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By: Lisa Morton

ISBN: 9781789141580
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2019
Publisher: Reaktion Books
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The first history of the misunderstood festival Halloween, and its current global popularity.


(Hardback)

By: Mark Moyar

ISBN: 9781641772976
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2023
Publisher: Encounter Books,USA
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(Paperback)

By: Bernard Williams

ISBN: 9780691117911
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2004
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Explores the value of truth and finds it to be both less and more than we might imagine. This book identifies two basic virtues of truth, accuracy and sincerity. It describes different psychological and social forms that these virtues have taken and asks what ideas can make best sense of them.


(Paperback)

By: Martin Crotty

ISBN: 9781921410567
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Oct 2008
Publisher: UNSW Press
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'If only', 'what if' and 'why didn't we' are are phrases that often come to mind when we look back to the past. This exciting and stimulating book looks back at turning points and crucial moments in Australian history.


(Paperback)

By: R. R. Palmer

ISBN: 9780691175928
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2017
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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(Paperback)

By: Roger Hermiston

ISBN: 9781785907371
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2022
UK Publication Date: 22nd February 2022
Publisher: Biteback Publishing
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A SPECTATOR BOOK OF THE YEAR - 'a dark remembrance of 1953, when nuclear annihilation was only the press of a button away'.


(Paperback)

By: U.S. Department of the Army

ISBN: 9781616080099
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2011
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
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An advanced, intensive guide to even the most complex...


(Paperback)

By: Ross Carroll

ISBN: 9780691241777
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Nov 2022
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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(Paperback)

By: Bobby Benedicto

ISBN: 9780816691081
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2015
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
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(Paperback, New Edition)

By: Fiona Watson

ISBN: 9781780276892
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2022
UK Publication Date: 3rd March 2022
Publisher: Birlinn General
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Covering the period 12861306 and written with reference to historic documents as well as the most up-to-date research, Under the Hammerexamines the process of conquest and attempted colonisation of one medieval kingdom by another.


(Paperback)

By: Laurence Brockliss

ISBN: 9781851245000
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2018
Publisher: Bodleian Library
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A succinct illustrated account of the University of Oxford's colourful and controversial 800-year history, from medieval times through the Reformation and on to the nineteenth century, in which the foundations of the modern tutorial system were laid.


(Paperback)

By: Professor Michael D. Gordin

ISBN: 9780691146980
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Nov 2010
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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The concepts of utopia and dystopia have received much historical attention. Utopias have traditionally signified the ideal future: large-scale social, political, ethical, and religious spaces that have yet to be realized. This title offers a fresh approach to these ideas.


(Paperback)

By: Tim Ecott

ISBN: 9780802142016
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2005
Publisher: Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press
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Ecott escorts readers on a whimsical journey that chronicles the incredible power of one velvety brown, long, and slender bean, which has become endangered in the wild and the world's most labor-intensive agricultural crop.


(Hardback)

By: Michael McKernan

ISBN: 9781742233802
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2014
Publisher: NewSouth Publishing
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Commemorates Victorias World War I soldiers, nurses and their families in stories from the home front and battlefront. Bestselling historian Michael McKernan tells the stories that highlight the generosity, devotion, sacrifice and spirit of a community pushed towards breaking point.


(Paperback, 2nd New edition)

By: Michael Ashcroft

ISBN: 9781785902482
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2018
Publisher: Biteback Publishing
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A powerful testament to the strength of the human spirit and a worthy tribute to the servicemen who have been awarded the Victoria Cross, this is a second collection of stories about exceptional bravery and gallantry in the field, published for the first time in paperback.


(Hardback)

By: Angus Robertson

ISBN: 9781780276915
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2022
UK Publication Date: 7th October 2021
Publisher: Birlinn General
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Vienna is unique amongst world capitals in its consistent international importance over the centuries. Former BBC Vienna correspondent Angus Robertson charts how the Austrian capital developed from a garrison town at the edge of the Roman Empire to a glittering international city.


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By: Joe Allen

ISBN: 9781931859493
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2008
Publisher: Haymarket Books
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As the connection between Vietnam and Iraq grows more urgent, lessons for today's antiwar movement.


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By: Krishan Kumar

ISBN: 9780691192802
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2019
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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In this extraordinary volume, Kumar provides readers with a brilliant tour of some of history's most important empires, demonstrating the critical importance of imperial ideas and ideologies for understanding their modalities of rule and the conflicts that beset them.


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By: Mark Steel

ISBN: 9781931859370
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2006
Publisher: Haymarket Books
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Steel's guide to the French Revolution displays serious scholarship, as well as comic genius.


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By: Adrian D. Gilbert

ISBN: 9781628737387
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2014
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
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The French Foreign Legion has built a reputation as one the world's most formidable and colourful military institutions. This book explores how the Legion selects its recruits, their native lands, and why these warriors seek a life full of hardship and danger.


(Hardback)

By: Huw Rees

ISBN: 9781915279118
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2023
UK Publication Date: 20th October 2022
Publisher: University of Wales Press
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Discover 366 fun and surprising stories about Welsh history and culture that most history books leave out each linked to a specific day of the year.


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By: Eamonn McCann

ISBN: 9781608469741
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2018
Publisher: Haymarket Books
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War and an Irish Town is Eamonn McCann's classic account of growing up Catholic in a Northern Irish ghetto.


(Paperback, New in Paperback)

By: Alistair Moffat

ISBN: 9781780278698
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2024
UK Publication Date: 4th April 2024
Publisher: Birlinn General
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Acclaimed historian Alistair Moffat sets off in the footsteps of the Highland clans. In twelve journeys he explores places of conflict, recreating as he walks the tumult of battle.This is a unique exploration of many of the places and events which define a countrys history.


(Paperback)

By: Peter G. Tsouras

ISBN: 9781629144597
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2014
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
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Learn the unbelievable true history of the great warrior tribes of Mexico. More than thirteen centuries of incredible spellbinding history are detailed in this intriguing study of the rulers and warriors of Mexico.

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