Social & Cultural History
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The Wentworth Lectures
Aboriginal Studies Press (AUS)£26.99| /The Wentworth Lectures honour the contribution of Sir William (Bill) Wentworth to the creation of AIATSIS in 1964; now a world-renowned research, c...
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The Worlds Din
Otago University Press (NZ)£22.99| /New Zealanders started hearing things in new ways when new audio technologies arrived from overseas in the late 19th century. From the first public...
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Thirsty Scholars
Empire Publications (UK)£10.95| /The 'On Top of the World' Project is a community programme run by Anne Finnegan and Tina Cribbin who work with older people in tower blocks in Hulm...
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This Wild Spirit
University of Alberta Press (CA)£29.99| /In 1912, Mary Vaux, a botanist, glaciologist, painter, and photographer, wrote about her mountain adventures: "A day on the trail, or a scramble ov...
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Three Revolutions -- Mobilization and Change in Contemporary Ukraine I
Ibidem Press/Ibidem-Verlag£70.00| /Volume One of Three Revolutions presents the overall research and discussions on topics related to the revolutionary events that have unfolded in U...
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Three Revolutions -- Mobilization and Change in Contemporary Ukraine II
Ibidem Press/Ibidem-Verlag£70.00| /The second part of this multi-volume project assembles a series of recollections and debates on the Ukrainian revolutions of 1990, 2004, and 20132...
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Through the Mackenzie Basin
University of Alberta Press (CA)£30.99| /When Through the Mackenzie Basin was published in 1908, it became an immediate success as an adventure book on the unsettled regions of Northwest C...
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Till the Boys Come Home
Goose Lane Editions£13.99| /A century after the beginning of the Great War, the contributions of the Maritimes to the formation of the Canadian Expeditionary force remain rela...
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Time Travel in North Vancouver
Hancock House Publishers (CA)£30.99| /A fascinating pictorial history of North Vancouver city and district in British Columbia, covering over 90 locations scattered around the length an...
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TimeLine
Americas Group Publications (US)£10.99| /Illustrates and briefly describes the crucial moments in the life of Leonardo da Vinci -- including his family background, education, travels, inve...
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Tobacco Sheds of the Connecticut River Valley
Schiffer£31.99| /Over 200 beautiful color photos provide a detailed look at a wide variety of tobacco sheds in the Connecticut River Valley. An engaging text delive...
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Tooth and Veil
Massey University PressOriginal price £41.99Current price £38.99| /In 1921, the School Dental Service was established. A social experiment unique to New Zealand, it was lauded around the world and later modelled in...
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Town Life
University of Alberta Press (CA)£19.99| /In the prairies, the small town rests comfortably in our memories as a setting of childhood innocence, good neighbours and stability. By following ...
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Traductores del exilio. argentinos en editoriales españolas
Iberoamericana/Vervuert£28.99| /Este libro puede leerse como una contribución a la historia cultural del exilio argentino en España y como un estudio sobre las prácticas de traduc...
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Transatlantic Style/Stile Transatlantico
Coachbuilt Press£102.99| /What precisely is Transatlantic Style in automobile design and why is it important to identify and celebrate it? The term is symbolic of a very i...
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Translating Late Ottoman Modernity in Palestine
V & R Unipress GmbHOriginal price £72.99Current price £71.99| /The study examines local debates about political order, collective identity, and relationships between ethnic and denominational groups in the pre-...
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Treatise on Slavery
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£15.99| /In De instauranda Aethiopum salute (1627)--the earliest known book-length study of African slavery in the colonial Americas--Jesuit priest Alonso d...
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Treatise on Slavery
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£42.99| /In De instauranda Aethiopum salute (1627)--the earliest known book-length study of African slavery in the colonial Americas--Jesuit priest Alonso d...
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Trendyville
Monash University Publishing£23.99| /Australia's inner cities experienced an upheaval in the 1960s and 70s which left them changed forever. People from all walks of life who valued the...
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Triumph and Tragedy in the Crowsnest Pass
Heritage Group Distribution Ltd (CA)£17.99| /Rich in stories, the Crowsnest Pass region in the southern Rocky Mountains still bears evidence of its tragedies, and one monumental triumph--a rai...
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Ukraine's Post-Communist Mass Media
Ibidem Press/Ibidem-Verlag£25.99| /Natalya Ryabinska calls into question the commonly held opinion that the problems with media reform and press freedom in former Soviet states merel...
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Ukraines Decentralization
Ibidem Press/Ibidem-Verlag£30.00| /Ukraines 20132014 Revolution of Dignity also became known as The Euromaidan, which literally means European Square and refers to the country...
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Unearthly Landscapes
Otago University Press (NZ)£22.50| /By the nineteenth century the ancient urban churchyards of Britain, burdened with generations of dead, were unable to cope with rising numbers of ...
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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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Urban Spaces and the complexity of Cities
Bohlau Verlag GmbH & Cie£42.99| /For some time the Commission Internationale pour lHistoire des Villes has been working actively on the comprehensive topic of urban space which is...
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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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Voices of the Elders
Heritage Group Distribution Ltd (CA)£10.99| /There is a special place on the south-eastern shores of Barkley Sound, on the west coast of Vancouver Island. It is a magnificent landscape of rock...
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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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Wagon-Making in the United States
McDonald & Woodward Publishing Co (US)£23.99| /This is perhaps the best available description of the tools, materials, technology, and process of wagon-making in the US during the late pre-autom...
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Wanderlust
Goose Lane Editions£15.99| /Where did passports come from? Why did 1930s stewardesses carry wrenches? And how did teetotalers shape the modern vacation? Wanderlust answers the...
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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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We Will Not Cease
Otago University Press£16.00| /"To oppose the military machine means to accept the possibility that one may be destroyed by it." Archibald Baxter. We Will Not Cease is the unfl...
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Were You There?
Empire Publications (UK)£20.00| /Manchester's Free Trade Hall was arguably the most important popular music venue in Great Britain between 1951 and 1996. After several incarnations...
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What Makes the Nobility Noble?
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co.KG£76.99| /In this volume on the history of the European nobility in the modern era, the boundary between the early modern and 'real' modern periods around 18...
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