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Why the Nineties Matter

Why the Nineties Matter

Author: Terry H. Anderson (Professor of History, Professor of History, Texas A&M University)
ISBN: 9780197763018
Format: Hardback
$52.95

An entertaining and deeply insightful history of a decade that matters more than we think: the 1990s. Nearly a quarter...  Read More >>

Responsible Pleasure: The Brook Advisory Centres and Youth Sexuality in Postwar Britain

Responsible Pleasure: The Brook Advisory Centres and...

Author: Caroline Rusterholz (Assistant Professor in International History and Politics, Assistant Professor in International History and Politics, Graduate Institute, Geneva)
ISBN: 9780192866271
Format: Hardback
$63.95

This book offers a historical account of the public debates, institutional monitoring, and private experiences of...  Read More >>

Samaritans and Jews in History and Tradition: Changing Perspectives 10

Samaritans and Jews in History and Tradition: Changing...

Author: Ingrid Hjelm (Copenhagen University, Denmark)
ISBN: 9781032702858
Format: Hardback
$273.00

This volume presents an anthology of 19 seminal studies, some for the first time in English, which explore the history...  Read More >>

Neo-Nazi Terrorism and Countercultural Fascism: The Origins and Afterlife of James Mason’s Siege

Neo-Nazi Terrorism and Countercultural Fascism: The...

Author: Spencer Sunshine (Independent Scholar, USA)
ISBN: 9780367190552
Format: Hardback
$273.00

Neo-Nazi Terrorism and Countercultural Fascism, based on years of archival work and interviews, documents for the...  Read More >>

Deep-Sea Minerals Developments in the 20th Century

Deep-Sea Minerals Developments in the 20th Century

Author: David S. Cronan
ISBN: 9783031523410
Format: Hardback
$118.77

The book is an historical monograph on deep-sea mineral-related activities and attitudes towards deep-sea mining...  Read More >>

The Oxford History of the Novel in English: Volume 8: American Fiction since 1940

The Oxford History of the Novel in English: Volume 8:...

Author: Cyrus R. K. Patell (Professor of English, New York University) ,  Deborah Lindsay Williams (Clinical Professor of Liberal Studies, New York University)
ISBN: 9780192844729
Format: Hardback
$260.95

An overview of US fiction since 1940 that explores the history of literary forms, the history of narrative forms,...  Read More >>

Jewish Refugees and the British Nursing Profession: A Gendered Opportunity

Jewish Refugees and the British Nursing Profession:...

Author: Jane Brooks
ISBN: 9781526167422
Format: Hardback
$194.99

This book bears witness to the personal experiences of Jewish refugees from Nazi Europe in the highly gendered profession...  Read More >>

Demokratie lernen

Demokratie lernen

Author: Sophie Friedl
ISBN: 9783111350936
Format: Hardback
$57.17

"The Bavarian health authorities, the ""Guardians of the people's health,"" learned about democracy after 1945 -...  Read More >>

Enlightenment Biopolitics: A History of Race, Eugenics, and the Making of Citizens

Enlightenment Biopolitics: A History of Race, Eugenics,...

Author: William Max Nelson
ISBN: 9780226825564
Format: Hardback
$173.95

"A wide-ranging history tracing the birth of biopolitics in Enlightenment thought and its aftermath. In Enlightenment...  Read More >>

The Librarian's Atlas: The Shape of Knowledge in Early Modern Spain

The Librarian's Atlas: The Shape of Knowledge in Early...

Author: Seth Kimmel
ISBN: 9780226833170
Format: Hardback
$74.95

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Lesbian Lives in Soviet and Post-Soviet Russia: Post/Socialism and Gendered Sexualities

Lesbian Lives in Soviet and Post-Soviet Russia: Post/Socialism...

Author: F. Stella ,  F Stella
ISBN: 9781349672660
Format: Paperback
$139.00

This book explores the everyday lives of 'lesbian' women in urban Russia. It explores changes and continuities by...  Read More >>

Mysteries of the Desert Part-1

Mysteries of the Desert Part-1

Author: Indrajeet Sharma
ISBN: 9798224817344
Format: Paperback
$58.05

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Henry 'Orator' Hunt and the Ilchester Bastille

Henry 'Orator' Hunt and the Ilchester Bastille

Author: Mick Davis
ISBN: 9781914407710
Format: Paperback
$81.81

Even today, over 200 years after the event, controversy and debate continue over the shocking Peterloo massacre...  Read More >>

Black Snow: Curtis LeMay, the Firebombing of Tokyo, and the Road to the Atomic Bomb

Black Snow: Curtis LeMay, the Firebombing of Tokyo,...

Author: James M. Scott
ISBN: 9781324074601
Format: Paperback
$36.95

The unprecedented fire raid that incinerated Tokyo, helped win the war and marked a major shift in American military...  Read More >>

A Hell of a Bomb: How the Bombs of Barnes Wallis Helped Win the Second World War

A Hell of a Bomb: How the Bombs of Barnes Wallis Helped...

Author: Stephen Flower
ISBN: 9781803997001
Format: Paperback
$44.99

The story of the war-turning bouncing bomb, created by the innovative Barnes Wallis  Read More >>

Looking for Theophrastus: Travels in Search of a Lost Philosopher

Looking for Theophrastus: Travels in Search of a Lost...

Author: Laura Beatty
ISBN: 9781838954383
Format: Paperback
$26.99

A strange, wild, brilliant personal journey - across land and through time - in which Laura Beatty travels back...  Read More >>

1963: That Was the Year That Was

1963: That Was the Year That Was

Author: Andrew Cook
ISBN: 9781803996899
Format: Paperback
$32.99

A compendium of milestone stories and watershed events in popular culture, national and international politics from...  Read More >>

Fallen: George Mallory: The Man, The Myth and the 1924 Everest Tragedy

Fallen: George Mallory: The Man, The Myth and the 1924...

Author: Mick Conefrey
ISBN: 9781805462712
Format: Paperback
$34.99

A dramatic and compelling reappraisal of George Mallory published to coincide with the centenary of his mysterious...  Read More >>

The Perdiccas Years, 323–320 BC

The Perdiccas Years, 323–320 BC

Author: Tristan Hughes
ISBN: 9781399020701
Format: Paperback
$52.99

On 11 June 323 BC in Babylon, Alexander the Great breathed his last. He left one of the largest empires the world...  Read More >>

D-Day: The First 72 Hours

D-Day: The First 72 Hours

Author: William F Buckingham
ISBN: 9781803996929
Format: Paperback
$39.99

The Allied invasion of occupied France began with the delivery of three airborne and six infantry divisions onto...  Read More >>

Early Modern Genres of History

Early Modern Genres of History

Author: Emil Nicklas Johnsen ,  Ina Louise Stovner
ISBN: 9781032364421
Format: Paperback
$73.99

Bringing together an international group of literary scholars, intellectual historians, and cultural historians,...  Read More >>

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