Robert Franklin Williams Speaks: A Documentary History
Includes a collection of writings by and about Robert Franklin Williams as an internationalist, pragmatist, and civil and human rights champion. Williams was a compassionate man. He was an intelligent American citizen and Korean War veteran, who claimed his right to American citizenship. Acutely aware of the broken promises of the US government, he remained fully invested in the rights,...Paperback$11600Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
Rivals in Wisdom
Ebook available to libraries exclusively as part of the JSTOR Path to Open initiative. Rivals in Wisdom offers a fresh perspective on the longstanding question of the origins of Greek philosophy by considering anew the competitive intellectual milieu of Archaic and early Classical Greece. Specifically, it argues that the emergence of Greek philosophy as a new discipline with specific methodologies...Hardback$49100Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
Rewriting the First Crusade
An exploration of the letters from the First Crusade, yielding evidence for a number of reinterpretations of the movement. The letters stemming from the First Crusade are premier sources for understanding the launch, campaign, and aftermath of the expedition. Between 1095 and 1100, epistles sustained social relationships across the Mediterranean and within Europe, as a mixture of historical writing, literary...Paperback$10100Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
Revisiting Austria
Following the transformations and conflicts of the first half of the twentieth century, Austriaโs emergence as an independent democracy heralded a new era of stability and prosperity for the nation. Among the new developments was mass tourism to the nationโs cities, spa towns, and wilderness areas, a phenomenon that would prove immensely influential on the development of a postwar identity....Paperback$11400Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks-
Rethinking Social Movements After '68
With a focus on West Germany and Europe, Rethinking Social Movements After '68 bridges the 1970s and 1980s as a vital period of European political development and social change. Looking past the known ruptures and changes in the history of European social movements, this volume brings together interconnected social movements including environmental, women's and gay rights movements.Paperback$10100Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks 
Resonant Memory
Resonant Memory is a revelatory inquiry into the mathematical laws that govern history. The confluence of two revolutionary conceptions lies at the heart of this exciting new book by veteran diplomat and polymath Michael Gfoeller. On one side stands the theory of morphic resonance, which says that memory is inherent in nature. Decades of research, experimentation, and reflection back up...Hardback$29600Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
Resilient Humanitarianism
In the first independent study of the League of Red Cross Societies, an interdisciplinary team of leading scholars examines its history and how it influenced twentieth-century humanitarianism. They explore how the League evolved from 1919 to 1991 as a peacetime organisation of the Red Cross in contrast to the original wartime focus of the International Committee of the Red Cross....Hardback$38200Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
Pre-orderRemembering the Past in Nineteenth-Century Scotland
At a time when the Union between Scotland and England is once again under the spotlight, Remembering the Past in Nineteenth-Century Scotland examines the way in which Scotland's national heroes were once remembered as champions of both Scottish and British patriotism. Whereas current, popular orthodoxy claims that 19th-century Scotland was a mire of sentimental Jacobitism and kow-towing unionism, this book...Paperback$4999Unit price /UnavailableOut 7 Aug 2026Pre-order-
Religion and the American Revolution
Featuring original essays by Michael W. McConnell, Thomas S. Kidd, Jane E. Calvert, Meir Y. Soloveichik, and Vincent Phillip Muรฑoz. The year 2026 marks the 250th anniversary of American independence, yet the founding is controversial now in ways it has not been in decades. The American Enterprise Institute offers a major intellectual and educational project to reintroduce Americans to the...Hardback$5900Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks 
Pre-orderReligion and National Identity
Religion and National Identity by Alistair Mutch explores how Presbyterianism has shaped Scotland and its impact on the world. Behind its beliefs lie some distinctive practices of governance which endure even when belief fades. These practices place a particular emphasis on the detailed recording of decisions and what we can term a 'systemic' form of accountability. The book examines the...Paperback$6999Unit price /UnavailableOut 7 Aug 2026Pre-order
Reinventing the River City
