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Latin American Economic History: An Introduction to Daily Life, Debt, and Development Molly C. Ball 9781032255460
RRP: $283.50$246.29Latin 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
$56.22Digital 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... -
British Policy Towards the Indian States 1905–1939 S.R. Ashton 9781032436487
$66.76British 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
$66.76The 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
$66.76The 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... -
The Essential Speeches of the Cold War: A Primary Source Collection Sean Brennan 9781032637570
RRP: $283.50$246.29This 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... -
A History of Ghana W.E.F. Ward 9781032421834
$71.38A 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
$66.76James 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
$66.76British 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... -
History of Nigeria Sir Alan Burns 9781032425085
$71.38History 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... -
Race, Politics, and Reconstruction: The First Black Cadets at Old West Point Rory McGovern 9780813951911
RRP: $54.50$54.12The first in-depth study of racial integration at West Point after the Civil WarRace, Politics, and Reconstruction tells the story of racial integration at the United States Military Academy after the Civil War and spotlights the social environment and... -
Churchill's Citadel: Chartwell and the Gatherings Before the Storm Katherine Carter 9780300270198
RRP: $42.00$34.50A major new history of Churchill in the 1930s, showing how his meetings at Chartwell, his country home, strengthened his fight against the Nazis In the 1930s, amidst an impending crisis in Europe, Winston Churchill found himself out of government and... -
Killing the Elites: Haiti, 1964 Jean-Philippe Belleau 9780231213783
RRP: $245.70$218.38In the summer and fall of 1964, a massacre took place in the small town of Jérémie, Haiti. After an ill-fated uprising, the brutal regime of François “Papa Doc” Duvalier ordered reprisals against the town that some of the insurgents were allegedly from... -
Oceans, Seas, Shorelines and Warfare Richard Harding 9780367443405
RRP: $283.50$246.29For 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... -
Victorians and Modern Greece: Literary and Cultural Encounters Efterpi Mitsi 9781032495200
RRP: $283.50$246.29Victorians and Modern Greece examines the representation of nineteenth-century Greece in British magazines, fiction, poetry, and travel writing, revealing the popular reception of the modern nation in the Victorian period. Reflecting upon the tensions –... -
Blue Jerusalem: British Conservatism, Winston Churchill, and the Second World War Kit Kowol 9780198868491
RRP: $63.00$54.50The untold story of how Winston Churchill and the Conservative Party envisioned Britain's post-war future We think we know all there is to know about Britain's Second World War. We don't. This radical re-interpretation of British history and British... -
The Stadium: An American History of Politics, Protest, and Play Frank Andre Guridy 9781541601451
RRP: $52.50$38.66The sweeping story of the American stadium-from the first wooden ballparks to today's glass and steel mega-arenas-revealing how it has made, and remade, American lifeStadiums are monuments to recreation, sports, and pleasure. Yet from the earliest... -
Ghosts of a Holy War: The 1929 Massacre in Palestine that Ignited the Arab-Israeli Conflict Yardena Schwartz 9781454949213
RRP: $58.80$39.35An award-winning journalist presents an even-handed, thoroughly researched examination of the Arab-Israeli conflict, and illustrates how a shocking yet little-known massacre one century ago in what was then Palestine became ground zero of a war that... -
The Great Elector's Table: The Politics of Food in Seventeenth-Century Brandenburg-Prussia Molly Taylor-Poleskey 9780813951607
$63.34What food production, presentation, and consumption reveals about the exercise of power in early modern Germany In politics, as with food, presentation is everything. At the court of Elector Friedrich Wilhelm in Brandenburg-Prussia, the two combined in a... -
The Japanese Ideology: A Marxist Critique of Liberalism and Fascism Jun Tosaka 9780231216524
RRP: $245.70$190.95A major Marxist thinker and critic in 1930s Japan, Tosaka Jun was among the world’s most incisive—yet underrecognized—theorists of capitalism, fascism, and ideology during the years before World War II. The Japanese Ideology is his masterpiece, first... -
The Prince Who Beat the Empire: How an Indian Ruler Took on the Might of the East India Company Moin Mir 9781398122550
RRP: $23.08$15.23An acclaimed history of empire and resistance: this is the moving story of the rebel prince who beat the world’s most powerful corporation. The ships of the East India Company first docked at India's shores in Surat in the early 17th century. In time,... -
Fighting Fathers: CIA-Backed Catholic Militia in South Vietnam Alessandro Giorgi 9780764368257
RRP: $48.28$29.61An untold story of espionage, religion, and guerilla warfare in South Vietnam. During the early years of US involvement in Vietnam, the CIA helped arm militia groups in South Vietnam referred to as the “Fighting Fathers.” The name was a reference to the... -
Killing Napoleon: The Plot to Blow up Bonaparte Jonathan North 9781398122543
RRP: $23.08$15.23It was Christmas Eve 1800. The streets of Paris were crowded with citizens. Some were shopping, some were eating and drinking. But others were plotting to murder the most famous and powerful man in France. They wheeled their improvised bomb into town... -
Communication Maintenance in Longue Durée Gabriele Balbi 9781032543697
