The Materiality of Diplomacy in the Hellenistic-Roman Mediterranean
This volume is a survey of one of the most interesting practices of ancient diplomacy: the gift or exchange of symbolic objects understood as diplomatic presents. This custom may be as old as mankind, but it can certainly be traced back to the emergence of the first written societies. After assessing this background, the contributions of the volume focus on...Paperback$10200Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
The Marriage Portrait: Reese's Book Club
WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION FINALIST • REESE’S BOOK CLUB PICK • NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER The author of the award-winning Hamnet brings the world of Renaissance Italy to jewel-bright life in this unforgettable fictional portrait of the captivating young duchess Lucrezia de' Medici as she makes her way in a troubled court. “I could not stop reading this incredible...Paperback$5100Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
The Kings of Algiers
A richly detailed history of the Bacris and the Busnachs, two renowned Jewish families whose influence and reputation shook the capitals of Europe and America. At the height of the Napoleonic Wars, the Bacri brothers and their nephew, Naphtali Busnach, were perhaps the most notorious Jews in the Mediterranean. Based in the strategic port of Algiers, their interconnected families traded...Paperback$8400Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
The Jesus Discoveries
10 Historic Finds That Support the Truth of Christianity Explore compelling archaeological discoveries that support the authenticity of the Bible, the resurrection of Jesus, and the reasonableness of Christianity. From an acclaimed biblical scholar and ministry leader, this work explores the Shroud of Turin, the Magdalen Papyrus, the Dead Sea Scrolls, and more. In an age of growing skepticism, many...Paperback$5000Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
The Inland Campaign for Vicksburg
Winner: Laney Prize In this fifth and final volume of his renowned series detailing the campaign for Vicksburg, Tim Smith sheds much-needed light on this often-misunderstood episode of the Union’s efforts to take Vicksburg. In the entire nine-month-long campaign, there was no more tension and drama than in these seventeen days when Grant’s Army of the Tennessee marched through the...Paperback$13500Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
The Impact of Domestic Actors on Iraq's Foreign Policy Formulation, 1950s to 1980s
This book presents a theoretical framework for understanding Iraqi foreign policy from the 1950s through the late Cold War, examining how successive regimes navigated complex international and domestic pressures. The Impact of Domestic Actors on Iraq's Foreign Policy Formulation, 1950s to 1980s by Fatih Oguzhan Ipek analyses the interplay between systemic factors—including influences from great and regional powers—and unit-level variables...Hardback$34100Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
The Idea of Cultural Heritage
The concept of cultural heritage evolved to preserve important objects and practices, in peacetime and during conflict. It now justifies export controls and government regulation and provides the background to moral claims to valuable works of art and architecture. In this new edition of The Idea of Cultural Heritage, Derek Gillman provides an updated overview of both long-standing and more...Hardback$26700Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
The Hunted
Told through the voices of twenty European Jews who survived the Holocaust, The Hunted presents a micro historical account of persecution and survival under Nazi rule. Drawing on diaries and memoirs, it reconstructs a multiplicity of experiences across national, social, and religious contexts, examining how individual decisions were shaped by family networks, local conditions, and shifting policies. Each chapter traces...Hardback$52900Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
Pre-orderThe History of the Scottish Parliament
These three volumes comprise a new history of Scotland's first parliament from the first surviving official records in the thirteenth century to its final dissolution in 1707. Denigrated by unionists as inferior to the English parliament and despised by nationalists for agreeing to its own demise, the Scottish parliament has been shockingly under-researched by Scottish historians. This new history will...Paperback$6999Unit price /UnavailableOut 7 Aug 2026Pre-order
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This is the third volume in The History of the Scottish Parliament. In volumes 1 and 2, the contributors addressed discrete episodes in political history from the early thirteenth century through to 1707, demonstrating the richness of the sources for such historical writing and the importance of parliament to that history. In Volume 3, the contributors have built on that...Paperback$6999Unit price /UnavailableOut 7 Aug 2026Pre-order
The History of European Union Law
This formative period of EU law witnessed an intense struggle over the emergence of a constitutional practice. While the supranational institutions, including the European Commission, the European Court of Justice, and the European Parliament, as well as EU law academics, helped to develop and promote the constitutional practice, member state governments and judiciaries were generally reluctant to embrace it. The...Hardback$36700Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks-
The History of Contingency and Future-Oriented Thought
