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ROME
A History in Seven SackingsMATTHEW KNEALE
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You Save: 41%This love letter to Rome comes in the form of a vivid chronicle of the city’s repeated catastrophes and recoveries, from the early Roman Republic to the German occupation. It has been ravaged by fir... Learn More -
THE ORIGINS OF HIGHER LEARNING
Knowledge Networks and the Early Development of UniversitiesROY LOWE and YOSHIHITO YASUHARA
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You Save: 54%Spanning from the earliest civilisations to the end of the European Middle Ages, this book explores how, why and where humankind first began to take a sustained interest in questions that went beyond ... Learn More -
MEDIEVAL ITALY
Texts in TranslationEdited by KATHERINE L JANSEN, JOANNA DRELL and FRANCES ANDREWS
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You Save: 49%An unparalleled selection of primary sources from the central and later Middle Ages, a period during which Italy was famous for its diverse cultural landscape of urban towers and fortified castles, th... Learn More -
HAREM
The World Beyond the VeilALEV LYTLE CROUTIER
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You Save: 46%Drawing on first-hand accounts and memoirs, as well as her own family history, the author explores life in the world’s harems, from the Middle Ages to the early twentieth century, focusing on the fa... Learn More -
THE EMPEROR THEOPHILOS AND THE EAST, 829-842
Court and Frontier in Byzantium during the Last Phase of IconoclasmJUAN SIGNES CODOÑER
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You Save: 71%Modern historiography has portraying the emperor Theophilos of Byzantium in a favourable light, taking at face value the legendary account that makes of him a righteous and learned ruler and excusing ... Learn More -
CAUGHT IN THE REVOLUTION
Petrograd, Russia, 1917: A World on the EdgeHELEN RAPPAPORT
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You Save: 55%Between the first revolution in February 1917 and Lenin’s Bolshevik coup in October, Petrograd (the former St Petersburg) was in turmoil. Foreign visitors who filled hotels, bars, offices and embass... Learn More -
THE BIOGRAPHICAL TURN
Lives in HistoryEdited by HANS RENDERS, BINNE DE HAAN and JONNE HARMSMA
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You Save: 55%This volume showcases the latest research through which the field of biography is being explored. Leading scholars present the biographical perspective as a research methodology, investigating the con... Learn More -
STRANGE BIRD
The Albatross Press and the Third ReichMICHELE K TROY
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You Save: 50%The Albatross Press was, from 1932, a ‘strange bird’: a cultural outsider to the Third Reich but an economic insider. It was funded by British-Jewish interests and its director was rumoured to wor... Learn More -
ST PETERSBURG
Shadows of the PastCATRIONA KELLY
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You Save: 43%In this beautifully illustrated and original book, Kelly shows how creative engagement with the past has always been fundamental to St Petersburg’s residents. Weaving together oral history, personal... Learn More -
SECOND-HAND TIME
The Last of the SovietsSVETLANA ALEXIEVICH
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You Save: 67%Alexievich brings together the voices of dozens of witnesses to the collapse of the USSR in an attempt to chart the disappearance of a culture and to surmise what new kind of citizen may emerge from t... Learn More
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