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The Largest U.S. Cities Named after a Food: And Other Mind-Boggling Geography Lists from Around the World

'Hundreds of lists and oddities fill this compendium of geographic trivia. From a list of countries with the lowest number of international tourists per year to information about the largest countries in the world without an FM station, this book of wide-ranging curiosities includes minutia from across the globe'--Provided by publisher.

By brandt Maxwell

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9781891661471 | Santa Monica Pr Llc, November 28, 2004, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: 'Hundreds of lists and oddities fill this compendium of geographic trivia.

Devizes History and Guide

By Lorna Haycock

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9780752421599 | Tempus Pub Ltd, January 1, 2004, cover price $27.50

9780750904247, titled "Devizes: History and Guide" | Sutton Pub Ltd, May 1, 1994, cover price $16.00

James Dean Died Here: The Locations of America's Pop Culture Landmarks

Offers a guide to the locations of significant popular culture events, including the crash of the Hindenburg, the 'Saturday Night Fever' disco, the first MacDonald's location, and the 'American Bandstand' studio.

By Chris Epting

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9781891661310 | Santa Monica Pr Llc, May 1, 2003, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Offers a guide to the locations of significant popular culture events, including the crash of the Hindenburg, the 'Saturday Night Fever' disco, the first MacDonald's location, and the 'American Bandstand' studio.

Re-Thinking History

By Keith Jenkins

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9780415304436 | Routledge, March 1, 2003, cover price $18.95

9780415067782 | Routledge, February 1, 1992, cover price $22.95 | also contains Parteien Zwischen Zivilgesellschaft Und Staat

On Doing Local History: Reflections on What Local Historians Do, Why, and What It Means

Product Description: Since 1986 On Doing Local History has been an invaluable aid to local historians. Now Carol Kammen has completely updated and revised this classic to reflect more than fifteen years of experience working with local historians. She challenges all historians of the local to think about what they are doing and how they are doing it...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Carol Kammen

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9780759102521 | 2 edition (Altamira Pr, February 1, 2003), cover price $96.00 | About this edition: Since 1986 On Doing Local History has been an invaluable aid to local historians.

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9780759102538 | 2 edition (Altamira Pr, February 1, 2003), cover price $36.00 | About this edition: Since 1986 On Doing Local History has been an invaluable aid to local historians.

9780761991373 | Altamira Pr, November 1, 1995, cover price $23.95 | About this edition: On Doing Local History offers local historians a new way of thinking about their work: questioning the sources they use and the subjects they investigate.

9780910050814 | Amer Assn for State & Local, October 1, 1986, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Since 1986 On Doing Local History has been an invaluable aid to local historians.

English Local History: An Introduction

Product Description: Local history is a boom area, as people begin to discover the extraordinary delights of finding out more about their ancestors, origins and environment. Kate Tiller's Introduction is the ideal starting point for anyone who wants to know how local communities lived in the past and how to find out more about them...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Kate Tiller

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9780750901048 | Sutton Pub Ltd, February 1, 1992, cover price $37.00 | About this edition: An accessible introduction to researching English local history from original records and written sources.

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9780750927147 | 2 edition (Trafalgar Square, September 1, 2002), cover price $21.95 | About this edition: Local history is a boom area, as people begin to discover the extraordinary delights of finding out more about their ancestors, origins and environment.

9780862999582 | Sutton Pub Ltd, April 1, 1992, cover price $26.00

A Place in the World: New Local Historiographies for Africa and South Asia

Product Description: Local histories, written and published by non-academic historians, constitute a rapidly expanding genre in contemporary non-Western societies. However, academic historians and anthropologists usually take little notice of them. This volume takes a comparative look at local historical writing...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Axel Harneit-Sievers (editor)

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9789004123038 | Brill Academic Pub, January 1, 2002, cover price $97.00 | About this edition: Local histories, written and published by non-academic historians, constitute a rapidly expanding genre in contemporary non-Western societies.