The future is contingent. It can unfold differently, hinging on chance or choice within the present. The History of Contingency and Future-Oriented Thought tells the story of how these twin concepts have developed across human history. Arcing from our earliest ancestors, through al-Ghazālī, to S. J. Gould, the Element demonstrates how humans realised the future is an undecided, contingent place...Hardback$21300Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks -
The History of Contingency and Future-Oriented Thought
The future is contingent. It can unfold differently, hinging on chance or choice within the present. The History of Contingency and Future-Oriented Thought tells the story of how these twin concepts have developed across human history. Arcing from our earliest ancestors, through al-Ghazālī, to S. J. Gould, the Element demonstrates how humans realised the future is an undecided, contingent place...Paperback$7500Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks -
The HBCU Sisterhood
The HBCU Sisterhood: Testimonies of Triumph and Transformation is a powerful, first-of-its-kind anthology that pulls back the curtain on one of the most extraordinary leadership legacies in American history. For the first time, eight pioneering Black women presidents—Dr. Sebetha Jenkins, Dr. Dianne Boardley Suber, Dr. Trudie Kibbe Reed, Dr. Brenda Allen, Dr. Cynthia Jackson-Hammond, Dr. Cheryl Davenport Dozier, Dr. Colette...Hardback$36300Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks 
The Gulag Archipelago
BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE 20TH CENTURY. --Time Volume 1 of the gripping epic masterpiece, this foundational work of Soviet history is Solzhenitsyn's chilling report of his arrest and interrogation, which exposed to the world the vast bureaucracy of secret police and political repression that haunted Soviet society. Features a new foreword by Anne Applebaum. "The greatest and most powerful...Paperback$6000Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks-
The Great Repair
The Great Repair explores how Jews and Germans began reparations discussions fewer than seven years after the Holocaust – a momentous achievement relegated to the margins of Holocaust scholarship and memory – and the complexities that emerged from the resulting settlement. Gideon Reuveni illuminates the swift transition and extraordinary chapter in postwar history from the horrors of the Holocaust to...Hardback$22300Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks 
The Great Gatsby
The Great Jazz Age Novel The 1925 Original Version, with Classroom History The Great Gatsby is considered F. Scott Fitzgerald's magnum opus, exploring themes of decadence, idealism, social stigmas, patriarchal norms, and the deleterious effects of unencumbered wealth in a capitalistic society. Set against the backdrop of the Jazz Age and the Roaring Twenties, it serves as a cautionary tale,...Paperback$4900Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
The Greatest Templar Tale Never Told
Spanning 417 years from the first entry in 1353 to the last in 1770, the Sinclair/Wemyss journals tell the personal stories of how fifteen generations within two Scottish clans completed a sacred mission to establish a sanctuary in the lands "far to the west." That mission was to bring Templar treasures that disappeared from France on October 13, 1307, to...Paperback$6500Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks-
The Future in Their Hands
A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. The Future in Their Hands is a deep history of the politics of foreign education in Mexico, where many influential figures have European or US degrees. Reconstructing the history of student mobility from the late nineteenth...Hardback$29400Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks 
The Flavors of Iraq
1989. My first trip to Iraq. The taste of apricot. “Never say Saddam’s name.” The Western media largely glossed over the immense human suffering that occurred in Iraq during the embargo of the 1990s and the Iraq War. With this innovative and award-winning graphic novel, French-Iraqi journalist Feurat Alani sets that record straight. The Flavours of Iraq unfolds as a...Paperback$6020Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks-
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The First Stewart Dynasty
The volume begins with the shaky foundation of the Stewart dynasty during the reign of Robert II (1371-1390) and traces its development to the demise at the Battle of Sauchieburn of James III (1460-1488) together with his exalted vision of Stewart kingship. The author shows how and why the period is dominated by the growth of royal power and the...Hardback$63000Unit price /UnavailableOut 7 Aug 2026Pre-order 
The first referendum
Although the United Kingdom's entry to the European Community (EC) in 1973 was initially celebrated, by the end of the first year the mood in the UK had changed from 'hope to uncertainty'. When Edward Heath lost the 1974 General Election, Harold Wilson returned to No. 10 promising a fundamental renegotiation and referendum on EC membership. By the end of...Paperback$12000Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks-
The Fear of Robachicos in Mexico
Civil society organizations report that fourteen children disappear every day in Mexico. This book studies the origins of this social phenomenon and its consequences, not only in the emotional sphere, but also in how children have been treated. Focusing on children’s special positions within Mexican society rather than criminal acts or the implementation of the law, Sosenski links social and...Paperback$13500Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks -
