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We Don't Become Refugees by Choice: Mia Truskier, Survival, and Activism from Occupied Poland to California, 1920-2014
ISBN: 9783030845278 / Angielski / Miękka / 270 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book traces the life of Maria Mia Truskier, who fled the Nazis as a young Polish Jew in early 1940 and once safely resettled in the United States, became an activist for other refugees, earning renown in the Bay Area as “the oldest refugee” of the East Bay Sanctuary Covenant. Mia worked for decades assisting those fleeing from war, violence and hardship, mainly from Central America and Haiti. Based on extensive interviews with Truskier before she passed away, as well as memorabilia from her own lifetime, including coded letters, newspaper clippings, and old photographs, this book...
This book traces the life of Maria Mia Truskier, who fled the Nazis as a young Polish Jew in early 1940 and once safely resettled in the United States...
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328,45 zł |
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The History of the Shanghai Jews: New Pathways of Research
ISBN: 9783031137600 / Angielski / Twarda / 303 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume provides a historical narrative, historiographical reviews, and scholarly analyses by leading scholars throughout the world on the hitherto understudied topic of Shanghai Jewish refugees. Few among the general public know that during the Second World War, approximately 16,000 to 20,000 Jews fled the Nazis, found unexpected refuge in Shanghai, and established a vibrant community there. Though most of them left Shanghai soon after the conclusion of the war in 1945, years of sojourning among the Chinese and surviving under the Japanese occupation generated unique memories about the...
This volume provides a historical narrative, historiographical reviews, and scholarly analyses by leading scholars throughout the world on the hithert...
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540,99 zł |
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Russia’s Role in World Politics: Power, Ideas, and Domestic Influences
ISBN: 9783031195181 / Angielski / Twarda / 120 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book explores Russia's role in world politics. In recent years, Moscow has played an increasingly active and assertive role in geopolitics. Examples include Russia’s takeover of Crimea and meddling in eastern Ukraine; Russia’s military intervention in Syria and support for the Assad government; the Kremlin’s alleged interference in the 2016 US presidential race; the pursuit of closer economic and diplomatic ties with China; and Russia’s ambitious military reforms and nuclear brinkmanship.Not surprisingly, Russia’s role in world politics has become the object of a spirited...
This book explores Russia's role in world politics. In recent years, Moscow has played an increasingly active and assertive role in geopolitics. Exa...
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502,35 zł |
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Moravian Americans and Their Neighbors, 1772-1822
ISBN: 9789004291294 / Angielski / Twarda / 520 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. American Moravians and their Neighbors, 1772-1822, edited by Ulrike Wiethaus and Grant McAllister, offers an interdisciplinary examination of Moravian Americanization in the Early Republic. With an eye toward the communities that surrounded Moravian settlements in the Southeast, the contributors examine cultural, social, religious, and artistic practices of exchange and imposition framed by emergent political structures that encased social privilege and marginalization. Through their multidisciplinary approach, the authors convincingly argue that Moravians encouraged assimilation,...
American Moravians and their Neighbors, 1772-1822, edited by Ulrike Wiethaus and Grant McAllister, offers an interdisciplinary examination of Moravia...
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643,56 zł |
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Sports Coaching in Europe: Cultural Histories
ISBN: 9780367542702 / Angielski / Miękka / 190 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book explores the historical development of coaching traditions across Europe, placing national approaches to coaching within their cultural and political context.
This book explores the historical development of coaching traditions across Europe, placing national approaches to coaching within their cultural and ...
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195,16 zł |
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L'Afrique romaine: Promenades archéologiques en Algérie et en Tunisie
ISBN: 9782382743881 / Francuski / Miękka / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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125,01 zł |
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Trauma, Experience and Narrative in Europe after World War II
ISBN: 9783030846657 / Angielski / Miękka / 337 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book promotes a historically and culturally sensitive understanding of trauma during and after World War II. Focusing especially on Eastern and Central Europe, its contributors take a fresh look at the experiences of violence and loss in 1939–45 and their long-term effects in different cultures and societies. The chapters analyze traumatic experiences among soldiers and civilians alike and expand the study of traumatic violence beyond psychiatric discourses and treatments. While acknowledging the problems of applying a present-day medical concept to the past, this book makes a case for...
This book promotes a historically and culturally sensitive understanding of trauma during and after World War II. Focusing especially on Eastern and C...
