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The British West Indies: The Search for Self-Government Morley Ayearst 9781032422763
€37.83The 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: €160.65€139.56This 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... -
British Honduras: Past and Present Stephen L. Caiger 9781032418827
€37.83British 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
€40.45History 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: €30.88€30.67The 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: €23.80€19.55A 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: €139.23€123.75In 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: €160.65€139.56For 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: €160.65€139.56Victorians 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: €35.70€30.88The 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: €29.75€21.91The 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: €33.32€20.75An 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
€35.89What 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... -
Disasters in World History Benjamin Reilly 9781032566221
RRP: €41.64€36.71Disasters in World History surveys the development of disaster studies as a discipline as well as the historical case studies and theories used by historians to understand disasters.Disasters, here defined as the complex interaction between natural... -
Toronto Street Names: An Illustrated Guide to Their Origins Leonard Wise 9780228105138
RRP: €29.75€22.43Toronto Street Names provides a fascinating look at a highly visible record of the past of Canada’s largest city — its streets. It commemorates the people and events that have shaped the city and tells the fascinating and curious stories of how more than... -
The Japanese Ideology: A Marxist Critique of Liberalism and Fascism Jun Tosaka 9780231216524
RRP: €139.23€108.21A 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: €13.08€8.63An 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,... -
Raiders, Rulers, and Traders: The Horse and the Rise of Empires David Chaffetz 9781324051466
RRP: €29.75€23.24No animal is so entangled in human history as the horse. The thread starts in prehistory, with a small, shy animal, hunted for food. Over time, the domestication of horses, followed by the advent of riding, powered mighty empires: Persian, Mongol, Mughal... -
Fighting Fathers: CIA-Backed Catholic Militia in South Vietnam Alessandro Giorgi 9780764368257
RRP: €27.36€16.78An 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: €13.08€8.63It 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: €160.65€139.56This 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... -
History of the British West Indies Sir Alan Burns 9781032425115
€62.67History 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
€40.45Where 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
€37.83The 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: €160.65€139.56Between 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: €47.60€34.80A 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
€37.83Black 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
€37.83East 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... -
Norse Mythology: The Gods, Heroes, Monsters and Legends of the Viking Culture Finn D Moore 9780228105046
RRP: €29.75€22.30The Norsemen of old Scandinavia were a tough and hardy people, best known today for their prowess in bloody combat and storytelling. Because they had no writing, the frightening reputation of warriors survives, but Norse mythology — all storytelling — is... -
Colonial Sequence 1949 to 1969: A Chronological Commentary upon British Colonial Policy in Africa Margery Perham 9781032455860
€40.45Colonial 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
€49.60“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: €29.75€19.49The 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
€49.60This 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... -
Disasters in World History Benjamin Reilly 9781032566955
RRP: €154.70€133.41Disasters in World History surveys the development of disaster studies as a discipline as well as the historical case studies and theories used by historians to understand disasters.Disasters, here defined as the complex interaction between natural... -
Engaging with Pearson Edexcel GCSE (9–1) History: Medicine in Britain, c1250–present and The British sector of the Western Front, 1914–18 Dale Banham 9781398389229
€28.70Trust the power of cognitive science to help students to understand more, remember more and feel more confident about their exams.This textbook is guaranteed to make learning more effective. The approach was created by author and teacher Dale Banham, who... -
A History of England Llewellyn Woodward 9781032828794
RRP: €107.10€92.95First 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... -
A Criminal Hero: Justice, Politics and Media Culture in Eighteenth-Century Naples Pasquale Palmieri 9781032722252
RRP: €154.70€133.41In the spring of 1757, the Augustinian friar Leopoldo di San Pasquale was tried in Naples by the hierarchies of his own religious order on charges of financial fraud, heresy, and sexual immorality. He responded by accusing the heads of the convent of... -
Visualizing History’s Fragments: A Computational Approach to Humanistic Research Ashley R. Sanders 9783031469756
€36.09This 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: €47.59€41.72This 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: €35.70€25.97New 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...