Witness to War
From the first shots at Fort Sumter to the mourning of Lincoln’s death—experience the Civil War as it happened, through the voices of those who were there. History comes to life in the words of those who lived through the American Civil War. The Civil War was one of the great events of United States history, and the widespread literacy...Paperback$6523Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
Why the Nineties Matter
An entertaining and deeply insightful history of a decade that matters more than we think: the 1990s. Nearly a quarter century after the decade of the 1990s ended, what really mattered in America during that era is finally coming into focus. Many of the most important developments in politics, culture, and society today have roots in that era: the rise...Hardback$8300Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
Pre-orderWho Tells Your Story
Who Tells Your Story gathers contemporary analyses of monument and commemoration controversies from across the United States and the world. Sanford Levinson and the contributors in this volume ask whose stories get to be told, who gets to tell them, what happens when monuments disappear, and how these memorials impact national narratives. From the removal of Confederate statues in the...Hardback$34751Unit price /UnavailableOut 27 Aug 2026Pre-order
White, Black, Brown
Facing persistent exploitation, discrimination, and marginalisation in the second half of the twentieth century, generations of Puerto Rican organisers and activists drew on multiple competing versions of nationalism to challenge the racial order in Chicago, one of America’s most segregated cities. Initially, both supporters and opponents of Puerto Rican independence promoted the assimilation of fellow migrants as white citizens. The...Hardback$30800Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks-
White, Black, Brown
Facing persistent exploitation, discrimination, and marginalisation in the second half of the twentieth century, generations of Puerto Rican organisers and activists drew on multiple competing versions of nationalism to challenge the racial order in Chicago, one of America’s most segregated cities. Initially, both supporters and opponents of Puerto Rican independence promoted the assimilation of fellow migrants as white citizens. The...Paperback$10600Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks 
When Metaphysics Meets Biology
This book explains the background and meaning of Kant’s account of the life sciences in the Critique of the Power of Judgement by reading the development of Kant’s ideas on the living since his 1763 precritical essays, in parallel with analyzing several milestones in the constitution of the concept of organism as a self-organized totality, studied by biology. This parallel...Hardback$53800Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
What Every American Needs to Know About the Qur'an - A History of Islam & the United States
What Every American Needs to Know About the Qur'an - A History of Islam & the United States You will be fascinated by this fast-paced, objective history of the world from a perspective you have never imagined. Current events will come into focus in the backdrop of 1,400 years of inconceivable yet true events and conflicts. Thousands of books, documents,...Paperback$6300Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
We Shook Up the World
George Harrison met Muhammad Ali in 1964, when both men were on the cusp of worldwide fame. Ten years later, the two men simultaneously staged comebacks, demonstrating just how much they embodied the promises and perils of their era. In doing so, Tracy Daugherty suggests, they revealed the scope and the limits of political courage and commitment to faith in...Hardback$10160Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
We Are Soldiers Still
Lt. Gen. Harold Moore and Joseph Galloway return to Vietnam's Ia Drang Valley more than four decades after the battle they recalled in their #1 New York Times bestseller We Were Soldiers Once ...and Young. Renewing their relationships with ten American veterans of the fabled conflict—and with former adversaries—the authors explore how the war changed them all, as well as...Paperback$5300Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
Warriors
During the war, Gerald Hanley spent several years in the remote and scorching deserts of Somalia. The rigours of living in such heat, and the difficulties of attempting to control blood-feuding nomads, led to the suicide of seven fellow-officers. Despite these problems, Gerald Hanley writes with great affection for the local clans, an affection that is untainted by sentimentality. Warriors:...Paperback$6900Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks-
War is a Racket
Complete 1935 edition of War is a Racket by retired Major General Smedley D. Butler USMC. Butler turns against his life-long profession and exposes war as a racket, in which the few profit and the many pay the aching costs. This is a hard-hitting book by a hard-hitting soldier. He does more than expose and denounce the racket of war....Paperback$3200Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks -
War is a Racket
Complete 1935 edition of War is a Racket by retired Major General Smedley D. Butler USMC. Butler turns against his life-long profession and exposes war as a racket, in which the few profit and the many pay the aching costs. This is a hard-hitting book by a hard-hitting soldier. He does more than expose and denounce the racket of war....Hardback$5400Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks 