As the first major U.S. urban centre located west of the Appalachian Mountains, Cincinnati depended on the Ohio River for its early development, eventually becoming one of the countryโs iconic river cities, with incredible growth during the golden age of steamboats. By the end of the nineteenth century, however, the river had lost its shine and became known as the...Hardback$40400Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks-
Reinventing the River City
As the first major U.S. urban centre located west of the Appalachian Mountains, Cincinnati depended on the Ohio River for its early development, eventually becoming one of the countryโs iconic river cities, with incredible growth during the golden age of steamboats. By the end of the nineteenth century, however, the river had lost its shine and became known as the...Paperback$9800Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks -
Refugee Governance in the Arab World
The eBook editions of this book are available as open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by Sciences Po. The Arab region has played an oversized role in hosting refugees. Yet a paucity of literature exists on how the region has contributed to shaping the international refugee regime. This anthology presents the first...Paperback$13900Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks -
Rajmata Kunti
This book is a combination of meticulous research and profound insights into the multifaceted character of Kunti. It is a laudable endeavour, establishing the persona of Rajmata Kuntiโher philosophy, her contribution, and her indelible impact on Indian history. Kunti embodies strength, endurance, and grace. The book brings her to life with sensitivity and depth, highlighting how Kunti has inspired generations...Hardback$8400Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks 
Railroads and Regulation, 1877-1916
Government regulation of the railroads is probably the most important example of federal intervention in the economy from the Civil War to World War I. It is also a key to an assessment of the impulses and motives behind Progressivism. In Railroads and Regulation, Gabriel Kolko presents a case study of the relationship of the economy to the political process...Paperback$6300Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks-
Race, Law, and Speculative Fiction
An analysis of US science fiction, through the lens of critical race theory, that illuminates how the genre offers new directions for serious appraisals of race and racism between yesterday, today, and tomorrow. In Race, Law, and Speculative Fiction, Isiah Lavender III takes seriously the theoretical, stylistic, and rhetorical possibilities inherent in the genre of science fiction toward challenging perceptions...Hardback$15933Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks -
Quasi-Armies and State-Building in Africa
Civil-military relations in the Global South are both important and understudied. In practice, this leads to international programmes repeatedly, erroneously assuming that the only way to restore stability, development and peace in post-conflict and post-crisis societies is to focus on state-building without taking into account the respective political culture in place. The results in the Global South, and particularly in...Paperback$13500Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks -
Putin's Revenge
In February 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine in a bloody escalation of a conflict that had begun eight years earlier. What drove Vladimir Putin to launch Europe's largest land war since World War II? Lucian Kimโan on-the-ground reporter in the region for decadesโoffers a gripping, definitive account of Russia's path to war, from Ukraine's 2004 Orange Revolution and the 2014 Maidan...Paperback$8500Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks -
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Public Acoustics
Explores how Ancien Rรฉgime writers theorized public communication through acoustic metaphors The salons, cafรฉs, theatres, and print shops of Ancien Rรฉgime France have long occupied a key place in histories of the "public sphere"โthat is, a cultural arena where private individuals could discuss topics of public interest. Seventeenth- and eighteenth-century French writers certainly acknowledged the emerging importance of public discussion...Hardback$18819Unit price /UnavailableOut 31 Aug 2026Pre-order 
Promises Kept
Winner of the 2006 Booker Worthen Literary Prize and the 2004 Ragsdale Award A dominating spirit of public service animated the life of Sidney Sanders McMath (1912โ2003), the thirty-fourth governor of Arkansas. Promises Kept, completed and published when McMath was in his nineties, tells his story in his own wordsโfrom the piney hills of South Arkansas to the battlefields of...Paperback$8780Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks-
Prometheus
