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Threshold to Valley Forge: The Six Days of the Gulph Mills Encampment Sheilah D Vance 9781955041317
RRP: £22.50£19.13When George Washington and the Continental Army marched into Gulph Mills in December 1777, they were “uncheered by any recent triumph.” Washington’s army had lost at Brandywine, at Germantown, and at Paoli and the British had captured Philadelphia, the... -
Rembrandt. Sämtliche Gemälde Marieke de Winkel 9783836599054
RRP: £75.00£63.75The Dutch Golden Age of painting spawned some of history’s greatest artists and artisans, but few can boast the genius and legacy of Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn (1606–1669). Despite never leaving his native Netherlands, Rembrandt projected his oeuvre... -
The Oxford Handbook of the Seven Years' War Trevor Burnard 9780197622605
RRP: £132.50£112.63This handbook contains 38 essays that provide up-to-date scholarship on all aspects of the globally important Seven Years' War (1756-1763). The volume carefully examines the three major areas of conflict in the war -- Europe, South Asia, and the Americas... -
Buddhism, Imperialism and War: Burma and Thailand in Modern History Trevor Ling 9781032424859
RRP: £27.99£23.79Buddhism, Imperialism and War (1979) is a lively, provocative and informative study of two of the most important Buddhist countries of South East Asia – Burma and Thailand. Buddhism gives, in theory, a high place to the maintenance of peace, both between... -
Operation Amherst: The Last Airborne Operation of WWII Joël Stoppels 9781399014663
RRP: £25.00£21.25In preparation for the liberation of the northern part of the Netherlands, Operation Amherst was launched on the night of 7 to 8 April 1945. This last airborne operation of the Second World War was carried out by 702 French (SAS) paratroopers. The... -
The Natural History of a Neapolitan Miracle: The Secret of Saint Gennaro’s Blood FRANCESCO DE CEGLIA 9781032442600
RRP: £135.00£114.75How can the melting of a blood thickened by centuries be a miracle for some and not for others? This This book examines the efforts through the centuries of theologians, alchemists, charlatans and scientists to answer the question: Is it really a... -
Merpeople: A Human History Vaughn Scribner 9781789149388
RRP: £10.99£9.34People have been fascinated by merpeople since ancient times. From the sirens of Homer’s Odyssey to Hans Christian Andersen’s The Little Mermaid and the film Splash (1984), myths, stories and legends of half-human, half-fish creatures abound. In modern... -
Tiberius and the Charisma of Augustus: The Principate Enshrined Rebecca Edwards 9781009476676
RRP: £90.00£76.50The historian Tacitus began his Annals with the death of Augustus. He considered this date, not Actium, to be the pivotal moment in the crystallization of 'rule by one man.' This book considers the role played by Augustus' successor Tiberius in... -
Japanese Submarine Aircraft Ryusuke Ishiguro 9788366549562
RRP: £35.00£29.75The new larger format second edition of the first English language book to describe in detail the aircraft used by Japan's extensive submarine fleet during World War Two. More than any other nation, Japan designed, built and operated aircraft... -
The Overland Campaign for Richmond: Grant vs Lee, 1864 Bradley M Gottfried 9781636243924
RRP: £24.95£21.21A full account of the Wilderness to the James River, including Grant's rise to high command, the condition of the armies going into the critical 1864 campaign, a deep look at the commanders on both sides, and the strategy of the campaign from both... -
Colours and Markings of Hellenic Spitfires 1943-1954 John Korellis 9788365958204
RRP: £25.00£21.25The Hellenic Air Force performed valiantly against the Axis forces during the Battle of Greece but overwhelming odds forced its remaining personnel to escape to Egypt. With the assistance of the RAF, the Hellenic Squadrons were formed empowering the... -
Women and Monastic Buddhism in Early South Asia: Rediscovering the Invisible Believers Garima Kaushik 9781032156187
RRP: £125.00£106.25This book presents gender as a framework to offer unique insights into the sociocultural foundations of Buddhism. Moving away from dominant discourses that discuss women as a single monolithic, homogenous category – thus rendering them invisible within... -
The Vicksburg Campaign: Grant'S Failed Offensive Andrew R. Miller 9781636243733
RRP: £24.95£21.21The 14-month campaign to regain the control of Mississippi River by capturing Vicksburg, Mississippi stands as the prime example of how the Civil War would be fought and won. The Federal government's policy of blockading the southern ports and... -
Children of German-Polish Relationships: Identity and Nationality Piotr Madajczyk 9781032831411
RRP: £135.00£114.75This book analyzes the process of national identity formation and identification of children born into formal and informal Polish-German relationships in Poland and Germany, and how that process is impacted by their upbringing at the intersection of two... -
