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By: Barry Wood
ISBN: 9781785274756
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Nov 2020
Publisher: Anthem Press
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This book examines more than twenty cultures, both ancient and modern, Eastern and Western, emphasizing how kings, empires, religions and societies have enhanced their authority and power through fictional histories, claims of divine origins, fabricated genealogies, and miraculous events presented in literary works and forged doctrines.
(Paperback)
By: Mathias Haeussler
ISBN: 9781350107656
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jan 2021
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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"This book explores the ways in which Elvis Presley projected cultural images of changing US identities during the Cold War both at home and abroad. Demonstrating the role of popular music and consumerism in the cultural struggle between East and West, Haussler argues that Elvis indirectly influenced perceptions of US popular culture and society during an era of heighted international tension"--
(Hardback)
By: Ada Palmer
ISBN: 9781035910120
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2025
UK Publication Date: 13th February 2025
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Based on the online blogs of acclaimed historian and author Ada Palmer, Inventing the Renaissance provides a fresh perspective on what makes this period one of the most captivating and unique parts of European history.
(Paperback, Main)
By: Professor Robert C. Knapp
ISBN: 9781846684029
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2013
UK Publication Date: 7th February 2013
Publisher: Profile Books Ltd
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Rome's invisible inhabitants - prostitutes, innkeepers, housewives, priests, freedmen, slaves, soldiers and gladiators - brought back to life.
(Paperback)
By: Jacqueline Leckie
ISBN: 9780995140721
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2021
Publisher: Massey University Press
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MIGRATION AND RACISM IN AOTEAROA NEW ZEALAND
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By: Fred Halliday
ISBN: 9780861546770
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jan 2025
Publisher: Oneworld Publications
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The classic study that anticipated the Iranian Revolution of 1979
(Paperback)
By: Robbie McVeigh
ISBN: 9781642599848
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2024
Publisher: Haymarket Books
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(Paperback)
By: E. G. Ruttledge
ISBN: 9781667892702
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2024
Publisher: BookBaby
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(Paperback)
By: Peter H. Wilson
ISBN: 9780141988887
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2024
UK Publication Date: 25th January 2024
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: Anne Applebaum
ISBN: 9780141021874
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2013
UK Publication Date: 6th June 2013
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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At the end of the Second World War, the Soviet Union unexpectedly found itself in control of a huge swathe of territory in Eastern Europe. Stalin and his secret police set out to convert a dozen radically different countries to a completely new political and moral system: Communism.
(Paperback)
By: Walter R. Borneman
ISBN: 9780316371773
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2015
Publisher: Little, Brown & Company
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A vivid account of the origins of the transcontinental railroad - available for the first time in trade paperback - by the author of the bestselling The Admirals.
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By: Christopher Clark
ISBN: 9780140293340
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2007
UK Publication Date: 6th September 2007
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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With great flair and authority, the author describes Prussia's great battles, dynastic marriages and astonishing reversals of fortune, its brilliant and charismatic leaders from the Hohenzollerns of Brandenburg to Bismarck and Frederick the Great, the military machine and the progressive, enlightened values on which it was built.
(Paperback, New edition)
By: Fawaz A. Gerges
ISBN: 9780691211916
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Dec 2021
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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(Paperback)
By: Justin Marozzi
ISBN: 9780141981093
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2020
UK Publication Date: 6th August 2020
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Hardback)
By: Yossef Rapoport
ISBN: 9781851244928
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2019
Publisher: Bodleian Library
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Spanning the Islamic world, from ninth-century Baghdad to nineteenth-century Iran, this book tells the story of the key Muslim map-makers and the art of Islamic cartography. Lavishly illustrated with stunning manuscripts, beautiful instruments and Qibla charts, this book provides a window into the worldviews of Islamic societies.
(Paperback)
By: Ralph Crane
ISBN: 9781925603965
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2018
Publisher: Text Publishing
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(Paperback)
By: Hugh Edwards
ISBN: 9780732297299
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2013
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: Alistair Moffat
ISBN: 9781780278018
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2023
UK Publication Date: 6th October 2022
Publisher: Birlinn General
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Fourteen centuries ago, Irish saints brought the Word of God to the Hebrides and Scotlands Atlantic shore. In this book, Alistair Moffat journeys from the island of Eileach an Naoimh at the mouth of the Firth of Lorne to Lismore, Iona and then north to Applecross, searching for traces of these extraordinary men.
(Paperback)
By: Dr Avinoam J. Patt
ISBN: 9781350188341
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Mar 2024
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Paperback)
By: Noa Tishby
ISBN: 9781982144944
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2022
UK Publication Date: 26th January 2023
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
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Israel: An Anti-Textbook to the Most Misunderstood Country on Earth is The Case for Israel for fans of Drunk History and the Skimm: a personal, accessible, conversational anti-textbook moving chronologically from Biblical times to today, from one of Israel's most prominent activists and celebritiesnow in trade paperback!
(Paperback)
By: Bettany Hughes
ISBN: 9781780224732
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2018
UK Publication Date: 28th December 2017
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
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The SUNDAY TIMES-bestselling biography of one of the world's greatest cities - Byzantium, Constantinople, Istanbul
(Hardback)
By: Jack Lowery
ISBN: 9781645036586
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2022
UK Publication Date: 21st April 2022
Publisher: Bold Type Books
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The story of art collective Gran Fury-which fought back during the AIDS crisis through direct action and community-made propaganda-offers lessons in love and grief.
(Hardback)
By: John Wilton
ISBN: 9781914414985
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2022
UK Publication Date: 20th September 2022
Publisher: Unicorn Publishing Group
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A snapshot of lives torn apart by war in a conflict in which the best and the worst of man is revealed.
(Hardback)
By: Astrid Madimba
ISBN: 9781529376784
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2022
UK Publication Date: 7th July 2022
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
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IT'S A CONTINENT is the illuminating history book that aims to unravel misconceptions and celebrate Africa's rich and diverse history, one country at a time.
