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Mapping Diversity in Latin America: Race and Ethnicity from Colonial Times to the Present Mabel Moraña 9780826507242
RRP: £38.95£33.11Mapping Diversity in Latin America offers ample critical coverage of recent approaches to the historical study of race and ethnicity in Latin America since the arrival of Spanish and Portuguese colonizers to the present. Bringing together the work of... -
An Insect A Day: Bees, bugs, and pollinators for every day of the year: Volume 6 Dominic Couzens 9781849947947
RRP: £22.00£18.70Richly illustrated stories of fascinating insects from across the globe in 366 daily entries. In this beautifully produced collection, nature experts Gail Ashton and Dominic Couzens tell the stories of hundreds of insects with information about... -
Freedom Was in Sight: A Graphic History of Reconstruction in the Washington, D.C., Region Kate Masur 9781469683881
RRP: £44.95£38.21The Reconstruction era was born from the tumult and violence of the Civil War and delivered the most powerful changes the United States had seen since its founding. Black Americans in Washington, D.C., and its surrounding region were at the heart of... -
Tamara de Lempicka Gioia Mori 9780300278507
RRP: £50.00£42.50A landmark retrospective on the Art Deco painter exploring her intersectional identities Tamara de Lempicka (1894–1980), the “Baroness with a Brush,” is often cast as one of Art Deco’s most celebrated artists, though her work transcends categorization,... -
Driven by the Monsoons: Through the Indian Ocean and the Seas of China Barry Cunliffe 9780198886815
RRP: £30.00£25.50The Silk Road may be one origin of globalization, but the Indian Ocean is another. Barry Cunliffe examines the beginning of maritime trade using the evidence of archaeology and the tales of great travellers such as Marco Polo, Ibn Battuta, and the... -
Eagle and Iron Cross: American and German Combat Effectiveness in World War II Thomas E. Nutter 9780786493913
RRP: £53.99£45.89In the literature of World War II, the relative military effectiveness of the United States and German forces was a lively debate until the last decade of the 20th century, when a handful of American historians established the now familiar narrative of... -
Indian Soldiers in World War I: Race and Representation in an Imperial War Andrew T. Jarboe 9781496241368
RRP: £29.99£25.49Britain deployed more than one million Indian soldiers in its Indian Army during World War I. These men fought in Britain’s imperial war effort in France and Belgium, Egypt and East Africa, and Gallipoli, Palestine, and Mesopotamia. In Indian Soldiers in... -
The Vicksburg Campaign, 1863: The Inland Battles, Siege and Surrender Chris Mackowski 9781636243900
RRP: £24.95£21.21By the end of March 1863, Major General Ulysses S. Grant was at a crossroads in his military career. His bold attempts in the late fall 1862 and winter of 1862/63 had all come up fall short of his objective: get his army on high ground north and east of... -
The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament Prof. Martin Shaw 9781788217774
RRP: £75.00£63.75The launch of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament in 1958 signalled the first modern protest movement in Britain. Martin Shaw details CND's rise, the activists involved, the tensions with the Committee of 100 around direct action, and the culture,... -
Queer Contemporary Art of Southwest Asia North Africa Anne Marie Butler 9781835950265
RRP: £99.95£84.96Presents new perspectives on queer visual culture in the Southwest Asia North Africa region from queer artists as well as scholars who work on queer themes. With contributions from both scholars and artists, this volume demonstrates that queer visual... -
The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament Prof. Martin Shaw 9781788217781
RRP: £19.99£16.99The launch of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament in 1958 signalled the first modern protest movement in Britain. Martin Shaw details CND's rise, the activists involved, the tensions with the Committee of 100 around direct action, and the culture,... -
Fou Lai: Un heros vaincu Mingyuan Hu 9781739389727
RRP: £36.99£31.44Ami de Danielou, de Maritain et d'Etiemble, Fou Lai appartient a l'histoire intellectuelle de la France autant qu'a celle de la Chine. Spectateur engage des tourments politiques, il voua sa vie a la traduction au point d'incarner en Chine la litterature... -
The Queens and Royal Women of Sweden, c. 970–1330: Their Lives, Power, and Legacy Caroline Wilhelmsson 9781032491158
RRP: £135.00£114.75This is the first major piece of scholarship to provide an overview of the lives of Sweden’s earliest documented queens, together with some of their most influential female relatives, who lived between 970 and 1330.Spanning a period over 350 years,... -
