Social & Cultural History
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Down but Not Out: Community and the Upper Streets in Halifax, 1890?1914
David HoodCurrent price €21.59Original price €23.99An examination of poverty and homelessness in Halifax at the turn of 20th century, this book challenges the notion that the poor are deviants who a...
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Immigration and National Identities in Latin America
University Press of FloridaCurrent price €80.09Original price €88.99Between the mid-nineteenth and mid-twentieth centuries, an influx of Europeans, Asians, and Arabic speakers indelibly changed the face of Latin Ame...
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A Labour History of Ireland 1824-2000
Emmet O ConnorCurrent price €28.79Original price €31.99This is a new edition of Emmet O'Connor's classic and pioneering work on Irish labour history, providing an introduction for the general reader and...
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Eat History: Food and Drink in Australia and Beyond
Cambridge Scholars PublishingCurrent price €44.99Original price €49.99Eat History offers fascinating new insights into the emerging field of gastronomic studies and its intersection with cultural history, and includes...
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north korea escape: Journey to Freedom Successful Stories of North Korea Defectors
David AyoCurrent price €11.04Original price €12.99Current price €11.04Original price €12.99Save 15% -
Goodnight Campers!: The History of the British Holiday Camp
Colin WardCurrent price €15.73Original price €18.50Current price €15.73Original price €18.50Save 15% -
The Incomparable Monsignor: Francesco Bianchini''s world of science, history, and court intrigue
J.L. HeilbronCurrent price €24.23Original price €28.50Through Francesco Bianchini, the 'greatest Italian of his time' this book explores the exciting meeting of science, history, and politics in early ...
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The Hidden River: A Memoir of Resistance, Recovery, and Renewal
Michel A MarxCurrent price €21.59Original price €23.99Current price €21.59Original price €23.99Save 10% -
The Expos in Their Prime: The Short-Lived Glory of Montreal''s Team, 1977-1984
Alain UsereauCurrent price €23.38Original price €27.50In the late 1970s and early 1980s, the Montreal Expos provided their fans with spectacular play produced by spectacular players. The team was ab...
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Unconditional Unionist: The Hazardous Life of Lucian Anderson, Kentucky Congressman
Berry CraigCurrent price €24.75Original price €27.50When U.S. Congressman Lucian Anderson from Kentucky voted for the 13th Amendment to the Constitution in January 1865, abolishing slavery, he gam...
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Richard Grenville and the Lost Colony of Roanoke
Andy Gabriel-PowellCurrent price €17.99Original price €19.99England's ill-fated first attempt to colonize America at Roanoke Island in 1587, more than 30 years before the Pilgrims set sail, has been the f...
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My Journey to Freedom: Kybartai to Haifa - Memoir by Josef Rosin
Josef RosinCurrent price €39.59Original price €43.99Current price €39.59Original price €43.99Save 10% -
Yellow Fever: A Worldwide History
J. E. GesslerCurrent price €40.49Original price €44.99The terror of yellow fever conjures images of mass infection of soldiers during the Spanish-American War and horrific death tolls among workers ...
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Lynchings of Women in the United States: The Recorded Cases, 1851-1946
Kerry SegraveCurrent price €17.99Original price €19.99Between 1850 and 1950, at least 115 women were lynched by mobs in the United States. The majority of these women were black. This book examines ...
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Richard III and the Princes in the Tower: The Possible Fates of Edward V and Richard of York
Gerald PrenderghastCurrent price €23.38Original price €27.50The fate of Richard III's two nephews, Edward V and Richard of York, who disappeared after his coronation in 1483, has remained controversial ce...
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Now with Kung Fu Grip!: How Bodybuilders, Soldiers and a Hairdresser Reinvented Martial Arts for America
Jared MiracleCurrent price €16.99Original price €19.99Why do so many Americans practice martial arts? How did kung fu get its own movie genre? What makes mixed martial arts so popular? This book ans...