War and Community in Late Antiquity
Late Antiquity (ca. 250–600 CE) was a world at war: barbarian migrations, civil wars, raids, and increasingly porous frontiers affected millions of its inhabitants. While military and political historians have long grappled with this history, scholars of late antique society and culture rarely interrogate the consequences of near constant warfare on civilian populations, fighting forces, and the built environment. War...Hardback$37900Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks-
Voices from Mariel
The stories of Cuban refugees who journeyed across the Straits of Florida in search of a better future Between April and September 1980, more than 125,000 Cuban refugees fled their homeland, seeking freedom from Fidel Castro’s dictatorship. They departed in boats from the port of Mariel and braved the dangerous 90-mile journey across the Straits of Florida. Told in the...Paperback$6648Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks -
Virginia's Forgotten Founder
The first biography of a neglected but crucial revolutionary figure and fascinating window into his world Study the American Revolution and you might miss the name Robert Carter Nicholas; study Robert Carter Nicholas and you will see the entire revolution. This is the first biography of the Virginia patriot who served in the House of Burgesses and has gone down...Hardback$36500Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks 
Virginia Cider
Your guide to the remarkable history, and ongoing popularity, of cider in the Commonwealth A cultural phenomenon with surprisingly deep roots, cider has been one of Virginia’s favourite beverages for more than four hundred years, representing a time-honoured ingredient of the cultural heritage that the first English settlers brought with them to America. Since the seventeenth century, apple orchards have...Paperback$8780Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
Vergessene Und Unsichtbare Im Deutsch-Französischen Kontext / Les Oublié(e)S Et Les Invisibles Dans Le Contexte Franco-Allemand
Die deutsch-französischen Beziehungen beschränken sich bei weitem nicht nur auf Kriege und die nunmehr seit 60 Jahren existierende deutsch-französische Freundschaft. Vielfältige Kontakte zwischen Frankreich und deutschsprachigen Staaten in unterschiedlichen Bereichen existieren seit Jahrhunderten. Dabei sind viele und ist vieles in Vergessenheit geraten. Persönlichkeiten, aber auch Dokumente, Ereignisse und signifikante Orte sind mitunter absichtsvoll vergessen bzw. unsichtbar (gemacht) worden. In dieser...Hardback$35600Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks-
Vanished Water
The trickle-down effects of empire on the environment Vanished Water examines the ecological and social consequences of British imperial rule—and its inherently extractive aims—on water development in late-colonial Kenya. Examining the arid northern and eastern parts of the country between 1938 and the mid-1960s, James Parker demonstrates how the British colonial state manipulated scant water supplies to drive cash crop...Hardback$36700Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks 
Untrusting
What does it mean to trust in a world shaped by violence and inequality? This book investigates the fraught pursuit of democratic policing in Brazil, where trust is both a necessity and a precarious gamble. Marta-Laura Haynes follows police officers and favela residents through patrols, crime scenes, fishing trips, drumming circles, and neighbourhood gatherings to reveal how trust is not...Hardback$43100Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks-
Unsung
Discover the untold stories of the Revolutionary War's Battle of Sullivan's Island: Unveiling the significant contributions of unsung heroes in shaping America's history. Step into a time of revolution and intrigue with this meticulously interpreted exploration of an overlooked milestone in American history. Unsung brings into sharp focus the events surrounding the Battle of Sullivan's Island, a critical juncture in...Paperback$5000Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks 
Unrest in the Nebulae
In Unrest in the Nebulae, Gitan Djeli wields prose poetry to archive five hundred years of exploitative colonisation, ecocide, extinction, militarisation and deportation, slavery, indenture, negotiated nationhood, postcolonial plantation structures, and apologist histories. Writing in a queer anticolonial poetics, and using lines of Kreol, Gitan Djeli mines the tension that emerges between colonialism and language, disarticulating the myth-making aesthetics of...Hardback$26095Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks-
Universalism and Regionalism in the Early Islamic World
What was the role of local history-writing in the early Islamic World, and why was it such a popular way of thinking about the past? In this innovative study, Harry Munt explores this understudied phenomenon. Examining primary sources in both Arabic and Persian, Munt argues that local history-writing must be situated within its appropriate historical contexts to explain why it...Hardback$35400Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks -
Unheard Voices of the Young Egyptian Brothers
Drawing upon extensive fieldwork, Unheard Voices of the Young Egyptian Brothers unveils the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood intra-dynamics by examining the emerging pathways of political disengagement and radicalisation in the aftermath of the 2013 Coup. It explores how the 2011 waves of protest and the 2013 military takeover of power—two contradictory phases, in terms of their implications for political Islam—shaped young...Paperback$13700Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks -
