Humanities books

Working at the margins of aesthetics and politics, Patrick Vauday challenges the dominant assumptions of our mediatized...  Read More >>

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Wallenstein! His very name is synonymous with the Thirty Years War. Despite his army being almost as infamous, very...  Read More >>

From the war on the southern sector of the Eastern Front to a bomb-shattered Berlin populated largely by old men...  Read More >>

Uses archaeological evidence alongside satellite imaging, landscape and network analyses to assess how desert roads...  Read More >>

Based on extensive research, with help of Angolan and Cuban sources, the War of Intervention in Angola, Volume 2,...  Read More >>

Nicaragua, 1961-1990, Volume 2 provides an in-depth coverage of military history during the second phase of one...  Read More >>

The book provides a complete guide to the forces fighting in Marlborough's armies in Iberia.  Read More >>

New paperback edition - Lover of George, the Prince of Wales and mother of Queen Victoria's favourite prime minister,...  Read More >>

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An introductory illustrated history and guide to the infamous Omaha beach D-Day landing 6 June 1944.  Read More >>

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The untold story of Newton's private papers, hidden for centuries, sold for a pittance and then painstakingly reconstructed...  Read More >>

Through the matrix of memory, the poet explores her sense of home, its inner landscape, shaped by family, time...  Read More >>

The Rivers of America Series is a landmark series of books on American rivers, for the most part written by literary...  Read More >>

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Tracing the origins of the Hawaiians and other Polynesians back to the shores of the South China Sea, archaeologist...  Read More >>

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Anyone studying the history of this institution in America must read Thelin's classic text, which has distinguished...  Read More >>

Most arguments for or against abortion focus on one question: is the fetus a person? In this provocative and important...  Read More >>

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That America was drawn into the Vietnam War by the French has been recognized, but rarely explored. This book analyzes...  Read More >>