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Toronto Street Names: An Illustrated Guide to Their Origins Leonard Wise 9780228105138
RRP: £25.00£21.25Toronto Street Names provides a fascinating look at a highly visible record of the past of Canada’s largest city — its streets. It commemorates the people and events that have shaped the city and tells the fascinating and curious stories of how more than... -
The Japanese Ideology: A Marxist Critique of Liberalism and Fascism Jun Tosaka 9780231216524
RRP: £108.00£91.80A major Marxist thinker and critic in 1930s Japan, Tosaka Jun was among the world’s most incisive—yet underrecognized—theorists of capitalism, fascism, and ideology during the years before World War II. The Japanese Ideology is his masterpiece, first... -
The Snettisham Hoards Julia Farley 9780861592258
RRP: £40.00£34.00For over 60 years, spectacular discoveries have been made on a wooded hillside at Snettisham, overlooking the northwest Norfolk coast, close to Hunstanton. The location of the discoveries, at Ken Hill, is known as the 'gold field' because of the large... -
Mountain Commandos at War in the Falklands: The Royal Marines Mountain and Arctic Warfare Cadre in Action during the 1982 Conflict Rodney Boswell 9781526798787
RRP: £15.99£13.59Sunset, 8 June 1982, East Falkland. Eight specially trained Royal Marines infiltrate Goat Ridge, a long rocky hilltop between Mount Harriet and Two Sisters which are occupied by a battalion of 600 Argentine infantry. The next day, from their hiding place... -
The Prince Who Beat the Empire: How an Indian Ruler Took on the Might of the East India Company Moin Mir 9781398122550
RRP: £10.99£9.34An acclaimed history of empire and resistance: this is the moving story of the rebel prince who beat the world’s most powerful corporation. The ships of the East India Company first docked at India's shores in Surat in the early 17th century. In time,... -
Prosecuting the Powerful Steve Crawshaw 9780349128931
RRP: £25.00£21.25Getting a head of state in the dock was once unthinkable but as journalist and human rights advocate Steve Crawshaw uncovers in PROSECUTING THE POWERFUL - a blend of on-the-ground reportage and intellectual history - it is a real possibility. In recent... -
Raiders, Rulers, and Traders: The Horse and the Rise of Empires David Chaffetz 9781324051466
RRP: £25.00£21.25No animal is so entangled in human history as the horse. The thread starts in prehistory, with a small, shy animal, hunted for food. Over time, the domestication of horses, followed by the advent of riding, powered mighty empires: Persian, Mongol, Mughal... -
Bound Labor in the Turpentine Belt: Kinderlou Camp and Misdemeanor Convict Leasing in Georgia Thomas Aiello 9780813080826
RRP: £34.95£29.71Uncovering a little-known system of bound labor in the post-Reconstruction South After the constitutional end to slavery in the United States, southern white landowners replaced labor by enslaved people with systems of bound labor in which people worked... -
The Anarchy: The Darkest Days of Medieval England Teresa Cole 9781398122512
RRP: £10.99£9.34When the mighty Henry I died in December 1135, leaving no legitimate son, who was to replace him on the throne of England? Would it be Stephen, nephew to the king and showered with favours that maybe gave him ideas above his station? Or could it be a... -
Siena: The Rise of Painting, 1300–1350 Joanna Cannon 9781857097160
RRP: £40.00£34.00An exploration of a crucial turning point in Italian art, the early 1300s in the city of Siena In the early 1300s, the city of Siena gave rise to an extraordinary period of creativity and innovation. Painters, sculptors, and goldsmiths produced... -
Letter to My Children: From Romania to America via Auschwitz Rudolph Tessler 9780826223227
RRP: £28.95£24.61"Sixty-seven members of my family—my mother, her father, my three sisters, three of my brothers, aunts, uncles, and cousins—were murdered at Auschwitz."As Rudolph Tessler's mother stepped from the train in Auschwitz, shortly before she was sent to the... -
Midget Submarines 1939-45 Ingo Bauernfeind 9781636242798
RRP: £39.99£33.99Some of the most daring naval raids undertaken during World War II involved the use of midget submarines - craft of under 150 tons and crewed by just a handful of men - including Japanese midget submarines deployed at Pearl Harbor, the British X-craft... -
The First and Second Italian Wars, 1494-1504: Fearless Knights, Ruthless Princes and the Coming of Gunpowder Armies Julian Romane 9781526797599
RRP: £15.99£13.59An engaging narrative of the complex and dramatic events of the First and Second Italian Wars, ten years of warfare. -
Remaking History: 1948 Police Action and the Muslims of Hyderabad Afsar Mohammad 9781009339636
