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Reinventing the River City: Riparian Infrastructure, Cincinnati Elites, and the Ohio River

Reinventing the River City: Riparian Infrastructure,...

Author: Raymond Pettit
ISBN: 9780820374918
Format: Paperback
$79.07

Unlike many water management projects that wanted to tame rivers, Cincinnati elites sought to build a sustained...  Read More >>

Mercy in Disaster: Abby Hopper Gibbons’s Journals and Letters from Four Years of Civil War Nursing

Mercy in Disaster: Abby Hopper Gibbons’s Journals and...

Author: Angela G. Schear ,  John J. Hennessy
ISBN: 9780820375342
Format: Paperback
$79.07

Mercy in Disaster is the compilation of Abby Hopper Gibbons’s wartime letters and journals, which are a vivid window...  Read More >>

Remembering the Past in Nineteenth-Century Scotland: Commemoration, Nationality and Memory

Remembering the Past in Nineteenth-Century Scotland:...

Author: James Coleman
ISBN: 9781399563635
Format: Paperback
$44.99

At a time when the Union between Scotland and England is once again under the spotlight, Remembering the Past in...  Read More >>

Religion and National Identity: Governing Scottish Presbyterianism in the Eighteenth Century

Religion and National Identity: Governing Scottish Presbyterianism...

Author: Alistair Mutch (Professor, Nottingham Business School, Nottingham Trent University)
ISBN: 9781399563628
Format: Paperback
$57.99

This book offers a fresh perspective on the Presbyterian legacy in contemporary Scottish historiography, at the...  Read More >>

Scotland and the French Revolutionary War, 1792-1802

Scotland and the French Revolutionary War, 1792-1802...

Author: Atle Wold (Senior Lecturer, University of Oslo)
ISBN: 9781399563642
Format: Paperback
$44.99

Scotland and the French Revolutionary War, 1792-1802 aims to provide an up-dated discussion of the nature and extent...  Read More >>

A History of Clan Campbell: From Origins to Flodden

A History of Clan Campbell: From Origins to Flodden...

Author: Alastair Campbell
ISBN: 9781399563437
Format: Paperback
$67.99

Details the origins and early years of Clan Campbell, exploring myths, legends and locality.  Read More >>

Scottish Women: A Documentary History, 1780-1914

Scottish Women: A Documentary History, 1780-1914

Author: Esther Breitenbach (Honorary Research Fellow, University of Edinburgh) ,  Linda Fleming (Research Fellow, University of Edinburgh)
ISBN: 9781399563680
Format: Paperback
$57.99

Drawing on a wide range of source materials from across Scotland, this sourcebook provides new insights into women's...  Read More >>

The Sutherland Estate, 1850-1920: Aristocratic Decline, Estate Management and Land Reform

The Sutherland Estate, 1850-1920: Aristocratic Decline,...

Author: Annie Tindley (Professor of British and Irish Rural History and Head of the School of History, Classics & Archaeology, Newcastle University)
ISBN: 9781399563741
Format: Paperback
$44.99

This volume is a study of the Sutherland Estate, one of the most famous landed estates in the Highlands and Britain...  Read More >>

'Of Laws of Ships and Shipmen': Medieval Maritime Law and its Practice in Urban Northern Europe

'Of Laws of Ships and Shipmen': Medieval Maritime Law...

Author: Edda Frankot (Lecturer, Erasmus University)
ISBN: 9781399563611
Format: Paperback
$44.99

This volume is an important addition to the history of Scotland and European law, utilising innovative research...  Read More >>

Scottish Ethnicity and the Making of New Zealand Society, 1850-1930

Scottish Ethnicity and the Making of New Zealand Society,...

Author: Tanja Bueltmann (Senior Lecturer, Northumbria University)
ISBN: 9781399563659
Format: Paperback
$57.99

This book makes an original contribution to the growing body of knowledge on the Scots abroad, presenting a coherent...  Read More >>

American Men: Stories of Modern Masculinity

American Men: Stories of Modern Masculinity

Author: Jordan Ritter Conn
ISBN: 9781835985625
Format: Hardback
$64.69

""Empathetic and quietly profound."" The New York Times From celebrated investigative journalist Jordan Ritter Conn...  Read More >>

The History of the Scottish Parliament: Parliament in Context, 1235-1707

The History of the Scottish Parliament: Parliament in...

