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Passion, Persecution, and Epiphany in Early Jewish Literature

Passion, Persecution, and Epiphany in Early Jewish Literature...

Author: Nicholas Peter Legh Allen ,  Pierre J. Jordaan
ISBN: 9781032474557
Format: Paperback
$79.99

This volume examines Jewish literature produced from c. 700 B.C.E. to c. 200 C.E. from a socio-theological perspective....  Read More >>

Samuel Smith: The Hero of Baltimore in the War of 1812

Samuel Smith: The Hero of Baltimore in the War of 1812...

Author: Hank H. Cox
ISBN: 9781476693132
Format: Paperback
$68.20

After the British burned Washington, D.C. in the War of 1812, Sam Smith rallied the people of Baltimore to defend...  Read More >>

Through Blue Skies to Hell: America's Bloody 100th in the Air War Over Germany

Through Blue Skies to Hell: America's Bloody 100th in...

Author: Edward M Sion
ISBN: 9781636244624
Format: Paperback
$56.99

"This book provides a comprehensive look at the air war over Europe during the climactic year of World War II. The...  Read More >>

Japan and Bengal: Exchange and Encounter (1893-1938)

Japan and Bengal: Exchange and Encounter (1893-1938)...

Author: Pratyay Banerjee
ISBN: 9781920850081
Format: Paperback
$94.91

Explores how writers of Bengal, also travelogue writers, nationalists and cultural enthusiasts from this part of...  Read More >>

The Caribbean Series: Latin America's Annual Baseball Tournament, 1949-2024

The Caribbean Series: Latin America's Annual Baseball...

Author: Thomas E. Van Hyning
ISBN: 9781476693910
Format: Paperback
$84.70

The Caribbean Series is a unique regional baseball event, the oldest of its kind. After starting in 1949 and enduring...  Read More >>

Rome's Sicilian Slave Wars: The Revolts of Eunus and Salvius, 136-132 and 105-100 BC

Rome's Sicilian Slave Wars: The Revolts of Eunus and...

Author: Natale Barca
ISBN: 9781399021463
Format: Paperback
$44.99

Highlights two significant but neglected episodes in Roman social and military history.  Read More >>

Edward II's Nieces: The Clare Sisters: Powerful Pawns of the Crown

Edward II's Nieces: The Clare Sisters: Powerful Pawns...

Author: Kathryn Warner
ISBN: 9781399021142
Format: Paperback
$44.99

The story of three of the richest women and the greatest heiresses in fourteenth-century England.  Read More >>

Rommel's Ghost Division: Victory in the West: Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives

Rommel's Ghost Division: Victory in the West: Rare Photographs...

Author: David Mitchelhill-Green
ISBN: 9781399078054
Format: Paperback
$49.99

A new and richly illustrated account of Erwin Rommel and the 7th Panzer Division— known as the ‘Ghost Division’—during...  Read More >>

Living in Medieval England: The Turbulent Year of 1326

Living in Medieval England: The Turbulent Year of 1326...

Author: Kathryn Warner
ISBN: 9781399021272
Format: Paperback
$44.99

1326 was one of the most dramatic years in English history. The queen of England, Isabella of France, invaded the...  Read More >>

Britain’s Guerrilla Army: Plans for a Secret War 1939-45

Britain’s Guerrilla Army: Plans for a Secret War 1939-45...

Author: Malcolm Atkin
ISBN: 9781399077859
Format: Paperback
$44.99

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Weeds and the Carolingians: Empire, Culture, and Nature in Frankish Europe, AD 750–900

Weeds and the Carolingians: Empire, Culture, and Nature...

Author: Paolo Squatriti (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)
ISBN: 9781009069342
Format: Paperback
$67.25

In early medieval Europe, unwanted plants that persistently appeared among crops created extra work, reduced productivity,...  Read More >>

Plantagenet Princesses: The Daughters of Eleanor of Aquitaine and Henry II

Plantagenet Princesses: The Daughters of Eleanor of...

Author: Douglas Boyd
ISBN: 9781526767080
Format: Paperback
$44.99

A unique look at the extraordinary lives of the royal child brides of the Angevin Empire.  Read More >>

Who was Jack the Ripper?: All the Suspects Revealed

Who was Jack the Ripper?: All the Suspects Revealed...

Author: Richard Charles Cobb
ISBN: 9781399019439
Format: Paperback
$44.99

Using 21st century profiling techniques, it’s time to reveal the truth behind the men most likely to have been Jack...  Read More >>

Literature and Philosophy in Nineteenth Century British Culture: Volume III: Literature and Philosophy in the ‘Long-Late-Victorian’ Period

Literature and Philosophy in Nineteenth Century British...

Author: Andrea Selleri
ISBN: 9781032548685
Format: Hardback
$294.00

This is the third in a three-volume collection of primary sources which examines philosophy and literature in nineteenth-century...  Read More >>

Ancient Rome: Facts and Fictions

Ancient Rome: Facts and Fictions

Author: Monica M. Bontty (University of Louisiana at Monroe, USA)
ISBN: 9798765124932
Format: Paperback
$44.99

This book shares little-known facts from and excerpts of primary source documents to correct popular misconceptions...  Read More >>

Cultivating the City in Early Medieval Italy

Cultivating the City in Early Medieval Italy

Author: Caroline Goodson (University of Cambridge)
ISBN: 9781108733458
Format: Paperback
$67.25

Concentrating on a period of social, economic, and political change in the Italian peninsula, Caroline Goodson demonstrates...  Read More >>

Succession to the Throne in Early Modern Russia: The Transfer of Power 1450–1725

Succession to the Throne in Early Modern Russia: The...

Author: Paul Bushkovitch (Yale University, Connecticut)
ISBN: 9781108749688
Format: Paperback
$67.25

This revisionist history of the transfer of the tsar's power in early modern Russia, from the Moscow princes of...  Read More >>

The Making of a Fiscal-Military State in Post-Revolutionary France

The Making of a Fiscal-Military State in Post-Revolutionary...

Author: Jerome Greenfield
ISBN: 9781108813556
Format: Paperback
$67.25

Draws together economic, political and diplomatic history to explain how the French state and its fiscal system...  Read More >>

Unmarried Women of the Country Estate: Four Stories from 17th-20th Century

Unmarried Women of the Country Estate: Four Stories...

Author: Charlotte Furness
ISBN: 9781526757593
Format: Paperback
$39.99

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Alternative Politics in Contemporary Japan: New Directions in Social Movements

Alternative Politics in Contemporary Japan: New Directions...

Author: David H. Slater ,  Patricia G. Steinhoff
ISBN: 9780824897437
Format: Hardback
$184.80

Engagingly written by an international community of Japan specialists committed to doing extended fieldwork with...  Read More >>

The Road to the Country

The Road to the Country

Author: Chigozie Obioma
ISBN: 9781529153477
Format: Paperback
$34.99

The new novel by Booker-shortlisted author Chigozie Obioma THE TWICE BOOKER-SHORTLISTED AUTHOR 'Obioma is truly...  Read More >>

Literature and Philosophy in Nineteenth-Century British Culture: Volume II: The Mid-Nineteenth Century

Literature and Philosophy in Nineteenth-Century British...

Author: Peter Garratt ,  Giles Whiteley
ISBN: 9781032548678
Format: Hardback
$294.00

This is the second volume in a three-volume collection of primary sources which examines philosophy and literature...  Read More >>

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