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Mapping The Railways: The Journey of Britain’s Railways Through Maps from 1819 to the Present Day

History General

Including Mapping The Railways: The Journey of Britain’s Railways Through Maps from 1819 to the Present Day — Julian Holland and David Spaven

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Sharing the Prize: The Economics of the Civil Rights Revolution in the American South

History 1919 - 1989

Including Sharing the Prize: The Economics of the Civil Rights Revolution in the American South — Gavin Wright

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Pleasures of the Imagination: English Culture in the Eighteenth Century

History 1777 - 1918

Including The Pleasures of the Imagination: English Culture in the Eighteenth Century — John Brewer

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Reading Authority and Representing Rule in Early Modern England

History 1453 - 1776

Including Reading Authority and Representing Rule in Early Modern England — Kevin Sharpe

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House of Wisdom: How the Arabs Transformed Western Civilization

History 633 - 1452 AD

Including The House of Wisdom: How the Arabs Transformed Western Civilization — Jonathan Lyons

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India: A History

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India: A History

John Keay

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A new edition of the most authoritative and highly-regarded single-volume history of India. Fully revised to includ... See details

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Wind from the East: French Intellectuals, the Cultural Revolution, and the Legacy of the 1960s

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The Wind from the East: French Intellectuals, the Cultural Revolution, and the Legacy of the 1960s

Richard Wolin

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During the 1960s, a who’s who of French thinkers, writers, and artists, spurred by China’s Cultural Rev... See details

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Book of the Order of Chivalry

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The Book of the Order of Chivalry

Ramon Llull, translated by Noel Fallows

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New English translation of Llull’s classic and significant text, restoring the nuances of the original. See details

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Anglo Saxon World

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The Anglo Saxon World

Nicholas J. Higham and Martin J. Ryan

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The Anglo-Saxon period, stretching from the fifth to the late eleventh century, begins with the Roman retreat from ... See details

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Isaac and Isaiah: The Covert Punishment of a Cold War Heretic

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Isaac and Isaiah: The Covert Punishment of a Cold War Heretic

David Caute

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Rancorous and highly public disagreements between Isaiah Berlin and Isaac Deutscher escalated to the point of cruel... See details

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Serpent and the Lamb: Cranach, Luther, and the Making of the Reformation

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The Serpent and the Lamb: Cranach, Luther, and the Making of the Reformation

Steven E. Ozment

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Retells and revises the story of the German Renaissance and Reformation through the lives of two controversial men ... See details

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Short History of the Weimar Republic

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A Short History of the Weimar Republic

Colin Storer

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It is impossible to understand the history of modern Europe without some knowledge of the Weimar Republic. The brie... See details

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Modernity Britain: Opening the Box, 1957-1959

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Modernity Britain: Opening the Box, 1957-1959

David Kynaston

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Following Austerity Britain and Family Britain, the third and fulcrum volume in David Kynaston’s landmark soc... See details

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Short, Strange Life of Herschel Grynszpan: A Boy Avenger, a Nazi Diplomat, and a Murder in Paris

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The Short, Strange Life of Herschel Grynszpan: A Boy Avenger, a Nazi Diplomat, and a Murder in Paris

Jonathan Kirsch

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On the 75th anniversary of Kristallnacht comes this untold story of a teenager whose act of defiance would have dir... See details

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Damn His Blood: Being a True and Detailed History of the Most Barbarous and Inhumane Murder at Oddingley and the Quick and Awful Retribution

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Damn His Blood: Being a True and Detailed History of the Most Barbarous and Inhumane Murder at Oddingley and the Quick and Awful Retribution

Peter Moore

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The brutal murder of the Reverend George Parker in the rural village of Oddingley on Midsummer’s Day in 1806 ... See details

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Dark Charisma of Adolf Hitler

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The Dark Charisma of Adolf Hitler

Laurence Rees

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Adolf Hitler was an unlikely leader – fuelled by hate, incapable of forming normal human relationships, unwil... See details

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Double-cross System: The Classic Account of World War Two Spy-masters

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The Double-cross System: The Classic Account of World War Two Spy-masters

J. C. Masterman

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Written as an official report for MI5 in 1945, this title details the Allied handling of enemy agents and the Briti... See details

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Eagle Unbowed: Poland and the Poles in the Second World War

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The Eagle Unbowed: Poland and the Poles in the Second World War

Halik Kochanski

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By almost every measure the fate of the inhabitants of Poland was the terrible of any group in the Second World War... See details

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English Affair: Sex, Class and Power in the Age of Profumo

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An English Affair: Sex, Class and Power in the Age of Profumo

Richard Davenport-Hines

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Published to coincide with the fiftieth anniversary of the Profumo scandal, ‘An English Affair’ is a sh... See details

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