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Precious: The History and Mystery of Gems Across Time

Precious: The History and Mystery of Gems Across Time...

Author: Helen Molesworth
ISBN: 9780857529091
Format: Hardback
$59.99

Renowned jewellery historian and gemmologist, Helen Molesworth traces the journey of gems, showing how their remarkable...  Read More >>

The Lancaster Story: True Tales of Britain’s Legendary Bomber

The Lancaster Story: True Tales of Britain’s Legendary...

Author: Sarah-Louise Miller
ISBN: 9781789296396
Format: Hardback
$37.99

A dramatic and vividly rendered account of the most successful RAF bomber of the Second World War – the Avro Lancaster...  Read More >>

Nineteenth-Century British Perspectives on Spanish America: Volume I: Romanticism and Revolutions

Nineteenth-Century British Perspectives on Spanish America:...

Author: Marisa Palacios Knox
ISBN: 9781032011660
Format: Hardback
$231.00

The sources in this volume focus on Britain’s moral, financial, and diplomatic interventions and ambitions in Latin...  Read More >>

Animal industries: Nordic perspectives on the exploitation of animals since 1860

Animal industries: Nordic perspectives on the exploitation...

Author: Taina Syrjämaa ,  Marja Jalava
ISBN: 9783110787290
Format: Hardback
$248.13

This book explores the history and development of animal industries in Nordic countries from their establishment...  Read More >>

Wronged: The Weaponization of Victimhood

Wronged: The Weaponization of Victimhood

Author: Lilie Chouliaraki
ISBN: 9780231193290
Format: Paperback
$49.95

In this timely and incisive book, Lilie Chouliaraki shows why claims of victimization are so effective at reinforcing...  Read More >>

Rethinking the End of Empire: Nationalism, State Formation, and Great Power Politics

Rethinking the End of Empire: Nationalism, State Formation,...

Author: Lynn M. Tesser
ISBN: 9781503638891
Format: Paperback
$59.99

Why did a nation-state order emerge when nationalist activism was typically an elitist pursuit in the age of empire?...  Read More >>

Vom Umgang Mit Nationaler Vielfalt: Eine Geschichte Der Nicht-Territorialen Autonomie in Europa

Vom Umgang Mit Nationaler Vielfalt: Eine Geschichte...

Author: B�rries Kuzmany
ISBN: 9783111314433
Format: Hardback
$232.29

This book explores the practice of non-territorial autonomy, a concept based on collective rights and used to address...  Read More >>

Diplomatic Dispatches about Circassia from the Consulate of France in Odessa, 1836-1840

Diplomatic Dispatches about Circassia from the Consulate...

Author: Azamat Kumykov ,  Georges Mamoulia
ISBN: 9783110785180
Format: Hardback
$213.81

As the first in a larger series of publications which preserve and make accessible primary sources from various...  Read More >>

American Inheritance: Liberty and Slavery in the Birth of a Nation, 1765-1795

American Inheritance: Liberty and Slavery in the Birth...

Author: Edward J. Larson (Los Angeles, CA)
ISBN: 9781324075219
Format: Paperback
$29.95

From a Pulitzer Prize winner, a powerful history that reveals how the twin strands of liberty and slavery were joined...  Read More >>

World's End: Unravelling the Mysteries of Apocalypse Theories

World's End: Unravelling the Mysteries of Apocalypse...

Author: V T Sreekumar
ISBN: 9798224083152
Format: Paperback
$84.48

"""World's End: Unravelling the Mysteries of Apocalypse Theories"" delves into the fascinating and often chilling...  Read More >>

Wronged: The Weaponization of Victimhood

Wronged: The Weaponization of Victimhood

Author: Lilie Chouliaraki
ISBN: 9780231193283
Format: Hardback
$198.95

In this timely and incisive book, Lilie Chouliaraki shows why claims of victimization are so effective at reinforcing...  Read More >>

Prohets, Judges & Kings: Joshua (Prohet Yuusha) - II Kings

Prohets, Judges & Kings: Joshua (Prohet Yuusha) - II...

