History: specific events & topics books

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New Perspectives on the First World War: Beyond No Man’s Land

New Perspectives on the First World War: Beyond No Man’s...

Author: Mandy Link ,  Matthew M. Stith
ISBN: 9783031493249
Format: Hardback
$369.57

Taken collectively, the chapters in New Perspectives on the First World War: Beyond No Man’s Land not only illuminate...  Read More >>

The Irish Repertory Theatre: Celebrating Thirty-Five Years Off-Broadway

The Irish Repertory Theatre: Celebrating Thirty-Five...

Author: Maria Szasz
ISBN: 9783031535444
Format: Hardback
$343.17

The Irish Repertory Theatre: Celebrating Thirty-Five Years Off-Broadway is the first book-length history of the...  Read More >>

Journey to the Jones ACT: U.S. Merchant Marine Policy 1776-1920

Journey to the Jones ACT: U.S. Merchant Marine Policy...

Author: Charlie Papavizas
ISBN: 9781962729031
Format: Hardback
$108.11

Charlie Papavizas captures a rich history from the early 17th century English Navigation Acts to the building of...  Read More >>

50 Cents for a Life: A True Story of Surviving by Synchronicity

50 Cents for a Life: A True Story of Surviving by Synchronicity...

Author: Bernard Rosenfeld ,  Nancy Rosenfeld
ISBN: 9781958892053
Format: Paperback
$61.97

Defying an impossible fate, destiny's abruptly rewritten by unimaginable paths. Eerie synchronicity directs a miraculous...  Read More >>

Khawateen-e-Islam: (Essays on great women from Islam)

Khawateen-e-Islam: (Essays on great women from Islam)...

Author: Maulana Wahiduddin Khan
ISBN: 9789358724523
Format: Paperback
$60.69

Islam's past is replete with outstanding feats accomplished by remarkable women. The lives of a few of these prominent...  Read More >>

Zanjeer ka Naghma: (A play on Bahadur Shah Zafar)

Zanjeer ka Naghma: (A play on Bahadur Shah Zafar)

Author: Anjum Usmani
ISBN: 9789358723380
Format: Paperback
$63.33

Bahadur Shah Zafar was the last king of the Mughal dynasty and an important poet of Avadh whose extraordinary fame...  Read More >>

The Concrete Utopia: Looking Backward into the Future of Human Rights

The Concrete Utopia: Looking Backward into the Future...

Author: Wolfgang Kaleck
ISBN: 9781682194393
Format: Paperback
$32.99

Concrete Utopia  conceptualizes the human rights project of the last two and a half centuries as a “backward-looking”...  Read More >>

A Cultural History of Comedy in Antiquity

A Cultural History of Comedy in Antiquity

Author: Michael Ewans (University of Newcastle, Australia) ,  Professor Andrew McConnell Stott (University of Southern California, USA)
ISBN: 9781350440692
Format: Paperback
$52.99

Drawing together contributions from scholars in a wide range of fields inside Classics and Drama, this volume traces...  Read More >>

The Great White Bard: How to Love Shakespeare While Talking About Race

The Great White Bard: How to Love Shakespeare While...

Author: Farah Karim-Cooper
ISBN: 9780861548095
Format: Paperback
$22.99

Shakespeare: increasingly irrelevant or lone literary genius of the Western canon?  Read More >>

War Paths: Walking in the Shadows of the Clans

War Paths: Walking in the Shadows of the Clans

Author: Alistair Moffat
ISBN: 9781780278698
Format: Paperback
$29.99

Acclaimed historian Alistair Moffat sets off in the footsteps of the Highland clans. In twelve journeys he explores...  Read More >>

The Tragedy of the Congo-Océan Railroad

The Tragedy of the Congo-Océan Railroad

Author: J. P. Daughton
ISBN: 9781803996967
Format: Paperback
$42.99

The gruesome history of the Congo–Océan Railway, a forgotten chapter in the story of colonial Africa  Read More >>

Echolands: A Journey in Search of Boudica

Echolands: A Journey in Search of Boudica

Author: Duncan Mackay
ISBN: 9781399714143
Format: Paperback
$26.99

An original, revelatory, enthralling narrative history of how Queen Boudica led the greatest rebellion Britain has...  Read More >>

Blowing Hot and Cold: Thermotank and the Story of Air Conditioning at Sea

Blowing Hot and Cold: Thermotank and the Story of Air...

Author: Ian Johnston
ISBN: 9781036107697
Format: Hardback
$59.99

Air-conditioning is one of those universal modern conveniences whose origins are entirely unknown to the general...  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: 9781408715598
Format: Paperback
$36.99

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

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: 9780571371846
Format: Paperback
$34.99

From the stylist behind David Bowie's Ziggy Stardust look, an electrifying memoir taking readers behind the curtains...  Read More >>

Sharing Freedom: Republicanism and Exclusion in Revolutionary France

Sharing Freedom: Republicanism and Exclusion in Revolutionary...

Author: Geneviève Rousselière (Duke University, North Carolina)
ISBN: 9781009477277
Format: Paperback
$67.25

Sharing Freedom presents the development of French republicanism from an older elitist theory of freedom into an...  Read More >>

Broken Archangel: The Tempestuous Lives of Roger Casement

Broken Archangel: The Tempestuous Lives of Roger Casement...

Author: Roland Philipps
ISBN: 9781847927088
Format: Paperback
$37.99

The extraordinary, inspiring and ultimately tragic story of Sir Roger Casement, a remarkable man who led a life...  Read More >>

Shaka and Shalom: More Jewish Contributions to Hawaii

Shaka and Shalom: More Jewish Contributions to Hawaii...

Author: Mathew R Sgan
ISBN: 9798369418055
Format: Paperback
$44.85

This book continues to trace the beneficial crosscurrent's that Jewish people brought to Hawaii arrival beginning...  Read More >>

Work and Labor in American Popular Culture: Representation in Film, Music and Television in the 1970s and 1980s

Work and Labor in American Popular Culture: Representation...

Author: Jason Russell
ISBN: 9781032470955
Format: Hardback
$103.00

Focusing on these two key decades, this book explores how portrayals of social class and associated work and labor...  Read More >>

Bonds of Empire: The English Origins of Slave Law in South Carolina and British Plantation America, 1660–1783

Bonds of Empire: The English Origins of Slave Law in...

Author: Lee B. Wilson (Clemson University, South Carolina)
ISBN: 9781108817899
Format: Paperback
$59.49

Bonds of Empire reveals how English law facilitated the expansion of slavery in British America. Moving beyond...  Read More >>

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