From the Realm of a Dying Sun: Volume I - IV. SS-Panzerkorps and the Battles for Warsaw, July–November 1944 Douglas E Nash 9781636244877
RRP: £22.50£19.13A detailed account of Herbert Otto Gille’s IV SS-Panzerkorps that participated in many of the key battles fought on the Eastern Front during the last year of WWII. During World War Two, the armed or Waffen-SS branch of the Third Reich’s dreaded security... -
Africa: in the Line of Fire Al J. Venter 9781636243276
RRP: £32.95£28.01Africa currently faces more wars, insurgencies, army mutinies, coups d’état and rebellions than at any time since World War II. Conflict in all forms has become endemic, now accentuated by a relative newcomer: Jihadism, increasingly linked to either... -
Books on the American Civil War Era: A Critical Bibliography Walter Westcote 9781611212709
RRP: £22.99£19.54Tens of thousands of books have been published on the Civil War. In an effort to list some of the most important titles, in 1997 the University of Illinois Press published The Civil War in Books: An Analytical Bibliography, by David J. Eicher. This... -
Plato: A Civic Life Carol Atack 9781789149463
RRP: £15.99£13.59Plato is a key figure from the beginnings of Western philosophy, yet the impact of his lived experience on his thought has rarely been explored. Plato lived in turbulent times, born during a war that led to Athens’ defeat and decline. A restored... -
A Grand Opening Squandered: The Battle for Petersburg, June 6-18, 1864 Sean Michael Chick 9781611217216
RRP: £13.99£11.89May and June 1864 in Virginia witnessed some of the most brutal and bloody fighting of the Civil War. After the Wilderness, Spotsylvania Court House, North Anna, and Cold Harbor, combined losses for the two armies exceeded 80,000 men killed, wounded, and... -
Natchitoches, Louisiana, 1803-1840: A Creole Community on the American Frontier Kathleen M. Byrd 9780807182192
RRP: £29.95£25.46Kathleen M. Byrd's Natchitoches, Louisiana, 1803-1840 is an examination of one French Creole community as it transitioned from a fur-trading and agricultural settlement under the control of Spain to a critical American outpost on the Spanish/American... -
The Chicago Tribune Book of the Chicago Bulls: A Decade-by-Decade History Chicago Tribune Staff 9781572843448
RRP: £28.99£24.64An in-depth look at the history of the Chicago Bulls franchise, featuring profiles, photography, box scores, and more from the archives of the Chicago Tribune.The Chicago Bulls, one of the NBA’s most storied and valuable franchises, have been building... -
Atlantic Cataclysm: Rethinking the Atlantic Slave Trades David Eltis 9781009518970
RRP: £30.00£25.50In this comprehensive work, David Eltis offers a two-thousand-year perspective on the trafficking of people, and boldly intervenes in the expansive discussions about slavery in the last half-century. Using new and underexplored data made available by... -
The Reception of Darwinian Evolution in Britain, 1859-1909: Darwinism's Generations Martin Hewitt 9780192890993
RRP: £130.00£110.50The Reception of Darwinian Evolution in Britain, 1859-1909: Darwinism's Generations uses the impact of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species (1859) in the 50 years after its publication to demonstrate the effectiveness of a generational framework for... -
Fighting Ships of the U.S. Navy 1883-2019: Volume 4, Part 5 - Destroyers (1943-1945) Venner F. Milewski 9788366549661
RRP: £35.00£29.75This series of books provides details of all USN warships from 1893 to the present day. Every class and individual ship has an entry providing details of the procurement, dimensions and characteristics, and a summary of each ship's history and... -
El Cid: The Life and Afterlife of a Medieval Mercenary Nora Berend 9781399709620
RRP: £25.00£21.25Rodrigo Díaz lived a violently colourful life in eleventh-century Spain. By turns an ambitious military leader, exile and brutal mercenary, he served Christian kings, fought against Christian princes, massacred Muslims and eventually struck out on his... -
Britain's Cold War Heritage Dr Peter Robinson 9781398121454
RRP: £15.99£13.59This book narrates Britain’s Cold War through its rich Cold War heritage. Taking a chronological approach, key events, technologies and social impacts are illustrated and explained through the many sites, collections and artefacts that are publicly... -
Military Design Thinking: An Historical and Paradigmatic Analysis Aaron P. Jackson 9781032183169
RRP: £135.00£114.75This book examines the evolution of military design thinking, which is an emergent discipline within the field of military and defence studies.This discipline first emerged in the late 1990s, and its development has rapidly accelerated since the... -
