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By: David Ross
ISBN: 9781780278483
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2024
UK Publication Date: 2nd May 2024
Publisher: Birlinn General
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The Scots have always had a reputation for clarity of thought and also for the vigour with which it is put into words. This collection spans the entire gamut of a nation's recorded thought and experience from Roman Scotland to the present day.It reveals the spirit of Scotland in a truly unique way.
(Hardback)
By: Brian Hicks
ISBN: 9781938170607
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2015
Publisher: Spry Publishing LLC
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Tells the story of the H.L. Hunley, a submarine that torpedoed a Union blockade ship during the Civil War before mysteriously sinking in 1864 and was discovered in 1995 by novelist and shipwreck hunter Clive Cussler.
(Hardback)
By: Peter Turchin
ISBN: 9780691136967
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Oct 2009
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Incorporating theoretical and quantitative history, this book examines a specific model of historical change and, more generally, investigates the utility of the dynamical systems approach in historical applications. It is of interest to practitioners of economic history, historical sociology, complexity studies, and demography.
(Paperback)
By: James Hunter
ISBN: 9781839830303
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2023
Publisher: Birlinn General
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In this book James Hunter tells the story of the Sutherland Clearances. His researches took him to archives in Scotland, England and Canada, to the now deserted straths of Sutherland, to the frozen shores of Hudson Bay. The result is a gripping, moving, definitive account of a people's struggle for survival in the face of tragedy and disaster.
(Paperback)
By: Paul Jentz
ISBN: 9781624666780
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2018
Publisher: Hackett Publishing Co, Inc
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(Paperback)
By: Alfred J. Andrea
ISBN: 9781624664038
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Nov 2015
Publisher: Hackett Publishing Co, Inc
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(Paperback)
By: Jonathan Daly
ISBN: 9781647921057
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2023
Publisher: Hackett Publishing Co, Inc
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(Paperback)
By: Gretchen D. Starr-LeBeau
ISBN: 9781647921309
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2023
Publisher: Hackett Publishing Co, Inc
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(Paperback)
By: Sami Adwan
ISBN: 9781595586834
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2012
Publisher: The New Press
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(Paperback, 2nd edition)
By: Cate Kennedy
ISBN: 9780980461640
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2008
Publisher: Transit Lounge Publishing
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(Paperback)
By: Shen Fu
ISBN: 9781603841986
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Sep 2011
Publisher: Hackett Publishing Co, Inc
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A memoir of a life in the Qing dynasty. It reveals a sensitive and artistic man, who failed at the civil service examinations that were the gateway to official employment and had to settle for becoming an itinerant private secretary, dabbling unsuccessfully in making a living as an artist and a merchant.
(Paperback)
By: William Stevenson
ISBN: 9781611452310
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2011
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
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(Paperback)
By: Risto Alapuro
ISBN: 9781642590524
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2020
Publisher: Haymarket Books
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Risto Alapuro, through a comparative and historical study of the Finnish revolution, provides a pertinent account of how upheavals in powerful countries impact smaller countries.
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By: Jefferson Cowie
ISBN: 9781595587077
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2012
Publisher: The New Press
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Jefferson Cowie's edgy and incisive book makes new sense of the 1970s as a crucial and poorly understood transition from New Deal America, with its large, optimistic middle class, to the widening economic inequalities, poverty and dampened expectations of the 1980s and into the present.
(Paperback)
By: Peter Linebaugh
ISBN: 9781604867473
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2014
UK Publication Date: 14th February 2014
Publisher: PM Press
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(Paperback)
By: Leigh Fondakowski
ISBN: 9780816678099
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2023
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
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(Hardback)
By: Lesley Coote
ISBN: 9781789142327
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2020
Publisher: Reaktion Books
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A fresh and exciting reappraisal of folklore outlaw Robin Hood.
(Hardback)
By: Francisco Bethencourt
ISBN: 9780691209913
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: May 2024
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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(Paperback)
By: Vijay Prashad
ISBN: 9781642596908
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2022
Publisher: Haymarket Books
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Two brilliant and influentialminds look beyond capitalism, and chart a roadmap for a planet ravaged by pandemics, a climate crisis, and wars.
(Paperback)
By: Sharon Smith
ISBN: 9781608469178
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2018
Publisher: Haymarket Books
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This accessible, critical history of the U.S. labor movement examines the hidden history of workers' resistance.
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By: Michael Duffy
ISBN: 9781742235448
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2017
Publisher: NewSouth Publishing
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In the late 1960s Sydney was one of the most prosperous places on earth and one of the most corrupt. A large proportion of the population was engaged in illegal gambling and other activities that made colourful characters such as Lennie McPherson wealthy and, to many, folk heroes. Sydney Noir revisits this dark yet fascinating chapter of Sydney's history.
(Hardback)
By: Angela McCarthy
ISBN: 9781526119056
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2017
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This book brings to life for the first time the remarkable story of James Taylor, 'father of the Ceylon tea enterprise' in the nineteenth century, and examines the dark side of planting life including violence and conflict, oppression and despair. -- .
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By: A. James Hammerton
ISBN: 9780719071331
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: May 2005
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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More than a million Britons emigrated to Australia between the 1940s and 1970s. They were the famous 'Ten Pound Poms' and this is their story, illuminated by the riveting testimony of migrant life histories -- .
(Paperback)
By: J. E. Lendon
ISBN: 9780691221014
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Mar 2025
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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