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El origen de Andorra, provincia de Teruel, hay que buscarlo en las poblaciones ibéricas de sus inmediaciones. Sin embargo no se puede hablar de "Historia de Andorra" hasta el siglo XII cuando aparece documentada por primera vez en la Carta Puebla de Alcañiz de 1157.
El presente volumen abarca desde la reconquista por los aragoneses a los musulmanes en 1140 hasta la demarcación de sus términos territoriales en 1291.
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As famous during his lifetime as after his death, Rembrandt (1606-1669) was one of the greatest masters of the Dutch Golden Age of the 17th century. His portraits not only transport us back to that fascinating time, but also represent, above all, a human adventure, beneath every dab of paint the spirit of the model seems to stir. Yet these portraits are only the tip of the Rembrandt iceberg, which consists of over 300 canvasses, 350 engravings, and...
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A PICTORIAL HISTORY OF THE NORTHERN MARIANA ISLANDS Part II is a cartoon rendition of the Northern Mariana Islands from the Japanese invasion in 1914 to their capture by the Americans in 1944. It is the sequel to Part I, which covered their history from island formation to the Japanese invasion in 1914.
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As time passes, we often forget or in many situations, we never know the history of us as a nation and as a people. This book contains both positive and negative accounts of us as a nation of immigrants of whom many found success. It also tells the story of those who although worked hard found it as an unfriendly all too often a place of isolation and brokenness. There is, however, a hope that for what seems to have taken centuries to arrive-a hope...
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Summary of White Trash by Nancy Isenberg | Includes Analysis Preview: White Trash by historian Nancy Isenberg is a riveting chronicle of class in America as explored through the role and the plight of the white underclass from the days of colonial settlers to the present. Despite the founders' declaration that all men are created equal," the reality of life in America has continuously told a different story. With careful research, Isenberg reviews...
66) The River
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We tend to look at landscape in relation to what it can do for us. Does it move us with its beauty? Can we make a living from it? But what if we examined a landscape on its own terms, freed from our expectations and assumptions? This is what celebrated writer Helen Humphreys sets out to do in this stunning, groundbreaking examination of place. For more than a decade Humphreys has owned a small waterside property on a section of the Napanee River in...
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This monograph celebrates the life of a remarkable man of Regency times – the banker, brewer, wine merchant and hop factor Timothy Brown. Its publication also serves to mark the bicentenary of his elevation to Master of the Worshipful Company of Brewers, in 1817. Brown was as well known for his advanced, reformist views in the politics of the day –earning him the soubriquet 'Equality' Brown – as for his acts of philanthropy and Radical patronage....
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This riveting combination of true crime and social history examines a dozen cases from the 1800s involving thirteen French and English women charged with murder. Each incident was a cause célèbre, and this mixture of scandal and scholarship offers illuminating details of backgrounds, deeds, and trials.
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Many stories of fishermen meeting Great White and other sharks. No one gets eaten. Many are reticent about going out on or diving into the ocean for quite a while after meeting man-eating sharks face to face. Stories of fishermen having other problems. Interesting tales of truck driving during WW2. Arguments with feisty farm animals who usually win. Opal Mining at Coober Pedy. Plenty of thieves present. Some accidently fall down unused 90 foot shafts,...
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De deux à cinq millions de Chinois seraient présents aujourd'hui sur le territoire russe. Qui sont ces migrants? Quelles raisons les poussent à choisir la Russie comme pays d'accueil? Quelles sont leurs activités principales et comment s'insèrent-elles dans les tissus économiques locaux? Qu'en est-il de la vie associative au sein de cette population ? Quelle politique la Russie a-t-elle adoptée à l'égard de cette nouvelle population ?...
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Some periods in history are best illuminated by the stories of the people who lived through them. This is one such story ? the bizarre but true account of Peter Hui, a man involved with scandal, corruption, drugs, pirates, triads and colonial high society; who collaborated with the Japanese, spied on the Communists and fought with American servicemen on R&R; who really did, for a short time, own all the opium in Hong Kong.
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Ms Eve Bates worked at the Bone's Jax Fishing Pier from 1972 to 1983 and encountered many colorful characters, some of whom were celebrities, in a variety of unusual happenings. There were robberies, a murderer, the capture of a world-record hammerhead shark, and constant contentions between the fishermen and the surfers. Also included are some of the tackle shop recipes for apple fritters, fishcakes, and quick fish soups.
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A Light Revealing: The Methodist Episcopal Church in Early America is a study in the transformation of John Wesley's theology into a living church, uniquely suited to its own growth and that of a nation. The two evolved in a period of change without parallel. From the Revolutionary War to the question of slavery and the Civil War, the Methodist Episcopal Church (MEC) and the young nation grew in stature.
This study traces the history from John Wesley's...
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Explore the history of immigration to the United States through the eyes of two of its earliest families the Nuckollses and the Lymans. Charles R. Nuckolls Jr. examines the religious strife, war, and other problems that forced his descendants and others to flee to the New World. His examination of his family's role in historic events provides a framework for understanding the Declaration of Independence, the U.S. Constitution, and the beginnings of...
75) Imagining Eden
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If you want a concise, understandable account of The Panacea Society, written in a conversational style - this is it. Here is everything you ever wanted to know about The Panacea Society, a fascinating ornament of twentieth-century England. It is also a biography of Etholle, a fictional character who gets involved in the strange goings-on of the group. An occasional participant in Panacea life, she sees the Northern Lights, meets the Daughter of God,...
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El carlismo es un movimiento que ha sido muy estudiado pero sobre el que hay también grandes lagunas, como el tradicionalismo valenciano o la organización y funcionamiento de las fuerzas carlistas. Se sabe bastante poco sobre cómo vivieron la guerra los soldados carlistas y los que se hallaban en el territorio dominado por ellos, al menos en lo que hace referencia a Valencia y Aragón. Este libro pretende cubrir esta carencia y recoge los resultados...
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In this highly researched and comprehensive book, the author argues for Coventry's Roman past, long doubted, and explores its Saxon roots as home to the monastic houses of St Osburg. He throws new light on Leofric and Godiva, including their involvement in the foundation or endowment of St Mary's Priory, and using recent excavation work he reveals the most up-to-date ideas on its appearance and its destruction. The city's later medieval past is explained...
78) Shades of Privilege: Two African American Families that Transformed the Carolinas, and the Nation
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In 1951, George Simkins, Jr., of Greensboro, and Anna Oleona Atkins of Winston-Salem were married. Their elegant wedding not only brought together the black elite of North Carolina's Piedmont Triad, but more significantly, it merged two families who, arguably, did more to advance civil rights in the Carolinas than any other.
George C. Simkins, Jr. hailed from an old line of South Carolina high achievers-the descendant of men who founded and settled...
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Mirtha Rivero analiza en este libro el segundo mandato de Carlos Andrés Pérez y los hechos y procesos que determinaron su renuncia, al tiempo que va develando episodios, pistas y motivaciones que ponen en entredicho verdades asumidas cómda o irreflexivamente como tales -consolidadas a lo largo del tiempo como verdades oficiales- y nos ofrece herramientas suficientes como para echar una segunda mirada, escuchar otras versiones, encajar piezas perdidas...
80) The Zinn Reader
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No other radical historian has reached so many hearts and minds as Howard Zinn. It is rare that a historian of the Left has managed to retain as much credibility while refusing to let his academic mantle change his beautiful writing style from being anything but direct, forthright, and accessible. Whether his subject is war, race, politics, economic justice, or history itself, each of his works serves as a reminder that to embrace one's subjectivity...
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