History: Regional
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The Junction
Caitlin Press (CA)£15.99| /In his third book John Schreiber invites us to join him on a journey into the hidden corners of BC's Cariboo Chilcotin, where he observes and descr...
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The Kwee Family of Ciledug
LM Publishers (NL)£32.99| /This book is based upon a unique private collection of photographs and home movies of one Peranakan Chinese elite family, the Kwee family from Cile...
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The Land Girls
Otago University Press (NZ)£17.95| /This book tells the story of New Zealand's land girls during the Second World War. Drawing on the oral histories of 130 women and the written inter...
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The Landscape of Ernest Lamarque
Caitlin Press (CA)£15.99| /At the age of sixteen, Ernest Lamarque travelled from England to North America, to begin a life as a Victorian adventurer. Born in 1879 and orphane...
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The Last Patrol
Caitlin Press (CA)£12.99| /Keith Billington shares one of the most tragic stories of the far north. It was a quiet December morning in 1910 when Inspector Fitzgerald and his ...
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The Legacy of Tiananmen Square
Goose Lane Editions£23.99| /With the loosening of restrictions on the Chinese economy in the 1980s and 1990s and the rise of the middle class, many observers thought that West...
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The Liberation of Italy, 1815-1870
Nova Science Publishers, Inc (US)£243.99| /This book, originally published in 1895, traces the principal factors that worked towards the glorious unification of Italy.
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The Life and Times of Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt
Nova Science Publishers, Inc£243.99| /This book, originally published in 1914, is a unique telling of the life of Cleopatra. The author, a well-learned historian of his time, offers a t...
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The Lions of Finland
Aspekt Uitgeverij BV (NL)£19.95| /After more than 100 years of subjugation by Russia, Finland took advantage of the power vacuum created by the Bolshevik uprising and resulting demi...
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The Little Third Reich on Lake Superior
University of Alberta Press (CA)£25.99| /For eighteen months during the Second World War, the Canadian military interned 1,145 prisoners of war in Red Rock, Ontario (about 100 kilometres n...
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The Lives of Colonial Objects
Otago University Press (NZ)£22.50| /The Lives of Colonial Objects is a sumptuously illustrated and highly readable book about things, and the stories that unfold when we start to inve...
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The London Customs Accounts
Bohlau Verlag GmbH & Cie£65.99| /The London customs records of the Middle Ages represent a central source of economic history and finance for the English crown. These records trace...
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The Long and Winding Road
Heritage Group Distribution Ltd (CA)£19.99| /Highway 97 winds its way from the high desert plains of northern California to the Yukon-British Columbia border, making it North America's longest...
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The Lost Lemon Mine
Heritage Group Distribution Ltd (CA)£10.99| /The legend of the Lost Lemon Mine is one of the most enduring unsolved mysteries of the Canadian West. In 1870, so the story goes, two prospectors ...
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The Luck of the Karluk
Heritage Group Distribution Ltd£10.99| /When the members of Canada's First Arctic Expedition set out from Victoria aboard HMCS Karluk in the summer of 1913, it was a moment of great optim...
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The Luftwaffe Profile Series No.15
Schiffer Military£13.99| /Operational and technical history of Germany's World War II jet bomber and reconnaissance aircraft.
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The Luftwaffe Profile Series No.16
Schiffer Military£13.99| /Operational and technical history of Germany's World War II jet fighter aircraft.
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The Luftwaffe Profile Series: Number 7
Schiffer Military£11.99| /Number 7 in the Luftwaffe Profile Series describes the design and use of the Heinkel He 60.
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The Mamluk Sultanate from the Perspective of Regional and World History
V & R Unipress GmbH£76.99| /The Mamluk Sultanate represents an extremely interesting case study to examine social, economic and cultural developments in the transition into th...
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The Man Who Lived with a Giant
University of Alberta Press (CA)£21.99| /Our parents always taught us well. They told us to look on the good side of life and to accept what has to happen. The Man Who Lived with a Giant ...
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The Mangy Parrot
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£42.99| /Repeatedly imprisoned for his printed attacks on the Spanish administration, Mexican journalist and publisher José JoaquÃn Fernà ndez de Lizardi ...
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The Mangy Parrot
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£24.99| /Repeatedly imprisoned for his printed attacks on the Spanish administration, Mexican journalist and publisher José JoaquÃn Fernà ndez de Lizardi ...
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The Mangy Parrot, Abridged
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£38.99| /David Frye's abridgment of his 2003 translation of The Mangy Parrot captures all of the narrative drive, literary innovation, and biting social com...
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The Mangy Parrot, Abridged
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£15.99| /David Frye's abridgment of his 2003 translation of The Mangy Parrot captures all of the narrative drive, literary innovation, and biting social com...
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The Maori Meeting House
Te Papa Press£38.99| /Enter and explore the powerful, ancestral world of the whare whakairo, or Māori meeting house, with this engaging illustrated guide. Richly illustr...
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The Maquinna Line
Heritage Group Distribution Ltd (CA)£10.99| /A murder, a tryst, a mysterious child. A Victoria aristocrat who obsesses over her Churchill relatives. A repressive Welsh mother with a royalty fi...
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The Memory of Guilt Revisited
V & R Unipress GmbH£23.99| /The collapse of the communist states is regarded as the starting point of the new Europe. With this turning point, historical narratives have had t...
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The MiG-21
Schiffer Military£40.99| /This book presents a detailed look at the design and development of the legendary MiG-21, including its powerplant, armament, upgrades, and variant...
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The Mission of Friar William of Rubruck
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£18.99| /"William of Rubruck was a Franciscan friar who wrote the first great travel book about Asia. In 1253--55 he made the journey from the Holy Land to ...
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The Moscow Bombings of September 1999
Ibidem Press/Ibidem-Verlag£33.99| /The five chapters contained in this volume focus on the complex and tumultuous events occurring in Russia during the five months from May through S...
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The Murder of Herodes
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£18.99| /These remarkable documents of Greek social and cultural history include masterpieces of lively narrative and subtle argument prepared by such orato...
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The Murder of Herodes
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£40.99| /These remarkable documents of Greek social and cultural history include masterpieces of lively narrative and subtle argument prepared by such orato...
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The Native Voice
Caitlin Press (CA)£15.99| /In 1945, Alfred Adams, a respected Haida elder and founding president of the Native Brotherhood of British Columbia (NBBC), was dying of cancer. Af...
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The New Brunswick Rangers in the Second World War
Goose Lane Editions£14.99| /In 1943, the New Brunswick Rangers were sent to Britain, converted into a heavy weapons support unit, and shipped off to Normandy.Originating as a ...
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The New Politicians of Fifth-Century Athens
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£17.99| /A reprint of the Princeton University Press edition of 1972, with new Preface by the author. In this powerful contribution to our understanding of ...
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The New University of Cologne
Bohlau Verlag GmbH & Cie£19.99| /The University of Cologne has an unusual history: It was founded - for the second time - by the city council in 1919, more than 100 years after its...
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