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The Human Tradition in Colonial Latin America - Google Books
http://books.google.de/books?id=TgR7iIJjfnYC&pg=PA13#v=onepage&q&f=false
The Human Tradition in Colonial Latin America is an anthology of stories of largely ordinary individuals struggling to forge a life during the unstable colonial period in Latin America. These mini-biographies vividly show the tensions that emerged when the…
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Historical Dictionary of The Gambia - David Perfect - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=9MknDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA59&lpg=PA59&dq=Amie+Bensouda+(*+1957)&source=bl&ots=ed0JhmWDqv&sig=R7tFJno2fx
When The Gambia achieved its independence from Great Britain on 18 February 1965, as mainland Africa’s smallest state, its future seemed uncertain. It retained this status for nearly 30 years, An attempted coup d’état in July 1981 was put down, but,…
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Cultural Encyclopedia of the Breast - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=qrCCBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA170#v=onepage&q&f=false
Boobs. Tits. Hooters. Knockers. Jugs. Breasts. We celebrate them; we revile them. They nourish us; they kill us. And regardless of what we call them, breasts have fascinated us since prehistoric times. This A-to-Z encyclopedia explores the historical…
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The A to Z of the Ottoman Empire - Selcuk Aksin Somel - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=tBoyoNNKh78C&pg=PA147#v=onepage&q&f=false
The Ottoman Empire was the last great Muslim political entity, emerging in the later Middle Ages and continuing its existence until the early 20th century and the creation of the modern state of Turkey. The A to Z of the Ottoman Empire is an in-depth…
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Jihad and Genocide - Richard L. Rubenstein - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=i-Z973D9cpsC&pg=PA104#v=onepage&q&f=false
This book examines the relationship between jihad and genocide, past and present. Richard L. Rubenstein, a respected scholar in the field of genocide studies, takes a close look at the violent interpretations of jihad and how they have played out in the…
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Historical Dictionary of Estonia - Toivo Miljan - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=pUawCQAAQBAJ&pg=PA430&dq=%22Arminia+Dorpatensis%22#v=onepage
Estonia is a small European Union country (population 1.3 million but physically the size of Netherlands and Switzerland) at the historic interface of East and West, Europe and Russia, free from Soviet occupation only for twenty-five years. Estonia boasts…
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NATO 1948: The Birth of the Transatlantic Alliance - Lawrence S. Kaplan, Morris Honick - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=UV-ti1sYcbcC&printsec=frontcover&dq=NATO+1948:+The+Birth+of+the+Transatlantic+Alliance&hl=de&sa
This compelling history brings to life the watershed year of 1948, when the United States reversed its long-standing position of political and military isolation from Europe and agreed to an "entangling alliance" with ten European nations. Not since 1800,…
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Historical Dictionary of Albania - Robert Elsie - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=6inIiCF_930C&pg=PA471&dq=asparagium#v=onepage
Albania is not well known by outsiders; it was deliberately closed to the outside world during the communist era. Now it has thankfully become free again, its borders are open and it can be visited, and it is increasingly integrating with the rest of…
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Experiencing Stravinsky: A Listener's Companion - Robin Maconie - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=f-eoHUfbf6EC&pg=PA127&lpg=PA127#v=onepage&q&f=false
Hear the name "Igor Stravinsky" and the first thing that comes to mind is a composer of ponderous, "serious" music. But did you know that Stravinsky lived much of his life in Hollywood? That he collaborated on musical projects with Pablo Picasso and George…
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The Chicago of Fiction: A Resource Guide - James A. Kaser - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=WqlgaZqW67EC&pg=PA458&dq=%22Lamensdorf%22#v=onepage
The importance of Chicago in American culture has made the city's place in the American imagination a crucial topic for literary scholars and cultural historians. While databases of bibliographical information on Chicago-centered fiction are available,…