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A Contested Terrain: Freedpeople's Education in North Carolina During the Civil War and Reconstruction AnneMarie Brosnan 9781531509293
RRP: €30.93€26.29A testament to the resilience and determination of Black North Carolinians to achieve educational equality. This book examines the educational experiences of Black North Carolinians during the American Civil War and Reconstruction period, 1861-1877. By... -
The World War II Bond Campaign Lawrence R. Samuel 9781531509255
RRP: €35.69€30.33World War II issues relating to race, ethnicity, and class make the work timely and relevant The World War II Bond Campaign is a history of the World War II bond drive led by the federal government, an effort called the most successful marketing... -
Baden Powell’s Fighting Police – The SAC: The Boer War unit that inspired the Scouts Hamish Ross 9781399083669
RRP: €19.03€16.17This work begins in August 1900 during the war in South Africa, when mounted Boer commandos ranging across the veldt superseded pitched battles of massed armies and heavy weaponry. Thanks to his flair for organisation, Baden-Powell is asked to create a... -
Humanitarianism, Empire and Transnationalism, 1760-1995: Selective Humanity in the Anglophone World Joy Damousi 9781526182418
RRP: €35.70€30.35This is the first book to examine the shifting relationship between humanitarianism and the expansion, consolidation and postcolonial transformation of the Anglophone world across three centuries, from the antislavery campaign of the late eighteenth... -
Henry's Shadow: The Life and Times of John Morton Ashley Wood 9781398120105
RRP: €29.75€25.29John Morton, Cardinal, Archbishop of Canterbury, and Lord Chancellor bestrode the Wars of the Roses. A significant supporter of Henry IV, then a diplomat and senior judge for Edward IV, he was a fierce opponent of and spymaster against Richard III, and... -
Men of God: Mendicant Orders in Colonial Mexico Asunción Lavrin 9781496237804
RRP: €105.91€90.02A broadly researched cultural history, Men of God offers a path to understanding the concept of religious masculinity through an intimate approach to the study of friars and lay brothers in colonial Mexico. Though other scholars have focused on the... -
Secrets of a Suitcase: The Countess, the Nazis, and Middle Europe's Lost Nobility Pauline Terreehorst 9781911723394
RRP: €29.75€25.29When Pauline Terreehorst bid for a vintage Gucci suitcase at Sotheby’s Amsterdam, she had no idea what was inside. After picking up her prize, she found that the case was filled with dresses, fur collars and lace voiles, and accompanied by two brown... -
Escaping Madness: Eyewitness Accounts from World War II Klaus G Förg 9781805000631
RRP: €23.80€20.23This fascinating collection of personal narratives challenges the view that all Germans knew of the crimes perpetrated by the Third Reich and were complicit. The five accounts recall the lives of individuals born in the 1920s who resisted joining the SS,... -
Empires of Spymasters: The Secret War Between the British Empire and Imperial Japan, 1900–1941 Panagiotis Dimitrakis 9781398124370
RRP: €27.36€23.25‘The Empire is the Master [in the Far East] and they are the guests’ Yamagata Aritomo, the chief imperial strategist of Tokyo, remarked. From the early 1900s, Imperial Japan aimed for hegemony in the Far East. The resourceful and independent-minded... -
Murder in Anglo-Saxon England: Justice, Wergild, Revenge Annie Whitehead 9781398119888
RRP: €27.36€23.25The records pertaining to the Anglo-Saxon period contain many stories of murder, particularly regicide, many of which include details of witchcraft and poisoning, or of betrayal of the worst kind, leaving us with the impression that this period was one... -
Chasing the Shadow: Mickey Marcus's 200 Days of Destiny Steven L. Ossad 9780826223180
RRP: €47.54€40.41The life of David “Mickey” Marcus has become the stuff of legends and myths (even fantasy), conspiracy, wild exaggeration, and untethered embellishment. The image of Marcus cast by the character portrayed by Kirk Douglas in the film version of his life... -
Converting Verse: The Poetics of Asceticism in Late Roman Gaul David Ungvary 9780197600740