A landmark account of the Prometheus story as myth and archetype. The god Prometheus stole fire from heaven and bestowed it on humans. In punishment, Zeus chained him to a rock, where an eagle clawed unceasingly at his liver until Herakles freed him. For the Greeks, the myth of Prometheus's release reflected a primordial law of existence and the fate...Paperback$8500Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks -
Prometheus
A landmark account of the Prometheus story as myth and archetype. The god Prometheus stole fire from heaven and bestowed it on humans. In punishment, Zeus chained him to a rock, where an eagle clawed unceasingly at his liver until Herakles freed him. For the Greeks, the myth of Prometheus's release reflected a primordial law of existence and the fate...Hardback$20500Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks 
Presidential Seclusion
Behind the gates of Camp Davidโwhere presidents find solitude, forge diplomacy, and shape history in absolute secrecy. The Presidential Retreat Camp David is shrouded in mystery, and rightfully so. The hidden retreat atop the Catoctin Mountains is the one place the President, First Family, and invited guests can gather in absolute secrecy for relaxation, rejuvenation, and world-changing decisions. Because of...Hardback$7900Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks-
Preaching Pious Rulership in Medieval Islam
This book studies the relationship between political thought, preaching and emotions through the writings of Ibn al-Jawzi (d. 1201), a celebrated hortatory preacher in late-Abbasid Baghdad. Through an intertextual analysis of Ibn al-Jawzi's works in various genres, Preaching Pious Rulership in Medieval Islam details how his ideal form of rulership reflected the emotional norms and pietistic moral virtues promoted in...Hardback$63000Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks 
Practical Idealism
The form of constitution that replaced feudalism and absolutism was democracy; the form of government, plutocracy. Today, democracy is a faรงade of plutocracy: since nations would not tolerate a pure form of plutocracy, they were granted nominal powers, while the real power rests in the hands of plutocrats. In republican as well as monarchical democracies, the statesmen are puppets, the...Paperback$6900Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks-
Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome, Revised Edition
In the 16th century, from the beginning of African enslavement in the Americas until the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment and emancipation in 1865, Africans were hunted like animals, captured, sold, tortured, and raped. They experienced the worst kind of physical, emotional, psychological, and spiritual abuse. Given such history, isn't it likely that many of the enslaved were severely traumatised?...Hardback$7200Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks -
Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome
In the 16th century, from the beginning of African enslavement in the Americas until the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment and emancipation in 1865, Africans were hunted like animals, captured, sold, tortured, and raped. They experienced the worst kind of physical, emotional, psychological, and spiritual abuse. Given such history, isn't it likely that many of the enslaved were severely traumatized?...Paperback$5700Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks -
Postcolonial Imperialism
Postcolonial Imperialism considers the inability to distinguish between reality and fiction as a key condition of contemporary life. If postcolonial theory has highlighted how white colonizers created images of racialized Others which project their own self-hatred or disavowal, Joseph Tonda here shows how these images have in turn colonized Western imaginaries. He argues that the Global Northโs obsession with its...Hardback$34751Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks -
Political Undesirables
Political Undesirables considers the legal making and unmaking of citizenship in Iraq, focusing on the mass denaturalisation and deportation of Iraqi Jews in 1950โ51 and Iraqis of Iranian origin in the early 1980s. Since the formation of the modern state of Iraq under British rule in 1921, practices of denaturalisation and expulsion of citizens have been mobilised by ruling elites...Paperback$9600Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks 
Political Belonging in the GhanaโTogo Borderlands
In the wake of the 2016 national elections in Ghana, the issue of cross-border voting triggered a nation-wide debate. But who exactly constitutes the electorate? Who is a national, who is a foreigner, and how are these distinctions identified in the Ghana-Togo borderlands? Political Belonging in the GhanaโTogo Borderlands analyses how political belonging is constructed and how it interacts with...Hardback$34200Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks-
Poetic Grief