The Exodus
The Exodus has become a core tradition of Western civilization. Millions read it, retell it, and celebrate it. But did it happen? Biblical scholars, Egyptologists, archaeologists, historians, literary scholars, anthropologists, and filmmakers are drawn to it. Unable to find physical evidence until now, many archaeologists and scholars claim this mass migration is just a story, not history. Others oppose this...Paperback$6000Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks 
The Evolution of Naval Mine Warfare
Naval mines and mine countermeasures have been part of mainstream history from 1777 to the present day, including actions in the Middle East and Ukraine. From the naval mine contract that led to the modern oil industry, Nobel prizes, and the invention of plywood to mines used by countries without navies to sink dozens of armoured vessels, the impact of...Paperback$16300Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks-
The Essential Senghor
Senegalese poet, philosopher, and politician Léopold Sédar Senghor, together with Aimé Césaire and others, developed the influential and perennially relevant negritude movement – a Black artistic, philosophical, and political expression of Black presence in the modern colonial world. The Essential Senghor provides a new opportunity for English-language readers to engage with Senghor’s critical and philosophical writings spanning from 1937 to...Hardback$40521Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks 
The Edinburgh History of the British and Irish Press, Volume 1
Consisting of twenty-eight chapters and numerous case studies, The Edinburgh History of the British and Irish Press, Volume 1 examines the history of the British and Irish press from its seventeenth-century beginnings up until the end of the eighteenth century. Five core chapters cover essential topics such as the Business of the Press (including advertising), Production and Distribution, Legal Constraints...Paperback$20000Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
The Deys and Beys of Tunis, 1666–1922
A foundational text on the early modern history of Tunis that places Tunisian history firmly within Ottoman history The Tunisian historiography of the modern era has broadly centred on a narrative of three successive powers: the pashas first, followed by the deys (the "symbolic uncles" of the Turkish militia), who were in turn deposed by the beys (native civil rulers...Hardback$24100Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks-
The Detroit Model
As Detroit reached dizzying new heights of industrial success and urban growth at the turn of the twentieth century, hundreds of thousands of migrants flocked to the Motor City. In response, organizations such as the YMCA and Ford Motor Company launched wide-reaching Americanization programs to instil patriotism, conservative gender roles, traditional family values, and industry-favourable labour relations in the city’s...Hardback$30800Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks 
The Delectable Negro
Winner of the 2015 LGBT Studies Award presented by the Lambda Literary Foundation. Unearths connections between homoeroticism, cannibalism, and cultures of consumption in the context of American literature and US slave culture that has largely been ignored until now. Scholars of US and transatlantic slavery have largely ignored or dismissed accusations that Black Americans were cannibalized. Vincent Woodard takes the...Paperback$12700Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
The Crazies
"Yellowstone meets Matlock" (Tom Clavin) in this dazzling tale of land lust and the American West, chronicling the rise and fall of a wind farm that triggers a 21st-century range war between a struggling fifth-generation rancher and the billionaires next door. Most locals in Big Timber, Montana, learn to live with the wind. Rick Jarrett sought his fortune in it....Paperback$5600Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
The Constitution of the Roman Republic (287-133 BC)
This book explores the apex of the Roman Republic, positing that the Republic has been one of mixed characteristics combining monarchic, oligarchic, aristocratic, and democratic elements in its constitution. It offers unique analytical insights into the golden constitutional era of the Roman Republic by exploring the essence, the fundamentals, the historical roots, and the structures of its institutions. In addition...Hardback$35200Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
The Carolingian South
The Carolingian South turns the Frankish world upside down by taking as its subject the lands of the Carolingian empire south of the Loire and the Alps. It assembles an international group of scholars from different disciplines to examine how the Carolingians defined and were defined by this region. This book asks how Carolingian power was created and negotiated in...Hardback$43600Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
The British Army, Society and Soldiering in Ireland, 1699-1793
A comprehensive overview of the British army in Ireland in the eighteenth century and the army's relationship with the local population. The eighteenth-century army in Ireland, which consisted of 12,000 to 15,000 men and was its own quasi-independent "Establishment", paid for, housed by, and commanded from Dublin, represented a significant proportion of overall British military forces. This book, based on...Hardback$35000Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
The Brandy Milk Punch
