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¿Femininity¿ and the History of Women's Education - Shifting the Frame

This book draws on recent deconstructions around the idea of 'femininity' as a social, racial and class construct and explores the divers...

'Ethiopia' and the World, 330-1500 CE

This Cambridge Element offers an interdisciplinary introduction to the histories of the Ethiopian and Eritrean highlands from late antiqu...

(Not) In the Game - History, Paratexts, and Games

How do games represent history, and how do we make sense of the history of games? The industry regularly uses history to sell products, w...

1000 Dessous -A history of Lingerie

100 Black Women Who Shaped America - Their Legacy

This introductory text explores the lives of 100 Black women and their unique and meaningful legacies upon the history, society, and cult...

100 Nasty Women of History

100 fascinating and brilliantly written stories about history's bravest, baddest but little known 'nasty' women from across the world. ...

100 Reasons to Celebrate Welsh History

Welsh history and achievements to glory in rather than grizzle about

1314: The Year of Bannockburn

The Battle of Bannockburn has long been recognized as one of the most influential moments in Scottish history. The fighting that took pla...

2023 - Bewegung - Organisation - Ideologie. Sportliche Mobilisierung in Südosteuropa im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert

In welchem Verhältnis standen Sport, Ideologie und Mobilisierung in Südosteuropa im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert zueinander? Bereits in der zw...

52 Times Britain was a Bellend - The History You Didn't Get Taught At School

A book of mystery and vision

This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowle...

Aboriginal and European History Past and Present - Truth-telling in the Northern Territory of Australia

This book analyses one-hundred-and-thirty-eight-year history of continuous contact between Aboriginal people and non-Aboriginal people in...

A Brief History of the Last 13.8 Billion Years - a journey through life, the universe, and everything

How did time begin? What conditions led to humans evolving on Earth? Will we survive the Anthropocene? And is it really true that we're a...

A Calendar of the Inner Temple Records - Vol. 2

A Calendar of the Inner Temple Records - Vol. 2 is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1896. Hansebooks is edit...

A chronicle of success - 200 Jahre Geschichte eines Erfolges. Das Ronnefeldt Jubiläumsbuch

Fernab der großen Seehäfen in Frankfurt am Main gegründet, steht Ronnefeldt seit 200 Jahren für exzellenten Tee. Das Buch erzählt von der...

A Comic History of England - The Original Horrible History

"Nothing now succeeds unless it's in the comic line. We have comic Latin grammars, and comic Greek grammars; indeed, I don't know but wha...

A Concise History of Germany

This third edition of a much-admired introduction to German history captures recent developments in Germany, Europe and the wider world.

A course of lectures on the figurative language of the Holy Scripture, - And the interpretation of it from the Scripture itself: delivered in the parish church of Nayland in Suffolk - 1786

A course of lectures on the figurative language of the Holy Scripture, - And the interpretation of it from the Scripture itself: delivere...

Across The Green Sea - Histories from the Western Indian Ocean, 1440-1640

A history of two centuries of interactions among the areas bordering the western Indian Ocean, including India, Iran and Africa.

Actes Du Huitieme Congres International Des Orientalistes, Tenu En 1889 A Stockholm Et A Christiania (Section I) Semitique (A) 1ER fascicule

This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowle...

A Description of England and Wales - Containing a particular account of each county - Volume I

A Description of England and Wales - Containing a particular account of each county - Volume I is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of t...

A Forgotten Hungarian Royal Dynasty: the Szapolyais

From the 1460s onwards, the Szapolyai family played a decisive role in the history of Hungary for more than a hundred years. The studies ...

Age of Extremes 1914 - 1991 - The Short Twentieth Century

Paperback edition of this bestselling history of the twentieth century. The book is divided into three main sections; The Age of Catastro...

Age of Revolutions - Progress and Backlash from 1600 to the Present

The international best-selling author explores the revolutions-past and present-that define the chaotic, polarized and unstable age in wh...

A Global Sourcebook in Protestant Political Thought, Volume I - 1517-1660

This first volume of the Global Sourcebook in Protestant Political Thought provides a window into the early Protestant world, and the way...

Agricultural Implements of the Roman World

This book deals with the tools that the Roman world used in farming and with the way they used them.

A Handbook of the Birds of Tasmania and Its Dependencies

This wonderful book on the birds of Tasmania, by Frank Mervyn Littler, was originally published in 1910. Illustrated with numerous photog...

A Hillfort Through Time - Excavations at Rathgall, Co Wicklow

Rathgall Hillfort is a site of exceptional importance for Irish archaeology, with its concentration of artifactual evidence unmatched by ...

A History of Britain in Ten Enemies

Ah, Britain. So special. The greatest nation on earth, some say. And we did it all on our own. Didn't we? Well, as it happens Britannia g...

