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Joseph Sassoon
The Sassoons

A spectacular generational saga of the making (and undoing) of a family dynasty: the riveting untold story of the gilded Jewish Bagdadi Sassoons, who built a vast empire through global finance and trade--…

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Mark J Crowley
Post Office Women at War, 1939-45

The Post Office was central to Britain's effort to win the Second World War. From sending mail to connecting telephone calls and processing war savings certificates, its functions united a nation in a sen…

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Matthew P Fitzpatrick
A Pacific Power

A Pacific Power brings to light an often-overlooked history of German imperialism in the Pacific. Focusing on Samoa, it shows the tension between German rulers and Samoan subjects, as well as the variety …

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Chris Pearson
Collared

'Essential reading' John Bradshaw, author of In Defence of Dogs'A riveting history: a book stuffed with knowledge and quietly radiating affection' Church Times, Books of the Year 2024Dogs are our constant…

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Kulturgeschichten der Aufklärung

Mainzer Historische Kulturwissenschaften - Band 43

The anthology offers a carefully edited and commented selection of largely unknown cultural-historical texts from the 18th and early 19th centuries.

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Handbuch Queere Zeitgeschichten II

Historische Geschlechterforschung - Band 16

Dieses Handbuch macht queere Zeitgeschichte im deutschsprachigen Raum zum ersten Mal einem breiten Publikum zugänglich. Die Beiträge und Quellen erschließen Dynamiken, die das Leben von Lesben, Schwulen, …

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Dorothy Sue Cobble
For the Many

"A history of the twentieth-century feminists who fought for the rights of women, workers, and the poor, both in the United States and abroad For the Many presents an inspiring look at how US women a…

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Michael Kremer, Cheryl Misak
Margaret MacDonald and Analytic Philosophy in the 1930s

This volume examines the important but, until recently, largely forgotten work of the British analytic philosopher Margaret Macdonald. Cheryl Misak and Michael Kremer provide essays on Macdonald's life an…

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Kim Christensen
On My Honor

"Since its founding in 1910, the Boy Scouts of America has been the nation's premier youth organization, espousing self-reliance and honor. More than 100 million Americans have been Boy Scouts, from …

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Camilla Annerfeldt
Clothing and Identity in Early Modern Rome

This is the first book-length exploration of the clothes worn in early modern Rome and provides novel insights into the city of Rome during one of its most fascinating periods. It also challenges the noti…

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Nadine Attewell
Archives of Intimacy

This book offers a rich and innovative study of multiracial social worlds in early-twentieth-century London, Liverpool, and Hong Kong--three port cities linked by their importance to global British shippi…

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James A Kaser
Staten Island's Elliottville

The story of a 19th century Staten Island town that nurtured the careers of nationally significant reformers, abolitionists, and transcendentalists.This book traces five decades of community life in a nin…

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Neil W Bernstein
Poppaea Sabina

Like many famous figures from antiquity, we must work through layers of fantasy in order to uncover the life of Poppaea Sabina (c. 30-65 CE). In this book, Neil Bernstein critically examines these sources…

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Amin Samman
Currency of Nihilism

What happens to economic life when meaning and value come apart? Drawing on Friedrich Nietzsche, E.M. Cioran, and Jean Baudrillard, this book shows how the latest trends in digital finance restage the dil…

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Peter Laufer
We Are All Americans

In the days after September 11, 2001, photojournalist Peter Laufer set out on a cross-country journey to capture America at its most vulnerable and united. Traveling from Washington, DC, to California, he…

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Nadine Attewell
Archives of Intimacy

This book offers a rich and innovative study of multiracial social worlds in early-twentieth-century London, Liverpool, and Hong Kong--three port cities linked by their importance to global British shippi…

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Kim Christensen
On My Honor

From a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, the shocking rise and fall of an American institution.Since its founding in 1910, the Boy Scouts of America has been the nation's premier youth organization, espo…

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Ana Teixeira Pinto
Death Wall

How the transition to fossil fuels entailed an intensification of ongoing processes of racialization.From the eighteenth century onwards, Western science began to tap a large, yet non-renewable, capital s…

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Eric Beecher
The Men Who Killed the News

Readings Best Books of 2024, Non-Fiction Nominated for the 2025 Sperber PrizeNever before has the media played such an active part in our politics, with Elon Musk using X to affect world elections and dir…

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Katrina Quisumbing King
Enduring Empire

"In 1898 the United States became a formal overseas empire and claimed sovereignty over the Philippine islands, justifying its rule in explicitly racial terms. Less than fifty years later, in 1946, P…

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