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The Roads To Rome: A History

The Roads To Rome: A History

Author: Catherine Fletcher
ISBN: 9781847928047
Format: Paperback
$36.99

Brimming with life and drama, this is the first book to explore two thousand years of European history through one...  Read More >>

Timothie Bright and the Origins of Early Modern Shorthand: Melancholy, Medicines, and the Information of the Soul

Timothie Bright and the Origins of Early Modern Shorthand:...

Author: James Dougal Fleming
ISBN: 9781032757490
Format: Hardback
$273.00

In Timothie Bright and the Origins of Early Modern Shorthand, J. D. Fleming brings together two areas of sixteenth-century...  Read More >>

Decadent Divorce: Scandal and Sensation in Victorian Britain

Decadent Divorce: Scandal and Sensation in Victorian...

Author: Ruth Derham
ISBN: 9781398108943
Format: Hardback
$59.49

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Inheritance: The Evolutionary Origins of the Modern World

Inheritance: The Evolutionary Origins of the Modern...

Author: Harvey Whitehouse
ISBN: 9781529152234
Format: Paperback
$36.99

Anthropologist Harvey Whitehouse offers a sweeping account of how three ancient biases—conformism, religiosity,...  Read More >>

Before Trans: Three Gender Stories from Nineteenth-Century France

Before Trans: Three Gender Stories from Nineteenth-Century...

Author: Rachel Mesch
ISBN: 9781503640122
Format: Paperback
$58.08

"A fascinating exploration of three individuals in fin-de-siècle France who pushed the boundaries of gender identity....  Read More >>

The Woman Celebrant

The Woman Celebrant

Author: Jeremy B Sims
ISBN: 9798224631162
Format: Paperback
$31.65

This book is a compelling exploration into the essence of womanhood, weaving together observations from diverse...  Read More >>

Haywire: A Political History of Britain since 2000

Haywire: A Political History of Britain since 2000

Author: Andrew Hindmoor
ISBN: 9780241651711
Format: Hardback
$55.00

From the Millennium Dome to Brexit, from boom to bust to Liz Truss, an expert, painfully funny account of Britain's...  Read More >>

Fun and Games with the Totterings

Fun and Games with the Totterings

Author: Annie Tempest ,  Mark Hedges
ISBN: 9781846894053
Format: Hardback
$41.37

A superb collection of more than 100 of Annie Tempest's brilliant and amusing cartoons depicting the aristocratic...  Read More >>

Inheritance: The Evolutionary Origins of the Modern World

Inheritance: The Evolutionary Origins of the Modern...

Author: Harvey Whitehouse
ISBN: 9781529152227
Format: Hardback
$69.99

Anthropologist Harvey Whitehouse offers a sweeping account of how three ancient biases—conformism, religiosity,...  Read More >>

The Business of English Restoration Theatre, 1660–1700

The Business of English Restoration Theatre, 1660–1700...

Author: Deborah C. Payne (American University, Washington DC)
ISBN: 9781009398213
Format: Hardback
$219.94

Deborah C. Payne's groundbreaking study explores how the duopoly established in 1660 – adopted to create an upmarket,...  Read More >>

Ancient Jewish Historians and the German Reich: Seven Studies

Ancient Jewish Historians and the German Reich: Seven...

Author: Daniel R. Schwartz
ISBN: 9783110764833
Format: Hardback
$237.57

These seven studies analyze interpretations of ancient Jewish history by prominent Jewish scholars in the German...  Read More >>

Symbolic Reproduction in Early Medieval England: Secular and Monastic Households

Symbolic Reproduction in Early Medieval England: Secular...

