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Taking the Land to Make the City: A Bicoastal History of North America Mary P. Ryan 9781477330944
RRP: $58.78$50.69The history of the United States is often told as a movement westward, beginning at the Atlantic coast and following farmers across the continent. But cities played an equally important role in the country’s formation. Towns sprung up along the Pacific... -
One Word Shapes a Nation: Integration Politics in Germany Johanna Schuster-Craig 9781487551162
RRP: $153.30$124.85One Word Shapes a Nation demonstrates that integration politics limit how immigrants, refugees, and their descendants can participate in German society and how Germans imagine their national future. By reconstructing recent polemic media scandals,... -
Jobs for the Girls: How We Set Out to Work in the Typewriter Age Ysenda Maxtone Graham 9780349144412
RRP: $27.28$18.06A unique take on women's history from the bestselling author of British Summer Time Begins'Witty, clever and warm-hearted' The Times'Maxtone Graham [has a] unique blend of high comedy and shrewd social observation' Spectator'Terrific' Daily... -
From Desert One to Desert Storm: Operation Eagle Claw as a Critical Movement Tal Tovy 9781032396125
RRP: $77.68$68.31This book recounts the history of the United States Special Operations Forces (SOF) after the failure of Operation Eagle Claw in 1980, examining the events that led to and followed a series of organizational and operational reforms in the American... -
Anglo-Norman Studies XLVI: Proceedings of the Battle Conference 2023 Professor Stephen D. Church 9781837651047
RRP: $126.00$120.02"A series which is a model of its kind": Edmund King Considers the clerical friends of Ermengarde of Brittany, showing how these men enabled Ermengarde to fulfil both her duty and her desire to live an intensely pious life. Explores the ways in which... -
From Desert One to Desert Storm: Operation Eagle Claw as a Critical Movement Tal Tovy 9781032397672
RRP: $283.50$246.29This book recounts the history of the United States Special Operations Forces (SOF) after the failure of Operation Eagle Claw in 1980, examining the events that led to and followed a series of organizational and operational reforms in the American... -
A History of the Modern Middle East William L. Cleveland 9780367516154
RRP: $283.50$246.29A History of the Modern Middle East examines the profound and often dramatic transformations of the region in the past two centuries, from the Ottoman and Egyptian reforms, through the challenge of Western imperialism, to the impact of US foreign... -
African Americans and the Nigerian Civil War, 1967–1970: ‘Black America Cares’ James A. Farquharson 9781032254265
RRP: $273.00$235.43This book is the first to recover and analyse at length the extent, complexity, and character of African American responses to the Nigerian Civil War (1967–1970).Far from having only marginal significance, the Nigerian Civil War collided at full velocity... -
Gateway to the French Revolution: Select Writings by Edmund Burke, Friedrich Gentz, and Joseph de Maistre Edmund Burke 9781684514502
RRP: $27.28$19.93The legacy of the French Revolution critiqued by the most important thinkers of the day.Gateway to the French Revolution features voices critical of the French Revolution and its aftershocks. Edmund Burke’s critique of the Revolution is widely known and... -
Croydonopolis: A Journey to the Greatest City That Never Was Will Noble 9781838405199
RRP: $39.88$30.49D. H. Lawrence and David Bowie struggled with being there. Comedians have found it a convenient trope for philistinism and the banal. The ‘Croydon facelift’ succeeded ‘Essex girls’ as a snobbish putdown. Riots and burning buildings in 2011 didn’t help... -
Targeted: Beirut Jack Carr 9781398540828
RRP: $52.50$33.26The first in a new in-depth nonfiction series examining the devastating terrorist attacks that changed the course of history from #1 New York Times bestselling author Jack Carr and Pulitzer Prize finalist James M. Scott, beginning with the 1983 Marine... -
If You Ask Me: Essential Advice from Eleanor Roosevelt Eleanor Roosevelt 9781501179808
$23.44Experience the “heartwarming, smart, and at times even humorous” (Woman’s World) wisdom of Eleanor Roosevelt in this annotated collection of the candid advice columns that she wrote for more than twenty years.In 1941, Eleanor Roosevelt embarked on a new... -
Uncover History: Stone, Bronze and Iron Age Clare Hibbert 9781526322159
RRP: $18.88$13.02Who were the first Britons? Read about their daily lives, what jobs they did, what they made, how they traded. Find out the answer to questions such as 'How did they build their settlements such as Skara Brae?', 'Why was Stonehenge built?', 'When did the... -
