History: specific events & topics books

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Laboring for the State: Women, Family, and Work in Revolutionary Cuba, 1959–1971

Laboring for the State: Women, Family, and Work in Revolutionary...

Author: Rachel Hynson
ISBN: 9781316640500
Format: Paperback
$59.49

Contrary to claims that socialism opposed the family unit, Rachel Hynson argues that the revolutionary Cuban government...  Read More >>

Writing Mobile Lives, 1500–1700

Writing Mobile Lives, 1500–1700

Author: Eva Johanna Holmberg (University of Helsinki)
ISBN: 9781009180733
Format: Paperback
$43.99

This Element develops and showcases a new methodological framework in which to study the connections between early...  Read More >>

A Flat Place

A Flat Place

Author: Noreen Masud
ISBN: 9780241994337
Format: Paperback
$24.99

Beautiful and haunting, a personal journey through Britain's flatlands and a reckoning with the painful memories...  Read More >>

An Unholy Traffic: Slave Trading in the Civil War South

An Unholy Traffic: Slave Trading in the Civil War South...

Author: Robert K.D. Colby (Assistant Professor of History, Assistant Professor of History, University of Mississippi)
ISBN: 9780197578261
Format: Hardback
$61.95

The Confederate States of America was born in defense of slavery and, after a four-year struggle to become an independent...  Read More >>

The Price of Empire: American Entrepreneurs and the Origins of America's First Pacific Empire

The Price of Empire: American Entrepreneurs and the...

Author: Miles M. Evers (University of Connecticut) ,  Eric Grynaviski (George Washington University, Washington DC)
ISBN: 9781009396370
Format: Paperback
$59.49

Providing the best coverage of the wide-ranging imperialism that began in the 1850s, this book concentrates on early...  Read More >>

Archaeology of the Roman Conquest: Tracing the Legions, Reclaiming the Conquered

Archaeology of the Roman Conquest: Tracing the Legions,...

Author: Manuel Fernández-Götz (University of Edinburgh) ,  Nico Roymans (Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam)
ISBN: 9781009181990
Format: Paperback
$43.99

This Element provides a current of the archaeology of the Roman conquest, combining new theoretical and methodological...  Read More >>

Attack Warning Red!: How Britain Prepared for Nuclear War

Attack Warning Red!: How Britain Prepared for Nuclear...

Author: Julie McDowall
ISBN: 9781529920017
Format: Paperback
$24.99

A fascinating, frightening and sometimes funny window into an all-too recent world - everyday life in Britain in...  Read More >>

Agents of Influence: How the KGB Subverted Western Democracies

Agents of Influence: How the KGB Subverted Western Democracies...

Author: Mark Hollingsworth
ISBN: 9780861547999
Format: Paperback
$22.99

'A gripping story filled with remarkable revelations.' Tom Bower, author of Revenge  Read More >>

Made in Asia/America: Why Video Games Were Never (Really) about Us

Made in Asia/America: Why Video Games Were Never (Really)...

Author: Christopher B. Patterson ,  Tara Fickle
ISBN: 9781478026037
Format: Hardback
$303.47

The contributors to Made in Asia/America explore the historical entanglements of video games, Asia, and America,...  Read More >>

The Book Of Roads And Kingdoms: Winner Indie Book Awards 2023 Non Fiction Book of the Year. The thrilling story of an empire's rise & fall from the best-selling author of GOLDEN MAZE & GHOST EMPIRE.

The Book Of Roads And Kingdoms: Winner Indie Book Awards...

Author: Richard Fidler
ISBN: 9780733341694
Format: Paperback
$36.99

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Me and Mr Jones: My Life with David Bowie and the Spiders from Mars

Me and Mr Jones: My Life with David Bowie and the Spiders...

Author: Suzi Ronson
ISBN: 9780571371853
Format: Hardback
$49.99

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Human Trafficking: Examining the Facts

Human Trafficking: Examining the Facts

Author: Laura J. Lederer
ISBN: 9781440881206
Format: Hardback
$110.00

Deeply researched and scrupulously even-handed, this work provides readers with a clear and accurate understanding...  Read More >>

Jack and Eve: Two Women In Love and At War

Jack and Eve: Two Women In Love and At War

Author: Wendy Moore
ISBN: 9781838958091
Format: Hardback
$45.00

A groundbreaking account of two suffragettes who lived wild and...  Read More >>

The Undesirables: The Law that Locked Away a Generation

The Undesirables: The Law that Locked Away a Generation...

Author: Sarah Wise
ISBN: 9780861544554
Format: Hardback
$39.99

The shocking story of how the British government locked up thousands of innocent people – then forgot about them....  Read More >>

The Formation of the UAE: State-Building and Arab Nationalism in the Middle East

The Formation of the UAE: State-Building and Arab Nationalism...

Author: Kristi Barnwell (University of Illinois, USA)
ISBN: 9781838605278
Format: Hardback
$170.00

December 2, 1971 ushered the United Arab Emirates into existence and marked the end of one hundred fifty years of...  Read More >>

Greek Tragedy and the Middle East: Chasing the Myth

Greek Tragedy and the Middle East: Chasing the Myth...

Author: Pauline Donizeau ,  Yassaman Khajehi
ISBN: 9781350355699
Format: Hardback
$180.00

Employing the idea of interculturality to study Middle Eastern adaptations of Greek tragedy from the turn of 20th...  Read More >>

Resisting Domination in Palestine: Mechanisms and Techniques of Control, Coloniality and Settler Colonialism

Resisting Domination in Palestine: Mechanisms and Techniques...

Author: Alaa Tartir (The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID), Switzerland) ,  Timothy Seidel (Eastern Mennonite University, USA)
ISBN: 9780755650835
Format: Hardback
$180.00

This meticulously curated edited volume presents an assemblage of insightful, critical, and contemporary perspectives...  Read More >>

Sound Tracks: Uncovering Our Musical Past

Sound Tracks: Uncovering Our Musical Past

Author: Graeme Lawson
ISBN: 9781847926876
Format: Hardback
$55.00

A History of the World in 100 Objects meets Sapiens- the first archaeological history of humanity's musical heritage,...  Read More >>

Understanding Media: Communication, Power and Social Change

Understanding Media: Communication, Power and Social...

Author: James Curran ,  Joanna Redden
ISBN: 9780241685402
Format: Hardback
$55.00

An authoritative and accessible guide to the world's most influential force - the contemporary media Our lives...  Read More >>

Populus: Living and Dying in the Wealth, Smoke and Din of Ancient Rome

Populus: Living and Dying in the Wealth, Smoke and Din...

Author: Guy de la Bédoyère
ISBN: 9781408715154
Format: Hardback
$59.99

A Time Travellers Guide to Ancient Rome - by one of the best historians of the ancient world  Read More >>

Creolised Science: Knowledge in the Eighteenth-Century Indo-Pacific

Creolised Science: Knowledge in the Eighteenth-Century...

Author: Dorit Brixius
ISBN: 9781009200448
Format: Hardback
$219.94

The first comprehensive study of cross-cultural plant knowledge in eighteenth-century Mauritius, Creolised Science...  Read More >>

Writing Mobile Lives, 1500–1700

Writing Mobile Lives, 1500–1700

Author: Eva Johanna Holmberg (University of Helsinki)
ISBN: 9781009507431
Format: Hardback
$129.35

This Element develops and showcases a new methodological framework in which to study the connections between early...  Read More >>

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