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Paul Ginsborg and the Historiography of Modern Italy: Revolutions, Revolt and Resistance John Foot 9783031540219
RRP: $272.98$228.29This book brings together a group of British and Italian scholars who have made significant contributions to the historiography of modern Italy over the last three decades, dedicated to the influence of Paul Ginsborg. Reflecting Ginsborg's interest in... -
Entangled Histories of Art and Migration: Theories, Sites and Research Methods Cathrine Bublatzky 9781789389616
RRP: $251.90$219.68Dedicated 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... -
The Little Book of Kildare Chris Lawlor 9781803997032
RRP: $27.28$20.20The Little Book of Kildare is a compendium of fascinating, obscure, strange and entertaining facts about this historic county. Here you will find out about Kildare’s great houses and historic towns, its monastic heritage, its literary traditions and its... -
Colonising Disability: Impairment and Otherness Across Britain and Its Empire, c. 1800–1914 Esme Cleall 9781108987370
RRP: $62.98$57.54Colonising Disability explores the construction and treatment of disability across Britain and its empire from the nineteenth to the early twentieth century. Drawing on a wide range of sources, Esme Cleall explores how disability increasingly became... -
This Working-Day World: Women's Lives and Culture(s) in Britain 1914�€“1945 Sybil Oldfield 9781032301754
RRP: $58.78$50.99Originally published in 1994, This Working-Day World is lively collection of essays presenting a social, political and cultural view of British women’s lives in the period 1914–45. The volume describes women’s activities in many different areas, ranging... -
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: $63.00$40.74This 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... -
Working for Victory?: Images of Women in the First World War, 1914–18 Diana Condell 9781032285382
RRP: $58.78$50.99Women ‘kept the home fires burning’ while their men went off to war. This is the usual image of the part played by women in the First World War, reinforced through countless posters, government exhortations and even popular songs. It is very far from the... -
The Last Thirty Seconds: A Brief History of the Evolution of Hit-to-Kill Technology David K. Stumpf 9781682262559
RRP: $113.40$62.96In 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... -
Submarines Robert Jackson 9781838865153
RRP: $27.28$18.33Submarines features 300 of the most significant submarines from the first submersibles in 1776 to the present day. Each featured submarine is illustrated with an outstanding colour profile artwork and is accompanied by detailed specifications, giving... -
A Southern Underground Railroad: Black Georgians and the Promise of Spanish Florida and Indian Country Paul M. Pressly 9780820366852
$60.19Despite its apparent isolation as an older region of the country, the Southeast provided a vital connecting link between the Black self-emancipation that occurred during the American Revolution and the growth of the Underground Railroad in the final... -
The Royal Hospital Chelsea at War Martin Cawthorne 9781803995991
RRP: $42.00$31.58In May 1938 a confidential meeting was held between Officers of the Royal Hospital Chelsea and Government Departments responsible for Civil Defence planning. All participants agreed that should war come, the 500 Chelsea Pensioners living in the Royal... -
American Visions: The United States, 1800-1860 Edward L. Ayers 9781324086307
RRP: $35.68$29.74With so many of our histories falling into dour critique or blatant celebration, here is a welcome departure: a book that offers hope as well as honesty about the American past. The early decades of the nineteenth century saw the expansion of slavery,... -
The Hard Road Will Take You Home: Next Level Success - The Military Elite Method Anthony Stazicker 9781838957353
RRP: $20.98$14.07'Read this book, it will only serve you well' Ant Middleton'Incredible ... Staz is an inspiration' Nims Purja 'A must read for anyone who wants to succeed and thrive under pressure' Dylan Hartley 'Stacked with insights ... The book you need when the... -
1789: George Washington and the Founders Create America Thomas B. Allen 9781538197851
