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History in the House: Some Remarkable Dons and the Teaching of Politics, Character and Statecraft

History in the House: Some Remarkable Dons and the Teaching...

Author: Richard Davenport-Hines
ISBN: 9780008285722
Format: Hardback
$59.99

History in the House pulls back the curtains on Christ Church, Oxford and reveals its great and lasting historical...  Read More >>

Vertigo: The Rise and Fall of Weimar Germany

Vertigo: The Rise and Fall of Weimar Germany

Author: Harald Jähner ,  Shaun Whiteside
ISBN: 9780753559963
Format: Hardback
$69.99

Baillie Gifford-shortlisted author Harald J hner (Aftermath- Life in the Fallout of the Third Reich) presents a...  Read More >>

Shared Heritage - Gemeinsames Erbe: Kulturelle Interferenzr�ume Im �stlichen Europa ALS Sujet Der Gegenwartsliteratur

Shared Heritage - Gemeinsames Erbe: Kulturelle Interferenzr�ume...

Author: Silke Pasewalck ,  Jan Vaclav K�nig
ISBN: 9783111135809
Format: Paperback
$116.13

Zahlreiche Autorinnen und Autoren der Gegenwart begeben sich in ihren Texten auf literarische Spurensuche in R�umen...  Read More >>

Imperial Island: An Alternative History of the British Empire

Imperial Island: An Alternative History of the British...

Author: Charlotte Lydia Riley
ISBN: 9780674258495
Format: Hardback
$92.40

After the Second World War, Britain's overseas empire disintegrated. But over the next seventy years, empire came...  Read More >>

Transoceanic Blackface: Empire, Race, Performance

Transoceanic Blackface: Empire, Race, Performance

Author: Kellen Hoxworth
ISBN: 9780810147089
Format: Hardback
$264.00

Tracing intertwined histories of racialized performance from the mid-eighteenth through the early twentieth century...  Read More >>

This Land of Promise: A History of Refugees and Exiles in Britain

This Land of Promise: A History of Refugees and Exiles...

Author: Matthew Lockwood
ISBN: 9780008442569
Format: Hardback
$59.99

‘Important, comprehensive, and superbly researched. All the more urgent at the present time’ BART VAN ES How...  Read More >>

The United States Governed by Six Hundred Thousand Despots: A True Story of Slavery; A Rediscovered Narrative, with a Full Biography

The United States Governed by Six Hundred Thousand Despots:...

Author: John Swanson Jacobs ,  Jonathan D S Schroeder
ISBN: 9780226832807
Format: Hardback
$303.60

Lost on the other side of the world since 1855, the story of John Swanson Jacobs finally returns to America.  ...  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 >>

Emily Davies and the Mid-Victorian Women's Movement

Emily Davies and the Mid-Victorian Women's Movement...

Author: John Hendry (Fellow of Girton College, University of Cambridge)
ISBN: 9780198910237
Format: Hardback
$74.95

The first scholarly biography of Emily Davies, a central figure in the women's movement of the long 1860s, and a...  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 Destruction of Liberty: Creating the American Socialist Aristocracy

The Destruction of Liberty: Creating the American Socialist...

Author: Jon Anthony Hauser
ISBN: 9781662897559
Format: Hardback
$104.25

"Why do the self-proclaimed progressives always come to power using the rhetoric of fairness, equity, and inclusion,...  Read More >>

Collective Courage: A History of African American Cooperative Economic Thought and Practice

Collective Courage: A History of African American Cooperative...

Author: Jessica Gordon Nembhard (Professor of Community Justice and Social Economic Development, John Jay College, CUNY)
ISBN: 9780271097510
Format: Paperback
$71.45

First published in 2014, Jessica Gordon Nembhard’s Collective Courage quickly became an important tool for understanding...  Read More >>

Sites of Conscience: Place, Memory, and the Project of Deinstitutionalization

Sites of Conscience: Place, Memory, and the Project...

Author: Elisabeth Punzi ,  Linda Steele
ISBN: 9780774869324
Format: Hardback
$230.29

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J�dische Konvertiten in Wien - Die Schottenpfarre: Historischer Kontext Und Matriken 1868-1914

J�dische Konvertiten in Wien - Die Schottenpfarre: Historischer...

Author: Anna L Staudacher
ISBN: 9783111387222
Format: Hardback
$348.45

Before World War I, Vienna became a center for Jewish converts from Austria and abroad. During this period, the...  Read More >>

Griechen Im Heiligen R�mischen Reich: Migration Und Ihre Wissensgeschichtliche Bedeutung

Griechen Im Heiligen R�mischen Reich: Migration Und...

Author: Stefano Saracino
ISBN: 9783111194257
Format: Hardback
$290.37

This is the first volume to deal with the migration of Greeks to the Holy Roman Empire in detail. It reveals that...  Read More >>

Nineteenth-Century Gardens and Gardening: Volume V: Garden Design

Nineteenth-Century Gardens and Gardening: Volume V:...

Author: Sarah Dewis ,  Brent Elliott
ISBN: 9780367188597
Format: Hardback
$231.00

This volume is the fifth in a six volume collection that brings together primary sources on gardens and gardening...  Read More >>

Nineteenth-Century Gardens and Gardening: Volume I: Home

Nineteenth-Century Gardens and Gardening: Volume I:...

Author: Sarah Dewis ,  Brent Elliott
ISBN: 9780367188566
Format: Hardback
$231.00

This volume is number one in a six volume collection that brings together primary sources on gardens and gardening...  Read More >>

Nineteenth-Century Gardens and Gardening: Volume IV: Science: Applications

Nineteenth-Century Gardens and Gardening: Volume IV:...

Author: Sarah Dewis ,  Brent Elliott
ISBN: 9780367188580
Format: Hardback
$231.00

This volume is the fourth in a six volume collection that brings together primary sources on gardens and gardening...  Read More >>

Nineteenth-Century Gardens and Gardening: Volume II: Community

Nineteenth-Century Gardens and Gardening: Volume II:...

Author: Sarah Dewis ,  Brent Elliott
ISBN: 9781032698786
Format: Hardback
$273.00

This is the second volume in a six volume collection that brings together primary sources on gardens and gardening...  Read More >>

Beyond Suspicion: The Moral Clash between Rootedness and Progressive Liberalism

Beyond Suspicion: The Moral Clash between Rootedness...

Author: Nissim Mizrachi
ISBN: 9780520382855
Format: Paperback
$57.95

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Nineteenth-Century Gardens and Gardening: Volume III: Science: Institutions

Nineteenth-Century Gardens and Gardening: Volume III:...

Author: Sarah Dewis ,  Brent Elliott
ISBN: 9780367188573
Format: Hardback
$231.00

This volume is the third in a six volume collection that brings together primary sources on gardens and gardening...  Read More >>

Narratives of Dependency: Textual Representations of Slavery, Captivity, and Other Forms of Strong Asymmetrical Dependencies

Narratives of Dependency: Textual Representations of...

Author: Elke Br�ggen ,  Marion Gymnich
ISBN: 9783111379807
Format: Hardback
$277.17

The 15 articles in this interdisciplinary volume examine facets of the history of asymmetrical dependencies via...  Read More >>

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