RRP: €92.82€78.90For centuries, the Roman aristocracy encoded its social and cultural superiority in classical poetry. In the late Roman world, however, Christian poets--especially those in the outlying provinces of Gaul--began to experiment with poetry as a medium for... -
The Port: Hà Tiên and the Mo Clan in Early Modern Asia Xing Hang 9781009426961
RRP: €22.60€19.21The Port (present-day Hà Tiên), situated in the Mekong River Delta and Gulf of Siam littoral, was founded and governed by the Chinese creole Mo clan during the eighteenth century and prospered as a free-trade emporium in maritime East Asia. Mo Jiu and... -
War in Europe Askold Melnyczuk 9781739353797
RRP: €16.66€14.16“War in Europe” is an essential issue from Irish Pages, the island’s leading literary journal. The prime focus is the war in Ukraine, guest edited by the highly distinguished Ukrainian-American novelist Askold Melnyczuk. Much Ukrainian writing (from both... -
Contemporary Korean Art: New Directions Since the 1960s Mina Kim 9781789148718
RRP: €41.65€35.40Presenting fresh and thematic interpretations, this book showcases a collection of the most visually captivating, socially intriguing and often overlooked examples of Korean art. Set against the backdrop of a tumultuous history, artists in Korea embarked... -
Searching for Authenticity: Rustic Architecture in America 1877-1940 Edward Ford 9781957183947
RRP: €59.44€50.53Rustic Architecture in America 1887-1940 is a history of a series of misunderstood masterpieces, the log-based architecture that emerged in the Adirondacks and the National Parks between 1890 and 1935. It is a history of how both form and technology of... -
Cross-dressing in the Middle Ages Marina Montesano 9781032325781
RRP: €160.65€136.55By encompassing the hagiographies of the first centuries, the most famous case of Joan of Arc, numerous chivalrous novels, and the overlooked accounts of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, this is the first study to consider cross-dressing for the... -
Ours Was the Shining Future: The Story of the American Dream David Leonhardt 9781529435467
RRP: €17.84€15.16'An important book' Martin Wolf, Financial Times (BOOK OF THE YEAR)The clear-eyed, definitive history of the modern American economy and the decline of the American Dream, from the Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist behind The New York Times's "The... -
Design Before Disaster: Japan's Culture of Preparedness Miho Mazereeuw 9780813950914
RRP: €116.62€99.13Models of disaster preparedness Across the globe, few sites have faced as many environmental disasters as the islands of the Japanese archipelago. They have endured typhoons, cyclones, floods, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and tsunamis. Residents of... -
Before the Movement: The Hidden History of Black Civil Rights Dylan C. Penningroth 9781324095644
RRP: €23.79€20.22The familiar story of civil rights goes like this: once, America’s legal system shut Black people out and refused to recognize their rights, their basic human dignity, or even their very lives. When lynch mobs gathered, police and judges often closed... -
50 Early Medieval Finds: From the Portable Antiquities Scheme Jo Ahmet 9781398118911
RRP: €19.03€16.17From the fall of the Roman Empire to the battle of Hastings, the early-mediaeval period is one of our most engaging historical eras. It covers the formation of the kingdoms and countries of Britain, the establishment of Christianity, Viking invaders and... -
Holidays with Hitler: State-sponsored Fun in Nazi Germany Nathan Morley 9781398122598
RRP: €13.08€11.11Holidays with Hitler tells the story of German leisure time and state-sponsored fun under the Nazi regime. Nathan Morley looks at consumerism, entertainment and travel in German society, and offers a vivid portrait of what it was like to visit as a... -
The Women of Rendezvous: A Transatlantic Story of Family and Slavery Jenny Shaw 9781469682754
RRP: €116.62€99.13The Women of Rendezvous is a dramatic transatlantic story about five women who birthed children by the same prominent Barbados politician and enslaver. Two of the women were his wives, two he enslaved, and one was a servant in his household. All were... -
A History of Railways in 100 Maps Jeremy Black 9780712355018
RRP: €47.60€40.46Continuing the thematic strand of the successful and proven British Library ‘100 Maps’ series, this new volume traces the fully international history of railways from their beginnings in the north-west of England through to the inter-continental lines of... -
