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Willibrord between Ireland, Britain and Merovingian Francia (690–739): Beyond Mission Michel Summer 9781835534182
RRP: $241.50$205.28The century between c. 650 and 750 was one of major religious, social and political transformations in northwest Europe. In the Frankish kingdom, clerics from Ireland and Britain played an important role in these processes. One of the most prominent... -
Belfast Punk and the Troubles: an Oral History Fearghus Roulston 9781526182463
RRP: $42.00$35.70This book is an oral history of the punk scene in Belfast from the mid-1970s to the mid-80s. It explores what it was like to be a punk in a city shaped by the violence of the Troubles, and how this differed from being a punk elsewhere. It also asks what... -
Radical Religious Movements in Early Modern Europe Michael Mullett 9781032506579
RRP: $58.78$49.96Radical Religious Movements in Early Modern Europe (1980) examines Western European history during three crucial centuries of transition. He expands the concept of Reformation to cover all the movements of religious resurgence in the fifteenth, sixteenth... -
The Journals of Two Poor Dissenters Guida Swan 9781032505817
RRP: $58.78$49.96The Journals of Two Poor Dissenters (1970) is a remarkable example of voices from the past, giving a humble man’s record of his time. William Swan and his son were Nonconformist labourers in London in the early part of the nineteenth century. They were... -
MAC in the 1980s Adrian Symonds 9781398115941
RRP: $33.58$28.54Military Airlift Command was a United States Air Force Major Command, responsible for strategic and tactical airlift, primarily operating C-130, C-141 and C-5 transports. MAC also provided presidential and VIP transportation. MAC was organised into two... -
Language and Social Relations in Early Modern England Hillary Taylor 9780198917663
RRP: $176.40$149.94What was the interrelation between language, power, and socio-economic inequality in England, c. 1550-1750? Early modern England was a hierarchical society that placed considerable emphasis on order; language was bound up with the various structures of... -
Discovered but Forgotten: The Maldives in Chinese History, c. 1100-1620 Bin Yang 9780231212328
RRP: $245.70$208.85Chinese traders and explorers first visited the Maldives, an archipelago in the Indian Ocean, in the early fourteenth century. The traveler Wang Dayuan “discovered” the island sultanate for the Chinese world, and merchants increasingly dealt in Maldivian... -
Mystery at the Station Hotel: The bestselling Victorian mystery series Edward Marston 9780749031244
RRP: $46.20$39.27Shrewsbury, 1866. Julian Lockyer is an imposing gentleman in his late fifties. Having reserved a room for the night at the Station Hotel, he asks to be called early in the morning because he has a train to catch. Repeated attempts are made to wake him... -
Submachine Guns of the Second World War Frederick Clifford 9781399091848
RRP: $52.50$44.63Highly illustrated introduction to the history of Second World War subma-chine guns. -
Canadian Defence Policy in Theory and Practice, Volume 2 Thomas Juneau 9783031378515
RRP: $125.98$107.08This edited book provides a comprehensive overview of contemporary debates and issues in Canadian defence policy studies. The contributors examine topics including the development of Canadian defence policy and strategic culture, North American defence... -
Oxford's War 1939 - 1945 Ashley Jackson 9781851246137
RRP: $63.00$53.55Oxford played a unique part in the national endeavour to defend Britain in the Second World War. During the Blitz and beyond, thanks to its proximity to London, the city provided an alternative base for civil servants from the Ministry of Food, the... -
Cosmopolitan Baroque: Aristocratic Networks and Cultural Exchange Between Seventeenth-Century Habsburg Spain and Austria Bianca M. Lindorfer 9781032721316
RRP: $283.50$240.98This book examines the cultural relations between the Spanish and Austrian Habsburg monarchies in the seventeenth century and explores the central role of transnational aristocratic networks in cultural transfer processes between Spain and Central Europe... -
Golden State: The Making of California Michael Hiltzik 9781398109025
RRP: $48.28$41.03Written by Pultizer Prize-winning Californian Michael Hiltzik, this is the definitive, essential work on the Golden State’s history and legacy.Book InformationISBN 9781398109025Author Michael HiltzikFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Amberley... -
For the Many: American Feminists and the Global Fight for Democratic Equality Dorothy Sue Cobble 9780691264585
