Regional & National History
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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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The Nibelungenlied
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£16.99| /Filled with portrayals of deception, love, murder, and revenge—yet defying traditional medieval epic conventions for representing character—the Nib...
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The Other Side of Gold Mountain
The University of Alberta Press (CA)£30.99| /In June of 2010, the University of Alberta's Bruce Peel Special Collections Library mounted an exhibit of documents, photographs, artifacts, and ep...
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The Pavlova Story
Otago University Press (NZ)£17.95| /While Australians and New Zealanders have long debated which country invented the pavlova (a large meringue dessert cake said to emulate the lightn...
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The Peak
Blacksmith Books (HK)£24.95| /The Peak is Hong Kongs top residential district, where property prices are as high as the altitude. How did it become an exclusive enclave in the ...
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The Peloponnesian War
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£20.99| /The first unabridged translation into American English, and the first to take into account the wealth of Thucydidean scholarship of the last half o...
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The Perry Expedition and the "Opening of Japan to the West" 1853-1873
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£18.99| /By the time U.S. Commodore Matthew Perry's squadron of four ships sailed into Tokyo Bay on July 8, 1853, the Japanese Tokugawa government had alrea...
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The Perry Expedition and the "Opening of Japan to the West," 1853â1873
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£50.00| /By the time U.S. Commodore Matthew Perry's squadron of four ships sailed into Tokyo Bay on July 8, 1853, the Japanese Tokugawa government had alrea...
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The Political Thought of African Independence
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£34.99| /The Political Thought of African Independence: An Anthology of Sources brilliantly frames the debates that captivated the world as former European ...
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The Political Thought of African Independence
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£90.99| /The Political Thought of African Independence: An Anthology of Sources brilliantly frames the debates that captivated the world as former European ...
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The Prague Spring as a Laboratory
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co.KG£47.99| /Retrospectively, the Prague Spring appears to have been a coherent but unsuccessful experiment in finding a synthesis of Western democracy and soci...
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The Prussian Army - to 1815
Schiffer Military£36.99| /This book is a comprehensive study of the Prussian army from its inception in the first standing troops, raised as his personal guards by the Elect...
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The Railroader's Wife
Caitlin Press (CA)£15.99| /The story of the railway has never been told in such a charming voice as in these letters by Bernice Medbury Martin. Bernice Medbury married railro...
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