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Behind the Privet Hedge: Richard Sudell, the Suburban Garden and the Beautification of Britain

Behind the Privet Hedge: Richard Sudell, the Suburban...

Author: Michael Gilson
ISBN: 9781789148602
Format: Hardback
$37.99

Unearths the British national obsession with the suburban garden.  Read More >>

Murky Waters: British Spas in Eighteenth-Century Medicine and Literature

Murky Waters: British Spas in Eighteenth-Century Medicine...

Author: Sophie Vasset
ISBN: 9781526178824
Format: Paperback
$56.99

Murky waters explores the ambivalent representations of spas in eighteenth-century medicine and literature. It gives...  Read More >>

Sexual Violence and American Slavery: The Making of a Rape Culture in the Antebellum South

Sexual Violence and American Slavery: The Making of...

Author: Shannon Eaves
ISBN: 9781469678818
Format: Paperback
$47.30

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Liberty Street: A Savannah Family, Its Golden Boy, and the Civil War

Liberty Street: A Savannah Family, Its Golden Boy, and...

Author: Jason K. Friedman
ISBN: 9781643364698
Format: Paperback
$71.25

Delving into the lives of an extraordinary Southern Jewish family, Liberty Street meditates on the uses of memory...  Read More >>

Books Like Sapphires: From the Library of Congress Judaica Collection

Books Like Sapphires: From the Library of Congress Judaica...

Author: Ann Brener
ISBN: 9781684581986
Format: Hardback
$82.95

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Absolute Truth Will Set Us Free

Absolute Truth Will Set Us Free

Author: Druanne (Dru) Carpenter Earll
ISBN: 9798822937062
Format: Paperback
$31.65

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New York State: Peoples, Places, and Priorities: A Concise History with Sources

New York State: Peoples, Places, and Priorities: A Concise...

Author: Joanne Reitano (LaGuardia Community College, New York, USA)
ISBN: 9781032341934
Format: Paperback
$90.99

Now in its second edition, New York State: Peoples, Places, and Priorities is an accessibly written book that explores...  Read More >>

Unbound: Narrative Art of the Plains

Unbound: Narrative Art of the Plains

Author: Emil Her Many Horses
ISBN: 9781913875480
Format: Hardback
$99.00

New publication celebrates the dynamic tradition of narrative art among Native nations of the American Great Plains....  Read More >>

12 Rules for Strife

12 Rules for Strife

Author: Jeff Sparrow ,  Sam Wallman
ISBN: 9781761380600
Format: Paperback
$29.99

This is a handbook for change. Because we all know ways in which life could be better. And it can be better. We...  Read More >>

Policies and Politics in Western Europe: The Impact of the Recession

Policies and Politics in Western Europe: The Impact...

Author: F F Ridley
ISBN: 9781032759722
Format: Hardback
$168.00

The problems of inflation, unemployment and economic stagnation are shared by all industrialised countries, but...  Read More >>

Cast Out of Eden: The Untold Story of John Muir, Indigenous Peoples, and the American Wilderness

Cast Out of Eden: The Untold Story of John Muir, Indigenous...

Author: Robert Aquinas McNally
ISBN: 9781496227263
Format: Hardback
$92.27

Cast Out of Eden explores John Muir’s role in the dispossession of Native Americans from U.S. wild lands and points...  Read More >>

Rethinking the Carolingian Reforms

Rethinking the Carolingian Reforms

Author: Arthur Westwell ,  Ingrid Rembold
ISBN: 9781526178787
Format: Paperback
$56.99

This book sets out to challenge current interpretations of Carolingian culture, and especially its perceived correctio...  Read More >>

Celebrities, Heroes and Champions: Popular Politicians in the Age of Reform, 1810–67

Celebrities, Heroes and Champions: Popular Politicians...

Author: Simon James Morgan
ISBN: 9781526178817
Format: Paperback
$56.99

Celebrities, heroes and champions examines the popular politician in British and Irish society from the Napoleonic...  Read More >>

Sexual Violence and American Slavery: The Making of a Rape Culture in the Antebellum South

Sexual Violence and American Slavery: The Making of...

Author: Shannon Eaves
ISBN: 9781469678801
Format: Hardback
$168.30

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Divining Woman: Reclaiming Female Sexual Spirit, Culture and Genealogy

Divining Woman: Reclaiming Female Sexual Spirit, Culture...

Author: Jane Flower
ISBN: 9781032674087
Format: Hardback
$273.00

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New Zealand Medievalism: Reframing the Medieval

New Zealand Medievalism: Reframing the Medieval

Author: Anna Czarnowus ,  Janet M. Wilson
ISBN: 9781032262574
Format: Hardback
$273.00

This volume maps the phenomenon of medievalism in Aotearoa, initially as an import by the early white settler society,...  Read More >>

The Long Conquest: Territorialisation, Rebellion and the 'Tribe' in Eastern India, circa 1760 to 1900

The Long Conquest: Territorialisation, Rebellion and...

Author: Sanghamitra Misra
ISBN: 9781032514611
Format: Hardback
$273.00

This book is an inquiry into the elision of the figure of the sovereign, cotton producing Garo in the colonial archive...  Read More >>

Put Your Hands on Your Hips and Act Like a Woman: Black History and Poetics in Performance

Put Your Hands on Your Hips and Act Like a Woman: Black...

Author: Gale P. Jackson
ISBN: 9781496238894
Format: Paperback
$79.20

"In a gathering of griot traditions fusing storytelling, cultural history, social, and literary criticism, Gale...  Read More >>

Saying No to Hate: Overcoming Antisemitism in America

Saying No to Hate: Overcoming Antisemitism in America...

Author: Norman H. Finkelstein
ISBN: 9780827615236
Format: Paperback
$59.99

Saying No to Hate grounds readers in the history of antisemitism in America, emphasizing the strategies Jews have...  Read More >>

The Poetry and Essays of Uri Zvi Grinberg: Politics and Zionism

The Poetry and Essays of Uri Zvi Grinberg: Politics...

Author: Tamar Wolf-Monzon
ISBN: 9780367744342
Format: Hardback
$273.00

This book focuses on the complex network of relationships between the poet, Uri Zvi Grinberg, and the Labor Movement...  Read More >>

Memory and Social Movements in Modern and Contemporary History: Remembering Past Struggles and Resourcing Protest

Memory and Social Movements in Modern and Contemporary...

Author: Stefan Berger ,  Christian Koller
ISBN: 9783031528187
Format: Hardback
$422.37

This book delves into the synergies between memory studies and social movements, exploring how social movements...  Read More >>

New York State: Peoples, Places, and Priorities: A Concise History with Sources

New York State: Peoples, Places, and Priorities: A Concise...

Author: Joanne Reitano (LaGuardia Community College, New York, USA)
ISBN: 9781032364506
Format: Hardback
$273.00

Now in its second edition, New York State: Peoples, Places, and Priorities is an accessibly written book that explores...  Read More >>

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