Grief is non-linear and destabilising. It can unravel our sense of time and relation to the world. Poetic Grief follows these effects across poems written in the wake of National Socialism. Moving beyond established paradigms of trauma and representation, the book offers a formally grounded and affect-oriented approach to post-Holocaust poetry that develops a new framework for understanding the relationship...Hardback$36600Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks 
PoโBoy
Po'Boy tells the story of how a humble sandwich became a symbol of New Orleans culture, history, and cuisine. Invented to help feed a crowd of out-of-work individuals in New Orleans's streetcar industry, the po'boy is a submarine-like sandwich served on French bread, with common fillings that include fried seafood, roast beef and gravy ("debris"), and hot sausage. Rich with...Paperback$6700Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks-
Pleasure and Depletion in Contemporary Militarism
This book asks why US service members, veterans, and military families continue to affectively invest in militarismโboth as a structure of global politics and in their everyday livesโwhen they have experienced first-hand its physical and emotional costs. Drawing on in-depth qualitative interviews with military communities and ethnographic insights from a range of military sites, Pleasure and Depletion in Contemporary Militarism...Hardback$35700Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks 
Piety and Politics in Qajar Iran
The Takkiyya Muโavin al-Mulk is a building complex in the city of Kermanshah in western Iran, dedicated to the annual commemoration of the martyrdom of Husayn ibn โAli at the Battle of Karbala in 680, an event of seminal significance to Shi'i Islam. Private takkiyyas built by social elites were a phenomenon of the Qajar period, with their construction motivated...Paperback$13500Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
Perilous Waters
Wetlandsโparticularly swampsโhave evoked contradictory responses from different groups in the United States, from the early republic to the end of World War I. White, enslaved, and Indigenous peoples alternately envisioned swamps as future agricultural paradises, uninhabitable wastelands, portals to freedom, spaces to gather vital resources, eugenic sanctuaries, and future homes for settlers. This contested, evolving thinking shaped how Americans interacted...Hardback$30800Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks-
Performing Public Confessions
It is widely thought that confessions from perpetrators of state violence promote accountability, reconciliation, and justice. Performing Public Confessions offers a challenge to this view through a critical examination of perpetrators' narratives, analysing them as performances that shape public perceptions of state violence and responsibility. With a focus on Turkey, this book develops new insights into the performative aspects of...Hardback$42500Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks -
Perfect Storm
The story of Russia's historic opening to the West (1992-2022), where it succeeded and why it has failed, the impact of war and sanctions, and the prospects for Russia's future. Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2022 brought a tragic close to a thirty-year period of history that began with the collapse of the Soviet Union and the reopening of Russia...Hardback$8400Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks -
Paris After Haussmann
Modern Paris is often hailed as a capital of urban infrastructure. Baron Georges-Eugรจne Haussmannโs rebuilding of Paris in 1853โ1870, branded โHaussmannization,โ helped define urban modernity for cities worldwide. But even as infrastructures expanded and modernised, some Parisians were left behind: as late as 1928, 18 percent of houses still lacked direct sewerage. Haussmannization often hid infrastructures behind walls and floors,...Hardback$37500Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks 
Parents, Children, and the Ripples of Transitional Justice
This pioneering collection breaks new ground by examining how post-atrocity justice affects and is informed by familial relationships, particularly between parents and children. Moving beyond traditional discussions of victims and perpetrators, Parents, Children, and the Ripples of Transitional Justice centres the dynamics of care, responsibility, and identity in the aftermath of mass atrocity. It explores how attempts at addressing legacies...Hardback$19099Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
Paradise on the Instalment Plan
Contemporary labour movement thinking about the Australian economy took shape between the depression of the 1930s and the long post-war boom, in the form of moderate and, today much diminished, left nationalist currents. Economic conditions, the level of the class struggle and the political proclivities of different classes were particularly expressed in the working classโs main organisations โ the Australian...Hardback$56900Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
Pakistanโs Ethnic Tensions
