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The History of Haiti - Steeve Coupeau - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=tA-XfYZFNvkC&pg=PA115&dq=Jean-Jacques+Honorat&hl=de&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjqv4Pe_PzXAhUQ5qQKHe7WBv0Q6
Haiti's long and turbulent history is documented in this comprehensive reference volume, ideal for high school students, undergrads, and general readers. Discovered by Christopher Columbus on his journey across the Atlantic in 1492, Haiti has had a…
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For Her Good Estate: The Life of Elizabeth de Burgh - Frances A. Underhill - Google Books
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For Her Good Estate recounts the trials and triumphs of a fourteenth-century English noblewoman. Elizabeth de Burgh led a tumultuous early life: an arranged marriage, an abduction leading to a clandestine second marriage, a forced third marriage to a man…
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For Her Good Estate: The Life of Elizabeth de Burgh - Frances A. Underhill - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=xdJBYcSDX60C&pg=PA68#v=onepage
For Her Good Estate recounts the trials and triumphs of a fourteenth-century English noblewoman. Elizabeth de Burgh led a tumultuous early life: an arranged marriage, an abduction leading to a clandestine second marriage, a forced third marriage to a man…
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Secrets of the Samurai; A Survey of the Martial Arts of Feudal Japan - Oscar Ratti, Westbrook, A. - Google Books
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"Secrets of the Samurai" is the definitive study of the martial arts of feudal Japan, explaining in detail the weapons, techniques, strategies, and principles of combat that made the Japanese warrior a formidable foe. Beginning with a panoramic survey of…
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Defending the Rights of Others: The Great Powers, the Jews, and ... - Carole Fink - Google Books
http://books.google.de/books?id=fR7y42jJezYC&pg=PA184&dq=%22the+newly+named+British+Minister+Percy+Wyndham+to+FO,+May+18,+1919,+
Statesmen and scholars were inspired by a period after World War I (when the victors devised Minority Treaties for the new and expanded states of Eastern Europe) at the time that the Cold War ended between 1989-1991. This book is the first study of that…
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"One Country, Two Systems" in Crisis: Hong Kong's Transformation Since the ... - Google Books
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In the tumultuous negotiations of the Sino-British Joint Declaration of 1984, the United Kingdom willingly signed over Hong Kong's reigns to the People's Republic of China, but with the presupposition that the PRC would faithfully implement the principle…
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Pete Duel: A Biography, 2d ed. - Paul Green - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=llpiCQAAQBAJ&pg=PR4&dq=Pete+Duel+1940&hl=de&sa=X&ei=-t2GVYKULcTMygP6y5FI&ved=0CCEQ6AEwAA#v=onep
Most widely known for his starring role as outlaw Hannibal Heyes in television’s Alias Smith and Jones (1971–1973), actor Pete Duel (originally Peter Deuel) led an unpredictable and often tumultuous life, cut short by his highly publicized suicide on New…
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A Fork in the Road - André Brink - Google Books
http://books.google.de/books?id=k3KXD6cT5MwC&pg=PT233&lpg=PT233&dq=Journal+Sestigers&source=bl&ots=AE9uydFLen&sig=dSvpnJJtMhtYqh
This is André Brink's story of a life lived in tumultuous times. He describes with searing honesty his conflicting experiences of growing up in a world where innocence was always surrounded by violence and storytelling was a means of reconciling the stark…
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A Turkish Spring? | L.I.S.A. WISSENSCHAFTSPORTAL GERDA HENKEL STIFTUNG
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What is going on in Turkey? Are protests in Turkey a sign of the failure of democracy? Are the tumultuous events on Taksim Square comparable to those on Egypt’s Tahrir Square? Is it justified to describe the protests in Turkey as the beginning of a Turkish…