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By: Jonathan Silver
ISBN: 9780262546874
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2023
Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
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"An in-depth look at the infrastructural landscape of Africa's 3rd wave urbanization, drawing on case studies from Africa and the US"--
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By: Chris Wickham
ISBN: 9780140290141
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2010
UK Publication Date: 28th January 2010
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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The world known as the 'Dark Ages', often seen as a time of barbarism, was in fact the crucible in which modern Europe would be created. This book shows how this period, encompassing peoples such as Goths, Franks, Vandals, Byzantines, Arabs, Anglo-Saxons and Vikings, was central to the development of our history and culture.
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By: Olaudah Equiano
ISBN: 9780008619954
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2024
UK Publication Date: 18th January 2024
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics.
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By: Olaudah Equiano
ISBN: 9781529371864
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2021
UK Publication Date: 30th September 2021
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
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The classic memoir of an 18th-century British former slave, and leading figure in the abolitionist movement, Olaudah Equiano. Introduced by David Olusoga, author of the highly acclaimed Black and British.
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By: Elizabeth Connell
ISBN: 9781098316464
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2021
Publisher: BookBaby
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From rogue to hero, Coletrane serves his country as a spy during the Napoleonic Wars. The French capture his partner in Paris and torture him within an inch of his life. Is there a double-agent at work He uses his wits to prove himself while helping uncover plots in England and Europe. Danger is always present.
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By: Tim Burrows
ISBN: 9781788166775
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2024
UK Publication Date: 15th February 2024
Publisher: Profile Books Ltd
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The secret history of England's most notorious county
The Invention of Murder: How the Victorians Revelled in Death and Detection and Created Modern Crime
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By: Judith Flanders
ISBN: 9780007248896
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2011
UK Publication Date: 1st September 2011
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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We are a trading community, a commercial people. Murder is doubtless a very shocking offence, nevertheless as what is done is not to be undone, let us make our money out of it. Punch
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By: Eric Hazan
ISBN: 9781844677054
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2011
Publisher: Verso Books
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A radical travel guide to Paris through art, literature and revolution.
(Hardback)
By: Tamim Ansary
ISBN: 9781610397964
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2019
UK Publication Date: 31st October 2019
Publisher: PublicAffairs,U.S.
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A sweeping global human history that describes the separate beginnings of the world's major civilisations and cultural movements and the dramatic, sometimes ruinous, sometimes transformative effects of their ever closer intertwinement that has brought us to where we are today.
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By: Robert S. Boynton
ISBN: 9781782398523
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2016
UK Publication Date: 1st September 2016
Publisher: Atlantic Books
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The extraordinary true story of the North Korean abduction of Japanese citizens, kept for decades in 'invitation-only zones', and indoctrinated by Kim Jong Il's secret police.
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By: Simon Parkin
ISBN: 9781529347197
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2022
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
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A gripping untold war story: using exclusive new archive material, letters and diaries, this is the story of the prisoners of war in internment camps during the Second World War.
(Hardback)
By: Simon Parkin
ISBN: 9781529347227
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2022
UK Publication Date: 3rd February 2022
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
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A gripping untold war story: using exclusive new archive material, letters and diaries, this is the story of the prisoners of war in internment camps during the Second World War.
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By: Richard Worrall
ISBN: 9781472841452
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2020
UK Publication Date: 25th June 2020
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This title tells the fascinating story of World War II's forgotten strategic bombing campaign--the RAF's perilous, long-range missions, flying from English bases against the industry, cities, and dockyards of Mussolini's Italy.
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By: Robert Lyman
ISBN: 9781784290177
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2015
UK Publication Date: 2nd July 2015
Publisher: Quercus Publishing
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The true story behind one of the most audacious raids of World War Two.
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By: Jennifer Potter
ISBN: 9781782399162
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2019
UK Publication Date: 4th July 2019
Publisher: Atlantic Books
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The extraordinary story of the British women who made the perilous journey to Jamestown, Virginia, to become wives for tobacco planters in the New Colony.
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By: Tony Williams
ISBN: 9781402243530
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2011
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc
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The American dream was built along the banks of the James River in Virginia.
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By: Philip Jowett
ISBN: 9781472845535
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2021
UK Publication Date: 19th August 2021
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Henry Adams; Introduction
ISBN: 9781590172155
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2006
Publisher: New York Review Books
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The ideal introduction and companion to Adams's "massive and magisterial" history of the administrations of Jefferson and Madison, presenting an indelible picture of America's startling rise to world power.
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By: Si Sheppard
ISBN: 9781780961835
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2013
UK Publication Date: 20th October 2013
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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In AD 66 a local disturbance in Caesarea caused by Greeks sacrificing birds in front of a local synagogue exploded into a pan-Jewish revolt against their Roman overlords. Gaining momentum, the rebels successfully occupied Jerusalem and drove off an attack by the Roman legate of Syria, Cestus Gallius, who was defeated at the battle of Beth Horon.
(Paperback)
By: John Rosenthal
ISBN: 9781594037177
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2013
Publisher: Encounter Books,USA
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(Hardback)
By: Emily Woo
ISBN: 9781098315153
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2020
Publisher: BookBaby
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(Paperback)
By: Stephen Tomkins
ISBN: 9781473649118
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2021
UK Publication Date: 4th February 2021
Publisher: John Murray Press
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Gripping story of the events that led up to the sailing of the Mayflower
(Hardback)
By: Stephen Tomkins
ISBN: 9781473649101
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2020
Publisher: John Murray Press
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Gripping story of the events that led up to the sailing of the Mayflower
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By: Casper Erichsen
ISBN: 9780571231423
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2011
UK Publication Date: 4th August 2011
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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The unknown story of the genocide of the Herero and Nama peoples in Germany's forgotten African Empire - an atrocity that foreshadowed the Nazi genocides forty years later.
