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The Oxford University Socratic Club, 1942–1972: A Life

The Oxford University Socratic Club, 1942–1972: A Life...

Author: Jim Stockton
ISBN: 9781666932249
Format: Hardback
$160.00

A study of the Socratic Club's history, emphasizing the membership’s contribution to the twentieth-century debate...  Read More >>

Theodore de Bry: The New World. 45th Ed.

Theodore de Bry: The New World. 45th Ed.

Author: Larry E. Tise ,  Michiel van Groesen
ISBN: 9783836598538
Format: Hardback
$54.99

When the New World was really new, Theodore de Bry drew inspiration from history's great explorers to record its...  Read More >>

The World Beyond the West: Perspectives from Eastern Europe

The World Beyond the West: Perspectives from Eastern...

Author: Mariusz Kałczewiak ,  Magdalena Kozłowska
ISBN: 9781836956556
Format: Paperback
$72.32

Exploring the evolution of Eastern European discourses in Asia, Africa and Latin America in 19th and 20th century,...  Read More >>

100 Years of Winnie-the-Pooh Stuffed Toys: A Collector’s Guide

100 Years of Winnie-the-Pooh Stuffed Toys: A Collector’s...

Author: Debbie Jewson
ISBN: 9781398130388
Format: Paperback
$41.37

A fascinating insightful guide to collecting one of the most famous bears of all time - Winnie-the-Pooh.  Read More >>

Talking Classics: The Shock of the Old

Talking Classics: The Shock of the Old

Author: Professor Mary Beard
ISBN: 9781805220312
Format: Hardback
$36.99

The world's most acclaimed classicist on whether and why the Classics still matter  Read More >>

The Thin Khaki Line: An Operational History of the British and Commonwealth Armies during World War II

The Thin Khaki Line: An Operational History of the British...

Author: Brian E. Walter
ISBN: 9781636245669
Format: Hardback
$75.00

Pitched into a global conflict against three powerful adversaries—Germany, Italy and Japan—the British and Commonwealth...  Read More >>

The Civic Bargain: How Democracy Survives

The Civic Bargain: How Democracy Survives

Author: Brook Manville ,  Josiah Ober
ISBN: 9780691230450
Format: Paperback
$39.99

A powerful case for democracy and how it can adapt and survive - if we want it to. Is democracy in trouble, perhaps...  Read More >>

Egypt's Mediterranean: Muslim Merchants and the Business of Empire in the Eighteenth Century

Egypt's Mediterranean: Muslim Merchants and the Business...

Author: Zoe Ann Griffith
ISBN: 9780520416642
Format: Paperback
$49.95

Egypt's Mediterranean explores the intersections of commerce and statecraft in the eighteenth-century Ottoman Empire...  Read More >>

Shostakovich and the Jews?

Shostakovich and the Jews?

Author: Vladimir Zak
ISBN: 9781636988238
Format: Paperback
$47.99

One of the most authoritative and personal guides to the music of Dmitri Shostakovich. Written by world-renowned...  Read More >>

The Flaneur: A Stroll through the Paradoxes of Paris

The Flaneur: A Stroll through the Paradoxes of Paris...

Author: Edmund White
ISBN: 9781037207891
Format: Paperback
$26.99

A unique stroll through the twists and turns of the City of Lights with a new introduction by Alexander Chee  Read More >>

I Will not Abandon You: Queer Women in Nazi Germany

I Will not Abandon You: Queer Women in Nazi Germany...

Author: Samuel Clowes Huneke
ISBN: 9781487554347
Format: Paperback
$49.99

A dynamic, new history of queer life under fascism from a rising star in German studies. Award-winning historian...  Read More >>

When Democrats Won the Heartland: Progressive Populism in the Age of Reagan, 1978-1992

When Democrats Won the Heartland: Progressive Populism...

Author: Cory Haala
ISBN: 9780252089176
Format: Paperback
$62.99

In the 1980s, the Midwestern economic collapse caused by the farm crisis and deindustrialization inspired the region's...  Read More >>

Lines in the Sand: Christian Zionism and the Formation of the State of Israel

Lines in the Sand: Christian Zionism and the Formation...

Author: Terry M. Boardman
ISBN: 9781915776464
Format: Paperback
$41.99

The influence of Christian Zionism on the Israel–Palestine conflict.  Read More >>

Decision in Lombardy: The Battle of Solferino, June 24 1859

Decision in Lombardy: The Battle of Solferino, June...

Author: Bruno Dotto ,  Jeff Browne
ISBN: 9781804513330
Format: Hardback
$125.00

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Scalp Hunter: Major Robert Rogers and His Rogue Rangers, 1755 - 1760

Scalp Hunter: Major Robert Rogers and His Rogue Rangers,...

Author: Alan D. Gaff
ISBN: 9781804518236
Format: Hardback
$75.00

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Trading at the Edge of Empires: Francesco Carletti's World, c. 1600

Trading at the Edge of Empires: Francesco Carletti's...

Author: Brian Brege ,  Paula Findlen
ISBN: 9780674296183
Format: Paperback
$68.95

In narrating his circumnavigation of the world at the turn of the seventeenth century, the Florentine Francesco...  Read More >>

Shout It Out! 28 Portraits for a Committed World: Lives That Have Transformed Me, From Antiquity To Today

Shout It Out! 28 Portraits for a Committed World: Lives...

Author: Roberto Saviano ,  Anne Milano Appel
ISBN: 9781644215425
Format: Paperback
$55.00

From the author of the groundbreaking expose Gomorrah comes a book that encourages and challenges the people to...  Read More >>

Women and Resistance in the ""Annals"" of Tacitus

Women and Resistance in the ""Annals"" of Tacitus

Author: Caitlin C. Gillespie
ISBN: 9781501786150
Format: Hardback
$116.00

Women and Resistance in the Annals of Tacitus explores how Tacitus often represents a Roman woman's relationship...  Read More >>

The Politics of Collaboration: Establishing the French Protectorate in Morocco, 1912–1927

The Politics of Collaboration: Establishing the French...

Author: William A. Hoisington, Jr.
ISBN: 9781501786129
Format: Hardback
$127.00

""Explores the politics of collaboration between France and the sultan of Morocco's government during the establishment...  Read More >>

Fear of the False: Forensic Science and the Law of Crime in Colonial South Asia

Fear of the False: Forensic Science and the Law of Crime...

Author: Mitra Sharafi
ISBN: 9781501785979
Format: Hardback
$335.00

""The high era of forensic science in colonial India and Burma (circa 1900) was driven by deception anxiety and...  Read More >>

Belfastmen: An Intimate History of Life Before Gay Liberation

Belfastmen: An Intimate History of Life Before Gay Liberation...

Author: Tom Hulme
ISBN: 9781501786440
Format: Hardback
$335.00

""A history of male queer life in the Irish city of Belfast from 1890 to 1960, drawing on sources ranging from criminal...  Read More >>

The Great Repair: Emotions, Memory, and the German–Jewish Settlement After the Holocaust

The Great Repair: Emotions, Memory, and the German–Jewish...

Author: Gideon Reuveni
ISBN: 9781501786594
Format: Hardback
$162.00

The Great Repair explores how Jews and Germans began reparations discussions fewer than seven years after the Holocaust...  Read More >>

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