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What Music Did: The Story of Numerocracy in the West

What Music Did: The Story of Numerocracy in the West...

Author: Tony Conrad ,  Patrick Nickleson
ISBN: 9780472057917
Format: Paperback
$105.47

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Reconfiguring Capoeira: Global Transformations of an Afro-Brazilian Art

Reconfiguring Capoeira: Global Transformations of an...

Author: Sergio González Varela
ISBN: 9783032132390
Format: Hardback
$422.37

In the past two and a half decades, capoeira has experienced a remarkable global expansion. However, it’s challenging...  Read More >>

Gaming the Witch: History and Witchcraft in Fantasy Video Games

Gaming the Witch: History and Witchcraft in Fantasy...

Author: Tess Watterson
ISBN: 9783111677514
Format: Hardback
$248.13

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Place-Names and Landholding in Early Medieval England: The meaning and uses of tūn

Place-Names and Landholding in Early Medieval England:...

Author: Sarah J. Wager
ISBN: 9781912260768
Format: Paperback
$43.96

This book discusses how various recurrent early medieval place-names ending in tūn might have originated in response...  Read More >>

Scottish Castles

Scottish Castles

Author: Dane Love
ISBN: 9781911043317
Format: Paperback
$46.58

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The Shock of the Light: A Novel

The Shock of the Light: A Novel

Author: Lori Inglis Hall
ISBN: 9780593834251
Format: Hardback
$79.20

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Seeing Ireland: Art, Culture, and Power in Modern Ireland

Seeing Ireland: Art, Culture, and Power in Modern Ireland...

Author: Ciaran O'Neill ,  Billy Shortall
ISBN: 9780268210670
Format: Hardback
$93.15

Prompted by the centennial commemoration of the 1922 Paris Exposition d'Art Irlandais, Seeing Ireland explores the...  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 >>

The Second Printing Revolution: Invention of Mass Media

The Second Printing Revolution: Invention of Mass Media...

Author: Jeremy M. Norman
ISBN: 9781605831268
Format: Paperback
$132.00

This book tells the history of the Industrial Revolution through the lens of publishing. In Second Printing Revolution,...  Read More >>

Orchards of Privilege: Water, Oranges, and Race in the Gamtoos Valley of South Africa, 1700–2023

Orchards of Privilege: Water, Oranges, and Race in the...

Author: Robert Ross
ISBN: 9780821426203
Format: Paperback
$85.99

This study traces its transformation from an eighteenth-century natural landscape of thick bush into an agricultural...  Read More >>

Fordism and the City

Fordism and the City

Author: Jay Cephas
ISBN: 9780822948810
Format: Hardback
$316.80

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The Feather Wars: And the Great Crusade to Save America's Birds

The Feather Wars: And the Great Crusade to Save America's...

Author: James H McCommons
ISBN: 9781250286895
Format: Hardback
$87.12

""A definitive history of bird conservation in America."" (Kirkus Reviews, starred) From the time the country...  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 >>

The Last Titans: How Churchill and de Gaulle Saved Their Nations and Transformed the World

The Last Titans: How Churchill and de Gaulle Saved Their...

Author: Richard Vinen
ISBN: 9781668064849
Format: Hardback
$79.20

A compelling dual biography of Winston Churchill and Charles de Gaulle that shines new light on two of the greatest...  Read More >>

Inverting Haussmannization: Living with Infrastructure in Paris, 1870–1914

Inverting Haussmannization: Living with Infrastructure...

Author: Peter S. Soppelsa
ISBN: 9780822948827
Format: Hardback
$316.80

Modern Paris is often hailed as a capital of urban infrastructure.  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 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 >>

Being Indigenous: Perspectives on Activism, Culture, Language, and Identity

Being Indigenous: Perspectives on Activism, Culture,...

Author: Neyooxet Greymorning
ISBN: 9781041025337
Format: Hardback
$401.06

This new edition of Being Indigenous presents perspectives from 23 Indigenous scholars who share their knowledge...  Read More >>

Early Modern Marine Environments: A Global History

Early Modern Marine Environments: A Global History

Author: Jakobina K. Arch ,  Jack Bouchard
ISBN: 9781032399621
Format: Paperback
$108.65

This book brings together the newest research to explore an era of newfound importance for the global ocean, focusing...  Read More >>

Religious Translation in the Early Modern Global World

Religious Translation in the Early Modern Global World...

Author: Lucinda Martin
ISBN: 9781032256061
Format: Paperback
$108.65

This interdisciplinary volume focuses on the translations, transformations and adaptations of religious texts across...  Read More >>

Wisdom of the Marsh: Modeling Restoration in the Montezuma Wetlands

Wisdom of the Marsh: Modeling Restoration in the Montezuma...

Author: Clare Howard ,  David Zalaznik
ISBN: 9780815612032
Format: Hardback
$92.99

Wisdom of the Marsh takes an in-depth look at the Montezuma Wetlands Complex through the overlapping lens of environmental...  Read More >>

The History of Ancient Greece: A military and political account of the ancient Greeks including the Persian Wars, the Battle of Marathon and the campaigns of Alexander the Great and his conquest of Asia

The History of Ancient Greece: A military and political...

Author: Nigel Rodgers
ISBN: 9780754836223
Format: Hardback
$38.81

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The Sacred Sites of Ancient Egypt: A historical guide to the temples, tombs and pyramids of the pharoahs

The Sacred Sites of Ancient Egypt: A historical guide...

Author: Lorna Oakes
ISBN: 9780754836193
Format: Hardback
$38.81

A historian explores the temples built for the deities of ancient Egypt, including Luxor and Karnak, and the pyramids...  Read More >>

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