This book studies the ethnic tensions in Pakistan and their repercussions on its territorial integrity and stability as a multi-ethnic and pivotal state located at the trijunction of South Asia, South-West Asia, and Central Asia. It analyses the causes of the emergence of ethnic tensions in Pakistan since its inception and considers their likely course in the future. The study...Hardback$52100Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks-
Pacifist Prophet
Pacifist Prophet recounts the untold history of peaceable Native Americans in the eighteenth century, as explored through the world of Papunhank (ca. 1705-75), a Munsee and Moravian prophet, preacher, reformer, and diplomat. Papunhank's life was dominated by a search for a peaceful homeland in Pennsylvania and the Ohio country amid the upheavals of the era between the Seven Years' War...Hardback$8200Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks 
Out of Hitler's Shadow
Why were the United States and its Western Allies so lenient after the most atrocious war of all times? Out of Hitler's Shadow answers this question and considers why the Allies concluded that imposing unrealistic financial conditions on a defeated country would do more harm than good. The destruction left by Nazi Germany was horrendous. The occupied countries had been...Hardback$7100Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
Ordinary Men
Christopher R. Browning's shocking account of how a unit of average middle-aged Germans became the cold-blooded murderers of tens of thousands of Jewsโnow with a new afterword and additional photographs. Ordinary Men is the true story of Reserve Police Battalion 101 of the German Order Police, which was responsible for mass shootings as well as round-ups of Jewish people for...Paperback$5400Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
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A comparative analysis of maritime law and its administration in five northern European towns. This volume is an important addition to the history of Scotland and European law, utilising innovative research and methodologies to highlight Scotland's position in medieval Europe as a sophisticated legal player. It places Scotland in a wider historical framework for the time and reveals the extent...Paperback$4999Unit price /UnavailableOut 7 Aug 2026Pre-order
Occupied Istanbul
More than a century has passed since the arrival of British, French, and Italian forces in Istanbul in 1918, marking the defeat of the Ottoman Empire in the First World War. The almost five-year-long occupation of the city that followed remains largely ignored in history writing in the former occupying powers and is often marginalised in Anatolia-centric narratives of the...Hardback$39700Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
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A survey of how Highland society organised its farming communities, exploited its resource base, and interacted with its environment from prehistory to 1914. There has long been a view that the farming communities found in the Highlands prior to the Clearances were archaic forms. The way in which they were organised, the way they farmed the land, and the technologies...Paperback$6999Unit price /UnavailableOut 7 Aug 2026Pre-order
Nostalgic Word Search for Adults and Seniors (Large/Big Print)
100 Classic 1950s Themed Wordfind Activity Puzzles. Take a Trip Down Memory Lane and Enjoy The Good Old Days with this 2000 Decade Defining Wordsearch Book. Goodness Gracious Great Balls of Fire! Take a fun trip down memory lane with this beautifully handcrafted themed word search activity puzzles. Word search puzzles, dear readers, are a splendid pastime, capturing the hearts...Paperback$3900Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks-
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New York History, Volume 106, Number 2
One element of historical work that greatly enriches the entire field is the importance of perspective in understanding the past. Approaching history from diverse individuals' points of view, or with a particular sensitivity to group objectives or experiences, or through a particular disciplinary lens can yield distinctive new understandings of the past. The articles of the Winter 2025 issue of...Paperback$5895Unit price /UnavailableOut 20 Aug 2026Pre-order -
New Orleans Pralines
The Creole praline arrived in New Orleans with the migration of formerly enslaved people fleeing Louisiana plantations after the Civil War. Black women street vendors made a livelihood by selling a range of homemade foods, including pralines, to Black dockworkers and passersby. The praline offered a path to financial independence, and even its ingredients spoke of a history of Black...Hardback$10160Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks 
Nelson's New Illustrated Bible Manners and Customs