Team of Giants: The Making of the Spanish-American War Matthew Bernstein 9780806194714
RRP: €38.02€32.32If not for an unlikely alliance among a bespectacled cowboy, a former Confederate general, and a millionaire newspaper publisher, the Spanish-American War might never have been. How these three outsize characters—Theodore Roosevelt, Joseph “Fighting Joe”... -
Race Traffic: Antislavery and the Origins of White Victimhood, 1619-1819 Gunther Peck 9781469675145
RRP: €53.49€45.47Fantasies of white slavery and the narratives of victimhood they spawn form the foundation of racist ideology. They also obscure the lived experience of trafficked servants and sailors in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Gunther Peck moves... -
Relieve Us of This Burthen: American Prisoners of War in the Revolutionary South, 1780-1782 Carl P. Borick 9781643365237
RRP: €26.12€22.21Relieve Us of This Burthen is the first book-length study of Continental soldiers, officers, and militiamen held as prisoners of war by the British in the South during the American Revolution. Carl P. Borick focuses his study on the period 1780-82, when... -
The Most Interesting Book in the World Edward Brooke-Hitching 9781398532373
RRP: €17.84€15.16Drawn from a lifetime’s search for the weird and the wonderful, The Most Interesting Book in The World is a miscellany of things too strange to be true, yet somehow are. Written by a former BBC QI Elf turned bestselling author, this remarkable treasury... -
Under Alien Skies: Environment, Suffering, and the Defeat of the British Military in Revolutionary America Vaughn Scribner 9781469680774
RRP: €35.64€30.30The Revolutionary War is often celebrated as the marking the birth of American republicanism, liberty, and representative democracy. Yet for the tens of thousands of British and Hessian troops sent 3,000 miles across the Atlantic Ocean to wage war under... -
Under Alien Skies: Environment, Suffering, and the Defeat of the British Military in Revolutionary America Vaughn Scribner 9781469680767
RRP: €116.62€99.13The Revolutionary War is often celebrated as the marking the birth of American republicanism, liberty, and representative democracy. Yet for the tens of thousands of British and Hessian troops sent 3,000 miles across the Atlantic Ocean to wage war under... -
Trouble, Trials Trouble, Trials, and Vexations: The Journal and Correspondence of Rachel Perry Moores , Texan Plantation Mistress: The Journal and Correspondence of Rachel Perry Moores , Texan Plantation Mistress Thomas W. Cutrer 9781649670243
RRP: €47.54€40.41Rachel Moores and her husband David operated a cotton plantation in the bottoms of the Sulphur River in North East Texas. From that vantage point, they viewed the changing fortunes of Texas as the American Civil War opened their privileged lifestyle... -
A Carpetbagger in Reverse: Arthur W. Mitchell, America's First Black Democratic Congressman John Morris Knapp 9780817322151
RRP: €111.86€95.08A long overdue reexamination of Mitchell and his accomplishments highlights his controversial personality, politics, and beliefs and calls for a reinterpretation of his importance to American history.Book InformationISBN 9780817322151Author John Morris... -
Prosecuting the Powerful Steve Crawshaw 9780349128931
RRP: €29.75€25.29Getting 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... -
Bound Labor in the Turpentine Belt: Kinderlou Camp and Misdemeanor Convict Leasing in Georgia Thomas Aiello 9780813080826
RRP: €41.59€35.35Uncovering 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... -
Letter to My Children: From Romania to America via Auschwitz Rudolph Tessler 9780826223227
RRP: €34.45€29.29"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: €47.59€40.45Some 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: €19.03€16.17An engaging narrative of the complex and dramatic events of the First and Second Italian Wars, ten years of warfare. -
The Great Waterloo Controversy: The Story of the 52nd Foot at History's Greatest Battle Glover, Gareth 9781526797506
RRP: €17.84€15.16As 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: €96.39€81.93Anti-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: €47.54€40.41One 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...