History of other lands books

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This ""hauntingly well-written"" (""Booklist"") work takes readers on a journey to the center of the human imagination,...  Read More >>

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Interactive, multimedia presentations makeexploring Acadian culture and history fun and easy on this CD-ROM that...  Read More >>

Warfare dominated the long reign of Louis XIV. John Lynn examines the different wars for evidence of a coherent...  Read More >>

A classic of Arctic adventure rediscovered--the only firsthand account of one of the century's worst exploration...  Read More >>

From an interdisciplinary standpoint, this book shows how the Pacific reveals a more various and contradictory history...  Read More >>

This text chronicles the lives of the Bermudian people through the excitements of ships and salt, from privateers...  Read More >>

An examination of the first two attempts to reach the North Pole by airship, investigating the history and the legacy...  Read More >>

Between 1921 and 1924, Knud Rasmussen led a small band of colleagues in a journey of investigation across the top...  Read More >>

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This is a re-evaluation of Stefansson, the ""prophet of the north"", and an analysis of the origins of his attitudes...  Read More >>

Presents Shackleton's legendary, ill-fated Antarctic expedition. This book features highly revealing side notes...  Read More >>

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Durante los seis meses que siguieron al derrumbe de la Union Sovietica, uno de cada tres habitantes extranjeros...  Read More >>

Las novelas historicas del romanticismo hispanoamericano cumplen un papel fundamental en la articulacion del imaginario...  Read More >>

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This classic in West Indian history is invaluable, not only for a study of the history of Barbados, but for its...  Read More >>

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A history of Stalinist Russia's massive campaign to explore and develop its Northern territories during the 1930s...  Read More >>

Through letters written to the women's pages in agricultural newspapers, rural women forged a vital network that...  Read More >>

Slight revision of the author's thesis (doctoral--Universitèat Konstanz, 1996).  Read More >>

‘It is unlikely that a clearer, more stimulating account of the Russians’ extraordinary period of imperial history...  Read More >>

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