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Brand: Harvard University Press
A historical account of ideology in the Global South as the postwar laboratory of socialism, its legacy following the Cold War, and the continuing influence of socialist ideas worldwide.In the first decades after World War II, many newly independent..
35.87£
Brand: Taylor and Francis
The story of global sport is the story of expansion from local development to globalized industry, from recreational to marketized activity. Alongside that, each sport has its own distinctive history, sub-cultures, practices and structures. This amb..
54.90£
Brand: Pen and Sword Books
In the 1980s and early 1990s, Scotland was an excellent destination for the railway enthusiast. The many locomotive hauled trains running through splendid scenery, together with the surviving railway infrastructure and mechanical signalling, provide..
39.80£
Outstanding Academic Title for 2007, Choice MagazineBy the late 1960s more than a few critics of American culture groused about the condition of television programming and, in particular, the quality and content of television shows for children. In ..
31.02£
Brand: HarperCollins Publishers
From the author of 'Seven Wonders of the Industrial World', the paperback edition of the TV tie-in charting the shocking but true story behind the space race - and the ruthless, brilliant scientists who fuelled it.With the end of the Cold War it is ..
16.62£
Brand: Quercus Publishing
From calls to arms to demands for peace, and from cries of freedom to words of inspiration, this stirring anthology captures the voices of prophets and politicians, rebels and tyrants, soldiers and statesman, placing them in historical context.With ..
27.72£
Brand: Quercus Publishing
From calls to arms to demands for peace, and from cries of freedom to words of inspiration, this stirring anthology captures the voices of prophets and politicians, rebels and tyrants, soldiers and statesman, placing them in historical context. With..
14.53£
Brand: Fonthill Media Limited
The SS United States was a great symbol of post-World War II American genius. She was the most advanced ocean liner of her time--modern, innovative, and hugely powerful. Designed to be a commercial liner but easily convertible to wartime troopship, ..
37.40£
Brand: Bloomsbury Publishing
This inventive book uses the history of seafaring to examine the complexities of the modern world. Touching on topics such as colonialism, diplomacy, labor history, and the development of international law, it uses case studies to offer insight into..
96.66£
Features twenty-four brief biographies drawn from throughout the Middle East - from Morocco to Afghanistan - in which the reader is provided with vantage points from which to understand modern Middle Eastern history 'from the bottom up.' This title ..
33.13£
Brand: University of Oklahoma Press
A native Georgian, James Hughes Callahan (1812 - 1856) migrated to Texas to serve in the Texas Revolution in exchange for land. In Seguin, Texas, where he settled, he met and married a divorcÉe, Sarah Medissa Day (1822 - 1856). The lives of these tw..
58.27£
Brand: Page Street Publishing
Following on from 'The American Duchess Guide to 18th Century Dressmaking', Lauren Stowell and Abby Cox have created a beginner-friendly guide that will teach readers how to do period-accurate hairstyles and make up, as well as sew accessories. ISBN..
28.05£
Brand: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Different aspects of medieval warfare form the focus for this collection of essays by both established and new scholars. They range from a reconsideration of several problems of military historiography to explorations of the medieval view of divine ..
83.94£
Brand: Simon & Schuster
'Very beautiful and illuminating' Mariella Frostrup Edward Brooke-Hitching, author of the international bestseller The Phantom Atlas delivers an atlas unlike any other. The Devil's Atlas is an illustrated guide to the heavens, hells and lands of the..
30.12£
Brand: Princeton University Press
"A great read."-Whoopi Goldberg, The ViewHow the clash between the civil rights firebrand and the father of modern conservatism continues to illuminate America's racial divideOn February 18, 1965, an overflowing crowd packed the Cambridge Union in C..
33.92£
Brand: Princeton University Press
How the legendary debate between a civil rights firebrand and the father of modern conservatism illuminates America's racial divideOn February 18, 1965, an overflowing crowd packed the Cambridge Union in Cambridge, England, to witness a historic tel..
21.12£
This accessible survey of Wisconsin geography is sure to delight scholars, students, and enthusiasts alike. A beautiful array of nearly 250 photographs and easy-to-read maps illustrate key geographical concepts and structures, such as: physical feat..
61.74£
Brand: Random House
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Revenge of Geography comes a sweeping yet intimate story of the most influential humanitarian you've never heard of-Bob Gersony, who spent four decades in crisis zones around the world."One of the be..
22.24£
Brand: Harvard University Press
The Earth has entered a new age-the Anthropocene-in which humans are the most powerful influence on global ecology. Since the mid-twentieth century, the accelerating pace of energy use, greenhouse gas emissions, and population growth has thrust the ..
22.89£
Brand: Reaktion Books
The Indus civilization flourished for half a millennium from about 2600 to 1900 BCE, when it mysteriously declined and vanished from view. It remained invisible for almost four thousand years, until its ruins were discovered in the 1920s by British ..
15.94£
Ferguson Kansas History Book AwardSince the last wild bison found refuge on the back of a nickel, the public image of natural Kansas has progressed from Great American Desert to dust bowl to flyover country that has been landscaped, fenced, and farm..
29.14£
Andrew Pickens (1739-1817), the hard-fighting South Carolina militia commander of the American Revolution, was the hero of many victories against British and Loyalist forces. In this book, Rod Andrew Jr. offers an authoritative and comprehensive bio..
42.94£
Brand: Welbeck Publishing
Kings and Queens are monarchs and are still present in many countries around the world, thousands of years after the first rulers took over, and despite many of them holding no power. Most of the world has no monarchy, some of it a figurehead only, ..
10.82£
Brand: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
The holy well is the absolute combination of mystery and utility. There are hundreds of them still to be found, some easily, others with good maps. This useful book lists them all, and in so doing takes us into the realm of a still little-known spir..
28.30£