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Geschichte Indiens. Vom Mittelalter bis zur Gegenwart

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Date: 19 Jun 2009 07:24:30
Geschichte Indiens. Vom Mittelalter bis zur Gegenwart

Geschichte Indiens. Vom Mittelalter bis zur Gegenwart
Publisher: C.H.Beck | 2002-09-01 | 128 pages | ISBN: 3406479944 | PDF | 3 mb

Dietmar Rothermund beschreibt die Geschichte Indiens vom Ende des letzten antiken Großreichs über die glanzvolle Zeit der Mogulkaiser und die daran anschließende britische Kolonialzeit bis zur Gegenwart.
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Cities of the Heartland (Midwestern History and Culture)

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Date: 27 Mar 2009 16:29:04
Cities of the Heartland (Midwestern History and Culture)

Cities of the Heartland (Midwestern History and Culture)
Indiana University Press | Routledge | 316 pages | 1994 | ISBN: 0253209145 | PDF | 1.9 mb

During the late 1800s, the rise of manufacturing, the first soaring skyscrapers, new symphony orchestras and art museums, and winning baseball teams all heralded the midwestern city's coming of age. Jon C. Teaford chronicles the development of these cities of the industrial Midwest as they challenged the urban supremacy of the East.
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White Man's Medicine: Government Doctors and the Navajo, 1863-1955

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Date: 27 Mar 2009 16:03:58
White Man's Medicine: Government Doctors and the Navajo, 1863-1955

White Man's Medicine: Government Doctors and the Navajo, 1863-1955
University of New Mexico Press | Routledge | 290 pages | 1998 | ISBN: 0826318398 | PDF | 1.3 mb

In 1863 the Din began receiving medical care from the federal government during their confinement at Bosque Redondo. Over the next ninety years, a familiar litany of problems surfaced in periodic reports on Navajo health care: inadequate funding, understaffing, and the unrelenting spread of such communicable diseases as tuberculosis.
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New Directions in American Religious History

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Date: 27 Mar 2009 15:28:13
New Directions in American Religious History

New Directions in American Religious History
Oxford University Press, USA | Routledge | 512 pages | 1998 | ISBN: 0195104137 | PDF | 1 mb

The eighteen essays collected in this book had their origin in a conference of the same title, held at the Wingspread Conference Center in October of 1993.
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The Contemporary Chinese Historical Drama: Four Studies

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Date: 26 Mar 2009 19:16:02
The Contemporary Chinese Historical Drama: Four Studies

The Contemporary Chinese Historical Drama: Four Studies
University of California Press | Routledge | 361 pages | 1990 | ISBN: 0520059549 | PDF | 1 mb

China's "Great Leap Forward" of 1958-1961 was a time of official rejoicing over the achievements of Communism, but it was also a time of immense suffering.
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The Encomenderos of New Spain, 1521-1555

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Date: 26 Mar 2009 16:36:50
The Encomenderos of New Spain, 1521-1555

The Encomenderos of New Spain, 1521-1555
University of Texas Press | Routledge | 364 pages | 1996 | ISBN: 0292731086 | PDF | 1 mb

"Himmerich's near definitive compilation of the early encomenderos is a solidly researched and meticulously realized work that will be essential reading and reference for students and scholars of the period for years to come."
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The Revival of 1857-58 : Interpreting an American Religious Awakening (Religion in America Series)

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Date: 26 Mar 2009 15:58:22
The Revival of 1857-58 : Interpreting an American Religious Awakening (Religion in America Series)

The Revival of 1857-58 : Interpreting an American Religious Awakening (Religion in America Series)
Oxford University Press, USA | Routledge | 272 pages | 1998 | ISBN: 0195112938 | PDF | 1 mb

This book provides a fresh, in-depth examination of the Revival of 1857-58, a widespread religious awakening most famous for urban prayer meetings in major metropolitan centers across the United States.
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Scattered Round Stones: A Mayo Village in Sonora, Mexico (University of Arizona Southwest Center Series)

