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Thinking About History
ISBN: PB: 9780226109336, University of Chicago Press, October 2017
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 halftones
What distinguishes history as a discipline from other fields of study? That's the animating question of Sarah Maza's "Thinking About History", a general introduction to the field of history that revels in its eclecticism and highlights the inherent t...
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£15,00
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Bourgeois Equality How Ideas, Not Capital or Institutions, Enriched the World
ISBN: PB: 9780226527932, ISBN: HB: 9780226333991, University of Chicago Press, October 2017
768 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 5 line drawings, 6 tables
 There's little doubt that most humans today are better off than their forebears. Stunningly so, the economist and historian Deirdre McCloskey argues in the concluding volume of her trilogy celebrating the oft-derided virtues of the bourgeoisie. The...
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£24,00
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£36,00
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Dynamite Club How a Bombing in Fin-de-Siecle Paris Ignited the Age of Modern Terror
ISBN: PB: 9780300217926, Yale University Press, May 2016
288 pp., 21x14 cm, 17 black&white illus.
Distinguished historian John Merriman maintains that the Age of Modern Terror began in Paris on February 12, 1894, when anarchist Emile Henry set off a bomb in the Cafe Terminus, killing one and wounding twenty French citizens. The true story of the...
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£16,99
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Civilisation of Perpetual Movement Nomadism in World Politics
ISBN: HB: 9781849043984, Hurst Publishers, January 2016
224 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! From the Chinese Emperors to the Romans and the Byzantines, from British Foreign Office agents in the Great Game to today's hippies, backpackers and aid workers, a long line of 'civilised', sedentary, peoples have again and aga...
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£20,00
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I Was a Spy! The Classic Account of Behind-the-Lines Espionage in the First World War
ISBN: HB: 9781910860038, Casemate, The Pool of London Press, September 2015
288 pp., 19.8x12.8 cm
"The Greatest War Story of All – Takes rank with All Quiet on the Western Front. She fulfilled in every respect the conditions which made the terrible profession of a spy dignified and honourable. Dwelling behind the German line within sound of canno...
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£12,00
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Prisoners, Lovers, and Spies The Story of Invisible Ink from Herodotus to Al-Qaeda
ISBN: PB: 9780300212600, Yale University Press, July 2015
392 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 32 black&white illus.
"Prisoners, Lovers, and Spies" is a book about concealing and revealing secret communications. It is the first history of invisible writing, uncovered through stories about scoundrels and heroes. Spies were imprisoned or murdered, adultery unmasked,...
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£33,00
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Great War for Peace
ISBN: HB: 9780300173772, Yale University Press, April 2014
368 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 16 black&white illus.
"The war to end all wars" rings out a bitter mockery of the First World War, often viewed as the seminal catastrophe of the twentieth century, the crucible from which Soviet, Fascist and Nazi dictatorships emerged. Today's conventional wisdom is that...
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£25,00
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Trade and Romance
ISBN: HB: 9780226071572, University of Chicago Press, October 2013
344 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 6 halftones, 1 table
In "Trade and Romance", Michael Murrin examines the complex relations between the expansion of trade in Asia and the production of heroic romance in Europe from the second half of the thirteenth century through the late seventeenth century. He shows...
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£39,00
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December 1941 Twelve Days That Began a World War
ISBN: PB: 9780300187878, Yale University Press, September 2012
336 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 6 maps, 16 pages of black&white illus.
In far-flung locations around the globe, an unparalleled sequence of international events took place between December 1 and December 12, 1941. In this riveting book, historian Evan Mawdsley explores how the story unfolded. He demonstrates how these d...
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£12,99
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Problem of Slavery as History A Global Approach
ISBN: PB: 9780300113150, Yale University Press, February 2012
288 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm
Why did slavery – an accepted evil for thousands of years – suddenly become regarded during the eighteenth century as an abomination so compelling that Western governments took up the cause of abolition in ways that transformed the modern world? Jose...
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£29,00
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