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Author
Publisher
Cavendish Square
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
"Several trade routes throughout history included the trafficking of slaves. Yet perhaps no routes have had such a profound impact on the lives of as many people as Trans-Atlantic slave networks. Just the journey alone from Africa to Europe, North America, and South America resulted in the deaths of more than a million enslaved Africans. Trans-Atlantic Slave Networks investigates the reasons for the so-called triangular trade, what happened to the...
Publisher
Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002], c1997
Language
English
Description
A wall-street broker travels to the Amazon to finalize his divorce and finds out he has a 13-year-old son. When he brings the boy back to New York he must teach him the culture of Western civilization.
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"In 1871, five young girls were sent by the Japanese government to the United States. Their mission: learn Western ways and return to help nurture a new generation of enlightened men to lead Japan. Raised in traditional samurai households during the turmoil of civil war, three of these unusual ambassadors-- Sutematsu Yamakawa, Shige Nagai, and Ume Tsuda-- grew up as typical American schoolgirls. Upon their arrival in San Francisco they became celebrities,...
Author
Publisher
Somondoco Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"This book doesn't claim to be objective or thorough. It's simply a gathering of impressions and experiences from over the thirty-six years I've lived in the States that, for some reason, demand to go on record. Besides the tricks of this great illustionist and unreliable friend that is memory, you'll find in it what you may call the truth. At least, my truth about my America.- Sample from forward
Author
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Facing the harrowing task of rebuilding a life in the wake of the Holocaust, many Jewish survivors, community and religious leaders, and Allied soldiers viewed marriage between Jewish women and military personnel as a way to move forward after unspeakable loss. Proponents believed that these unions were more than just a ticket out of war-torn Europe: they would help the Jewish people repopulate after the attempted annihilation of European Jewry....
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