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  • Mummified
    Angela Stienne
    Mummified explores the curious, unsettling and controversial cases of mummies held in French and British museums. From powdered mummies eaten as medicine to mummies unrolled in public, dissected for racial studies and DNA-tested in modern laboratories, there is a lot more to these ancient remains than first meets the eye. ...
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    23,41 €

  • The Bequest of John T Ward
    Shanna Ward
    The Bequest of John T. Ward is a riveting exploration of one man’s relentless fight for freedom and equality during one of America’s most turbulent eras. Against the backdrop of the 1820s-and later, the Civil War-John T. Ward emerges as a bold abolitionist, an Underground Railroad conductor, and a visionary who risked everything to shepherd fugitives toward liberty. His heroic ...
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    55,64 €

  • The Graham Files
    Eric G Glenn
    The Graham Files: Shattered Mandates is a gripping, intelligent novel that examines what happens when truth becomes dangerous, memory becomes a crime, and education becomes the battlefield.Set in a near-future America where historical facts are being systematically erased, Shattered Mandates follows Dr. Langston Elkanah Graham, a refined but relentless professor of history who ...
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    15,78 €

  • The Derby philosophers
    Paul A. Elliott
    This book focuses upon the activities of a group of Midland intellectuals who strove to promote social, political and urban improvements which had national and international consequences. It examines a turbulent period of British history, an age of political and industrial revolution in which the Derby philosophers were closely involved. ...
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    47,74 €

  • The Germans in India
    Panikos Panayi
    This book offers a new interpretation of global migration from c. 1815-1920 by examining the elite German migrants who moved to India especially missionaries, scholars and scientists, businessmen, and travelers. ...
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    44,04 €

  • Update
    Gayle Young
    A memoir with a dash of history This is an insightful and witty account of the adventures of a foreign correspondent in the Middle East and an ancient warrior queen - 17 centuries apart.Young was a novice broadcast journalist when she was catapulted into the position of CNN Cairo bureau chief in the early 1990s; Zenobia was the same age when she unexpectedly seized Egypt along ...
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    13,17 €

  • Transnational solidarity
    This book excavates forgotten histories of solidarity which were vital to radical political imagination during the long sixties. It decentres the conventional Western loci of this critical historical moment by instead foregrounding transnational solidarity with, and across, anticolonial and anti-imperialist liberation struggles. ...
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    43,59 €

  • Private property and the fear of social chaos
    Aidan Beatty
    What do people imagine it means to live in a world where private property is dominant and what are their fears about living in a future world where it has disappeared? This book studies the recurring nightmare that various lumpen mobs could demolish private property. That threatened social chaos is the central unifying story of this book. ...
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    43,86 €

  • At the Bistro with Bob
    Eric L. Dunavant
     What started with a simple introduction-'I’m Bob. Bob Prichard'-blossomed into a life-altering friendship of two men and their families. Over the table in a New Orleans-area diner, Bob mentored Eric through stories of life experience and principles the old oilman and his wife picked up along the way. Pull up a chair and join Eric as he recounts the impact of a man who pursued ...
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    18,96 €

  • Becoming a mother
    Carla Pascoe Leahy
    This book charts the history of first-time Australian motherhood across the last 75 years, drawing upon oral history interviews with a diverse group of mothers. Through thematic chapters covering pregnancy, birth, childrearing, relationships, work and identity, the book analyses change and continuity in experiences of becoming a mother since 1945. ...
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    44,09 €

  • London calling Italy
    Ester Lo Biundo
    London calling Italy is a book about the BBC Italian Service during the Second World War. It examines the role of the Italian broadcasters, the programmes and their reception. ...
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    44,45 €

  • Conquering the maharajas
    Harrison Akins
    Conquering the maharajas demonstrates that the political and military clashes between the Indian and Pakistani governments and the princely states, a legacy of the layered sovereignty of British indirect rule in India, was a product of the competing ideas of state sovereignty leading up to and following the transfer of power in 1947. ...
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    44,16 €

  • Decolonisation in the age of globalisation
    Chi-kwan Mark
    Drawing extensively on the declassified British archives and Chinese sources, this book explores how Britain and China negotiated for Hong Kong’s future, and how Anglo-Chinese relations flourished after 1984. This original study argues that Thatcher was a pragmatic neoliberal, and the British diplomacy of ’educating’ China yielded mixed results. ...
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    44,19 €

  • Situating religion and medicine in Asia
    Michael Stanley-Baker
    This volume presents studies of the mobilisation of practices for health and spiritual well-being in various regions and times across Asia. The chapters use a common structure to situate these practices within their regions and times, demonstrating how they circulated across religious, medical and scientific domains. ...
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    42,30 €

  • The subject of Britain, 1603-25
    Christopher Ivic
    This book reinterprets early seventeenth-century texts by situating them within the context of Jacobean writing on Britain and Britishness. Central to its argument are ideas about nationhood, identity and community that were occasioned by the accession of a Scottish king to England’s throne, contested during the Anglo-Scottish Union debates. ...
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    44,29 €

