of Peace Amid the Clash of Empires, Hardcover - Juan Cole

162,99 RON 174,99 RON

Reducere. In the midst of the dramatic seventh-century war between two empires, Muhammad was a spiritual seeker in search of community and sanctuary. Many ob...

bold type books, carti, carte straina, philosophy & religion, religion & beliefs

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The Boys in Chicago Heights: The Forgotten Crew of the Chicago Outfit, Hardcover - Matthew J. Luzi

163,99 RON 175,99 RON

Reducere. Chicago Heights was long the seat of one of the major street crews of the Chicago Outfit, but its importance has often been overlooked and misunder...

history press library editions, carti, carte straina, history & archaeology, history

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Maritime Annapolis: A History of Watermen, Sails & Midshipmen, Hardcover - Rosemary F. Williams

163,99 RON 175,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionWith fortunes that have ebbed and flowed with the tides, Annapolis has graced the banks of the Severn River and the Chesapeake Bay since...

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The Founding of Thomas Jefferson's University, Hardcover - John A. Ragosta

164,99 RON 176,99 RON

Reducere. Established in 1819 by Thomas Jefferson, the University of Virginia was known as "The University" throughout the South for most of the nineteenth c...

university of virginia press, carti, carte straina, society & social sciences

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Embattled: How Ancient Greek Myths Empower Us to Resist Tyranny, Hardcover - Emily Katz Anhalt

164,99 RON 176,99 RON

Reducere. An incisive exploration of the way Greek myths empower us to defeat tyranny. As tyrannical passions increasingly plague twenty-first-century politi...

redwood press, carti, carte straina, philosophy & religion

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Blood and Treasure: Daniel Boone and the Fight for America's First Frontier, Hardcover - Bob Drury

164,99 RON 176,99 RON

Reducere. The Instant New York Times Besteller National Bestseller [The] authors' finest work to date. --Wall Street JournalThe explosive true saga of the le...

st. martin's press, carti, carte straina, biography

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The Whiskey Rebellion: Frontier Epilogue to the American Revolution, Paperback - Thomas P. Slaughter

165,99 RON 177,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionWhen President George Washington ordered an army of 13, 000 men to march west in 1794 to crush a tax rebellion among frontier farmers, h...

oxford university press, usa, carti, carte straina, history & archaeology, history

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Uleyli-The Princess & Pirate (A Junior Graphic Novel): Based on the true story of Florida's Pocahontas, Hardcover - G. C. Daniels

165,99 RON 177,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionUleyli is a princess-but she isn't happy with all that comes with it. She'd rather daydream and create art than learn how to rule her pe...

rebourne communications, carti, carte straina, biography

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April Blood: Florence and the Plot Against the Medici, Paperback - Lauro Martines

166,99 RON 178,99 RON

Reducere. One of the world's leading historians of Renaissance Italy brings to life here the vibrant--and violent--society of fifteenth-century Florence. His...

oxford university press, usa, carti, carte straina, earth sciences

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The Light Ages: The Surprising Story of Medieval Science, Hardcover - Seb Falk

166,99 RON 178,99 RON

Reducere. Soaring Gothic cathedrals, violent crusades, the Black Death: these are the dramatic forces that shaped the medieval era. But the so-called Dark Ag...

w. w. norton & company, carti, carte straina, mathematics & science

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A History of War: From Ancient Warfare to the Global Conflicts of the 21st Century, Hardcover - Chris McNab

166,99 RON 178,99 RON

Reducere. This lavishly illustrated full-color hardback explores the dark but compelling story of warfare, from its emergence in prehistoric tribal disputes,...

sirius entertainment, carti, carte straina, history & archaeology

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Reckoning, Hardback - M.J. Trow

167,99 RON

Description"Trow goes out on a high note with his sterling 11th and final mystery starring English playwright Kit Marlow.... Trow reinforces his pl...

severn house publishers ltd, carti, carte straina, fiction & related items

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American Red, Paperback - David Marlett

169,99 RON 181,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionThe Great American Century begins, the modern world roars to life, Capitalists flaunt greed and seize power, Socialists and labor unions...

story plant, carti, carte straina, history & archaeology, history

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Why Civil Resistance Works: The Strategic Logic of Nonviolent Conflict, Paperback - Erica Chenoweth

170,99 RON

For more than a century, from 1900 to 2006, campaigns of nonviolent resistance were more than twice as effective as their violent counterparts in a...

columbia university press, carti, carte straina, society & social sciences, politics & government

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Talaat Pasha: Father of Modern Turkey, Architect of Genocide, Paperback - Hans-Lukas Kieser

170,99 RON

The first English-language biography of the de facto ruler of the late Ottoman Empire and architect of the Armenian GenocideTalaat Pasha (1874-1921...

princeton university press, carti, carte straina, biography

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Dreamland Burning, Hardcover - Jennifer Latham

