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B. R. Ambedkar
The man who gave hope to India's dispossessed
By Shashi Tharoor
A household name throughout India, B. R. Ambedkar is one of the country's most important figures, second only to Mahatma Gandhi. He played a major role in drafting the constitution for a newly ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-6430-8
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Pre-OrderThe Derby philosophers
Science and culture in British urban society, 1700-1850
By Paul A. Elliott
The Derby Philosophers focuses upon the activities of a group of Midland intellectuals that included the evolutionist and physician Erasmus Darwin, Rev. Thomas Gisborne the evangelical ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-7176-4
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£25.00
Pre-OrderThe rise of devils
Fear and the origins of modern terrorism
By James Crossland
In the dying light of the nineteenth century, the world came to know and fear terrorism. Like today, this was a time of progress and dread, characterised by political and technological ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-7819-0
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£11.99
Pre-OrderDemocratic passions
The politics of feeling in British popular radicalism, 1809-48
By Matthew Roberts
This book challenges the assumption - just as alive today as it was in the nineteenth century - that the political sphere was an arena of reason in which feelings had no part to play. It shows ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-7886-2
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£25.00
Pre-OrderOut of his mind
Masculinity and mental illness in Victorian Britain
By Amy Milne-Smith
Out of His Mind interrogates how Victorians made sense of the madman as both a social reality and a cultural representation. Even at the height of enthusiasm for the curative powers of ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-7885-5
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£25.00
Pre-OrderHerminie and Fanny Pereire
Elite Jewish women in nineteenth-century France
By Helen M. Davies
Herminie and Fanny Pereire were sisters-in-law, married to the eminent Jewish bankers and Saint-Simonian socialists Emile and Isaac. They were also mother and daughter. This book, a companion to ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-7765-0
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£85.00
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Off white
Central and Eastern Europe and the global history of race
Edited by Catherine Baker, Bogdan C. Iacob, Anikó Imre and James Mark
This volume foregrounds racial difference as a key to an alternative history of the Central and Eastern European region, which revolves around the role of whiteness as the unacknowledged ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-7220-4
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£95.00
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Land and labour
The Potters' Emigration Society, 1844-51
By Martin Crawford
Land and labour provides the first full-length history of the Potters' Emigration Society, the controversial trade union scheme designed to solve the problems of surplus labour by changing ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-7135-1
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£85.00
Pre-OrderJewish refugees and the British nursing profession
A gendered opportunity
By Jane Brooks
This book follows the lives of female Jewish refugees who fled Nazi persecution and became nurses. Nursing was nominally a profession but with its poor pay and harsh discipline, it was unpopular ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-6742-2
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£85.00
Pre-OrderCelebrities, heroes and champions
Popular politicians in the age of reform, 1810-67
By Simon James Morgan
Celebrities, heroes and champions explores the role of the popular politician in British and Irish society from the Napoleonic Wars to the Second Reform Act of 1867. Covering movements for ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-7881-7
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£25.00
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