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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
FORMAT:
Hardcover
£25.00
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
FORMAT:
£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
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£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
Pre-OrderAnarchism and eugenics
An unlikely convergence, 1890-1940
By Richard Cleminson
At the heart of this book is what would appear to be a striking and fundamental paradox: the espousal of a 'scientific' doctrine that sought to eliminate 'dysgenics' and champion the 'fit' as a ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-2448-7
FORMAT:
£20.00
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