Analysing Contemporary Society through Lived Utopia
What if utopia wasn't a distant dream, but already unfolding around us? Focusing on South Africa, this compelling book rethinks utopia not as a fictional unreachable future, but as a lived practice emerging in social movements and intentional communities. Rejecting capitalism, it explores how people create alternative ways of living social orders or economies, imagining and organising the world. Blending...Hardback$39300Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
An Afghan Prince in Victorian England
In 1894, Great Britain invited ‘Abd al-Rahman Khan, the amir of Afghanistan, to England for a state visit. Then at the height of its imperial might, Britain sought to strengthen ties with the strategically important Afghanistan, which shared a long frontier, not yet a border, with British India. The amir’s aim for the visit was to secure permission for an...Paperback$13500Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
Amnesia Remembered
Our modern culture is increasingly expressed in the form of digital artefacts, yet archaeology is in its infancy when it comes to researching and understanding them. The study and reverse engineering of digital artefacts is no longer the exclusive domain of computer scientists. Presented by way of analogy to the process of archaeological fieldwork familiar to readers, the 1986 Electronic...Paperback$11400Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
America's Black Wall Street
America's Black Wall Street goes beyond the usual account of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre and the destruction of Black Wall Street. Amusan provides a historical and political context, offering a brilliant yet overlooked explanation for this massacre and others across the United States. He takes us back to the Indian Territory, the settlement of the Five Civilized Tribes, the...Hardback$6300Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
American Revolution
American Revolution provides a kaleidoscope of resources and entries on the people, places, and events that coalesced into the American Revolution. This guide offers a concise introduction to one of the most famous revolutions ever fought. Though the American Revolution is often described within the thematic model of suppression versus freedom, the true significance of the event can be found...Paperback$13500Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks-
American Patriots
2025 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title A concise history that proves that dissent is patriotic The history of America is a history of dissent. Protests against the British Parliament's taxation policies led to the American Revolution and the creation of the United States. At the Constitutional Convention, the founders put the right to protest in the First Amendment of the Bill...Paperback$7400Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks -
Always Under Siege
Always Under Siege presents a remarkable and harrowing account of life in dark times that describes and embodies strategies of physical and moral survival. Irina Paperno brings to light the autobiographical chronicle (her "notes") of Olga Freidenberg (1890–1955), a pioneering Russian philologist and cultural theorist (and cousin of Boris Pasternak), who endured Stalin's purges, the Leningrad blockade during World War...Paperback$11200Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks 
Along the Silk Roads, between Western and Eastern Asia
This volume collects the proceedings of the concluding conference in Turin of the SERICA project and hosts the contributions of 20 scholars on topics related to cultural contact between East and West from classical antiquity to the 19th century. It focuses mainly on a literary and linguistic perspective, while also considering some examples of material culture, such as books, artifacts,...Hardback$32400Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
Al-Maqrīzī’s al-Ḫabar ʿan al-bašar. Vol. III
This section of al-Ḫabar ʿan al-bašar, the last work of the fifteenth-century historian al-Maqrīzī, presents an overview of the genealogies of the pre-Islamic northern Arabs, regarded as the descendants of the apical ancestor figure ʿAdnān. Al-Maqrīzī’s text is embedded in the broader context of the genealogical tradition as a major organising principle in premodern Muslim historiography. The volume highlights the...Hardback$44400Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks-
Allegories of Format
Allegories of Format examines the significance of format to the literary oeuvre of the nineteenth-century Swiss author, Gottfried Keller (1819–1890), best known for his 1855 novel, Green Henry (Der grüne Heinrich). Malika Maskarinec understands format as the organisation of a media object's relationship to a world of objects and persons; format orders a text's contents or, in the case of...Hardback$44500Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks 
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Muhammad ibn Ismāʿīl al-Bukhārī (d. 256/870) stands as one of the most distinguished figures in Islamic intellectual history. His magnum opus, the Ṣaḥīḥ, is revered as the most authoritative collection of Prophetic traditions in Sunni Islam and is the most cited book in Islamic history. Beyond its juridical and theological significance, the Ṣaḥīḥ was venerated in pre-modern societies as a...Hardback$63000Unit price /UnavailableOut 7 Aug 2026Pre-order