Unearthing Fluctuating Wealth Inequality
This Element examines how archaeology can contribute to the investigation of ancient wealth disparities, using the Jōmon and Yayoi periods in Japan as a case study. It analyses 1,150 pit dwellings from 29 archaeological sites in southern Kantō, dating from the Late Jōmon to the end of the Yayoi period (ca. 2540 BC–AD 250). Household wealth is estimated through pit...Paperback$8000Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks -
Unearthing Fluctuating Wealth Inequality
This Element examines how archaeology can contribute to the investigation of ancient wealth disparities, using the Jōmon and Yayoi periods in Japan as a case study. It analyzes 1,150 pit dwellings from 29 archaeological sites in southern Kantō, dating from the Late Jōmon to the end of the Yayoi period (ca. 2540 BC–AD 250). Household wealth is estimated through pit...Hardback$23100Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks -
Under the Guise of Protection
A shocking story of social engineering in the era of Jim Crow The eugenics movement, in which the state arrogated to itself the right to determine who could and who could not have children, was a dark, shameful chapter in American history. Virginia was infamous as an epicenter of eugenic thought; the case of Buck v. Bell, which resulted in...Paperback$12100Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks -
Under the Guise of Protection
A shocking story of social engineering in the era of Jim Crow The eugenics movement, in which the state arrogated to itself the right to determine who could and who could not have children, was a dark, shameful chapter in American history. Virginia was infamous as an epicentre of eugenic thought; the case of Buck v. Bell, which resulted in...Hardback$36200Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks 
Twelve Days
In the popular literature and scholarship of the Civil War, the days immediately after the surrender at Fort Sumter are overshadowed by the great battles and seismic changes in American life that followed. The twelve days that began with the federal evacuation of the fort and ended with the arrival of the New York Seventh Militia Regiment in Washington were...Hardback$8300Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks-
True Blue
During the American Civil War, thousands of citizens in the Deep South remained loyal to the United States. Though often overlooked, they possessed broad symbolic importance and occupied an outsized place in the strategic thinking and public discourse of both the Union and the Confederacy. In True Blue, Clayton J. Butler investigates the lives of white Unionists in three Confederate...Paperback$10160Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks -
Transpacific Nonencounters
In Transpacific Nonencounters, Andrea Mendoza works across the seemingly unconnected histories of race and nation in modern Mexico and Japan, showing the commonalities in the way race figures in their state and social formations through a method Mendoza calls the theory of nonencounter. Intellectual and cultural productions of racial knowledge were important for the formation of the modernizing Mexican and...Hardback$30109Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks -
Transpacific Nonencounters
In Transpacific Nonencounters, Andrea Mendoza works across the seemingly unconnected histories of race and nation in modern Mexico and Japan, showing the commonalities in the way race figures in their state and social formations through a method Mendoza calls the theory of nonencounter. Intellectual and cultural productions of racial knowledge were important for the formation of the modernizing Mexican and...Paperback$8900Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks -
Transnational Women's Liberation
Across different cities, countries, and continents, the women's liberation movement grew from the grassroots, beginning with small discussion groups in the late 1960s to thousands marching in the streets less than a decade later. Political positions varied and methods of struggle were diverse, from consciousness-raising, street theatre, and squatting, to feminist bookshops, healthcare services, and refuges for women escaping domestic...Hardback$33800Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks 
Transition Imaginaries
The idea that the world needs to transition to a more sustainable future is omnipresent in environmental politics and policy today. Focusing on the energy transition as a solution to the ecological crisis represents a shift in environmental political thought and action. This Element employs a political theory approach and draws on empirical developments to explore this shift by probing...Hardback$23200Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks-
Transition Imaginaries
The idea that the world needs to transition to a more sustainable future is omnipresent in environmental politics and policy today. Focusing on the energy transition as a solution to the ecological crisis represents a shift in environmental political thought and action. This Element employs a political theory approach and draws on empirical developments to explore this shift by probing...Paperback$8000Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks -
Toward a More Perfect Union
