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The Deadline: Essays Jill Lepore 9781324095613
$31.90Few, 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... -
Storming Vicksburg: Grant, Pemberton, and the Battles of May 19-22, 1863 Earl J. Hess 9781469684109
RRP: $58.70$39.21The most overlooked phase of the Union campaign to capture Vicksburg, Mississippi, was the time period from May 18 to May 25, 1863, when Ulysses S. Grant closed in on the city and attempted to storm its defenses. Federal forces mounted a limited attack... -
The Decoration of Houses Emily J. Orlando 9780815604730
RRP: $77.60$75.16Edith 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: $62.90$44.81The 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: $59.85$44.86The 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: $77.68$68.31Most 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... -
The Monotheisation of Pontic-Caspian Eurasia: From the Eighth to the Thirteenth Century Alex M. Feldman 9781474478113
RRP: $41.98$38.60What is the line between the ancient and medieval worlds? 330? 476? 800? Most historians acknowledge that these are arbitrary distinctions, but they remain nevertheless, taking on lives of their own. Alex Feldman is challenging us to see them as the same... -
Kurdish Nobility and the Ottoman State in the Long Nineteenth Century Nilay Ozok-Gundo?an 9781399508629
RRP: $52.48$47.69This book narrates the rise and fall of Kurdish nobility in the Ottoman Empire from the sixteenth through to the nineteenth century. Focusing on one noble Kurdish family based in the emirate of Palu, a fortressed town in the eastern provinces of the... -
Student Activism in 1960s America: Stories from Queens College Magnus O. Bassey 9783031547935
RRP: $230.98$228.29This 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... -
Time Travel Guides: The Victorians and London Tim Cooke 9781445188805
RRP: $27.28$19.09Step back in time to discover life in London during the reign of Queen Victoria with this handy time travel guidebookTravel back in time to Victorian London and find out all about life and culture there. Get ready to visit a cotton mill, drink coffee in... -
‘A Seditious and Sinister Tribe’: The Crimean Tatars and Their Khanate Donald Rayfield 9781789149098
RRP: $63.00$44.00The Crimean Tatars – Turkic-speaking native peoples of Crimea – established a powerful Khanate in the 1440s, which remained in power until 1783. In this, the first history in English for over 100 years, eminent scholar Donald Rayfield gives a historical... -
Time Travel Guides: Ancient Egyptians and Thebes Sarah Ridley 9781445188836
RRP: $27.28$19.09Travel back in time to the ancient Egyptian city of Thebes and find out all about ancient Egyptian life and culture.Travel back in time to Thebes and find out all about life and culture there. Sail down the River Nile, visit the awe-inspiring pyramids... -
Travellers in the Golden Realm: How Mughal India Connected England to the World Lubaaba Al-Azami 9781529371321
RRP: $52.50$34.40'This is a remarkable book. It combines a spellbinding account of the first forgotten half of the English encounter with India with a fascinating history of the Mughal Empire' JOSEPHINE QUINN, author of How the World Made the West'A compelling, highly... -
The Crinan Canal Marian Pallister 9781839830617
RRP: $23.08$16.04Known as 'Britain's most beautiful shortcut', the Crinal Canal runs from Ardrishaig on Loch Fyne nine miles across the Kintyre peninsula to the west coast of Scotland. Designed by John Rennie after initial survey work by James Watt in 1771, the canal was... -
Germany 1923: Hyperinflation, Hitler's Putsch, and Democracy in Crisis Volker Ullrich 9781324095651
RRP: $39.88$30.47As 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... -
Performative Representation of Working-Class Laborers: They Work Hard for the Money Jennifer Vanderpool 9783031548796
RRP: $230.98$228.29Performative Representation of Working-Class Laborers: They Work Hard for the Money is a transdisciplinary anthology intersecting art theory praxis, comparative literature, film & media studies, performance art, ethnic studies, gender studies, age &... -
The Fall of Egypt and the Rise of Rome: A History of the Ptolemies Guy de la Bedoyere 9780300275520
RRP: $52.50$43.70A 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: $283.50$246.29What 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,... -
A Political Sociology of Twenty-First Century Revolutions and Resistances: From the Arab World and Iran to Africa, Ukraine and France Kevin Anderson 9781032771380
RRP: $273.00$235.43This book examines the possibilities – and realities – of positive, humanist change and revolution that have burst forth in the first decades of this century.Kevin B. Anderson critically examines the revolutions, uprisings, social movements, and forms of... -
Chequered Past, Uncertain Future: The History of Pakistan Tahir Kamran 9781789149135
RRP: $63.00$44.00This book takes us on a sweeping journey through the ebbs and flows of Pakistan’s history, from the ancient Indus Valley Civilization to contemporary times. The book uncovers influences from Turkey, Persia, Arabia and Britain that have shaped Pakistan,... -
The Queens and Royal Women of Sweden, c. 970–1330: Their Lives, Power, and Legacy Caroline Wilhelmsson 9781032491172
$80.33This 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,... -