Pre-orderA History of Clan Campbell
In the third and final volume of Alastair Campbell's acclaimed account of the Campbells, the story resumes at a high pace. Successive incidents include the 9th Earl's part in the 1685 Rebellion and his eventual execution; the 10th Earl's raising to a Dukedom; the Massacre of Glencoe; the 2nd Duke's quashing of the 1715 Jacobite Rebellion at Sheriffmuir; the notable...Paperback$7699Unit price /UnavailableOut 7 Aug 2026Pre-order
Pre-orderA History of Clan Campbell
Volume 2 of A History of Clan Campbell continues the story, from the Campbells' recovery after Flodden to cracks in Clan unity in the seventeenth century. It charts the Clan's return to power and influence in the decades after Flodden and describes the background of devastating religious conflict in Scotland during the period. Within five years of Flodden, Colin, 3rd...Paperback$6999Unit price /UnavailableOut 7 Aug 2026Pre-order
Pre-orderA History of Clan Campbell
The Clan Campbell has long been among the largest of the Scottish Highland clans as well as arguably the most powerful. Apart from the intrinsic interest of the Clan Campbell, its history is inseparable from the history of Scotland. This is the first of three volumes that tells the full history of the clan in depth. The book opens with...Paperback$7699Unit price /UnavailableOut 7 Aug 2026Pre-order-
Agrarian Superpower
The United States's superpower status is often associated with its industrial, financial, and military might. Yet its global power after the Second World War hinged in part on something often seen as backward: agriculture. In contrast to Britain, the predominant global power of the nineteenth century, which depended on its current and former colonies for food and raw materials, the...Hardback$43700Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks -
After Border Externalization
In this open access book, Hassan Ould Moctar offers an original analysis of the European Union’s tendency to extend its border and migration control operations into the Global South. Rather than approaching this "border externalization" in analytical isolation, he details how it relates to history and social relations in the West African state of Mauritania. The political concern with policing...Paperback$13200Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks 
Africology and the African Diaspora
Examining the African Diaspora in Africology, this book explores the fundamental issues involving the dispersion of Africans from antiquity to the current era. One of the most quoted living Africology scholars in the world, Molefi Kete Asante has partnered with scholars of African and Africana studies to highlight the theoretical underpinnings of the idea of diaspora, unpacking the ways in...Hardback$37000Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
Pre-orderAfrica's Threatened Rhinos
Africa’s surviving rhinos are under serious threat. Poaching for their horns, massive extermination by ‘sports’ hunters in the nineteenth and first half of the twentieth century, and progressive habitat loss have all driven black and white rhino close to the edge. This book considers human interactions with these magnificent and enigmatic animals—charting hunting for food and hides, and then hunting...Paperback$7024Unit price /UnavailableOut 16 Nov 2026Pre-order
African Mansions on the Gold Coast
This will be the first book to focus on the African patrons who commissioned grand family mansions from the 1860s to 1950s, and to highlight their intentions during the tumultuous period in the Gold Coast Colony (part of present-day Ghana) from roughly 1874 to independence from the British on March 6, 1957. Coastal Ghana today is dotted with grand old...Hardback$54600Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks-
African Futures in the Making
What lies ahead for rural Africa, given a rapidly increasing population, climate change, poverty, inequality and projections of an increasing vulnerability to natural hazards and food shortages? Bringing together scholars in ecology, agriculture, economics, human geography and cultural anthropology, from Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Germany, The Netherlands and the UK, this book focusses on social-ecological transformation and...Paperback$12000Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks -
Advocacy and Archaeology
Inspired by the idea of revolution and excitement about the ways archaeology is being used in social justice arenas, this volume seeks to visualise archaeology as part of a movement by redefining what archaeology is and does for the greater good. Advocacy and Archaeology explores the transformative potential of archaeology when aligned with advocacy efforts. It examines how archaeologists are...Paperback$10100Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks 
A Cultural History of British Alternative Cabaret (1979-1991)
