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Across The Green Sea: Histories from the Western Indian Ocean, 1440–1640 Sanjay Subrahmanyam 9780863569517
RRP: £45.00£29.25Beginning in the mid-fifteenth century, the regions bordering the western Indian Ocean – ‘the green sea,’ as it was known to Arabic speakers – underwent vast transformation. An era of commercial and cultural exchange blossomed between the Red Sea and... -
War Comes to Aachen: The Nazis, Churchill and the 'Stalingrad of the West' Philip W. Blood 9781911723691
RRP: £27.50£24.12This book narrates the tumultuous era of total war through the fate of Aachen—Imperial Germany’s seat of power for 600 years, site of Charlemagne’s coronation as Holy Roman Emperor, and a place with greater geopolitical significance for Adolf Hitler in... -
Refugees and Population Transfer Management in Europe, 1914–1920s Kamil Ruszała 9781032751627
RRP: £135.00£117.28This book provides a comprehensive study of refugee movements and population transfers across Europe during World War 1 and the early postwar period.Drawing parallels with contemporary migration issues, the book serves a social and educational purpose by... -
Prelude to Modern Europe: 1815-1914 Llewellyn Woodward 9781032828640
RRP: £105.00£90.86First Published in 1972, Prelude to Modern Europe provides a political narrative, the social and economic background of events in Europe from 1815- 1914. Woodward's own deep sense for social values and the quality of life emerges conspicuously in his... -
Disability Studies Meets Microhistory: The Secret Life of Bíbí in Berlín Guðrún Valgerður Stefánsdóttir 9781032427263
RRP: £135.00£117.28This volume explores the life of Bjargey “Bíbí” Kristjánsdóttir (1927–1999), an Icelandic woman with intellectual disabilities, through analysis of her autobiography and personal archive on the basis of the research disciplines of critical disability... -
Empire, Kinship and Violence: Family Histories, Indigenous Rights and the Making of Settler Colonialism, 1770-1842 Elizabeth Elbourne 9781108749497
RRP: £29.99£27.40Empire, Kinship and Violence traces the history of three linked imperial families in Britain and across contested colonial borderlands from 1770 to 1842. Elizabeth Elbourne tracks the Haudenosaunee Brants of northeastern North America from the American... -
Book of Orders and Accounts for the Borough of Stockton-on-Tees John Little 9780854440856
RRP: £50.00£42.50In 1769, the Welsh antiquary Thomas Pennant admired Stockton-on-Tees as a 'handsome town' with a 'remarkably fine high street'. Only a century earlier, 'it had scarce a house that was not made of clay and thatch', but now it was 'a flourishing place'... -
Thinking about Animals in Thirteenth-Century Paris: Theologians on the Boundary Between Humans and Animals Ian P. Wei 9781108821728
RRP: £24.99£22.37Exploring what theologians at the University of Paris in the thirteenth century understood about the boundary between humans and animals, this book demonstrates the great variety of ways in which they held similarity and difference in productive tension... -
Secrets of a Suitcase: The Countess, the Nazis, and Middle Europe's Lost Nobility Pauline Terreehorst 9781911723394
RRP: £25.00£17.62When Pauline Terreehorst bid for a vintage Gucci suitcase at Sotheby's Amsterdam, she had no idea what was inside. After picking up her prize, she found that the case was filled with dresses, fur collars and lace voiles, and accompanied by two brown... -
Protecting the Empire's Humanity: Thomas Hodgkin and British Colonial Activism 1830–1870 Zoë Laidlaw 9781316647240
RRP: £29.99£27.40Rooted in the extraordinary archive of Quaker physician and humanitarian activist, Dr Thomas Hodgkin, this book explores the efforts of the Aborigines' Protection Society to expose Britain's hypocrisy and imperial crimes in the mid-nineteenth century... -
Colonial Sequence 1949 to 1969: A Chronological Commentary upon British Colonial Policy in Africa Margery Perham 9781032455860
£33.99Colonial 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... -
Manufacturing and Debating Coffee Substitutes in Nineteenth-Century Sweden Michal Salamonik 9783031576829
£110.56This book explores the development of coffee substitutes in nineteenth-century Sweden. In doing so, it considers the the threshold between the preindustrial and industrial periods by analyzing trade, consumption, social, economic, and environmental... -
The Nazi Study of India and Indian Anti-Colonialism: Knowledge Providers and Propagandists in the 'Third Reich' Baijayanti Roy 9780192887542
RRP: £84.00£76.84The Nazi Study of India and Indian Anti-Colonialism is the first detailed and critical study of the intellectual and political connections that existed between some German scholars specializing on India, non-academic 'India experts,' Indian... -
Arrival Neighborhoods in Europe since the mid-19th Century: Migrations, Cities, Infrastructures David Templin 9781032320502
RRP: £130.00£112.11This book uses the concept of "arrival spaces" to examine the relationship between migration processes, social infrastructures, and the transformation of urban spaces in Europe since the mid-19th century.Case studies cover cities from London to Palermo... -