Discover how the people of the Bible really lived. Imagine being able to walk the streets of Abrahamโs hometown, adjust to life in Babylonian captivity, or travel the roads of Palestine amid the latest buzz about Jesus from Nazareth. Nelsonโs New Illustrated Bible Manners & Customs paints an accurate and descriptive picture of ancient civilization throughout the ages. In twenty...Paperback$9400Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks-
Negotiating identity conflicts in a fragmenting world order
Rapid systemic change within and across nations disrupts traditional identity formation processes, and how identity groups manage their differences. Fragmentationโa breakdown at many levels along many dividesโis the consequence of a world now comprised of multiple identity groups making maximalist claims on their governments and each other. At an international level, a new tripolar imperialism is in evidence. Globalisation is...Hardback$42200Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks 
Nature's Mountain Mansion
Nature's Mountain Mansion is the first anthology on Yosemite that focuses exclusively on the nineteenth century, the critical period in which Yosemite was "discovered" by an expanding nation and transformed into one of the country's most visited national parks. While there are volumes that provide readings about Yosemite in the nineteenth century, few provide criticalโsometimes even disparagingโeyewitness reflections on the...Paperback$7100Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks-
Nashville's New Americans
Whether it's building skyscrapers, running successful restaurants, researching diseases, performing music, cleaning hotel rooms, or holding public office, immigrants are changing Nashville from a mid-sized city known for its country music industry to an increasingly diverse, multicultural destination. In Metro Nashville schools today, students speak more than 120 languages. The city is bigger, more congested, and more expensive than it's...Paperback$7000Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks 
Mysteries of the National Parks
Discover the hidden mysteries of Americaโs national parks! Americaโs national parks are best known for stunning beauty and outstanding adventureโbut these natural wonders also hold some of the worldโs greatest mysteries. Why did an ancestral civilisation abandon their stone cities in the mountains of Colorado? Flying past Mt. Rainier, did a pilot really spot nine shiny objects that spawned the...Paperback$5200Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
Pre-orderMuslims in Ireland
Since 9/11, the interest in Muslims in Europe has increased significantly. There has been much public debate and academic research focused on Muslims living in larger Western European countries like Britain, France or Germany, but little is known of Muslims in Ireland. Muslims in Ireland fills this gap, providing a complete study of this unexplored Muslim presence, from the arrival...Paperback$6999Unit price /UnavailableOut 8 Sep 2026Pre-order
Morocco That Was
Until 1912, Morocco had never suffered foreign domination, and its mountainous interior was as closed to foreigners as Tibet. Walter Harris, though, was an exception. He lived in the country for more than thirty-five years, and as The Times correspondent, observed every aspect of its life. He describes the unfettered Sultanate in all its dark, melodramatic splendour. He was an...Paperback$7200Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
Monsters of the Pacific Northwest
Read 22 chilling stories, written by two paranormal investigators, about reportedly true encounters with monsters in Idaho, Oregon, and Washington. A pastor's afternoon hike takes a horrifying turn when a creature follows him home and terrorises his family. A woman's routine drive becomes a heart-pounding encounter when a Sasquatch chases a deer into the path of her car. A child's...Paperback$3500Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks-
Micro-City
An on-the-ground study of how faith communities create belonging and build bridges across one of the most diverse urban landscapes in the world Micro-City follows congregations, clergy, and everyday New Yorkers across twelve Queens neighbourhoods to show how religious life both shelters difference and connects it in public. Blending theories from urban sociology and the sociology of religion with fieldwork,...Hardback$30485Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks -
Metropolitan Science
Exploring distinctive practices in the artisanal, mercantile, and governmental sites of London, Metropolitan Science offers a new perspective on the development of a scientific culture between the years 1600-1800. Beginning with the demographics of London in the 17th and 18th centuries, including its attraction of migrants, importance as a centre of empire, and the role of its institutions in government,...Paperback$13300Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks 
Mercy in Disaster
