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The War for Ukraine: Strategy and Adaptation Under Fire Mick Ryan 9781682479520
RRP: $59.95$50.96The 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: $25.71$21.85This 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: $44.51$37.84Anti-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: $34.31$29.16This 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: $49.66$42.21The 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: $42.88$36.45Between 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... -
A Veil of Silence: Women and Sound in Renaissance Italy Julia Rombough 9780674295810
RRP: $78.82$67.00An 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: $22.28$18.94Details the difficulties encountered in defending against night-time intruders. -
A Century of Humiliation 1839–1949: The Exploitation of China Andrew Hyde 9781398115989
RRP: $39.43$33.52From 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: $42.88$36.45Compiled 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: $34.29$29.14The 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: $51.44$43.72Written 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: $56.52$48.05With 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: $39.43$33.52An 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: $51.44$43.72Rooted 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: $18.85$16.02It 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: $51.46$43.74How 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: $138.94$118.10Malaria 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: $47.94$40.76The 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: $51.44$43.72Malaria 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: $231.57$196.83This 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: $231.57$196.83This 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... -
The Roman Provinces, 300 BCE–300 CE: Using Coins as Sources Andrew Burnett 9781009420136
RRP: $171.51$145.78Provincial coinage gives us a unique insight into the Roman world, reflecting the values and concerns of the elites of the many hundreds of cities in the Roman empire. Coins offer a very different perspective from written history, which usually...Qty in Cart: 0Quantity:Price:RRP: $171.51$145.78Subtotal: -
Romanian Crucible: The Trial of Corneliu Zelea Codreanu Gheorghe Buzatu 9781592114481
RRP: $51.37$43.67The trial of Corneliu Zelea Codreanu, leader of the Legionary Movement in Romania, marked a critical moment in the history of the country between the two World Wars. It destroyed the last vestiges of democracy and laid the groundwork for the... -
Oliver Cromwell: Commander in Chief Ronald Hutton 9780300278941
RRP: $42.88$36.45The second volume in an acclaimed biography of Oliver Cromwell, from the capture of Charles I to the expulsion of the Long Parliament In 1647, the Parliamentarians were divided. They had won the first civil war and the king was in custody, but... -
Body Behaviour and Identity Construction in Ancient Greek and Roman Literature Andreas Serafim 9781032288581
RRP: $231.57$196.83This book offers the first systematic, up-to-date, cross-cultural, and detailed study of “semi-volitional bodily behaviour” (sneezing, spitting, coughing, burping, vomiting, defecating, etc.) in the classical world.Examining verse and prose texts,... -
Destination City: A Gallery of New York's Most Surprising Visitors and Residents Throughout History Robert Pigott 9780231216487
RRP: $144.09$122.47Leon Trotsky was living in The Bronx with his common-law wife and two children when the Russian Revolution broke out. President Woodrow Wilson and his successor, Warren G. Harding, had little in common—except both came to New York City to indulge in... -
Making the Presidency: John Adams and the Precedents That Forged the Republic Lindsay M. Chervinsky 9780197653845
RRP: $46.30$39.35An authoritative account of the second president of the United States that shows how John Adams's leadership and legacy defined the office for those who followed and ensured the survival of the American republic. The United States of 1797 faced enormous... -
Music, Muscle, and Masterful Arts: Black and Indigenous Performers of the Circus Age Sakina M. Hughes 9781469676272
RRP: $47.94$40.76Before the heyday of the Chitlin Circuit and the Harlem Renaissance, African American performing artists and creative entrepreneurs—sometimes called Black Bohemians—seized their limited freedoms and gained both fame and fortune with their work in a... -
Documents on Israeli-Soviet Relations, 1954–1967: Part 4: 1965–1967 Yaacov Ro'i 9781032806761
RRP: $231.57$196.83This book, spanning the years 1965–1967—the years leading up to and culminating in the June 1967 Six Day War—is the fourth in a four-volume collection of documents from the Russian Federation and the Israeli State Archives portraying relations between... -
History of the British West Indies Sir Alan Burns 9781032425115
RRP: $80.60$68.51History of the British West Indies (1954) examines the history of the islands of the Caribbean from their first discovery, through the periods of colonisation and slavery, and up to the beginnings of their status as independent nations. The actions of... -
Where the Waves Fall: A New South Sea Islands History from First Settlement to Colonial Rule K.R. Howe 9781032438801
RRP: $51.44$43.72Where the Waves Fall (1984) centres the stories of the Pacific Islanders and how they were affected by European explorers and colonisers in this unique account of human settlement and cultural interchange in the Pacific islands. It follows the fortunes... -
Turning Point in Africa: British Colonial Policy 1938–48 Robert D. Pearce 9781032444956
RRP: $48.01$40.81The Turning Point in Africa (1982) is a significant study of British colonial policy towards tropical Africa during a critical decade, from the complacent trusteeship of the inter-war years to the strategy of decolonization inaugurated after the Second... -
Mahommah Gardo Baquaqua: An Enslaved Muslim of the Black Atlantic Paul E. Lovejoy 9781469682457
RRP: $51.37$43.67A literate Muslim born between 1820 and 1830 in present-day Benin, Mahommah Gardo Baquaqua was enslaved in the interior of West Africa and forcibly moved to Brazil in 1845. He escaped from slavery when his master took him to New York City in 1847... -
Unsung Heroes of the Dachau Trials: The Investigative Work of the U.S. Army 7708 War Crimes Group, 1945-1947, 2d ed. John J. Dunphy 9781476695402
RRP: $49.73$42.26The U.S. Army 7708 War Crimes Group investigated atrocities committed in Germany and Nazi-occupied Europe during World War II. These young Americans--many barely out of their teens--gathered evidence, interviewed witnesses, apprehended suspects and... -
Between Homelands in Michael Ondaatje’s Fiction Julie Mehta 9781032865881
RRP: $231.57$196.83Between Homelands in Michael Ondaatje’s Fiction is a comprehensive study of the novels of the Sri Lankan-Canadian author and poet, Michael Ondaatje. This survey of the Booker Prize winning novelist’s works locates him as a powerful voice that urges... -
Storm Cloud: Picturing the Origins of Our Climate Crisis Melinda McCurdy 9780300276145
RRP: $68.61$58.32A revealing exploration of how prescient nineteenth-century artists, writers, and scientists began to sound the alarm on climate crisis Against a backdrop of industrialization and scientific development that reshaped humanity’s relationship to the... -
Black Flags in Vietnam: The Story of a Chinese Intervention Henry McAleavy 9781032444673
RRP: $48.01$40.81Black Flags in Vietnam (1968) examines nineteenth-century conflict between China, Vietnam and France. For the first thousand years of its history, Vietnam had been an integral part of China, and during subsequent centuries of self-rule had acknowledged... -
Travellers in the Golden Realm: How Mughal India Connected England to the World Lubaaba Al-Azami 9781529371338
RRP: $25.71$21.85'This is a remarkable book. It combines a spellbinding account of the first forgotten half of the English encounter with India with a fascinating history of the Mughal Empire' JOSEPHINE QUINN, author of How the World Made the West'A compelling, highly... -
The Making of Twenty-First-Century Richmond: Politics, Policy, and Governance, 1988-2016 Thad Williamson 9781469681290
RRP: $51.37$43.67Richmond, Virginia, took center stage globally in the summer of 2020 as an epicenter of antiracist protests in the wake of the police murder of George Floyd. In a period of just a few weeks, overwhelming public support grew for removing Richmond's...