Social & Cultural History
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Outcast London: A Study in the Relationship Between Classes in Victorian Society
Gareth Stedman JonesCurrent price €32.85Original price €36.50In the second half of the nineteenth century, Victorian middle and upper classes felt increasingly threatened by the masses of outcast London. Gare...
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The Fortune Hunter: A German Prince in Regency England
Peter James BowmanCurrent price €17.99Original price €19.99The two decades after Waterloo marked the great age of foreign fortune hunters in England. Each year brought a new influx of impecunious Continenta...
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The Women''''s Land Army
Vita Sackville-WestCurrent price €17.79Original price €19.99This is the record of the Women''s Land Army since its inception in September 1939, down to 1944. Following on from the success of The Hurricane S...
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Jazzing: New York City''s Unseen Scene
Thomas H. GreenlandCurrent price €26.99Original price €29.99How do we speak about jazz? In this provocative study based on the author's deep immersion in the New York City jazz scene, Tom Greenland turns fro...
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Booker T. Washington in American Memory
Kenneth M. HamiltonCurrent price €84.14Original price €98.99Since the 1960s, many historians have condemned Booker T. Washington as a problematic, even negative, influence on African American progress. This ...
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Thunder Fox''s Long Hair: (a True Story)
S. WILLIAM LONEWOLFCurrent price €16.01Original price €17.99Current price €16.01Original price €17.99Save 11% -
The Great British Dream Factory: The Strange History of Our National Imagination
Dominic SandbrookCurrent price €19.13Original price €21.99'Delightfully good ... an exuberant and learned celebration of British culture ... full of love for and fascination with everything from the origin...
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The Compleat Angler
Charles CottonCurrent price €13.59Original price €15.99'I envy no body but him, and him only, that catches more fish than I do.' A unique celebration of the English countryside and the most famous book...
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Country House Society: The Private Lives of England''s Upper Class After the First World War
Pamela HornCurrent price €16.65Original price €18.50The First World War particularly affected the landed classes with their long military tradition; country houses were turned into military hospitals...
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Stay Put? Make a Move?: From Lake Waccabuc to Omotesando
Thomas NevinsCurrent price €16.65Original price €18.50Tom collaborated with his blind dog on Stay Put? Make a Move?, so his 6th book breaks all the rules. The dog suffers from Attention Deficit Hyperac...
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Light and Life in the Middle Hills: A Photographer''''s Perspective of Life in Nepal
Johnny FennCurrent price €25.35Original price €32.50A year after the devastating earthquake that shook Nepal, former Gurkha Officer turned professional photographer, Johnny Fenn, shares his journey w...
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Rediscovering Philo of Alexandria. A First Century Torah Commentator, Volume V - Deuteronomy
Michael Leo SamuelCurrent price €24.75Original price €27.50Current price €24.75Original price €27.50Save 10% -
Race, Place, Trace: Essays in Honour of Patrick Wolfe
Verso BooksCurrent price €23.39Original price €25.99This edited collection celebrates Patrick Wolfe's contribution to the study and critique of settler colonialism as a distinct mode of domination. T...
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The Complete Indian Housekeeper and Cook
Flora Annie SteelCurrent price €14.88Original price €17.50'an Indian household can no more be governed peacefully, without dignity and prestige, than an Indian Empire' InThe Complete Indian Housekeeper an...
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England: A Class of Its Own: An Outsider''s View
Professor Detlev PiltzCurrent price €23.85Original price €26.50A wry, affectionate and amusing take on English class and customs from an outsider's perspective. For years German lawyer and author Detlev Piltz ...
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A Village in the Third Reich: How Ordinary Lives Were Transformed By the Rise of Fascism
Angelika PatelCurrent price €29.25Original price €32.50___________ A Waterstones Paperback of the Year 2022 A New Statesman Book of the Year 2022 Fascinating Youll learn more about the psychological ...
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What''s Another Year
Mick LynchCurrent price €16.65Original price €18.50Ireland s love affair with the Eurovision began with the National Song Contest in 1965, when Brendan Bowyer and Dickie Rock participated. Over the ...
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Right Royal Scandal: Two Marriages that Changed History
Joanne MajorCurrent price €22.09Original price €25.99Almost two books in one, A Right Royal Scandal recounts the fascinating history of the irregular love matches contracted by two successive generati...
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Atlas of the Great Irish Famine
Cork University PressCurrent price €62.09Original price €68.99The Great Famine is possibly the most pivotal event/experience in modern Irish history. Its global reach and implications cannot be underestimated....
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Bread
Scott Cutler ShershowCurrent price €15.29Original price €16.99Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Bread is an object that is always in pr...
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The Gaybo Revolution: How Gay Byrne Challenged Irish Society
Finola Doyle-O'NeillCurrent price €16.65Original price €18.50Current price €16.65Original price €18.50Save 10% -
Vagabonds: Life on the Streets of Nineteenth-century London Shortlisted for the Wolfson History Prize 2023
Oskar JensenCurrent price €22.53Original price €26.50Dickensian London is brought to real and vivid life in this Wolfson History Prize-shortlisted portrait by a rising-star historian and New Generatio...
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