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The War I Survived Was Vietnam: Collected Writings of a Veteran and Antiwar Activist
Michael UhlCurrent price €20.69Original price €22.99This singular collection of articles, essays, poems, criticism and personal recollections by a Vietnam veteran documents the author's reflection...
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A Confederate in Congress: The Civil War Treason Trial of Benjamin Gwinn Harris
Joshua E. KastenbergCurrent price €24.75Original price €27.50In May 1865, the final month of the Civil War, the U.S. Army arrested and prosecuted a sitting congressman in a military trial in the border sta...
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Bunco Artists in Richmond, 1870-1920: Sharpers, Snatchers, Swindlers, Flimflammers and Other Con Men
Harry M. WardCurrent price €24.75Original price €27.50Richmond in the late 19th and early 20th centuries was home to a lively underworld of tricksters, swindlers, confidence men and thieves. The for...
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The Clarks of Willsborough Point: The Long Trek North
Darcey HaleCurrent price €15.75Original price €17.50Current price €15.75Original price €17.50Save 10% -
Leaders Who Changed History
DKCurrent price €20.39Original price €23.99Explore the lives and achievements of more than 85 of the world's most inspirational and influential leaders with this innovative, and boldly graph...
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The Duchess of Northumberland''s Little Book of Jams, Jellies and Preserves
The Duchess of NorthumberlandCurrent price €14.44Original price €16.99Elizabeth was the first Duchess of Northumberland and established the domestic rules of this dynasty that has ruled for over 700 years. Controlling...
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A Brief Report of the Meeting Commemorative of the Early Saint Louis Movement in Philosophy, Psychology, Literature, Art and Education, in Honor of Dr. Denton J. Snider''s Eightieth Birthday, Held ...
David H HarrisCurrent price €18.16Original price €22.99Current price €18.16Original price €22.99Save 21% -
Dr James Barry: A Woman Ahead of Her Time
Dr. Michael du PreezCurrent price €15.29Original price €17.99A Sunday Times Book of the Year As featured on the BBC Radio 2 Book Club Dr James Barry: Inspector General of Hospitals, army surgeon, duellist, ...
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The Empire of Death: A Cultural History of Ossuaries and Charnel Houses
Paul KoudounarisCurrent price €42.44Original price €47.15In this tour de force of original cultural history, Paul Koudounaris takes the reader on an unprecedented international tour of macabre and devotio...
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The Secret Rooms: A Castle Filled with Intrigue, a Plotting Duchess and a Mysterious Death
Catherine BaileyCurrent price €15.75Original price €17.50A castle filled with intrigue, a plotting duchess and a mysterious death in Catherine Bailey's The Secret Rooms. At 6 am on 21 April 1940 John the ...
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Skyscraper
Dan CruickshankCurrent price €23.85Original price €26.50Chicago's beautiful Reliance Building, sixteen storeys tall, was designed in 1890 by John Root and completed in 1895 by Charles B. Atwood. In its c...
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A History of Everyday Life in Twentieth Century Scotland
Edinburgh University PressCurrent price €27.89Original price €30.99Over the twentieth century Scots' lives changed in fast, dramatic and culturally significant ways. By examining their bodies, homes, working lives,...
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Secret Shepperton: England''s Hollywood
Jill ArmitageCurrent price €16.99Original price €19.99Secret Shepperton explores the history of the town from its early origins as an Iron Age settlement nestling on the banks of the River Thames. Its ...
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Not So Virtuous Victorians
Michelle RosenbergCurrent price €16.65Original price €18.50What springs to mind when you think of British Victorian men and women?-manners, manners and more manners. Behaviour that was as rigid and constric...
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Hollywood''s America: Understanding History Through Film
David WelkyCurrent price €45.89Original price €50.99Fully revised, updated, and extended, the fifth edition of Hollywoods America provides an important compilation of interpretive essays and primary ...
