Regional & National History
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Karmanshah
Mage Publishers Inc (US)£142.99| /Kermanshah was one of the most important commercial gateways to Iran and a crucial transit station on the trade route between Iraq and Iran. It was...
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Kartini
Monash University Publishing£99.99| /In Indonesia, the legacy of Raden Ajeng Kartini (1879-1904) is celebrated on Kartini Day, 21 April, every year. Around the world Kartini is recogni...
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Kate Edger
Otago University Press£21.00| /In 1877, Kate Edger became the first woman to graduate from a New Zealand university. The New Zealand Herald enthusiastically hailed her achievemen...
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Kath Williams
Spinifex Press£19.95| /Kath Williams, who emerges as a feisty and quietly determined woman, was the major force behind the struggle for equal pay for women. She was elect...
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Kavieng Massacre
Sally Milner (AUS)£14.99| /The war, the people, the crime, the cover-up, and finally the truth. An engaging book revealing the shocking truth of the Kavieng Massacre in March...
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Kennedy Assassination Cover-up
Progressive Press (US)£17.99| /Over the course of half a century, polls have repeatedly shown that most Americans refuse to accept the official story of the Kennedy Assassination...
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Kerikeri Mission and Kororipo Pa
Otago University Press (NZ)£11.50| /A concise guide to the Kerikeri mission from its inception in 1819 until 1845, when it became a secular settlement and the Stone Store was sold to ...
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Khuzhir-Nuge XIV, a Middle Holocene Hunter-Gatherer Cemetery on Lake Baikal, Siberia
CCI Press£50.99| /The Bronze Age cemetery of Khuzhir-Nuge XIV (KN XIV) is located on the west coast of the Little Sea region of Lake Baikal, near the southern end of...
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Khuzhir-Nuge XIV, a Middle Holocene Hunter-Gatherer Cemetery on Lake Baikal, Siberia
CCI Press£67.99| /Presents comprehensive archaeological data from fieldwork at Khuzhir-Nuge XIV. Mortuary sites have provided the primary data that inform a number o...
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Kimono, Vanishing Tradition
Schiffer£45.99| /Kimono is a generic term for traditional Japanese clothing; it means “thing to wear.” This revised and expanded second edition provides an overview...
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Kind Words, Cruise Missiles, and Everything in Between
Ibidem Press/Ibidem-Verlag£30.00| /According to general Realist premises, after the end of the Cold War, the United States took an interest in remaining the only super power. Accordi...
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King Harold's Cross Coinage
University of Southern Denmark Press£24.00| /About AD 975/980, Harold Bluetooth, King of Denmark c. 958-c. 987, introduced the first nationwide coinage in Denmark. The iconography was clearly ...
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King Leopold's Congo and the "Scramble for Africa"
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£18.99| /"King Leopold of Belgium's exploits up the Congo River in the 1880s were central to the European partitioning of the African continent. The Congo F...
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King Leopold's Congo and the "Scramble for Africa"
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£55.99| /"King Leopold of Belgium's exploits up the Congo River in the 1880s were central to the European partitioning of the African continent. The Congo F...
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Kitchens
Otago University Press (NZ)£22.50| /This engrossing history of the domestic kitchen in New Zealand covers 10 decades that saw culinary traditions accommodate extraordinary changes in ...
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Knights of the Reich
Schiffer Military£36.99| /Biographies of the twenty-seven Holders of the Diamonds to the Knight's Cross from the Luftwaffe, Heer, Kriegsmarine and Waffen-SS: Werner Molders,...
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Knossos Calendar
Mystis Editions£5.99| /Every high civilisation needs a central calendar. Why does sunlight tough the Knossos throne on Winter Solstice Day? How did Minoan Knossos use tim...
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Koln. Eine Stadtgeschichte in Bildern
Bohlau Verlag GmbH & Cie£94.99| /This special city history of Cologne tells in pictures of the more than 2000-year history of the city. Based on photographs by Wolfgang F. Meier, w...
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Kongō-Class Battleships
Schiffer Military£22.99| /The battleships of the KongÅ class were the oldest, smallest, and fastest battleships in the Imperial Japanese Navy during WWII. Initially classif...
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Konzepte der 'exotischen' Tierwelt im Mittelalter
V & R Unipress GmbH£90.99| /How strange the description of an 'exotic' animal can be in a medieval text and which properties or proprietates are here especially stressed, depe...
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Kootenai Brown
Heritage Group Distribution Ltd (CA)£19.99| /Brown's remarkably adventurous life in Canada began in BC in 1862 during the Cariboo gold rush. He later became a BC policeman, Pony Express rider,...
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Korean Metal Art
Schiffer£59.99| /The first book to offer not only detailed examples and history, but step-by-step instruction on the legendary metalworking traditions of Korea. The...
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Korruption im Kaiserreich
V & R Unipress GmbH£52.99| /Corruption does not exist in the German Empire? Anna Rothfuss questions this common declaration by contemporaries and successfully shows that despi...
