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THE MEDIEVAL NATURAL WORLD
RICHARD JONES
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You Save: 55%How did medieval people make sense of their surroundings, and how did this change over the years as understanding and knowledge expanded? This new study shows how medieval people interpreted the world... Learn More -
THE WAR ON HERESY
Faith and Power in Medieval EuropeR I MOORE
£9.95In Western Europe at AD 1000 heresy had barely been heard of. Yet within a few generations accusations had become commonplace and institutions were created to identify and suppress beliefs and practic... Learn More -
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The Dwarfs of AuschwitzYEHUDA KOREN and EILAT NEGEV
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You Save: 51%‘Through thick and thin, never separate. Stick together, guard each other and live for one another.’ The Ovitz family had good reason to stand by their mother’s mantra as they descended from the... Learn More -
LIFE UNDER PRESSURE
Mortality and Living Standards in Europe and Asia, 1700-1900TOMMY BENGTSSON, CAMERON CAMPBELL and JAMES Z LEE
£6.25This book studies 100,000 life histories in rural communities in Western Europe and Asia to analyse demographic response to social and economic pressures. In doing so it demonstrates that population b... Learn More -
INVISIBLE NATION
How the Kurds’ Quest for Statehood is Shaping Iraq and the Middle EastQUIL LAWRENCE
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You Save: 50%Kurdistan is an invisible nation, the largest without a homeland: 25 million moderate Sunni Muslims living in the area around the borders of Turkey, Iran, Iraq and Syria. Through a history dating 2,00... Learn More -
BRUTALITY AND DESIRE
War and Sexuality in Europe’s Twentieth CenturyDAGMAR HERZOG
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You Save: 30%Tracing the arc of sexual violence coursing through Europe's twentieth century, from the Armenian genocide through Auschwitz and Algeria to Bosnia, this volume expands military history to include the ... Learn More -
SCORCHED EARTH, BLACK SNOW
The First Year of the Korean WarANDREW SALMON
£19.95In the summer of 1950, British and Australian troops were dispatched to fight with UN forces in the savage struggle against communism in Korea. After both triumph and tragedy, 27th Brigade – ... Learn More
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THE SPANISH HOLOCAUST
Inquisition and Extermination in Twentieth-Century SpainPAUL PRESTON
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You Save: 47%This book explores the profound horrors visited upon Spain during its ferocious Civil War, the consequences of which still reverberate bitterly today. The brutal, murderous persecution of Spaniards... Learn More
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MODERNITY AND THE SECOND-HAND TRADE
European Consumption Cultures and Practices, 1700-1900Edited by JON STOBART and ILJA VAN DAMME
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You Save: 81%A continuing desire for the new is often seen as a core cultural value of Western society, interwoven with the fabric of modernity itself. This has led to neglect of 'alternative' consumer practices, ... Learn More -
THE HEROIC EARTH
Geopolitical Thought in Weimar Germany, 1918-1933DAVID T MURPHY
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You Save: 71%Murphy challenges traditional historiography, arguing that geopolitical ideas were most dynamic and significant in Germany in the democratic culture of the Weimar Republic (1919-33) rather than the Na... Learn More
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