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Ghosts of the British Museum: A True Story of Colonial Loot and Restless Objects

Ghosts of the British Museum: A True Story of Colonial...

Author: Noah Angell
ISBN: 9781800961340
Format: Hardback
$49.99

An artist investigates strange goings on at the British museum - and uncovers a maelstrom of disquiet within its...  Read More >>

Rendering History: The Women of ACM-W

Rendering History: The Women of ACM-W

Author: Gloria Childress Townsend
ISBN: 9798400717727
Format: Paperback
$84.70

The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) has more than 100,000 members circling the globe, including trailblazing...  Read More >>

Girl Who Fought Back: Vladka Meed and the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

Girl Who Fought Back: Vladka Meed and the Warsaw Ghetto...

Author: Joshua M. Greene
ISBN: 9781338880519
Format: Hardback
$26.99

The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising is one of history's most powerful acts of resistance. Here, author Joshua M. Greene (Signs...  Read More >>

Social Development and Social Changes in China: From 1949 to 2019

Social Development and Social Changes in China: From...

Author: Yi Zhang
ISBN: 9789819711833
Format: Hardback
$316.77

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European Empires from Conquest to Collapse, 1815-1960

European Empires from Conquest to Collapse, 1815-1960...

Author: Victor G Kiernan ,  Tariq Ali
ISBN: 9781804291078
Format: Paperback
$49.99

New edition of a trail-blazing history of imperial warfare  Read More >>

How Black Was My Valley: Poverty and Abandonment in a Post-Industrial Heartland

How Black Was My Valley: Poverty and Abandonment in...

Author: Brad Evans
ISBN: 9781913462840
Format: Paperback
$59.99

Providing a searing insight and honest portrayal of post-industrial communities ravaged by decades of abandonment,...  Read More >>

The Ideal River: How Control of Nature Shaped the International Order

The Ideal River: How Control of Nature Shaped the International...

Author: Joanne Yao
ISBN: 9781526178701
Format: Paperback
$45.99

The ideal river offers a remarkable account of how historic attempts to establish international commissions on three...  Read More >>

Common Land in Britain: A History from the Middle Ages to the Present Day

Common Land in Britain: A History from the Middle Ages...

Author: Angus J L Winchester
ISBN: 9781837651320
Format: Paperback
$67.25

An authoritative survey of the history of common land in Great Britain from the medieval period to present day....  Read More >>

Tudor Children

Tudor Children

Author: Nicholas Orme
ISBN: 9780300276114
Format: Paperback
$22.95

The first history of childhood in Tudor England  Read More >>

Postcards to Hitler: A German Jew's Defiance in a Time of Terror

Postcards to Hitler: A German Jew's Defiance in a Time...

Author: Bruce Neuburger
ISBN: 9781685900540
Format: Paperback
$62.99

"An intimate history of the Holocaust, drawn from the final days of a Jewish family in Munich Postcards to Hitler...  Read More >>

Hidden in Plain Sight: The Parable of the Moorish Sardine

Hidden in Plain Sight: The Parable of the Moorish Sardine...

Author: Cush Dey
ISBN: 9781952828386
Format: Paperback
$79.17

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The Endeavour Journals: Captain Cook in Australia

The Endeavour Journals: Captain Cook in Australia

Author: John MacDonald ,  Clare MacDonald
ISBN: 9781399064095
Format: Hardback
$105.00

First hand accounts from Lieutenant James Cook, Joseph Banks, Sydney Parkinson, and James Magra.  Read More >>

Contemporary Farce on the Global Stage: or, Serious Laughter

Contemporary Farce on the Global Stage: or, Serious...

Author: David Gram
ISBN: 9780367219284
Format: Paperback
$75.99

Contemporary Farce on the Global Stage provides audiences and practitioners a detailed survey of how the genre of...  Read More >>

Science and the British Empire

Science and the British Empire

Author: Rajesh Kochhar (Panjab University Mathematics Department, Chandigarh)
ISBN: 9781032738710
Format: Paperback
$81.99

This book studies the linkages between science, technology, and institution building in Colonial and modern India....  Read More >>

The States of the Earth: An Ecological and Racial History of Secularization

The States of the Earth: An Ecological and Racial History...

Author: Mohamed Amer Meziane ,  Jonathan Adjemian
ISBN: 9781804291771
Format: Paperback
$42.99

HOW THE DISENCHANTMENT OF EMPIRE LED TO CLIMATE CHANGE  Read More >>

Ignorance: A Global History

Ignorance: A Global History

Author: Peter Burke
ISBN: 9780300276503
Format: Paperback
$24.95

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Burnout: The Emotional Experience of Political Defeat

Burnout: The Emotional Experience of Political Defeat...

Author: Hannah Proctor
ISBN: 9781839766053
Format: Paperback
$32.99

How to maintain hope in the face of despair  Read More >>

Rendering History: The Women of ACM-W

Rendering History: The Women of ACM-W

Author: Gloria Childress Townsend
ISBN: 9798400717741
Format: Hardback
$118.80

The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) has more than 100,000 members circling the globe, including trailblazing...  Read More >>

Catalan Cinema: The Barcelona Film School and the New Avant-Garde

Catalan Cinema: The Barcelona Film School and the New...

Author: Anton Pujol ,  Jaume Martí-Olivella
ISBN: 9781487544508
Format: Hardback
$160.00

This collection of essays on Catalan cinematography explores one of the most vibrant minority cultures in Europe....  Read More >>

Provenance and Possession: Acquisitions from the Portuguese Empire in Renaissance Italy

Provenance and Possession: Acquisitions from the Portuguese...

Author: K. J. P. Lowe
ISBN: 9780691246840
Format: Hardback
$79.99

"A thought-provoking study of how knowledge of provenance was not transferred with enslaved people and goods from...  Read More >>

Let Me Speak!: Testimony of Domitila, a Woman of the Bolivian Mines, New Edition

Let Me Speak!: Testimony of Domitila, a Woman of the...

Author: Domitila Barrios de Chungara ,  Moema Viezzer
ISBN: 9781685900519
Format: Hardback
$193.00

"A time-worn classic recounting of a unionists' struggle against exploitation and dictatorship--from within the...  Read More >>

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