171,99 RON 184,99 RON

Reducere. Some bodies won't stay buried.Some stories need to be told. When seventeen-year-old Rowan Chase finds a skeleton on her family's property, she has ...

little, brown books for young readers, carti, carte straina, children's

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Manhattan Mafia Guide: Hits, Homes & Headquarters, Hardcover - Eric Ferrara

172,99 RON 185,99 RON

Reducere. During the early twentieth century, Sicilian and Southern Italian immigrants poured into New York City. Looking to escape poverty and persecution a...

history press library editions, carti, carte straina, fiction & related items, fiction: general & literary

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America's Good Terrorist: John Brown and the Harpers Ferry Raid, Hardcover - Charles P. Poland

173,99 RON

John Brown is a common name, but the John Brown who masterminded the failed raid at Harpers Ferry was anything but common. His failed efforts have ...

casemate, carti, carte straina, biography

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Fighting for Faith and Nation, Paperback - Cynthia Keppley Mahmood

176,99 RON 189,99 RON

Reducere. The ethnic and religious violence that characterized the late twentieth century calls for new ways of thinking and writing about politics. Listenin...

university of pennsylvania press, carti, carte straina, earth sciences

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African American Religions, 1500-2000, Paperback - Sylvester a. Johnson

176,99 RON 189,99 RON

Reducere. This book provides a narrative historical, postcolonial account of African American religions. It examines the intersection of Black religion and c...

cambridge university press, carti, carte straina, history & archaeology, history

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The Clash: U.S.-Japanese Relations Throughout History, Paperback - Walter LaFeber

178,99 RON 191,99 RON

Reducere. When Commodore Matthew Perry sailed into Tokyo harbor in July 1853, opening Japan to the West, a century and a half of economic, cultural, and occa...

w. w. norton & company, carti, carte straina, society & social sciences, politics & government

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The Eternal Decline and Fall of Rome: The History of a Dangerous Idea, Hardcover - Edward J. Watts

178,99 RON 191,99 RON

Reducere. As this book intriguingly explores, for those who would make Rome great again and their victims, ideas of Roman decline and renewal have had a long...

oxford university press, usa, carti, carte straina, history & archaeology

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World's Scariest Places: Volume 3: Mountain of the Dead & Hotel Chelsea, Paperback - Jeremy Bates

178,99 RON 191,99 RON

Reducere. This omnibus edition includes books five and six in the bestselling World's Scariest Places series.Mountain of the Dead - The greatest unsolved mys...

ghillinnein books, carti, carte straina, fiction & related items, horror & supernatural fiction

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The Century of the Black Ships (Novel): Chronicles of War Between Japan and America, Hardcover - Naoki Inose

182,99 RON 195,99 RON

Reducere. For nearly a century, Japanese writers gave voice to the anxieties of a nation headed inexorably toward war. Not just any war, but one that in the ...

viz media, carti, carte straina, history & archaeology

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Uncertain Transition from Stability to Peace, Paperback - Sarah Minot

182,99 RON

Most violent conflicts since the turn of this century were in countries that had experienced an earlier violent conflict. How can we tell when a co...

centre for strategic & international studies,u.s., carti, carte straina, society & social sciences

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Landlords and Farmers in the Hudson-Mohawk Region, 1790-1850, Paperback - David Maldwyn Ellis

183,00 RON

The transition from a predominantly self-sufficient economy to one primarily dependent on the market in the first half of the nineteenth century wa...

cornell university press, carti, carte straina, history & archaeology

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Three Years with Quantrill: A True Story, Paperback - John McCorkle

184,99 RON 197,99 RON

Reducere. This famous memoir by John McCorkle, reissued for the first time, is the best published account by a scout who "rode with Quantrill." John McCorkle...

university of oklahoma press, carti, carte straina, history & archaeology

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Landlord William Scully, Paperback - Homer E. Socolofsky

184,99 RON 197,99 RON

Reducere. William Scully, an Irishman who was a member of the lesser landed gentry, put his life's energy into the accumulation of high-quality, low-cost lan...

university press of kansas, carti, carte straina, history & archaeology

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The Darjeeling Distinction: Labor and Justice on Fair-Trade Tea Plantations in India, Paperback - Sarah Besky

186,99 RON

Nestled in the Himalayan foothills of Northeast India, Darjeeling is synonymous with some of the finest and most expensive tea in the world. It is ...

university of california press, carti, carte straina, economics

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Iran: A Social and Political History Since the Qajars, Paperback - Yann Richard

188,99 RON

DescriptionFrom encounters with Western powers in the nineteenth century through to a Constitutional Revolution at the beginning of the twentieth c...

cambridge university press, carti, carte straina, history & archaeology, history

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Empire of the Black Sea: The Rise and Fall of the Mithridatic World, Hardcover - Duane W. Roller

189,99 RON 203,99 RON

Reducere. What is commonly called the kingdom of Pontos flourished for over two hundred years in the coastal regions of the Black Sea. At its peak in the ear...

