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Escaping Hitler is the personal story of Eva Wyman and her family's escape from Nazi Germany to Chile in the sociohistorical context of 1930s and 1940s, a time when the Chilean Nazi party had an active presence in the country's major institutions. Based primarily oninterviewswith German Jewish refugees and family correspondence, Eva Goldschmidt Wyman provides an intimateaccount of Jews in Germany in the 1930s as Nazi controls tightened and family members were taken to Riga concentration camp. Wyman recounts Kristallnacht in Stuttgart, where her father w

by John Miers ; Volltext // Exemplar mit der Signatur: München, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek -- It.sing. 671 g-1

by John Miers ; Volltext // Exemplar mit der Signatur: München, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek -- It.sing. 671 g-2

Aymara Indians are a geographically isolated, indigenous people living in the Andes Mountains near Chile's Atacama Desert, one of the most arid regions of the world. As rapid economic growth in the area has begun to divert scarce water to hydroelectric and agricultural projects, the Aymara struggle to maintain their sustainable and traditional systems of water use, agriculture, and pastoralism.In Aymara Indian Perspectives on Development in the Andes, Amy Eisenberg provides a detailed exploration of the ethnoecological dimensions of the tension between the Aymara, whose e

A later edition, with additions, was published at Hartford, 1839, under title: History of South America and Mexico . By Hon. John M. Niles. ; Mode of access: Internet.

1839 ed. published under title : History of South America and Mexico. ; Mode of access: Internet.

A later edition, with additions, was pub. at Hartford, 1839, under title: History of South America and Mexico . By Hon. John M. Niles. ; Mode of access: Internet.

James Burton writes that a young protégé of Mr. Poinsett's of Charleston, South Carolina, should be sent to Alden Partridge's academy in Norwich, Vermont; the young man is from Chile, of the Carrera family; how might they get him from Germantown, Pennsylvania, to Norwich? ; Transcription by L. Gregory Curtis, NU'77, MSIA'07. Transcriptions may be subject to error.

Includes 1 woodcut. ; First sentence: "The Wager man-of-war, one of the ships attached to Commodore Anson's enterprise, had been an Indiaman, and was deeply laden with all kinds of stores, naval and military, crowded with bale goods, and encumbered with merchandise." ; Mode of access: Internet. ; Copy in McGill Library's Rare Books and Special Collections: one of five ships under the command of Commodore Anson in 1740, wrecked off the coast of Chile. Hand-coloured folding engraved frontispiece. Green wrappers. Adelphi Book Shop, Victoria, B.C. June/64. $6.50.