Farnborough Past

By Jo Gosney

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9781860771866 | Phillimore, January 1, 2001, cover price $30.00

Provence: A Country Almanac

Product Description: Louisa Jones has lived in Provence for nearly 30 years. With this revised edition of her popular book, she offers an expanded tour of Provence''s lush gardens, wineries, local crafts, museums, hotels and restaurants.' (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Louisa Jones

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9781556708626 | Rev upd edition (Stewart Tabori & Chang, April 1, 1999), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Louisa Jones has lived in Provence for nearly 30 years.

9781556702785 | Stewart Tabori & Chang, April 1, 1993, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Describes the museums, crafts, and villages of Provence throughout the year, and shares excerpts from literature about the region and local recipes

It's Not the End of the Earth but You Can See It from Here: Tales of the Great Plains

Product Description: Roger Welsch did what many Americans only dream of doing. While still in his professional prime, the folklorist and humorist quit a tenured professorship and headed toward the hinterland. Resettled in the open heart of Nebraska with his wife, Welsch proceeded to learn how to live...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Roger L. Welsch

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9780394583020 | Villard Books, April 1, 1990, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: A selection of short pieces that captures the American heartland in portraits of small towns and their colorful inhabitants

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9780803298088, titled "It's Not the End of the Earth, but You Can See It from Here: Tales of the Great Plains" | Bison Books, May 1, 1999, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Roger Welsch did what many Americans only dream of doing.

9780449220108 | Reprint edition (Crest, May 1, 1991), cover price $4.95 | About this edition: A collection of tales from America's heartland includes modern-day folktales starring ordinary people drawn from life--Lunchbox, Slick, Uncle Vic, Worm, and others

Exploring Local History

Product Description: For anyone fascinated with the history of his or her street or hometown, this book shows how to find out what it was like to live there a century or even a millennium ago. It reveals the sources to use to unravel the secrets of a community's past -- from what people did for a living to how they spent their leisure time...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By James Griffin and Tim Lomas

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9780844202815 | Teach Yourself, December 1, 1998, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: For anyone fascinated with the history of his or her street or hometown, this book shows how to find out what it was like to live there a century or even a millennium ago.

Diners: People and Places

Presents photographs of and scenes from diners all across the United States

By Gerd Kittel

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9780500280812 | 2 sub edition (Thames & Hudson, September 1, 1998), cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Presents photographs of and scenes from diners all across the United States

9780500275832 | Thames & Hudson, April 1, 1990, cover price $15.95 | also contains The Heritage of World Civilizations + New Myhistorylab for World History Access Card, 10th Ed.: Books a La Carte Edition | About this edition: Presents photographs of and scenes from diners all across the United States

Historic Preservation in Western Europe

By Ronald W. Johnson

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9780894643460 | Krieger Pub Co, May 1, 1998, cover price $25.00

Public Places: Exploring Their History

Product Description: The American people have come to expect that certain public buildingsâlike state capitols, county courthouses, and historic landmarksâwill have brief historical sketches to enrich visits to them. This book will help individuals develop such guides...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Gerald A. Danzer

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9780761989318 | Reprint edition (Altamira Pr, June 1, 1997), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: The American people have come to expect that certain public buildingsâlike state capitols, county courthouses, and historic landmarksâwill have brief historical sketches to enrich visits to them.

9780910050883 | Altamira Pr, October 1, 1995, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: The American people have come to expect that certain public buildingsâlike state capitols, county courthouses, and historic landmarksâwill have brief historical sketches to enrich visits to them.

Societies, Cultures and Kinship, 1580-1850: Cultural Provinces and English Local History

Product Description: This work maps the cultural and physical divisions of medieval England. It concentrates on the level of hierarchy immediately above individual local societies, using detailed case studies of networks of linked communities in the East Midlands, the South and East Anglia...read more

By Charles Phythian-Adams (editor)

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9780718500528 | T&t Clark Ltd, August 1, 1996, cover price $65.00 | About this edition: This work maps the cultural and physical divisions of medieval England.

