Historical genre books (486)





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Erebus : The Story of a Ship by Michael Palin EN

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Made in Wales -- Magnetic north -- Magnetic south -- Far-off shores -- "Our southern home"--"Farther south than any (known) human being has been" -- Dancing with the captains -- "Pilgrims of the ocean" -- "Such a wretched place as this you never saw" -- "Three years from Gillingham" -- Homeward bound -- "So little now remains to be done" -- North by north-west -- No signal -- The truth -- Life and death -- The inuit story -- Resurrection.

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Eureka Street by Robert McLiam Wilson EN

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In Eureka Street in Belfast wonen mensen die niet zo gewoon zijn als ze lijken.

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Eusebius' Ecclesiastical History : Complete and Unabridged by Eusebius Pamphilus EN

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Country: Asia / Israel flag Israel
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All ten books of Eusebius' famous church history are presented here complete in a superb and authoritative translation. Eusebius' Ecclesiastical History is one of the first comprehensive, chronologically arranged histories ever written about the Christian church, and it is consulted by scholars and historians to this day. Eusebius authored his history as the Roman Empire's influence upon the European continent waned amid insurgencies and surrender of Roman lands to other peoples. This also a time in which Christianity's influence upon Europe's peoples burgeoned and grew. As one of a very few l... continue

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Every Fire You Tend by Sema Kaygusuz EN

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
Country: Asia / Turkey flag Turkey
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"In 1938, in the remote Dersim region of Eastern Anatolia, the Turkish Republic launched an operation to erase an entire community of Zaza-speaking Alevi Kurds. Inspired by those brutal events, this densely lyrical and allusive novel grapples with the various inheritances of genocide, gendered violence and historical memory as they reverberate across time and place from within the unnamed protagonist's home in contemporary Istanbul."--back cover.

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Every Man Dies Alone by Hans Fallada EN

Rating: 5 (1 vote)
Country: Europe / Germany flag Germany
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"Based on a true story, this sweeping saga tells the tale of a working class couple in Berlin who decide to take a stand against the Nazis. More than an edge-of-your-seat thriller, more than a moving romance, even more than literature of the highest order, it's a deeply moving story of two people who stand up for what's right, and for each other. Hans Fallada wrote Every Man Dies Alone in a feverish twenty-four days, soon after the end of World War II and his release from a Nazi insane asylum. He did not live to see his its publication"--Page 4 of cover.

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Fabulosas : histórias de um Brasil LGBTQIAP+ by Patrick Cassimiro PT

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Fabulosas conta as histórias de mais de trinta pessoas LGBTQIAP+ que deixaram e deixam uma marca no Brasil, por meio de sua arte, sua vida e sua luta. Os leitores vão conhecer personagens fascinantes e descobrir peculiaridades como o percurso enfrentado até o primeiro beijo gay na TV brasileira e o significado dos principais termos do pajubá. Você certamente já ouviu falar de Laerte. E de Caio Fernando Abreu, de Marielle Franco, de Linn da Quebrada. Mas e Felipa de Souza? E Luiz Delgado? Muito antes de os movimentos LGBTQIAP+ se articularem e consegu... continue

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Facundo : Civilization and Barbarism by Domingo Faustino Sarmiento EN

Rating: 2 (1 vote)
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An educator and writer, Sarmiento was President of Argentina from 1868 to 1874. His Facundo is a study of the Argentine character, a prescription for the modernization of Latin America, and a protest against the tyranny of the government of Juan Manuel de Rosas (1835-1852). The book brings nineteenth-century Latin American history to life even as it raises questions still being debated today--questions regarding the "civilized" city versus the "barbaric" countryside, the treatment of indigenous and African populations, and the classically liberal plan of modernization.