RRP: $31.48$24.21"[Historian Allen] recreates in this meticulous and fast-moving posthumous account the events of the pivotal year 1789 in America. It’s a superb distillation of a complex moment in U.S. history.”— Publishers Weekly, Starred Review1789: George Washington... -
Shifting the Moon from its Orbit: A Night at the Acropolis Museum Andrea Marcolongo 9781787705180
RRP: $27.28$17.98One day in late spring, Andrea Marcolongo walks into an outdoor store in Paris to buy a camp bed, a sleeping bag, and a flashlight. Her destination, not a forest or mountain peak, but the deserted halls of one of the most famous museums in the world, the... -
One Word Shapes a Nation: Integration Politics in Germany Johanna Schuster-Craig 9781487551179
RRP: $65.10$55.65One 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,... -
The Webs of Humankind: A World History J. R. McNeill 9781324061632
$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... -
Ramses the Great Charlotte Booth 9781804177181
RRP: $18.88$13.02Regarded as the greatest of all Pharaohs, Ramses II reigned at the height of Ancient Egypt's power and influence. He led military campaigns with his father from a young age, married at 15, eventually amassing over 200 wives and concubines and over 150... -
Enchanted Creatures: Our Monsters and Their Meanings Natalie Lawrence 9781474619028
RRP: $33.58$25.35The 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... -
After Palmares: Diaspora, Inheritance, and the Afterlives of Zumbi Marc A Hertzman 9781478026310
RRP: $207.90$180.89In After Palmares, Marc A. Hertzman tells the rise, fall, and afterlives of Palmares, one of history’s largest and longest-lasting maroon societies. Forged during the seventeenth century by formerly enslaved Africans in what would become northeast... -
When Cimarron Meant Wild: The Maxwell Land Grant Conflict in New Mexico and Colorado David L. Caffey 9780806194776
RRP: $54.50$43.97The Spanish word cimarron, meaning “wild” or “untamed,” refers to a region in the southern Rocky Mountains where control of timber, gold, coal, and grazing lands long bred violent struggle. After the U.S. occupation following the 1846–1848 war with... -
History of the World Michael Kerrigan 9781838864507
RRP: $84.00$56.60Beginning in the sixth millennium BCE, in the Indus Valley, Mesopotamia and along the Nile River, human civilization expanded to develop writing systems, farming methods, social organization and modes of government. Today, humans inhabit every part of... -
Feeding the Eternal City: Jewish and Christian Butchers in the Roman Ghetto Kenneth Stow 9780674297395
RRP: $79.70$67.39A surprising history of interfaith collaboration in the Roman Ghetto, where for three centuries Jewish and Christian butchers worked together to provision the city despite the proscriptions of Church law.For Rome’s Jewish population, confined to a ghetto... -
Uncover History: The Maya Clare Hibbert 9781526322098
RRP: $18.88$13.02Uncover History and find out about the Mayan civilisation with this fun and humorous guide. Who were the Mayans? Read about their daily lives, what jobs they did and why they built pyramids. Find out about their gods, why they stargazed and what happened... -
Water in World History Ellen F. Arnold 9780367650056
$85.22This book takes a thematic approach to the global history of water, covering a wide range of human interactions with water and the ways in which it carries both life and death.Water is one of the most common and valuable natural resources for the... -
The Bluestockings: A History of the First Women's Movement Susannah Gibson 9780393881387
RRP: $50.38$38.41In England in the 1700s, a woman who was an intellectual, spoke out, or wrote professionally was considered unnatural. After all, as the wisdom of the era dictated, a clever woman—if there were such a thing—would never make a good wife. But a circle of... -
Alexandria: The City that Changed the World: 'Monumental' – Daily Telegraph Islam Issa 9781529377620
RRP: $31.48$20.58A SUNDAY TIMES AND TLS BOOK OF THE YEAR'Monumental and vividly imagined . . . a fitting tribute to a city that has survived, changed and grown for so many centuries'Daily Telegraph'Wonderfully entertaining . . . written with vim and vigour'Sunday... -
The Black Angels: The Untold Story of the Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis, as seen on BBC Two Between the Covers Maria Smilios 9780349009285