oxford university press, usa, carti, carte straina, history & archaeology

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Massacring Indians: From Horseshoe Bend to Wounded Knee, Paperback - Roger L. Nichols

190,99 RON 204,99 RON

Reducere. During the nineteenth century, the U.S. military fought numerous battles against American Indians. These so-called Indian wars devastated indigenou...

university of oklahoma press, carti, carte straina, history & archaeology

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Black Radical: The Life and Times of William Monroe Trotter, Hardcover - Kerri K. Greenidge

191,99 RON 205,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionWilliam Monroe Trotter (1872- 1934), though still virtually unknown to the wider public, was an unlikely American hero. With the stylist...

liveright publishing corporation, carti, carte straina, earth sciences

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The Wars Inside Chile's Barracks: Remembering Military Service Under Pinochet, Paperback - Leith Passmore

191,99 RON 205,99 RON

Reducere. From 1973 to 1990 in Chile, approximately 370, 000 young men-mostly from impoverished backgrounds-were conscripted to serve as soldiers in Augusto ...

university of wisconsin press, carti, carte straina, history & archaeology

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Jungle Passports: Fences, Mobility, and Citizenship at the Northeast India-Bangladesh Border, Paperback - Malini Sur

191,99 RON 205,99 RON

Reducere. Since the nineteenth century, a succession of states has classified the inhabitants of what are now the borderlands of Northeast India and Banglade...

university of pennsylvania press, carti, carte straina, society & social sciences

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A Pattern of Violence: How the Law Classifies Crimes and What It Means for Justice, Hardcover - David Alan Sklansky

191,99 RON

A law professor and former prosecutor reveals how inconsistent ideas about violence, enshrined in law, are at the root of the problems that plague ...

belknap press, carti, carte straina, law

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Along the Archival Grain: Epistemic Anxieties and Colonial Common Sense, Paperback - Ann Laura Stoler

193,99 RON

Along the Archival Grain offers a unique methodological and analytic opening to the affective registers of imperial governance and the political co...

princeton university press, carti, carte straina, earth sciences

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Melmoth the Wanderer (Illustrated and Annotated), Hardcover - Charles Maturin

193,99 RON 207,99 RON

Reducere. Melmoth the Wanderer is a violent story about a man who sold his soul to the devil in exchange of a longer life, but he regretted about his deal an...

legatus, carti, carte straina, children's

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Witchcraft and Magic in Europe, Volume 3: The Middle Ages, Paperback - Bengt Ankarloo

197,99 RON 211,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionDuring the Middle Ages a shared European concept of magic emerged. In the early period, pagan beliefs and practices were absorbed into e...

university of pennsylvania press, carti, carte straina, earth sciences

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Vivid Faces: The Revolutionary Generation in Ireland, 1890-1923, Hardcover - R. F. Foster

198,99 RON 212,99 RON

Reducere. On Easter Monday, 1916, Irish rebels poured into Dublin's streets to proclaim an independent republic. Ireland's long struggle for self-government ...

w. w. norton & company, carti, carte straina, earth sciences

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The Johnson County War, Paperback - Bill O'Neal

201,99 RON 216,99 RON

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Bill O'NealIn the early 1890s Wyoming's northern rangeland was torn by the Johnson County War, a violent western collision ...

eakin press, carti, carte straina, history & archaeology, history

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Colonialism and Violence in Nigeria, Paperback - Toyin Falola

202,99 RON 217,99 RON

Reducere. Colonialism and Violence in Nigeria looks closely at the conditions that created a legacy of violence in Nigeria. Toyin Falola examines violence as...

indiana university press, carti, carte straina, history & archaeology

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Ireland in the Twentieth Century, Paperback - Tim Pat Coogan

208,99 RON 223,99 RON

Reducere. A rousing history of Ireland in its most tumultous century by one of the most well-known and beloved Irish writers of our time. Tim Pat Coogan's Ir...

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Whitechapel Rising, Hardcover - Anthony Strong

209,99 RON 224,99 RON

Reducere. An impossible killer stalks the streets of London.Jack the Ripper faded into history over a century ago, his identity lost to the ages. Until a wor...

west street publishing, carti, carte straina, fiction & related items, horror & supernatural fiction

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How the Indians Lost Their Land: Law and Power on the Frontier, Paperback - Stuart Banner

213,99 RON 228,99 RON

Reducere. Between the early seventeenth century and the early twentieth, nearly all the land in the United States was transferred from AmericanIndians to whi...

belknap press, carti, carte straina, history & archaeology

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Phantom Terror: Political Paranoia and the Creation of the Modern State, 1789-1848, Hardcover - Adam Zamoyski

226,99 RON 242,99 RON

Reducere. For the ruling and propertied classes of the late eighteenth century, the years following the French Revolution were characterized by intense anxie...

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