An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library. Many people will be familiar with the term ‘alternative comedy’ and what it was or what it wasn’t. They will remember its anarchic and confrontational nature, and its rejection of the traditional comedy aesthetic. Yet, few will remember that the scene...Paperback$15900Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks-
A Creole Nation
Despite high degrees of cultural and ethnic diversity as well as prevailing political instability, Guinea-Bissau's population has developed a strong sense of national belonging. By examining both contemporary and historical perspectives, A Creole Nation explores how creole identity, culture, and political leaders have influenced postcolonial nation-building processes in Guinea-Bissau, and the ways in which the phenomenon of cultural creolization results...Paperback$11500Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks -
A Confucian theory of power
In the book's lead essay, Sungmoon Kim offers a comprehensive analysis of Confucian power. Through a blend of philosophical, political, and historical analysis, Kim challenges the dominant idea that Confucianism is primarily centred on virtue ethics. Instead, he argues that Confucianism perceives power through the prism of responsibility. Kim not only traces this perspective throughout history but also demonstrates its...Hardback$38000Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks 
A Concise History of Ireland
Situated on one of Europe's busiest sea-roads, Ireland has always been connected to other cultures. This accessible and engaging history explores these connections across 1,600 years, from the arrival of Christianity in the fifth century to the present day. While the Norman invasion in 1169 brought the English crown into Irish politics, the impulse to preserve the Irish language and...Hardback$32600Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
Academic Patronage in the Scottish Enlightenment
This book considers the politics of patronage appointments at the universities in Glasgow, Edinburgh, and St Andrews. Emerson explores the ways in which 388 men secured posts in three Scottish universities between 1690 and 1806: from the purge following the Revolution of 1688 to the end of Henry Dundas's political career. Most professors were political appointees vetted and supported by...Paperback$12800Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks-
Above the Oxbow
Above the Oxbow is a journey through the tangle of rich narratives surrounding Mount Holyoke, a locally cherished mountain in Western Massachusetts. It explores how visitors have forged connections with the mountain through various activities over the past two centuries. In an accessible blend of storytelling and scholarly analysis, Danielle Raad shows the significance of the landscape, historic sites, and...Paperback$7903Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks 
You Want What We've Got
In the past three decades, the battle between big tech and big journalism has reshaped how we consume the news. Jason Whittaker delves into how tech giants outmanoeuvred traditional media companies, siphoning off advertising revenue and audience attention. As journalism struggled to adapt, social media platforms evolved from utopian public spaces into breeding grounds for misinformation and fake news, eroding...Hardback$6400Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
Yesterday
Between 1990 and 2020, the United Kingdom experienced tension between unparalleled social change and a pragmatic political culture which sought continuity, compromise and gradualism. Thatcher's legacy was slowly digested, Blair's 'New Labour' thoroughly scrutinised and the decision was made after forty-seven years to leave the European Union. The UK's long-established major institutions—monarchy, parliament and the union between England, Scotland, Wales...Hardback$15200Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
Xerxes
Xerxes: The first full-scale account of a Persian king vilified by history. Xerxes, Great King of the Persian Empire from 486–465 B.C., has gone down in history as an angry tyrant full of insane ambition. The stand of Leonidas and the 300 against his army at Thermopylae is a byword for courage, while the failure of Xerxes’ expedition has overshadowed...Hardback$5999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
Women, Gardens, and Agency in Imperial Russia
This book draws on the rich historical record of the Russian royal court to demonstrate how green spaces have been used as an instrument of diplomatic and political influence. Ekaterina Heath convincingly argues that parks like Pavlovsk are a fruitful new primary source, here revealing the previously obscured evidence of women’s political activities. In 19th-century Russia, green spaces gave women...Hardback$9900Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks-
Witchcraft, magic and culture 1736–1951
This classic study remains the definitive account of witchcraft and magic in the centuries following the witch trials. The Witchcraft Act of 1736 brought an end to witch trials in Britain. But just because the law had changed didn't mean people had stopped believing. Fear of witches and faith in magic persisted, and people suspected of witchcraft continued to appear...Paperback$10200Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks -
Where The Hell Have You Been?
