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A Medieval Miscellany - Margaret Wade Labarge - Google Books
http://books.google.de/books?id=t_Y96cWwTp4C&pg=PA48
"This collection of occasional writings by renowned medieval scholar Margaret Wade Labarge considers an eclectic mix of themes and issues in the history of the Middle Ages. The varied lives of medieval women, their power and status within society, are…
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Fontanka 16: The Tsars' Secret Police - Charles A. Ruud, Sergei A. Stepanov - Google Books
http://books.google.de/books?id=JMR_VkOUaPgC&pg=PA350
From police headquarters at Fontanka 16 to the secret offices in major Russian post offices where specialists opened and read correspondence, the Okhranka blanketed the huge Russian empire with a network of secret agents and informers. In many cases they…
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Canada's Vegetation: A World Perspective - Geoffrey A.J. Scott - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=QpHCHdrgSVoC&pg=PA150#v=onepage
Canada's Vegetation includes comprehensive sections on tundra, forest-tundra, boreal forest and mixed forest transition, prairie (steppe), Cordilleran environments in western North America, temperate deciduous forests, and wetlands. An overview of each…
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De Witt Clinton and the Rise of the People's Men - Craig Hanyan, Mary L. Hanyan - Google Books
http://books.google.de/books?id=Sb1g8tno7OgC&pg=PA259&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false
The authors not only provide an in-depth analysis of the interplay of interests and ideology behind the People's movement but also establish relationships between the emergent political culture that bolstered that movement and the Whig and Democratic…
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Authors and Audiences: Popular Canadian Fiction in the Early Twentieth Century - Clarence Karr - Google Books
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Authors and Audiences reveals the cultural milieu that gave rise to the golden age of hardcover fiction. Karr describes the relationships between authors, literary agents, and publishers in Toronto, London, New York, and other centres; examines the…
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Political Ecumenism: Catholics, Jews, and Protestants in De Gaulle’s Free ... - Geoffrey Adams - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=5QeF34Z3ae0C&pg=PA62&dq=Gaston+Palewski&hl=de&sa=X&ved=0CCYQ6AEwATgKahUKEwjIgoOQrJXIAhWGQBQKHdR
Adams examines the contributions of such major Français libres as René Cassin, Pierre Mendès France, and Jacques Soustelle and explores de Gaulle's troubled relations with Churchill and Roosevelt. The opportunity for Gaullists to offer full membership to…
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History of the German Resistance, 1933-1945 - Peter Hoffmann - Google Books
http://books.google.de/books?id=212hoVrF3B4C&pg=RA1-PA540&lpg=RA1-PA540&dq=%22Leopold+Tomschik%22&source=web&ots=6ymkTqZ6xI&sig=
The History of the German Resistance is the most comprehensive and authoritative account ever published of the German opposition's struggle against Hitler, covering all the serious attempts to overthrow or assassinate him leading up to the failed attempt…
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Social Origins of Violence in Uganda, 1964-1985 - A. Kasozi - Google Books
http://books.google.de/books?id=BSpTgR9XrccC&pg=PA251&dq=%22George+Kamba%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=SJZHVIvrHernywOLjIHYCw&redir_esc=y#v=o
Using a convincing causal model of violence, Kasozi attributes the major causes of violence in Uganda to social inequality, the failure to develop legitimate conflict resolution mechanisms, and factors that have influenced the domain and patterns of…
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Grenfell of Labrador: A Biography - Ronald Rompkey - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=C-4vinI1D4oC&pg=PA0#v=onepage
When British doctor Wilfred Grenfell arrived in Newfoundland in 1892 to provide medical service to migrant fisherman, he had no clear sense of who his patients were or how they lived - a few weeks on the Labrador coast changed that. Struck by both the…
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Traditional Gaelic Bagpiping, 1745-1945 - John G. Gibson - Google Books
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The bagpipe is one of the cultural icons of Scottish highlanders, but in the twentieth century traditional Scottish Gaelic piping has all but disappeared. Few recordings were ever made of traditional pipe music and there are almost no Gaelic-speaking…