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Inflation Decade, 1910—1920: Americans Confront the High Cost of Living

Inflation Decade, 1910—1920: Americans Confront the...

Author: David I. Macleod
ISBN: 9783031553929
Format: Hardback
$343.17

Then wartime demand and inflationary fiscal policy doubled consumer prices from 1915 to 1920, triggering waves of...  Read More >>

The Challenge of Labour: Shaping British Society, 1850–1930

The Challenge of Labour: Shaping British Society, 1850–1930...

Author: Keith Burgess
ISBN: 9781032597904
Format: Hardback
$189.00

The Challenge of Labour (1980) explains the changing forms of labour’s relationship with British society during...  Read More >>

United We Stand Divided We Fall: The Dragon, The Beast & The False Prophet

United We Stand Divided We Fall: The Dragon, The Beast...

Author: Wallace Walker, III
ISBN: 9798892281348
Format: Paperback
$50.13

For those of you that have raised the same questions and picked up this book looking for an answer. This isn't it....  Read More >>

From Yeomanettes to Fighter Jets: A Century of Women in the U.S. Navy

From Yeomanettes to Fighter Jets: A Century of Women...

Author: Randy Goguen
ISBN: 9781682478899
Format: Hardback
$59.40

Addresses a major element of twenty-first century sea power - the integration of women into all military units...  Read More >>

Natural Magic: Emily Dickinson, Charles Darwin, and the Dawn of Modern Science

Natural Magic: Emily Dickinson, Charles Darwin, and...

Author: Renée Bergland
ISBN: 9780691235288
Format: Hardback
$57.99

A captivating portrait of the poet and the scientist who shared an enchanted view of nature Emily Dickinson and...  Read More >>

We Are Not Animals: Indigenous Politics of Survival, Rebellion, and Reconstitution in Nineteenth-Century California

We Are Not Animals: Indigenous Politics of Survival,...

Author: Martin Rizzo-Martinez ,  Valentin Lopez
ISBN: 9781496238757
Format: Paperback
$105.60

We Are Not Animals traces the history of Indigenous people in the Santa Cruz area through the nineteenth century,...  Read More >>

They Came but Could Not Conquer: The Struggle for Environmental Justice in Alaska Native Communities

They Came but Could Not Conquer: The Struggle for Environmental...

Author: Diane J. Purvis
ISBN: 9781496237576
Format: Paperback
$79.07

As the environmental justice movement slowly builds momentum, Diane J. Purvis highlights the work of Alaska’s Indigenous...  Read More >>

Women in Exile in Early Modern Europe and the Americas

Women in Exile in Early Modern Europe and the Americas...

Author: Linda Levy Peck (Professor of History Emerita) ,  Adrianna E. Bakos (Associate Professor of History)
ISBN: 9781526175359
Format: Hardback
$206.99

Women in exile in early modern Europe and the Americas presents the important yet largely untold stories of a diverse...  Read More >>

Education through the Ages: Teaching and Learning from 2500 BC to the Present

Education through the Ages: Teaching and Learning from...

Author: Aidan Warlow
ISBN: 9781805141860
Format: Paperback
$33.61

A comprehensive exploration of education through the ages, Warlow asks the question - what can modern schools learn...  Read More >>

Bribed with Our Own Money: Federal Abuse of American Indian Funds in the Termination Era

Bribed with Our Own Money: Federal Abuse of American...

Author: David R. M. Beck
ISBN: 9781496237750
Format: Hardback
$158.40

Focusing on case studies from six Native nations from across the United States, David R. M. Beck details how the...  Read More >>

Resisting Oklahoma's Reign of Terror: The Society of Oklahoma Indians and the Fight for Native Rights, 1923–1928

Resisting Oklahoma's Reign of Terror: The Society of...

Author: Joshua Clough
ISBN: 9781496238504
Format: Hardback
$171.60

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Alum, More Precious than Gold: The Amazing Influence and Trade of Alum Across the Ages

Alum, More Precious than Gold: The Amazing Influence...