El Cid: The Life and Afterlife of a Medieval Mercenary Nora Berend 9781399709637
RRP: £16.99£14.44Rodrigo Díaz lived a violently colourful life in eleventh-century Spain. By turns an ambitious military leader, exile and brutal mercenary, he served Christian kings, fought against Christian princes, massacred Muslims and eventually struck out on his... -
The Luftwaffe's Secret WWII Missions Dmitry Degtev 9781526798053
RRP: £16.99£14.44On the night of 14/15 August 1944, the roar of an unknown aircraft was heard over the dense forests to the south-east of Moscow. Flying past the Soviet capital, the aircraft turned towards a secret' landing site at Yegoryevsk on the outskirts of the city... -
Informal Metropolis: Life on the Edge of Mexico City, 1940–1976 David Yee 9781496240460
£28.63In the 1940s, as Mexican families trekked north to the United States in search of a better life, tens of millions also left their towns and villages for Mexico’s major cities. In Mexico City migrant families excluded from new housing programs began to... -
The Vietnam War: A Military History Geoffrey Wawro 9781541606081
RRP: £32.00£27.20The first comprehensive military history of the war in VietnamThe Vietnam War cast a shadow over the American psyche from the moment it began. In its time it sparked budget deficits, campus protests, and an erosion of US influence around the world. Long... -
Mapping Diversity in Latin America: Race and Ethnicity from Colonial Times to the Present Mabel Moraña 9780826507259
RRP: £103.00£87.55Mapping Diversity in Latin America offers ample critical coverage of recent approaches to the historical study of race and ethnicity in Latin America since the arrival of Spanish and Portuguese colonizers to the present. Bringing together the work of... -
Race, Power and Social Segmentation in Colonial Society: Guyana After Slavery, 1838–1891 Brian L. Moore 9781032456201
RRP: £29.99£25.49Race, Power and Social Segmentation in Colonial Society (1987) studies Guyanese society after slavery and specifically examines the area of social classes and ethnic groups. It also focuses on the theoretical issues in the debate on pluralism versus... -
At the Origins of Politics: Formation and Growth of the State in Syro-Mesopotamia Giorgio Buccellati 9780367256692
RRP: £135.00£114.75This 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... -
Let's Make Things Better: Finding Hope in the Darkest Days Gidon Lev 9781035043996
RRP: £16.99£14.44“To me, hard times are like hide-and-seek: where is the solution, where is the hope? We can never give up looking for these things because they are just waiting to be found.” Gidon Lev, an 89-year-old Holocaust survivor, has lived an extraordinary life... -
Early Records of British India: A History of the English Settlements in India J. Talboys Wheeler 9781032424774
RRP: £29.99£25.49Early Records of British India (1972) is an important collection of source material deriving from official documents which now form part of the India Office Records. It throws light upon the beginnings of British power through the rise of the East India... -
The Life of Richard Cadbury: Socialist, Philanthropist & Chocolatier Diane Wordsworth 9781526768292
RRP: £12.99£11.04In 1824, John Cadbury opened a grocer's shop in Bull Street in Birmingham and started to sell tea, coffee and drinking chocolate alongside everything else. In 1831, he opened a factory and started to manufacture his own product, and by 1842 the company... -
The United Kingdom and Spain in the Eighteenth Century: Beloved Enemy Manuel-Reyes García Hurtado 9781032816654
RRP: £135.00£114.75This book seeks to bridge a gap in the historiography of Spain and Great Britain by arguing that while the 18th century witnessed periods of tension, conflict, and hostility between the two powers, their relationship remained multifaceted and significant... -
The Forbidden Garden of Leningrad: A True Story of Science and Sacrifice in a City under Siege Simon Parkin 9781399714556
RRP: £25.00£21.25From the winner of the 2023 Wingate Literary Prize comes a fascinating and moving untold story of the Leningrad scientists who risked everything for the future of humanityIn the summer of 1941, German troops surrounded the Russian city of Leningrad - now... -
Desert Knight: The Memoirs of Leutnant Gunter Halm, Knight's Cross Holder, Panzergrenadier: From El Alamein to Normandy Gunter Halm 9781526706249
RRP: £25.00£21.25An extremely rare memoir of a Knights Cross holder. -
The Final Mission of Bottoms Up Volume 1: A World War II Pilot's Story Dennis R. Okerstrom 9780826223142
RRP: £29.95£25.46On November 18, 1944, the end of the war in Europe finally in sight, American copilot Lieutenant Lee Lamar struggled alongside pilot Randall Darden to keep Bottoms Up, their B-24J Liberator, in the air. They and their crew of eight young men had believed...