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By: Victoria Kelley
ISBN: 9781526163851
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2022
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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From around 1850, Londons street markets grew in number and scale, giving working-class Londoners a site for shopping, entertainment and sociability. Cheap Street is the first major study of this subject, analysing the street markets as a component of Londons lively informal economy, and providing new insights into urban and consumer geographies.
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By: Giles Milton
ISBN: 9781529393170
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2022
UK Publication Date: 14th April 2022
Publisher: John Murray Press
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A compulsive page-turner about the battle for Berlin and control of the Western world in the aftermath of the Second World War from 'the master of narrative history'.
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By: Leslie B. Jones
ISBN: 9781785512919
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2021
Publisher: Scala Arts & Heritage Publishers Ltd
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This richly illustrated book explores Cheekwood, a 55-acre destination in Nashville, Tennessee, one of the finest American Country Place Era estates in the nation.
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By: Tahir Kamran
ISBN: 9781789149135
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2024
UK Publication Date: 1st July 2024
Publisher: Reaktion Books
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A sweeping journey through the ebbs and flows of Pakistans history.
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By: Svetlana Alexievich
ISBN: 9780241270530
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2016
UK Publication Date: 21st April 2016
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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On 26 April 1986, at 1.23am, a series of explosions shook the Chernobyl nuclear reactor. While officials tried to hush up the accident, the author spent years collecting testimonies from survivors. A chronicle of the past and a warning for our nuclear future, this book shows what it is like to remember in a world that wants you to forget.
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By: Serhii Plokhy
ISBN: 9780241723593
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2024
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Serhii Plokhy
ISBN: 9780141988351
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2019
UK Publication Date: 31st January 2019
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Tania Crasnianski
ISBN: 9781628728057
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2018
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
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The Fascinating Story of Eight Children of Third Reich Leaders and their Journey from Descendants of Heroes to Descendants of Criminals
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By: Professor Paul R. Bartrop
ISBN: 9798765129654
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jul 2024
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
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By: Paul Kenyon
ISBN: 9781789543186
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2022
UK Publication Date: 4th August 2022
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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A darkly humorous and horrifying history of some of the strangest dictators that Europe has ever seen.
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By: Graham Hutchings
ISBN: 9781350336636
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2022
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Frank Diktter
ISBN: 9781526634306
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2023
UK Publication Date: 17th August 2023
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Liang Hong
ISBN: 9781839765568
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2021
Publisher: Verso Books
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An unforgettable portrait of the tectonic shifts happening in rural China-told through the microcosm of one small town
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By: Van Der Zijpp Bridget
ISBN: 9781776560530
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2016
Publisher: Te Herenga Waka University Press
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China's new role as an important diplomatic and economic partner of the island countries of the Pacific has attracted increasing attention, and some controversy, in recent years. Based on a conference held at the National University of Samoa in Apia in February 2015, this volume discusses this topic.
(Hardback)
By: Rebecca E. Karl
ISBN: 9781788735599
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2020
Publisher: Verso Books
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A concise account of how revolutions made modern China and helped shape the modern world.
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By: John Keay
ISBN: 9780007221783
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2019
UK Publication Date: 25th June 2009
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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Three thousand years of Chinese history in an accessible and authoritative single volume.
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By: Shuxia Chen
ISBN: 9780909952242
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2024
Publisher: Power Publications
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Chinese belt toggles, known as zhuizi, are small carved ornaments that offer a rare glimpse into everyday life in early modern China.
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By: Peter Heather
ISBN: 9780241215913
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2023
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Peter Heather
ISBN: 9780141988535
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Feb 2024
UK Publication Date: 26th October 2023
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: David A. Hollinger
ISBN: 9780691233888
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jan 2023
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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"Tracing the rise of evangelicalism and the decline of mainline Protestantism in American religious and cultural life."--Provided by publisher.
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By: Peter E. Davies
ISBN: 9781472860545
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2024
UK Publication Date: 18th July 2024
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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In 1960, SAC's B-52s began a nonstop, eight-year, nuclear-armed patrol. Fully illustrated, this study explains how one of the Cold War's most challenging operations was conceived and flown.
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By: Joinville and Villehardouin
ISBN: 9780140449983
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2008
UK Publication Date: 30th October 2008
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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In the first years of the thirteenth century Villehardouin served as an envoy in the Fourth Crusade. Half a century later, Joinville accompanied the French king, Louis IX, on crusade to Egypt and the Near East. This book offers narratives of these campaigns and provides insights into the characters and beliefs of the crusaders.
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By: Giles Milton
ISBN: 9781444798982
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2017
UK Publication Date: 6th April 2017
Publisher: John Murray Press
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The incredible story of the secret underground operations of the Second World War.
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By: Madhusree Mukerjee
ISBN: 9780465024810
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2011
UK Publication Date: 12th July 2011
Publisher: Basic Books
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A bracing narrative of wartime India and the tremendous famine that resulted when Churchill sacrificed the lives of four million Bengalis to win World War II