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Date: 26 Mar 2009 15:25:40
Scattered Round Stones: A Mayo Village in Sonora, Mexico (University of Arizona Southwest Center Series)

Scattered Round Stones: A Mayo Village in Sonora, Mexico (University of Arizona Southwest Center Series)
Univ of New Mexico Pr | Routledge | 351 pages | 1998 | ISBN: 0826319556 | PDF | 2 mb

"From the very first, Teachive captivated me," David Yetman writes in this ethnography of a Mayo Indian peasant village in Sonora, Mexico.
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The Courting of Marcus Dupree

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Date: 26 Mar 2009 13:31:49
The Courting of Marcus Dupree

The Courting of Marcus Dupree
University Press of Mississippi | Routledge | 464 pages | 1992 | ISBN: 0878055851 | PDF | 1 mb

At the time of Marcus Dupree's birth, when Deep South racism was about to crest and shatter against the Civil Rights Movement, Willie Morris journeyed north in a circular transit peculiar to southern writers. His memoir of those years, North Toward Home, became a modern classic.
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Inside the Minstrel Mask: Readings in Nineteenth-Century Blackface Minstrelsy

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Date: 26 Mar 2009 12:33:27
Inside the Minstrel Mask: Readings in Nineteenth-Century Blackface Minstrelsy

Inside the Minstrel Mask: Readings in Nineteenth-Century Blackface Minstrelsy
Wesleyan | Routledge | 324 pages | 1996 | ISBN: 0819563005 | PDF | 2 mb

A sourcebook of contemporary and historical commentary on America's first popular mass entertainment.
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Familia: Migration and Adaptation in Baja and Alta California, 1880-1975

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Date: 26 Mar 2009 10:30:44
Familia: Migration and Adaptation in Baja and Alta California, 1880-1975

Familia: Migration and Adaptation in Baja and Alta California, 1880-1975
University of California Press | Routledge | 230 pages | 1991 | ISBN: 0520073894 | PDF | 1 mb

Anthropologists, historians, and sociologists will find here a striking challenge to accepted explanations of the northward movement of migrants from Mexico into the United States.
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Chinese Families in the Post-Mao Era (Studies on China, No 17)

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Date: 23 Mar 2009 12:04:32
Chinese Families in the Post-Mao Era (Studies on China, No 17)

Chinese Families in the Post-Mao Era (Studies on China, No 17)
University of California Press | Routledge | 400 pages | 1993 | ISBN: 0520082222 | PDF | 2 mb

How have the momentous policy shifts that followed the death of Mao Zedong changed families in China?
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The Cheyenne Indians, Vol. 2: War, Ceremonies, and Religion

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Date: 19 Mar 2009 17:32:54
The Cheyenne Indians, Vol. 2: War, Ceremonies, and Religion

The Cheyenne Indians, Vol. 2: War, Ceremonies, and Religion
Bison Books | Routledge | 478 pages | 1972 | ISBN: 0803257724 | PDF | 3 mb

The Cheyenne Indians: Their History and Their Ways of Life is a classic ethnography, originally published in 1928, that grew out of George Bird Grinnell's long acquaintance with the Cheyennes.
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Those Remarkable Women of the American Revolution

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Date: 18 Mar 2009 18:21:17
Those Remarkable Women of the American Revolution

Those Remarkable Women of the American Revolution
Millbrook Press | Routledge | 96 pages | 1996 | ISBN: 1562946579 | PDF | 1 mb

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The Chief Justiceship of John Marshall, 1801-1835 (Chief Justiceships of the United States Supreme Court)

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Date: 17 Mar 2009 18:41:51
The Chief Justiceship of John Marshall, 1801-1835 (Chief Justiceships of the United States Supreme Court)

The Chief Justiceship of John Marshall, 1801-1835 (Chief Justiceships of the United States Supreme Court)
Univ of South Carolina Pr | Routledge | 317 pages | 1997 | ISBN: 1570031215 | PDF | 2 mb

Perhaps no individual has exerted a more profound influence on the United States Supreme Court or on the federal Constitution than Chief Justice John Marshall.
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