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Frontiers of History: Historical Inquiry in the Twentieth Century
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1968: Radical Protest and Its Enemies
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How the World Was Won: The Americanization of Everywhere
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Invisible Lines: Boundaries and Belts That Define the World
Author: Maxim Samson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 Our world has innumerable boundaries, ranging from the obvious - like an ocean - to subtle differences in language or climate....
A Short History of the World in 50 Lies
Author: Natasha Tidd Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 Taking readers on a global journey through human history, Natasha Tidd examines how lies can change the world around us, from...
Strongmen: How They Rise, Why They Succeed, How They Fall
Author: Ruth Ben-Ghiat (Professor of Italian and History) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 'A gripping and illuminating picture of how strongmen have deployed violence, seduction, and corruption' - Daniel...
The Gravediggers: 1932, The Last Winter of the Weimar Republic
Author: Hauke Friederichs Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 November 1932. With the German economy in ruins and street battles raging between political factions, the Weimar Republic is in its...
The Kidnapping Club: Wall Street, Slavery, and Resistance on the Eve of the Civil War
Author: Jonathan D Wells Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 Winner of a 2020-2021 New York City Book AwardIn a rapidly changing New York, two forces battled for the city's...
Milk: An Intimate History of Breastfeeding
Author: Joanna Wolfarth Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 - 'Illuminating . . . an important book' Sunday Times - 'A fascinating journey through the social, cultural and historical meanings...
Labouring Men
Author: Prof Eric Hobsbawm Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 The topics covered in this book can be divided into four broad groups: studies of labour conditions up to the...
The Golden Thread: How Fabric Changed History
Author: Kassia St Clair Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 'Fascinating . . . The history of the world through the eye of a needle . . . I recommend...
Anatomy of a Nation: A History of British Identity in 50 Documents
Author: Dominic Selwood Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 672 From an obscure, misty archipelago on the fringes of the Roman world to history's largest empire and originator of the world's...
One Fine Day: Britain's Empire on the Brink
Author: Matthew Parker Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 608 'Breathtaking... vital and important. A wonderful read' PETER FRANKOPAN 'Marvellous... escapes the inane, balance-sheet view of Empire and sees its full...
A History of the World in Twelve Shipwrecks
Author: David Gibbins Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 AN ECONOMIST BEST BOOK OF 2024 'Masterful and entrancing - this is big history at its best.' Professor Alice Roberts, author...
Suburbia: A Far from Ordinary Place
Author: David Randall Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 0 You don't get to choose where you grow up, and for more than 80 per cent of the population, the boring,...
Where Are You From? No, Where are You Really From?
Author: Audrey Osler Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 A story of migration, identity and belonging, drawing on the stories of people from Audrey Osler's mixed-heritage family, over three centuries....
The Last Honest Man: The CIA, the FBI, the Mafia, and the Kennedys-and One Senator's Fight to Save Democracy
Author: James Risen Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 480 For decades now, America's national security state has grown ever bigger, ever more secretive and powerful, and ever more abusive. Only...