'A terrific read' Andy McNab In November 1942, two nights after the Battle of El Alamein, a young British army officer was captured. As the Nazis deliberated about what to do with him, Richard Carver had particular reason to be afraid: unknown to anyone, he was the stepson of Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery, the Allied Commander who had just inflicted...Paperback$4400Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks 
Voices in Stone
From sculptors to worshippers, patrons to vandals, an era-spanning global exploration of our complex relationship with statues. Iconoclasm is in the air. Bitter debates rage on the streets and online over the proper fate of statues commemorating controversial figures, whether slave traders, imperialists or Confederate generals. It is an important question, but to answer it, we must look beyond this...Hardback$9700Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
Venice and the Mongols
A global history of commercial and cultural exchange between two great powers of the medieval age. In the mid-thirteenth century, Europe was shaken by the Mongol invasions. Realising the immense potential for accessing remote markets in the East, Venetian merchants, diplomats, and seafarers established far-flung commercial networks with the Mongol Empire. Venice and the Mongols tells the story of this...Hardback$12200Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks-
US History in 15 Photographs
Photographs are more than just illustrations of a moment in time, they offer a powerful way to interpret and understand the past like no other historical source can. U.S. History in 15 Photographs introduces this power through 15 iconic and lesser-known photographs representing key eras in American History. Taking the reader from Reconstruction and Westward Expansion, to the Roaring Twenties...Paperback$4399Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
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This Land Is Your Land
America’s getting old. It’s soon to celebrate its 250th birthday. But it’s getting harder and harder for its citizens to find anything to agree on. Students pull down statues of Abraham Lincoln, while others rally around Confederacy symbols. In one version of the story, the first ‘Americans’ are brave pioneers; in another, they are settler colonialists. For some, the Founding...Hardback$4999Unit price /UnavailableOut 1 Sep 2026Pre-order 
Pre-orderThe Swimmer of Auschwitz
'Propulsive... Readers will be hooked' - Publishers Weekly Based on the extraordinary true story of Alfred Nakache, subject of the Oscar-nominated short film Papillon. Alfred Nakache, a Jewish child from Constantine, never imagined that he would one day swim for France at the Olympic Games in Berlin in 1936, nor that he would achieve a world record, as he did...Paperback$2799Unit price /UnavailableOut 11 Aug 2026Pre-order
Pre-orderThe Secret War Against Hate
USA Today Bestseller From the author of Pulitzer Prize finalist Hitler in Los Angeles, the definitive story of the intrepid activists and spies who fought against a resurgent movement of hate in America—a book that "should be read by every American who wants to know how courageous men and women can resist hatred." (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) Americans today like...Hardback$4999Unit price /UnavailableOut 1 Sep 2026Pre-order
The Revolutionary War
Military historian Jeremy Black follows his engagement with the American Civil War (St. Augustine's Press, 2025) with a review of the Revolutionary War in North America and the strategic asymmetry it presents. This was a key episode for global affairs and formative for the United States, but also fascinating for military history as a whole. Black's earlier treatment of this...Paperback$4799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks-
The Revelation of Ireland
THE NUMBER 1 IRISH TIMES BESTSELLER SHORTLISTED FOR THE IRISH BOOK AWARDS HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024 An Irish Times Book of the Year 2024 The Revelation of Ireland explores the striking transformation of Ireland from the mid-1990s onwards. Dramatic economic, social, and cultural changes, including the Celtic Tiger boom and increasingly secular debates about abortion, the status of...Paperback$2999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
The Point of the Needle
Tens of millions of people sew for necessity or pleasure every day, yet the craft is surprisingly under-appreciated. Now available in paperback, The Point of the Needle redresses the balance: this is a book that argues for sewing's place in our lives. It celebrates not only sewing's recent resurgence but sewists' creativity, well-being and community. Barbara Burman chronicles new voices...Paperback$4900Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks 
The Park Chung Hee Era
In 1961 South Korea was mired in poverty. By 1979 it had a powerful industrial economy and a vibrant civil society in the making, which would lead to a democratic breakthrough eight years later. The transformation took place during the years of Park Chung Hee's presidency. Park seized power in a coup in 1961 and ruled as a virtual dictator...Paperback$6199Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks-
The Oyster Book
An IACP Cookbook Award finalist. A fascinating and eye-opening chronicle of the global history of oyster farming, the current state of the industry, and the possibilities of investing in oyster farming as a solution to food and climate challenges from veteran oyster farmer Dan Martino. The oyster is one of Earth's oldest animals, and fossil records show humans have enjoyed...Paperback$5300Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks 
The Nazis, Capitalism And The Working Class