Toward a More Perfect Union is an extraordinary book of husband-and-wife letters written during the Civil War, selected from the Frederic E. Lockley Collection at the Huntington Library in San Marino, California. Appearing here are 162 letters exchanged between Frederic Lockley and his wife Elizabeth, chosen from 405 letters preserved in the collection. The survival of such two-way exchanges is...Hardback$8700Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks -
To Obama
“An insightful study of a president who listened to even his harshest critics with grace and humility.”—The Washington Post NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY GLAMOUR Every evening for eight years, at his request, President Obama was given ten handpicked letters written by ordinary American citizens—the unfiltered voice of a nation—from his Office of Presidential Correspondence....Paperback$6500Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks -
The World Beyond the West
Exploring the evolution of Eastern European discourses in Asia, Africa and Latin America in the nineteenth and twentieth century, this volume locates the mechanisms and strategies that diverse Eastern European social actors adopted when discussing the non-European world. The Eastern European perspective is not only an important addition to the study of orientalism and post coloniality, but the transnational links...Paperback$11600Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks 
The Women's History of the Modern World
The internationally bestselling author of Who Cooked the Last Supper? presents a wickedly witty and very current history of the extraordinary female rebels, reactionaries, and trailblazers who left their mark on history from the French Revolution up to the present day. Now is the time for a new women's history—for the famous, infamous, and unsung women to get their due—from...Paperback$5400Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
The Witch in the Western Imagination
In an exciting new approach to witchcraft studies, The Witch in the Western Imagination examines the visual representation of witches in early modern Europe. With vibrant and lucid prose, Lyndal Roper moves away from the typical witchcraft studies on trials, beliefs, and communal dynamics and instead considers the witch as a symbolic and malleable figure through a broad sweep of...Paperback$10500Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks-
The Warmth of Other Suns
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER • ONE OF BARACK OBAMA’S FAVOURITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR • TIME’S TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADE • ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES’S FIVE BEST BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURY • A KIRKUS REVIEWS BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE CENTURY • LOS ANGELES TIMES’S #1 NONFICTION...Paperback$5600Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks 
The Vieux Carré
In this fascinating little book, John DeMers tells the story of the Vieux Carré cocktail against the evolving backdrop of the ever-rich cocktail culture of New Orleans. Mixologist Walter Bergeron created this distinctive drink in the 1930s at the Hotel Monteleone; it was later dubbed "the Cocktail that Spins" in honour of the slowly turning Carousel Bar at the hotel....Hardback$7275Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
The Unvanquished
From the bestselling author of The Indispensables, this is the unknown and dramatic story of irregular guerrilla warfare that altered the course of the Civil War and inspired the origins of America's modern special operations forces. The Civil War is most remembered for the grand battles that have come to define it: Gettysburg, Antietam, Shiloh, among others. However, as bestselling...Hardback$7100Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks-
The Unraveling Heart
Women's songs of the grind mill are among the oldest oral traditions in South Asia. They have been sung to accompany a daily household labour, making flour using a stone hand mill, for many centuries. Even today, grind mill songs are still well known in Maharashtra, testifying to the endurance of a remarkable genre. Yet these songs have long been...Hardback$45900Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks 
The University of Virginia
In the nearly two centuries since the first building’s completion in Thomas Jefferson’s academical village, programmes and facilities at the University of Virginia have been continually expanded and updated. This second edition of Susan Tyler Hitchcock’s The University of Virginia: A Pictorial History, first published in 1999 and updated in 2003, traces Mr. Jefferson’s favourite project through an appropriately rich...Hardback$11400Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
The United States Marines
The United States Marines is fully revised and serves as the definitive history of the United States Marines, covering their inception in 1784 through all major engagements in the World Wars, the Cold War, and into the wars in the Middle East in the twenty-first century. Conceived amidst uncertainty in November 1775, the United States Marine Corps has grown from...Hardback$16000Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
The Undeciphered Aegean Scripts
