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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...
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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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University and university students of various disciplines (health, technology and engineering, humanities, social sciences or basic sciences) have set their sights on certain cultural references to return them to the citizenry and invite us to reflect on these manifestations of collective and diachronic solidarity, of how those people in the past did or created things that have contributed to our welfare, but that above all-, they are manifestations...
44) Life in the Mill
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For centuries, most textile manufacturing relied on people working in their own homes. All that changed in 1761 when Richard Arkwright began construction of the first water-powered cotton mill in Derbyshire.
The complex woollen industry was transformed as mills spread across the north of England and into Scotland, with tasks taken out of the cottage and into the factory. This informative guide tracks the development of the textile manufacturing industry,...
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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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Rescues the libertarian sentiment of the late 19th century, when addressing the last rebellion in Goiana, Pernambuco province. Paulo Cavalcanti examines how the Pernambuco reacted against the will and the Portuguese rule, and his report addresses the crucial moment in 1871, marked by political crises and the great dissatisfaction with the Portuguese monopoly on trade, which has remained unchanged even after several insurgent movements.
47) Hair
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Most people don't give a second thought to the stuff on their head, but in Hair, Kurt Stenn - one of the world's foremost hair follicle experts - takes readers on a global journey through history, from fur merchant associations and sheep farms to medical clinics and patient support groups, to show the remarkable impact hair has had on human life.
From a completely bald beauty queen with alopecia to the famed hair-hang circus act, Stenn weaves the...
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Francisco Franco murió el 20 de noviembre de 1975 tras casi cuarenta años de dictadura. Esta obra colectiva ofrece una visión alejada de los tópicos al uso sobre el 20 de noviembre de 1975, el día que con la muerte del dictador Francisco Franco se abrió un horizonte de incertidumbre y de esperanza, aunque solo la perspectiva histórica haya permitido vislumbrar en su complejidad los cambios que se iban a producir. Los trabajos agrupados, trece...
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The unexpected surge in the birthrate between 1946 and 1964 transformed American society. A nation that had projected a population peaking at 150 million and feared a renewal of the Great Depression in the wake of World War II, found itself dealing with a booming economy and 70 million children straining the capacity of everything from schools to new suburban housing. In Boomers, Victor Brooks chronicles the peaceful children's "invasion" of America...
50) Honest George
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An account of the life of George Brown who gave his name to Edinburgh's George Square. He was an important, though little-known, player in the practical application of contemporary theories of social improvement to Scottish life in the eighteenth century. His genial, hospitable character and his career offer further insights into a period of remarkable transformation which has much relevance to our struggles for social cohesion and identity today....
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This book uniquely explores the rare event of poor people who become nationally or internationally famous. This book describe how poverty is a severe disability that stunts areas of growth and opportunity among children. Nevertheless, using a sample of 27 people including Charlie Chaplin, Billie Holiday, Marilyn Monroe, Richard Pryor, Babe Ruth, Oprah Winfrey, and Malcolm X, the book shows how these figures both coped, but faced life-long challenges...
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Al juliol de 2010, un grup d'historiadors d'Europa i Estats Units, es van reunir en la Universitat d'East Anglia (Norwich) per a presentar i exposar noves perspectives, mirades i vies de recerca, vinculades a la història social. Allí van realitzar una reflexió que s'uneix a la renovació historiogràfica duta a terme en els últims quaranta anys per James Casey des del seu laboratori d'observació de la Universitat d'East Anglia. James Casey és...
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The story of Sherrod Bryant begins in a small village on the border of North Carolina. It's a story about a young man who had very humble beginnings. Sherrod wanted to become a gentleman farmer but would go on to become one of the most successful land and plantation owners in the south during the 1800's. The fact that he accomplished this isn't the amazing part. What's amazing about Sherrod Bryant's story is the fact that he was a successful despite...
54) 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,...
55) 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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While Adolf Hitler was seizing power in Germany, Adrien Arcand was laying the foundations in Quebec for his Parti national social chrétien. The Blue Shirts, as its members were called, wore a military uniform and prominently displayed the swastika. Arcand saw Jewish conspiracy wherever he turned and his views resonated with his followers who, like him, sought a scapegoat for all the ills eroding society.
Even after his imprisonment during the Second...
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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...
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Contrary to popular belief fostered in countless school classrooms the world over, Christopher Columbus did not discover that the earth was round. The idea of a spherical world had been widely accepted in educated circles from as early as the fourth century B.C. Yet, bizarrely, it was not until the supposedly more rational nineteenth century that the notion of a flat earth really took hold. Even more bizarrely, it persists to this day, despite Apollo...
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The core of what we call St James's dates from the late seventeenth century, when large estates were leased by the Crown to the landed gentry after the Restoration in 1660. St James's clubs, coffee houses and institutions have been shaped by enterprise, political conflict, and Britain's emerging role as an Imperial power. This is the historic heart of London's Clubland.
Over 300 years, Clubland has extended its reach to encompass Piccadilly, Mayfair,...
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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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