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Sugar: The World Corrupted: From Slavery to Obesity by James Walvin
epub, azw3 |eng | 2018-04-02 | Author:James Walvin [Walvin, James]

12 A Sweeter War and Peace FOR CENTURIES, EUROPE’S slave empires had ensured that their metropolitan hinterlands would be avid consumers of sugar. When slavery vanished (in the British case, ...
( Category: Food Science May 31,2019 )
This America by Jill Lepore
epub |eng | | Author:Jill Lepore

· XI · NATIONS AND ORIGINS AMERICA OF THE MELTING POT COMES TO END, announced an eight-column headline in the New York Times. NORDIC VICTORY IS SEEN IN DRASTIC REDUCTIONS, ...
( Category: Nationalism May 30,2019 )
Red Meat Republic by Specht Joshua;
epub |eng | 2019-02-27 | Author:Specht, Joshua;

FIGURE 8. 1906 photograph of a Swift & Company slaughterhouse in Chicago. The animals are hung from hooks to allow ease of movement and then split (right side of image). ...
( Category: Animal Husbandry May 29,2019 )
A Haven and a Hell by Lance Freeman
epub |eng | | Author:Lance Freeman

The Honorable Elijah Muhammad teaches us that on our own land we can set up farms, factories, businesses. We can establish our own government and become an independent nation. And ...
( Category: African-American Studies May 28,2019 )
The Renaissance World by The Renaissance World (Routledge Worlds) (Retail)
epub |eng | | Author:The Renaissance World (Routledge Worlds) (Retail)

Suggestions for Further Reading Besara, Nancy. Creating East and West: Renaissance Humanists and the Ottoman Turks. Pittsburg: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004. Brotton, Jerry. The Renaissance Bazaar: From the Silk ...
( Category: Historical Study & Educational Resources May 28,2019 )
The Devil Wins by Denery Dallas G. II;
epub |eng | 2014-05-27 | Author:Denery, Dallas G., II;

FROM LIES TO CIVILITY With their advocacy of the well-timed lie, the pious fraud, and just hypocrisy, both John of Salisbury and Christine de Pizan completed the intellectual journey from ...
( Category: Historical Study & Educational Resources May 28,2019 )
Classical Culture and Witchcraft in Medieval and Renaissance Italy by Marina Montesano
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Marina Montesano

The Barlotto The accounts of witchcraft that appear in these Observants’ sermons and treatises offer a glimpse of the somehow different way in which accusations were taking form, compared to ...
( Category: Historical Study & Educational Resources May 28,2019 )
The Battle of Agincourt by Anne Curry
epub |eng | 2014-11-10 | Author:Anne Curry

C 4. Edward Hall, The Union of the Two Illustre Families of Lancaster and York (1542, English) Modernised from Hall’s Chronicle containing the History of England, ed. H. Ellis (London, ...
( Category: Historiography May 28,2019 )
Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest by Matthew Restall
epub, pdf |eng | 2004-08-25 | Author:Matthew Restall [Restall, Matthew]

A “trick of the devil” is certainly a succinct way of explaining the spread of rumors about omens, predictions, and native deification of Spaniards. As the colonial period progressed, the ...
( Category: Historiography May 28,2019 )
Travel and Artisans in the Ottoman Empire: Employment and Mobility in the Early Modern Era by Faroqhi Suraiya
epub |eng | 2014-01-29 | Author:Faroqhi, Suraiya

Once in Üsküdar: slaves in flight and slave hunters More importantly, after manumission it was in the best interests of a freedman or freedwoman to obtain a written document. In ...
( Category: Historical Study & Educational Resources May 28,2019 )
A Brief History of Life in the Middle Ages by Martyn Whittock
epub |eng | | Author:Martyn Whittock

The abuses and limitations of the law As with all systems, the system of law in the Middle Ages was open to abuse. Royal justices were at times accused of ...
( Category: Historical Study & Educational Resources May 28,2019 )
The Middle Ages: A History From Beginning to End by Henry Freeman
epub |eng | 2016-03-20 | Author:Henry Freeman [Freeman, Henry]

Chapter Four The Flowering of the Church As spiritual faith grew, it found expression in physical structures. Gothic architecture, which began to gain popularity in the 1200 CE, expressed the ...
( Category: Historiography May 28,2019 )
Gender in World History by Stearns Peter N
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Stearns, Peter N. [Peter N. Stearns]

Further Reading The experience of Indian men and women under colonialism has been much debated in recent years, thanks to feminist scholarship and theory and a reaction against the simple ...
( Category: Women in History May 28,2019 )
Execution by Geoffrey Abbott
epub, pdf |eng | 2012-08-28 | Author:Geoffrey Abbott

The condemned man, a German born in 1908, had had a life of crime, resulting in prison sentences for armed robbery and assault. In 1937 he resorted to kidnapping for ...
( Category: Criminology May 28,2019 )
Gunpowder by Jack Kelly
epub, pdf |eng | 2012-01-30 | Author:Jack Kelly

9 WHAT VICTORY COSTS EVEN AS GUNPOWDER was ratcheting the violence of organized warfare to unprecedented levels, it continued to offer thinkers perplexing and intriguing problems. “Ultimately it was the ...
( Category: History of Technology May 28,2019 )

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