RRP: £85.00£72.25The story this book follows begins on August 15, 1947. As the new nation-states of India and Pakistan prepared to negotiate land and power, the citizens of the princely state of Hyderabad experienced the unravelling of an intense political conflict...Qty in Cart: 0Quantity:Price:RRP: £85.00£72.25Subtotal: -
The Great Waterloo Controversy: The Story of the 52nd Foot at History's Greatest Battle Glover, Gareth 9781526797506
RRP: £14.99£12.74As the Battle of Waterloo reached its momentous climax, Napoleon's Imperial Guard marched towards the Duke of Wellington's thinning red line. The Imperial Guard had never tasted defeat and nothing, it seemed, could stop it smashing through the British... -
Anti-Catholicism in the Mexican Revolution, 1913-1940 Jürgen Buchenau 9780826366900
RRP: £81.00£68.85Anti-Catholicism in the Mexican Revolution, 1913-1940 examines anti-Catholic leaders and movements during the Mexican Revolution, an era that resulted in a constitution denying the Church political rights. Anti-Catholic Mexicans recognized a common enemy... -
Training for Victory: U.S. Special Forces Advisory Operations from El Salvador to Afghanistan Frank Kenneth Sobchak 9781682471333
RRP: £39.95£33.96One of the most difficult security challenges of the post–Cold War era has been stabilizing failing states in an era of irregular warfare. A consistent component of the strategy to address this problem has been security force assistance where outside... -
Printing Terror: American Horror Comics as Cold War Commentary and Critique Michael Goodrum 9781526179005
RRP: £25.00£21.25Printing terror takes a fascinating look at American horror comics in the Cold War era, from the 1940s to the 1970s. It reveals how these comics both reflected and fed into the anxieties of the age, particularly in matters of race and gender.The book... -
The War for Ukraine: Strategy and Adaptation Under Fire Mick Ryan 9781682479520
RRP: £34.95£29.71The Russo-Ukraine War is a vital learning opportunity for military strategists across the globe. The first and clearest lesson to be gleaned from it is this: the soundness of a military’s strategy and the nimbleness with which it can adapt to unforeseen... -
Hitler's Traitors: Dissent, Espionage and the Hunt for Resisters Edward Harrison 9781399007368
RRP: £14.99£12.74This collection of vivid essays examines some of the most fascinating aspects of the German resistance to Hitler. It includes the first translations into English of pioneering studies on the role of a leading Nazi in the July Plot, the flight of Rudolf... -
Anti-Catholicism in the Mexican Revolution, 1913-1940 Jürgen Buchenau 9780826366917
RRP: £25.95£22.06Anti-Catholicism in the Mexican Revolution, 1913-1940 examines anti-Catholic leaders and movements during the Mexican Revolution, an era that resulted in a constitution denying the Church political rights. Anti-Catholic Mexicans recognized a common enemy... -
The Beauty of Bronze Jeremy Warren 9781910807613
RRP: £20.00£17.00This book looks at bronze through the remarkable collections of European bronze sculptures in the Ashmolean Museum of the University of Oxford. Largely thanks to the generosity of Charles Drury Edward Fortnum (1820–1899), the Ashmolean houses one of the... -
Guardian of Savannah: Fort McAllister, Georgia, in the Civil War and Beyond Roger S. Durham 9781643365282
RRP: £28.95£24.61The remarkable story of how an earthen fort defense shielded a Southern city from the ironclad monitors of the U.S. NavyBuilt out of sand and mud, Fort McAllister was designed to serve as the southern anchor of the coastal defenses of Savannah, Georgia... -
Between the Oder and the Elbe: The Opening Moves in the Battle For Berlin, 1945 Wilhelm Tieke 9781399002936
RRP: £25.00£21.25Between the Oder and the Elbe, the first of two volumes exploring the Battle for Berlin, examines the last months of the Third Reich and the defense of Berlin. It describes in detail the German attempts to stem the Soviet tide at the Oder River and the...Qty in Cart: 0Quantity:Price:RRP: £25.00£21.25Subtotal: -
A Veil of Silence: Women and Sound in Renaissance Italy Julia Rombough 9780674295810
RRP: £45.95£39.06An illuminating study of early modern efforts to regulate sound in women’s residential institutions, and how the noises of city life—both within and beyond their walls—defied such regulation.Amid the Catholic reforms of the sixteenth and seventeenth... -
Night Fighter: The Battle Against Hitler's Night Raiders 1940 - 1941 H. E. Bates 9781526721020
RRP: £12.99£11.04Details the difficulties encountered in defending against night-time intruders. -
A Century of Humiliation 1839–1949: The Exploitation of China Andrew Hyde 9781398115989
RRP: £22.99£19.54From 1839 to 1949, Imperial and Republican China was ruthlessly subjected to territorial, economic and political exploitation by Europe, Japan and the United States. This unrelenting series of shattering blows was to become known as the ‘Century of... -