The Oxford Companion to Local and Family History

Offers guidance on researching local and family history, discussing how to use documentary sources, which books and journals to use, what the technical terms mean, and more

By David Hey (editor)

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9780192116888 | Oxford Univ Pr, June 1, 1996, cover price $49.95 | About this edition: Offers guidance on researching local and family history, discussing how to use documentary sources, which books and journals to use, what the technical terms mean, and more

Interpretation of Historic Sites

Interpretation of Historic Sites offers essential knowledge on how to develop and conduct interpretive programs for every historic site, regardless of size or budget.

By William T. Alderson and Shirley Payne Low

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9780761991625 | 2 revised edition (Altamira Pr, February 1, 1996), cover price $36.00

9780910050739 | 2nd edition (Amer Assn for State & Local, January 1, 1986), cover price $21.95 | About this edition: Interpretation of Historic Sites offers essential knowledge on how to develop and conduct interpretive programs for every historic site, regardless of size or budget.

Oral History for the Local Historical Society

Product Description: A practical stepbystep guide for gathering history from the people who've experienced it. "Oral History for the Local Historical Society", a classic in the field for three decades, tells you how to start an oral history program in your community, how to select the right equipment, and how to interview people whose memories are a living connection to the past...read more

By Willa K. Baum

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9780761991335 | 3 revised edition (Altamira Pr, November 1, 1995), cover price $26.00 | About this edition: A practical stepbystep guide for gathering history from the people who've experienced it.

9780910050876 | 3 rev sub edition (Amer Assn for State & Local, September 1, 1987), cover price $9.95 | About this edition: A practical stepbystep guide for gathering history from the people who've experienced it.

A Primer for Local Historical Societies

By Laurence R. Pizer

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9780942063127 | 2 sub edition (Altamira Pr, October 1, 1995), cover price $33.95

Local History, National Heritage: Reflections on the History of Aaslh

By William T. Alderson, Edward P. Alexander, Cary Carson, Charles B. Hosmer, Jr., Frederick L. Rath and Holman J. Swinney

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9780942063196 | Altamira Pr, October 1, 1995, cover price $24.95

German Villages in Crisis: Rural Life in Hesse-Kassel and the Thirty Years' War, 1580-1720

Product Description: The impact of the Thirty Years War on the German countryside was traumatic. This book, covering 1580 to 1720, examines how the war was experienced by village people in the countryside of that time. It draws on fiscal records, official correspondence and other records to create a view...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By John Theibault

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9780391038394 | Humanities Pr, August 1, 1995, cover price $142.00 | About this edition: The impact of the Thirty Years War on the German countryside was traumatic.

Computing in Local and Regional History

By Angela Brown, K. Schurer and P. Wakelin

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9780718514167 | Pinter Pub Ltd, August 1, 1995, cover price $69.00

Gotherington: The History of a Village

By David H. Aldred (editor) and Gotherington Area Local History Society (corporate author)

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9780750905916 | Sutton Pub Ltd, August 1, 1994, cover price $12.50

Cardiganshire County History: From the Earliest Times to the Coming of the Normans

Product Description: A comprehensive and scholary history of prehistoric and early Cardiganshire. This volume is illustrated with maps, line-drawings and photographic plates. It begins with the geography of the county, its flora and fauna, and traces the slow emergence of Man in prehistoric times...read more

By Ieuan Gwynedd Jones (editor)

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9780708311707 | Univ of Wales Pr, November 30, 2001, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: A comprehensive and scholary history of prehistoric and early Cardiganshire.

Builth Wells

By R. W. D. Fenn and J. B. Sinclair

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9780750904902 | Sutton Pub Ltd, August 1, 1994, cover price $12.95

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