Social & Cultural History
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Social Theories of Jacksonian Democracy
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£50.00| /History's first national party with roots in a mass electorate, the Jacksonian Democrats were not so much unified around a shared policy program as...
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Southern Italy as Contact Area and Border Region during the Early Middle Ages
Bohlau Verlag GmbH & Cie£61.99| /The band return with the early medieval southern Italy (include Sicily) is a much more, its steadily changing the contact and border region in the ...
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Spinoza der Hebräer
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co.KG£23.99| /The work of Baruch de Spinoza (1632−1677) experienced a changeable and complex reception. Ostracized as a heretic during his lifetime, the Dutch ph...
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Stalins Kommandotruppen 1941-1944
Ibidem Press/Ibidem-Verlag£36.99| /There are certain parallels between the operations Vladimir Putin initiated in the wake of the Ukraine crisis of 2014 and the approach Stalin took ...
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Stella
Heritage Group Distribution Ltd (CA)£20.99| /A wealthy madam who was known from San Francisco to Victoria in the early part of the 20th century, Stella Carroll was glamorous, worldly and deter...
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Sternwheelers & Canyon Cats
Caitlin Press (CA)£11.99| /The story of men who braved the dangerous waterways of the uppper Fraser River to build the GTP Railway. Forbidding canyons, raging rapids and mena...
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Stories Told
CCI Press£15.99| /Stories Told takes you back into the epic journey of the Berger Inquiry, as Judge Berger travelled from community to community to hear stories told...
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Summers in St. Andrews
Goose Lane Editions£19.99| /Summertime in late 19th-century St. Andrews was more than a vacation by the sea, it was a lifestyle. "Discovered" by a wealthy few who felt the nee...
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Sunday Best
Massey University Press£42.99| /The early arrival of the missionaries in Aotearoa set the scene for a new moral colony that would be founded on religious precepts and modern Chr...
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Sunset Survivors
Blacksmith Books (HK)£28.99| /This book tells the stories of Hong Kongs traditional tradesmen and women through stunning imagery and candid interviews. Covering a myriad of cur...
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Surveying Northern British Columbia
Caitlin Press (CA)£23.99| /Surveying the North sets out to recognise -- and celebrate -- Frank Swannell as British Columbia's most famous pioneer surveyor and his important p...
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Surviving Peace
Spinifex Press£19.95| /How do you pick up the pieces after your life is shattered by war? How do you continue living when your country no longer exists, your language is ...
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The Art and Colour of General Motors
Coachbuilt Press£102.99| /General Motors has been a world leader in automotive design for 100 years. No other large-scale manufacturer has put such energy and resources into...
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The Ballad of Jacob Peck
Goose Lane Editions£15.99| /Shortlisted, Democracy 250 Atlantic Book Award for Historical WritingOn a frigid February evening in 1805, Amos Babcock brutally murdered Mercy Hal...
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The Bastard of Fort Stikine
Goose Lane Editions£15.99| /Winner, Canadian Authors Award for Canadian History, Jeanne Clarke Memorial Local History Award, and Prince Edward Island Book Award for Non-Fictio...
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The Cowboy Way
Blue Bike Books (CA)£14.99| /For everything cowboy and Wild West, look no further. The Cowboy Way is a tribute to the classic image of old-time lore and its influence on popula...
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The Euromaidans Effect on Civil Society
Ibidem Press/Ibidem-Verlag£30.00| /Sophie Falsini presents a fascinating analysis of the current state and future prospects of Ukrainian civil society in light of the 20132014 event...
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The Expatriate Myth
Otago University Press (NZ)£17.95| /Many New Zealand writers in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century travelled extensively or lived overseas for a time, and they often led ...
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The Great Metropolis
HVA Press£23.99| /With wit and culture Junius Browne, the prototypical New Yorker, provides a comprehensive tour of his city. Curmudgeonly yet compassionate, Browne ...
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The Jewish Nation of the Caribbean
Gefen Publishing House (IS)£35.99| /Occasionally one comes across a book, which is unexpected, delights and inspires. Surinam, known as the Jewish Savannah, where a vibrant Jewish c...
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The Last Hockey Game
Goose Lane Editions£23.99| /Shortlisted, Toronto Book AwardsOn May 2, 1967, Montreal and Toronto faced each other in a battle for hockey supremacy. This was only the fifth tim...
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The Lost City
Goose Lane Editions£26.99| /An Atlantic BestsellerFrom the 1950s through the 1970s, cities throughout North America engaged in disruptive periods of massive "urban renewal" of...
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The Lost Wilderness
Goose Lane Editions£19.99| /Shortlisted, New Brunswick Book Award for Non-FictionEvery summer between 1882 and 1929, naturalist William Francis Ganong travelled through the wi...
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The Lynching of Peter Wheeler
Goose Lane Editions£15.99| /At 2:21 am on September 8, 1896, authorities in Nova Scotia killed an innocent man. Peter Wheeler -- a "coloured" man accused of murdering a white ...
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The Making of a University
University of Huddersfield Press£20.00| /This book is a record of the development of an institution with a remarkable history. Its foundations go back to the early part of the nineteenth c...
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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 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 Rag Boiler's Daughter
Interactive Press£23.99| /A sweeping account of Irish and Scottish families, this book portrays one woman's resolve to provide her children with a brighter future. This stor...
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The Road to Socialism
V & R Unipress GmbH£47.99| /The book is the first comprehensive empirical study of transport infrastructure in two socialist countries in the years 19451989. In the case stud...
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The Spencer Mansion
Heritage Group Distribution Ltd (CA)£20.99| /Built in 1889 and now home to the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, the Spencer Mansion is a magnificent building with a rich and layered history. W...
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The Spirit of Competition
Coachbuilt Press£188.99| /A mythical collection assembled by a legendary collector has resided in Philadelphia for more than 30 years. In the Fall of 2008 Dr .Frederick Sime...
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The Stories Were Not Told
University of Alberta Press (CA)£29.99| /From 1914 to 1920, thousands of men who had immigrated to Canada from the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Germany, and the Ottoman Empire were unjustly im...
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The Tupac Amaru and Catarista Rebellions
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£17.99| /Through a wide variety of primary sources--including letters, eyewitness accounts, and governmental documents--this collection portrays in vivid de...
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The Tupac Amaru and Catarista Rebellions
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£45.99| /Through a wide variety of primary sources--including letters, eyewitness accounts, and governmental documents--this collection portrays in vivid de...
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The Vocation Lectures
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£15.99| /Originally published separately, Weber's Science as a Vocation and Politics as a Vocation stand as the classic formulations of his positions on two...
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The Vocation Lectures
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£40.99| /Originally published separately, Weber's Science as a Vocation and Politics as a Vocation stand as the classic formulations of his positions on two...
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