History: Specific Events & Topics
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Wildest of the Wild West
Clear Light Publishers (US)Original price £17.99Current price £13.49| /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 PublicationsOriginal price £16.99Current price £12.74| /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)Original price £18.99Current price £14.24| /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
Museum Tusculanum Press (DK)Original price £50.00Current price £32.50| /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, IncOriginal price £84.99Current price £55.24| /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
SchifferOriginal price £18.99Current price £14.24| /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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Working Lives c. 1900
Otago University Press (NZ)Original price £22.50Current price £16.88| /For the men and women of the skilled trades in the early 20th century, the skills and knowledge of their respective crafts were a source of identit...
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Working the Rock
Boulder PublicationsOriginal price £19.99Current price £14.99| /Between 1892 and 1930, American photographer Edith S. Watson made repeated trips to outport Newfoundland and coastal Labrador, getting to know the ...
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Yamoria the Lawmaker
NeWest Publishers Ltd (CA)Original price £19.99Current price £14.99| /Dene Elder George Blondin creates a spiritual guidebook that weaves together oral stories with the recounting of how the Northern Canadian Dene cam...
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Yearning to Breathe Free
Gefen Publishing House (IS)Original price £30.99Current price £20.14| /On 1 February 1940, a thirty-three-year-old Jewish woman arrived alone in New York Harbor bearing, in her womb, the person who would eventually bec...
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Yi Fao: Speaking Through Memory
Heritage Group Distribution Ltd (CA)Original price £20.99Current price £15.74| /Bravo to the New Westminster Museum and Archives for their groundbreaking research into the history of Yi Fao, and for their understanding that the...
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Yijarni
Aboriginal Studies Press (AUS)£26.99| /On 23 August 1966, approximately 200 Gurindji stockmen and their families walked off Wave Hill Station in the Northern Territory, protesting agains...
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Yip Sang
Heritage Group Distribution Ltd (CA)£10.99| /During the second half of the 19th century, thousands of Chinese men arrived on the west coast of North America, seeking to escape poverty and make...
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Zagare
Gefen Publishing House (IS)Original price £16.99Current price £12.74| /When veteran broadcaster Sara Manobla represented Israel at an international conference of journalists in Moscow in 1977, little did she realise th...
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‘Malleable at the European Will’: British Discourse on Slavery (1784–1824) and the Image of Africans
ibidemOriginal price £26.00Current price £16.90| /Helmut Meier‘s study of pro- and anti-slavery texts from 1784–1825 focuses on understanding the distinct image of Africans in the British debate on...
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