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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...
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...
The United States Navy in the Pacific, 1897-1909
Author: William R. BraistedFormat: Paperback, 156mm x 234mm, 295 pagesPublished: Naval Institute Press, United States, 2008Professor William R. Braisted tells the story of the twelve important years during which the...
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...
The Making of Poetry: Coleridge, the Wordsworths and Their Year of Marvels
Author: Adam NicolsonFormat: Paperback, 129mm x 198mm, 410g, 400 pagesPublished: HarperCollins Publishers, United Kingdom, 2020SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD 2019'This is a book of wonders' Sunday Times'Spellbinding and intelligent'...
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...
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...
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...
Life and Times of Frederick Douglass: The Illustrated Edition
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Author: Frederick DouglassFormat: Hardback, 235mm x 276mm, 256 pagesPublished: Quarto Publishing Group USA Inc, United States, 2021This richly illustrated edition of this classic American autobiography sheds new light on Douglass's...
Russia of the Tsars
Author: Peter WaldronFormat: Paperback, 170mm x 210mm, 480g, 144 pagesPublished: Thames & Hudson Ltd, United Kingdom, 2011Between the 17th century and the 1917 revolution, the Russian Tsars became absolute rulers...
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...
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...
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...
Close Up (German edition): Berthe Morisot, Mary Cassatt, Paula Modersohn-Becker, Lotte Laserstein, Frida Kahlo, Alice Neel, Marlene Dumas, Cindy Sherman, Elizabeth Peyton
Author: Fondation Beyeler, Riehen/BaselFormat: Paperback, 190mm x 260mm, 1180g, 344 pagesPublished: Hatje Cantz, Germany, 2021The portrait offers the possibility of observation and introspection, and is at the same time one...
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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Annals of Australian Literature
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