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Long Peace Street
A walk in modern China
By Jonathan Chatwin
Through the centre of China's historic capital, Long Peace Street cuts a long, arrow-straight line. It divides the Forbidden City, home to generations of Chinese emperors, from Tiananmen Square, ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-5173-5
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£12.99
Pre-OrderA defence of witchcraft belief
A sixteenth-century response to Reginald Scot’s Discoverie of Witchcraft
Edited by Eric Pudney
This is the first published edition of a fascinating manuscript on witchcraft in the collection of the British Library, written by an unknown sixteenth-century scholar. Responding to a ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-4776-9
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£80.00
Pre-OrderDrug smuggler nation
Narcotics and the Netherlands, 1920–1995
By Stephen Snelders
Why did the international drug regulatory regime of the twentieth century fail to stop an explosive increase in trade and consumption of illegal drugs? This study investigates the histories of ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-5139-1
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£80.00
Pre-OrderColonial powers and Ethiopian frontiers 1880–1884
Acta Aethiopica volume IV
Edited by Sven Rubenson, Amsalu Aklilu, Shiferaw Bekele and Samuel Rubenson
Colonial powers and Ethiopian frontiers 1880-1884 is the fourth volume of Acta Aethiopica, a series that presents original Ethiopian documents of nineteenth-century Ethiopian history with English ... More
ISBN: 978-9-1984-6996-7
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£25.00
Pre-OrderCrowns and colonies
European monarchies and overseas empires
Edited by Robert Aldrich and Cindy McCreery
Queen Victoria, who also bore the title of Empress of India, had a real and abiding interest in the British Empire, but other European monarchs also ruled over possessions 'beyond the seas'. ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-5602-0
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£25.00
Pre-OrderThe Pan-African Pantheon
Prophets, Poets, and Philosophers
Edited by Adekeye Adebajo
With forty accessible essays on the key intellectual contributions to Pan-Africanism, this volume offers readers a fascinating insight into the intellectual thinking and contributions to ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-5682-2
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£25.00
Pre-OrderEarly medieval militarisation
Edited by Ellora Bennett, Guido M. Berndt, Stefan Esders and Laury Sarti
The societies of ancient Europe underwent a continual process of militarisation, and this would come to be a defining characteristic of the early Middle Ages. The process was neither linear nor ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-3862-0
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£90.00
Pre-OrderInsanity, identity and empire
Immigrants and institutional confinement in Australia and New Zealand, 1873–1910
By Catharine Coleborne
Insanity, identity and empire examines the formation of colonial social identities inside the institutions for the insane in Australia and New Zealand. Taking a large sample of patient records, ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-5631-0
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£20.00
Pre-OrderThe Irish tower house
Society, economy and environment, c. 1300–1650
By Victoria L. McAlister
The Irish tower house examines the social role of castles in late-medieval and early modern Ireland. It uses a multidisciplinary methodology to uncover the lived experience of this historic ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-5593-1
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£25.00
Pre-OrderHow to be a historian
Scholarly personae in historical studies, 1800–2000
Edited by Herman Paul
This volume offers a stimulating new perspective on the history of historical studies. Through the prism of 'scholarly personae', it explores why historians care about attitudes or dispositions ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-5603-7
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£25.00
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