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Talented and Peaceloving Diplomat

By Frederic D Homer

£61.50 10 Feb 2012 Hardback Purdue University Press

"With the appearance of Homer's study, it is no longer possible to base any serious work about organized crime on the superficial debate over whether or not this set of activities is dominated by one or more particular ethnic groups," writes political scientist Michael A. Weinstein in his introduction. "Homer removes the study of organized crime from the realm of sensationalism and ethnic chauvinism, and places it in the context of contemporary American social structure. He reviews prevalent myths and hypotheses about organized crime and critically analyzes them in the framework of contemporary organization theory. In this context, organized crime is analyzed in its economic, political, ethnic, and social class dimensions."

Milovan Milovanovic

10 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT

By David Mackenzie

£31.00 10 Feb 2012 Hardback East European Monographs

At the turn of the twentieth century, Milovan Milovanovi? (1863-1912) had become one of Europe's leading experts on international law. Throughout his career, Milovanovi? was known as an extremely able diplomat who avoided military options to resolving conflict. He also gained fame for his exemplary work during Austria-Hungary's abrupt annexation in 1908 of the largely Serbian provinces of Bosnia and Herzegovina and his subsequent patience in organizing a coalition of Balkan states against the Ottoman Empire.

David Mackenzie follows Milovanovi?'s fascinating life and unmatched political savvy, recounting how the diplomat's brilliance and skill overcame a number of obstacles. His story not only provides a unique window into the practice of diplomacy, but it also adds a deeper dimension to the history of Serbia prior to the Balkan wars of 1912 and 1913.

The Battle of the Alamo

10 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT

By Ben H Procter

£8.95 10 Feb 2012 Paperback Texas State Historical Association,U.S.

The dramatic story of one of the most famous events in Texas history is told by Ben H. Procter of Texas Christian University. Procter describes in colorful detail the background, character, and motives of the prominent figures at the Alamo -- Jim Bowie, William B. Travis, and Davy Crockett -- and the course and outcome of the battle itself. While 183 Texas "rebels" died at the Alamo, Santa Anna's attacking army lost approximately 600 men killed or wounded during the thirteen-day siege. Procter's concise and engaging account of a turning point in Texas history will appeal to students, teachers, historians, and general readers alike.

The Health Seekers of Southern California, 1870-1900

10 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT

By John E. Baur

£16.95 10 Feb 2012 Paperback Huntington Library Press,US

The nineteenth-century notion that Southern California's sunny climate could cure tuberculosis, asthma, rheumatism, and a host of other diseases triggered a rush of health seekers to the region. By the end of the century, these settlers from the East had inflated land values, caused building booms, inaugurated new types of businesses, and founded such towns as Pasadena, Riverside, and Palm Springs.
Baur investigates this migration's effect on the settlement and development of Southern California, focusing on boosterism, resort advertising, medicine and pseudomedicine, and sanitariums. When his study of the region's health-resort industry was originally published in 1959, he was hailed as the Herodotus of the health movement of Southern California.

"I Saw a Nightmare...'" - Doing Violence to Memory

06 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT

The Soweto Uprising, June 16, 1976

By Helena Pohlandt-McCormick

£41.50 06 Feb 2012 Hardback Columbia University Press

In this study, the schoolchildren of Soweto re-emerge to take a central role in the history of the struggle against apartheid. Helena Pohlandt-McCormick grapples with difficult questions of method and interpretation, while she discusses testimony to the commission of inquiry, contemporary accounts, and her own interviews with the now-adult protesters.

The Reign of Cnut

04 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT

£41.50 04 Feb 2012 Book Associated University Presses

The reign of King Cnut is here reassessed in the light of modern advances in the application of numismatic, literary, documentary and onomastic evidence to historical studies. Demonstrating that 'national' histories must be placed in their European context, this collection of studies adopts both an interdisciplinary and an international approach to examine the figure of Cnut as ruler not only of England (1016-35) but also of Denmark and Norway.

How did Cnut's experience and obligations as king of one country influence his actions as ruler of others? Were his policies consistent or purely pragmatic? What were the economic and social effects of his rule? The studies in this collection serve to illuminate the various influences that operated on Cnut as king and also to explain some of his own actions in a fresh way. It includes both studies of particular types of evidence (charters, coins, runic inscriptions, skaldic verse, relics, names) and of the political policies and events of his rule as overlord of different dominions. It aims not only to inform but also to stimulate further study.

Indianola

02 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT

By Brownson Malsch

£17.95 02 Feb 2012 Paperback State House Press

The ghost port of Indianola is the subject of a gripping book that is of prime interest to anyone interested in knowing what life was like in coastal Texas during the nineteenth century. 1978 Summerfield G. Roberts Award.

Rockingham Ware in American Culture, 1830-1930

02 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT

Stories of Korea, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and an American University

By Jane Perkins Claney, PH.D.

