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Diplomatic records Diplomatic records United States. National Archives and Records Administration. "This select catalog lists National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) microfilm publications of records that relate to the history of U.S. diplomatic relations."--Introd. OL1303011W
Comptes des bâtiments du roi sous le règne de Louis XIV Comptes des bâtiments du roi sous le règne de Louis XIV Jules Guiffrey Publication of payments made during the reign of French King Louis XIV (r. 1643-1715) for major building and decorative projects. Includes payments for the construction of buildings, aqueducts, and g… OL13129688W
British foreign and imperial policy, 1865-1919 British foreign and imperial policy, 1865-1919 Graham D. Goodlad British Foreign and Imperial Policy explores Britains role in International Affairs from the age of Gladstone and Disraeli to the end of the First World War, exploring such themes as Britain's involv… OL14857290W
Soldaten Soldaten Harald Welzer,Sönke Neitzel Dieses Buch legt auf der Basis von 150.000 Seiten Abhörprotokollen erstmals eine überzeugende Mentalitätsgeschichte des Krieges vor. In von Briten und Amerikanern eigens eingerichteten Lagern wurden … OL15705340W
Other entertainment Other entertainment Ned Rorem As a musician who is also a writer, Ned Rorem claims that some years ago the IRS, at a loss as to how to pigeonhole him for their purposes, settled on the designation of "Other Entertainment" when no… OL15838904W
Slavery Slavery Thomas Streissguth Seventeen primary documents reflect various aspects of slavery, especially concerning the slave trade, foreign perspectives on America's peculiar institution, the slave's experience, slave resistance… OL15839917W
Native American testimony Native American testimony Peter Nabokov A collection of documents in which native Americans describe their responses to the explorers, traders, missionaries, settlers, and government diplomats and soldiers seeking dominion over their ancie… OL17911357W
Racial and ethnic diversity Racial and ethnic diversity Cheryl Russell Provides estimates and projections of the U.S. population by race and Hispanic origin. Profiles the social and economic wellbeing of American Indians, Asians, blacks, Hispanics, and non-Hispanic whit… OL17927028W
Catholic social thought Catholic social thought Shannon, Thomas A.,O'Brien, David J. "This classic compendium of church teaching offers the most complete access to more than 100 years of official statements of the Catholic Church on social issues"-- OL19040867W
The Philosophy of (Erotic) Love The Philosophy of (Erotic) Love Robert C. Solomon,Kathleen M. Higgins What does philosophy know of love? From Plato on, philosophers have struggled to pin love to the dissecting table and view it in the cold light of logic. Yet, as Arthur Danto writes in the foreword t… OL19367596W
The Tree of liberty The Tree of liberty Nicholas N. Kittrie Contains primary source material. OL19494120W
The Reformation in Germany and Switzerland The Reformation in Germany and Switzerland Pamela Johnston,Bob W. Scribner Combines new interpretations which emphasise the importance of popular response, belief and practice with the traditional approach to the origins and progress of the Reformation in Germany and Switze… OL20611191W
En la ciudad de El Tocuyo En la ciudad de El Tocuyo Nieves Avellán de Tamayo "Called an homage to the city of El Tocuyo, which was established in 1545 and ceased to exist 400 years later, the work is more a comprehensive encyclopedia of the city's 16th-century history than an… OL2061238W
Evelina Evelina Frances Burney,Fanny Burney First published in 1778, this novel of manners tells the story of Evelina, a young woman raised in rural obscurity who is thrust into London’s fashionable society at the age of eighteen. There, she e… OL2252006W
The French revolution, 1789-99 The French revolution, 1789-99 E.G. Rayner,R.F. Stapley Intellectual background - Peasant origins - Aristocracy and bourgeoisie - Middle class in Paris - Girondins and Jacobins - Robespierre - Social achievements - Women - Historiography - The Reign of Te… OL26357279W
Theories and manifestoes of contemporary architecture Theories and manifestoes of contemporary architecture Karl Kropf,Charles Jencks "Charles Jencks was the first to demonstrate that Modern architecture in the 1960s and 1970s had undergone a profound mutation into three major approaches - Post-Modernism, Late Modernism and New Mod… OL27974280W
Popular Buddhist Texts from Nepal Popular Buddhist Texts from Nepal Todd Thornton Lewis "This book demonstrates how popular ritual texts and story narratives have shaped the religious life and culture of the only surviving South Asian Mahayana Buddhist society, the Newars of Kathmandu. … OL2937011W
Die Quellen des griechischen Alexanderromans Die Quellen des griechischen Alexanderromans Reinhold Merkelbach Includes two texts reconstructed by the author as sources of Pseudo-Callisthenes' life of Alexander : 'Alexandri epistolae' and 'Testamentum Alexandri'. OL3561142W
A Gathering of Saints A Gathering of Saints Robert Lindsey,Robert Lindsey This book is an astonishing report on one of this century's most puzzling, cunningly executed crimes. A tale of murder and a scheme to topple a vast religious empire, A Gathering of Saints takes us i… OL4299897W
Medieval chronicles and the rotation of the earth Medieval chronicles and the rotation of the earth Robert R. Newton The main purpose of this work is to obtain and assess a large body of observations of solar eclipses from medieval records (roughly the period from 400 to 1200), and to use the observations in improv… OL6662099W
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