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  • Living With My Century

    A Memoir

    by Eda Sagarra ...
    Professor Eda Sagarra, born in 1933, has been a significant and influential figure in Irish and European academic policy-making, contributing to the early development of the Erasmus scheme. Now, aged nearly 88, this memoir gives striking evidence of her self-discipline and formidable energy. This substantial memoir by one of the foremost female academics in Ireland starts with Sagarra's own ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Social History of Germany, 1648-1914

    by Eda Sagarra ...
    This volume is a pioneering effort to examine the social, demographic, and economic changes that befell the Jewish communities of Central Europe after the dissolution of the Habsburg Empire. It consists of studies researched and written especially for this volume by historians, sociologists, and economists, all specialists in modern Central European Jewish affairs. The era of national rivalry, ... Read more

    $98.99 CAD

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  • Iron Kingdom

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  • The Holy Roman Empire

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  • Europe's Tragedy

    A New History of the Thirty Years War

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    A New History

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