A descendant of one of the oldest cocktails, the brandy milk punch has become a calling card for New Orleans brunch culture. In The Brandy Milk Punch, Sharon Keating and Christi Keating Sumich explore the cocktail's origins and its relationship to the Crescent City's food scene. With a versatile recipe that offers space for creative reimagining, the brandy milk punch...Hardback$7275Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks-
The Bolsheviks Survive
Petrograd, the imperial capital and the urban stage upon which virtually the entire Russian Revolution was enacted, in 1919 struggled through a year of civil war, hunger, social upheaval, and political and economic challenges. Based on exhaustive research in previously closed Russian archives, The Bolsheviks Survive presents an in-depth look at how Petrograd’s local Soviet government and Bolshevik party organizations...Hardback$37100Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks 
The Birth of Persian Art (c. 550–486 BC)
The Birth of Persian Art (c. 550–486 BC) offers a bold reappraisal of one of the most formative periods in ancient art history, revealing how artistic innovation helped forge one of antiquity’s most influential empires. This volume shows how Persian art evolved from local traditions into a sophisticated imperial visual language, highlighting the revolutionary developments at Pasargadae, the influence of...Hardback$87700Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks-
The Birth of Persian Art (c. 550–486 BC)
The Birth of Persian Art (c. 550–486 BC) offers a bold reappraisal of one of the most formative periods in ancient art history, revealing how artistic innovation helped forge one of antiquity’s most influential empires. This volume shows how Persian art evolved from local traditions into a sophisticated imperial visual language, highlighting the revolutionary developments at Pasargadae, the influence of...Paperback$19700Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks 
Pre-orderThe Birth and Evolution of Islamic Political Theory
The literature on Islamic political thought utilises a methodology whose typical characteristic is the arbitrary use of religious, philosophical and political perspectives, as if the differences among them have no effect. This amounts to the theologising or philosophising of works of Islamic political theory written as responses to social, economic and political dynamics, as if they were written as general...Paperback$6999Unit price /UnavailableOut 8 Sep 2026Pre-order-
Theatre of Fire
This revised edition investigates first-hand evidence of the use of special effects in fire and flame in medieval and Tudor theatre. Evidence concerning the use of special effects in fire and flame in medieval and Tudor theatre points to some hazardous, exciting, and spectacular theatrical activity. The effects range from the simple use of candles to impressive ‘set-pieces’ for dramatic...Hardback$33800Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks -
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The Arab Nahdah
To understand today's Arab thinking, you need to go back to the beginnings of modernity: the nahdah or Arab renaissance of the 19th and early 20th centuries. The Arab Nahdah by Abdulrazzak Patel enhances our understanding of the nahdah and its intellectuals, looking back to its origins in the 1700s and taking into account important internal factors alongside external forces....Paperback$6999Unit price /UnavailableOut 8 Sep 2026Pre-order -
The Ancient City - Imperium Press
In The Ancient City, Fustel de Coulanges presents the skeleton key unlocking classical civilisation—the Indo-European domestic cult—demonstrating this archaic religion as the force driving the rise and fall of the classical world. In his foreword, Dennis Bouvard examines The Ancient City through the lens of generative anthropology. He highlights how this perspective can guide us towards a post-liberal understanding of...Paperback$5600Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks 
The Afterlives of Tamil Tigers
The Afterlives of Tamil Tigers is based on fifteen years of in-depth ethnography among the Sri Lankan Tamil community in Paris, complemented by a series of field investigations in Sri Lanka and London. The book seeks to understand how a revolutionary organisation attempts to produce its members. It also examines the impact of this self-making on the fighters' life trajectories,...Hardback$39900Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks-
The 1969 ‘Greek Case’ in the Council of Europe
In 1969, Greece withdrew from the Council of Europe (CoE) following pressure from various European countries, organisations, social movements, and individuals. This was in response to the brutal conduct of the military junta that had taken power by force on 21 April 1967. This volume brings together an international cast of noted historians, oral historians, political scientists, and legal scholars...Paperback$13500Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks 
Television Drama in Mexico
This book analyses, for the first time, innovative Mexican television drama of the current decade. It provides an account of the processes of production and reception for seven series, offering close textual readings of individual episodes. At this critical time for the medium, the transition between national network television (Televisa) and transnational streaming platforms (Netflix and Amazon Prime), Mexican creators,...Hardback$63000Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
Techno-Cultural Rivalry
At the turn of the twentieth century, the United States and Germany were seen as rivals in a “race for modernity,” each pursuing distinct visions of the future. America’s image as a technological pioneer reshaped European self-perception, while Germany asserted its own path through science, engineering, and a far-reaching reform of design, architecture, and applied arts. Techno-Cultural Rivalry explores the...Hardback$39500Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
