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Deep History: The Architecture of Past and Present

History General

Including Deep History: The Architecture of Past and Present — Andrew Shryock and Daniel Lord Smail, with Timothy Earle (Northwestern University, Illinois), Gillian Feeley-Harnik, Felipe Fernández-Armesto (Tufts University) and Clive Gamble (University of Southampton)

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Seasons in the Sun: The Battle for Britain, 1974-1979

History 1919 - 1989

Including Seasons in the Sun: The Battle for Britain, 1974-1979 — Dominic Sandbrook

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Before the Nation: Muslim-Christian Coexistence and Its Destruction in Late-Ottoman Anatolia

History 1777 - 1918

Including Before the Nation: Muslim-Christian Coexistence and Its Destruction in Late-Ottoman Anatolia — Nicholas Doumanis

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Philip of Spain, King of England: The Forgotten Sovereign

History 1453 - 1776

Including Philip of Spain, King of England: The Forgotten Sovereign — Harry Kelsey

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Medieval Military Technology

History 633 - 1452 AD

Including Medieval Military Technology — Kelly DeVries and Robert Douglas Smith

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This England: Essays on the English Nation and Commonwealth in the Sixteenth Century

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This England: Essays on the English Nation and Commonwealth in the Sixteenth Century

Patrick Collinson (University of Cambridge)

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Gandhi’s Printing Press: Experiments in Slow Reading

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Gandhi’s Printing Press: Experiments in Slow Reading

Isabel Hofmeyr

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When Gandhi as a young lawyer in South Africa began fashioning the tenets of his political philosophy, he was absor... See details

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Making Toleration: The Repealers and the Glorious Revolution

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Making Toleration: The Repealers and the Glorious Revolution

Scott Sowerby

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Though James II is often depicted as a Catholic despot who imposed his faith, Scott Sowerby reveals a king ahead of... See details

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Diary of a Man in Despair

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The Diary of a Man in Despair

Friedrich Reck, translated by Paul Rubens, associate editor Richard Evans

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First Crusade: The Call from the East

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The First Crusade: The Call from the East

Peter Frankopan

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The First Crusade is one of the best-known and most written-about events in history. This book intends to address t... See details

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Norman Conquest

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The Norman Conquest

Marc Morris

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An upstart French duke who sets out to conquer the most powerful and unified kingdom in Christendom. It is an invas... See details

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Short History of Byzantium

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A Short History of Byzantium

John Julius Norwich

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Constantine the Great moved the seat of Roman power to Constantinople in AD 330 and for eleven brutal, bloody centu... See details

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Time Traveller’s Guide to Elizabethan England

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The Time Traveller’s Guide to Elizabethan England

Ian Mortimer

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We think of Queen Elizabeth I’s reign as a golden age. But what was it actually like to live in Elizabethan E... See details

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Devil within: Possession and Exorcism in the Christian West

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The Devil within: Possession and Exorcism in the Christian West

Brian Levack

Terry Eagleton writes:
Early modern Europe was awash with cases of demonic possession. Thousands of men, women and children conversed i... See details

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Troubled Empire: China in the Yuan and Ming Dynasties

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The Troubled Empire: China in the Yuan and Ming Dynasties

Timothy Brook, general editor Timothy Brook

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The Mongol takeover in the 1270s changed the course of Chinese history. The Confucian empire – a millennium a... See details

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What it Means to be Human: Reflections from 1791 to the Present

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What it Means to be Human: Reflections from 1791 to the Present

Joanna Bourke

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In 1872, a woman known only as ‘An Ernest Englishwoman’ published an open letter entitled ‘Are wo... See details

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All The King’s Men: The British Redcoat in the Era of Sword and Musket

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All The King’s Men: The British Redcoat in the Era of Sword and Musket

Saul David

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Between 1660 and 1815 British supremacy on foreign soil was near total. Central to this success was the humble redc... See details

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Birth of the West

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Birth of the West

Paul Collins

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<br>The tenth century dawned in violence and disorder. Charlemagne’s empire was in ruins, most of Spain... See details

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Blood Sisters: The Women Behind the Wars of the Roses

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Blood Sisters: The Women Behind the Wars of the Roses

Sarah Gristwood

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We know how the Wars of the Roses ended – with Richard III’s body under a Leicester car park – bu... See details

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