Social & Cultural History
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Rails to Corwen: Arrival of the Railway in the Vale of Edeyrnion
Dennis WilliamsCurrent price €9.89Original price €10.99Current price €9.89Original price €10.99Save 10% -
Rites of Passage: Death and Mourning in Victorian Britain
Judith FlandersCurrent price €29.25Original price €32.50'Nobody knows more about everyday life in Victorian Britain than Judith Flanders' - Douglas Robert-Fairhurst, author of Metamorphosis and The Turni...
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Eminent Gangsters: Immigrants and the Birth of Organized Crime in America
James FentressCurrent price €71.99Original price €79.99'This American system of ours,' observed Al Capone, 'call it Americanism, call it capitalism, call it what you like, gives to each and every one of...
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Picts: Scourge of Rome, Rulers of the North
Gordon NobleCurrent price €25.65Original price €28.50Shortlisted for the EAA Book Prize and the Current Archaeology Book of the Year Award The Picts have fascinated for centuries. They emerged c. ad ...
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Freedom''s Dominion (Winner of the Pulitzer Prize): A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power
Jefferson CowieCurrent price €18.95Original price €23.99WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE IN HISTORY! An important, deeply affecting-and regrettably relevant (New York Times Book Review) chronicle of a sinist...
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Composing Egypt: Reading, Writing, and the Emergence of a Modern Nation, 1870-1930
Hoda A. YousefCurrent price €69.29Original price €76.99In this innovative history of reading and writing, Hoda Yousef explores how the idea of literacy and its practices fundamentally altered the social...
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Northwest Coast Indian Art: An Analysis of Form, 50th Anniversary Edition
Bill HolmCurrent price €29.25Original price €32.50The 50th anniversary edition of this classic work on the art of Northwest Coast Indians now offers color illustrations for a new generation of read...
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London''s West End: Creating the Pleasure District, 1800-1914
Rohan McWilliamCurrent price €43.19Original price €47.99How did the West End of London become the world's leading pleasure district? What is the source of its magnetic appeal? How did the centre of Londo...
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The Animated Dad: Essays on Father Figures in Cartoon Television
McFarland & Co IncCurrent price €53.09Original price €58.99The Homer Simpson-esque stereotype has been a persistent trope in cartoons since programming aimed directly at children and adolescents began. Y...
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The Shochet: A Memoir of Jewish Life in Ukraine and Crimea
Pinkhes-Dov GoldenshteynCurrent price €107.99Original price €119.99An impressively researched and surprisingly accessible portrait of Jewish life in the mid-19th century. Kirkus ReviewsSet in Ukraine and Crimea, t...
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The Chiefs Now in This City: Indians and the Urban Frontier in Early America
Colin G. CallowayCurrent price €35.09Original price €38.99During the years of the Early Republic, prominent Native leaders regularly traveled to American cities--Albany, Boston, Charleston, Philadelphia, M...
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The Holocaust and North Africa
Stanford University PressCurrent price €109.79Original price €121.99The Holocaust is usually understood as a European story. Yet, this pivotal episode unfolded across North Africa and reverberated through politics, ...
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Bad Rabbi: And Other Strange but True Stories from the Yiddish Press
Eddy PortnoyCurrent price €85.49Original price €94.99Stories abound of immigrant Jews on the outside looking in, clambering up the ladder of social mobility, successfully assimilating and integrating ...
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