Intermedial Art Practices as Cultural Resilience Lindsay Blair 9781032536019
RRP: £130.00£110.50This innovative collection of essays is focused on the idea of transmedialization: the ways that the traditional forms of the predominantly oral cultures of Scotland and Brittany (poetry, song and story) can be transformed by the use of hybrid forms and... -
Murder on the Largo Volume 23 Eleanor Williams 9781574419337
RRP: £29.95£25.46In western New Mexico in 1905 there rode a notorious outlaw from the Mexican border named Henry Coleman. With a Colt .45 strapped to his hip, Coleman (alias Street Hudspeth from the well-to-do Texas family) came to be either despised as a deceitful... -
Ski, Climb, Fight Volume 77: The 10th Mountain Division and the Rise of Mountain Warfare Lance R. Blyth 9780806194653
RRP: £31.95£27.16Mountains, Carl von Clausewitz said, introduce a “retarding element” into warfare. To fight in mountains, armies must overcome this challenge via survival strategies and mobility. But the techniques and technologies for doing so are best found in... -
British Women Travellers in the Long Nineteenth Century: With Italy as Their Muse Marilyn D. Button 9783031617003
RRP: £129.99£110.49During the long nineteenth century, British women reframed the masculine paradigm of the Grand Tour. They created a feminist travel gaze, intentionally or unintentionally, that differed from that of male peers. Unlike their brothers, who went for... -
Claesson Koivisto Rune: In Transit: Architecture & Design Gustav Kjellin 9788891841568
RRP: £65.00£55.25Claesson Koivisto Rune is one of Sweden s most internationally recognized and awarded architecture and design offices today. Their work has heavily contributed to the development of the contemporary Scandinavian design scene. This comprehensive monograph... -
Scharnhorst Alf R. Jacobsen 9781803997131
RRP: £14.99£12.74The powerful German battle cruiser Scharnhorst was stalked and engaged on Boxing Day 1943 by a superior Allied naval task force off the North Cape of Norway. In pitch darkness and mountainous seas, British warships led by HMS Duke of York and HMS Belfast... -
The Chronicle of John of Worcester: Volume IV: Chronicula †P. McGurk 9780198916147
RRP: £130.00£110.50John of Worcester is celebrated for his work on the Worcester Chronica Chronicarum, which was put together in stages in the first half of the twelfth century, and which became one of the most important historical texts to have survived from Britain of... -
Victorian Christmas: Traditional Recipes, Decorations, Activities, and Carols Lucinda Dickens Hawksley 9781682688632
RRP: £14.99£12.74Lucinda Dickens Hawksley, a descendant of Charles Dickens, reveals the fascinating tale of Christmas traditions during Queen Victoria’s reign. In 1843, while Dickens was inventing the Christmas ghost story, a London civil servant commissioned the first... -
Tangled Fortunes: The Hidden History of Interracial Marriage in the Segregated South Kathryn Schumaker 9781541605312
RRP: £28.00£23.80A history of Southern segregationists' long war against interracial relationships, and the century-long fight to restore the freedom to love, marry, and inheritInterracial marriage was already illegal in some of the American colonies as early as the... -
The Censors as Guardians of Public and Family Life in the Roman Republic Anna Tarwacka 9781032781990
RRP: £135.00£114.75This volume explores the effects of the Roman censorial mark (nota censoria) and the influence of censorial regulations on the development of written law in ancient Rome.The censor was one of the most fascinating legal institutions of Republican Rome... -
Macpherson the Historian: History Writing, Empire and Enlightenment in the Works of James Macpherson Mairi MacPherson 9781399541114
RRP: £24.99£21.24This is the first book-length study of James Macpherson (1736-1796) that considers him as an historian. From his early poetry, to the Ossianic Collections, his prose histories, and his later political writing, Macpherson's subject was the past and he... -
Sleeping with the Ancestors: How I Followed the Footprints of Slavery Herb Frazier 9780306829673
RRP: £17.99£15.29With a new Afterword and Reading Group Guide exclusive to the paperback edition.In this enlightening personal account, one man tells the story of his groundbreaking project to sleep overnight in former slave dwellings that still stand across the... -
The Precious Birthright: Black Leaders and the Fight to Vote in Antebellum Rhode Island Christopher J. Martin 9781625348395
RRP: £85.00£72.25In 1842, Black Rhode Islanders secured a stunning victory, a success rarely seen in antebellum America: they won the right to vote. Amid heightened public discourse around shifting ideas of race, citizenship, and political rights, they methodically... -
