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Deutsche Juden in Amerika: Buergerliches Selbstbewusstsein und juedische Identität in den Orden B'nai B'rith und Treue Schwestern, 1843-1914 [Hardback]
Cornelia Wilhelm (Author)
$72.00ISBN: 9783515085502
Published by : Franz Steiner Verlag
Series: Transatlantische Historische Studien (THS)
Volume: 30
The history of German Jews in America has until now mainly been studied as an area of modern history. This volume now analyzes the influence that German Jews exerted in the development of an "American Judaism" with a marked bourgeois identity, ... .... Learn More -
Animas-La Plata Project Volume III: Blue Mesa Excavations [Paperback]
Jason P. Chuipka (Author)
Regular Price: $35.00
Special Price: $15.00
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ISBN: 9781931901178
Published by : University of Arizona Press
This volume of the AnimasLa Plata series describes the results of excavations on Blue Mesa, a borrow area just south of Durango, Colorado, as part of the AnimasLa Plata (ALP) Project. In 2002 and 2003, SWCA excavated seven sites, all of which d... .... Learn More -
Trincheras Sites in Time, Space and Society [Hardback]
S. K. Fish (Editor)
$55.95Out of stock
ISBN: 9780816525409
Published by : University of Arizona Press
The intriguing hilltop archaeological sites known as cerros de trincheras span almost three millennia, from 1250 BC to AD 1450. Archaeologists have long viewed them as a unitary phenomenon because they all have masonry architecture and occur mo... .... Learn More -
Hinterlands and Regional Dynamics in the Ancient Southwest [Hardback]
Alan P. Sullivan (Editor)
Regular Price: $45.00
Special Price: $25.00
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ISBN: 9780816525140
Published by : University of Arizona Press
Hinterlands and Regional Dynamics in the Ancient Southwest is the first volume dedicated to understanding the nature of and changes in regional social autonomy, political hegemony, and organizational complexity across the entire prehistoric Ame... .... Learn More -
Schooner Sail to Starboard: The US Navy vs. Blockade Runners in the Western Gulf of Mexico [Paperback]
W.T. Block (Author)
$32.50Out of stock
Published by : Texas A&M University Press
This book discusses a long neglected aspect of the civil war - the naval union blockade of the Louisiana-Texas coastline and the confederates' attempt to run the blockade. Originally published in 1997, this republished edition includes six fir... .... Learn More -
Transatlantic Exchanges: The American South in Europe, Europe in the American South [Paperback]
Richard Gray (Editor); Waldemar Zacharasiewicz (Author)
$98.00ISBN: 9783700139546
Published by : Austrian Academy of Sciences Press
Series: Sitzungsberichte der Phil.-Hist. Klasse
Volume: 761
The volume is based on an international colloquium held in Vienna under the auspices of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and the British Academy. It contains contributions by prominent experts on the culture, literature, popular music and histo... .... Learn More -
Neue Welt: Die Erfindung der amerikanischen Malerei [Hardback]
Ortrud Westheider (Editor); Karsten Muller (Author)
$52.50ISBN: 9783777434155
Published by : Hirmer Verlag GmbH
In der ersten Hälfte des 19. Jahrhunderts entdeckten amerikanische Maler die Vielfalt und Pracht der Neuen Welt. Sie sahen die Wildnis ihrer noch jungen Nation als neuen Garten Eden, dessen Motive ihnen eine Kunst jenseits europäischer Traditio... .... Learn More -
Sweetness and Light: The Mysterious History of the Honey Bee [Hardback]
Hattie Ellis (Author)
Regular Price: $23.00
Special Price: $9.98
ISBN: 9781400054053
Published by : Random House, Inc.
Sweetness and Light is the fascinating story of bees and honey from the Stone Age to the Contemporary cutting edge; from Nepalese honey hunters to urban hives on the rooftops of New York City. Honey is nature in pot, gathered in by bees form ma... .... Learn More -
Amerigo: The Man Who Gave His Name to America [Hardback]
Felipe Fernandez-Armesto (Author)
Regular Price: $34.00
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ISBN: 9780297848028
Published by : Weidenfeld & Nicholson
In 1507 cartographers in Europe, struggling to redraw their map of the world to accommodate new discoveries, decided on a name for the western hemisphere. They called it 'America' after Amerigo Vespucci, a Florentine explorer who was obscure at... .... Learn More -
Writing from the Edge of the World: The Memoirs of Darien, 1514-1527 [Paperback]
Gonzalo Fernandez de Oviedo (Author)
Regular Price: $24.75
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ISBN: 9780817353391
Published by : University of Alabama Press
Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo is the 16th-century author of Historia general y natural de las Indias, a general and natural history of the peoples and places he encountered in his travels to Spanish America. Oviedo was educated at the court of Ki... .... Learn More