Regional & National History
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Unlocking the Doors to the Worlds of Guaman Poma & His Nueva Corónica
Museum Tusculanum Press (DK)£64.99| /Honoured by UNESCO's Memory of the World designation, Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala's Nueva corónica y buen gobierno (1615) rewrites Andean history i...
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Unusual Panzers
Schiffer Military£9.99| /Covers unique variants and original designs of Panzer tanks.
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Unwritten Histories
Aboriginal Studies Press (AUS)£15.99| /In this witty and satirical revisiting of Australia's heroic past, Craig Cormick rediscovers the contributions of indigenous Australians that have ...
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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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Vagabond Papers
Monash University Publishing£23.99| /Australian life has never had a chronicler quite like the Vagabond. Renowned as journalist and eminently unconventional character', he suffered ex...
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Vastly Ingenious
Otago University Press (NZ)£22.50| /Reflecting in 1769 on the manners and customs of the South Sea islands, Joseph Banks remarked that 'in every expedient for taking fish they are vas...
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Verhandelte Demokratisierung
V & R Unipress GmbH£30.99| /So far, the multi-faceted engagement at the round tables of the districts has been overshadowed by the achievements of the Central Round Table of t...
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Vertrauen und Politik im Alltag
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co.KG£80.99| /Why was the German working-class movement struggling against the rise of National-Socialism so easily defeated, whereas the French working-class mo...
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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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Viking Revaluations
Viking Society For Northern Research (UK)£7.00| /Foreword; Centenary Revaluations; Current Problems (1): Pagan Beliefs and Christian Impact; Current Problems (2): Scandinavian Society 800-1100.
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Vikings in Brittany
Viking Society For Northern Research (UK)£10.00| /Introduction; Documentary Sources; The Historical Background: France in the Viking Age; Archaeological Evidence; Conclusion: Brittany in the Viking...
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Vikings on a Prairie Ocean
Great Plains Publications£23.99| /Well-known mediator and lawyer, Glenn Sigurdson blends personal memoir, family history and Icelandic lore in a unique and wide-ranging autobiograph...
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Vikings Trade & Settlement in Continental Europe
Museum Tusculanum Press (DK)£42.99| /The European coastal areas and the lands around the rivers had great importance for the local populations but also for the Vikings, who settled in ...
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Virginia Iliad
Dementi Milestone Publishing£20.99| /This work offers a contemporaneous portrait of Old Virginia, her unwavering stance on State sovereignty, and her fight to the death to defend the f...
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Visualizing Orientalness
Bohlau Verlag GmbH & Cie£75.99| /In the early twentieth century Hollywood was fascinated by the Far East. Chinese immigrants, however, were excluded since 1882 and racism pervaded ...
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Vital Negotiations
V & R Unipress GmbH£52.99| /Focusing on the field of health care and disease control as a field of policy that was of pivotal importance for the existence and stability of Eur...
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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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Vom Ostblock zur EU
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co.KG£80.99| /In the post-Communist countries of the EU a number of structural parameters have survived the transition that distinguish them from the other, more...
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Vom Scheitern der kybernetischen Utopie
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co.KG£28.99| /Obtaining and processing information is a central task of every secret service. The Stasi, however, by no means wanted to know 'everything' in an u...
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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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Vultures Over Israel
Schiffer Military£54.99| /The French Vautour was designed to serve as an attack aircraft, bomber and nightfighter. Israel purchased all three versions and was the only natio...
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Waffen-SS Knights and Their Battles
Schiffer Military£36.99| /This book continues with the overview of the Waffen-SS units that fought during WWII. It follows each unit as it was raised and then where it fough...
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Waffen-SS Knights and their Battles
Schiffer Military£36.99| /This book continues with the overview of the Waffen-SS units that fought during WWII. It follows each unit as it was raised and then where it fough...
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Waffen-SS Knights and Their Battles
Schiffer Military£36.99| /This book continues with the overview of the Waffen-SS units that fought during WWII. It follows each unit as it was raised and then where it fough...
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Waffen-SS Knights and their Battles
Schiffer Military£36.99| /This book continues with the overview of the Waffen-SS units that fought during WWII. It follows each unit as it was raised and then where it fough...
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Wagner & the Volsungs
Viking Society For Northern Research (UK)£12.00| /This book is a translation of a revised version. edited by Anthony Faulkes. of Arm Bjornsson's Wagner og Valsungar, published in Icelandic in 2000....
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Waldheim Report
Museum Tusculanum Press (DK)£34.99| /The report on Kurt Waldheim's activities on the Balkans during World War II attracted political attention when its conclusions became known in 1988...
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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 on the Home Front
Goose Lane Editions£13.99| /Daniel MacMillan never saw the battlefields of Passchendaele or Vimy Ridge. A farmer in the tiny New Brunswick community of Williamsburg, he experi...
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We Are All Treaty People
University of Alberta Press (CA)£23.99| /In his collection of Prairie essays-some of them profoundly personal, some poetic, some political-Roger Epp considers what it means to dwell attent...
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We Were Pretty Darn Good
History Publishing Co. Llc (US)£19.99| /The heartbeat of Heartland America beats with each page of this book about the remarkable people who educated the children of the rural countryside...
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Weapons and Equipment of the German Cavalry in World War II
Schiffer Military£9.99| /Shown are the weaponry, uniforms and other equipment of the German cavalry as used on all fronts throughout World War II.
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Weaving a Malawi Sunrise
University of Alberta Press (CA)£33.99| /"When you educate a girl, you educate a nation." --Malawian saying The women of Malawi, like many other women in developing countries, struggle to ...
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