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During the Cold War, more than 36,000 individuals entering Canada claimed Czechoslovakia as their country of citizenship. A defining characteristic of this migration of predominantly political refugees was the prevalence of anti-communist and democratic values....
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University of Manitoba Press
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2018-08-24
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In October 1956, a spontaneous uprising took Hungarian Communist authorities by surprise, prompting Soviet authorities to invade the country. After a few days of violent fighting, the revolt was crushed.In the wake of the event, some 200,000 refugees left Hungary,...
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University of Ottawa Press
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2010-07-01
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In October 1956, a spontaneous uprising took Hungarian Communist authorities by surprise, prompting Soviet authorities to invade the country. After a few days of violent fighting, the revolt was crushed.In the wake of the event, some 200,000 refugees left Hungary,...
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University of Ottawa Press
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2010-05-22
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Sounds of Ethnicity takes us into the linguistic, cultural, and geographical borderlands of German North America in the Great Lakes region between 1850 and 1914. Drawing connections between immigrant groups in Buffalo, New York, and Berlin (now Kitchener), Ontario,...
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University of Manitoba Press
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2010-05-01
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The founding of the Old Icelandic Commonwealth in 930 A.D. is one of the most significant events in the history of early Western Europe. A History of the Old Icelandic Commonwealth provides a comprehensive history of Iceland from 870 A.D. to the end of the Commonwealth...
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University of Manitoba Press
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2007-01-15
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Iceland was the last country in Europe to become inhabited, and we know more about the beginnings and early history of Icelandic society than we do of any other in the Old World. This world was vividly recounted in The Book of Settlements, first compiled by the first...
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University of Manitoba Press
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2007-01-15
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At the start of the Second World War, Poland was invaded by both the German and the Soviet armies. The country was unable to withstand the assaults and thousands of Polish soldiers and civilians were shipped to labour camps and prisons, where starvation, disease, and...
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University of Manitoba Press
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2003-12-03
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The laws of Medieval Iceland provide detailed and fascinating insight into the society that produced the Icelandic sagas. Known collectively as Gragas (Greygoose), this great legal code offers a wealth of information about early European legal systems and the society of...
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University of Manitoba Press
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2000-11-03
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United Kingdom's best kept secret. A conspiracy - or a cover-up?
On August 5, 1600, the tranquil city of Perth became the stage for an event that would echo through centuries: the brutal deaths of the Ruthven brothers, which the Crown quickly framed as an assassination...
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BoD - Books on Demand
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2025-10-17
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The monastery island of Reichenau in Lake Constance (Germany) is celebrating the 1300th anniversary of its foundation in 2024. Reichenau Monastery experienced a rapid rise in the 10th century thanks to its famous book illumination and became immensely rich. But then,...
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BoD - Books on Demand
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2025-07-02
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Robert Bredow, an early Nazi opponent, has seen it all from the inside. He was the Council Govenor and the director of the pre-trial detention centre in Hamburg during Germanys darkest history. In his manuscripts, he describes the atrocious unfolding of the Nazi regime,...
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BoD - Books on Demand
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2025-06-23
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From 1963 to 1981 Horst H. Geerken lived in the new-born Republic of Indonesia, at a time of upheaval after the end of almost 350 years of colonial rule and exploitation by the Netherlands. In both his professional and private activities he constantly came across...
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BoD - Books on Demand
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2025-06-06
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The Frog Prince shows the world its true face.
Not just written for children, but for adults who are looking for enlightenment and meaning.
The hidden knowledge of generations is coming more and more to light.
Fairytales are messages from your ancestors, the content...
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BoD - Books on Demand
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2024-11-18
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A deep historical background about Bavaria and its connection to the beer history.
Some drinks recipes and suggestions for the perfect geer tasting for your next party.
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Books on Demand
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2023-11-15
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Were the fates of the Wilhelmine Empire determined, at least at times, by a court camarilla, as contemporary publicists and even statesmen who bore responsibility at the time suspected? How far did Emperor Wilhelm II's influencing by the men in his immediate environment...
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Books on Demand
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2023-10-11
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One of the largest POW camps in the German Reich during World War II, Stalag VII A, was located in Moosburg an der Isar. Built in the fall of 1939 for 10,000 prisoners, it housed some 70,000 soldiers from numerous nations on April 29, 1945, the day of liberation. The...
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Books on Demand
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2023-09-27
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Grand Duke Ludwig IV of Hesse and by Rhine (1837-1892) is best known to many as the husband of Princess Alice of the United Kingdom (1843-1878) and the father of daughters who married into the Houses of Romanov and Hohenzollern and into the Battenberg/Mountbatten...
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Books on Demand
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2023-03-29
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Il 21 aprile 1944, il diritto di voto alle donne fu concesso in Francia da un'ordinanza del Comitato francese di liberazione nazionale. Questo passo avanti è avvenuto dopo un secolo e mezzo di dibattiti sul posto che le donne dovrebbero avere nella società civile e...
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50Minutes.com (IT)
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2023-03-10
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Op 21 april 1944 werd het stemrecht voor vrouwen in Frankrijk toegekend door een verordening van het Franse Comité voor de Nationale Bevrijding. Deze stap voorwaarts kwam er na anderhalve eeuw discussie over de plaats die vrouwen in de burgermaatschappij moesten krijgen...
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50Minutes.com (NL)
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2023-03-10
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