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John Blair
Killing the Dead

A riveting history of vampire panics across cultures and down through the millennia---and why killing the dead is better than killing the livingKilling the Dead provides the first in-depth, global account…

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Charles-François Mathis
Coal in Modern Britain

An exploration of Britain's relationship with coal from the explosion of the coal industry in the 1830s to the 'coal-minded' society of the 1940s.

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A Cultural History of Translation

How has our relationship with translation changed for different cultures over the centuries? What effect has it had on politics, art and religion?In a work that spans 2,500 years these ambitious questions…

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Vasileios Balaskas
Revivals of Classical Drama in Greece and Spain (1860s-1970s)

Vasileios Balaskas examines how Classical drama was revived at ancient European venues during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, focusing on Spain and Greece. These revivals turned ancient theatres i…

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Venezuela in Crisis

In this essential intervention, Venezuelan socialists provide an invaluable analysis of the origins and causes of their country's crisis, and offer a critique of the Maduro regime.Venezuela in Crisis brin…

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John Parker
Great Kingdoms of Africa

A groundbreaking, sweeping overview of the great kingdoms in African history and their legacies, written by world-leading experts.This is the first book for nonspecialists to explore the great precolonial…

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Louise Heren,
Scottish History in 15 Violent Crimes

Taking fifteen real-life criminal cases prosecuted at the High Court of Justiciary in Scotland between 1700 and 2000, this book explores developments in social attitudes and legal responses to violence. F…

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Ziad Abu-Rish
The State of Lebanon

Lebanon gained its formal political independence in 1943. During the dozen years that followed, women and men across class, sectarian, geographic, and ideological divides built, challenged, and reformed t…

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Rebecca L Davis
Fierce Desires

Our era is one of sexual upheaval. Roe v. Wade was overturned in the summer of 2022, school systems across the country are banning books with LGBTQ+ themes, and the notion of a "tradwife" is gai…

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Joseph Pearson
Sweet Victory

The fascinating story of how a forgotten group of airmen---who had spent World War II dropping Allied bombs on Berlin---risked their lives in 1948-49 dropping chocolate bars from the sky.> In June of 1…

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Geoff Williams
The Summer of Death

A riveting historic narrative that tells the iconic story of the great heat wave that ravaged the continent in the last gasps of the Dust Bowl.In 1936, ironically after one of the coldest winters on recor…

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Rhian E Jones
Rebecca's Country

In nineteenth-century Wales, a protest took place like no other. Burdened by punishing tolls and desperate for their livelihoods, protestors dramatically cross-dressed in carnivalesque costumes to attack …

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Jon Michaels, David Noll
Vigilante Nation

"For readers of How Democracies Die, two legal scholars expose the history of the GOP's hidden political strategy to rollback protected rights, from abortion and gun control to surveillance and LGBTQ…

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Joanna Dee Das
Faith, Family, and Flag

Sons of Britches. *The Great American Chuckwagon Dinner Show. The *Haygoods. The Grand Jubilee.These are just a couple of the many shows performed in Branson, MO,Branson, Missouri, the Ozark Mountain mecc…

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A Cultural History of Furniture in the Middle Ages and Renaissance

The Middle Ages were marked by dramatic social, economic, political, and religious changes. Diverse regional and local conditions, and varied social classes - including peasant, artisan, merchant, clergy,…

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Kristen Alff
Violent Interests

Between the 1830s and 1930s, companies established by Beirut-based businessmen emerged among the largest shareholders in major British manufacturing and trading companies. These companies transformed from…

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Kristen Alff
Violent Interests

Between the 1830s and 1930s, companies established by Beirut-based businessmen emerged among the largest shareholders in major British manufacturing and trading companies. These companies transformed from…

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Venezuela in Crisis

In this essential intervention, Venezuelan socialists provide an invaluable analysis of the origins and causes of their country's crisis, and offer a critique of the Maduro regime.Venezuela in Crisis brin…

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Michael Kimmel
Playmakers

In 1902, Morris and Rose Michtom invented the Teddy Bear in the back room of their Brooklyn sweet shop. Together, they launched the Ideal Toy Corporation into a pre-war market rife with other first-genera…

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Louise Heren,
Scottish History in 15 Violent Crimes

Taking fifteen real-life criminal cases prosecuted at the High Court of Justiciary in Scotland between 1700 and 2000, this book explores developments in social attitudes and legal responses to violence. F…

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