RRP: $46.20$39.27A history of the twentieth-century feminists who fought for the rights of women, workers, and the poor, both in the United States and abroadFor the Many presents an inspiring look at how US women and their global allies pushed the nation and the world... -
Tunisia Under Ben Ali: The History of an Authoritarian Regime, 1987-2011 Daniel Zisenwine 9781784531850
RRP: $178.50$151.73Sparked by the self-immolation of Mohamed Bouazizi in Sidi Bouzid in Tunisia, a wave of protests and uprisings spread across North Africa and the Middle East in late 2010 and 2011. The case of Tunisia has since been held up as an example of a... -
King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa Adam Hochschild 9781035038817
RRP: $27.28$23.18Winner of the Duff Cooper Prize, Adam Hochschild's King Leopold’s Ghost is the true and haunting account of Leopold's brutal regime and its lasting effect on a ruined nation. In the late nineteenth century, when the great powers in Europe were tearing... -
Ship of Lost Souls: The Tragic Wreck of the Steamship Valencia Rod Scher 9781493081356
RRP: $52.50$44.63Of all the ships lost in what has come to be called the “Graveyard of the Pacific,” the story of the steamship Valencia is among the saddest. In January 1906, the Valencia set out from San Francisco, bound for Seattle with 108 passengers and some 65 crew... -
The Politics of Sorrow: A Story of Unity and Allegiance Across Tibetan Exile Tsering Wangmo Dhompa 9780231212472
RRP: $46.20$39.27The Dalai Lama escaped from Tibet in 1959 after its occupation by China and established a government in exile in India. There, Tibetan leaders aimed to bring together displaced people from varied religious traditions and local loyalties under the banner... -
The Malleus Maleficarum Peter Maxwell-Stuart 9781526181473
RRP: $20.98$17.83A shocking glimpse into the mind of a medieval witch hunter.In 1487, the zealous inquisitor Heinrich Kramer wrote a treatise that would have a remarkable influence on European history. Blaming women for his own lust, and frustrated by official... -
Tokyo Eiko Maruko Siniawer 9781108965002
RRP: $37.78$32.11From sleepy fishing village to samurai capital to vibrant global metropolis, Eiko Maruko Siniawer takes readers through Tokyo's rich history, revealing four centuries of transformation deeply woven into its fabric. This accessible guide introduces a... -
George Cruikshank's Life, Times and Art: Volume II: 1835-1878 Robert L. Patten 9780718828745
RRP: $147.00$124.95In the conclusion to the biography of the caricaturist and illustrator George Cruikshank, Robert Patten narrates the second half of the artist's long career. It is an examination of Cruikshank's co operations with some of the writers who are known as... -
The Politics of Sorrow: A Story of Unity and Allegiance Across Tibetan Exile Tsering Wangmo Dhompa 9780231212465
RRP: $199.50$169.58The Dalai Lama escaped from Tibet in 1959 after its occupation by China and established a government in exile in India. There, Tibetan leaders aimed to bring together displaced people from varied religious traditions and local loyalties under the banner... -
The Watch's Wild Cry: A Voyage Aboard the Whaling Vessel Clara Bell Robert F. Weir 9781493081042
RRP: $41.98$35.68At the age of nineteen, Robert F. Weir of West Point, New York, ran away to sea, where he spent the next ten years. Assuming the pseudonym Robert Wallace, Weir sailed aboard the bark Clara Bell out of Mattapoisett, Massachusetts, in 1855 for a voyage to... -
Great War Artefacts in 100 Objects: The Story Behind Your First World War Family Treasures Martin Mace 9781473895485
RRP: $52.50$44.63The First World War touched every community and almost every home in the UK. In its wake, it left behind memories and mementos of loved ones. For every casualty there was a scar, for every death there was grief. Often the only tangible connection with... -
Traveling to Unknown Places: Nineteenth-Century Journeys toward French and American Selfhood Lloyd S. Kramer 9781469682396
RRP: $73.40$62.39Traveling 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... -
The White Ladder: Triumph and Tragedy at the Dawn of Mountaineering Daniel Light 9781324066217
RRP: $51.45$43.74Whether in the name of conquest, science, or the divine, humans across the centuries have had myriad reasons to climb mountains. From the smoking volcanoes of South America to the great snowy ranges of the Himalaya, The White Ladder follows a cast of... -
Leuthen: Great Battles Thomas Otte 9780192870490
RRP: $39.88$33.89Leuthen (1757) is one of the best-known battles of the Seven Years' War, the most consequential conflict in continental Europe between the Thirty Years' War and the wars of Revolutionary and then Napoleonic France. It was a victory against the odds, over... -
