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By: Mark G. Spencer
ISBN: 9780826479693
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Mar 2015
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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With over 500 scholars participating, this book provides a comprehensive account to complement the intense scholarly activity that has centered on the European Enlightenment. It features essays on the major American Enlightenment figures, including Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, David Rittenhouse, Benjamin Rush, Jonathan Edwards, and others.
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By: Martin Bossenbroek
ISBN: 9781609807474
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2018
UK Publication Date: 30th January 2018
Publisher: Seven Stories Press,U.S.
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A new analysis of the conflict considered a precursor to the World Wars and the originator of South African apartheid.
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By: James Holland
ISBN: 9780718186531
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jan 2021
UK Publication Date: 26th November 2020
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Richard Overy
ISBN: 9780141003214
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2014
UK Publication Date: 5th June 2014
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Tells the history of the Blitz in the Second World War. This book examines the well-known parts of the campaign, and the significance of bombing on many other fronts - the German use of bombers on the Eastern Front for example (and discovered material on the more familiar 'Blitz' on Britain), or the Allied campaigns against Italian cities.
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By: Anna-Lisa Cox
ISBN: 9781610398107
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2018
Publisher: PublicAffairs,U.S.
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The story of America's forgotten black pioneers, who escaped slavery, settled the frontier, and proved that racial equality was possible even as the country headed toward civil war.
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By: Cat Jarman
ISBN: 9780008447328
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2024
UK Publication Date: 14th September 2023
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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From bioarchaeologist and bestselling author of River Kings, a gripping new history of the making of England as a nation, told through six bone chests, stored for over a thousand years in Winchester Cathedral.
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By: Howard Mansfield
ISBN: 9781593761394
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2006
Publisher: Counterpoint
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Mansfield explores the loss of cultural memory, asking: What is the past How can the past be constructed Is it possible to preserve the past as a vital force for the future
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By: David Chapman
ISBN: 9781498516655
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Oct 2017
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This book examines the social and cultural history of the Bonin Islands and its inhabitants from the first settlements in the early nineteenth century to today. It provides a critical approach to understanding how communities create local narratives while located between powerful nations and national discourses.
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By: Joseph Hone
ISBN: 9781784744670
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2024
UK Publication Date: 21st March 2024
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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By: Usama ibn Munqidh
ISBN: 9780140455137
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2008
UK Publication Date: 3rd July 2008
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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The volume comprises lightly annotated translation of a key medieval Arabic text that bears directly on the Crusades and Crusader society and the Muslim experience of them.
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By: Tom Fort
ISBN: 9780007115938
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2020
UK Publication Date: 23rd July 2020
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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What has been the dish of kings, the subject of myths and the traveller of epic and mysterious journeys The eel.
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By: Brian Copenhaver
ISBN: 9780141393148
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2016
UK Publication Date: 3rd November 2016
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Pamela O. Long
ISBN: 9780262123082
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jul 2009
Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
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Essays explore the world of Michael of Rhodes, examining the historical context, the discovery of his manuscript, and Michael's knowledge of mathematics, shipbuilding, navigation, and other topics.
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By: Juliet Nicolson
ISBN: 9781784745318
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2025
UK Publication Date: 2nd October 2025
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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By: Antony Cummins
ISBN: 9781780288888
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2018
UK Publication Date: 22nd October 2015
Publisher: Watkins Media Limited
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THE FIRST COMPLETE TRANSLATION OF A SAMURAI SCHOOL CURRICULUM, THE BOOK OF SAMURAI SERIES IS A COMPREHENSIVE GUIDE TO THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF SAMURAI WARFARE.
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By: Benjamin Wardhaugh
ISBN: 9780008299910
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2020
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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Euclids Elements of Geometry was a book that changed the world. In a sweeping history, Benjamin Wardhaugh traces how an ancient Greek text on mathematics often hailed as the worlds first textbook shaped two thousand years of art, philosophy and literature, as well as science and maths.
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By: Benjamin Wardhaugh
ISBN: 9780008299903
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2020
UK Publication Date: 20th August 2020
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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Euclids Elements of Geometry was a book that changed the world. In a sweeping history, Benjamin Wardhaugh traces how an ancient Greek text on mathematics often hailed as the worlds first textbook shaped two thousand years of art, philosophy and literature, as well as science and maths.
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By: Charlie English
ISBN: 9780008126650
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2018
UK Publication Date: 17th May 2018
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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An exemplary work of investigative journalism that is also a wonderfully colourful book of history and travel Observer, Book of the Year
A piece of postmodern historiography of quite extraordinary sophistication and ingenuity [written with] exceptional delicacy and restraint TLS
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By: Adam Smyth
ISBN: 9781847926296
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2024
UK Publication Date: 18th April 2024
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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By: Annie Gray
ISBN: 9781800812246
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2025
UK Publication Date: 10th October 2024
Publisher: Profile Books Ltd
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A people's history of the high street
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By: Erika Fatland
ISBN: 9780857057815
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2021
UK Publication Date: 15th October 2020
Publisher: Quercus Publishing
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A Journey Around Russia: Through North Korea, China, Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Ukraine, Belarus, Lithuania, Poland, Latvia, Estonia, Finland, Norway and the Northeast Passage
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By: Diarmaid Ferriter
ISBN: 9781788161794
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2019
UK Publication Date: 22nd August 2019
Publisher: Profile Books Ltd
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The history and possible future of the border between the Republic and Northern Ireland.
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By: Christopher Hibbert
ISBN: 9781849019941
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2007
UK Publication Date: 7th July 2011
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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Warlords, Popes, Poisoners - the true story of the Borgias, the first family of the Italian Renaissance
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By: Mary Hollingsworth
ISBN: 9781782069447
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2014
UK Publication Date: 3rd April 2014
Publisher: Quercus Publishing
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History's most notorious dynasty brought vividly to life.
