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The Vikings: Raiders, Explorers And Seafaring Warriors by Lance Hightower
epub, azw |eng | 2016-01-02 | Author:Lance Hightower [Hightower, Lance]

Chapter 7: Viking Home Life: A Democratic People Norse society in Iceland was without warlords or kings. Life was about feasting, farming, the power of chieftains and the church, marriage ...
( Category: Europe September 26,2017 )
The Slave's Cause by Sinha Manisha
epub |eng | 2015-09-26 | Author:Sinha, Manisha [Sinha, Manisha]

13 FUGITIVE SLAVE ABOLITIONISM On February 24, 1844, the Liberator printed an admiring report on Frederick Douglass’s “masterly and impressive” speech in Concord, New Hampshire. The fugitive slave was the ...
( Category: World September 26,2017 )
Our New Husbands Are Here: Households, Gender, and Politics in a West African State from the Slave Trade to Colonial Rule (New African Histories) by Emily Lynn Osborn
epub |eng | 2011-11-08 | Author:Emily Lynn Osborn [Osborn, Emily Lynn]

HOUSEHOLDS, WOMANHOOD, AND STATECRAFT IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE At some level, French ideas about gender roles and politics were not incongruent with how many African societies operated. In most African precolonial ...
( Category: World September 25,2017 )
Death of a King: The Real Story of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s Final Year by Tavis Smiley
epub |eng | 2014-09-09 | Author:Tavis Smiley [Smiley, Tavis]

PART II THE FINAL SEASON The Last Three Months Chapter Thirteen THIRTY-NINE The year begins ominously. The war is six years old, soon to be the longest in American history—nearly ...
( Category: Historical September 25,2017 )
SAS in World War II (9781472808776) by Mortimer Gavin
epub |eng | 2011-09-25 | Author:Mortimer, Gavin

CHAPTER 8 D-DAY FOR 1SAS On 28 May, 21 Army Group issued the amended order for the SAS Brigade in the impending Operation Overlord; Bill Stirling hadn’t fallen on his ...
( Category: Military September 25,2017 )
The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State by Friedrich Engels & Tristram Hunt
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-04-29 | Author:Friedrich Engels & Tristram Hunt [Engels, Friedrich & Hunt, Tristram]

All the members of an Iroquois gens were personally free, and they were bound to defend each other’s freedom; they were equal in privileges and in personal rights, the sachem ...
( Category: Politics & Government September 25,2017 )
American Massacre by Sally Denton
epub |eng | 2007-12-18 | Author:Sally Denton

PART THREE THE LEGACY CHAPTER ELEVEN Deseret, September 12, 1857 BEFORE DAWN on Saturday, Lee awakened to hear William Dame and Isaac Haight arguing loudly. The two senior Nauvoo Legion ...
( Category: Americas September 25,2017 )
Human by Robert Berke
epub, azw3 |eng | 2011-12-18 | Author:Robert Berke [Berke, Robert]

CHAPTER XIV. Julian Waterstone wanted to die and Elijah Smith wanted to live forever. It must be good to be rich, Julian said to himself. I should have written that ...
( Category: Anthropology September 25,2017 )
Telling the Truth about History (Norton Paperback) by Joyce Appleby & Lynn Hunt & Margaret Jacob
epub |eng | 2011-02-13 | Author:Joyce Appleby & Lynn Hunt & Margaret Jacob [Appleby, Joyce]

The Philosophical Armor of Heroic Science Historians and scientists of the generation of Conant and Butterfield institutionalized the history of science in American universities because they believed that its history, ...
( Category: World September 25,2017 )
Operation Greylord by Terrence Hake
epub, mobi |eng | 2015-09-25 | Author:Terrence Hake

14 BRANCHING OUT Summer 1981 JUDGE JOHN DEVINE One of the hardest aspects of my undercover work was timing. I had to find a spot in the Traffic Court Building ...
( Category: Professionals & Academics September 25,2017 )
The House by the Lake by Thomas Harding
epub |eng | | Author:Thomas Harding

Berlin Wall layout Finally, a metal wire was strung along the inside of the inner wall, to which German shepherds were tethered by a lead that enabled them to run ...
( Category: Europe September 25,2017 )
Beneath the Heart of the Sea by Owen Chase
epub |eng | 2014-09-25 | Author:Owen Chase [Owen Chase]

Supplement The following is a list of the whole crew of the ship, with their arrangements into the three several boats upon starting from the wreck: the names of those ...
( Category: Transportation September 25,2017 )
Death in Kenya by M. M. Kaye
epub |eng | | Author:M. M. Kaye

11 Breakfast was barely over on the following morning when young Mr Hennessy and his police askaris descended upon Flamingo. Em interviewed them briefly on the verandah and dismissed them ...
( Category: Mystery September 25,2017 )
Robert F. Young by Revolution 20
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-01-17 | Author:Revolution 20

It had been on the tip of my tongue to ask her if there was a res-taurant in the building, but both her words and the matter-of-fact way she had ...
( Category: Americas September 25,2017 )
Don't Tell the Newfoundlanders by Greg Malone
epub |eng | 2012-11-20 | Author:Greg Malone [Malone, Greg]

On January 29, 1948, the National Convention dissolved, and Wainwright Abbott, the American consul in St. John’s, reviewed its performance: By no stretch of the imagination can it be credited ...
( Category: Europe September 25,2017 )

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