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The Strassmanns: Science, Politics and Migration in Turbulent Times
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....
The Verge: Reformation, Renaissance, and Forty Years that Shook the
In the bestselling tradition of The Swerve and A Distant Mirror, THE VERGE tells the story of a period that marked a decisive turning point for both European and world...
Homemade Men in Postwar Austrian Cinema: Nationhood, Genre and
Despite the massive influx of Hollywood movies and films from other European countries after World War II, Austrian film continued to be hugely popular with Austrian and German audiences. By...
Masquerade: The Life and Times of Deborah Sampson, Continental Soldier
In Masquerade, Alfred F. Young scrapes through layers of fiction and myth to uncover the story of Deborah Sampson, a Massachusetts woman who passed as a man and fought as...
West End Chronicles: 300 Years of Glamour and Excess in the Heart of London
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Impossible Victories: Ten Unlikely Battlefield Successes
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Shadow Wars: The Secret Struggle for the Middle East
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Malled: My Unintentional Career in Retail
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George: A Magpie Memoir
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Sophie
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A Point of View
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Language and Literacy in Roman Judaea: A Study of the Bar Kokhba
This comprehensive exploration of language and literacy in the multi-lingual environment of Roman Palestine (c. 63 B.C.E. to 136 C.E.) is based on Michael Wise's extensive study of 145 Hebrew,...
Boy Soldiers: A Personal Story of Nazi Elite Schooling and its Legacy
Shining a light on the largely untold story of elite-schooled child and youth soldiers under the Nazi regime. Schooled by Barbarians documents the untold story of how the Nazis abused...
The Violence of Empire: The Tragedy of the Congo-Ocean Railroad
The gruesome history of the Congo-Ocean Railway, a forgotten chapter in the story of colonial Africa. In September 1927, a 30-year-old man was taken from his village in the French...
Down and Out in Saigon: Stories of the Poor in a Colonial City
A moving portrait of the lives of six poor city-dwellers, set in early twentieth century colonial Saigon Historian Haydon Cherry offers the first comprehensive social history of the urban poor...
Women at War in the Classical World
Paul Chrystal has written the first full length study of women and warfare in the Graeco Roman world. Although the conduct of war was generally monopolised by men, there were...
China's Philological Turn: Scholars, Textualism, and the Dao in the
In eighteenth-century China, a remarkable intellectual transformation took place, centered on the ascendance of philology. Its practitioners were preoccupied with the reliability of sources as evidence for restoring ancient texts...
Nation in Arms: The British Army in the First World War
The Great War was the first conflict to draw men and women into uniform on a massive scale. From a small regular force of barely 250,000, the British Army rapidly...
Rethinking Roman Alliance: A Study in Poetics and Society
In this book, Bill Gladhill studies one of the most versatile concepts in Roman society, the ritual event that concluded an alliance, a foedus (ritual alliance). Foedus signifies the bonds...
When in Rome: A Social Life of Ancient Rome
A vibrant, accessible social history of Rome, from 753 BCE to the fall of the Empire some 1300 years later. To support its findings the book features hundreds of translations...
Fractured Times: Culture and Society in the Twentieth Century
Eric Hobsbawm, who passed away in 2012, was one of the most brilliant and original historians of our age. Through his work, he observed the great twentieth-century confrontation between bourgeois...
Passion and Order: Restraint of Grief in the Medieval Italian Communes
The way in which a society expresses grief can reveal how it views both intense emotions and public order. In thirteenth-century Italian communes, a conscious effort to change appropriate public...
Making a Moral Society: Ethics and the State in Meiji Japan
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,...
Apollo's Eye: A Cartographic Genealogy of the Earth in the Western
Long before we had the ability to photograph the earth from space - to see our planet as it would be seen by the Greek god Apollo - images of...
Representations of Islam in United States Comics, 1880-1922
Representations of Islam in United States Comics, 1880-1922 examines the depiction of Islam, Muslims, and the Islamic world in U.S. popular culture, particularly comics and related artifacts, between 1880 and...
Islamic Empires: The Cities that Shaped Civilization?From Mecca to
Islamic civilization was once the envy of the world. From a succession of glittering, cosmopolitan capitals, Islamic empires lorded it over the Middle East, North Africa, Central Asia and swathes...
The King Arthur Mysteries: Arthur's Britain and Early Medieval World
An up-to-date and comprehensive guide to the history of the 'Arthurian' phenomenon - the imaginary and historical world of the great British warlord and one of the huge historical mysteries...
Captain Blakely and the Wasp: The Cruise of 1814
The first full biography of America's most accomplished naval commander in the Age of Sail, Johnston Blakeley.
Flying Down to Rio: Hollywood, Tourists, and Yankee Clippers
In this book, author Rosalie Schwartz uses the 1933 RKO-Radio Pictures production Flying Down to Rio to examine the interplay of technology and popular culture that shaped a distinctive twentieth-century...
Stalin's Scribe: Literature, Ambition, and Survival: The Life of
A masterful and definitive biography of one of the most misunderstood and controversial writers in Russian literature.Mikhail Sholokhov is arguably one of the most contentious recipients of the Nobel Prize...
A History of the Squares and Palaces of London
The squares of London are amongst its most famous and best loved features. Berkeley Square, Eaton Square, St James's Square - the names are inextricably linked with the history of...
A Short History of the Victorian Era
It began with the horse-drawn carriage and ended with the aeroplane...An era, beginning in the 1830s and ending with the death of Queen Victoria in 1901, that saw the British...
Fake Heroes: Ten False Icons and How they Altered the Course of
From the author of bestseller Fake History, Otto English, comes a shocking yet hilarious look at ten of the greatest liars in history. 'A brilliant book.' James O'Brien Whether it's...
Henry VIII: And the Men Who Made Him
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Henry VIII is best known in history for his tempestuous marriages and the fates of his six wives. However, as acclaimed historian Tracy Borman makes clear in her illuminating new...
Illuminating History: A Retrospective of Seven Decades
Over a remarkable career Bernard Bailyn has reshaped our understanding of the early American past. Inscribing his superb scholarship with passion and imagination honed by a commitment to rigor, Bailyn...
Three Victories and a Defeat: The Rise and Fall of the First British
This highly original, extremely enjoyable book tells the story of Britain's extraordinary scramble to world power in the 18th century and how, through hubris and incompetence, it lost almost everything...
Nein!: Standing up to Hitler 1935-1944
From bestselling and prize-winning author Paddy Ashdown, a revelatory new history of German opposition to Hitler.'Ashdown has a great gift for narrative history. He unearths little known stories and places...
Landsman Hay: v. 4: Seafarers' Voices
In 1803, at the age of 14, Robert Hay ran away from home to join the Royal Navy, and for the next eight years experienced the trials and tribulations of...
Where Are You From? No, Where are You Really From?
Where are you from? No, where are you really from? explores three central themes: migration, identity and belonging, examining them in the context of empire, and its continuing impact on...
Ode to Hip-Hop: 50 Albums That Define 50 Years of Trailblazing Music
Celebrate the music that has shaped the culture and given us some of the greatest hits of all time with this vibrantly illustrated anthology, featuring 50 of the most lauded,...
A Vision For Wine: A History of the Viticultural Society of Victoria
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A Self-Made Man: The Political Life of Abraham Lincoln Vol. I, 1809-1849: Volume 1
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