Varieties of Economic Nationalism in Cold War Europe: Small State Responses to Economic Changes, 1960s-1980s Dr Adrian Brisku 9781350428645
RRP: £85.00£72.25Investigating the trajectories of economic nationalisms in Cold War Europe, this open access book explores the scope and limits of small (nation-)state actors pursuing and defending national economic interests in a globalizing world. In so doing, it... -
Realm of the Black Mountain: A History of Montenegro Elizabeth Roberts 9781911723332
RRP: £18.99£16.98Montenegro was admitted to the UN as its 192nd member in June 2006, thus recovering the independence it had lost nearly 90 years earlier at the Versailles Peace Conference. This is the first full-length history of the country in English for a century,... -
Cossack Ukraine: Early-Modern Political Thought, Culture, and Identity Formation, 1569-1714 Zenon E. Kohut 9780228019015
RRP: £75.00£63.75Both modern Ukrainian nationhood and the historical preconditions of the country’s contemporary conflict with Russia are rooted in a complex period of development in Cossack Ukraine. Cossack Ukraine traces the evolution of early modern Ukrainian... -
Histories of Sex Work Around the World Catherine Phipps 9781032479323
RRP: £130.00£112.11This book offers snapshots of sex work in global history, examining how it has differed in different places around the world at different points in time. Focusing on certain moments in certain places and examinations of historical lives, it offers a... -
The Catholic Reformation Michael A. Mullett 9781032506654
RRP: £27.99£23.79The Catholic Reformation (1999) provides a dynamic and original history of this crucial movement in early modern Europe. Starting from the late middle ages, it clearly traces the continuous transformation of Catholicism in its structure, bodies and... -
His Majesty's Airship: The Life and Tragic Death of the World's Largest Flying Machine S.C. Gwynne 9780861548866
RRP: £11.99£8.66When the R101 first took to the skies, she was the largest aircraft ever to fly. What followed was a tragic finale to a tale of human folly on a grand scale. 'I loved every page of this book.' THE TIMES, BEST HISTORY BOOKS OF 2023 In 1929, the R101 was... -
Medieval Self-Coronations: The History and Symbolism of a Ritual Jaume Aurell 9781108794176
RRP: £26.99£24.08Based on narrative, iconographical, and liturgical sources, this is the first systematic study to trace the story of the ritual of royal self-coronations from Ancient Persia to the present. Exposing as myth the idea that Napoleon's act of self-coronation... -
The Witches of St Osyth Marion Gibson 9781108796842
RRP: £22.99£19.56An emotive, haunting story of a community torn apart, the Essex witch accusations and trial of 1581-2 are, taken together, one of the pivotal instances of that malign and destructive wave of misogynistic persecution which periodically broke over early... -
Travel and Space in Nineteenth-Century Europe Anna P.H. Geurts 9781032769790
RRP: £130.00£112.11This detailed study of eighty European journeys examines the everyday spatial concerns of nineteenth-century travelers, with a focus on travelers from the Netherlands and North Sea region.From common soldiers in revolutionary Belgium to guests of the... -
Cosmopolitan Baroque: Aristocratic Networks and Cultural Exchange Between Seventeenth-Century Habsburg Spain and Austria Bianca M. Lindorfer 9781032721316
RRP: £135.00£117.28This book examines the cultural relations between the Spanish and Austrian Habsburg monarchies in the seventeenth century and explores the central role of transnational aristocratic networks in cultural transfer processes between Spain and Central Europe... -
The Malleus Maleficarum Peter Maxwell-Stuart 9781526181473
RRP: £9.99£7.44A shocking glimpse into the mind of a medieval witch hunter.In 1487, the zealous inquisitor Heinrich Kramer wrote a treatise that would have a remarkable influence on European history. Blaming women for his own lust, and frustrated by official... -
Remaking the World: European Distinctiveness and the Transformation of Politics, Culture, and the Economy Jerrold Seigel 9781009541664
RRP: £35.00£29.75How should we understand Europe's special role in world history, and the enduring impact it made on the rest of the globe? Jerrold Seigel traces both the positive and negative sides of the continent's special role to its absence of effective central... -
The United Kingdom and Spain in the Eighteenth Century: Beloved Enemy Manuel-Reyes García Hurtado 9781032816654
RRP: £135.00£117.28This 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... -
A History of the Georgian People: From the Beginning Down to the Russian Conquest in the Nineteenth Century W.E.D. Allen 9781032436890
£33.99A 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... -
Colonising Disability: Impairment and Otherness Across Britain and Its Empire, c. 1800–1914 Esme Cleall 9781108987370
RRP: £29.99£27.40Colonising 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... -
Voynich Reconsidered: The Most Mysterious Manuscript in the World Robert H. Edwards 9780764367496
RRP: £45.99£29.12In this book, Dr. Robert Edwards brings a fresh, mathematical perspective to the Voynich manuscript and sets out a strategy whereby the interested reader could extract meaning from the seemingly impenetrable symbols . . . if meaning is there to be found...