History: Specific Events & Topics
Subjects
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Unredeemed Past
Ariadne Press (US)£27.99| /This book gives voice to experiences by Austrian and Austrian Jewish women during World War II and the Holocaust through a social and historical re...
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Up from the Underworld
Monash University Publishing£26.99| /Why was it that a small mining community in Victoria on the margin of Australian coal mining, with a strong union organisation, was able to exert a...
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Urban Maori
Oratia Books£30.99| /The post-1945 migration to the cities by Māori transformed Aotearoa New Zealand forever. Before the Second World War 90% of Māori lived in rural tr...
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Urban Spaces and the complexity of Cities
Bohlau Verlag GmbH & Cie£42.99| /For some time the Commission Internationale pour lHistoire des Villes has been working actively on the comprehensive topic of urban space which is...
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USS Missouri (BB-63)
Schiffer Military£18.99| /The story of the USS Missouri, one of America's most famous warships of the twentieth century, and the world's last battleship, is told from her in...
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USS North Carolina (BB-55)
Schiffer Military£18.99| /As lead ship of America’s first “fast battleship” class, and the US Navy’s newest battleship when America entered WWII, the construction of the USS...
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Victims & Executioners
Nova Science Publishers, Inc (US)£84.99| /In recent years, much has been written on how the moral meaning and significance of the Holocaust has been appropriated in popular and political di...
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Victor Kugler
Gefen Publishing House (IS)£15.99| /Of all the personalities associated with Anne Frank, the most important figure, without whom Anne Frank would never have been able to write her dia...
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Videotape Your Memoirs
Quill Driver Books (US)£13.99| /Every one of us has a story to tell, yet writing is often such a daunting task that most people never get around to starting their memoirs -- let a...
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Violence in Between
Monash University Publishing£31.99| /A recent series of terrorist attacks, the uncovering of a large terrorist network, and a string of continuing regional conflicts have raised an awa...
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Voice Called
Gefen Publishing House (IS)£15.99| /This is a collection of articles about some of the great Jewish heroes of modern times. The book is a collage of role-models and inspiring makers o...
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Voices of the Elders
Heritage Group Distribution Ltd (CA)£10.99| /There is a special place on the south-eastern shores of Barkley Sound, on the west coast of Vancouver Island. It is a magnificent landscape of rock...
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Voyages of Hope
Horsdal & Schubart Publishers Ltd (CA)£16.99| /A line of nervous young women got off a ship in Victoria Harbour in 1862 and had to walk the gauntlet between two rows of jostling, eager men. One ...
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Wagon-Making in the United States
McDonald & Woodward Publishing Co (US)£23.99| /This is perhaps the best available description of the tools, materials, technology, and process of wagon-making in the US during the late pre-autom...
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Wanderlust
Goose Lane Editions£15.99| /Where did passports come from? Why did 1930s stewardesses carry wrenches? And how did teetotalers shape the modern vacation? Wanderlust answers the...
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War and the Intellectuals
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£12.99| /Although he died at the age of thirty-two, Randolph Bourne (1886-1918) left a body of writing on politics, culture, and literature that made him on...
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War and the Intellectuals
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£33.99| /Although he died at the age of thirty-two, Randolph Bourne (1886-1918) left a body of writing on politics, culture, and literature that made him on...
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War in Afghanistan
Nova Science Publishers, Inc (US)£106.99| /This book is an overview of the war in Afghanistan; strategy, military operations and issues for Congress. As the 111th Congress convenes and the O...
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Way of the Pirate
Brick Tower Press (UK)£5.95| /A true treasure trove of maritime history. 'The Way of the Pirate' is a fascinating account of the men, women, kings and countries that aided, supp...
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We Dared to Live
Gefen Publishing House (IS)£17.99| /An engrossing saga that adds significantly to the body of Holocaust literature. Abraham H Foxman, National Director, Anti-Defamation League. Abrash...
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We Will Not Cease
Otago University Press£16.00| /"To oppose the military machine means to accept the possibility that one may be destroyed by it." Archibald Baxter. We Will Not Cease is the unfl...
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Were You There?
Empire Publications (UK)£20.00| /Manchester's Free Trade Hall was arguably the most important popular music venue in Great Britain between 1951 and 1996. After several incarnations...
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What Makes the Nobility Noble?
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co.KG£76.99| /In this volume on the history of the European nobility in the modern era, the boundary between the early modern and 'real' modern periods around 18...
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When Buffalo Ran
Hancock House Publishers (CA)£10.99| /Wikis, an Indian, tells his own story of how he grew from a child to a man, preserving the life and teachings of days that have long since passed a...
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When the Future Came: The Collapse of the USSR and the Emergence of National Memory in Post-Soviet History Textbooks
Ibidem Press/Ibidem-Verlag£30.00| /This captivating volume brings together case studies drawn from four post-Soviet statesRussia, Ukraine, Belarus, and Moldova. The collected papers...
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Who Knew?!
Gefen Publishing House (IS)£22.99| /Did you know that the great Jewish sage and physician Maimonides practiced medicine while lying flat on his back? That a famous passage penned by G...
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Who Loves You Like This
Paul Dry Books (US)£17.99| /This is an account of one woman's Holocaust survival and painful postwar years spent forging an adult identity out of the splinters of a girlhood d...
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Why Grow Here
University of Alberta Press (CA)£29.99| /"A visitor from down south stared at my apple tree and said: 'Those don't grow here you know. It's too cold.' If the apricot tree in Highlands knew...
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Wildest of the Wild West
Clear Light Publishers (US)£17.99| /The 'Wild West' stories of Dodge City, Deadwood, and Tombstone pale in comparison to the incredible story of Las Vegas, New Mexico, for decades con...
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Wires in the Wilderness
Heritage Group Distribution Ltd (CA)£10.99| /This is the tale of how Canada's high northern wilderness was brought into civilization's fold through a frail network of wires laboriously strung ...
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Wish You Were Here
Great Plains Publications£19.99| /Before email, before Instagram and selfies, postcards were mailed across the world. At the turn of the 20th century, travellers to Winnipeg were im...
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With Unshakeable Persistence
NeWest Publishers Ltd (CA)£18.99| /A compilation of individual stories based on the author's interviews and correspondence with several depression era teachers. Comic at times, tragi...
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Witness
D & F Scott Publishing, Inc (US)£36.99| /Inside these pages are some of the most famous drawings to emerge from a survivor of Nazi extermination camps.
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Witness
Museum Tusculanum Press (DK)£50.00| /This book offers a complex and thought-provoking anthology of critical essays respecting the notion of the witness and phenomena of witnessing in W...
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Wonders of the Yellowstone
Nova Science Publishers, Inc£84.99| /The first earnest attempt to explore the valley of the upper Yellowstone was made in 1859, by Colonel Raynolds, of the Corps of Engineers. His expe...
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Wool
Schiffer£18.99| /Keeping people warm for four centuries, wool has been an essential commodity from colonial times to the present. Wool's colorful and surprisingly e...
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