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A Contested Terrain: Freedpeople's Education in North Carolina During the Civil War and Reconstruction AnneMarie Brosnan 9781531509293
RRP: $33.53$28.50A 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: $38.69$32.88World 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: $20.63$17.53This work begins in August 1900 during the war in South Africa, when mounted Boer commandos ranging across the veldt superseded pitched battles of massed armies and heavy weaponry.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: $38.70$32.90This 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... -
Latin American Economic History: An Introduction to Daily Life, Debt, and Development Molly C. Ball 9781032255460
RRP: $174.15$148.03Latin American Economic History: An Introduction to Daily Life, Debt, and Development guides readers through significant features and developments in the region’s economic history from independence through 2022.In approachable language, the book... -
Critical Digital Art History: Interface and Data Politics in the Post-Digital Era Amanda Wasielewski 9781835950487
RRP: $32.19$27.36Digital Art History has often aligned itself with the practical concerns of digital technology and the responsibilities of art institutions and associated institutional roles such as collection managers, information specialists, curators, and... -
Henry's Shadow: The Life and Times of John Morton Ashley Wood 9781398120105
RRP: $32.25$27.41John 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... -
British Policy Towards the Indian States 1905–1939 S.R. Ashton 9781032436487
RRP: $36.11$30.69British Policy Towards the Indian States (1982) examines the concept of indirect rule in terms of both its application and consequences in the princely states of India during the first four decades of the twentieth century. The author first deals with... -
The Struggle for Asia 1828–1914: A Study in British and Russian Imperialism David Gillard 9781032446417
RRP: $36.11$30.69The Struggle for Asia 1828–1914 (1977) studies a classic case of rival imperialisms. British leaders tended to believe that Russian expansion threatened India; Russian leaders came to believe in a British threat to their empire. Each sought security by... -
The British West Indies: The Search for Self-Government Morley Ayearst 9781032422763
RRP: $36.11$30.69The British West Indies (1960) examines the islands and two mainland colonies of the West Indies as they approached self-government. They exemplified in miniature almost all of the problems of emergent self-government in a colonial milieu with a... -
Men of God: Mendicant Orders in Colonial Mexico Asunción Lavrin 9781496237804
RRP: $114.81$97.59A 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... -
The Essential Speeches of the Cold War: A Primary Source Collection Sean Brennan 9781032637570
RRP: $174.15$148.03This book is a primary source collection of thirty speeches of the Cold War from 1917 to 1991, representing a cross section of leaders on all sides of the conflict from North America, the Caribbean, Europe, and Asia.As ideological conflict between... -
Secrets of a Suitcase: The Countess, the Nazis, and Middle Europe's Lost Nobility Pauline Terreehorst 9781911723394
RRP: $32.25$27.41When 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: $25.80$21.93This 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,... -
A History of Ghana W.E.F. Ward 9781032421834
RRP: $38.69$32.88A History of Ghana (1958) uses both European archives and considerable research among African traditional histories to examine the history of the Gold Coast and Ghana. The African histories are particularly important, as many village traditions, and more... -
James Smith: The Making of a Colonial Culture Lurline Stuart 9781032424750
RRP: $36.11$30.69James Smith (1989) is study of this hitherto-neglected maker of colonial culture, and traces the rise and decline of the transplanted ideas and values that Smith and many of his fellow immigrants to Australia upheld. It reveals the remarkable vigour with... -
British Honduras: Past and Present Stephen L. Caiger 9781032418827
RRP: $36.11$30.69British Honduras (1951) examines this most neglected of the British colonies, from the early days of settlement by the logwood-cutters and buccaneers up to the post-war period. It examines the first occupation by British adventurers, consolidation by... -
Empires of Spymasters: The Secret War Between the British Empire and Imperial Japan, 1900–1941 Panagiotis Dimitrakis 9781398124370
RRP: $29.66$25.21‘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: $29.66$25.21The 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... -
History of Nigeria Sir Alan Burns 9781032425085
RRP: $38.69$32.88History of Nigeria (1969) was first published in 1929 and completely revised by its author, and gives the history of Nigeria from before its first encounters with the British, through colonial rule, and up to independence in 1960. It describes the... -
Chasing the Shadow: Mickey Marcus's 200 Days of Destiny Steven L. Ossad 9780826223180
RRP: $51.54$43.81The 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: $100.62$85.53For 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... -
Apedemak: Lion God of Meroe: A Study in Egyptian-Meroitic Syncretism Louis Zabkar 9798888571262
RRP: $51.54$43.81The rescue excavation of Egyptian sites in advance of construction of the Assuan Dam contributed greatly to the understanding of the ancient Egyptian and Sudanese civilisations in the Nile valley. This book examines cultural relationships in the last... -
In Search of Admiration and Respect: Chinese Cultural Diplomacy in the United States, 1875-1974 Yanqiu Zheng 9780472056804
RRP: $33.48$28.46In Search of Admiration and Respect examines the institutionalization of Chinese cultural diplomacy in the period between high imperialism and the international ascendance of the People's Republic of China. During these years, Chinese intellectuals and... -
The Port: Hà Tiên and the Mo Clan in Early Modern Asia Xing Hang 9781009426961
RRP: $24.50$20.82The 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: $18.06$15.35“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: $45.15$38.38Presenting 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: $64.44$54.77Rustic 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... -
Oceans, Seas, Shorelines and Warfare Richard Harding 9780367443405
RRP: $174.15$148.03For as long as humanity has ventured on the seas, naval warfare has been an integral part of their activities and the focal point for many histories and ideas of heritage. This book presents a rarely explored aspect: the long-term impact of those battles... -
Cross-dressing in the Middle Ages Marina Montesano 9781032325781
RRP: $174.15$148.03By 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: $19.34$16.43'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: $126.42$107.46Models 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: $25.79$21.92The 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... -
Queer Chimerica: A Speculative Auto/Ethnography of the Cool Child Shana Leodar Ye 9780472057009
RRP: $33.48$28.46Blending archival work, ethnography, and cultural analysis with memoir, graphic arts, and science fiction, Queer Chimerica unpacks the ways in which the transnational circulation of queer culture, politics, and institutions are structured through the... -
50 Early Medieval Finds: From the Portable Antiquities Scheme Jo Ahmet 9781398118911
RRP: $20.63$17.53From 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: $14.18$12.05Holidays 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: $126.42$107.46The 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: $51.60$43.86Continuing 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: $41.22$35.04If 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: $57.99$49.29Fantasies 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...