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Labor in America: A History
Joseph A. McCartinCurrent price €43.19Original price €47.99This book, designed to give a survey history of American labor from colonial times to the present, is uniquely well suited to speak to the concerns...
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At Home: A Short History of Private Life
Bill BrysonCurrent price €15.75Original price €17.50In At Home, Bill Bryson applies the same irrepressible curiosity, irresistible wit, stylish prose and masterful storytelling that made A Short Hist...
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The Blitz: The British Under Attack
Juliet GardinerCurrent price €16.65Original price €18.50From the author of Wartime comes an outstanding history of the most sustained onslaught ever endured by Britain's civilian population the Blitz. ...
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In Bed with the Romans
Paul ChrystalCurrent price €15.29Original price €16.99One way or another the Romans spent quite a lot of time in bed, in between conquering and civilising the known world. The men were intent on demons...
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Joseph Brown and His Civil War Ironclads: The USS Chillicothe, Indianola and Tuscumbia
J. Smith MyronCurrent price €32.85Original price €36.50Well known in his time though now forgotten, Joseph Brown is a quintessential representative of mid-19th Century Midwestern economic and political ...
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Vintage Kitchenalia
Emma KayCurrent price €16.99Original price €19.99In a society seemingly so obsessed with food the preparing, eating, sharing and sheer enjoyment of what and how we all eat the humble kitchen ute...
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The Women Who Shaped Politics: Empowering stories of women who have shifted the political landscape
Sophy RidgeCurrent price €15.75Original price €17.50Sophy Ridge, presenter for Sky News, has uncovered the extraordinary stories of the women who have shaped British politics. Never has the role of w...
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Les Parisiennes: How the Women of Paris Lived, Loved and Died in the 1940s
Anne SebbaCurrent price €15.75Original price €17.50WINNER OF THE FRANCO-BRITISH SOCIETY BOOK PRIZE 2016June, 1940. German troops enter Paris and hoist the swastika over the Arc de Triomphe. The dark...
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Advertising Revolution: The Story of a Song, from Beatles Hit to Nike Slogan
Alan BradshawCurrent price €14.39Original price €15.99In 1987, Nike released their new sixty-second commercial for Air shoesand changed the face of the advertising industry. Set to the song Revolution ...
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Workers and Nationalism: Czech and German Social Democracy in Habsburg Austria, 1890-1918
Jakub S. BeneCurrent price €101.69Original price €112.99Internationalist socialism and ethnic nationalism are usually thought of as polar opposites. But for the millions of men and women who made Social ...
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Myths That Shaped Our History: From Magna Carta to the Battle of Britain
Simon WebbCurrent price €17.99Original price €19.99All nations and peoples have a body of legendary tales and semi-historical episodes which explain who they are and help to define their place in th...
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Cured, Fermented and Smoked Foods: Proceedings from the Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery 2010
Prospect BooksCurrent price €33.99Original price €39.99Current price €33.99Original price €39.99Save 15% -
Life of a Teenager in Wartime London
Duncan LeatherdaleCurrent price €23.39Original price €25.99Life in wartime London evokes images of the Blitz, of air-raid shelters and rationing, of billeted soldiers and evacuated children. These are famil...
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Escorting the Monarch
Chris JaggerCurrent price €23.39Original price €25.99Escorting the Monarch is as close to an official history of the Metropolitan Police's 'Special Escort Group' (SEG) as one could hope for. You may ...
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Rebellious Spirits: Audacious Tales of Drinking on the Wrong Side of the Law
Ruth BallCurrent price €13.91Original price €15.99A delicious taste of the secret, exciting and often dangerous history of illicit spirits; Britain has always been a nation of enthusiastic drinkers...
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Zoffany''s Daughter: Love and Treachery on a Small Island
Stephen FosterCurrent price €18.03Original price €21.99Current price €18.03Original price €21.99Save 18%