Taking place
Taking Place examines feminist and queer alternative art spaces across Canada and the United States from the late 1960s to the present. It looks at how queer and feminist artists working in the present day engage with, respond to, and challenge the institutions they have inherited. Through a series of regional case studies, the book interrogates different understandings of 'alternative'...Paperback$14400Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks-
Syrian Intellectuals in Exile
In the wake of the 2011 uprising in Syria, a number of Syrian intellectuals were forced into exile. Many of these intellectuals played a crucial role in mobilising people in the early days of the movement, but once in exile an irreconcilable tension emerged between their revolutionary narratives and the violent reality on the ground. Zeina Al Azmeh explores this...Hardback$34200Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks -
Sweetbitter Song
Perfect for fans of The Song of Achilles and from the award-winning author of The Witch of Colchis comes a profoundly moving story of two women on the shores of Ithaca, in the shadows of a legendary war, who must face their own battle - one of sisterhood, survival, and a forbidden love that could destroy them both. One summer...Paperback$5100Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks -
Sunni Chauvinism and the Roots of Muslim Modernism
Muslim intellectuals who sought to establish the boundaries of modern Muslim identity Muslim modernism was a political and intellectual movement that sought to redefine the relationship between Islam and the colonial West in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Spearheaded by Muslim leaders in Asia and the Middle East, the modernist project arose from a desire to reconcile Islamic...Paperback$9700Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks -
Strangers Within
A comprehensive study of the New Christian elite of Jewish origin—prominent traders, merchants, bankers, and men of letters—between the fifteenth and eighteenth centuries. In Strangers Within, Francisco Bethencourt provides the first comprehensive history of New Christians, the descendants of Jews forced to convert to Catholicism in late medieval Spain and Portugal. Bethencourt estimates that there were around 260,000 New Christians...Paperback$10300Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks -
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Speculation Nation
During the first quarter-century after its founding, the United States was swept by a wave of land speculation so unprecedented in intensity and scale that contemporaries and historians alike have dubbed it a "mania." In Speculation Nation, Michael A. Blaakman uncovers the revolutionary origins of this real-estate bonanza—a story of ambition, corruption, capitalism, and statecraft that stretched across millions of...Paperback$10160Unit price /UnavailableOut 19 Oct 2026Pre-order -
Space Age Adventures
When people think about space travel, they usually look skyward. But much of spaceflight history happened down here on Earth. Space Age Adventures presents more than one hundred terrestrial sites across the United States related to space exploration, where enthusiasts can have their own space age adventures. Before astronauts walked on the Moon, they trained at locations you can visit...Paperback$6700Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks -
Sovereign Heritage Crime
Sovereign Heritage Crime: Security, Autocracy, and the Material Past explores why autocracies intentionally exacerbate anxieties associated with an aggrieved ethnoterritorial minority's tangible heritage. Since discriminatory domestic campaigns of state-sponsored erasure are political choices, this theoretical study proposes to understand them as sovereign heritage crimes. This framework predicts that heritage securitisation—constructing disquieting material memories into ontological threats—enables legitimacy-deficient yet affluent autocracies...Hardback$21300Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks -
Sovereign Heritage Crime
Sovereign Heritage Crime: Security, Autocracy, and the Material Past explores why autocracies intentionally exacerbate anxieties associated with an aggrieved ethnoterritorial minority's tangible heritage. Since discriminatory domestic campaigns of state-sponsored erasure are political choices, this theoretical study proposes to understand them as sovereign heritage crimes. This framework predicts that heritage securitisation—constructing disquieting material memories into ontological threats—enables legitimacy-deficient yet affluent autocracies...Paperback$7500Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks 
Sources for Forging America Volume Two
Covering political, social, and cultural history, this sourcebook's nearly 100 selections—including thirty-two visual documents—are intended to spark discussion in the classroom and give students a deeper understanding of America's history. A general introduction on how to read primary sources provides students with guidance for working with documents. Headnotes and reading questions provide context and thinking prompts.Paperback$10500Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks-
Sophia Peabody Hawthorne
