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All for You: A World War II Family Memoir of Love, Separation, and Loss

All for You: A World War II Family Memoir of Love, Separation,...

Author: Dena Rueb Romero
ISBN: 9781647426545
Format: Paperback
$32.99

Forbidden by Nazi racial purity laws to marry his beloved in Germany and forced to emigrate to America to escape...  Read More >>

Creole Noise: Early Caribbean Dialect Literature and Performance

Creole Noise: Early Caribbean Dialect Literature and...

Author: Belinda Edmondson
ISBN: 9780198914648
Format: Paperback
$57.95

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The Threshold of Dissent: A History of American Jewish Critics of Zionism

The Threshold of Dissent: A History of American Jewish...

Author: Marjorie Feld
ISBN: 9781479829316
Format: Hardback
$75.99

Explores the long history of anti-Zionist and non-Zionist American Jews Throughout the twentieth century, American...  Read More >>

Responsible Pleasure: The Brook Advisory Centres and Youth Sexuality in Postwar Britain

Responsible Pleasure: The Brook Advisory Centres and...

Author: Caroline Rusterholz (Assistant Professor in International History and Politics, Assistant Professor in International History and Politics, Graduate Institute, Geneva)
ISBN: 9780192866271
Format: Hardback
$63.95

This book offers a historical account of the public debates, institutional monitoring, and private experiences of...  Read More >>

The Last Great Plague of Colonial India

The Last Great Plague of Colonial India

Author: Natasha Sarkar (Commissioning Editor, Humanities, Commissioning Editor, Humanities, Oxford University Press)
ISBN: 9780198873228
Format: Hardback
$161.95

This study examines the political, social, economic, and demographic dimensions of the plague pandemic which affected...  Read More >>

Space and Play in Japanese Videogame Arcades

Space and Play in Japanese Videogame Arcades

Author: Jérémie Pelletier-Gagnon
ISBN: 9781032226859
Format: Hardback
$273.00

This book presents a scholarly investigation of the development and culture of Japanese videogame arcades, both...  Read More >>

Chicana Liberation: Women and Mexican American Politics in Los Angeles, 1945-1981

Chicana Liberation: Women and Mexican American Politics...

Author: Marisela R. Chávez
ISBN: 9780252045707
Format: Hardback
$239.00

Mexican American women reached across generations to develop a bridging activism that drew on different methods...  Read More >>

Black Cyclists: The Race for Inclusion

Black Cyclists: The Race for Inclusion

Author: Robert J. Turpin
ISBN: 9780252045752
Format: Hardback
$239.00

Cycling emerged as a sport in the late 1870s, and from the beginning, Black Americans rode alongside and raced against...  Read More >>

Strangers No Longer: Latino Belonging and Faith in Twentieth-Century Wisconsin

Strangers No Longer: Latino Belonging and Faith in Twentieth-Century...

Author: Sergio M. González
ISBN: 9780252045844
Format: Hardback
$295.00

Hospitality practices grounded in religious belief have long exercised a profound influence on Wisconsin’s Latino...  Read More >>

Land Back: Relational Landscapes of Indigenous Resistance across the Americas

Land Back: Relational Landscapes of Indigenous Resistance...

Author: Heather Dorries ,  Michelle Daigle
ISBN: 9780884025016
Format: Hardback
$198.00

Land Back highlights the ways Indigenous peoples and anti-colonial co-resistors understand land relations for political...  Read More >>

How America Gets the News: A History of U.S. Journalism

How America Gets the News: A History of U.S. Journalism...

Author: Ford Risley ,  Ashley Walter
ISBN: 9781442235267
Format: Hardback
$70.99

This concise history of American journalism introduces readers to the news media from the first colonial newspapers...  Read More >>

The Driver’s Story: Labor and Power in the World of Atlantic Slavery

The Driver’s Story: Labor and Power in the World of...

Author: Randy M. Browne
ISBN: 9781512825862
Format: Hardback
$105.47

"The story of the driver is the story of Atlantic slavery. Starting in the seventeenth-century Caribbean, enslavers...  Read More >>

Jewish Refugees and the British Nursing Profession: A Gendered Opportunity

Jewish Refugees and the British Nursing Profession:...

Author: Jane Brooks
ISBN: 9781526167422
Format: Hardback
$194.99

This book bears witness to the personal experiences of Jewish refugees from Nazi Europe in the highly gendered profession...  Read More >>

Lesbian Lives in Soviet and Post-Soviet Russia: Post/Socialism and Gendered Sexualities

Lesbian Lives in Soviet and Post-Soviet Russia: Post/Socialism...

Author: F. Stella ,  F Stella
ISBN: 9781349672660
Format: Paperback
$139.00

This book explores the everyday lives of 'lesbian' women in urban Russia. It explores changes and continuities by...  Read More >>

Persia in Early Modern English Drama, 1530–1699: The Imagined Empire

Persia in Early Modern English Drama, 1530–1699: The...

Author: Chloë Houston
ISBN: 9783031226205
Format: Paperback
$343.17

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Everybody Wants to Rule the World: Britain, Sport and the 1980s

Everybody Wants to Rule the World: Britain, Sport and...

Author: Roger Domeneghetti
ISBN: 9781529114843
Format: Paperback
$27.99

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A Cultural History of Objects in the Age of Industry

A Cultural History of Objects in the Age of Industry...

Author: Dr Carolyn White
ISBN: 9781350463622
Format: Paperback
$52.99

A Cultural History of Objects in the Age of Industry covers the period 1760 to 1900, a time of dramatic change in...  Read More >>

A Cultural History of Objects in Antiquity

A Cultural History of Objects in Antiquity

Author: Professor Robin Osborne
ISBN: 9781350463349
Format: Paperback
$52.99

A Cultural History of Objects in Antiquity covers the period 500 BCE to 500 CE, examining ancient objects from machines...  Read More >>

A Cultural History of Objects in the Modern Age

A Cultural History of Objects in the Modern Age

Author: Professor Laurie Wilkie ,  Professor John Chenoweth
ISBN: 9781350463639
Format: Paperback
$52.99

A Cultural History of Objects in the Modern Age covers the period 1900 to today, a time marked by massive global...  Read More >>

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