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Herzl: Theodor Herzl and the Foundation of the Jewish State

Herzl: Theodor Herzl and the Foundation of the Jewish State

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The first biography in more than a generation of the father of modern political Zionism and in effect the state of Israel. Drawing extensively on his diaries as well as...
The Culture of Time and Space, 1880-1918: With a New Preface

The Culture of Time and Space, 1880-1918: With a New Preface

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Stephen Kern writes about the sweeping changes in technology and culture between 1880 and World War I that created new modes of understanding and experiencing time and space. To mark...
Nostalgic Journeys

Nostalgic Journeys

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Relax by the ocean or head to the mountains? This vacation planning debate-starter is actually a fairly recent invention. To people of an earlier era, both options seemed unappealing and...
The Evolution of the Passenger Ship

The Evolution of the Passenger Ship

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Have you wondered what the difference is between an ocean liner and a cruise ship? Are you amazed at the size of the biggest cruise ships? Perhaps you are keen...
The 100 Greatest Advertisements 1852-1958: Who Wrote Them and What

The 100 Greatest Advertisements 1852-1958: Who Wrote Them and What

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Discover how the most successful ads came into being, explained in their creators' own words. Illustrated products include Rolls Royce automobiles, Lux Soap, Coca-Cola, Campbell's Soup, and many others. Styles...
Treason By The Book: Traitors, Conspirators and Guardians of an

Treason By The Book: Traitors, Conspirators and Guardians of an

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In 1728 a stranger handed a letter to Governor Yue calling on him to lead a rebellion against the Manchu rulers of China. Feigning agreement, he learnt the details of...
George Clausen and the Picture of English Rural Life

George Clausen and the Picture of English Rural Life

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In telling the story of Clausen's life and career, McConkey unveils an artist of unusual integrity and singleness of purpose. At no time in his career of sixty years did...
Living Fashion: Daily Women's Wear 1750-1950

Living Fashion: Daily Women's Wear 1750-1950

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Living Fashion by Leen Demeester, explains the influence of fashion on the daily life of middle class women in Western Europe between 1750 and 1950. The text focuses mainly on...
The Hero's Way: Walking with Garibaldi from Rome to Ravenna

The Hero's Way: Walking with Garibaldi from Rome to Ravenna

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An entertaining and informative journey across Italy in the footsteps of the great Italian political hero, Garibaldi. 'Elegantly written, full of wit and charm, this is travel writing at its...
An Intimate History of Evolution: The Story of the Huxley Family

An Intimate History of Evolution: The Story of the Huxley Family

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Two hundred years of modern science and culture, told through one family history In his early twenties, poor, depressed, stranded in the Coral Sea on the HMS Rattlesnake, hopelessly in...
Hero of the Empire: The Making of Winston Churchill

Hero of the Empire: The Making of Winston Churchill

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From The New York Times bestselling author, the gripping story of Winston Churchill's exploits in the Boer War At age twenty-four, Winston Churchill believed that to achieve his ambition of...
Swami in a Strange Land: How Krishna Came to the West

Swami in a Strange Land: How Krishna Came to the West

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Discover the man behind the movement in this intimate biography of A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, founder of the International Society of Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON). In 1965, a seventy-year-old man-soon to...
Revolutionary Spring: Fighting for a New World 1848-1849

Revolutionary Spring: Fighting for a New World 1848-1849

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An exhilarating reappraisal of one of the most dramatic years in European history 'People embraced each other, shook hands, joy radiated from every eye, there was no limit to the...
Revolutionary Spring: Fighting for a New World 1848-1849

Revolutionary Spring: Fighting for a New World 1848-1849

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An exhilarating reappraisal of one of the most dramatic years in European history There can be few more exciting or frightening moments in European history than the spring of 1848....
1914: The Year the World Ended

1914: The Year the World Ended

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Few years can justly be said to have transformed the earth- 1914 did. Few years can justly be said to have transformed the earth- 1914 did. In July that year,...
The Diaries of Franz Kafka

