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Naval Seamen's Women in Nineteenth-Century Britain Dr Melanie Holihead 9781837650118
$207.66Explores the lived experiences of the women of lower deck seamen in the nineteenth century British navy. This book explores the lived experiences of the women - the mothers, sisters, foster-mothers of motherless children, but above all the wives - of... -
Paris in Ruins: Love, War, and the Birth of Impressionism Sebastian Smee 9781324006954
RRP: $42.90$40.11From the summer of 1870 to the spring of 1871, famously dubbed the “Terrible Year” by Victor Hugo, Paris and its people were besieged, starved, and forced into surrender by Germans—then imperiled again as radical republicans established a breakaway... -
The Rhodesian Problem: A Documentary Record 1923–1973 Elaine Windrich 9781032821504
RRP: $204.75$177.18First published in 1975, The Rhodesian Problem presents a documentary record of Rhodesia from the establishment of the Crown colony in 1923 to the illegal declaration of independence in 1965 and the post-independence efforts for a settlement of the... -
Black History for Every Day of the Year David Olusoga 9781529066203
RRP: $48.75$31.45Black History for Every Day of the Year by award-winning historian and broadcaster David Olusoga and his siblings, Yinka Olusoga and Kemi Olusoga, tells the story of Black history, sweeping across the world and through the ages.Discover stories of hope... -
Footpaths: A British History Tom King 9781398117440
RRP: $31.18$21.16Britain's footpaths and bridleways form a gossamer web over the face of the land. These tiny byways, marked by their lines of stiles and fingerposts, are a uniquely distinctive feature of the British landscape. Legally, they are part of the Queen's... -
PACAF and Alaskan Air Command in the 1980s Adrian Symonds 9781398115842
RRP: $31.18$21.16Pacific Air Forces (PACAF) and Alaskan Air Command (AAC) were Major Commands of the United States Air Force. Pacific Air Forces controlled units stationed in Hawaii, Japan, South Korea and the Philippines. PACAF was responsible for an area of over 100... -
Writing Journalism History: The Press and Academia in Brazil Otávio Daros 9781032762487
RRP: $253.50$218.61This book critically examines the transformations of historical knowledge about the journalism produced in Brazil. Beginning with an analysis of the first accounts, originating from the activities of the Instituto Histórico e Geográfico Brasileiro and... -
The Deadline: Essays Jill Lepore 9781324095613
$29.62Few, if any, historians have brought such insight, wisdom, and empathy to public discourse as Jill Lepore. Arriving at The New Yorker in 2005, Lepore, with her panoptical range and razor-sharp style, brought a transporting freshness and a literary... -
The Decoration of Houses Emily J. Orlando 9780815604730
RRP: $72.05$69.79Edith 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... -
Guest of Adolf: The War of Ssg Ernest V. Focht, 805th Tank Destroyer Battalion Michael H Zang 9781636244556
RRP: $58.40$41.61The account of Ernest Focht, who spent 27 months as a prisoner of war in World War II. "I was a guest of Adolf!" This was how Ernest Focht responded when asked about his wartime experience. Ernest Virgil Focht was born and brought up in Tyrone,... -
Italy Reborn: From Fascism to Democracy Mark Gilbert 9780393867084
RRP: $55.58$41.65The rebirth of Italy after the Second World War is one of the most impressive political transformations in modern European history. In 1945, post-fascist Italy was devastated by war, and its reputation in the international arena was nil. Yet by December... -
Science and Specters at Salem Matt Goldish 9781032317892
RRP: $72.13$63.43Most studies of the Salem witch trials focus on social history and the dynamics between accused and accusers. Science and Specters at Salem turns instead to the intellectual background of the judges to understand why they accepted controversial types of... -
Student Activism in 1960s America: Stories from Queens College Magnus O. Bassey 9783031547935
RRP: $214.48$211.98This book sheds light on the untold stories of individual student activists at Queens College, New York City, during the 1960s. Against the backdrop of the ongoing Vietnam War and the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, some Americans began to... -
