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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 >>

American Farming Culture and the History of Technology

American Farming Culture and the History of Technology...

Author: Joshua T. Brinkman
ISBN: 9781032637907
Format: Paperback
$75.99

Presenting a history of agriculture in the American Corn Belt, this book argues that modernization occurred not...  Read More >>

A Sociology of Journalism in Japan: The Last Empire of the Press

A Sociology of Journalism in Japan: The Last Empire...

Author: César Castellvi
ISBN: 9781032615813
Format: Hardback
$273.00

This book represents an in-depth analysis of journalism in Japan during the golden era of the daily press and the...  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 >>

Turkey: The Second Republic

Turkey: The Second Republic

Author: Birol Başkan ,  Burak Bilgehan Özpek
ISBN: 9781032131078
Format: Hardback
$273.00

Focused on the rise of the Justice and Development Party (AKP) over the last two decades, this book discusses and...  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 >>

The Palgrave Handbook of Violence in Africa

The Palgrave Handbook of Violence in Africa

Author: Obert Bernard Mlambo ,  Ezra Chitando
ISBN: 9783031407536
Format: Hardback
$580.77

This handbook brings together global research on violence in Africa from academics, practitioners and activists...  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 >>

The Jazzmen: How Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, And Count Basie Transformed America

The Jazzmen: How Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, And...

Author: Larry Tye
ISBN: 9780358380436
Format: Hardback
$65.00

From the New York Times bestselling author of Satchel and Bobby Kennedy, a sweeping group portrait of the pioneers...  Read More >>

Simone

Simone

Author: Viet Thanh Nguyen ,  Minnie Phan
ISBN: 9781662651199
Format: Hardback
$39.99

From Pulitzer Prize-winning author Viet Thanh Nguyen and illustrator Minnie Phan comes an unforgettable story of...  Read More >>

Chicana Liberation: Women and Mexican American Politics in Los Angeles, 1945-1981

Chicana Liberation: Women and Mexican American Politics...

Author: Marisela R. Chávez
ISBN: 9780252045707
Format: Hardback
$239.00

Mexican American women reached across generations to develop a bridging activism that drew on different methods...  Read More >>

Folklore of Lake Erie

Folklore of Lake Erie

Author: Judith S. Neulander
ISBN: 9780253069771
Format: Hardback
$154.99

Welcome to a very different Lake Erie-where ghost ships sail silently, a Black Dog brings doom to sailors who see...  Read More >>

Strangers No Longer: Latino Belonging and Faith in Twentieth-Century Wisconsin

Strangers No Longer: Latino Belonging and Faith in Twentieth-Century...

Author: Sergio M. González
ISBN: 9780252045844
Format: Hardback
$295.00

Hospitality practices grounded in religious belief have long exercised a profound influence on Wisconsin’s Latino...  Read More >>

Land Back: Relational Landscapes of Indigenous Resistance across the Americas

Land Back: Relational Landscapes of Indigenous Resistance...

Author: Heather Dorries ,  Michelle Daigle
ISBN: 9780884025016
Format: Hardback
$198.00

Land Back highlights the ways Indigenous peoples and anti-colonial co-resistors understand land relations for political...  Read More >>

How America Gets the News: A History of U.S. Journalism

How America Gets the News: A History of U.S. Journalism...

Author: Ford Risley ,  Ashley Walter
ISBN: 9781442235267
Format: Hardback
$70.99

This concise history of American journalism introduces readers to the news media from the first colonial newspapers...  Read More >>

Japan Challenges America: Managing An Alliance In Crisis

Japan Challenges America: Managing An Alliance In Crisis...

Author: Harrison M Holland
ISBN: 9780367002794
Format: Hardback
$242.00

With the US-Japan alliance in jeopardy, former diplomat Harrison Holland argues that both sides must take bold steps...  Read More >>

A History of the Muslim World: From Its Origins to the Dawn of Modernity

A History of the Muslim World: From Its Origins to the...

Author: Michael A. Cook
ISBN: 9780691236575
Format: Hardback
$69.99

A panoramic history of the Muslim world from the age of the Prophet Muḥammad to the birth of the modern era This...  Read More >>

My Presidential Life: The Showdown at Putin's Dacha and Other Misadventures on the Diplomatic Road

My Presidential Life: The Showdown at Putin's Dacha...

Author: Judd Swift
ISBN: 9781493081486
Format: Hardback
$60.99

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Project Mayflower: Building and Sailing a Seventeenth-Century Replica

Project Mayflower: Building and Sailing a Seventeenth-Century...

Author: Richard A. Stone ,  James W. Baker
ISBN: 9781493084364
Format: Hardback
$55.99

The never-before-told story of Project Mayflower--the building of the replica ship docked in Plymouth, Massachusetts--from...  Read More >>

The Driver’s Story: Labor and Power in the World of Atlantic Slavery

The Driver’s Story: Labor and Power in the World of...

Author: Randy M. Browne
ISBN: 9781512825862
Format: Hardback
$105.47

"The story of the driver is the story of Atlantic slavery. Starting in the seventeenth-century Caribbean, enslavers...  Read More >>

Zhou Enlai: A Life

Zhou Enlai: A Life

Author: Jian Chen
ISBN: 9780674659582
Format: Hardback
$61.95

Zhou Enlai, China’s first premier, is overshadowed by Mao, but Zhou’s influence in his own time and since has been...  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 >>

One Way Back: A Memoir

One Way Back: A Memoir

Author: Christine Blasey Ford
ISBN: 9781250289650
Format: Hardback
$49.99

The compelling true story behind the testimony that awed the nation  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 >>

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