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Kunst und Identitatspolitik
Bohlau Verlag GmbH & Cie£71.99| /The national emancipation of the Czechs in the 19th century is regarded as a model case of the formation of a stateless "language and cultural nati...
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La cosa e scabrosa
Bohlau Verlag GmbH & Cie£33.99| /La cosa è scabrosa - The matter is tricky! Know the countess, Susanna and Figaro when they thread the game of confusion for the count, which is sup...
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Lamp of Experience
Liberty Fund Inc. (US)£14.95| /In a landmark work, a leading scholar of the eighteenth century uses diaries, personal correspondence, newspapers, and legislative records to exami...
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Lamp of Experience
Liberty Fund Inc. (US)£8.95| /In a landmark work, a leading scholar of the eighteenth century uses diaries, personal correspondence, newspapers, and legislative records to exami...
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Land Occupancy by the Amerindians of the Canadian Northwest in the 19th Century, as reported by émile Petitot
CCI Press£57.99| /émile Petitot lived and worked in the Athabasca-Mackenzie area from 1862 to 1883. Accompanied by native guides, he made several journeys to the Arc...
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Larry Gorman
Goose Lane Editions£13.99| /Lumberman Larry Gorman was no respecter of borders -- nor of anything else, it seems. From the time he was a young man growing up on Prince Edward ...
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Last Plague in the Baltic Region
Museum Tusculanum Press (DK)£67.99| /This book offers a thorough description and analysis of the terrible plague epidemic that ravaged the Baltic region in the years between 1709 and 1...
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Latin America Between Conflict and Reconciliation
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co.KG£123.99| /In the last decades, many countries in Latin America underwent a transition from dictatorship to democracy. Truth commissions were an essential ins...
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Latin American Independence
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£44.99| /Maps and illustrations are included, as are a chronology of the Wars for Independence, suggestions for further reading, and a thorough index.
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Latin American Independence
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£16.99| /Maps and illustrations are included, as are a chronology of the Wars for Independence, suggestions for further reading, and a thorough index.
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Learning Las Vegas
Museum of New Mexico Press (US)£40.99| /Las Vegas, New Mexico, is the subject and muse of this provocative case study of "place", exploring the history and geography but most centrally wa...
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Lectures on the French Revolution
Liberty Fund Inc. (US)£20.95| /Delivered at Cambridge University between 1895 and 1899, Lectures on the French Revolution is a distinguished account of the entire epochal chapter...
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Lectures on the French Revolution
Liberty Fund Inc. (US)£10.95| /Delivered at Cambridge University between 1895 and 1899, Lectures on the French Revolution is a distinguished account of the entire epochal chapter...
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Legacy of Empire
The University of Alberta Press (CA)£30.99| /The University of Alberta Libraries houses one of the most outstanding collections of Austrian, Habsburg and Central European materials in North Am...
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Legal Speeches of Democratic Athens
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£17.99| /"[Wolpert and Kapparis's] anthology . . . stands apart in a number of key ways. Virtually all of the translations, which are of very high quality, ...
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Legends of the California Bandidos
Linden Publishing (US)£15.99| /This book presents extraordinary, little-known tales of the infamous bandits and highwaymen who plied their trade in early California.
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Legends of the Pond
Branden Publishing Co (US)£15.99| /The book is a story teller's collection of history, legends and myths about Big Island Pond and its surrounding communities. The Pond, which is rea...
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Legerdemain
History Publishing Co. Llc (US)£15.99| /This is a true story of a barely trained and inexperienced Air Force undercover agent who is sent to Morocco to assist the nationalist movement in ...
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Lessons from World War I for the Rise of Asia
Ibidem Press/Ibidem-VerlagOriginal price £26.99Current price £22.90| /This groundbreaking volume offers a historical comparison between the events leading up to World War I and current global tensions related to the e...
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Lessons in Contempt
University Press of Southern Denmark (DK)£27.50| /Published in 1516, Poul Ræff's "Iudeorum Secreta", a translation of Johannes Pfefferkorn's The Confession of the Jews, was a landmark in the develo...
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Let My People Go
Gefen Publishing House (IS)£20.99| /For 50 years, until the Berlin Wall fell in 1989, the Soviet Union ran a campaign of repression, imprisonment, political trials and terror against ...
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Let My People Grow
Gefen Publishing House (IS)£25.99| /When the Soviet Union collapsed, much of its Jewish population emigrated. But those who remained were often disconnected from Judaism. It was into ...
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Letters From Tabriz
Mage Publishers Inc (US)£23.50| /In August 1907 while Iran was in the throes of its Constitutional Revolution, Britain and Russia concluded a secret agreement to divide the country...
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Letters to Australia, Volume 4
Sydney University Press£33.99| /Letters to Australia is a collection of Julius Stone's radio talks, originally broadcast by the Australian Broadcasting Commission between 1942 and...
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Letters to Talia
Gefen Publishing House (IS)£19.99| /This book describes the rich cultural worlds of a yeshiva student and a kibbutz girl who succeed in creating a dialogue of understanding and compas...
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