Author: Alan R. MacDonald (Senior Lecturer in History, University of Dundee) ,  Keith M. Brown
ISBN: 9781399563710
Format: Paperback
$57.99

A comprehensive and up-to-date account of the workings and significance of this important institution to the history...  Read More >>

Famine in Scotland - the 'Ill Years' of the 1690s

Famine in Scotland - the 'Ill Years' of the 1690s

Author: Karen J. Cullen (Lecturer in Scottish History, UHI Centre for History, UHI Millenium Institute)
ISBN: 9781399563536
Format: Paperback
$44.99

Examines the climactic and economic origins of the last national famine to occur in Scotland  Read More >>

The First Stewart Dynasty: Scotland, 1371-1488

The First Stewart Dynasty: Scotland, 1371-1488

Author: Prof Steve Boardman (Reader in History, University of Edinburgh)
ISBN: 9780748612369
Format: Paperback
$57.99

A vivid account of the changing religious, economic, social and cultural life of the fifteenth century kingdom....  Read More >>

The Penguin Book of Cults

The Penguin Book of Cults

Author: Joseph P. Laycock ,  Various
ISBN: 9780143138693
Format: Paperback
$38.79

A chilling documentary history of the most notorious cults of the past two thousand years, from the Celtic druids...  Read More >>

Living Confidently: An 8-Session Bible Study on Knowing and Loving Who You Are

Living Confidently: An 8-Session Bible Study on Knowing...

Author: Joyce Meyer
ISBN: 9781546009641
Format: Paperback
$36.99

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Growing in Spiritual Maturity: An 8-Session Bible Study on Becoming More Grounded in Your Faith

Growing in Spiritual Maturity: An 8-Session Bible Study...

Author: Joyce Meyer
ISBN: 9781546009658
Format: Paperback
$36.99

This Bible study is the first in a series of six from #1 NYT bestselling author Joyce Meyer. This study on spiritual...  Read More >>

Contemporary Asian Art at Biennials

Contemporary Asian Art at Biennials

Author: John Clark
ISBN: 9789813251755
Format: Paperback
$69.84

How did contemporary art move from its avant-garde and experimental origins to the realm of the spectacular, becoming...  Read More >>

From the Center of America: Steamboats and Shipyards Along the Lower Ohio River

From the Center of America: Steamboats and Shipyards...

Author: Robert H. Swenson
ISBN: 9780809339907
Format: Hardback
$277.00

This volume chronicles the history of 280 steamboats built between 1810 and 1936 along a 60-mile stretch of the...  Read More >>

Fulfill Thy Ministry: Three Episcopal Clergymen, Race, and the Civil War Era

Fulfill Thy Ministry: Three Episcopal Clergymen, Race,...

Author: Loren B. Mead ,  J. Michael Martinez
ISBN: 9798881803551
Format: Paperback
$59.99

This book explores how slavery shaped the Christian Church in nineteenth-century America by examining the post–Civil...  Read More >>

A Reed Shaken with the Wind: A Human and Natural History of the Bear River Marsh

A Reed Shaken with the Wind: A Human and Natural History...

Author: Andrew H. Hedges
ISBN: 9781647692414
Format: Paperback
$80.99

Reveals the environmental and historical pressures shaping an essential stretch of land and water in the American...  Read More >>

The Americas' First Sermons: The Nahuatl Sermonary of Fray Bernardino De Sahagún

The Americas' First Sermons: The Nahuatl Sermonary of...

Author: Ben Leeming ,  Bernardino de Sahagun
ISBN: 9781647692551
Format: Paperback
$104.00

""First publication of the complete sermonary composed by Bernardino de Sahagâun and his Nahua students at the Colegio...  Read More >>

L'heure Des Pétitions Est Passée: Les Luttes Des Sans-travail Au Québec, 1919-1939

L'heure Des Pétitions Est Passée: Les Luttes Des Sans-travail...

Author: Benoit Marsan
ISBN: 9780228026983
Format: Paperback
$90.56

À Montréal, les manifestations des sans-travail prennent premièrement racine avant de s'étendre à d'autres villes...  Read More >>

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