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Born in Guadeloupe in 1897, Stephanie St. Clair entered the United States thirteen years later. By 1923 at the age of twenty-six she would create and manage a highly lucrative policy bank in Harlem – earning a quarter of a million dollars a year. To this day, she...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2013-11-01
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Americans have never been more concerned about their food's purity. The organic trade association claims that three-quarters of all consumers buy organic foods each year, spending billions of dollars
"Dairy farm families, health officials, and food manufacturers have...
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Oxford University Press
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2013-10-08
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As heard on BBC Radio 4's Book of the Week.Shortlisted for the Paddy Power Political History Book of the Year Award 2014.In August 1814 the United States' army is defeated in battle by an invading force just outside Washington DC. The US president and his wife have just...
Editeur :
John Murray
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2013-09-02
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Ensure your students have access to the authoritative, in-depth and accessible content of this series for the IB History Diploma. This series for the IB History Diploma has taken the clarity, accessibility, reliability and in-depth analysis of our best-selling Access to...
Editeur :
Hodder Education
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2013-07-12
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Access to History
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Chris von der Ahe knew next to nothing about baseball when he risked his life's savings to found the franchise that would become the St. Louis Cardinals. Yet the German-born beer garden proprietor would become one of the most important -- and funniest -- figures in the...
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PublicAffairs
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2013-04-30
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This volume contains a selection from the proceedings of a conference organised by the International Feuchtwanger Society titled ‘To Stay or not to Stay? German-speaking Exiles in Southern California after 1945’. The conference, held in September 2011 at the University...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-04-11
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A COMPANION TO THE ERA OF ANDREW JACKSON More than perhaps any other president, Andrew Jackson’s story mirrored that of the United States; from his childhood during the American Revolution, through his military actions against both Native Americans and Great Britain,...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
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2013-01-22
Collection :
Wiley Blackwell Companions to American History
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Das Buch wurde auf einer breiten Basis von bislang kaum einschlägig ausgewertetem offiziellem Quellenmaterial, zeitgeschichtlichen Dokumentationen und Einzeldarstellungen, von Tageszeitungen, Zeitschriften und Kalendern, von Privatarchiven und Zeitzeugenaussagen...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2012-10-11
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In early 1815, Secretary of State James Monroe reviewed the treaty with Britain that would end the War of 1812. The United States Navy was blockaded in port; much of the army had not been paid for nearly a year; the capital had been burned. The treaty offered an...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2012-06-01
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A sweeping, action-packed saga of the legendary last stand at the Alamo, by the author of the bestselling A Terrible Glory. On February 23, 1836, a large Mexican army led by dictator Santa Anna reached San Antonio and laid siege to about 175 Texas rebels holed up...
Editeur :
Little, Brown and Company
Parution :
2012-05-15
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Die Balfour-Deklaration ist unzweifelhaft ein Ereignis von weltgeschichtlicher Bedeutung. Sie prägte die zionistische Bewegung, das israelische Geschichtsnarrativ und die internationale Staatenwelt entscheidend. Aus Darstellungen des Nahostkonfliktes ist sie nicht...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-05-04
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Paul Johnson and Sean Wilentz brilliantly recapture the forgotten story of Matthias the Prophet, imbuing their richly researched account with the dramatic force of a novel.
In the hands of Johnson and Wilentz, the strange tale of Matthias opens a fascinating window...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2012-04-02
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Anglican Church Policy, Eighteenth Century Conflict, and the American Episcopate examines how leaders in the Church of England sought to reorganize the colonial church by installing one or two resident bishops at critical moments in the late 1740s, the early 1760s, and...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2012-02-14
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It began with an eclipse. In 1806, the Shawnee leader Tenskwatawa ("The Open Door") declared himself to be in direct contact with the Master of Life, and therefore, the supreme religious authority for all Native Americans. Those who disbelieved him, he warned, "would...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2011-12-07
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There are many detailed accounts of nineteenth-century emigrants, of their journeys and settlements abroad – but what of those they left behind? This book delves into the heart of Georgian Britain to explore the role that the men and women of the Scottish Borders played...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2011-08-12
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In the tradition of Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, a stunningly vivid historical account of the forty-year battle between Comanche Indians and white settlers for control of the American West, centering on Quanah, the greatest Comanche chief of them all. Empire of the...
Editeur :
Constable
Parution :
2011-07-07
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From 1741 until Alaska was sold to the United States in 1867, the Russian empire claimed territory and peoples in North America. In this book, Ilya Vinkovetsky examines how Russia governed its only overseas colony, illustrating how the colony fit into and diverged from...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2011-04-06
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Die bemerkenswerte Zahl von Bohuslav Martinus Werken, aber auch ihre Gattungsbreite und stilistische Vielfalt lassen eine einfache Einordnung des Œuvres auf den ersten Blick unmöglich erscheinen. Bei genauerer Betrachtung kristallisieren sich jedoch ästhetische...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2011-03-03
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Hat Amerika eine andere Auffassung vom Krieg als Europa? Eine mögliche Antwort darauf ergibt sich aus der Analyse der nordamerikanischen Kriegsliteratur. Die gesellschaftliche Haltung zur Gewalt entwickelt sich parallel zu ihrer Darstellung in Büchern und Gedichten....
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2011-02-21
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On September 11, 1857, a band of Mormon militia, under a flag of truce, lured unarmed members of a party of emigrants from their fortified encampment and, with their Paiute allies, killed them. More than 120 men, women, and children perished in the slaughter.
Massacre...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2011-02-09
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