The rise of the Third Reich remains one of the most widely debated and discussed events of the twentieth century. Gluckstein sets out to place Nazism in the context of the economic crisis and the failed workers' revolution, seeking to draw lessons for those interested in preventing fascism's return.Paperback$7300Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks-
The Lives and Deaths of the Princesses of Hesse
The Times Book of the Week Named one of The Telegraph's 'Best Biographies of the Year 2024' Queen Victoria had forty-two grandchildren, but the four Princesses of Hesse were held in her particular favour. After the sudden death of her daughter Alice, Queen Victoria took an obsessive interest in the marriage prospects of the four girls their mother had left...Paperback$4800Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks 
The Light of Battle
A thrilling new biography of Dwight Eisenhower set in the months leading up to D-Day, when he grew from a well-liked general into one of the singular figures of American history. "This is hands-down the most deeply researched, sensitive, intimate, and nuanced portrait of Eisenhower." —DAVID KENNEDY, recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for History "A masterly portrait." —General WESLEY CLARK...Paperback$3799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks-
The Last Generation of the Roman Republic
Available for the first time in paperback, with a new introduction that reviews related scholarship of the past twenty years, Erich Gruen's classic study of the late Republic examines institutions as well as personalities, social tensions as well as politics, the plebs and the army as well as the aristocracy. When referencing the title, avoid putting it in quotes or...Paperback$7999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks 
The Iran-Iraq War
From 1980 to 1988, Iran and Iraq fought the longest conventional war of the twentieth century. The tragedies included the slaughter of child soldiers, the use of chemical weapons, the striking of civilian shipping in the Gulf, and the destruction of cities. The Iran-Iraq War offers an unflinching look at a conflict seared into the region's collective memory but little...Hardback$12300Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
The Interbellum Constitution
A synthesis of legal, political, and social history to show how the post-founding generations were forced to rethink and substantially revise the U.S. constitutional vision. Between 1815 and 1861, American constitutional law and politics underwent a profound transformation. These decades of the Interbellum Constitution were a foundational period of both constitutional crisis and creativity. The Interbellum Constitution was a set...Hardback$8399Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
The History of Pizza
Pizza is the Italian food that has conquered the world: from Brussels to LA, from Beijing to Buenos Aires, pizzas and pizzerias can be found everywhere today. But what are the origins of this food, and how did it rise from its humble beginnings to become the world’s best-loved dish? The story begins in the narrow alleys of Naples where,...Hardback$5999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks-
The Green Ages
WINNER OF THE 2021 NDR BOOK PRIZE IN GERMANY Fishing quotas on Lake Constance. Common lands in the UK. The medieval answer to Depop in the middle of Frankfurt. These are all just some of the sustainability initiatives from the Middle Ages that Annette Kehnel illuminates in her astounding new book, The Green Ages. From the mythical-sounding City of Ladies...Paperback$2999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks 
The Grand Strategy of the Byzantine Empire
In this book, the distinguished writer Edward Luttwak presents the grand strategy of the eastern Roman empire we know as Byzantine, which lasted more than twice as long as the more familiar western Roman empire, eight hundred years by the shortest definition. This extraordinary endurance is all the more remarkable because the Byzantine empire was favoured neither by geography nor...Paperback$8500Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
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Impressively original and ingenious OPHELIA FIELD, author of The Favourite Gripping GARETH RUSSELL, author of Queen James Illuminating ALICE HUNT, THE TIMES Refreshing, immersive and compelling CLARE JACKSON, author of The Mirror of Great Britain A spellbinding work of history that uncovers the inner lives and work of Maria of Modena and her 'graces', the extraordinary women who practiced art,...Paperback$2999Unit price /UnavailableOut 3 Nov 2026Pre-order
The Four Heavens
The Four Heavens brings to life the cultural and visual splendour of the ancient Maya, drawing on the oldest indigenous texts of the Americas and the latest archaeological discoveries to present an entirely new history of this spectacular civilisation. Renowned historian and archaeologist David Stuart, who has made groundbreaking contributions to the decipherment of Maya hieroglyphics, shows how there was...Hardback$7900Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks-
The Football Battalions
WESTMINSTER BOOK AWARD WINNER – Best Non-Fiction or Fiction by a Parliamentarian 'An extraordinary story' - David Williamson, Chief Political Commentator at the Daily Express 'Lovely book ... a lot of unknown stories in there' – Paul Hawksbee, talkSPORT 'Excellent… a compelling analysis, drawing on social, political and military history, eye-opening but enlivened throughout by his keen eye for the...Hardback$4899Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
The Doomsday Machine
Shortlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction Finalist for The California Book Award in Nonfiction The San Francisco Chronicle’s Best of the Year List Foreign Affairs Best Books of the Year In These Times “Best Books of the Year" Huffington Post’s Ten Excellent December Books List LitHub’s “Five Books Making News This Week” From the legendary Pentagon...Paperback$2499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks 
The Chronicle of Ibn al-Athir for the Crusading Period from al-Kamil fi'l-Ta'rikh. Part 3
The Chronicle of Ibn al-Athir for the Crusading Period from al-Kamil fi'l-Ta'rikh. Part 3 is a remarkable historical source authored by Ibn al-Athir (1160-1233 AD). This work, originally titled al-Kamil fi'l-Ta'rikh, stands out for its comprehensive account of mediaeval history, nearly spanning the entire Islamic world up to the author's time of death. Drawing from the sources available to him,...Paperback$17700Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks-
The Botanic Age
How and why did humans get to be so clever and thoughtful? The beginning of the Stone Age, marked by the invention of stone tools, has traditionally dominated discussions about the origin and evolution of human intelligence. However, feminist anthropologists have long theorized that the first tools were actually nests, slings, and baskets that would not have survived in the...Hardback$10100Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks -
The American Phage Group
The American Phage Group offers a fascinating historical account of the American Phage Group and how its new research framework became the foundation for molecular biology. This book serves as the first critical and analytical study of the American Phage Group—a small cohort of scientists who gathered around Max Delbrück, Salvador Luria, and Alfred Hershey between 1940 and 1960. Their...Hardback$8399Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks -
The 44-Day War
The Second Nagorno-Karabakh War in 2020 was a major armed conflict between the two modern, regular armies of Armenia and Azerbaijan. This open access book examines the causes and consequences of the Second Nagorno-Karabakh War. The first part of the book includes chapters discussing why the ceasefire regime failed after long twenty-six years, international mediation and diplomacy, the geopolitical tensions,...Paperback$4999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks 
That Was My Home
That Was My Home explores the hidden histories of the Noongar camps around Fremantle, Swanbourne, and Shenton Park in the suburbs of Perth along the Swan River. The focus is the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s, a time when many Noongar people lived with their families in camps. The voices of Noongar people, juxtaposed with information from the archives, photographs, and...Paperback$3499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Swedish Traditions and Holidays
The year is full of traditions, holidays, and festivities that Swedes celebrate at specific times. Some are new, others have been celebrated for a long while. But what do we really know about the origins and history of Valentine's Day, New Year's, Walpurgis Night or Mother's Day? Swedish Traditions and Holidays provides a description of Swedish holidays and traditions during...Hardback$7199Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
Strategy
"If you want peace, prepare for war." "A buildup of offensive weapons can be purely defensive." "The worst road may be the best route to battle." Strategy is made of such seemingly self-contradictory propositions, Edward Luttwak shows—they exemplify the paradoxical logic that pervades the entire realm of conflict. In this widely acclaimed work, now revised and expanded, Luttwak unveils the...Paperback$9200Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks-
Stepan Bandera: The Life and Afterlife of a Ukrainian Nationalist
The Life and Afterlife of a Ukrainian Nationalist is the first comprehensive and scholarly biography of the Ukrainian far-right leader Stepan Bandera and the first in-depth study of his political cult. In this fascinating book, Grzegorz Rossolinski-Liebe illuminates the life of a mythologised personality and scrutinises the history of the most violent twentieth-century Ukrainian nationalist movement: the Organisation of Ukrainian...Hardback$12900Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks -
Stalin's Failed Alliance
In the spring of 1936, the Soviet effort to build an anti-Nazi alliance was failing. Stalin continued nevertheless to support diplomatic efforts to stop Nazi aggression in Europe. In Stalin's Failed Alliance, the sequel to Stalin's Gamble, Michael Jabara Carley continues his re-evaluation of European diplomacy during the critical events between May 1936 and August 1939. This narrative history examines...Hardback$63000Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks -
Sons of Heaven
Sons of Heaven is the first accessible, newly researched account in English of the imperial family who ruled Ming China (1368-1644), one of the country's most dynamic and influential eras. Beginning with a fresh look at what a dynasty really was, the book follows the lives of emperors, empresses, relatives and those who came into the imperial orbit. Uniquely drawing...Hardback$8000Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks -
Something New Under the Sun
Humans have long transformed the planet, scratching its surface for stones and ores, planting and harvesting crops, sparking fires for light and heat. But since the dawn of industrialisation, and especially since 1950, our impact has accelerated sharply. Economic, technological, and demographic changes have driven rapid and ongoing shifts in patterns of pollution, human health, and rising sea levels and...Paperback$4199Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks 