  • Imperial Inequalities
    This volume examines the unequal politics of economic governance across European empires and the ongoing legacies of such histories. It focuses on processes of colonial taxation and, primarily, national welfare to examine the ways in which today’s global inequalities are the result of such connected histories. ...
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    43,83 €

  • Humanitarianism and the Greater War, 1914-24
    This book offers fresh perspectives on the history of humanitarianism and its impact on domestic and international politics in the era of the Great War. ...
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    44,01 €

  • Everyday humanitarianism in Cambodia
    Anne-Meike Fechter
    Offers an accessible account of everyday humanitarianism in Cambodia, as well as wider insights into how people link local actions to global challenges. ...
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    44,53 €

  • Pluriversal sovereignty and the state
    Ajay Parasram
    This book explains how the processes of ’total territorial rule’ at the core of the modern international system became normalised in Ceylon (Sri Lanka). It develops a decolonial framework informed by a ’pluriverse’ of multiple ontologies of sovereignty to argue that the state itself is an outcome of imperial globalisation. ...
  • Taking travel home
    Emma Gleadhill
    This book provides a new cultural history of the travel souvenir. It uncovers how eighteenth-century British women enlisted the objects they collected during their European travels to realise their ambitions in the arenas of connoisseurship, science and friendship, and to stake their claims to agency and authority as travelling subjects. ...
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    46,63 €

  • The Prime Minister’s Potato and other essays
    Anne-Marie Conde
    After thirty years confined within museum walls, a restless history curator steps out for air. In this book of essays, Anne-Marie Condé grants herself freedom to ask fresh questions about the significance of objects and places within the lives of ordinary people. Cemeteries, junk shops, war memorials. Stones and scraps and scrawls. These are where this author goes for inspirati...
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    29,21 €

  • Bloody Trails
    Judith C. Owens-Lalude
    Bloody Trails: Enslavement & Freed is a historical novel centered around Toby’s boyhood, shattered when he falls under the cruel dominion of his nefarious Kentucky enslaver, enduring relentless abuse. He experiences a rebirth when purchased by a compassionate Tennessee farmer who prospers because of his knowledge in agriculture. Without warning, Toby is betrayed. In a state of ...
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    13,11 €

  • The Coal Mine
    james fouty
    Taking readers on a hauntingly graphic stroll through a long-forgotten town left to urban decay, James Fouty’s THE COAL MINE is brimming with striking descriptions and uses meticulous detail to portray the malignant darkness surrounding every inch of this decrepit city. The journey of the main character to rid the town of its mysterious evil forces, articulately parallels his t...
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    14,68 €

  • Comedy of Errors Part 1
    Carol Evans
    This book covers my years at the Australian Defence Force Academy and later years whilst I was serving with the Royal Australian Navy. The triumphs, hardships, and frequently unpleasant realities of life in a male-dominated military system are chronicled in this open and intensely personal memoir. This account details the difficulties I encountered as a mother and a woman in un...
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    24,53 €

  • Unruly Monuments
    Aditi Chandra
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    144,56 €

  • The Hagiography of Byzantine Cyprus
    Stephanos Efthymiadis
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    144,56 €

  • The General’s Playbook
    Bill Bodri
    This book on the greatest military generals in history profiles 15 commanders: Napoleon, Julius Caesar, the Duke of Wellington, Takeda Shingen, Khalid Ibn al-Walid, Hannibal, Ulysses S. Grant, Frederick the Great, Georgy Zhukov, Alexander the Great, Oda Nobunaga, Mustafa Ataturk, Ferdinand Foch, Douglas Haig and Augustus Caesar. It reveals the most common tactics that each used...
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    16,26 €

  • War Torn Book 2
    Jan Lloyd
    Spring 1944. Europe is engulfed in war-and so is her heart.After enduring the horrors of Auschwitz and Dachau, violin virtuoso Frances Meyer suffers the ultimate betrayal-rape at the hands of her former friend, Otto Von Liechtenstein. Guilt-ridden, Otto swears to have her released from Dachau. But Frances doesn’t seek freedom-she wants justice.As word of her release arrives, Fr...
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    12,16 €

  • The Ultimate Guide To Lesser-Known Black Inventors
    Jamie O White
    Discover the hidden geniuses who revolutionized history, even if their stories have been overshadowed for centuries.Have you ever wondered about the untold stories behind the innovations that shape our world today? Are you searching for a way to fill the gaps left by traditional history books, eager to uplift and inspire the next generation with diverse narratives? Do you find ...
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    18,43 €

  • Richard Cranch, a Boston Colonial Watchmaker
    Andrew H. Dervan
    This book documents the life and career of Richard Cranch, a watchmaker in Boston during the Revolutionary War. The author pieces together this colonial man’s life using primary sources of letters to and from Cranch, plus the watchmaker’s own daybook. As an influential resident of Boston, Cranch was an avid reader with a keen interest in various subjects, and he interacted with...
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    47,73 €


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