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Hardy Women: Mother, Sisters, Wives, Muses
A TOP BOOK FOR 2024 IN: THE OBSERVER, INDEPENDENT, SUNDAY TIMES AND BOOKSELLER'He understands only the women he invents - the others not at all' Thomas Hardy is one of...
Stephen Douglas: The Last Years, 1857-1861
Stephen Douglas and the old Union lived out their last years together. It was the most critical time in the life of both the Illinois senator and his country. During...
Queen Victoria's Skull: George Combe and the Mid-Victorian Mind
Queen Victoria's Skull explores the life and thinking of the Edinburgh phrenologist George Combe. Phrenology is a theory which claims to be able to detect personality traits, character and predisposition...
A PALMETTO BOY: Civil War-era Diaries and Letters of James Adams Tillman
This title offers an insightful view of major Civil War battles from a representation of one of South Carolina's most influential families. The Tillman family of Edgefield, South Carolina, is...
Civil War Dynasty: The Ewing Family of Ohio
For years the Ewing family of Ohio has been lost in the historical shadow cast by their in-law, General William T. Sherman. In the era of the Civil War, it...
Imagining the Arctic: Heroism, Spectacle and Polar Exploration
Imagining the Arctic explores the culture and politics of polar exploration and the making of its heroes. Leading explorers, the celebrity figures of their day, went to great lengths to...
The Last Days of the Rainbelt
Looking over the vast open plains of eastern Colorado, western Kansas, and southwestern Nebraska, where one can travel miles without seeing a town or even a house, it is hard...
Dreams of a More Perfect Union
In a brilliantly conceived and elegantly written book, Rogan Kersh investigates the idea of national union in the United States. For much of the period between the colonial era and...
American Government in Ireland, 1790-1913: A History of the Us Consular Service
This book reconstructs American consular activity in Ireland from 1790 to 1913 and elucidates the interconnectedness of America's foreign interests, Irish nationalism and British imperialism. Its originality lies in that...
The Elements of Marie Curie: How the Glow of Radium Lit a Path for Women in Science
Dava Sobel, acclaimed and bestselling author of Longitude, chronicles the life and work of the most famous woman in the history of science - and the untold story of the...
Survivors: The Lost Stories of the Last Captives of the Atlantic Slave Trade
SHORTLISTED FOR THE NONFICTION CROWN AWARD 2024GUARDIAN: BOOKS TO LOOK OUT FOR IN 2024'GRIPPING' THE TIMES This is an immersive and revelatory history of the survivors of the Clotilda, the...
The Austrian Revolution
The definitive work on Eastern Europe's revolutionary period and the unique working-class experiment of Red Vienna.This is the story of the decline and fall of an empire, a region devastated...
Men Who Gave Us Wings: Britain and the Aeroplane 1796-1914
Author: Peter ReeseFormat: Hardback, 156mm x 234mm, 272 pagesPublished: Pen & Sword Books Ltd, United Kingdom, 2014Why did the British, then the leading nation in science and technology, fall far...
John James Audubon's Journal of 1826: The Voyage to The Birds of America
Author: John James AudubonFormat: Hardback, 152mm x 229mm, 536 pagesPublished: University of Nebraska Press, United States, 2011John James Audubon, an early American naturalist and painter, produced one of the greatest...
Clothing and Landscape in Victorian England: Working-Class Dress and Rural Life
Author: Rachel WorthFormat: Hardback, 156mm x 234mm, 256 pagesPublished: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, United Kingdom, 2018In the context of this rapidly changing world, Rachel Worth explores the ways in which the...
'I Was Transformed' Frederick Douglass: An American Slave in Victorian Britain
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Author: Laurence FentonFormat: Hardback, 156mm x 234mm, 560g, 288 pagesPublished: Amberley Publishing, United Kingdom, 2018In the summer of 1845, Frederick Douglass, the young runaway slave catapulted to fame by his...
Clive: Founder of British India
Author: C. Brad FaughtFormat: Hardback, 263g, 140 pagesPublished: Potomac Books Inc, United States, 2013Robert Clive (1725-1774), later 1st Baron Clive, is widely considered the founder of British India. He arrived...
'I Was Transformed' Frederick Douglass: An American Slave in Victorian Britain
Author: Laurence FentonFormat: Hardback, 156mm x 234mm, 560g, 288 pagesPublished: Amberley Publishing, United Kingdom, 2018In the summer of 1845, Frederick Douglass, the young runaway slave catapulted to fame by his...
Death on the Victorian Beat: The Shocking Story of Police Deaths
Author: Martin BaggoleyFormat: Paperback, 156mm x 234mm, 190 pagesPublished: Pen & Sword Books Ltd, United Kingdom, 2018Death on the Victorian Beat is the first book dedicated solely to the murders...