Author: Anani Ibn Rahabaam
ISBN: 9798323440702
Format: Paperback
$528.00

These books are the Official Translations from the Aramaic the Language of the House of Ephraim the birthright of...  Read More >>

Stalin's Usable Past: A Critical Edition of the 1937 Short History of the USSR

Stalin's Usable Past: A Critical Edition of the 1937...

Author: David Brandenberger
ISBN: 9781503637863
Format: Hardback
$154.99

At the height of the Great Terror in 1937, Joseph Stalin took a break from the purges to edit a new textbook on...  Read More >>

Latin America's Democratic Crusade: The Transnational Struggle Against Dictatorship, 1920s-1960s

Latin America's Democratic Crusade: The Transnational...

Author: Allen Wells ,  Allen Wells
ISBN: 9798874788896
Format: Audio
$158.27

By emphasizing Latin American reformers’ decades-long struggle to defeat authoritarianism, this transnational history...  Read More >>

Latin America's Democratic Crusade: The Transnational Struggle Against Dictatorship, 1920s-1960s

Latin America's Democratic Crusade: The Transnational...

Author: Allen Wells ,  Allen Wells
ISBN: 9798874788889
Format: Audio
$211.17

By emphasizing Latin American reformers’ decades-long struggle to defeat authoritarianism, this transnational history...  Read More >>

Les Ingenieurs Des Etats de Languedoc: Construire En Province Au Xviiie Siecle

Les Ingenieurs Des Etats de Languedoc: Construire En...

Author: Catherine Isaac ,  Emilie D'Orgeix
ISBN: 9782406160991
Format: Paperback
$240.24

This book deals with the civil engineers serving the Etats (local assembly) of Languedoc, in the south-west of France...  Read More >>

King George's Army -- British Regiments and the Men Who Led Them 1793-1815 Volume 2: Foot Guards and 1st to 30th Regiments of Foot

King George's Army -- British Regiments and the Men...

Author: Steve Brown
ISBN: 9781804514382
Format: Paperback
$75.00

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Early Modern Medicine: An Introduction to Source Analysis

Early Modern Medicine: An Introduction to Source Analysis...

Author: Olivia Weisser
ISBN: 9780367557225
Format: Paperback
$73.99

This collection offers readers a guide to analyzing historical texts and objects using a diverse selection of sources...  Read More >>

The Inhuman Empire: Wildlife, Colonialism, Culture

The Inhuman Empire: Wildlife, Colonialism, Culture

Author: Sadhana Naithani
ISBN: 9781032700496
Format: Hardback
$273.00

This book is a study of selected texts of British writings on Indian wildlife published between 1860 and 1960.  Read More >>

Les Ingenieurs Des Etats de Languedoc: Construire En Province Au Xviiie Siecle

Les Ingenieurs Des Etats de Languedoc: Construire En...

Author: Catherine Isaac ,  Emilie D'Orgeix
ISBN: 9782406161004
Format: Hardback
$380.16

This book deals with the civil engineers serving the Etats (local assembly) of Languedoc, in the south-west of France...  Read More >>

On History: A Study of Present Tendencies

On History: A Study of Present Tendencies

Author: A. L. Rowse
ISBN: 9781032220765
Format: Paperback
$58.99

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Early Modern Medicine: An Introduction to Source Analysis

Early Modern Medicine: An Introduction to Source Analysis...

Author: Olivia Weisser
ISBN: 9780367557232
Format: Hardback
$273.00

This collection offers readers a guide to analyzing historical texts and objects using a diverse selection of sources...  Read More >>

Alfred the Great

Alfred the Great

Author: Jacob Abbott
ISBN: 9781389654022
Format: Paperback
$36.51

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1901 Edition.  Read More >>

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