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Susana Barnes,
Colonial Land Legacies in the Portuguese-Speaking World

Colonial Land Legacies in the Portuguese-Speaking World presents a comparative exploration of the enduring impacts of Portuguese colonial land governance in Portugal and across five former Portuguese colo…

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Kohn
Dope Girls

Now a major BBC TV series: a tour through the seedier side of Britain between the wars, and the moral panic that led to the criminalisation of drugs - reissued with added material.

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A Cultural History of Mathematics in the Early Modern Age

A Cultural History of Mathematics in the Early Modern Age covers the period from 1450 to 1687, a time marked by increasing interplay between science and society. Classical writing on science which had bee…

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A Cultural History of Mathematics in the Eighteenth Century

A Cultural History of Mathematics in the Eighteenth Century covers the period from 1687 to 1800. Advances in the use of calculus opened up both nature and society to mathematical analysis, while mathemati…

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Jarvis R Givens
I'll Make Me a World

On its one-hundredth anniversary, a powerful and essential meditation on the origins, evolution, and future of Black History Month from one of America's leading historians of Black education and the autho…

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Peter Gurney, Matthew Grant, Joel Morley
National Service Life Stories

National Service Life Stories studies the impact that compulsory military service had on men, using original, in-depth oral interviews with over one hundred ex-national servicemen to shine new light on ch…

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Fay Bound-Alberti
The Face

Award-winning historian Fay Bound-Alberti synthesizes over twenty years of research to offer a sweeping cultural history of our most decisive---and sometimes divisive---body part.What's in a face? And how…

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Nilanjan Das
The Instability of Reason

In premodern south Asia, epistemology (pramästra )--the study of knowledge and the methods of acquiring it--was rarely construed as a purely theoretical enterprise. It was a discipline intended to serve p…

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Len Travers
The Notorious Edward Low

Following the War of the Spanish Succession (1702-1713)--generally known in the Americas as Queen Anne's War--a dramatic, decade-long wave of sea-robbery plagued the Atlantic rim. Often glamorized as the …

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Darryl Jones
For the Dead Remember

M. R. James: greatest of all ghost story writers, a repressed member of the English establishment struggling against changing timesEvery Christmas around the turn of the twentieth century, Montague Rhodes…

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Anthony Bale
A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages

Europeans of the Middle Ages were the first to use travel guides to orient their wanderings, as they moved through a world punctuated with miraculous wonders and beguiling encounters. In this vivid and al…

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Chris Filstrup, Jane Merrill
The Turban

A superbly illustrated history of the turban, from Arabian origins to global cultural icon.

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A Cultural History of Mathematics in the Medieval Age

A Cultural History of Mathematics in the Medieval Age covers the period from 500 to 1450, focusing in particular on the innovations in East and South Asia and in Islamicate cultures. With the invention of…

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Alan Allport
Advance Britannia

The author of Britain at Bay--- which The Wall Street Journal said may be "the single best examination of British politics, society, and strategy [from 1938 to 1941] that has ever been written"-…

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Tess Wilkinson-Ryan
Fool Proof

The fear of playing the fool is a universal psychological phenomenon and an underappreciated driver of human behavior; in the spirit of Malcolm Gladwell's Blink, Dan Ariely's Predictably Irrational, and S…

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Rosemary Cresswell
The History of the British Red Cross, 1870-2020

The British Red Cross (BRC) has played a pivotal role in the history of war, international relations, humanitarianism and health in modern Britain, and interest in the charity has been piqued by the cente…

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Rosemary Cresswell
The History of the British Red Cross, 1870-2020

The British Red Cross (BRC) has played a pivotal role in the history of war, international relations, humanitarianism and health in modern Britain, and interest in the charity has been piqued by the cente…

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Regionalists on the Left

"Nothing is more anathema to a serious radical than regionalism," Berkeley English professor Henry Nash Smith asserted in 1980. Although regionalism in the American West has often been character…

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Ruben Verwaal,
Blood, Sweat and Tears

Our ancestors didn't just take the piss. They used it too.The human body leaks. It oozes. It sweats and spits. It bursts, it bleeds and it squirts. Over the history of humanity, our bodies have evolved in…

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Why Bob Dylan Matters, Revised Edition

"The coolest class on campus" -- The New York Times***Revised and updated with a new Afterword from the author.***When the Nobel Prize for Literature was awarded to Bob Dylan in 2016, a debate r…

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