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To Repair the World: Zelda Fichandler and the Transformation of American Theater

To Repair the World: Zelda Fichandler and the Transformation...

Author: Mary B. Robinson
ISBN: 9781032564630
Format: Hardback
$273.00

This book is a biography in the form of an oral history about a woman whose founding of Arena Stage in Washington...  Read More >>

Frank O. Etheridge: Musician of the African Diaspora

Frank O. Etheridge: Musician of the African Diaspora...

Author: Ben Vinson III
ISBN: 9781032278872
Format: Hardback
$231.00

This is a book by and about Frank O. Etheridge, an African-American musician from an age of cultural explosion....  Read More >>

Women and the American Experience: A Concise History

Women and the American Experience: A Concise History...

Author: Nancy Woloch
ISBN: 9781032291215
Format: Hardback
$273.00

The third edition of Women and the American Experience: A Concise History is a comprehensive survey of U.S. women’s...  Read More >>

The Book Of Roads And Kingdoms: Winner Indie Book Awards 2023 Non Fiction Book of the Year. The thrilling story of an empire's rise & fall from the best-selling author of GOLDEN MAZE & GHOST EMPIRE.

The Book Of Roads And Kingdoms: Winner Indie Book Awards...

Author: Richard Fidler
ISBN: 9780733341694
Format: Paperback
$36.99

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Jack and Eve: Two Women In Love and At War

Jack and Eve: Two Women In Love and At War

Author: Wendy Moore
ISBN: 9781838958091
Format: Hardback
$45.00

A groundbreaking account of two suffragettes who lived wild and...  Read More >>

The Undesirables: The Law that Locked Away a Generation

The Undesirables: The Law that Locked Away a Generation...

Author: Sarah Wise
ISBN: 9780861544554
Format: Hardback
$39.99

The shocking story of how the British government locked up thousands of innocent people – then forgot about them....  Read More >>

Understanding Media: Communication, Power and Social Change

Understanding Media: Communication, Power and Social...

Author: James Curran ,  Joanna Redden
ISBN: 9780241685402
Format: Hardback
$55.00

An authoritative and accessible guide to the world's most influential force - the contemporary media Our lives...  Read More >>

Populus: Living and Dying in the Wealth, Smoke and Din of Ancient Rome

Populus: Living and Dying in the Wealth, Smoke and Din...

Author: Guy de la Bédoyère
ISBN: 9781408715154
Format: Hardback
$59.99

A Time Travellers Guide to Ancient Rome - by one of the best historians of the ancient world  Read More >>

Punk, Ageing and Time

Punk, Ageing and Time

Author: Laura Way ,  Matt Grimes
ISBN: 9783031478222
Format: Hardback
$422.37

To date there has been no plotting of punk scholarship which speaks to ‘time’, yet there are some clear bodies of...  Read More >>

Witches and Witch Hunts Through the Ages

Witches and Witch Hunts Through the Ages

Author: Phil Carradice
ISBN: 9781399071819
Format: Hardback
$65.00

A history of witch hunts and witchcraft, from its ancient origins to the present day.  Read More >>

Jane Austen: Daddy’s Girl: The Life and Influence of The Revd George Austen

Jane Austen: Daddy’s Girl: The Life and Influence of...

Author: Zöe Wheddon
ISBN: 9781399071123
Format: Hardback
$65.00

The Reverend George Austen has so often been painted as just a quiet, country clergyman. This book reveals he was...  Read More >>

So Once Was I: Forgotten Tales from Glasnevin Cemetery

So Once Was I: Forgotten Tales from Glasnevin Cemetery...

Author: Warren Farrell
ISBN: 9781785375125
Format: Paperback
$46.55

So Once Was I has a story for everyone, representing all threads of Irish society’s rich tapestry. Embark on an...  Read More >>

The Politics of Solidarity: The International Working Men’s Association 1873

The Politics of Solidarity: The International Working...

Author: A W Zurbrugg
ISBN: 9780850367904
Format: Paperback
$77.63

The First International was founded with high ideals: ‘every individual or society joining it, will recognise morality,...  Read More >>

Mound City: The Place of the Indigenous Past and Present in St. Louis

Mound City: The Place of the Indigenous Past and Present...

Author: Patricia Cleary
ISBN: 9780826223043
Format: Hardback
$118.67

Drawing on a wide range of sources - including maps, daguerreotypes, real estate deeds, court records, travelers’...  Read More >>

Baseball's Ultimate Power: Ranking the All-Time Greatest Distance Home Run Hitters

Baseball's Ultimate Power: Ranking the All-Time Greatest...

Author: Bill Jenkinson
ISBN: 9781493055555
Format: Paperback
$38.99

The world’s top home run expert answers the question:  Who are the most powerful hitters of yesterday and today?...  Read More >>

The Art of Remembering: Essays on African American Art and History

The Art of Remembering: Essays on African American Art...

Author: Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw
ISBN: 9781478030171
Format: Paperback
$76.43

Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw explores African American art and representation from the height of the British colonial period...  Read More >>

Urban Movements and Their Impact on Spatial Transformation

Urban Movements and Their Impact on Spatial Transformation...

Author: Cumhur Olcar
ISBN: 9798888902233
Format: Paperback
$44.99

Based on new paradigms, modern migration is a movement from city to city or from the city to the metropolis in this...  Read More >>

Spearthrower Owl: A Teotihuacan Ruler in Maya History

Spearthrower Owl: A Teotihuacan Ruler in Maya History...

Author: David Stuart
ISBN: 9780884025023
Format: Paperback
$184.67

In Spearthrower Owl, David Stuart examines written evidence of the Teotihuacan ruler, focusing on his involvement...  Read More >>

California and the Politics of Disability, 1850–1970

California and the Politics of Disability, 1850–1970...

Author: Eileen V. Wallis
ISBN: 9783031217166
Format: Paperback
$343.17

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Feminist Afterlives of the Witch: Popular Culture, Memory, Activism

Feminist Afterlives of the Witch: Popular Culture, Memory,...

Author: Brydie Kosmina
ISBN: 9783031252945
Format: Paperback
$316.77

The book investigates the witch as a key rhetorical symbol in twentieth- and twenty-first century feminist memory,...  Read More >>

The Carceral City: Slavery and the Making of Mass Incarceration in New Orleans, 1803-1930

The Carceral City: Slavery and the Making of Mass Incarceration...

Author: John Bardes
ISBN: 9781469678184
Format: Paperback
$59.40

Americans often assume that slave societies had little use for prisons and police because slaveholders inflicted...  Read More >>

Fair World: A History of World's Fairs and Expositions from London to Shanghai 1851-2010

Fair World: A History of World's Fairs and Expositions...

Author: Paul Greenhalgh
ISBN: 9781906506094
Format: Hardback
$90.00

The great World's Fairs and Expositions staged around the world since the mid-nineteenth century were among the...  Read More >>

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