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The Roman Provinces, 300 BCE–300 CE: Using Coins as Sources Andrew Burnett 9781009420136
RRP: £99.99£84.99Provincial 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: £99.99£84.99Subtotal: -
Romanian Crucible: The Trial of Corneliu Zelea Codreanu Gheorghe Buzatu 9781592114481
RRP: £29.95£25.46The 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: £25.00£21.25The 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: £135.00£114.75This 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: £84.00£71.40Leon 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: £26.99£22.94An 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: £27.95£23.76Before 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: £135.00£114.75This 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: £46.99£39.94History 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: £29.99£25.49Where 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: £27.99£23.79The 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: £29.95£25.46A 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: £28.99£24.64The 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: £135.00£114.75Between 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: £40.00£34.00A 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: £27.99£23.79Black 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: £14.99£12.74'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: £29.95£25.46Richmond, 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... -
East Africa: A Century of Change 1870–1970 W.E.F. Ward 9781032422671
RRP: £27.99£23.79East Africa (1971) examines the century from 1870 that saw the emergence of East Africa from an ancient isolation into the modern world. This survey pays attention to the social and economic as well as the political history of this transition, and takes... -
Freedom's Mirage: Virgil Bennehan's Odyssey from Emancipation to Exile Sydney Nathans 9781469682648
RRP: £98.00£83.30Freedom's Mirage traces the exceptional life of Virgil Bennehan, born in bondage in 1808 in Piedmont North Carolina, who rose to become an enslaved doctor on one of the South's largest plantations and to view himself as a friend to Blacks and whites... -
Norse Mythology: The Gods, Heroes, Monsters and Legends of the Viking Culture Finn D Moore 9780228105046
RRP: £25.00£21.25The Norsemen of old Scandinavia were a tough and hardy people, best known today for their prowess in bloody combat and storytelling. Because they had no writing, the frightening reputation of warriors survives, but Norse mythology — all storytelling — is... -
Slavery's Fugitives and the Making of the United States Constitution Timothy Messer-Kruse 9780807182765
RRP: £38.95£33.11Slavery's Fugitives and the Making of the United States Constitution unearths a long-hidden factor that led to the Constitutional Convention in 1787. While historians have generally acknowledged that patriot leaders assembled in response to postwar... -
Colonial Sequence 1949 to 1969: A Chronological Commentary upon British Colonial Policy in Africa Margery Perham 9781032455860
RRP: £29.99£25.49Colonial Sequence 1949 to 1969 (1970) continues the sequence begun in Colonial Sequence 1930 to 1949 and presents a valuable body of evidence for the enquiry into Britain’s colonial actions, written at a time when Britain was retreating from empire. In... -
Liberalism and Naval Strategy: Ideology, Interest and Sea Power During the Pax Britannica Bernard Semmel 9781032549293
RRP: £27.99£23.79Liberalism and Naval Strategy (1986) examines the role that liberalism played in shaping the naval strategy of the Pax Britannia. Liberalism was linked to commercial interest, and the devotion of the middle classes to peaceful commerce and their... -
Traveling to Unknown Places: Nineteenth-Century Journeys toward French and American Selfhood Lloyd S. Kramer 9781469682389
RRP: £98.00£83.30Traveling to Unknown Places presents a compelling, incisive analysis of how French and American writers reshaped their personal and collective identities as they traveled in foreign countries after the social upheavals of the eighteenth-century Atlantic... -
Elstree Aerodrome: 90 Years in Pictures Grant Peerless 9781803995984
RRP: £22.99£19.54From its humble beginnings in the 1930s as a landing strip associated with a country club, Elstree Aerodrome would go on to be used extensively for repair and overhaul of military aircraft in the Second World War and would later become one of the... -
Colonizing Ourselves Volume 5: Tejano Back-to-Mexico Movements and the Making of a Settler Colonial Nation José Angel Hernández 9780806194592
RRP: £38.95£33.11In the late nineteenth century, the Mexican government, seeking to fortify its northern borders and curb migration to the United States, set out to relocate “Mexico-Texano” families, or Tejanos, on Mexican land. In Colonizing Ourselves, José Angel... -
