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Matthew Lockwood
Explorers

The impulse to seek out new worlds is universal to humanity. In a truly inclusive account of exploration, historian Matthew Lockwood interweaves stories of famous figures-including Sacagawea, Pocahontas a…

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A Cultural History of Translation

How has our relationship with translation changed for different cultures over the centuries? What effect has it had on politics, art and religion?In a work that spans 2,500 years these ambitious questions…

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Aaron Hughes
Our Rights and Freedoms

Aaron W. Hughes recounts the complex and fascinating history of Canada's Charter and shows how it has forever changed the political, legal, and social lives of Canadians. Written for a wide readership, th…

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Adrian Bingham
Everyday Politics, Ordinary Lives

How do British citizens really feel about the political system, their role in it, and the people who represent them? By focusing on the everyday political opinions, discussions, and interactions of ordina…

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Aaron Reeves, Sam Friedman
Born to Rule

The Economist , Best Books of 2024 The Times , Best Ideas Books of 2024 A uniquely data-rich analysis of the British elite from the Victorian era to today: who gets in, how they get there, what they like …

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Roy Christopher
The Grand Allusion

By tracing allusion use from its religious roots to internet memes, The Grand Allusion presents a new way to understand pop culture.The use of allusions represents an important way we employ our cultural …

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Jarvis R Givens
I'll Make Me a World

On its one-hundredth anniversary, a powerful and essential meditation on the origins, evolution, and future of Black History Month from one of America's leading historians of Black education and the autho…

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Peter Gurney, Matthew Grant, Joel Morley
National Service Life Stories

National Service Life Stories studies the impact that compulsory military service had on men, using original, in-depth oral interviews with over one hundred ex-national servicemen to shine new light on ch…

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The Anthropology of White Supremacy

"White supremacy has shaped cultural anthropology from its inception, yet the discipline also offers powerful tools for understanding how this corrosive force structures societies around the world. T…

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Chris Filstrup, Jane Merrill
The Turban

A superbly illustrated history of the turban, from Arabian origins to global cultural icon.

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Alan Allport
Advance Britannia

The author of Britain at Bay--- which The Wall Street Journal said may be "the single best examination of British politics, society, and strategy [from 1938 to 1941] that has ever been written"-…

lieferbar ab 6.1.2026.

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A Cultural History of Genocide in the Middle Ages

The period covered by this volume, roughly 800-1400, considers genocidal massacres and actions within the context of the pre-modern state, a time when the term "genocide" did not yet exist. In c…

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Jefferson Cowie
Stayin' Alive

A wide-ranging cultural and political history that will forever redefine a misunderstood decade, "Stayin' Alive" is prize-winning historian Jefferson Cowie's remarkable account of how working-cl…

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Tess Wilkinson-Ryan
Fool Proof

The fear of playing the fool is a universal psychological phenomenon and an underappreciated driver of human behavior; in the spirit of Malcolm Gladwell's Blink, Dan Ariely's Predictably Irrational, and S…

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Anthony Bale
A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages

Europeans of the Middle Ages were the first to use travel guides to orient their wanderings, as they moved through a world punctuated with miraculous wonders and beguiling encounters. In this vivid and al…

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Regionalists on the Left

Other books have dealt with western regionalism in general, but this volume is unique in its focus on left-leaning regionalists, including such lesser-known writers as B. A. Botkin, Carlos Bulosan, Sanora…

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Rosemary Cresswell
The History of the British Red Cross, 1870-2020

The British Red Cross (BRC) has played a pivotal role in the history of war, international relations, humanitarianism and health in modern Britain, and interest in the charity has been piqued by the cente…

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Rosemary Cresswell
The History of the British Red Cross, 1870-2020

The British Red Cross (BRC) has played a pivotal role in the history of war, international relations, humanitarianism and health in modern Britain, and interest in the charity has been piqued by the cente…

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Lauren Downing Peters,
Fashion Before Plus-Size

In the first in-depth historical survey of the plus-size fashion industry, Lauren Downing Peters reveals how the fashion industry perpetuates and materializes fat stigma through design discourse.

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Why Bob Dylan Matters, Revised Edition

"The coolest class on campus" -- The New York Times***Revised and updated with a new Afterword from the author.***When the Nobel Prize for Literature was awarded to Bob Dylan in 2016, a debate r…

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