Enchanted Creatures: Our Monsters and Their Meanings Natalie Lawrence 9781474619011
RRP: $42.00$28.04The hydra rears its many heads in a flurry of teeth and poisonous fumes. The cyborg lays waste to humanity with a ruthless, expressionless stare.From ancient mythology to modern science fiction, we have had to confront the monsters that lurk in the... -
The Webs of Humankind: A World History J. R. McNeill 9781324061519
$122.62McNeill’s The Webs of Humankind offers a refreshingly clear view of world history through the lens of connective “webs” of interaction—along which trade, religious beliefs, technologies, pathogens, and much else traveled. Instructors have hailed... -
Aesthetics of Repair: Indigenous Art and the Form of Reconciliation Eugenia Kisin 9781487503420
RRP: $117.60$96.47Aesthetics of Repair analyses how the belongings called “art” are mobilized by Indigenous artists and cultural activists in British Columbia, Canada. Drawing on contemporary imaginaries of repair, the book asks how diverse forms of collective reckoning... -
Thailand's Far South: Engaging the Difficult Realities in a Recurring Conflict Kee Howe Yong 9781487556129
RRP: $109.20$101.81In Thailand’s Far South, Kee Howe Yong sheds light on the Malay Muslims in Thailand’s far south. The book focuses on the relationship between the construction of minorities – and thus majority – and issues of engaging with the difficulties of their... -
Radical Ideas and the Crisis of Christianity in England, 1640-1740: The Politics of Religion Alex W. Barber 9781837651825
RRP: $199.50$190.43Examines the evolving relationship between Church and State, the character of radical thought in Enlightenment England, and the nature of that Enlightenment itself. A tribute to the work of the late Justin Champion, this volume explores the radical... -
Hurricane: The Plane that Won the War Jacky Hyams 9781789296846
RRP: $23.08$15.69Britain’s first-ever wartime fighter plane, the Hawker Hurricane, shot down more enemy planes than any other fighter. It was the true aviation hero of the Battle of Britain.Often eclipsed by the legend and aerial heroics of the Spitfire, the Hurricane... -
A Lethal Legacy: A History of Ireland in 18 Murders Fin Dwyer 9780008556020
RRP: $23.08$15.23The Instant Top 5 Irish Times Bestseller From the creator of The Irish History Podcast comes a fascinating look at Irish history through the lens of murder. In A Lethal Legacy, Fin Dwyer charts 200 years of Irish history, opening up our past as never... -
The Infantry's Armor: The U.S. Army's Separate Tank Battalions in World War II Harry Yeide 9780811776585
RRP: $39.88$35.60Tanks, amphibian tanks, and amphibian tractors in action in all theaters, from Africa and Europe to the Pacific How the battalions fought the war, often in the tankers' own words Crystal-clear maps The U.S. Army's separate armored battalions fought in... -
The 1840 Rhodes Blood Libel: Ottoman Jews at the Dawn of the Tanzimat Era Olga Borovaya 9781805396864
RRP: $207.90$168.99The Rhodes blood libel of 1840, an outbreak of anti-Jewish violence, was initiated by the island’s governor in collusion with Levantine merchants, who charged the local Jewish community with murdering a Christian boy for ritual purposes. An episode in... -
Green Lands for White Men: Desert Dystopias and the Environmental Origins of Apartheid Meredith McKittrick 9780226834696
RRP: $54.60$52.19How an audacious environmental engineering plan fanned white settlers’ visions for South Africa, stoked mistrust in scientific experts, and gave rise to the Apartheid state. In 1918, South Africa’s climate seemed to be drying up. White farmers claimed... -
León and Galicia Under Queen Sancha and King Fernando I Bernard F. Reilly 9781512824629
RRP: $113.40$98.26A corrective to conventional accounts of the reign of Queen Sancha and King Fernando I in medieval Iberia Acclaimed historians Bernard F. Reilly and Simon R. Doubleday tell the story of the reign of Queen Sancha and King Fernando I, who together ruled... -
The Conscience of the Party: Hu Yaobang, China’s Communist Reformer Robert L. Suettinger 9780674272804
RRP: $71.30$65.77The definitive story of a top Chinese politician’s ill-fated quest to reform the Communist Party.When Hu Yaobang died in April 1989, throngs of mourners converged on the Martyrs’ Monument in Tiananmen Square to pay their respects. Following Hu’s 1987... -
Latin American Economic History: An Introduction to Daily Life, Debt, and Development Molly C. Ball 9781032224343
RRP: $75.58$66.55Latin 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... -
Wild Girls: How the Outdoors Shaped the Women Who Challenged a Nation Tiya Miles 9781324076155
RRP: $20.98$16.59Harriet Tubman, forced to labour outdoors on a Maryland plantation, learned from the land a terrain for escape. Louisa May Alcott ran wild, eluding gendered expectations in New England. The Indigenous women’s basketball team from Fort Shaw, Montana,... -