The decipherment of Linear B, an early form of Greek used by the Myceneans, by Michael Ventris and John Chadwick has long been celebrated. But five other scripts from the Bronze-Age Aegean remain undeciphered. In this book, Brent Davis provides a thorough introduction to these scripts and uses statistical techniques drawn from linguistics to provide insights into the languages lying...Hardback$43000Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
Pre-orderThe Transition Towards Revolution and Reform
The Arab Spring created attempts to transition towards democracy by the peoples of Tunisia, Egypt, Morocco, and Jordan. This study compares the methods used by the secular leaders of Tunisia and Egypt to deal with people power demanding revolution with the methods that the monarchs of Morocco and Jordan resorted to in accommodating their people's priority of reform. In contrast...Paperback$4999Unit price /UnavailableOut 8 Sep 2026Pre-order
The Traitor
In postwar Japan, a writer meets a small-town innkeeper who is obsessed with a tale from the nineteenth century. He relates the saga of Enomoto Takeaki, an admiral in the final years of the Tokugawa shogunate who regained authority under the Meiji government. A former member of imperial Japan's military police, the innkeeper dwells on the question of loyalty even...Hardback$33000Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks-
The Thun-Hohenstein Album
The first extensive study of the depiction of the armour in the Thun-Hohenstein Album against the vibrant artistic and cultural contexts that created it. In late medieval and early modern Europe, armour was more than a defensive technology for war or knightly sport. Its diverse types formed a complex visual language. Luxury armour was fitted precisely to a wearer's body,...Paperback$12100Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks -
The Thirteenth Tribe
All original edition. Nothing added, nothing removed. This book traces the history of the ancient Khazar Empire, a major but almost forgotten power in Eastern Europe, which in the Dark Ages became converted to Judaism. Khazaria was finally wiped out by the forces of Genghis Khan, but evidence indicates that the Khazars themselves migrated to Poland and formed the cradle...Paperback$4800Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks -
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The Third Duke of Buccleuch and Adam Smith
Henry Scott, the third Duke of Buccleuch (1746-1812), presided over the management of one of the largest landed estates in Britain during a time of dramatic agrarian, social, and political change. Tutored and advised by the philosopher Adam Smith, the Duke was also an important patron of the Scottish Enlightenment, lauded by the Edinburgh literati as an exemplar of patriotic...Paperback$4999Unit price /UnavailableOut 7 Aug 2026Pre-order -
The Team That History Forgot
While the Kansas City Chiefs are the NFL’s newest dynasty, winning three Super Bowls since 2020, most fans don’t recall the team’s earliest successful years before decades of futility. What about the underdog losers of that very first Super Bowl? When the Kansas City Chiefs played the Green Bay Packers in Super Bowl I in 1967, they had only been...Hardback$10160Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks 
Pre-orderThe Sutherland Estate, 1850-1920
From the mid-nineteenth century until the end of WWI, the Sutherland Estate was the largest landed estate in western Europe. At 1.1 million acres, the ducal family owned almost the entire county of Sutherland, as well as a further 30,000 acres in England. The estate was owned by the dukes of Sutherland, who were among the richest patrician landowners of...Paperback$4999Unit price /UnavailableOut 7 Aug 2026Pre-order-
The Solidarity Economy
The untold story of the role of humanitarian NGOs in building the neoliberal order after empire After India gained independence in 1947, Britain reinvented its role in the global economy through nongovernmental aid organisations. Utilising existing imperial networks and colonial bureaucracy, the nonprofit sector sought an ethical capitalism, one that would equalise relationships between British consumers and Third World producers...Paperback$9500Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks -
The Sociological Heritage of the Scottish Enlightenment
This book provides answers to two sorts of questions. It explores, on the one hand, how and what sociological ideas were developed in the Scottish Enlightenment. And, on the other hand, how the ideas of the Scottish Enlightenment would emerge and develop in subsequent traditions of sociology. Scottish Enlightenment thinkers developed and refined a descriptive-explanatory approach and methodology to explore...Paperback$14300Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks -
The Shopkeeper of Alsace
One unstoppable woman. Two World Wars. Based on a True Story. When WWII comes for her family, Sarah thinks she's ready. She's had training, after all, coming of age in Poland during World War I. In 1920, Sarah leaves behind the ruins of Poland for France, full of youthful hope and ambition. Jewish immigrants are welcome, and soon, she's built...Paperback$5400Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks -
The Secret History of Bigfoot
"A winning portrait of America at its weirdest." -- Publishers Weekly STARRED Review From the shrouded forests of the Pacific Northwest to off-the-wall cryptozoological conventions, one man searches high and low for the answer to the question: real or not, why do we want to believe? Bigfoot is an instantly recognisable figure. Through the decades, this elusive primate has been...Paperback$5100Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks -
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The Scottish Soldier and Empire, 1854-1902
The Scottish Soldier and Empire, 1854-1902 reflects upon the iconic role of the Scottish soldier as an empire builder from the Crimean War to the end of the nineteenth century. It examines how the soldier commented on this imperial experience, largely through letters, diaries, and poems published in the provincial press, how his exploits were reviewed in Scotland and how...Paperback$6999Unit price /UnavailableOut 7 Aug 2026Pre-order 
The Royal House of Savoy
For generations, the Italian peninsula was Europe’s fragmented battlefield. This book is the definitive account of how the House of Savoy ended that chaos and forged a modern nation. It is a story of how ruthless Realpolitik prevailed over romantic zeal. Through access to private archives and meticulous research, this saga of a dynasty is told one life at a...Hardback$29600Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
The Roman Law of Inheritance
Fritz Schulz once famously described the Roman law of inheritance as "labyrinthine" and it is deemed to be the most complex part of the Roman legal system. As Rome evolved from a city-state to an imperial power, the rules of inheritance often changed because of the economic importance of acquisition at death. These changes are reflected in the Corpus iuris...Paperback$13000Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks-
The Resilience of the Old Regime
In The Resilience of the Old Regime, David Art reevaluates the so-called first wave of democratization in Western Europe through the lens of authoritarian resilience. He argues that non-democrats succeeded to a very large degree in managing, diverting, disrupting, and repressing democratic movements until the end of the First World War. This was true both in states political scientists have...Hardback$30400Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks -
The Red Tsunami
WARNING: Due to The Red Tsunami's success and visibility, it has attracted impostors and thieves. These impostors can and will publish unauthorized materials that appear to be synopses or even fake The Red Tsunami titles using stolen artwork. These are generally AI-created, which includes AI hallucinations and fake sources. These are of no value to you. T. Casey Fleming has...Hardback$10000Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks -
The Rebirth of the Spanish Empire
The death of Carlos II in 1700 and the rise of Felipe V to the Spanish throne sparked a global war—and in New Spain, a cultural and political upheaval. As Bourbon loyalists staged elaborate ceremonies and circulated propaganda to legitimise the new dynasty, priests, artists, and local elites reimagined sacred kingship through vivid metaphors of death, rebirth, and regeneration. Sermons,...Paperback$13000Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks 
The Ragged Edge of Freedom
The Ragged Edge of Freedom explores the long shadow of slavery in the Lower Midwest. In the decades after the Civil War, elites in southern Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois constantly raised the spectre of "cheap" Black labour to divide workers, discipline markets, and gain political advantage. At the same time, powerful outsiders depicted the borderland as dirty and degraded, pathologising...Hardback$30700Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks-
The Race for Universal Monarchy
The early sixteenth century saw the rise of two Mediterranean empires—the Christian Habsburgs, based in Spain and Austria, and the Muslim Ottomans, centered in the Balkans and Anatolia—with strikingly similar ambitions. Holy Roman Emperor Charles V (1500–1558) and Sultan Süleyman (1495–1566) each pursued grand universalist visions, seeking to unite Islam and Christendom under a universal monarchy that would resolve wars...Hardback$48600Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks -
The promise of violence
The Promise of Violence by Younes Saramifar explores how revolutionaries in Iran have chosen to identify memories of the Iran-Iraq War as their 'collective' memory. They regard this war era as a temporal reference in history—"the time of times", or at times, even "a time beyond time". Can a sole event and its violence truly become, for some, the all-encompassing,...Hardback$38000Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks 
The Princess Knight
AN INSTANT USA TODAY BESTSELLER! "A swashbuckling adventure... An absolute delight!" — Hannah Nicole Maehrer, bestselling author of Assistant to the Villain A princess desperate to win back the prince who broke her heart follows him to his kingdom's prestigious military academy—and in doing so, falls in love, saves the realm, and continues to look fabulous in this delightful debut...Paperback$5400Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
The Price of Truth
In The Price of Truth, Richard Fine recounts the intense drama surrounding the German surrender at the end of World War II and the veteran Associated Press journalist Edward Kennedy's controversial scoop. On May 7, 1945, Kennedy bypassed military censorship to be the first to break the news of the Nazi surrender executed in Reims, France. Both the practice and...Hardback$7300Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
The Political Thought of Nineteenth-Century Spanish America