The Cavalry of the Army of the Ohio: A Civil War History Dennis W. Belcher 9781476692326
RRP: $75.58$62.16At the outset of the Civil War, the cavalry of the Army of the Ohio (Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Kentucky, and Tennessee) was a fledgling force beginning a four journey that would make it the best cavalry in the world. In late 1862,... -
Storm and Sack: British Sieges, Violence and the Laws of War in the Napoleonic Era, 1799–1815 Gavin Daly 9781108799393
RRP: $62.98$57.54During the Peninsular War, Wellington's army stormed and sacked three French-held Spanish towns: Ciudad Rodrigo (1812), Badajoz (1812) and San Sebastian (1813). Storm and Sack is the first major study of British soldiers' violence and restraint towards... -
Civil War Settlers: Scandinavians, Citizenship, and American Empire, 1848–1870 Anders Bo Rasmussen 9781009526456
RRP: $54.58$48.78Civil 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... -
Catherine of Lancaster and her Religious Court Poets Lesley Twomey 9783031584794
RRP: $230.98$211.28This book offers an integrated study of the English princess and Castilian queen Catherine of Lancaster (1373–1418), drawing on available archival, architectural, and poetic sources in England and Spain. Catherine’s mother, Queen of Castile in exile, and... -
Surviving War, Oceans Apart: Two Teenagers in Poland and Japan Destined for Life Together Yanek Mieczkowski 9781476692104
RRP: $60.88$49.10This work takes readers to two countries ravaged by World War II, Poland and Japan, recounting the wartime experiences of teenagers Bogdan and Seiko. Bogdan's family abandoned its home in Bydgoszcz, Poland, and fled to Warsaw, where Bogdan fought for... -
Orchestrating Warfighting: A History of the British Army’s Corps and Divisions at War since 1914 Tim Bean 9780367515577
RRP: $273.00$235.43Orchestrating 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: $27.28$17.98Who 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... -
The Troubadours Linda M. Paterson 9781789149197
RRP: $35.60$25.75Composing songs of love and war in medieval Western and Southern Europe, troubadours spanned the social spectrum from kings and nobles to penniless minstrels. This book tells the story of the lives and art of these remarkable poet-musicians, famed for... -
A-Z of Rochester: Places-People-History Yvonne Moxley 9781398117099
RRP: $33.58$22.79Rochester’s position on the River Medway, near where it joins the Thames, has meant that it has played an important historical role for centuries. Beyond its Norman castle and cathedral and many ancient buildings, the town is surrounded by fortifications... -
Germany in the World: A Global History, 1500-2000 David Blackbourn 9781324095125
RRP: $41.98$31.92With 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: $41.98$28.04My 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: $189.00$135.28Cases 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... -
Massacre at St. Louis: The Road to the Camp Jackson Affair and Civil War Kenneth E. Burchett 9781476694658
RRP: $75.58$62.16In 1861, Union Brigadier General Nathaniel Lyon marched to St. Louis in the divided slave state Missouri to arrest a state militia unit at Camp Jackson that planned to raid a federal arsenal in St. Louis. After capturing the men, the Union troops... -
Continuity and Rupture in the Long Middle Ages: Religion, Law and Interpretation Michael Edward Moore 9781032502410
RRP: $273.00$235.43The “Long Middle Ages” indicates a span of time extending from Antiquity, across the Middle Ages, to the Early Modern period. The author tries to understand factors of historical continuity binding this period together, and the periodic scenes of violent... -
Reckoning with the Devil: Nathan Bedford Forrest in Myth and Memory Court Carney 9780807171530
RRP: $81.80$55.88Court 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... -
The Book on Alums and Salts of Pseudo-Rāzı̄: The Arabic and Hebrew Traditions: Sources of Alchemy and Chemistry: Sir Robert Mond Studies in the History of Early Chemistry Gabriele Ferrario 9781032869407
RRP: $84.00$73.65On Alums and Salts, sometimes attributed to the Persian polymath al-Rāzī, is one of the most influential treatises in the European alchemical tradition. This Arabic alchemical work, produced in twelfth-century al-Andalus, gained wide fame in its Latin... -
Out of the Depths: A History of Shipwrecks Alan G. Jamieson 9781789149180
RRP: $23.08$16.32Out of the Depths explores all aspects of shipwrecks across 4,000 years, examining their historical context and significance, and showing how shipwrecks can be time capsules, shedding new light on long-departed societies and civilizations. Alan G... -
Nature, Culture, and Race in Colonial Cuba Lee Sessions 9780300267945
RRP: $105.00$100.49A new and necessary examination of how nineteenth-century Cuban white elites viewed the natural world, material culture, and political power as intertwined In the decades before the Cuban wars of independence, white elites exploited the island’s natural... -
East Central European Crisis Discourses in the Twentieth Century: A Never-Ending Story? Balázs Trencsényi 9781032572055
RRP: $273.00$235.43The term “crisis,” with its complex history, has emerged as one of the pivotal notions of political modernity. As such, reconstructing the ways the discourse of crisis functioned in various contexts and historical moments gives us a unique insight not...