In Sophia Peabody Hawthorne: A Life, Patricia Dunlavy Valenti presents Nathaniel Hawthorne's spouse on her own terms, situating her remarkable life within its own historical, philosophical, and cultural context, and freeing her from notions that Nathaniel constructed and that his biographers perpetuated. The first of this two-volume work recounts Sophia's accomplishments as one of America's first professional women artists, a...Paperback$10160Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks 
Solidarność
This high-profile and award-winning work shows the organic working-class character of the Polish Solidarność revolution of 1980–81 and thus debunks the canonical idea that the movement was orchestrated primarily by intellectuals from the democratic opposition, who brought consciousness to the workers ‘from the outside’. Siermiński traces the origins of the Polish revolution to the self-activity and self-organisation developed by the...Hardback$44700Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
The Great Bridge
Forty years after its original publication, David McCullough's masterful history of the building of the Brooklyn Bridge has become a classic work and is now being reissued with a new preface from the author. The building of the Brooklyn Bridge was a time of optimism and corruption, a time when Americans were the world's greatest engineers and could collectively create...Hardback$9100Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks-
Society Ties
Society Ties is a history of the University of Virginia’s oldest student organization, the Jefferson Society. Founded in 1825, the Society has counted the likes of Woodrow Wilson and Edgar Allan Poe among its membership and continues to be one of the largest and most active student organizations on Grounds. Society Ties is more than just the story of the...Hardback$6900Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks 
Slouch
The strange and surprising history of the so-called epidemic of bad posture in modern America – from eugenics and posture pageants to today's promoters of 'paleo posture.' In 1995, a scandal erupted when the New York Times revealed that the Smithsonian possessed a century's worth of nude "posture" photos of college students. In this riveting history, Beth Linker explains why...Paperback$5600Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks-
Six Dead German Composers and How They Got That Way
Why did Ludwig van Beethoven go deaf? What forced Robert Schumann to give up playing the piano? What possible familial trait caused Felix Mendelssohn's final illness? This volume examines the lives and deaths of these composers as well as Franz Schubert, Johannes Brahms, and Clara Schumann. By exploring the medical conditions that led to their deaths within the context of...Paperback$16600Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks -
Sinostan
Based on more than a decade's writing, research, and travel, this book offers a rare glimpse into China's expanding economic, cultural, and political power in the Eurasian heartland. China's rise is changing the world. Much attention has been given to how China's geo-economic vision is playing out in the global economy, or how its technology is reshaping the planet, yet...Hardback$9400Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks -
Silent war
Silent War reveals how silence functions as a crucial but often overlooked force in enabling and sustaining military violence. While war propaganda and discursive justifications have received significant attention, this book argues that military operations also depend on a hidden infrastructure of silence through omission, secrecy, and tacit consent. Focusing on drone warfare and colonial counterinsurgency, it explores how regimes...Hardback$38200Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks 
Shifting
Commemorating its 20th anniversary with a new Introduction and updated content, Shifting explores the many identities Black women must adopt in various spaces to succeed in America. Based on the African American Women's Voices Project, Shifting reveals that a large number of Black women feel pressure to compromise their true selves as they navigate America's racial and gender discrimination. Black...Paperback$5300Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks-
Shâmaran
Shâmaran: The Neolithic Eternal Mother, Love and the Kurds covers one of the earliest ancient figures of Mother Earth, Shâmaran, of the Zagros Mountains, which is at the crossroads of Iran, Anatolia, and Mesopotamia. This region has historically been a melting pot of diverse groups, contributing to the formation of the Kurdish nation. This unique convergence has played a pivotal...Paperback$13500Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks -
Shah of Shahs
Insightful and important.... A readable, timely and valuable contribution to the understanding of the revolutionary forces at work in Iran.... The reader almost becomes a participant. —The New York Times Book Review In Shah of Shahs, Kapuscinski brings a mythographer's perspective and a novelist's virtuosity to bear on the overthrow of the last Shah of Iran, one of the most...Paperback$5400Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks -
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Shades of Gray
Named a 2019 Choice Outstanding Academic Title In Shades of Gray, Molly Littlewood McKibbin offers a social and literary history of multiracialism in the twentieth-century United States. She examines the African American and white racial binary in contemporary multiracial literature to reveal the tensions and struggles of multiracialism in American life through individual consciousness, social perceptions, societal expectations, and subjective...Paperback$10160Unit price /UnavailableOut 6 Sep 2026Pre-order -
Sex and Sexuality in the Ancient Near East
