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Svetlana Alexievich,
Chernobyl Prayer

A chronicle of the past and a warning for our nuclear future, Chernobyl Prayer shows what it is like to bear witness, and remember in a world that wants you to forget. In April 1986 a series of explosions…

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Tahaney Alghrani,
Wayward Girls in Victorian and Edwardian England

Exploring the reform and regulation of juvenile females in the Victorian and early Edwardian era, this book presents the first-hand experiences of incarcerated girls to shed new light on youth criminalisa…

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Khairudin Aljunied
Contemplating Sufism

"Exploring Sufi sites and seminaries, Professor Aljunied vividly describes how a dialogic tradition facilitated the formation of a Sufi habitus and life form across Muslim-majority Southeast Asia. The wor…

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Matthew Allen
Drink and Democracy

Drink and Democracy traces the development of democratic ideas in a corner of the nineteenth-century British Empire through the history of drinking and temperance.

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Bruce Allen
Germany East

This work on the scope of dissent in East Germany integrates the post World War II uprising and the birth of the oppositional forces with the 1980s social change movements. Two new chapters in this revise…

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Alan Allport
Advance Britannia

The author of Britain at Bay—which The Wall Street Journal called “[perhaps] the single best examination of British politics, society, and strategy [from 1938 to 1941] that has ever been written”—picks up…

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Mohammed Omer Almoghayer
On the Pleasures of Living in Gaza

Beyond the headlines of destruction and despair, discover the untold story of Gaza's humanity—its joys, resilience, and vibrant community spirit, as captured by a native son. Israel’s brutal assault on Ga…

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Bieito Alonso, David M Struthers
Spreading Rebellion

Solidarity from the high seas to South American, Caribbean, and North American ports. The Atlantic world in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was a space of contradiction and hope. From Ne…

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Selda Altan
Chinese Workers of the World

"Chinese workers helped build the modern world. They labored on New World plantations, worked in South African mines, and toiled through the construction of the Panama Canal, among many other projects. Wh…

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Oriol Ambrogio Gali
Indigenous Sacraments

Indigenous Sacraments provides the first study of Indigenous perceptions of the Christian sacraments at the fringes of colonial Spanish America, with a specific focus on the missions established by the Je…

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Sunil Amrith
The Burning Earth

In this magisterial book, historian Sunil Amrith twins the stories of environment and Empire, of genocide and eco-cide, of an extraordinary expansion of human freedom and its planetary costs. Drawing on a…

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Richard Anderson
African Narratives of Slavery and Abolition

This unique and rich collection of narratives, written or dictated by formerly enslaved Africans between 1820 and 1876, offers a rare snapshot of African voices in the history of slavery. Including narrat…

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Scott Anderson
King of Kings

"A stunningly revelatory narrative history of one of the most momentous events in modern times, the jaw-dropping stupidity of the American government, and the dawn of the age of religious nationalism"--

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Stuart Anderson
Pharmacopoeias, Drug Regulation, and Empires

Pharmacopoeias - books describing approved standards and composition of drugs - have come in many shapes and forms throughout the history of medicine. Stuart Anderson traces the 350-year development of "o…

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James A. Anderson
The Dong World and Imperial China's Southwest Silk Road

Brings a borderlands perspective to the history of China From the eighth to thirteenth centuries along China's rugged southern periphery, trade in tribute articles and an interregional horse market thri…

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Nancy Marguerite Anderson
The Hbc Brigades

A lively recounting of the men who faced a gruelling thousand-mile journey and First Nations people who struggled with the desire to resist, or assist, the fur company's attempts to build their brigade tr…

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David J Anderson,
The Lost Cause of the Confederacy and American Civil War Memory

It is surprising that scholars of Civil War memory have paid relatively little attention to the function of nostalgia within the Lost Cause movement created by white southern political, military, and civi…

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Rakesh Ankit
India in the Interim

"This book shows a slice of the governmental interregnum from August 1947 to the start of the first general election in October 1951, and is a narrative of some of its intermediate moments in light of con…

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Ali Anooshahr
Slavery in the Early Mughal World

This is a micro-historical study and biography of a sixteenth-century slave in India named Jawhar Aftabachi (d. after 1587) who served as the water-carrier for the Mughal Emperor Humayun (d. 1556).

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Tamim Ansary
Destiny Disrupted

"A must read for anyone who wants to learn more about the history of the Islamic world" (San Francisco Chronicle) We in the West share a common narrative of world history. But our story largely omits a w…

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