£24.95 02 Feb 2012 Paperback University Press of New England

A groundbreaking case study that links social and cultural interpretation with descriptive classification and historical context.

Indian Depredations in Texas

02 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT

By J W Wilbarger

£32.95 02 Feb 2012 Hardback State House Press

This volume, first published in 1889, is one of the most thorough accounts of Indian warfare in Texas.

Three Tigers and Purdue

02 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT

By John Norberg

£22.50 02 Feb 2012 Hardback Purdue University Press

IN the fall of 1999, at the close of the 20th century, there were 3,726 international students on the West Lafayette campus of Purdue University. They came from 127 countries. Three of the largest groups came from Taiwan, South Korea, and Hong Kong, continuing a tradition that has stertched throughout the century. The stories behind Purdue's long-term relationship with Taiwan, Korea, and Hong-Kong have never been told before. Three Tigers and Purdue describes that history, as told in the stories of the people who lived it.

The Battle of San Jacinto

02 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT

By James W Pohl

£8.95 02 Feb 2012 Paperback Texas State Historical Association,U.S.

The inscription on the base of the San Jacinto Monument reads: "Measured by its results, San Jacinto was one of the decisive battles of the world. The freedom of Texas from Mexico won here led to annexation and to the Mexican War, resulting in the acquisition by the United States of the states of Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada, California, Utah, and parts of Colorado, Wyoming, Kansas, and Oklahoma. Almost one-third of the American nation . . . changed hands".

Basques in the Philippines

02 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT

By Marciano R De Borja

£35.50 02 Feb 2012 Hardback University of Nevada Press

This work breaks new ground with its study of Basques in the Far East. It addresses the long-unappreciated history of the Philippines as a vital part of the Spanish Empire, closely connected through trade and personal ties to the American colonies and crucial to European penetration of East Asia. The story is rich in characters and historical details, and fills an important void in the literature of the Basque diaspora.

The Grove Diaries

02 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT

Yankee Political Prisoners in an Australian Penal Colony 1839-1850

£33.50 02 Feb 2012 Hardback Associated University Presses

The publication of the diaries of successive generations of the Grove family is of considerable importance. Spanning more than a century, from 1809 to 1925, and described by one scholar as 'like a Jane Austen novel, but for real', they chart the rise of a Wiltshire/Dorset border family from county gentry to aristocratic Victorian grandees, before finally tracing the much steeper trajectory of the family's decline.

The Grove family home was Ferne House, near Shaftesbury. And it is at Ferne in 1809 that the eighteen-year-old Harriet Grove began this remarkable series of diaries. But Harriet was no ordinary diarist, for her later attempts to scratch out references to 'my dear Bysshe' testify to her affair with her cousin, the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, with whom she was then deeply in love.

In 1811 the diary of her older sister Charlotte takes up the narrative. Charlotte's entire life was spent within walking distance of Ferne. Gossip adds spice to a rural world that is as measured and unchanging as the parson's wife she became. The third diarist, her nephew Thomas, was cast in a very different mould. Captain of dragoons, baronet, member of parliament, master of Ferne, Thomas effortlessly absorbed the delusions of grandeur of the Victorian heyday. His diaries span the years 1855 to 1897, ultimately recording the collapse of British agriculture and a financial crisis that brought the family to the brink of ruin.

The diaries of his daughter-in-law, Agnes, which run from 1882 to 1925, bear the imprint of the Whig aristocracy. Born a daughter of General Pitt-Rivers and cousin of Bertrand Russell, noted for her wit and beauty, Agnes Grove's passionately held beliefs in women's rights and her long friendship with Thomas Hardy give her diaries a resonance that brings her gloriously to life.

American Citizens, British Slaves

02 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT

By Pybus, Cassandra.

£26.95 02 Feb 2012 Paperback Michigan State University Press

In 1840, eighty-two Americans were transported from Canada to a life of penal servitude half a world away in Van Diemen's Land, present-day Tasmania. Captured in a series of cross-border raids at Short Hills, St. Clair, Windsor, and Prescott following the 1837 rebellion against the colonial government in Upper Canada, these convicts were exiled in lieu of a death sentence.

Gleaned from eleven first-person accounts, Cassandra Pybus and Hamish Maxwell-Stewart examine the largest body of interlocking convict narratives in existence. American Citizens, British Slaves is presented as one narrative into which the editors have woven their own extensive commentary. This work provides a vivid, intimate account of the lives of these American political prisoners within the penal system, their attempts to escape, and the ultimate prize of freedom as described by the survivors. The book also sets the Patriot narratives within the broader context of political unrest in the borderlands of America, as well as within the British Empire as a whole, during the 1830s. The narratives reveal the political and legal issues exposed in the use of transportation as a viable judicial tool.