Mercy in Disaster is about the forgotten nurse in Americaโs signature, iconic photograph of Civil War wounded: abolitionist Abby Hopper Gibbons. Hung in museums large and small, pictured in books, and found across the internet, rarely is what the New York Times called โone of the most remarkable women of this centuryโ identified. More practitioner than pundit, an organiser and...Hardback$40400Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks-
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Memories of a Gay Catholic Boyhood
John DโEmilio is one of the leading historians of his generation and a pioneering figure in the field of LGBTQ history. At times his life has been seemingly at odds with his upbringing. How does a boy from an Italian immigrant family, in which everyone unfailingly went to confession and Sunday Mass, become a lapsed Catholic? How does a family...Paperback$7275Unit price /UnavailableOut 12 Oct 2026Pre-order -
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Memoirs of Phแบกm Duy, a Vietnamese Musician in a Turbulent Century
Memoirs of Phแบกm Duy, A Vietnamese Musician in a Turbulent Century tells the story of the triumphs, scandals, and adventures of Vietnam's most prolific songwriter. Born in 1921, Phแบกm Duy came of age during colonial rule, joined the anti-French resistance, and later became a major voice of the southern Republic before coming to the United States as an exile after...Hardback$42027Unit price /UnavailableOut 20 Aug 2026Pre-order -
Melancholy Borders
A major contribution to the burgeoning field of global migration history, this book explores the historical clash between transnational networks of migrant mobility with state attempts to control them. Showcasing the latest research in the field, Melancholy Borders brings together a wide range of scholarship that illuminates the crucial role played by migration and migration regulation in the creation of...Hardback$42900Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks 
Medieval Answers to Modern Problems
Through a carefully curated collection of readings and sources, this text focuses on critical issues that have concerned people throughout time and illustrates how studying the Middle Ages from an interdisciplinary perspective can shed light on contemporary efforts to deal with these issues. The book explores a variety of themes from philosophical musings on happiness and misfortune to practical applications...Paperback$40900Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
Meaning and Understanding in the History of Ideas and Beyond
Quentin Skinner is one of the worldโs leading historians. His work includes pioneering studies of Machiavelli and Hobbes, as well as important research on changing ideas of liberty and the state. His classic 1969 essay Meaning and Understanding in the History of Ideas was a ground-breaking challenge to prevailing ideas about how to read historical texts, and helped to found...Hardback$40500Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks-
Mass Murder in California's Empty Quarter
Mass Murder in California's Empty Quarter exposes a story of mass murder, a community's racism, and tribal treachery in a small Paiute tribe. On February 20, 2014, an unseasonably warm winter day for the little agriculture town of Alturas, California, Cherie Rhoades walked into the Cedarville Rancheria's Paiute tribal offices. In the space of nine minutes, she killed four people...Hardback$6600Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks -
Mary Elizabeth Braddon and the Jewish World, 1880-1915
Ruth Morris's new book focuses on Mary Elizabeth Braddon and the Jewish World, 1880-1915 and examines Mary Elizabeth Braddon's novels from 1880 to her death in 1915, exploring how the portrayal of Jewish characters and Jewish culture shifts throughout this timeframe. By tracing the fortunes of Anglo-Jewry through Braddon's fiction into the twentieth century, it draws contextually on significant world...Hardback$29800Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks -
Map of a Hungry Heart, Marco Polo's World
In Venice, a legend whispers through the ages: mysterious, haunting Chinese melodies flood the Million courtyard where Marco Polo's palazzo once stood. A recent excavation revealed the remains of a thirteenth-century Chinese woman, dressed in royal attire. Money, power, or loveโwhat do you truly desire? For Marco Polo, the answer shaped his destiny. Desperation consumes Marco as he languishes in...Paperback$6600Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks -
Making the Liberal Media
Conservatives have disagreed about many things, but they have long been united by the belief that the mainstreamโor "liberal"โmedia is biased against them. Why did conflict with the press become so central to conservative identity, and how has antipathy toward the media shaped the modern conservative movement? A. J. Bauer traces how decades of right-wing criticism of the liberal media...Hardback$43400Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks -
Making News in Renaissance Europe