This Element presents what we know about the construction of sexuality and the sex lives of the residents of ancient Mesopotamia, Anatolia, and the Levant. After briefly introducing the regions and cultures under consideration and the sources of data, the work turns to female and male experiences of sexuality, matters of fertility and infertility, sexual orientation, and finally sex crimes....Hardback$21300Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks -
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Settling Debt
Settling Debt overturns the familiar tale of early antislavery as a pure moral triumph by revealing its uneasy ties to colonial ambition and economic anxiety. Cameron Seglias shows how, from the late seventeenth century through the American Revolution, settlers and religious writers condemned slavery as a threat to their own prosperity and salvation. Debt, understood both as money owed and...Hardback$42027Unit price /UnavailableOut 20 Aug 2026Pre-order -
Self-Realization Nation
The story of an unexpected group of performing artists who led one of the most influential artistic movements in contemporary American history. After World War II, personal fulfilment emerged as a defining American cultural ideal. Self-realisation—the quest to become our authentic selves—remains a powerful part of American culture and arts today. In Self-Realization Nation, John Kapusta provides a lively cultural...Hardback$29900Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks -
Self-Realization Nation
The story of an unexpected group of performing artists who led one of the most influential artistic movements in contemporary American history. After World War II, personal fulfilment emerged as a defining American cultural ideal. Self-realization—the quest to become our authentic selves—remains a powerful part of American culture and arts today. In Self-Realization Nation, John Kapusta provides a lively cultural...Paperback$8600Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks 
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Drawing on a wide range of source materials from across Scotland, Scottish Women provides new insights into women's attitudes towards the society in which they lived, and how they negotiated their identities within private and public life. Organised in thematic chapters, it moves from the private and intimate experiences of sexuality, health, and sickness to Scotswomen's migrations across the British...Paperback$6999Unit price /UnavailableOut 7 Aug 2026Pre-order
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Set against the background of post-revolution Scottish ecclesiastical politics, Scottish Presbyterians and the Act of Union 1707 addresses the hitherto largely neglected religious dimension to the debates on Anglo-Scottish Union. Focusing predominantly on the period between April 1706 and January 1707, the book examines the attitudes and reactions of Presbyterians to the treaty, challenging many of the widely held assumptions...Paperback$6999Unit price /UnavailableOut 7 Aug 2026Pre-order
Scottish Ethnicity and the Making of New Zealand Society, 1850-1930
The Scots accounted for around a quarter of all UK-born immigrants to New Zealand between 1861 and 1945, but have only been accorded scant attention in New Zealand histories, specialist immigration histories and Scottish Diaspora Studies. This is all the more peculiar because the flow of Scots to New Zealand, although relatively unimportant to Scotland, constituted a sizable element to...Paperback$10100Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
Scottish Clans and Their Associated Families
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Pre-orderScotland and the French Revolutionary War, 1792-1802
For the British government's supporters in Scotland in the 1790s, one thing was paramount: they were fighting French principles in any shape or form they might take. Whether this meant defeating the influence of French revolutionary ideas in Scotland, or defeating the military menace of the French republic, they were determined to stand firm in their support of the British...Paperback$4999Unit price /UnavailableOut 7 Aug 2026Pre-order-
Saving Apartheid
During the 1980s, as global anti-apartheid sentiment grew, an international coalition of far-right activists arose to preserve racial hierarchy in South Africa and beyond. This groundbreaking book tells the story of how a transatlantic pro-apartheid movement attempted to defend white rule in South Africa—and forged enduring links between global conservatism and white power. By mapping an international network of white...Hardback$46000Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks -
Sacred Space and Anglo-Turkish Relations
Sacred Space and Anglo-Turkish Relations investigates how various sacred spaces in Ottoman and Republican Turkey interfaced with British foreign policy. It considers how these spaces impacted upon British prestige in the context of its dealings with Turkey chiefly, as well as with other Great Powers. The period covered is from the demise of the Levant Company in 1825, to the...Paperback$13400Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks -
Roman Verse Satires
Ebook available to libraries exclusively as part of the JSTOR Path to Open initiative. The Romans claimed to have invented satire—one of the most enduring and certainly one of the most entertaining genres of literature bequeathed to posterity from the ancient world. Modern satire aims generally to puncture pretence and to hurt its targets with withering caricature and bruising irony,...Paperback$14200Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
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