Author: Katharine Sykes (Associate Professor of Early Medieval History, Associate Professor of Early Medieval History, University of Birmingham)
ISBN: 9780192844750
Format: Hardback
$161.95

Katharine Sykes examines a new type of household to emerge in early medieval England: the monastic household. Reproducing...  Read More >>

Emotions of Conflict, Israel 1949-1967

Emotions of Conflict, Israel 1949-1967

Author: Orit Rozin (Associate Professor in the Department of Jewish History at Tel Aviv University)
ISBN: 9780198890348
Format: Hardback
$191.95

The book portrays the security challenges Israelis faced during the state's first two decades of independence from...  Read More >>

Print Markets and Political Dissent: Publishers in Central Europe, 1800-1870

Print Markets and Political Dissent: Publishers in Central...

Author: James M. Brophy (Francis H. Squire Professor of History, University of Delaware)
ISBN: 9780198845720
Format: Hardback
$219.95

The history of Central Europe's print markets between Napoleon and the era of unification doubles as a political...  Read More >>

The Undertow: Scenes from a Slow Civil War

The Undertow: Scenes from a Slow Civil War

Author: Jeff Sharlet (Dartmouth College)
ISBN: 9781324074519
Format: Paperback
$31.95

One of America's finest reporters and essayists explores the powerful currents beneath the roiled waters of a nation...  Read More >>

Being Indigenous in Jim Crow Virginia: Powhatan People and the Color Line

Being Indigenous in Jim Crow Virginia: Powhatan People...

Author: Laura J. Feller
ISBN: 9780806193892
Format: Paperback
$79.07

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Waikiki Dreams: How California Appropriated Hawaiian Beach Culture

Waikiki Dreams: How California Appropriated Hawaiian...

Author: Patrick Moser
ISBN: 9780252088018
Format: Paperback
$60.99

Despite a genuine admiration for Native Hawaiian culture, white Californians of the 1930s ignored authentic relationships...  Read More >>

Chinatown, Honolulu: Place, Race, and Empire

Chinatown, Honolulu: Place, Race, and Empire

Author: Nancy E. Riley (A. Myrick Freeman Professor of Social Sciences)
ISBN: 9780231196796
Format: Paperback
$57.95

This book offers a critical account of the history of Chinese in Hawai‘i from the mid-nineteenth century to the...  Read More >>

The Rise of Devils: Fear and the Origins of Modern Terrorism

The Rise of Devils: Fear and the Origins of Modern Terrorism...

Author: James Crossland
ISBN: 9781526178190
Format: Paperback
$27.99

A vivid account of the rise of terrorism in the late nineteenth century and the hysterical media response it provoked...  Read More >>

Gombrowicz: An Introduction

Gombrowicz: An Introduction

Author: Aleksandra Konarzewska (University of Tübingen, Germany)
ISBN: 9781032010434
Format: Hardback
$103.00

This book is a short introduction to Witold Gombrowicz’s life and work as one of the most prominent figures in twentieth-century...  Read More >>

More Finish Lines to Cross: Notes on Race, Redemption, and Hope

More Finish Lines to Cross: Notes on Race, Redemption,...

Author: Cary Clack ,  Joe Holley
ISBN: 9781595342713
Format: Paperback
$34.99

A nationally loved columnist reflects on life in Texas and the times we live in  Read More >>

Ghosts of the British Museum: A True Story of Colonial Loot and Restless Objects

Ghosts of the British Museum: A True Story of Colonial...

Author: Noah Angell
ISBN: 9781800961333
Format: Paperback
$34.99

An artist investigates strange goings on at the British museum - and uncovers a maelstrom of disquiet within its...  Read More >>

The Russian Workers' Republic

The Russian Workers' Republic

Author: Henry Noel Brailsford
ISBN: 9781032672977
Format: Hardback
$189.00

The Russian Workers’ Republic (1921) is a result of the author’s two-month travels through Soviet Russia. Moving...  Read More >>

Soviet Socialism: Social and Political Essays

Soviet Socialism: Social and Political Essays

Author: L.G. Churchward
ISBN: 9781032675824
Format: Hardback
$189.00

Soviet Socialism (1987) is based on the author’s specialized knowledge of many aspects of Soviet politics, including...  Read More >>

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