Author: Sydney Thorne
ISBN: 9781036101084
Format: Hardback
$66.00

Never heard of alum? You're not alone. Yet, for centuries, alum was vital to the production of coloured cloth. Alum...  Read More >>

Early British Socialism and the ‘Religion of the New Moral World’

Early British Socialism and the ‘Religion of the New...

Author: Edward Lucas
ISBN: 9783031239427
Format: Paperback
$369.57

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Embodied Histories: New Womanhood in Vienna, 1894–1934

Embodied Histories: New Womanhood in Vienna, 1894–1934...

Author: Katya Motyl
ISBN: 9780226832142
Format: Hardback
$173.95

Explores the emergence of a new womanhood in turn-of-the-century Vienna. In Embodied Histories, historian Katya...  Read More >>

Children of a Troubled Time: Growing Up with Racism in Trump's America

Children of a Troubled Time: Growing Up with Racism...

Author: Margaret A. Hagerman
ISBN: 9781479815111
Format: Hardback
$60.99

"""Through listening to kids in Massachusetts and Mississippi talk about growing up in the era of Trump, this book...  Read More >>

Good Boys, Bad Hombres: The Racial Politics of Mentoring Latino Boys in Schools

Good Boys, Bad Hombres: The Racial Politics of Mentoring...

Author: Michael V Singh
ISBN: 9781517912970
Format: Hardback
$270.00

"""Good Boys, Bad Hombres examines the politics of empowerment and inclusion as aspects of youth control in schools....  Read More >>

Indigenous Archival Activism: Mohican Interventions in Public History and Memory

Indigenous Archival Activism: Mohican Interventions...

Author: Rose Miron
ISBN: 9781517912703
Format: Hardback
$270.00

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A Political History of the International Union of Socialist Youth 1907–1917

A Political History of the International Union of Socialist...

Author: Patrizia Dogliani ,  Patrick Leech
ISBN: 9783031206962
Format: Paperback
$343.17

This book represents a valuable contribution to the history of the Socialist Second International and, more generally,...  Read More >>

The Mis-Education of the Negro

The Mis-Education of the Negro

Author: Carter Godwin Woodson
ISBN: 9781715414924
Format: Paperback
$36.69

"In ""The Mis-Education of the Negro,"" first published in 1933, Woodson argues that the Negro education of his...  Read More >>

From the Darkness Cometh the Light; or, Struggles for Freedom (Esprios Classics)

From the Darkness Cometh the Light; or, Struggles for...

Author: Lucy A Delaney
ISBN: 9781034554677
Format: Paperback
$42.46

"Lucy Ann Delaney, born Lucy Berry (c. 1830 - after 1891), was an African-American author, and activist, a former...  Read More >>

Empowered Ladies

Empowered Ladies

Author: Susan Marg
ISBN: 9798891552005
Format: Paperback
$34.19

Empowerment doesn't always follow a fairy-tale script. Neither its beginnings nor its journeys are always paved...  Read More >>

The Story of the Big Four Railway Companies

The Story of the Big Four Railway Companies

Author: Colin G. Maggs
ISBN: 9781803996134
Format: Paperback
$39.99

Looking back at the impact of Britain's Big Four railway companies, 100 years later  Read More >>

A Place for Lost Souls: A psychiatric nurse's stories of hope and despair

A Place for Lost Souls: A psychiatric nurse's stories...

Author: Belinda Black
ISBN: 9781529429688
Format: Paperback
$26.99

A psychiatric nurse recalls her eye-opening experiences at one of Britain's secure mental hospitals during the 1980s....  Read More >>

Returning The Benin Bronzes: A Case Study of the Horniman’s restitution

Returning The Benin Bronzes: A Case Study of the Horniman’s...

Author: Nick Merriman
ISBN: 9783031561009
Format: Hardback
$118.77

This book offers a detailed case study of the transfer of ownership to Nigeria in November 2022 of the 72 artworks...  Read More >>

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