The regular public transmission of news was one of the great inventions of the Renaissance. This Element, while offering a general account of news in the period, will convey the latest research results concerning the dynamics and significance of this major development. Drivers of change, apart from sheer curiosity, included state officials seeking opportunities, merchants seeking markets, and writers seeking...Hardback$23300Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks -
Making Migrants
How officials in bureaucratic institutions in Tajikistan, though well-meaning, create a postcolonial, problematic "migrant" Making Migrants explores the postcolonial life of institutions and law in Tajikistan, finding that bureaucratic spaces render people who seek to work abroad into the subjective construct of a "migrant." Anthropologist Malika Bahovadinova argues that this category describes not an individual, but a broader process of...Hardback$18819Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks -
Madrigal of Seas and Summits
Madrigal of Seas and Summits is a vivid and deeply personal memoir by Denis Clift, chronicling a lifetime of public service shaped by determination and human connection. Together with Gretchen, his wife and unwavering partner, Clift navigated a remarkable career that took him from polar expeditions to the heart of Washington power. Born in New York City, Clift didn't coastโhe...Hardback$8300Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks -
Lyric Poetry As State Criticism in Modern Japan
Lyric Poetry as State Criticism in Modern Japan explores how seemingly apolitical verse became a subtle vehicle for political expression under censorship. In an era of intense state control, Japanese poets such as Kitahara Hakushลซ, Hagiwara Sakutarล, Yonezawa Nobuko, and ลte Takuji turned to lyric poetry to discuss police censorship and surveillance of modern media, state-sponsored efforts at Western-style modernization,...Paperback$10600Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks -
Lyric Poetry As State Criticism in Modern Japan
Lyric Poetry as State Criticism in Modern Japan explores how seemingly apolitical verse became a subtle vehicle for political expression under censorship. In an era of intense state control, Japanese poets such as Kitahara Hakushลซ, Hagiwara Sakutarล, Yonezawa Nobuko, and ลte Takuji turned to lyric poetry to discuss police censorship and surveillance of modern media, state-sponsored efforts at Western-style modernization,...Hardback$44900Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks 
Low Fertilities in the Past and Present
Sustained population studies of fertility over the last two centuries have come to question the extent to which trends in low fertility may be understood as universal. Improved knowledge of variations within countries and between communities has revealed heterogeneity in reproductive behaviours at sub-national levelsโwhether before, during, or after the so-called โfertility transitionโ. Population studies have also come to give...Hardback$57100Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
Living with lodgers
For the Victorian working class, lodging in someone else's home was commonplace. Yet, despite their prevalence, lodgers and their householders have received little scholarly attention. Drawing on hundreds of coroners' inquests reported in the Victorian press, Living with lodgers traverses many domestic dwelling lodgings in England at this time, providing an extraordinary, intimate portrayal of the lives of the inhabitants...Paperback$12100Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks-
Linguistic Resistance in Pakistan
Soon after independence in 1947, the Pakistani government adopted a language policy that promoted the use of Urdu. This provoked a strong reaction in provinces where languages such as Bengali, Sindhi, Punjabi, Pashto, and Balochi were spoken by the majority, giving rise to movements that sought to protect them. In Punjab, provincial authorities decreed that Urdu would be the sole...Paperback$12200Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks -
Linguistic Resistance in Pakistan
Soon after independence in 1947, the Pakistani government adopted a language policy that promoted the use of Urdu. This provoked a strong reaction in provinces where languages such as Bengali, Sindhi, Punjabi, Pashto, and Balochi were spoken by the majority, giving rise to movements that sought to protect them. In Punjab, provincial authorities decreed that Urdu would be the sole...Hardback$43400Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks 
Life after War
Delving into the lives of ten Ivoirian citizens in the aftermath of the Ivoirian Civil War, this book sheds new light on how ordinary people contribute to post-conflict peacebuilding, and how it impacts their day-to-day lives. Ex-combatants contemplate the glory days of the conflict and how they have struggled to reintegrate into a post-conflict society which they feel does not...Hardback$36000Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
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