What Art Can Tell Us About Love Nick Trend 9781399620963
RRP: $39.88$33.89Learn how to appreciate some of the world's most iconic artworks from a unique angle and discover how the universal theme of love influenced our greatest artists.Whether in the throes of passion, enduring the pain of an unrequited love or basking in the... -
The Decoration of Houses Emily J. Orlando 9780815604730
RRP: $77.60$65.96Edith Wharton’s The Decoration of Houses (1897), co-written with the architect Ogden Codman Jr., brought transatlantic fame to a writer best known as a chronicler of Gilded Age New York. In their decorating guidebook, Wharton and Codman, who collaborated... -
Texts and Intertexts in Archaic and Classical Greece Adrian Kelly 9781108840118
RRP: $220.50$187.43Encompassing the period from the earliest archaic epics down through classical Athenian drama, this is the first concerted, step-by-step examination of the development of allusive poetics in the early Greek world. Recent decades have seen a marked rise... -
The Cambridge Companion to Ottoman History Alexis Wick 9781316514542
RRP: $126.00$107.10Why study Ottoman history? What are the available sources? And how can researchers begin locating, reading, and interpreting these? The Cambridge Companion to Ottoman History provides a broad introduction to the field, offering readers accessible... -
We Dared to Fly: Dangerous Secret Missions During the Vietnam War William Reeder 9781493085309
RRP: $52.50$44.63They Dared to Fly is the true story of the young menwho daily risked their lives on classified surveillance missions deep behind enemy lines during the Vietnam War. The Army aviators and enlisted observers assigned to the 131st Surveillance Airplane... -
A History of Ireland Under the Union: 1801-1922 P. S. O'Hegarty 9781032406992
RRP: $98.68$83.87Originally published in 1952, A History of Ireland Under the Union was written by an historian who played an active part in the political events of the later part of the period. In Ireland there are two national traditions: that of the Kingdom of the... -
Honor Grenville: A Life at the Heart of Henry VIII's Court Melita Thomas 9781445685014
RRP: $48.28$41.03Honor’s life began quietly, rose to a crescendo of drama, and then faded back into obscurity, but for some fourteen years, she was at the centre of the personal and political minefield that was the Tudor court. Although few people have heard of Honor,... -
Israel's Forever War: Finding Peace in the Middle East Paul Moorcraft 9781785908729
RRP: $42.00$35.70This important book looks at the immediate background to the 2023 war and asks whether the international system can contain two simultaneous wars in Europe and the Levant.Book InformationISBN 9781785908729Author Paul MoorcraftFormat HardbackImprint... -
Royal Women at Ugarit: Reconceiving the House of the Father Christine Neal Thomas 9780367820664
RRP: $283.50$240.98This volume challenges patrimonialism as a political model for the ancient Near East by engaging with letters and legal texts concerning royal women at Late Bronze Age Ugarit, demonstrating women’s pivotal roles in the exercise of power and then bringing... -
Remaking the World: European Distinctiveness and the Transformation of Politics, Culture, and the Economy Jerrold Seigel 9781009541664
RRP: $73.50$62.48How should we understand Europe's special role in world history, and the enduring impact it made on the rest of the globe? Jerrold Seigel traces both the positive and negative sides of the continent's special role to its absence of effective central... -
The Spoon: A Stirring History Peter Ginn 9781398110830
RRP: $33.58$28.54The humble spoon. Without it we’d be sunk. Slurping soup would never be the same. Research shows the average household contains 83 – teaspoons, soup spoons, dessert spoons, baby spoons, serving spoons, disposable picnic spoons, medicine spoons, measuring... -
The Invention of British Art Bendor Grosvenor 9781783968091
RRP: $84.00$71.40A provocative, captivating and highly accessible story of British art from 4000 BCE to the 19th century.Book InformationISBN 9781783968091Author Bendor GrosvenorFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint Elliott & Thompson LimitedPublisher Elliott & Thompson... -
ISIS: The Killing Caliphate: The Ideology of Terror Christopher Catherwood 9781526730411
RRP: $52.50$44.63Every war has its cause and every conflict its context, none more so than the centuries-old ideological battle between Christian and Muslim theology. The concept of holy war is almost as old as the religions themselves, with Christian crusades and Muslim...