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Jung Chang
Jung Chang (born 1952)

autobiographer, biographer, linguist, poet, historian

  • University of York, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London

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Mao
Wild Swans
Mme Sun Yat-sen
Empress Dowager Cixi
Hong
Hui gu zhan wang tan tao
Seitaikō hiroku
Eberhard Jäckel
Eberhard Jäckel (1929-2017)

historian of Modern Age, historian

  • University of Tübingen, University of Paris

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Hitlers Weltanschauung
Hitler in history
"Historikerstreit"
Das deutsche Jahrhundert
Umgang mit Vergangenheit
La France dans l'Europe de Hitler
The Jews in the secret Nazi reports on popular opinion in Germany, 1933-1945
Deutsche Parlamentsdebatten
Der Mord an den Juden im Zweiten Weltkrieg
David Irving's Hitler
Hitlers Herrschaft
Die Schleswig-Frage seit 1945
Die deutsche Frage 1952-1956
Die Funktion der Geschichte in unserer Zeit
Die Juden in den geheimen NS-Stimmungsberichten 1933-1945
Die deutsche Frage 1952-1956
Von Heuss bis Herzog
Dänemark und die Niederlande unter deutscher Besetzung
Wirtschaft Gesellschaft Geschichte
Die Juden, das sind doch die anderen
Die Funkaufklärung und ihre Rolle im Zweiten Weltkrieg
Kriegswende Dezember 1941
Frankreich in Hitlers Europa
Städte im Zweiten Weltkrieg
Taylor Branch
Taylor Branch (born 1947)

historian

  • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Princeton University

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The Clinton tapes
The Clinton tapes
The Clinton tapes
Parting the Waters
At Canaan's edge
The King years
Pillar of Fire
Labyrinth
At Canaan's edge
Parting the waters
The empire blues
The King years
Martin Luther King
William J. Fishman
William J. Fishman (1921-2014)

historian, school teacher

  • London School of Economics and Political Science, Central Foundation Boys' School

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East End Jewish Radicals
East End 1888
The streets of East London
The insurrectionists
Outsiders & outcasts
Morris Winchevsky's London Yiddish newspaper
The condition of East End Jewry in 1888
East End and Docklands
Matthew Paris
Matthew Paris (1199-1258)

cartographer, hagiographer, heraldist, illuminator, painter, monk, historian, scribe

  • St Albans School

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La estoire de seint Aedward le Rei
The life of St. Edmund
Matthæi Parisiensis, monachi Sancti Albani, Chronica majora
Historia Anglorum
Matth©Œi Parisiensis, monachi Sancti Albani, Chronica majora
The flowers of history, especially such as relate to the affairs of Britain
English history from the year 1235 to 1273
Historia major
The illustrated chronicles of Matthew Paris
Illustrations to the life of St. Alban in Trin. Coll. Dublin ms. E. i. 40
La vie de Seint Auban
Four maps of Great Britain designed by Matthew Paris about A.D. 1250
Flores historiarum
Matthaei Parisiensis, monachi Sancti Albani, Chronica majora
Chronicles of Matthew Paris
Miscellanea Scotica
Matthaei Paris monachi Albanensis Angli Historia major
Matth©Œi Parisiensis, monachi Sancti Albani
Matthæi Paris, monachi Albanensis Angli, Historia major
Matthaei Paris ... Historia maior
Matthæi Parisiensis, monachi Sancti Albani, Historia Anglorum
Grande chronique
English history
Illustrations to the life of St. Alban in Trinity College Dublin Ms.E.i.40
The history of Saint Edward the King
Matthew Paris's English history from the year 1235 to 1273
The flowers of history
Gulielmus redivivus, or, King William the second, lately revived from Paris
Matth︠a︡ei Paris ... Historia major
Matthaei Parisiensis Historia Anglorum
Selections [from the Chronica Majora]
Matthaei Paris, monachi Albanensis Angli, Historia major
La vie saint Thomas le Martyr
Auszüge aus der grösseren chronik
Flores historiarvm per Mattaeum Westmona steriensem collecti
Grande chronique
The life of Saint Alban
Grande chronique
Flores historiarum
A caveat to the three kingdoms:, or, A summary account of the most miserable and deplorable estate and condition of England in the reign of king John
Vie de Seint Auban
La Estoire de Seint Aedward le Rei
Cornelis de Bie
Cornelis de Bie (1627-1715)

art historian, playwright, poet

  • Old University of Leuven

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Het gulden cabinet van de edel vry schilderconst
Het gulden cabinet vande edele vry schilder-const
Faems Weer-galm der Neder-duytsche poësie
Den sedighen toet-steen vande onverdaeghelycke welde verthoont in't leven van den verloren sone
Den sedighen toet-steen vande onverdraeghelycke welde verthoont in't leven van den verloren sone, verciert met gheest-rijcke sinne belden
[Portraits of Renaissance and Baroque artists]
Jan van Gool
Jan van Gool (1685-1762)

painter, art historian, drawer, art theorist, biographer

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De nieuwe schouberg der Nederlantsche kunstschilders en schilderessen
De nieuwe schouburg der Nederlantsche kunstschilders en schilderessen
De nieuwe schouburg der Nederlantsche kunstschilders en schilderessen
Johann Nikolaus Forkel
Johann Nikolaus Forkel (1749-1818)

composer, musicologist, music theorist, music historian, biographer, organist

  • University of Göttingen

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Ueber Johann Sebastian Bachs Leben, Kunst und Kunstwerke
Ueber Johann Sebastian Bachs Leben, Kunst und Kunstwerke. Reprint der Erstausgabe Leipzig 1802
Ueber Johann Sebastian Bachs Leben, Kunst und Kunstwerke
Johann Sebastian Bach
Allgemeine Litteratur der Musik, oder, Anleitung zur Kenntniss musikalischer Bücher
Allgemeine Geschichte der Musik
Musikalisch-kritische bibliothek
Life of John Sebastian Bach
Ueber Johann Sebastian Bachs Leben, Kunst, und Werke
Über Johann Sebastian Bachs Leben, Kunst und Kunstwerke [von] J.N. Forkel
Sur la vie, l'art et l'oeuvre de Johann Sebastian Bach
Allgemeine Litteratur der Musik
Ueber Johann Sebastian Bachs Leben, Kunst und Kunstwerke
Ueber die theorie der musik, insofern sie liebhabern und kennern nothwendig und nützlich ist
The Forkel-Hoffmeister & Kühnel correspondence
Musikalischer Almanach für Deutschland
The Forkel-Hoffmeister and Kuhnel Correspondence
Musikalisch-kritische bibliothek
Über Johann Sebastian Bachs Leben, Kunst und Kunstwerke
Allgemeine litteratur der musik
Musikalisch-kritische Bibliothek