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Joint winner of the North American Conference on British Studies 2017 Stansky Book Prize for the best book on British St......more

Tracing the emergence of the domestic kitchen from the 17th to the middle of the 19th century, Sara Pennell explores how......more

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In the mid-eighteenth century the Russian tsar sent two expeditions across the Caspian Sea in response to an extraordina......more

The 1943 battle to free the Soviet Black Sea port of Novorossiisk from German occupation was fought from the beach head ......more

The period 1940-1960 was a time of considerable change in British society. It saw the emergence of mass democracy, a wor......more

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1917 was a year of calamitous events, and one of pivotal importance in the development of the First World War. In 1917: ......more

This book explores how the communist cult of the individual was not just a Soviet phenomenon but an international one. W......more

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Keen to learn but short on time? Get to grips with the history of the United Nations in next to no time with this concis......more

Keen to learn but short on time? Get to grips with the life and career of Franklin D. Roosevelt in next to no time with ......more

What happened to the Chartists after the movement was over? Many local spokesmen in fact remained prominent figures in t......more

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The city was saturated in scientists; many had an astonishing breadth of talents. The Minister of Finance just before th......more

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Examining tales of notorious figures in Renaissance England, including the mercenary Thomas Stukeley, the Barbary corsai......more

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Incorporating a wide range of visual and translated written sources, The Modern Spain Sourcebook documents Spain’s histo......more

This book provides the most comprehensive study to date of political and social developments in Montenegro from the proc......more

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Charts the evolution of Scotland from a medieval and feudal to a modern, professional polity, and the transformation of ......more

The world almost conquered famine. Until the 1980s, this scourge killed ten million people every decade, but by early 20......more

This edition of Anne Clifford’s (1590-1676) diaries and memoirs is the first to include all of her autobiographical writ......more

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Ranging from the middle of the eighteenth through to the end of the nineteenth century, Crime and Society in England, 17......more

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Originally published in 1902, this study expands on the ideas of imperialism which were a key focus of many countries in......more

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A rich picture of the complexities of early industrial development in the north-east of England. Historians increasingly......more

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Monsoon rains, winds, and currents have shaped patterns of production and exchange in the Indian Ocean world (IOW) for c......more

This book tells the story of Terania Creek - the world’s first direct action blockade in defence of a forest, occurring ......more

In the history of brain research, the prospect of visualizing brain processes has continually awakened great expectation......more

Highlighting the "mass" nature of interwar European fascism has long become commonplace. Throughout the years, numerous ......more

Deciphers typical social practices as a hidden language of communication in urban plebeian society Covering the interrev......more

Friendships between women and gay men captivated the American media in the opening decade of the 21st century. John Port......more

A time of great hardship, the Second World War became a consequential episode in the history of Soviet childhood policie......more

Explores the emergence of a new, affirmative discourse on Asia in the early twentieth century in the context of shifting......more

This story of the young city of Washington coming up in the international scene is populated with presidents, foreign di......more

The massive movement against nuclear weapons began with the invention of the atomic bomb in 1945 and lasted throughout t......more

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Though persistently overshadowed by the Great War in historical memory, the two Balkan conflicts of 1912-1913 were among......more

The ability to forget the violent twentieth-century past was long seen as a virtue in Spain, even a duty. But the common......more

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Thomas Nast (1840-1902), the founding father of American political cartooning, is perhaps best known for his cartoons po......more

This book begins to recover the global history of solidarity as a principle of authorship, taking Anna Seghers (1900-198......more

When Italian forces landed on the shores of Libya in 1911, many in Italy hailed it as an opportunity to embrace a Cathol......more

While in London in 1705, Robert Beverley wrote and published The History and Present State of Virginia, one of the earli......more

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Their romances, some of which sold as well as novels by Dickens, argued for Jew’s emancipation in the Victorian world an......more

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Religious liberty is usually examined within a larger discussion of church-state relations, but Thomas Kselman looks at ......more

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The sixteenth century was a critical period both for Spain’s formation and for the imperial dominance of her Crown. Span......more

This book is an examination of why and how the elective principle, already established in Transylvanian and Polish polit......more

Keen to learn but short on time? Get to grips with the history of the European Union in next to no time with this concis......more