Masculinity in Byzantium, c. 1000–1200: Scholars, Clerics and Violence Maroula Perisanidi 9781009499798
RRP: £90.00£76.50What does it mean to be a man? What makes one effeminate or manly? What renders a man 'Byzantine'? Drawing from theories of gender, posthumanism and disability, this book explores the role of learning, violence and animals in the construction of... -
Racializing Objectivity: How the White Southern Press Weaponized Journalism Standards to Defend Jim Crow Gwyneth Mellinger 9781625348104
RRP: £28.95£24.61When the civil rights movement began to challenge Jim Crow laws, the white southern press reframed the coverage of racism and segregation as a debate over journalism standards. Many white southern editors, for instance, designated Black Americans as... -
Not Just Green, Not Just White: Race, Justice, and Environmental History Mary E. Mendoza 9781496204202
RRP: £89.00£75.65Not Just Green, Not Just White brings together a group of diverse contributors to explore the rich intersections between race and environment. Together these contributors demonstrate that the field of environmental history, with its core questions and... -
Encountering the Plague: Humanities takes on the Pandemic Wojciech Sowa 9781789389876
RRP: £29.95£25.46This edited collection features fourteen newly commissioned articles, each of which responds to the theme of plague from different disciplinary perspectives. Contributors focus on the impact of COVID-19 on everyday life but also draw on insights from... -
Encountering the Plague: Humanities takes on the Pandemic Wojciech Sowa 9781789389869
RRP: £99.95£84.96This edited collection features fourteen newly commissioned articles, each of which responds to the theme of plague from different disciplinary perspectives. Contributors focus on the impact of COVID-19 on everyday life but also draw on insights from... -
Leading Figures in the History of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc.: Volume 1 Judson L. Jeffries 9780813080840
RRP: £34.95£29.71In two volumes, Judson Jeffries brings together essays on 21 accomplished and influential members of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc., demonstrating the enormous impact of the fraternity. Volume 1 tells the story of the organization’s founding and... -
The Dark Path: The Structure of War and the Rise of the West Williamson Murray 9780300270686
RRP: £30.00£25.50From an esteemed military historian, a sweeping history of the revolutions in war-fighting that have shaped the modern world Heraclitus wrote that “war is the father of all,” and it has formed much of the modern world. Although the fundamental nature of... -
Dying Hard: Company B, 39th Infantry Regiment, 9th US Infantry Division in WWII French MacLean 9780764368295
RRP: £36.99£31.44Of the 177 enlisted men who formed Company B in 1941, less than 7% percent were still with the unit in May 1945. Many of the absent 93% died hard, brutal deaths in combat. In the mold of the classic Band of Brothers, Col. French MacLean presents a... -
Leading Figures in the History of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc.: Volume 2 Judson L. Jeffries 9780813079240
RRP: £109.00£92.65In two volumes, Judson Jeffries brings together essays on 21 accomplished and influential members of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc., demonstrating the enormous impact of the fraternity. Volume 2 discusses military figures, artists, modern civil rights... -
Tokyo Before Tokyo: Power and Magic in the Shogun's City of EDO Timon Screech 9781789149555
RRP: £25.00£21.25Tokyo today is one of the world’s mega-cities, and the centre of a scintillating, hyper-modern culture – but not everyone is aware of its past. Founded in 1590 as the seat of the warlord Tokugawa family, Tokyo, then called ‘Edo’, was the locus of... -
The Roman Republic and Political Culture: German Scholarship in Translation Amy Russell 9781009515108
RRP: £100.00£85.00This volume makes available in English translation for the first time a series of hugely influential articles about Roman Republican politics which were all originally published in German. They represent a school of thought that has long been in dialogue... -
Mavericks: Life stories and lessons of history's most extraordinary misfits Jenny Draper 9781786788986
RRP: £12.99£11.04Witty and engaging TikTok historian J Draper digs out unusual stories of individuals that have shaped the world, and discovers the lessons their unique experiences can teach us. Breaking away from history as told through the lens of kings, queens and... -
Introduction to Global Military History: 1775 to the Present Day Jeremy Black 9781032730851
RRP: £130.00£110.50Now in its fourth edition, Introduction to Global Military History is an accessible, up-to-date account of modern warfare from the eighteenth century to the present.The book engages with the social, cultural, political and economic contexts of war,...