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FiltersB. R. Ambedkar
The man who gave hope to India's dispossessed
By Shashi Tharoor
A household name throughout India, B. R. Ambedkar is one of the country's most important figures, second only to Mahatma Gandhi. He played a major role in drafting the constitution for a newly ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-6430-8
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£9.99
Pre-OrderCoup in Damascus
Syria and the birth of Arab military rule, 1949
By Carl Rihan
Coup in Damascus is a history of Syria's first military regime. It plots the the fall of Syria's democracy and the rise of its military rulers, particularly Husni al-Zaim, whose brief rule in ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-5104-9
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Hardcover
£85.00
Pre-OrderThe Derby philosophers
Science and culture in British urban society, 1700-1850
By Paul A. Elliott
The Derby Philosophers focuses upon the activities of a group of Midland intellectuals that included the evolutionist and physician Erasmus Darwin, Rev. Thomas Gisborne the evangelical ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-7176-4
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£25.00
Pre-OrderThe Strand
A biography
By Geoff Browell and Eileen Chanin
The first history of one of London's most extraordinary streets.Running along the Thames's northern shore and spanning three-quarters of a mile from Trafalgar Square to Temple Bar, the Strand has ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-7911-1
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Hardcover
£25.00
Pre-OrderTechnology, health and the patient consumer in the twentieth century
Edited by Rachel Elder and Thomas Schlich
Technology and consumerism are two characteristic phenomena in the history medicine and healthcare, yet the connections between them are rarely explored by scholars. In this edited volume, the ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-7114-6
FORMAT:
Hardcover
£90.00
Pre-OrderUnburied
The true story of Hannah Beswick, the Manchester Mummy
By Hannah Priest
The macabre tale of an eighteenth-century woman immortalised in folklore as the 'Manchester Mummy'. In 1835, the Manchester Natural History Society opened the doors of its museum. Taking pride ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-7592-2
FORMAT:
Hardcover
£25.00
Pre-OrderRed closet
The hidden history of gay oppression in the USSR
By Rustam Alexander
A poignant and deeply researched history of gay oppression in the USSR.In 1934, Joseph Stalin enacted sodomy laws, unleashing a wave of brutal detentions of homosexual men in large Soviet ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-8145-9
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£12.99
Pre-OrderDirty books
Erotic fiction and the avant-garde in mid-century Paris and New York
By Barry Reay and Nina Attwood
An intimate history of the pornographic publisher behind some of the greatest works of the twentieth-century avant-garde.From the 1930s to the 1970s, in New York and in Paris, daring publishers ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-8146-6
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£12.99
Pre-OrderIreland in crisis
War, politics and religion, 1641-50
Edited by Patrick Little
The crisis that befell Ireland in the 1640s has always fascinated historians. This volume of essays presents cutting-edge research on various aspects of the Irish wars, notably regionalism, the ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-8248-7
FORMAT:
£25.00
Pre-OrderBelfast punk and the Troubles: An oral history
By Fearghus Roulston
This book is an oral history of the punk scene in Belfast from the mid-1970s to the mid-80s. It explores what it was like to be a punk in a city shaped by the violence of the Troubles, and how ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-8246-3
FORMAT:
£20.00
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