The IED Threat: A Guide for Peackeeping and Stability Forces Robert Shaw 9781526719577
RRP: £25.00£21.25Compiled by an internationally-acknowledged expert in this field. Details the nature of IED and other weapon threats to peacekeeping forces and political missions. -
KaraS of 24 Eskadra at War Tomasz J. Kopanski 9788361421818
RRP: £19.99£16.99The fascinating and untold story of the 24 Eskadra of the Polish Air Force in September 1939. 24 Eskadra was the only unit during September 1939 which ended the Polish Campaign with the same number of aircraft as it started, despite heavy losses. The... -
Imagine Lagos: Mapping History, Place, and Politics in a Nineteenth-Century African City Ademide Adelusi-Adeluyi 9780821424896
RRP: £29.99£25.49Written from a digital humanities perspective, this book combines historical sources, maps, and a walking cartography to create new perspectives on the nineteenth-century history of Lagos, West Africa’s most populous city. What traces do people leave in... -
Visual Friendlies, Tally Target: How Close Air Support in the War on Terror Changed the Way America Made War: Volume 1 - Invasions Ethan Brown 9781636244228
RRP: £32.95£28.01With a new century and a new enemy came a new kind of war: low intensity and civilian-dominated, blending austere rural and dense urban environments alike. Into this new kind of war, the American military launched two invasions against terrorist networks... -
Fighting Fathers: CIA-Backed Catholic Militia in South Vietnam Alessandro Giorgi 9780764368257
RRP: £22.99£19.54An untold story of espionage, religion, and guerilla warfare in South Vietnam. During the early years of US involvement in Vietnam, the CIA helped arm militia groups in South Vietnam referred to as the “Fighting Fathers.” The name was a reference to the... -
Protecting the Empire's Humanity: Thomas Hodgkin and British Colonial Activism 1830–1870 Zoë Laidlaw 9781316647240
RRP: £29.99£25.49Rooted in the extraordinary archive of Quaker physician and humanitarian activist, Dr Thomas Hodgkin, this book explores the efforts of the Aborigines' Protection Society to expose Britain's hypocrisy and imperial crimes in the mid-nineteenth century... -
Killing Napoleon: The Plot to Blow up Bonaparte Jonathan North 9781398122543
RRP: £10.99£9.34It was Christmas Eve 1800. The streets of Paris were crowded with citizens. Some were shopping, some were eating and drinking. But others were plotting to murder the most famous and powerful man in France. They wheeled their improvised bomb into town... -
If All the World Were Paper: A History of Writing in Hindi Tyler W. Williams 9780231211130
RRP: £30.00£25.50How do writing and literacy reshape the ways a language and its literature are imagined? If All the World Were Paper explores this question in the context of Hindi, the most widely spoken language in Southern Asia and the fourth most widely spoken... -
Malaria on the Move: Rural Communities and Public Health in Zimbabwe, 1890-2015 Kundai Manamere 9780821425855
RRP: £81.00£68.85Malaria on the Move explores the socioeconomic aspects of endemic malaria in the southeastern lowveld of Zimbabwe. The book provides a historical analysis of malaria control and eradication programs in Rhodesia and independent Zimbabwe from the late... -
By Strength, We Are Still Here: Indigenous Peoples and Indian Residential Schooling in Inuvik, Northwest Territories Crystal Gail Fraser 9781772840940
RRP: £27.95£23.76The first comprehensive study of Indian residential schools in the North In this ground-breaking book, Crystal Gail Fraser draws on Dinjii Zhuh (Gwitch’in) concepts of individual and collective strength to illuminate student experiences in northern... -
Malaria on the Move: Rural Communities and Public Health in Zimbabwe, 1890-2015 Kundai Manamere 9780821425862
RRP: £29.99£25.49Malaria on the Move explores the socioeconomic aspects of endemic malaria in the southeastern lowveld of Zimbabwe. The book provides a historical analysis of malaria control and eradication programs in Rhodesia and independent Zimbabwe from the late... -
Studies in Byzantine Monasticism Alice-Mary Talbot 9781032704777
RRP: £135.00£114.75This volume includes seventeen essays on Byzantine monasticism, focusing on the 9th to 15th centuries. Envisaged as a companion Variorum volume to Talbot's Women and Religious Life in Byzantium (2001), this compendium complements its predecessor by... -
Communication Maintenance in Longue Durée Gabriele Balbi 9781032543697
RRP: £135.00£114.75This interdisciplinary volume focuses on the politics, economics, technologies, uses, and cultures of maintenance of different forms of communication over long time or in Longue Durée.Throughout the chapters, contributors from a wide range of fields...