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Pierre Place

Die Wahre Geschichte des Wilden Westens: Jim Bridger

Jim Bridger war schon zu Lebzeiten eine Legende: Als Jugendlicher schloss er sich der ersten großen Expedition ins obere Missouri-Tal von William Ashley an, um dort Biber zu jagen. Als Trapper trotzte er …

Minutemen

Double Nickels On The Dime

Sandra T Barnes

People in Motion

Beginning in the late fifteenth century, more than two million people were taken from areas that lay behind the Bight of Benin, enslaved, and forced into the perilous Middle Passage bound for the New Worl…

David E Barclay

Cold War City

The untold story of West Berlin, the island city deep inside the Soviet bloc that withstood the decades-long confrontation between the USSR and the WestLocated more than one hundred miles behind the Iron …

Dobbs

Die wahre Geschichte des Wilden Westens: Jesse James

Inmitten des Sezessionskrieges wird in Missouri die Farm der Familie James von Soldaten der Nordstaaten verwüstet. Ihre Brutalität weckt im jungen Jesse ein brennendes Verlangen: Rache! Darum schließt er …

Athol Yates

Western Military Expatriates in the Armed Forces of the UAE

The book argues that Western military expatriates, who have supported the Emirati military forces over more than 50 years, have played a crucial yet bounded role in elevating the UAE's military capabiliti…

Luca Blengino, David Goy

Die Wahre Geschichte des Wilden Westens: Little Big Horn

Im Sommer 1874 wird Gold in den Black Hills entdeckt, im heiligen Land der Sioux. Die US-amerikanische Regierung ist sehr interessiert daran, ihre kriselnde Wirtschaft zu sanieren und versucht, den Indian…

Chris Filstrup, Jane Merrill

The Turban

A superbly illustrated history of the turban, from Arabian origins to global cultural icon.

Georgios Varouxakis

The West

A comprehensive intellectual history of the idea of the WestHow did "the West" come to be used as a collective self-designation signaling political and cultural commonality? When did "Weste…

Martha A Sandweiss

The Girl in the Middle

Shortlisted for the Cundill History PrizeA haunting image of an unnamed Native child and a recovered story of the American WestIn 1868, celebrated Civil War photographer Alexander Gardner traveled to Fort…

Lily Yuriko Nakai Havey

Gasa Gasa Girl Goes to Camp

This creative memoir tells a coming of age story in a WWII Japanese-American internment camp

Guido Alfani

As Gods Among Men

"In this masterly book, [Alfani] offers an insightful long-run perspective and fascinating lessons for the future. A must-read!"---Thomas Piketty, author of Capital in the Twenty-First Century A…

Kelli Y Nakamura

Legacies of Incarceration

Legacies of Incarceration provides a holistic view of the incarceration experience of Hawaiʻi's Japanese by exploring the factors that shaped the circumstances of confinement on each island before, during…

Der BND nach Gehlen

Eine westdeutsche Geheimdienstgeschichte nach 1968.Die Geschichte des Bundesnachrichtendienstes seit 1968 ist ein weithin ungeschriebenes Kapitel der westdeutschen Demokratie. Der Band leistet Pionierarbe…

Elizabeth S Manley, Elizabeth Manley

Imagining the Tropics

Imagining the Tropics is a history of the development of tourism in the Caribbean across the twentieth century that focuses on the ways women's labors of hospitality, writing, and advocacy built the indus…

Arthur Hylen

Los Angeles Before the Freeways

Discover of a lost Los Angeles from an era before the freeways in this beautiful coffee table book from iconic architectural photographer Arnold Hylen.Los Angeles Before the Freeways: Images of An Era 185…

Deutschland 89

Als der »antifaschistische Schutzwall«, die Berliner Mauer, am 9. November 1989 fällt, muss sich Martin Rauch mit den Konsequenzen auseinandersetzen. Durch die friedliche Revolution verliert er plötzlich …

Gary Paul Nabhan

Against the American Grain

New in paper, James Beard Award winning Nabhan (Agave Spirits) creative revolutionaries from the southwest border who change American culture in countless positive ways. A celebration of the artists, acti…

Jerry D Spangler, Mark E Degiovanni Miller

Red Rock and Rawhide

On the culture and conflicts of ranching in the American West