RRP: $27.28$19.09New York City, 1929. A sanatorium, a deadly disease, and a dire nurse shortage.So begins the remarkable true story of the Black nurses who helped cure tuberculosis, one of the world's deadliest plagues, told alongside the often strange chronicle of the... -
The Story of Scandinavia: From the Vikings to Social Democracy Stein Ringen 9781474625210
RRP: $27.28$18.06In The Story of Scandinavia, political scholar Stein Ringen chronicles more than 1,200 years of drama, economic rise and fall, crises, kings and queens, war, peace, language and culture. Scandinavian history has been one of dramatic discontinuities of... -
Worlds Together, Worlds Apart Jeremy Adelman 9781324064213
$182.72Instructors have made Worlds Together, Worlds Apart the #1-selling collegiate survey because its global-by-design narrative builds each chapter around big themes in world history that allow most of the regions to be discussed in each chapter while... -
Kenya and the Politics of a Postcolony Wanjala S. Nasong’o 9781839980275
RRP: $168.00$160.61This book sets out to probe, explore and evaluate the betrayal of anticolonial nationalism in Kenya. Contemporary Kenya's emergence is rooted in the colonial enterprise, its deleterious effects and the subsequent decolonization spearheaded by a fierce... -
Engaging Children in Vast Early America Julia M. Gossard 9781032268224
RRP: $77.68$68.31Engaging Children in Vast Early America examines the often overlooked roles that children played in moments of contact between Indigenous groups, Europeans, and Africans in North and South America over the course of the seventeenth through nineteenth... -
Auschwitz – A Mother's Story: How I fought to survive and see my daughter again Rosa de Winter-Levy 9781800962309
RRP: $18.88$13.02Suddenly there is a blow to my face, I am hurled to one side. 'My child, I have to go with her!' I scream. But Dr Mengel is standing before me, whip raised. 'Maul halten, shut up!' His eyes gleam. Filled with fear I cower down.In 1943, as the Nazi power... -
Pennies from Vietnam: A Sister at Home, a Brother at War Tracy Smith 9781476694634
RRP: $46.18$37.74In this personal collection of 70+ letters from Vietnam, the raw honesty of one homesick teenage boy speaks for every lonely soldier at war. Huey crew chief Larry Smith grew into a hardened man in his First Cavalry helicopter while his little sister... -
Ghostly Past, Capitalist Presence: A Social History of Fear in Colonial Bengal Tithi Bhattacharya 9781478030713
RRP: $44.08$38.58In Ghostly Past, Capitalist Presence, Tithi Bhattacharya maps the role that Bengali ghosts and ghost stories played in constituting the modern Indian nation, and the religious ideas seeded therein, as it emerged in dialogue with European science... -
Worlds Together, Worlds Apart Jeremy Adelman 9781324064114
$183.90Instructors have made Worlds Together, Worlds Apart the #1-selling collegiate survey because its global-by-design narrative builds each chapter around big themes in world history that allow most of the regions to be discussed in each chapter while... -
Uncover History: Shang Dynasty Geoff Barker 9781526322135
RRP: $18.88$13.02Uncover History and find out about the Shang dynasty with this fun and humorous guideFounded sometime around 1600 BCE, the Shang Dynasty was governed by a series of about 29 kings over a 600 year period. They were situated along the Yellow River Valley,... -
American Modern: Architecture; Community; Columbus, Indiana Matt Shaw 9781580936125
RRP: $115.40$88.47The definitive book on one of the foremost modernist cities and architecture destinations in the USA: Columbus, Indiana The midwestern city of Columbus, Indiana, is more than a mecca of modern architecture; it is an example of how design can help foster... -
Dear Unknown Friend: The Remarkable Correspondence between American and Soviet Women Alexis Peri 9780674987586
RRP: $62.90$57.44In the tense years of the early Cold War, American and Soviet women conducted a remarkable pen-pal correspondence that enabled them to see each other as friends rather than enemies.In a compelling new perspective on the early Cold War, prizewinning... -
The Power and the Money: The Epic Clashes Between Commanders in Chief and Titans of Industry Tevi Troy 9781684515400
RRP: $52.50$39.40When U.S. presidents clash with corporate titans, what tips the balance of power? In The Power and the Money, acclaimed presidential historian Tevi Troy takes readers on a riveting journey through the biggest battles between CEOs and the nation’s...