Throughout the nineteenth century, Spanish American writers and thinkers grappled with their unique circumstances of independence after three centuries of Spanish colonial rule. The emergence of a significant number of new polities that adopted representative institutions in an era when absolutism prevailed in Western Europe, their general adoption of republicanism, and their complex demographic composition all posed serious challenges for...Hardback$34100Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks-
Theorizing Fallism
In 2015, students at the University of Cape Town ignited a movement that would reverberate across the globe by demanding the removal of a statue of the British imperialist Cecil Rhodes. What began as a protest against a single monument became Rhodes Must Fall: a confrontation with colonial legacies at South African universities that inspired a movement at Oxford and...Hardback$42800Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks -
The Origins of Totalitarianism
Hannah Arendt's definitive work on totalitarianism—an essential component of any study of twentieth-century political history—now with a new introduction by Anne Applebaum. A cornerstone of modern political philosophy, The Origins of Totalitarianism has become essential reading as we grapple with the rise of autocrats and tyrannical thought across the globe. The book begins with the rise of anti-Semitism in central...Paperback$5800Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks 
The Origins of the Corinthian Christ Group
The Origins of the Corinthian Christ Group argues that Paul's language about his god—father, lord Jesus Christ, and pneuma—would have been familiar to Corinthian gentiles as a small group of gods, a chord of gods. Worship of Paul's chord of gods matches the common religious practice (in Theodore Schatzki's sense) around the ancient Mediterranean and in Corinth and would have...Paperback$10200Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
The Nine
The beloved New York Times bestseller [A] narrative of unfathomable courage ―Wall Street Journal The Nine follows the true story of the author's great aunt Hélène Podliasky, who led a band of nine female resistance fighters as they escaped a German forced labour camp and made a ten-day journey across the front lines of WWII from Germany back to Paris....Paperback$5400Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks-
The Muqaddimah
Volume one of the classic Islamic history of the world, now available to a new generation of readers in a fully unabridged edition. Written by the great fourteenth-century Arab scholar Ibn Khaldûn, The Muqaddimah, or "Introduction," is the earliest critical study of history. Though intended as the preface and first book of a world history, it is a wholly self-contained...Paperback$10000Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks -
The Muqaddimah
Volume two of the classic Islamic history of the world, now available to a new generation of readers in a fully unabridged edition. Written by the great fourteenth-century Arab scholar Ibn Khaldûn, The Muqaddimah, or 'Introduction', is the earliest critical study of history. Though intended as the preface and first book of a world history, it is a wholly self-contained...Hardback$63000Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks -
The Muqaddimah
Volume two of the classic Islamic history of the world, now available to a new generation of readers in a fully unabridged edition. Written by the great fourteenth-century Arab scholar Ibn Khaldûn, The Muqaddimah, or "Introduction", is the earliest critical study of history. Though intended as the preface and first book of a world history, it is a wholly self-contained...Paperback$10000Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks -
The Muqaddimah
Volume three of the classic Islamic history of the world, now available to a new generation of readers in a fully unabridged edition. Written by the great fourteenth-century Arab scholar Ibn Khaldûn, The Muqaddimah, or Introduction, is the earliest critical study of history. Though intended as the preface and first book of a world history, it is a wholly self-contained...Paperback$9900Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks -
The Muqaddimah
Volume one of the classic Islamic history of the world, now available to a new generation of readers in a fully unabridged edition. Written by the great fourteenth-century Arab scholar Ibn Khaldûn, The Muqaddimah, or "Introduction," is the earliest critical study of history. Though intended as the preface and first book of a world history, it is a wholly self-contained...Hardback$63000Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks -
The Mountain and the Politics of Representation
The stories we tell, published or otherwise, condition our mountain experiences in practice and reinforce cultural memory and representation. Yet, as The Mountain and the Politics of Representation and the authors within it set out to demonstrate, if we look beyond the boundaries of this ‘singular white history’ there is a rich diversity of stories to tell. This volume contributes...Paperback$17000Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks 
The Modern World After Colonialism
What does it mean for the social sciences to take colonialism seriously—not just as an issue of the past, but in terms of its continuing consequences in the present? While calls to decolonise the curriculum are increasing, few resources show what this means in terms of the everyday categories and concepts of the social sciences. The Modern World After Colonialism...Hardback$41600Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
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