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The Convict and The Compass: The Untold Story of James Meehan

The Convict and The Compass: The Untold Story of James...

Author: Peter Bradley
ISBN: 9781920727420
Format: Hardback
$65.00

Sentenced at 26 years old for his role in an uprising against British rule in Ireland, James Meehan arrived in Australia...  Read More >>

The Culture Wars of the Late Renaissance: Skeptics, Libertines, and Opera

The Culture Wars of the Late Renaissance: Skeptics,...

Author: Edward Muir ,  V Fedoruk
ISBN: 9798887199719
Format: Hardback
$55.00

Muir explores an era of cultural innovation that promoted free inquiry in the face of philosophical and theological...  Read More >>

1066: The Battle of Hastings: A Graphic Novel

1066: The Battle of Hastings: A Graphic Novel

Author: Stuart Douch
ISBN: 9781787081550
Format: Hardback
$32.99

1066: The Battle of Hastings is a graphic novel that retells one of the most important events in England’s history....  Read More >>

Love, War, and Diplomacy: The Discovery of the Amarna Letters and the Bronze Age World They Revealed

Love, War, and Diplomacy: The Discovery of the Amarna...

Author: Eric H. Cline
ISBN: 9780691274089
Format: Hardback
$59.99

From the acclaimed author of 1177 B.C., a spellbinding account of the archaeological find that opened a window onto...  Read More >>

Killing the Dead: Vampire Epidemics from Mesopotamia to the New World

Killing the Dead: Vampire Epidemics from Mesopotamia...

Author: John Blair
ISBN: 9780691224794
Format: Hardback
$59.99

A riveting history of vampire panics across cultures and down through the millennia and why killing the dead is...  Read More >>

Magnates and Masterpieces: The German-Jewish Collectors of Edwardian Britain

Magnates and Masterpieces: The German-Jewish Collectors...

Author: John Hilary
ISBN: 9780300282870
Format: Hardback
$72.95

The first published account of the German-Jewish magnates who won an international reputation as the leading art...  Read More >>

The Future of American Jewish Pasts

The Future of American Jewish Pasts

Author: Lila Corwin Berman ,  Deborah Dash Moore
ISBN: 9781512828245
Format: Hardback
$139.00

Leading scholars of American Jewish experience offer bold historical interpretations that reimagine American Jewish...  Read More >>

The Master-Servant Doctrine: How Old Legal Rules Haunt the Modern Workplace

The Master-Servant Doctrine: How Old Legal Rules Haunt...

Author: Elizabeth Chika Tippett
ISBN: 9780520382312
Format: Hardback
$157.95

The field of employment law used to be called ""master-servant law."" Even if this term has fallen out of favor,...  Read More >>

Dirtbag Dreams: A History of Mountain, Ultra and Trail Running

Dirtbag Dreams: A History of Mountain, Ultra and Trail...

Author: Carl Morris
ISBN: 9781526190185
Format: Hardback
$49.99

Dirtbag dreams explores the rise of mountain, ultra and trail running from niche pastime to mainstream sport. Tracing...  Read More >>

Gender, Empire and Citizenship: British Women and the South African War

Gender, Empire and Citizenship: British Women and the...

Author: Eliza Riedi
ISBN: 9780719079450
Format: Hardback
$199.99

A groundbreaking study of British women's responses to the South African War of 1899-1902 throwing new light on...  Read More >>

We Are Internationalists: Prexy Nesbitt and the Fight for African Liberation

We Are Internationalists: Prexy Nesbitt and the Fight...

Author: Martha Biondi
ISBN: 9780520417717
Format: Hardback
$49.95

Explores forgotten solidarity with African liberation struggles through the life of Black Chicagoan Prexy Nesbitt....  Read More >>

Holbein: Renaissance Master

Holbein: Renaissance Master

Author: Elizabeth Goldring
ISBN: 9781913107505
Format: Hardback
$82.95

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Women's America: Refocusing the Past

Women's America: Refocusing the Past

Author: Linda K. Kerber (, University of Iowa) ,  Jane Sherron De Hart (, University of California, Santa Barbara)
ISBN: 9780197788721
Format: Paperback
$148.95

The 10th edition of Women's America: Refocusing the Past remains an indispensable text for the study of US women's...  Read More >>

The Dark Side of the Earth: How the Soviet Union Collapsed but Remained

The Dark Side of the Earth: How the Soviet Union Collapsed...

Author: Mikhail Zygar
ISBN: 9781399609050
Format: Hardback
$75.00

A monumental new narrative of the collapse of the USSR, drawing on an unprecedented range of interviews with key...  Read More >>

The Centrality of Slavery: Empire and Enslavement in Colonial Illinois and Missouri

The Centrality of Slavery: Empire and Enslavement in...

Author: John Craig Hammond
ISBN: 9781512828429
Format: Hardback
$104.00

""This book examines how empires, settlers, and enslaved people created, maintained and challenged systems of slavery,...  Read More >>

An Intellectual Against Fascism: Selected Writings

An Intellectual Against Fascism: Selected Writings

Author: Piero Gobetti ,  Mimmo Cangiano
ISBN: 9781487560478
Format: Hardback
$180.00

This book presents a comprehensive collection of Piero Gobetti's writings in English, featuring over thirty articles...  Read More >>

Lincoln's Road to War: A Day-By-Day Account of the First 60 Days of Abraham Lincoln's Presidency

Lincoln's Road to War: A Day-By-Day Account of the First...

Author: David Alan Johnson
ISBN: 9781493092024
Format: Hardback
$61.99

Lincoln's Road to War is a day-by-day account unpacking each day's events, both personal and political, from Lincoln's...  Read More >>

Scottish Art in the Industrial Age, 1800-1914: Scottish Art in the Industrial Era, 1850–1900

Scottish Art in the Industrial Age, 1800-1914: Scottish...

Author: Freya Spoor
ISBN: 9781032181929
Format: Hardback
$231.00

This volume introduces key artists and engages with the critical debates and artistic theories that were circulating...  Read More >>

Scottish Art in the Industrial Age, 1800-1914: Volume I: Painting, Travel and National Identity c.1800-1860

Scottish Art in the Industrial Age, 1800-1914: Volume...

Author: John Morrison
ISBN: 9781032181905
Format: Hardback
$231.00

This volume examines the ways in which Scottish identity was expressed through visual and material culture in the...  Read More >>

Scottish Art in the Industrial Age, 1800-1914: Volume III: Arts, Crafts and the Celtic Revival c.1880-1914

Scottish Art in the Industrial Age, 1800-1914: Volume...

Author: Elizabeth Cumming
ISBN: 9781032181936
Format: Hardback
$231.00

This volume focuses on artists and writers associated with the Arts and Crafts movement, Scottish Symbolism and...  Read More >>

Scottish Art in the Industrial Age, 1800-1914: Volume IV: Collecting, Philanthropy and the Art Market c.1800-1914

Scottish Art in the Industrial Age, 1800-1914: Volume...

Author: Frances Fowle
ISBN: 9781032181950
Format: Hardback
$231.00

This volume examines the emergence of a market for Scottish art among Scotland’s wealthy industrialists in the mid-nineteenth...  Read More >>

The Statesman's Yearbook 2026: The Politics, Cultures and Economies of the World

The Statesman's Yearbook 2026: The Politics, Cultures...

Author: Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN: 9781349961290
Format: Hardback
$1164.35

Now in its 162nd edition, The Statesman's Yearbook continues to be the reference work of choice for accurate and...  Read More >>

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