Social & Cultural History
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Atlas of Lost Paradises
Schiffer£27.99| /Thoroughly documented, a worldwide selection of places representing many attempts made by mankind through the ages to re-create a paradise on Earth...
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Georgia - The Land of Unique People and Songs
Nova Science Publishers, Inc£84.99| /The author of this book, Anzor Erkomaishvili, is one of the most well known, recognized individuals in Georgia: a singer and choirmaster; a compose...
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Ghost Signs
Schiffer£18.99| /New York City's oldest neighborhoods are downtown, where scores of timeworn ads have improbably survived for decades. These "ghost signs" hold the ...
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Gone But Not Forgotten
NeWest Publishers Ltd (CA)£19.99| /This is a treasure trove of stories that reach beyond the buildings of timber and nails and put a human face on the history of these towering struc...
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Graphic History of Antisemitism
Schiffer£36.99| /There are two groups of Jews in the world: the Jews who are no different than any other people and the Jews who are figments of imagination and def...
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GWG
Goose Lane Editions£23.99| /Winner, Alberta Historical Resources Foundation Heritage Award, Canadian Museums Association Outstanding Achievement in Publications, and Redgees L...
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Harvesting the Chesapeake
Schiffer£27.99| /This second, revised and expanded, edition of this popular collection, including 233 photos and sketches, represents the most comprehensive study o...
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Heart of the Cariboo-Chilcotin
Heritage Group Distribution Ltd (CA)£15.99| /The spirited stories in Heart of the Cariboo-Chilcotin capture the severity and grace of the distinct pioneer culture that resides in British Colum...
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Heart of the Cariboo-Chilcotin
Heritage Group Distribution Ltd (CA)£15.99| /The Heart of the Cariboo-Chilcotin anthology celebrates this beautiful and remote region of British Columbia. From the days of the gold rush throug...
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Heritage & Change in the Arctic
Aalborg University Press£34.00| /In recent years, rapid changes to Arctic environments and conditions have spurred much anal-ysis into the melting of sea and inland ice, the openin...
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High River and the Times
University of Alberta Press (CA)£25.99| /Founded in 1905, the High River Times served a community of small town advertisers and an extensive hinterland of ranchers and farmers in southern ...
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High River and the Times
University of Alberta Press (CA)£34.99| /Founded in 1905, the High River Times served a community of small town advertisers and an extensive hinterland of ranchers and farmers in southern ...
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Historicizing Infrastructure
Aalborg University Press£32.00| /How does one handle a concept like 'infrastructure', which seems, simultaneously, so vague and yet heavily technical? In this international researc...
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History and Society during the Mamluk Period (12501517)
V & R Unipress GmbH£52.99| /The contributions to this volume address a wide range of fascinating topics: the marital regime in Damascus, narrative strategies in biographies of...
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How the Blacks Created Canada
Dragon Hill Publishing (US)£14.99| /Across the country and throughout time, Blacks have played pivotal roles in the unfolding of Canadian history. Woven into the fabric of the country...
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How the Chinese Created Canada
Dragon Hill Publishing (US)£14.99| /How the Chinese Created Canada provides an in-depth look at the triumphs and struggles of one of Canada's most vibrant communities. Chinese culture...
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How the Scots Created Canada
Dragon Hill Publishing (US)£14.99| /The Scots in Canada made their mark as explorers, fur traders, soldiers, business leaders, prime ministers and more. Ex-pat Paul Cowan marks their ...
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I Was There
University of Alberta Press (CA)£33.99| /I Was There shares the insights and experiences of the generations of students, professors, and staff who lived and worked at the U of A for the pa...
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Imperial Affair
Monash University Publishing£16.99| /An Imperial Affair, by awardwinning author John Rickard, takes us into the marriage of an Australian couple during a time when private lives were p...
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In the Land of the Lion & Sun
Mage Publishers Inc (US)£19.50| /C J Wills was an English physician who travelled widely in Iran from 1866-81 while working for the Indo-European Telegraph Department. With a disce...
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Indifferent Inclusion
Aboriginal Studies Press (AUS)£26.99| /McGregor offers a holistic interpretation of the complex relationship between Indigenous and settler Australians during the midle four decades of t...
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Indigenous Identity and Resistance
Otago University Press (NZ)£22.50| /Indigenous Identity and Resistance brings together the work of Indigenous Studies scholars working in Canada, New Zealand and the Pacific in resear...
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Industrious Children
Odense University Press (DK)£23.30| /Children's work is a controversial subject both in the sciences of sociology and history. It does not accord well with the modern idea of a good ch...
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Israel und die Geister von '68
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co.KG£23.99| /This book is a reconstruction of the hidden psychology of the 68 students' movement and its aftermath in Germany. The radical self-identification w...
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Jewish Soldiers in the Collective Memory of Central Europe
Bohlau Verlag GmbH & Co.KG£65.99| /World War I marks a huge break in Central European Jewish history. Not only had the violent wartime events destroyed Jewish life and especially the...
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Jews of Lithuania
Gefen Publishing House (IS)£30.99| /The full and fascinating history of this remarkable community, from its beginnings in the early part of the 14th century until its virtual destruct...
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Joining a Prestigious Club
Ibidem Press/Ibidem-Verlag£30.00| /Brusselss idea of a wider Europe implies that Europeanisation is not limited to EU member states. The EU can, so it claims, also exert impact beyo...
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Journal of Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society
Ibidem Press/Ibidem-Verlag£29.00| /"The Journal of Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society (JSPPS) is a bi-annual companion journal to the Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Soc...
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Judaism and Crisis
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co.KG£94.99| /In their long history, Jews encountered political, social, cultural, and religious crises which threatened not only their very existence but Jewish...
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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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Kaufmanns Nachrichtendienst
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co.KG£71.99| /This study concerns David Kaufmann´s "News Service" as an example of Jewish scholarly networks during the 19th century. David Kaufmann (1852--1899)...
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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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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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Letters from Beauly
Goose Lane Editions£14.99| /Shortlisted, New Brunswick Book Award for Non-FictionDuring the Second World War, hundreds of New Brunswick woodsmen joined the Canadian Forestry C...
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Living History
Gefen Publishing House (IS)£18.99| /This volume is a collection of breaking news reports from the front lines of the propaganda war against Israel, the Jews, and the infidel West. Dr....
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Lois Hole Speaks
University of Alberta Press (CA)£21.99| /"I have faith in a better future, because I have faith that most human beings want to do the right thing." - Lois Hole In early 2005, Alberta lost ...
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