The Diaries of Franz Kafka

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An essential new translation of the author's complete, uncensored diaries - revealing the idiosyncrasies and rough edges of one of the twentieth century's most influential writers Dating from 1909 to...
A Training School for Elephants

A Training School for Elephants

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From the acclaimed author of The Lost Pianos of Siberia, comes a new journey tracing a colonial-era African expedition. In 1879, King Leopold II of Belgium launched an ambitious plan...
Churchill: Walking with Destiny

Churchill: Walking with Destiny

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The blockbuster biography of the greatest Briton, by one of Britain's bestselling historians Winston Churchill towers over every other figure in twentieth-century British history. By the time of his death...
Greece: Biography of a Modern Nation

Greece: Biography of a Modern Nation

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A history of modern Greece by one of the pre-eminent experts in the field We think we know ancient Greece, the civilization that shares the same name and gave us...
The Pursuit of Power: Europe, 1815-1914

The Pursuit of Power: Europe, 1815-1914

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A masterpiece of historical writing which brings to life an extraordinarly turbulent and dramatic era of revolutionary change The Pursuit of Power draws on a lifetime of thinking about nineteenth-century...
Ancien Regime and the Revolution

Ancien Regime and the Revolution

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A new translation of this classic text The Ancien Regime and the Revolution is a comparison of revolutionary France and the despotic rule it toppled. Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-59) is...
Meeting Churchill: A Life in 90 Encounters

Meeting Churchill: A Life in 90 Encounters

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Churchill through the eyes of those who met him, published for the 150th anniversary of his birth This insightful portrait of Winston Churchill delves beyond well-known political events, incorporating perspectives...
1788: The Brutal Truth Of The First Fleet

1788: The Brutal Truth Of The First Fleet

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An extraordinary narrative history of the First Fleet, by the bestselling author of The Forgotten Children. Never before or since has there been an experiment quite as bold as this....
The Russia Anxiety: And How History Can Resolve It

The Russia Anxiety: And How History Can Resolve It

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We can all treat history with more respect. If we do, we might find that the cure for the Russia Anxiety is within reach ... Russia is an exceptional country,...
The Fatal Shore

The Fatal Shore

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'An extraordinarily vivid yet authentic account of the birthpangs of a nation. A work of real distinction' Philip Ziegler An award-winning epic on the birth of Australia In 1787, the...
Caledonia Australis: Scottish Highlanders on the Frontier of Australia

Caledonia Australis: Scottish Highlanders on the Frontier of Australia

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An extraordinary piece of history - the Scottish Highlanders on the frontier of Australia - with introduction from Inga Clendinnen. An extraordinary piece of history - the Scottish Highlanders on...
Ornament and Crime

Ornament and Crime

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Revolutionary essays on design, aesthetics and materialism - from one of the great masters of modern architecture 'But art has nothing to do with forgery, with lies. The paths of...
Reflections on the Revolution in France

Reflections on the Revolution in France

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Burke's seminal work on the French Revolution, and a fine example of conservative political thought Burke's seminal work was written during the early months of the French Revolution, and it...
The Hare With Amber Eyes: The #1 Sunday Times Bestseller

The Hare With Amber Eyes: The #1 Sunday Times Bestseller

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The history of a family through 264 objects - set against a turbulent century - from an acclaimed writer and potter **THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER** **WINNER OF THE...
Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China

Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China

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From the bestselling author of Wild Swans and Mao- The Unknown Story, the extraordinary story of the woman who single-handedly dragged China into the modern age Discover the extraordinary story...
Birds Without Wings

Birds Without Wings

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'Captivating and compelling. A masterpiece' Independent on Sunday Set against the backdrop of the collapsing Ottoman Empire, Birds Without Wings traces the fortunes of one small community in south-west Anatolia...
The Colony: A history of early Sydney

The Colony: A history of early Sydney

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Winner of the 2010 Prime Minister's Literary Award for Non-Fiction 'Grace Karskens writes with the passion and insight of a novelist, and the accuracy of a historian. To read it...
Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry: 1890-1940

Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry: 1890-1940

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The Arts and Crafts Movement, a fascinating period in decorative history, led to the unprecedented commercialisation of fine crafts and the empowerment of thousands of women and immigrants, who began...
Bizarre & Outlandish Gadgets & Doohickeys: Used in Everyday Life-1851 to 1951

Bizarre & Outlandish Gadgets & Doohickeys: Used in Everyday Life-1851

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Hundreds of 19th- and 20th-century curiosities and contraptions are catalogued in this amusing assembly of more than 1,000 images. The days from the first Great Industrial Exhibition of 1851 to...
Bizarre & Outlandish Gadgets & Doohickeys: Used in Everyday Life-1851 to 1951

Bizarre & Outlandish Gadgets & Doohickeys: Used in Everyday Life-1851

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Hundreds of 19th- and 20th-century curiosities and contraptions are catalogued in this amusing assembly of more than 1,000 images. The days from the first Great Industrial Exhibition of 1851 to...
Emperor of Liberty: Thomas Jefferson's Foreign Policy

Emperor of Liberty: Thomas Jefferson's Foreign Policy

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A dramatic reevaluation of Thomas Jefferson's thinking on foreign policy and his record as a statesman This book, the first in decades to closely examine Thomas Jefferson's foreign policy, offers...
Dictionary Of Modern Arab Histor

Dictionary Of Modern Arab Histor

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From 1980 until Dr. Bidwell's death in 1994, much of his time was taken up with the writing and compilation of this encyclopaedic work which represents, in the true sense...
Early Japanese Railways 1853-1914: Engineering Triumphs That Transformed Meiji-era Japan

Early Japanese Railways 1853-1914: Engineering Triumphs That

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A rousing look at Japanese railways and history for railroad enthusiasts. Dan Free tells the fascinating history of the rise of Japanese railways amidst a period of rapid modernisation during...
Mahler: His Life, Work and World

Mahler: His Life, Work and World

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Gustav Mahler was born on 7 July 1860 in an insignificant outpost of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. He grew to become one of the greatest conductors and composers of his time,...
Riders of the Apocalypse: German Cavalry and Modern Warfare, 1870-1945

Riders of the Apocalypse: German Cavalry and Modern Warfare, 1870-1945

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Despite the enduring popular image of the blitzkrieg of World War II, the German Army always depended on horses. It could not have waged war without them. While the Army's...
The Greeks in Australia

The Greeks in Australia

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The Greeks have made an enormous contribution to Australian cultural and social life, and this book vividly tells their story. Beginning with an examination of the conditions in Europe that...
Voyages and Beaches: Pacific Encounters, 1769-1840

Voyages and Beaches: Pacific Encounters, 1769-1840

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Writing from and between a variety of disciplines, scholars from European, Polynesian and Settler backgrounds show how the Pacific reveals a more various and contradictory history than that supposed by...
The Strassmanns: Science, Politics and Migration in Turbulent Times (1793-1993)

The Strassmanns: Science, Politics and Migration in Turbulent Times

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Across six generations and two hundred years, this book tells the story of a German- Jewish family who emigrated from Rawicz, Poland, first to Prussian Berlin, and finally to America....
Force from Nietzsche to Derrida

Force from Nietzsche to Derrida

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In this book, Clare Connors sets out to answer the question: What is the pervasive character of the world?, tracing a genealogy of the idea of force through the writings...
Making a Moral Society: Ethics and the State in Meiji Japan

Making a Moral Society: Ethics and the State in Meiji Japan

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This innovative study of ethics in Meiji Japan (1868-1912) explores the intense struggle to define a common morality for the emerging nation-state. In the Social Darwinist atmosphere of the time,...
Modern Art in Egypt: Identity and Independence, 1850-1936

Modern Art in Egypt: Identity and Independence, 1850-1936

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Following a spectacular surge in interest for Egyptian masters, Modern Art in Egypt fills the void in Egyptian art history, chronicling the lives and legacies of six pioneering artists working...