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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-OrderCoup in Damascus
Syria and the birth of Arab military rule, 1949
By Carl Rihan
Coup in Damascus is a history of Syria's first military regime. It plots the the fall of Syria's democracy and the rise of its military rulers, particularly Husni al-Zaim, whose brief rule in ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-5104-9
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£85.00
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 Strand
A biography
By Geoff Browell and Eileen Chanin
The first history of one of London's most extraordinary streets.Running along the Thames's northern shore and spanning three-quarters of a mile from Trafalgar Square to Temple Bar, the Strand has ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-7911-1
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£25.00
Pre-OrderSlave trading in the Early Middle Ages
Long-distance connections in northern and east central Europe
By Janel M. Fontaine
This book examines slave trading in northern and eastern central Europe from the seventh century through the eleventh century, tracing its growth, climax, and decline. Demand from the Islamic ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-6009-6
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Hardcover
£85.00
Pre-OrderImplementing a global health programme
Smallpox and Nepal
By Susan Heydon
Worldwide eradication of the devastating viral disease of smallpox was devised as a distant global policy, but success depended on implementing a global vaccination programme within nation ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-7666-0
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£85.00
Pre-OrderUnburied
The true story of Hannah Beswick, the Manchester Mummy
By Hannah Priest
The macabre tale of an eighteenth-century woman immortalised in folklore as the 'Manchester Mummy'. In 1835, the Manchester Natural History Society opened the doors of its museum. Taking pride ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-7592-2
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£25.00
Pre-OrderGrowing up and going out
Youth culture, commerce, and leisure space in post-war Britain
By Sarah Kenny
In the decades following the Second World War, youthful sociability was remade as young people across Britain flocked to newly-opened coffee bars, beat clubs, and discos. These spaces, ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-5264-0
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£85.00
Pre-OrderRed closet
The hidden history of gay oppression in the USSR
By Rustam Alexander
A poignant and deeply researched history of gay oppression in the USSR.In 1934, Joseph Stalin enacted sodomy laws, unleashing a wave of brutal detentions of homosexual men in large Soviet ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-8145-9
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£12.99
Pre-OrderDirty books
Erotic fiction and the avant-garde in mid-century Paris and New York
By Barry Reay and Nina Attwood
An intimate history of the pornographic publisher behind some of the greatest works of the twentieth-century avant-garde.From the 1930s to the 1970s, in New York and in Paris, daring publishers ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-8146-6
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£12.99
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