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Looking at urban history, this work balances statistics with the words of historians, diarists and novelists, poets and churchmen such as: Pepys, Boswell, Fielding, Walpole, Blake, Mayhew, Wells, Woolf, and Spark. It is a celebration of the city and also an elegy for its decline, with statistics and anecdote, from Boadicea to Betjeman.

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Is there a street in London which does not contain a story from the Empire Immigrants made London; and they keep remaking it in a thousand different ways. This is an entirely new map of a city everybody thinks they already know.

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Is there a street in London which does not contain a story from the Empire Immigrants made London; and they keep remaking it in a thousand different ways. This is an entirely new map of a city everybody thinks they already know.

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Describes London from the time of the Druids to the beginning of the twenty-first century, noting magnificence in both epochs. This title includes chapters on the history of silence and the history of light, the history of childhood and the history of suicide, the history of Cockney speech and the history of drink.

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An expert investigates Russia's long history of technological invention followed by commercial failure and points to new opportunities to break the pattern.

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The definitive account of exploitation in the Congo, introduced by Adam Hochschild

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Perhaps the most readable history ever written Time Out

Lords of the Horizons charts the Ottoman Empire's swirling epic history; dramatic detailed and alive a journey, and a world all in one.

The Ottoman Empire has long exerted a strong pull on Western minds and hearts.

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A profound and harrowing meditation by a descendant of slaves who journeyed to Africa to understand her past.

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In a quarter-century of uninterrupted war, the people of Afghanistan have endured foreign invasions, ethnic strife, a fundamentalist Islamic totalitarian regime, and the unending crossfire of rival warlord factions. This work presents fifteen true dramatic stories of ordinary men and women living in Northern Afghanistan.

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A riotously entertaining account of the lives of British and other European aristocrats - stories of madness, murder, misery, greed and profligacy.

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* 'In every generation there are quite firm rules on how to behave when you are crazy' Ian Hacking

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An argument that America's economy needs a strong and innovative manufacturing sector and the jobs it creates.

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A devastating look at how mental health 'care' has been historically used to oppress the Black community in the United States - told through the prism of a segregated asylum, Crownsville Hospital for the Negro Insane in Maryland.

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A biography of the complex and tragic 'First Lady' of the Third Reich, Magda Goebbels.

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How the Golden Age of transatlantic travel between the wars transformed women's lives across all classes - a vivid portrait of life on-board the iconic ocean liners.

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How the Golden Age of transatlantic travel between the wars transformed women's lives across all classes - a vivid portrait of life on-board the iconic ocean liners.

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How the Golden Age of transatlantic travel between the wars transformed women's lives across all classes - a vivid portrait of life on-board the iconic ocean liners.

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Activist and journalist Shaun King reflects on the events that made him one of the most prominent social justice leaders of our time and lays out a clear action plan for you to join the fight--with a foreword from Bernie Sanders

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The fascinating story of the creation of the Ordnance Survey map, told for the first time by a brilliant young historian.

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This book is a comparative study of the production and role of maps, charts, and atlases in early modern England and France with a particular focus on Paris and London.

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The McIlhenny Co run by a family of matchless characters who believe in a rigid code of family loyalty, clings to tradition and the old ways of doing business. This book tells how, from a simple idea - the outgrowth of a handful of peppers planted on an isolated island on the Gulf of Mexico - a secretive family business emerged.

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A groundbreaking new book about the nineteenth century obsession with hysteria, focussing on the renowned Salptrire Hospital in Paris.

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Medieval Women looks at a thousand years of English history, as it affected - and was made by - women.