A History of Capitalist Transformation - A Critique of Liberal-Capitalist Reforms

This book highlights how, since the recent financial crises, the expression 'liberal reform' has come to convey an evocative image of aus...

A History of England

First Published in 1947, A History of England combines a concise record of events with an absorbing picture of England's evolution in the...

A History of England, Volume 1 - Prehistory to 1714

The seventh edition of this two-volume narrative of English history draws on the most up-to-date primary and secondary research, encourag...

A History of England, Volume 2 - 1688 to the Present

The seventh edition of this two-volume narrative of English history draws on the most up-to-date primary and secondary research, encourag...

A History of Fireworks from Their Origins to the Present Day

Bursting with images from across time, a sparkling chronicle of rockets, pinwheels, and more. This book illuminates the glittering histor...

A History Of Greece, From Its Conquest By The Romans To The Present Time, B.C. 146 To A.D. 1864 (Volume Iv)

This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowle...

A History of Hindu Architecture in India

A History of Hindu Architecture in India explores the history of Hindu architecture in South Asia in a way that connects the times, place...

A History of Scotland

Discover more about Robert the Bruce and other unforgettable figures that made Scotland the great nation it is today. Through fascinating...

A History of Thailand - A Concise Life

"Since it was first published, in 2005, A History of Thailand has been hailed as an authoritative, lively, and readable account of Thaila...

A History of the Campaigns of 1780 and 1781 in the Southern Provinces of North America

A History of the Campaigns of 1780 and 1781 in the Southern Provinces of North America is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the origi...

A History of the Carpenters Company

First published in 1968, A History of the Carpenters Company deals with developments in the carpenter's craft as well as with the Company...

A History of the Modern Middle East

examines the profound and often dramatic transformations of the region in the past two centuries, from the Ottoman and Egyptian reforms, ...

A History of the World in 500 Maps

Trace the history of the world in over 500 easy-to-follow maps, from the dawn of humanity to the present day. Organized chronologically, ...

A History of Western Society Since 1300

Praised by instructors and students alike for its readability and attention to everyday life, the twelfth edition of A History of Western...

A History of World Societies, Combined Volume

A regional and global approach to world history that highlights society and culture Long praised by instructors and students for its acce...

A History of World Societies. Volume 2: Since 1450

A regional and global approach to world history that highlights society and culture Long praised by instructors and students for its acce...

AIR CRASH INVESTIGATIONS GHOSTS? The Crash of Eastern Air Lines Flight 401

On December 29, 1972 an Eastern Air Lines' Lockheed L-1011, as Flight 401 on its way from John F. Kennedy International Airport, New York...

A Jamaican in Lincolnshire - From the wartime RAF to a Life in Boston

The memoir of Ralph Ottey, covering his childhood in Jamaica, his wartime service in the RAF and his live and career in Lincolnshire

Albania's 90s - Photographs and Narratives. Fotografi dhe Tregime

The 1990s were an extremely turbulent time in Albanian history. The collapse of the dictatorship and the end of decades of isolation mark...

A Lethal Legacy - A History of Ireland in 18 Murders

The Instant Top 5 Irish Times Bestseller From the creator of The Irish History Podcast comes a fascinating look at Irish history through ...

A literary pilgrimage among the haunts of famous British authors

A literary pilgrimage among the haunts of famous British authors is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1895. H...

A Little History of the World

Superbly designed and freshly illustrated, this book tells the story of man from the stone age to the atomic bomb. What emerges is a colo...

All His Spies - The Secret World of Robert Cecil

Robert Cecil, statesman and spymaster, lived through an astonishingly threatening period in English history. Queen Elizabeth had no clear...

All Things Considered

Altered Pasts - Counterfactuals in History

A thought-provoking survey and critique of "what-if?" history

A Magnificent Lord: The Wardrobe of Robert Dudley

A Materiality of Internment

More than two thousand people from the British Channel Islands were deported to and interned in Germany during the Second World War, maki...

Ambivalent Pleasures - Soft Drugs and Embodied Anxiety in Early Modern Europe

"Tracing the moral and medical panics about addictive commodities that flourished after tobacco, chocolate, sugar, coffee, tea, and gin w...

America, Sea Power, and the World

The gold standard in college-level American naval history texts, edited by the foremost scholar in the field In the newly revised second ...

America's French Orphans - Mobilization, Humanitarianism, and the Protection of France, 1914-1921

This unique study explores American support of destitute French children during and after World War I. It will interest scholars and stud...

American History: A Very Short Introduction - A Very Short Introduction

This volume in Oxford's A Very Short Introduction series offers a concise, readable narrative of the vast span of American history, from ...