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193,19 zł |
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Creative Ways to Apply Historical GIS: Promoting Research and Teaching about Europe
ISBN: 9783031217302 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume promotes the use of Historical GIS (H-GIS) for both education and research. It consists of a coherent set of chapters that allow readers to study the spatial histories of cities, infrastructure, landscapes, and more across Europe. Each chapter is accompanied by Electronic Supplementary Material (ESM) including GIS data, guides and complementary material in .pdf format, and more. To date, there are no similar materials available in this field compiled in a single book. Interdisciplinarity in spatial research is a main theme of this volume, and the text and tools provided here...
This volume promotes the use of Historical GIS (H-GIS) for both education and research. It consists of a coherent set of chapters that allow readers...
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540,99 zł |
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France – Europe
ISBN: 9789051830972 / Angielski / Miękka / 246 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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107,98 zł |
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Cold War Exiles and the CIA: Plotting to Free Russia
ISBN: 9780198880691 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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137,66 zł |
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How the Church Under Pius XII Addressed Decolonization: The Issue of Algerian Independence
ISBN: 9781032136226 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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642,14 zł |
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The Commercialisation of Space: Politics, Economics and Ethics
ISBN: 9780367548933 / Angielski / Twarda / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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642,14 zł |
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The Future of Religious Heritage: Entangled Temporalities of the Sacred and the Secular
ISBN: 9781032021942 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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642,14 zł |
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Coming of Age in War: Torn Lithuania and Germany
ISBN: 9781425162757 / Angielski / Miękka / 194 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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78,17 zł |
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La Construcción de la Santidad En La Región Andina: La Vida de la Beata Juana de Jesús (1662-1703)
ISBN: 9789004510760 / Hiszpański / Twarda / 334 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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513,99 zł |
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The Iconography of Family Members in Egypt\'s Elite Tombs of the Old Kingdom
ISBN: 9789004528628 / Angielski / Twarda / 580 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In The Iconography of Family Members in Egypt’s Elite Tombs of the Old Kingdom,, Jing Wen offers a comprehensive survey of how ancient Egyptians portrayed their family members in the reliefs of an elite tomb. Through the analysis of the depiction of family members, this book investigates familial relations, the funerary cult of the dead, ancestor worship, and relevant texts. It provides a new hypothesis and perspective that would update our understanding of the Egyptian funerary practice and familial ideology. The scenes of family members are not a record of family history but language...
In The Iconography of Family Members in Egypt’s Elite Tombs of the Old Kingdom,, Jing Wen offers a comprehensive survey of how ancient Egyptians por...
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678,11 zł |
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The Rich and the Poor in Modern Europe, 1890-2020: A Historian's Response to Recent Debates among Economists
ISBN: 9781800739628 / Angielski / Twarda / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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457,20 zł |
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The Medieval Changeling: Health, Childcare, and the Family Unit
ISBN: 9781843846512 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The first comprehensive study of medieval changelings and associated attitudes to the health and care of children in the period. The changeling - a monstrous creature swapped for a human child by malevolent powers - is an enduring image in the popular imagination; dubbing a child a changeling is traditionally understood as a way to justify the often-violent rejection of a disabled or ailing infant. Belief in the reality of changelings is famously attested in Stephen of Bourbon's disapproving thirteenth-century account of rites at the shrine of Saint Guinefort the Holy Greyhound, where sick...
The first comprehensive study of medieval changelings and associated attitudes to the health and care of children in the period. The changeling - a m...
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410,97 zł |
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Histories of Trade as Histories of Civilisation
ISBN: 9783030800895 / Angielski / Miękka / 362 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This edited collection explores the histories of trade, a peculiar literary genre that emerged in the context of the historiographical and cultural changes promoted by thehistoire philosophiquemovement. It marked a discontinuity with erudition and antiquarianism, and interacted critically with universal history. By comparing and linking the histories of individual peoples within a common historical process, this genre enriched the reflection on civilisation that emerged during the long eighteenth century. Those who looked to the past wanted to understand the political constitutions and...
This edited collection explores the histories of trade, a peculiar literary genre that emerged in the context of the historiographical and cultural c...
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579,64 zł |
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Empire, Humanism and Rights: Collected Essays on Francisco de Vitoria
ISBN: 9783030824891 / Angielski / Miękka / 227 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book deals with Vitoria, Charles V and Erasmus. Vitoria’s ideas had a major influence on Charles V and his European and American policy. In turn, Erasmus’ humanism was decisive in the formation of a new international order intellectually discussed by Vitoria and put into practice by the Emperor.Shedding new light on the influence of Francisco de Vitoria and Erasmus on Charles V’s imperial policy, the book’s goal is to explore the impact of Vitoria’s thought with regard to the history of, and contemporary issues in, international law, while also comparing his thinking with that...
This book deals with Vitoria, Charles V and Erasmus. Vitoria’s ideas had a major influence on Charles V and his European and American policy. In tur...
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579,64 zł |