E-böcker / Kulturhistoria
![Omslagsbild för Tracing your Family History on the Internet](https://images.axiellmedia.com/cover/1128715/1128715_202102181509.jpg?height=160)
Tracing your Family History on the Internet
This fully revised second edition of Chris Paton's best-selling guide is essential reading if you want to make effective use of the internet in your family history research. Every ...
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Tracing Your Trade & Craftsman Ancestors
Almost all of us have a tradesman or craftsman – a butcher, baker or candlestick maker – somewhere in our ancestry, and Adèle Emm's handbook is the perfect guide to finding out abo ...
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Tracing Your Birmingham Ancestors
Birmingham, the cradle of the industrial revolution and the world's first manufacturing town, is an important focus for many family historians who will find that their trail leads ...
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Maids, Wives, Widows
Maids, Wives, Widows is a lively exploration of the everyday lives of women in early modern England, from 1540-1740. The book uncovers details of how women filled their days, what ...
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Tracing Your Welsh Ancestors
Few previous publications have focused on Welsh family history, and none have provided a comprehensive guide to the genealogical information available and where to find it. That is ...
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How Our Ancestors Died
What were the principal causes of death in the past? Could your ancestor have been affected? How was disease investigated and treated and what did our ancestors think about the ill ...
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Slaughter on the Somme
At 07.30 hours on 1 July 1916, the devastating cacophony of the Allied artillery fell silent along the front on the Somme. The ear-splitting explosions were replaced by the shrill ...
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Kalevala, kertomus kaikenikäisille
Kalevala – kertomus kaikenikäisille -kirjan sivuilla ikiaikaiset kalevalaiset hahmot piirtyvät selkeästi hahmottuviksi persooniksi. Kalevala kertoo äidin sylissä itkevistä suurista ...
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Kalevala berättad för alla åldrar
Kalevala handlar om stora hjältar som gråter ut i mammas famn, om starka kvinnor i Pohja (Norrabotnia). När de går ut för att söka sina försvunna söner skakar marken och bävar berg ...
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An Anthology of Ancient Mesopotamian Texts
Sabina Franke has gathered the best stories of ancient Near Eastern literature surrounding the Mesopotamian gods, men and kings. This book takes the reader on a journey back to the ...
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Tracing Your Twentieth-Century Ancestors
The recent past is so often neglected when people research their family history, yet it can be one of the most rewarding periods to explore, and so much fascinating evidence is ava ...
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Tracing Your Ancestors Through Letters and Personal Writings
Could your ancestors write their own names or did they mark official documents with a cross? Why did great-grandfather write so cryptically on a postcard home during the First Worl ...
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Socialising Complexity
Socialising Complexity introduces the concept of complexity as a tool, rather than a category, for understanding social formations. This new take on complexity moves beyond the tr ...
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Breaking and Shaping Beastly Bodies
An important human trait is our inclination to develop complex relationships with numerous other species. In the great majority of cases however, these mutualistic relationships in ...
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Scourge of Henry VIII
Although Mary, Queen of Scots continues to fascinate both historians and the general public alike, the story of her mother, Marie de Guise, is much less well known. A political pow ...
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Famous Brand Names and Their Origins
Many brands, including Boots, Hoover and Kelloggs, were named after their founders whilst others have less obvious origins; for instance, did you know that Velcro comes from velour ...
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Caves in Context
Caves in Context provides the thriving inter-disciplinary field of cave studies with a European-scale survey of current research in cave archaeology. It is unified by a contemporar ...
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The First Farmers of Central Europe
From about 5500 cal BC to soon after 5000 cal BC, the lifeways of the first farmers of central Europe, the LBK culture (Linearbandkeramik), are seen in distinctive practices of lon ...
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The Coronation Chair and Stone of Scone
Constructed in 1297−1300 for King Edward I, the Coronation Chair ranks amongst the most remarkable and precious treasures to have survived from the Middle Ages. It incorporated in ...
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Medicine, Healing and Performance
Whether it is the binding of shattered bones or the creation of herbal remedies, human agency is a central feature of the healing process. Both archaeological and anthropological r ...
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Violence and Civilization
This collection of essays begins with the premise that violence, in its relationship to order, is a central element of history. Taking a broad definition of violence, including str ...
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The Archaeology of Politics and Power
Archaeology is not just about the past, but the present and future too. Much of our present condition and future prospects are inevitably bound up with what states do and what they ...
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Living Through the Dead
This volume investigates the archaeology of death and commemoration through thematically linked case studies drawn from the Classical world. These investigations stress the process ...
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Archaeology and Anthropology
This book focuses on the relationship between the disciplines of archaeology and anthropology. Both disciplines arose from a common project: a desire to understand human social and ...
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Anthropological Approaches to Zooarchaeology
Animals in complex human societies are often both meal and symbol, related to everyday practice and ritual. People in such societies may be characterized as having unequal access t ...