John James Audubon's Journal of 1826: The Voyage to The Birds of America
Author: John James AudubonFormat: Hardback, 152mm x 229mm, 536 pagesPublished: University of Nebraska Press, United States, 2011John James Audubon, an early American naturalist and painter, produced one of the greatest...
Men Who Gave Us Wings: Britain and the Aeroplane 1796-1914
Author: Peter ReeseFormat: Hardback, 156mm x 234mm, 272 pagesPublished: Pen & Sword Books Ltd, United Kingdom, 2014Why did the British, then the leading nation in science and technology, fall far...
The Profits of Nature: Colonial Development and the Quest for Resources in Nineteenth-Century China
Author: Peter B. LavelleFormat: Hardback, 152mm x 229mm, 304 pagesPublished: Columbia University Press, United States, 2020In the nineteenth century, the Qing empire experienced a period of profound turmoil caused by...
The Sultan's Yemen: 19th Century Challenges to Ottoman Rule
Author: Caesar E. FarahFormat: Hardback, 138mm x 216mm, 384 pagesPublished: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, United Kingdom, 2002In the 19th century, when the Ottoman Empire restored direct rule over Yemen, the resulting...
Farringdon's Fortune
Author: Linda FinlayFormat: Paperback, 129mm x 198mm, 260g, 384 pagesPublished: HarperCollins Publishers, United Kingdom, 2022Another gorgeous escapist read from the Queen of West Country Saga, Linda Finlay, author of Farringdon's...
Magyar Modern: Hungarian Art in Berlin 1910-1933
Author: Ralf BaumeisterFormat: Hardback, 217mm x 280mm, 1320g, 272 pagesPublished: Hirmer Verlag, Germany, 2023Important artists of Hungarian Classical Modernism lived and worked temporarily on the Spree and were present in...
Einstein: The Man and his Mind
Author: Gary BergerFormat: Hardback, 254mm x 330mm, 1980g, 212 pagesPublished: Damiani, Italy, 2022"This visual - and artistically beautiful - format differentiates Einstein: The Man And His Mind from all previous...
Renoir: Rococo Revival
Author: Alexander EilingFormat: Hardback, 230mm x 280mm, 1940g, 328 pagesPublished: Hatje Cantz, Germany, 2022Like hardly any other artist, Pierre-Auguste Renoir has shaped our understanding of the atmospheric figure paintings of...
Picasso - El Greco
Author: Carmen GimenezFormat: Hardback, 227mm x 290mm, 1220g, 192 pagesPublished: Hatje Cantz, Germany, 2022Some 40 carefully chosen juxtapositions of masterpieces by both artists trace a dialogue that ranks among the...
Jacoba van Heemskerck: Truly Modern
Author: Kunsthalle BielefeldFormat: Paperback, 220mm x 260mm, 780g, 160 pagesPublished: Hirmer Verlag, Germany, 2021In less than two decades, Jacoba van Heemskerck (1876-1923) created a powerful oeuvre comprising paintings, woodcuts, glass...
Sharpe's Escape: The Bussaco Campaign, 1810 (The Sharpe Series, Book 10)
Author: Bernard CornwellFormat: Paperback, 129mm x 198mm, 310g, 448 pagesPublished: HarperCollins Publishers, United Kingdom, 2012*SHARPE'S COMMAND, the brand new novel in the global bestselling series, is available to pre-order now*...
Naturalists in Paradise: Wallace, Bates and Spruce in the Amazon
Author: John HemmingFormat: Hardback, 172mm x 235mm, 1000g, 368 pagesPublished: Thames & Hudson Ltd, United Kingdom, 2015Alfred Russel Wallace, Henry Walter Bates and Richard Spruce were English naturalists who went...
Picasso - El Greco
Author: Carmen GimenezFormat: Hardback, 227mm x 290mm, 1220g, 192 pagesPublished: Hatje Cantz, Germany, 2022Some 40 carefully chosen juxtapositions of masterpieces by both artists trace a dialogue that ranks among the...
Breaking the Maafa Chain
Breaking the Maafa Chain chronicles two sisters' struggle for true freedom in the mid-nineteenth century, when transporting slaves from Africa to America was an illegal but lucrative business.Nineteenth century-Two sisters,...
The Beasts of Paris
In Paris 1870, three wandering souls find themselves in a city set to descend into war.'A historical epic that Jessie Burton fans will adore' GRAZIA'Exquisite, relevant and immersive' ANNA MAZZOLA'A...
Dickens and Massachusetts: The Lasting Legacy of the Commonwealth Visits
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The Adman in the Parlor: Magazines and the Gendering of Consumer Culture, 1880s to 1910s
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Lawson: a Stranger on the Darling
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NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. Author: Robyn Burrows Format: Paperback...