The Pullman Strike: A Gilded Age Clash between Labor, Capital, and Government Edward T. O'Donnell 9781032483917
RRP: £135.00£114.75This book examines the 1894 Pullman Strike, one of the most consequential clashes between labor and capital that paralyzed America’s railroad system.The Gilded Age saw rapid economic growth, expansion of industrialization, and real wage growth. Yet... -
The Morality of Revolution: Reeducation Camps and the Politics of Punishment in Socialist Mozambique, 1968–1990 Benedito Luís Machava 9780821425831
RRP: £32.00£27.20The Morality of Revolution offers the first historical examination of urban cleanup campaigns and reeducation camps in socialist Mozambique. The book presents the camps as the template for independent Mozambique’s punitive society under Frelimo... -
Damming the Reservation Volume 23: Tribal Sovereignty and Activism at Fort Berthold Angela Parker 9780806194615
RRP: £38.95£33.11“The single most destructive act ever perpetrated on any tribe by the United States,” Vine Deloria Jr. called it. For the Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara communities living on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation in North Dakota, the construction of the... -
Hiroshima: The Last Witnesses M.G. Sheftall 9781035422692
RRP: £16.99£14.44The stories of hibakusha - Japanese for atomic bomb survivors - lie at the heart of this compelling minute-by-minute account of 6 August 1945 - the day the world changed forever as the Enola Gay dropped its payload over Hiroshima, ushering in the nuclear... -
The Morality of Revolution: Reeducation Camps and the Politics of Punishment in Socialist Mozambique, 1968–1990 Benedito Luís Machava 9780821425824
RRP: £81.00£68.85The Morality of Revolution offers the first historical examination of urban cleanup campaigns and reeducation camps in socialist Mozambique. The book presents the camps as the template for independent Mozambique’s punitive society under Frelimo... -
Red Threads: A History of the People's Flag Henry Bell 9780745347691
RRP: £25.00£21.25The red flag: there is no symbol, perhaps other than the crucifix and the crescent moon, that so many people have lived and died for. A standard of hope and resistance to millions, and of terror and tyranny to many. But why is the red flag red? How did... -
Graphic War Navy: The Secret Naval Drawings and Illustrations of World War II Donald Nijboer 9780228104841
RRP: £40.00£34.00Prepare to embark on an extraordinary journey into the heart of naval warfare during World War II with Graphic War Navy. Following the success of Graphic War: The Secret Aviation Drawings and Illustrations of World War II, Donald Nijboer unveils a... -
The Chief Rabbi's Funeral: The Untold Story of America's Largest Antisemitic Riot Scott D. Seligman 9781640126183
RRP: £29.99£25.49On July 30, 1902, tens of thousands of mourners lined the streets of New York’s Lower East Side to bid farewell to the city’s chief rabbi, the eminent Talmudist Jacob Joseph. All went well until the procession crossed Sheriff Street, where the six-story... -
At the Origins of Politics: Formation and Growth of the State in Syro-Mesopotamia Giorgio Buccellati 9780367256708
RRP: £36.99£31.44This volume, now available in English, explores how Mesopotamia’s urban revolution in the late fourth millennium BC shaped a new mentality, leading to new forms of social interaction, and the development of the state, its laws and its religion to... -
The Great Genesee Road: Traveling through Time on New York State's Historic Route 5 Richard Figiel 9781493075577
RRP: £18.99£16.14Today we call most of it New York Route 5. Over the centuries it has been called the Iroquois Trail, Genesee Road, Mohawk and Seneca Turnpike, Buffalo Road. In Route 5 and the Great Genesee Road, author Richard Figiel takes readers on a historical... -
The Nazi Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin Brad Meltzer 9781804185292
RRP: £10.99£9.34A major international bestseller.The little-known true story of a Nazi plot to kill Winston Churchill, President Franklin Roosevelt and Joseph Stalin at the height of World War II, and how it was averted. In 1943 only three men stood in Hitler's way;... -
The Forgotten Era: Nigeria Before British Rule Max Siollun 9780745350080
RRP: £25.00£21.25Much is known about colonial Africa (or, what Europeans did in Africa). Yet very little is known about Africa before its colonisation. In this surprising history, Max Siollun uncovers a Nigeria that was not part of a backward 'dark continent' as European... -
Disasters in World History Benjamin Reilly 9781032566955
RRP: £130.00£110.50Disasters in World History surveys the development of disaster studies as a discipline as well as the historical case studies and theories used by historians to understand disasters.Disasters, here defined as the complex interaction between natural...