Germany 1923: Hyperinflation, Hitler's Putsch, and Democracy in Crisis Volker Ullrich 9781324095651
RRP: $37.03$28.29As the great Austrian writer Stefan Zweig confided in his autobiography, written in exile, “I have a pretty thorough knowledge of history, but never, to my recollection, has it produced such madness in such gigantic proportions.” He was referring to the... -
The Fall of Egypt and the Rise of Rome: A History of the Ptolemies Guy de la Bedoyere 9780300275520
RRP: $48.75$40.58A compelling history of the Ptolemies, the decline of Egypt, and the rising power of the Roman Empire The Ptolemaic era, Egypt’s last and one of its longest dynasties, was in many ways a gilded age. Its early rulers restored and even expanded Egyptian... -
The Theory of Collective Reconciliation: A Trinity of Recognition, Responsibility and Reparation Vahagn Avedian 9781032325934
RRP: $263.25$228.70What does reconciliation mean and entail? Is collective reconciliation for entire societies or nations possible? This book aims to present it as a highly achievable albeit difficult and complex goal requiring political and collective commitment,... -
The Queens and Royal Women of Sweden, c. 970–1330: Their Lives, Power, and Legacy Caroline Wilhelmsson 9781032491172
$74.59This 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,... -
Civil War Settlers: Scandinavians, Citizenship, and American Empire, 1848–1870 Anders Bo Rasmussen 9781009526456
RRP: $50.68$45.30Civil War Settlers is the first comprehensive analysis of Scandinavian Americans and their participation in the US Civil War. Based on thousands of sources in multiple languages, that have to date been inaccessible to most US historians, Anders Bo... -
Orchestrating Warfighting: A History of the British Army’s Corps and Divisions at War since 1914 Tim Bean 9780367515577
RRP: $253.50$218.61Orchestrating Warfighting provides a detailed and wide-ranging examination of the employment of corps and divisions from the First World War through to the early twenty-first century.Division and corps formations have been at the forefront of the British... -
On This Day in Politics: Britain's Political History in 365 Days Iain Dale 9781838954772
RRP: $25.33$16.69Who became Britain's first Prime Minister on 3 April 1721?When was Karl Marx born?Where and when was the first battle of the Wars of the Roses?When did Big Ben first bong?When did the first British woman cast her vote? (Clue: It wasn't 1918.)Find the... -
Germany in the World: A Global History, 1500-2000 David Blackbourn 9781324095125
RRP: $38.98$29.64With Germany in the World, award-winning historian David Blackbourn radically revises conventional narratives of German history, demonstrating the existence of a distinctly German presence in the world centuries before its unification—and revealing a... -
Get Yer 'Air Cut: The issue of male coiffure, pop and counterculture before, during and after the Swinging Sixties Alan Clayson 9780857305909
RRP: $38.98$26.03My hair is a statement and always will be, even when I no longer have any. The social revolution of the Swinging Sixties led to a renaissance of unchecked hair growth, and long hair, especially on men, was worn as a political or countercultural symbol of... -
Cases of Citation: On Literature in Art Chloë Julius 9781526173188
RRP: $175.50$125.62Cases of citation presents a history of artists who incorporated literary references into their work from the 1960s onwards.Through a series of object-focused chapters that each take up a singular ‘case of citation’, the collection considers how literary... -
Reckoning with the Devil: Nathan Bedford Forrest in Myth and Memory Court Carney 9780807171530
RRP: $75.95$51.89Court Carney's Reckoning with the Devil grapples with the troubled, complex legacy of Nathan Bedford Forrest a slave trader, Confederate general, and prominent Klansman. More than a century after his death, Forrest's image continues to resonate with... -
Informal Metropolis: Life on the Edge of Mexico City, 1940–1976 David Yee 9781496240460
$55.97In 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 Inspector General: Sir Jeremiah Fitzpatrick and Social Reform, 1783-1802 Oliver MacDonagh 9781032853475
$160.41Sir Jeremiah Fitzpatrick (c.1740-1810) was the first inspector general of prisons and lunacy inspector in Ireland and the first and only inspector of health to HM land forces in Great Britain. He also inspected convict vessels bound for New South Wales... -