RRP: $283.50$246.29This interdisciplinary volume focuses on the politics, economics, technologies, uses, and cultures of maintenance of different forms of communication over long time or in Longue Durée.Throughout the chapters, contributors from a wide range of fields... -
Body Behaviour and Identity Construction in Ancient Greek and Roman Literature Andreas Serafim 9781032288581
RRP: $283.50$246.29This book offers the first systematic, up-to-date, cross-cultural, and detailed study of “semi-volitional bodily behaviour” (sneezing, spitting, coughing, burping, vomiting, defecating, etc.) in the classical world.Examining verse and prose texts,... -
History of the British West Indies Sir Alan Burns 9781032425115
$110.59History of the British West Indies (1954) examines the history of the islands of the Caribbean from their first discovery, through the periods of colonisation and slavery, and up to the beginnings of their status as independent nations. The actions of... -
Where the Waves Fall: A New South Sea Islands History from First Settlement to Colonial Rule K.R. Howe 9781032438801
$71.38Where the Waves Fall (1984) centres the stories of the Pacific Islanders and how they were affected by European explorers and colonisers in this unique account of human settlement and cultural interchange in the Pacific islands. It follows the fortunes... -
Turning Point in Africa: British Colonial Policy 1938–48 Robert D. Pearce 9781032444956
$66.76The Turning Point in Africa (1982) is a significant study of British colonial policy towards tropical Africa during a critical decade, from the complacent trusteeship of the inter-war years to the strategy of decolonization inaugurated after the Second... -
Between Homelands in Michael Ondaatje’s Fiction Julie Mehta 9781032865881
RRP: $283.50$246.29Between Homelands in Michael Ondaatje’s Fiction is a comprehensive study of the novels of the Sri Lankan-Canadian author and poet, Michael Ondaatje. This survey of the Booker Prize winning novelist’s works locates him as a powerful voice that urges... -
Storm Cloud: Picturing the Origins of Our Climate Crisis Melinda McCurdy 9780300276145
RRP: $84.00$61.40A revealing exploration of how prescient nineteenth-century artists, writers, and scientists began to sound the alarm on climate crisis Against a backdrop of industrialization and scientific development that reshaped humanity’s relationship to the... -
Black Flags in Vietnam: The Story of a Chinese Intervention Henry McAleavy 9781032444673
$66.76Black Flags in Vietnam (1968) examines nineteenth-century conflict between China, Vietnam and France. For the first thousand years of its history, Vietnam had been an integral part of China, and during subsequent centuries of self-rule had acknowledged... -
East Africa: A Century of Change 1870–1970 W.E.F. Ward 9781032422671
$66.76East Africa (1971) examines the century from 1870 that saw the emergence of East Africa from an ancient isolation into the modern world. This survey pays attention to the social and economic as well as the political history of this transition, and takes... -
Colonial Sequence 1949 to 1969: A Chronological Commentary upon British Colonial Policy in Africa Margery Perham 9781032455860
$71.38Colonial Sequence 1949 to 1969 (1970) continues the sequence begun in Colonial Sequence 1930 to 1949 and presents a valuable body of evidence for the enquiry into Britain’s colonial actions, written at a time when Britain was retreating from empire. In... -
Damming the Reservation Volume 23: Tribal Sovereignty and Activism at Fort Berthold Angela Parker 9780806194615
$87.53“The single most destructive act ever perpetrated on any tribe by the United States,” Vine Deloria Jr. called it. For the Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara communities living on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation in North Dakota, the construction of the... -
Red Threads: A History of the People's Flag Henry Bell 9780745347691
RRP: $52.50$34.40The red flag: there is no symbol, perhaps other than the crucifix and the crescent moon, that so many people have lived and died for. A standard of hope and resistance to millions, and of terror and tyranny to many. But why is the red flag red? How did... -
At the Origins of Politics: Formation and Growth of the State in Syro-Mesopotamia Giorgio Buccellati 9780367256708
$80.33This 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... -
A History of England Llewellyn Woodward 9781032828794
RRP: $189.00$164.03First Published in 1947, A History of England combines a concise record of events with an absorbing picture of England’s evolution in the political, social, economic, and cultural spheres. It brings important themes like Britain under the Romans; the... -
Visualizing History’s Fragments: A Computational Approach to Humanistic Research Ashley R. Sanders 9783031469756
$63.69This book combines a methodological guide with an extended case study to show how digital research methods can be used to explore how ethnicity, gender, and kinship shaped early modern Algerian society and politics. However, the approaches presented have... -
Black Humor and the White Terror Béla Bodó 9781032124032
RRP: $83.98$73.63This book examines political humor as a reaction to the lost war, the post-war chaos, and antisemitic violence in Hungary between 1918 and 1922. While there is an increased body of literature on Jewish humor as a form of resistance and a means of... -
Mapping the Adirondacks: Colvin, Blake, and the First True Survey of the Great Adirondack Wilderness Thatcher Hogan 9781493081585
RRP: $63.00$45.82New York State’s Adirondack region is as ancient as is it immense – over six million acres of wild forests, lakes, rivers, and mountains. Mapping the Adirondacks celebrates the overwhelming nature of this landscape by following two early visitors who...