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Through Blue Skies to Hell: America's Bloody 100th in the Air War Over Germany

Through Blue Skies to Hell: America's Bloody 100th in...

Author: Edward M Sion
ISBN: 9781636244624
Format: Paperback
$56.99

"This book provides a comprehensive look at the air war over Europe during the climactic year of World War II. The...  Read More >>

The Silver Beatles: A Story of Struggle, Luck and Genius: The Beatles Before They Became the Beatles

The Silver Beatles: A Story of Struggle, Luck and Genius:...

Author: Marco Crescenzi
ISBN: 9783283013325
Format: Hardback
$105.47

The Beatles, the most renowned band in the history of music, didn‘t just spring into existence. Their journey began...  Read More >>

More People, Fewer States: The Past and Future of World Population and Empire Sizes

More People, Fewer States: The Past and Future of World...

Author: Rein Taagepera (University of California, Irvine) ,  Miroslav Nemčok (University of Oslo, Norway)
ISBN: 9781009427838
Format: Paperback
$77.60

Delve into an exploration of 5000 years of global history, meticulously examining the growth, structure, and decline...  Read More >>

The Tyranny of the Straight Line: Mapping Modern Paris

The Tyranny of the Straight Line: Mapping Modern Paris...

Author: Min Kyung Lee
ISBN: 9780300267648
Format: Hardback
$103.95

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A Ministry of Risk: Writings on Peace and Nonviolence

A Ministry of Risk: Writings on Peace and Nonviolence...

Author: Philip Berrigan ,  Brad Wolf
ISBN: 9781531506278
Format: Hardback
$195.99

Experience the powerful legacy of Philip Berrigan's nonviolent resistance to war and empire. From the battlefields...  Read More >>

Alternative Politics in Contemporary Japan: New Directions in Social Movements

Alternative Politics in Contemporary Japan: New Directions...

Author: David H. Slater ,  Patricia G. Steinhoff
ISBN: 9780824897437
Format: Hardback
$184.80

Engagingly written by an international community of Japan specialists committed to doing extended fieldwork with...  Read More >>

Emplacing East Timor: Regime Change and Knowledge Production, 1860-2010

Emplacing East Timor: Regime Change and Knowledge Production,...

Author: Kisho Tsuchiya
ISBN: 9780824894986
Format: Hardback
$179.52

Explores the relationship between the cycle of regime change and that of knowledge production, offering an alternative...  Read More >>

When the Yellow River Floods: Water, Technology, and Nation-Building in Early Twentieth-Century Chinese Literature

When the Yellow River Floods: Water, Technology, and...

Author: Hui-Lin Hsu
ISBN: 9789888842773
Format: Hardback
$77.63

When the Yellow River Floods explores the relationship between environmental degradation, hydraulic engineering,...  Read More >>

David Owen, Human Rights and the Remaking of British Foreign Policy

David Owen, Human Rights and the Remaking of British...

Author: David Grealy (Lancaster University, UK)
ISBN: 9781350294905
Format: Paperback
$59.99

Although the evolution of human rights diplomacy during the second half of the 20th century has been the subject...  Read More >>

Who was Jack the Ripper?: All the Suspects Revealed

Who was Jack the Ripper?: All the Suspects Revealed...

Author: Richard Charles Cobb
ISBN: 9781399019439
Format: Paperback
$44.99

Using 21st century profiling techniques, it’s time to reveal the truth behind the men most likely to have been Jack...  Read More >>

Applied History and Contemporary Policymaking: School of Statecraft

Applied History and Contemporary Policymaking: School...

Author: Robert Crowcroft (University of Edinburgh, UK)
ISBN: 9781350348363
Format: Paperback
$59.99

Robert Crowcroft has assembled a world-class, international cast of outstanding scholars and international figures...  Read More >>

Urban Battlefields: Lessons Learned from World War II to the Modern Era

Urban Battlefields: Lessons Learned from World War II...

Author: Gregory Fremont-Barnes
ISBN: 9781682477243
Format: Hardback
$77.00

Offers a detailed study of the complexities of urban operations, demonstrating through historical conflicts their...  Read More >>

Struggle for Empire: The Battles of General Zuo Zongtang

Struggle for Empire: The Battles of General Zuo Zongtang...

Author: Kenneth M. Swope
ISBN: 9781682472859
Format: Hardback
$72.60

Provides the first comprehensive modern biography in English of the late Qing dynasty statesman, strategist, and...  Read More >>

The Army of Transylvania (1613-1690): War and military organization from the ‘golden age’ of the Principality to the Habsburg conquest

The Army of Transylvania (1613-1690): War and military...

Author: Florin Nicolae Ardelean
ISBN: 9781804513491
Format: Paperback
$62.99

The army of the Transylvanian Principality represented a mixture of Western European and Oriental (Ottoman) military...  Read More >>

Soldiers' Clothing of the Early 17th Century: Britain and Western Europe, 1618-1660

Soldiers' Clothing of the Early 17th Century: Britain...

Author: Lawrence Spring
ISBN: 9781804514443
Format: Paperback
$90.00

Soldiers' Clothing of the Early 17th Century is a comprehensive study of the clothing worn by soldiers during the...  Read More >>

‘Ethiopia’ and the World, 330–1500 CE

‘Ethiopia’ and the World, 330–1500 CE

Author: Yonatan Binyam (Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey) ,  Verena Krebs (Ruhr-Universität, Bochum, Germany)
ISBN: 9781009107969
Format: Paperback
$43.99

This Cambridge Element offers an interdisciplinary introduction to the histories of the Ethiopian and Eritrean highlands...  Read More >>

50 Forgotten Professions - A Fascinating Journey Into The Near Past

50 Forgotten Professions - A Fascinating Journey Into...

Author: Mike Ciman
ISBN: 9798224852871
Format: Paperback
$39.57

A Fascinating Journey into the Past in 50 Professions Welcome to the fascinating world of forgotten professions....  Read More >>

La guerra civil espa�ola: Una gu�a fascinante sobre sus causas, batallas e impacto hist�rico

La guerra civil espa�ola: Una gu�a fascinante sobre...

Author: Captivating History
ISBN: 9798893580419
Format: Hardback
$65.97

La guerra civil espa�ola es m�s relevante que nunca y, sin embargo, no es tan conocida. Las lecciones que podemos...  Read More >>

Reading Character after Calvin: Secularization, Empire, and the Eighteenth-Century Novel

Reading Character after Calvin: Secularization, Empire,...

Author: David Mark Diamond
ISBN: 9780813950884
Format: Hardback
$316.80

Explores how Calvinist theology helps us read characters in the early British novel, shedding new light on the origins...  Read More >>

To Run the World: The Kremlin's Cold War Bid for Global Power

To Run the World: The Kremlin's Cold War Bid for Global...

Author: Sergey Radchenko (Johns Hopkins University SAIS Europe)
ISBN: 9781108477352
Format: Hardback
$77.63

What would it feel like To Run the World? Soviet rulers spent the Cold War trying desperately to find out. Perennial...  Read More >>

Thami Al-Glaoui: Morocco's Greatest Pasha

Thami Al-Glaoui: Morocco's Greatest Pasha

Author: Orit Ouaknine-Yekutieli
ISBN: 9781399520676
Format: Hardback
$219.94

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Staging Buenos Aires: Theater, Society, and Politics in Argentina 1860-1920

Staging Buenos Aires: Theater, Society, and Politics...

Author: Kristen McCleary
ISBN: 9780822948247
Format: Hardback
$145.20

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