History: specific events & topics books

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An African History of Africa: From the Dawn of Humanity to Independence

An African History of Africa: From the Dawn of Humanity...

Author: Zeinab Badawi
ISBN: 9780753560136
Format: Paperback
$36.99

Zeinab Badawi, award-winning broadcaster and President of SOAS, tells an epic story of the oldest inhabited continent...  Read More >>

Britain 3000 BC

Britain 3000 BC

Author: Rodney Castleden ,  Penelope Lively
ISBN: 9781803995557
Format: Paperback
$49.99

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Richard III and the Princes in the Tower

Richard III and the Princes in the Tower

Author: A.J. Pollard
ISBN: 9781803996332
Format: Paperback
$44.99

A look at the original sources and depictions that have informed our view of Richard III through history  Read More >>

Hate Speech and Academic Freedom: The Antisemitic Assault on Basic Principles

Hate Speech and Academic Freedom: The Antisemitic Assault...

Author: Cary Nelson
ISBN: 9798887194202
Format: Paperback
$79.99

This book reveals the damage that antisemitism does to the identity of Jewish students, staff, and faculty. It details...  Read More >>

Making Sense of the Great War: Crisis, Englishness, and Morale on the Western Front

Making Sense of the Great War: Crisis, Englishness,...

Author: Alex Mayhew (London School of Economics and Political Science)
ISBN: 9781009168755
Format: Hardback
$258.75

Alex Mayhew provides new perspectives on military morale by exploring the experiences of English infantrymen in...  Read More >>

Kith: Scottish Seasonal Food for Family and Friends

Kith: Scottish Seasonal Food for Family and Friends...

Author: Sarah Rankin
ISBN: 9781780278360
Format: Hardback
$49.99

A brand-new new cookery book from MasterChef finalist Sarah Rankin, showcasing the extraordinary versatility of...  Read More >>

How French Moderns Think: The Lévy-Bruhl Family, From “Primitive Mentality” to Contemporary Pandemics

How French Moderns Think: The Lévy-Bruhl Family, From...

Author: Frédéric Keck ,  Michael M. J. Fischer
ISBN: 9781914363023
Format: Paperback
$49.95

This book traces the contributions of the Lévy-Bruhl family to social and political thought and expertise in 20th-century...  Read More >>

The Triumvirate: Captain Edward J. Smith, Bruce Ismay, Thomas Andrews and the Sinking of Titanic

The Triumvirate: Captain Edward J. Smith, Bruce Ismay,...

Author: George Behe
ISBN: 9781803993355
Format: Hardback
$65.00

Presenting the true stories of three core individuals in Titanic’s history - Captain Edward J. Smith, shipbuilder...  Read More >>

Black Fins White Sharks: Unmasking the Genealogy of Caribbean Political Corruption: Decolonising Caribbean Corruption Studies

Black Fins White Sharks: Unmasking the Genealogy of...

Author: Dawn De Coteau
ISBN: 9783031474781
Format: Hardback
$316.77

This book is a pioneering multi-disciplinary analytical study of Caribbean political corruption grounded in Caribbean...  Read More >>

Narrative, Piety and Polemic in Medieval Spain: Biblical Rhetoric in the Reconquest Chronicles of León-Castile

Narrative, Piety and Polemic in Medieval Spain: Biblical...

Author: Alun Williams (University of Exeter, UK)
ISBN: 9781788314619
Format: Hardback
$170.00

This book presents an original perspective on the variety and intensity of biblical narrative and rhetoric in the...  Read More >>

The 1783 Tax Lists and the 1790 Federal Census for Washington County, Pennsylvania

The 1783 Tax Lists and the 1790 Federal Census for Washington...

Author: Katherine Zinsser
ISBN: 9781556131592
Format: Paperback
$68.64

This work contains the 1783 tax lists for Washington County which were lost until 1982 when a duplicate set of the...  Read More >>

To Gaze Upon Wicked Gods

To Gaze Upon Wicked Gods

Author: Molly X. Chang
ISBN: 9780241620809
Format: Hardback
$49.99

A No. 1 and Sunday Times Bestseller! Red Queen meets These Violent Delights and Iron Widow in an epic anti-colonial...  Read More >>

The Martyr and the Red Kimono: A Fearless Priest’s Sacrifice and A New Generation of Hope in Japan

The Martyr and the Red Kimono: A Fearless Priest’s Sacrifice...

Author: Naoko Abe
ISBN: 9781784744533
Format: Hardback
$39.99

The remarkable true story of Saint Maximilian Kolbe, his sacrifice in Auschwitz, and the two men in war-torn Japan...  Read More >>

A Cultural History of Furniture in the Age of Enlightenment

A Cultural History of Furniture in the Age of Enlightenment...

Author: Christina M. Anderson ,  Dr Elizabeth A. Carroll (San Jose State University, USA)
ISBN: 9781472577856
Format: Hardback
$150.00

The 18th century saw the height of court culture in Europe as well as the beginnings of its demise with conflicts...  Read More >>

An African History of Africa: From the Dawn of Humanity to Independence

An African History of Africa: From the Dawn of Humanity...

Author: Zeinab Badawi
ISBN: 9780753560129
Format: Hardback
$69.99

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The Book-Makers: A History of the Book in 18 Remarkable Lives

The Book-Makers: A History of the Book in 18 Remarkable...

Author: Adam Smyth
ISBN: 9781847926296
Format: Hardback
$69.99

Every book-lover's dream- a celebration of 550 years of the printed book, told through the lives of eighteen extraordinary...  Read More >>

Menacing Tides: Security, Piracy and Empire in the Nineteenth-Century Mediterranean

Menacing Tides: Security, Piracy and Empire in the Nineteenth-Century...

Author: Erik de Lange (Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands)
ISBN: 9781009364140
Format: Hardback
$219.94

Over the course of the nineteenth century, European states worked together to install a new order of collective...  Read More >>

The Body Collected in Australia: A History of Human Specimens and the Circulation of Biomedical Knowledge

The Body Collected in Australia: A History of Human...

Author: Eugenia Pacitti
ISBN: 9781350373723
Format: Hardback
$170.00

Offering insight into nineteenth- and early twentieth-century medical school dissecting rooms and anatomy museums,...  Read More >>

From Legacy Media to Going Viral: Generational Media Use and Citizen Engagement

From Legacy Media to Going Viral: Generational Media...

Author: Robert H. Wicks ,  Shauna A. Morimoto
ISBN: 9781032486734
Format: Hardback
$273.00

From Legacy Media to Going Viral: Generational Media Use and Citizen Engagement examines how the prominent media...  Read More >>

Hate Speech and Academic Freedom: The Antisemitic Assault on Basic Principles

Hate Speech and Academic Freedom: The Antisemitic Assault...

Author: Cary Nelson
ISBN: 9798887194196
Format: Hardback
$270.00

This book reveals the damage that antisemitism does to the identity of Jewish students, staff, and faculty. It details...  Read More >>

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