The Vietnam War: A Military History Geoffrey Wawro 9781541606081
RRP: $62.40$43.45The 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... -
Between Homelands in Michael Ondaatje’s Fiction Julie Mehta 9781032865874
RRP: $72.13$63.43Between 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... -
Battleships and Carriers: 300 of the World's Greatest Capital Ships Steve Crawford 9781838865160
RRP: $25.33$17.02Battleships and Carriers features 300 of the most significant capital ships to have sailed the seas since the age of sail. These include such famous battleships as Henri Grâce à Dieu in the 16th century, ironclads such as Indianola, Admiral Graf Spee,... -
Lichfield: A Potted History Teresa Gilmore 9781398106406
RRP: $31.18$21.16The Staffordshire city of Lichfield has a wealth of history much of which is reflected in its many historic buildings and landmarks. Famous as the birthplace of the esteemed writer Dr Samuel Johnson, other notable people who lived in the city were the... -
The Irish Convention: 1917-18 R. B. McDowell 9781032865911
$160.41Although largely regarded as a failure, the Irish Convention of 1917, might, had it been successful, have resulted in a totally different Ireland to the one which has emerged. It was an attempt to solve the apparently intractable Irish Question. This... -
Race, Power and Social Segmentation in Colonial Society: Guyana After Slavery, 1838–1891 Brian L. Moore 9781032456201
$66.28Race, 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... -
Early Records of British India: A History of the English Settlements in India J. Talboys Wheeler 9781032424774
$66.28Early 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... -
Declarations of Independence: Indigenous Resilience, Colonial Rivalries, and the Cost of Revolution Christopher R. Pearl 9780813951997
$58.81How Indigenous Americans and colonial settlers negotiated the meaning of independence in the Revolutionary era On July 4, 1776, two hundred miles northwest of Philadelphia, on Indigenous land along the West Branch of the Susquehanna River, a group of... -
The United Kingdom and Spain in the Eighteenth Century: Beloved Enemy Manuel-Reyes García Hurtado 9781032816654
RRP: $263.25$228.70This 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... -
Resistance, Refuge, Revival: The Indigenous Kalinagos of Dominica Lennox Honychurch 9781739130329
RRP: $31.18$22.27What happened to the indigenous peoples of the Caribbean in the wake of the European adventurers who claimed to have "discovered" them? While in some parts of the region they were decimated within a generation, others, such as the Kalinagos of Dominica... -
A History of the Georgian People: From the Beginning Down to the Russian Conquest in the Nineteenth Century W.E.D. Allen 9781032436890
$66.28A History of the Georgian People (1971) begins with an account of the early history and ethnographic background of Georgia, and goes on to cover the country’s political history from 1000 to 1800 and Russian conquest. There are chapters on the social... -
Entangled Histories of Art and Migration: Theories, Sites and Research Methods Cathrine Bublatzky 9781789389616
RRP: $233.90$203.99Dedicated to the stories of migrants, refugees, asylum seekers, and exiles, this collection asks how these stories are interwoven with art, art practices, activism, reception, and (re-)presentation. It explores the complex entanglements of art and... -
No Road Leading Back: An Improbable Escape from the Nazis and the Tangled Way We Tell the Story of the Holocaust Chris Heath 9780349136288
RRP: $58.50$37.83This shattering and inspiring account of prisoners who dug their way out of torture and imprisonment by the Nazis is both a stunning escape narrative and an object lesson in how we remember and continually forget the particulars of the Holocaust.No Road... -
The Last Thirty Seconds: A Brief History of the Evolution of Hit-to-Kill Technology David K. Stumpf 9781682262559
RRP: $105.30$58.46In March 1983, as the world’s superpowers continued aggressively stockpiling nuclear weapons, President Ronald Reagan described his vision for a world no longer confronted with the concept of mutually assured destruction. A year later the Strategic...