She Who Struggles
Exhilarating and immensely valuable - Priyamvada Gopal, Professor at the University of Cambridge Rosa Luxemburg, Claudia Jones and Leila Khaled may have joined Lenin, Mao and Che in the pantheon of twentieth-century revolutionaries, but the histories in which they figure remain unjustly dominated by men. She Who Struggles sets the record straight, revealing how women have contributed to revolutionary movements...Paperback$4099Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks-
Secrets of Antarctica
The first chapters of Secrets of Antarctica will question the possibility of a lost continent, and visit the land of the Patagonia giants. Next are the Age of Exploration maps depicting the Ice Continent centuries before Antarctica was officially discovered. New Swabia (Neuschwabenland) was a territorial claim made by Nazi Germany in the late 1930s. Admiral Richard E. Byrd led...Paperback$6200Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks -
Scipio Africanus
Scipio Africanus (235-183 BC) commanded his first army at the age of 25, led a daring invasion in Africa to personally defeat Hannibal, and secured Rome's dominance over the Mediterranean. In ten years of command, he never lost a battle, employing bold strategies to triumph over six enemy generals. Charismatic, ruthless, and self-confident almost to the point of arrogance, Scipio...Hardback$8900Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks 
Roman History, Volume I
Appian (Appianus) is among our principal sources for the history of the Roman Republic, particularly in the 2nd and 1st centuries BC, and sometimes our only source, as for the Third Punic War and the destruction of Carthage. Born circa AD 95, Appian was an Alexandrian official at ease in the highest political and literary circles who later became a...Hardback$5999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
Rising for Palestine
What does true global solidarity look like, and how can it help us fight for the oppressed? Rising for Palestine is a groundbreaking anthology that reveals the deep ties between some of the world's most powerful liberation struggles. For decades, African nations and movements have stood firmly with the Palestinian people. From anti-colonial uprisings and the Pan-African Congress of 1945...Paperback$4499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks-
Red Valkyries
Red Valkyries explores the history of socialist feminism in Eastern Europe, following the lives and careers of five prominent women active in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries: the aristocratic Bolshevik Alexandra Kollontai; the radical pedagogue Nadezhda Krupskaya; the polyamorous firebrand Inessa Armand; the deadly sniper Lyudmila Pavlichenko; and the partisan turned scientist turned global women's activist Elena Lagadinova. In brief...Paperback$2599Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks 
Records of the Grand Historian
Sima Qian (145?-90? BCE) was the first major Chinese historian. His Shiji, or Records of the Grand Historian, documents the history of China and its neighbouring countries from the ancient past to his own time. These three volumes cover the Qin and Han dynasties.Paperback$7299Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks-
Racism and the Making of Gay Rights
A love story packed with gay history, this dual biography of a sexologist and his student sheds light on the early gay rights movement and the racist and imperial concepts that are embedded in queer politics. In 1931, a sexologist arrived in colonial Shanghai to give a public lecture about homosexuality. In the audience was a medical student, and after...Paperback$11700Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks -
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Promoting Postcolonial Australia
Promoting Postcolonial Australia: New Readings of Miles Franklin and Joseph Furphy uses Australian literary practice as a case study in the emergence of modern democratic literary culture. John Uhr merges traditional political theory and contemporary literary theory in this political reinterpretation of novels by two classic Australian writers: the feminist Miles Franklin and civic republican Joseph Furphy. Uhr examines three...Hardback$22000Unit price /UnavailableOut 6 Aug 2026Pre-order -
Polis
The Greek polis, or city-state, was a resilient and adaptable political institution founded on the principles of citizenship, freedom, and equality. Emerging around 650 BCE and enduring to 350 CE, it offered a means for collaboration among fellow city-states and social bargaining between a community and its elites, but at what cost? Polis proposes a panoramic account of the ancient...Paperback$8900Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks 
Panorama, A World History
How did Teotihuacán in Mexico become one of the world's largest cities? Why did Roman soldiers in Britain worship a Persian god? What important roles did women play in the Mongol empire? Panorama explores these questions by following the journey of humankind in a global context, weaving a world-scale narrative with a single chronological thread. It empowers you to connect...Paperback$7899Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Orwell Reconsidered
George Orwell has had a profound influence on modern politics and culture. He is regularly invoked as an authority by journalists, commentators, and politicians, and his works speak with increasing relevance to our polarised and media-saturated society. Stephen Ingle explores Orwell’s character, his life, and his beliefs by guiding the reader through the main events, private and public, that shaped...Paperback$16300Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
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