A Promised Land: Jewish Patriots, the American Revolution, and the Birth of Religious Freedom Adam Jortner 9780197536865
RRP: $56.68$51.72A new history that centers Judaism at the dawn of the United States Jews played a critical role both in winning the American Revolution--fighting for the Patriot cause from Bunker Hill to Yorktown--and in defining the republic that was created from it... -
Arboreal Symbolism in European Art, 1300–1800 Katherine T. Brown 9781032235080
RRP: $273.00$235.43Arboreal Symbolism in European Art, 1300–1800 probes the significance of trees in religious iconography of Western art.Based in the disciplines of art history, botany, and theology, this study focuses on selected works of art in which tree forms embody... -
The Classical World in Bite-sized Chunks Mark Daniels 9781789296556
RRP: $31.48$20.96Explore the fascinating world of Greek and Roman history in this new entry in the bestselling Bite-Sized Chunks series.Perhaps more than any other period in history, the era of classical antiquity shaped the Western world as we know it today. From the... -
Time and Chronology in Creation Narratives Silvie Kilgallon 9780367481667
RRP: $273.00$235.43This book explores the ways in which the origins of time, of the gods, and processes associated with time were conceptualised in antiquity, examining a variety of ancient sources from across the ancient world and addressing issues surrounding the sources... -
Stalking the Great Killer: Arkansas's Long War on Tuberculosis Larry C. Floyd 9780806194820
$46.98Imagine a time when a killer disease took lives at a rate rivaling Covid-19 in 2020 and 2021, and continued that grim harvest year after year, decade after decade. Such a nightmare scenario played out in the state of Arkansas—and across the United... -
Blue-Collar Empire: The Untold Story of US Labor's Global Anticommunist Crusade Jeff Schuhrke 9781839769054
RRP: $52.50$38.49There is power in a union. Not only the power to secure pay raises and employee benefits, but the power to bring economies to a screeching halt and overthrow governments. Recognizing this, in the late twentieth century, the US government sought to... -
Camps: A Global History of Mass Confinement Aidan Forth 9781487588281
RRP: $46.18$40.30The concentration of terrorists, political suspects, ethnic minorities, prisoners of war, enemy aliens, and other potentially “dangerous” populations spans the modern era. From Konzentrationslager in colonial Africa to strategic villages in Southeast... -
Empire's Son, Empire's Orphan: The Fantastical Lives of Ikbal and Idries Shah Nile Green 9781324002413
RRP: $46.20$38.37Claiming to come from Afghanistan, Ikbal and Idries Shah convinced spies, poets, orientalists, diplomats, occultists, hippies and even a prime minister that they held the keys to understanding the Muslim world. Gambling with the currency of cultural... -
The House of War: The Struggle between Christendom and the Caliphate Sir Simon Mayall 9781472864338
RRP: $52.50$37.00A powerful new history detailing the most significant military clashes between Islam and Christendom over the 1300 years of the Muslim caliphate. From the taking of the holy city of Jerusalem in the 7th century AD by Caliph Umar, to the collapse of the... -
A Pathway to American Renewal: Red, White, and Black Volume II Robert L. Woodson 9798888454466
RRP: $46.20$36.65A celebration of resilience: the inspiring story of how Black America survived unimaginable odds and an examination of the real challenges it faces today.This challenging and inspiring collection of essays constructively frames the story of Black... -
Trucks in the Garden of Eden: In Search of Britain's Utopias Vitali Vitaliev 9781398100244
RRP: $48.28$31.88Award-winning Ukrainian-born writer Vitali Vitaliev takes stock of Britain today and investigates the state of the nation’s many disparate attempts to create a utopian community, including the Garden City that inspired Lenin; the model villages where... -
The Home I Worked to Make: Voices from the New Syrian Diaspora Wendy Pearlman 9781324092230
RRP: $50.38$36.77In 2011, Syrians took to the streets demanding freedom. Brutal government repression transformed peaceful protests into one of the most devastating conflicts of our times, killing hundreds of thousands and displacing millions. The Home I Worked to Make... -
Environment, Knowledge, and Injustice in Lesotho: The Poverty of Progress Christopher Conz 9781847013309
RRP: $168.00$160.88Shows that a fraught historical process was at work in which Basotho drew on local and global sources of knowledge and how this small nation surrounded by South Africa can serve as a valuable case-study for wider conversations about 'progress' and...