An Elizabethan Progress

02 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT

The Transformation of Bergenfield, New Jersey, 1894-1994

By Zillah Dovey

£34.50 02 Feb 2012 Hardback Associated University Presses

There is no detailed account of any of Elizabeth I's progresses and none of the many references in biographies mention more than the major occasions such as the spectacular visit to Kenilworth. In this pioneering work, Zillah Dovey has used contemporary documents to study in detail a single, though typical, long progress, covering the court servants' preparations, the stops en route and, in parallel, the work of the Council who had to go along too.

The progress in question was an eleven-week journey during the summer of 1578 from Greenwich to Norfolk and back by a different route. This had the twin objectives of showing the Queen and her court in all their splendour to the people of a hitherto unvisited part of the realm, and of reducing the pockets of Catholicism which persisted, particularly in Norfolk and Suffolk. The Queen and the Privy Council constituted the government of the country so her ministers had to travel with her, conducting all their usual domestic and foreign business wherever they happened to be. With them went their staff, the court servants and the Queen's guards, totalling several hundred people and perhaps one thousand horses.

The inconvenience was unimaginable. The route had to be surveyed, towns and householders advised, supplies set up and cash provided, the court officers' schedules carefully coordinated. Unless the roads were good - which they were usually not - only the baggage was carried on wheels. Everyone else, including the Queen and her ladies, rode. Where there were no great houses the Queen dined or stayed in the homes of the local gentry who had no choice but to abandon their houses to her officers; the rest of the vast party had to be accommodated wherever possible in the area, sometimes at a considerable distance. There was constant coming and going ambassadors, foreign envoys, petitioners and couriers had to catch up with the progress and move on with it, often waiting some time for an audience or instructions; letters from all over England and abroad had to be brought and replies or orders sent. Decisions and movements were often affected by the threat of plague.

Firmly based on contemporary sources and complemented by a wealth of illustrative material, this new study will be immensely valuable to students and scholars and yet its accessible style will appeal to the amateur and local historian and to those with a general interest in the Elizabethan period.

A Country Place No More

02 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT

By Michael J Birkner

£39.95 02 Feb 2012 Hardback Associated University Presses

In this work, Michael J. Birkner relates the history of Bergenfield, New Jersey, from its incorporation as a borough in 1894 to the present. He portrays a bucolic farm village that was eager by the 1880s to join the metropolitan community through a network of railroads and ferries that made travel to and from Manhattan relatively easy and affordable. By the 1920s Bergenfield was known as a lively commuter suburb of New York, its citizenry enjoying the benefits of a modernizing infrastructure and a panoply of social clubs and civic organizations.

Bergenfield's reputation as a community on the rise peaked in the twenties, as population doubled, civic and political leaders exerted influence county-wide, and the borough played a significant role in the agitation for a bridge over the Hudson River.

A Country Place No More details the aims and frustrations of a visionary mayor, Charles Grabowski, who championed planning and zoning, public parks, and the benefits of consolidating services with neighboring communities. When Grabowski's political career collapsed in 1929, months before the nation fell into the grip of its worst economic depression, the stage was set for the emergence of a new political system in Bergenfield. Town fathers focused their energies on balancing budgets and promoting growth, while largely ignoring the longer-term implications of rapid residential development.

Led by five-term mayor Frank L. Jones and borough attorney Pierce Deamer, the borough put its finances in order and avoided the worst calamities of the Depression era. Bergenfield continued to grow and cemented its reputation as a haven for the modest middle class and upwardly mobile at the beginning of their climb. Once the postwar boom commenced in 1945, Bergenfield's proximity to New York City, combined with the pro-development policies of successive Republican administrations, assured that the once-quiet village would complete its transformation into a bustling, crowded, and ever-more-urbanized suburb.

Birkner describes the forces that have affected Bergenfield's twentieth-century transformation, showing that geography alone cannot explain why Bergenfield grew as it did. In addition to analyzing the consequences of one-party rule in Bergenfield during a critical era, he conveys what it was like to live there. Drawing on town records, newspaper files, and one hundred interviews, Birkner sheds light on small town folkways, ethnic and race relations, perceptions of class, and the behind-the-scenes exertion of influence in several discrete power bases: Borough Hall, the Board of Education, and the Chamber of Commerce.

Because Bergenfield differs from the kinds of suburban communities usually treated in popular and scholarly literature, its history will be of interest to students of suburbia as well as to local historians. Bergenfield's experience coping with growth and ethnic diversification may be unique; but it offers many points of intersection with the experiences of suburban enclaves across America.

Arrow Rock

02 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT

By Authorene Wilson Phillips

£15.50 02 Feb 2012 Paperback University of Missouri Press

Arrow Rock, so named because Native Americans once went there to shape their arrowheads from the flint found along the Missouri River, is a small historic village. Today fewer than one hundred people call Arrow Rock home, but its scenic location and rich history continue to attract thousands of visitors every year.

The story of this village, now a historic site, brings to life the history of America: early days of settlement, an era of prosperity and power for some and incredible hardship for others, wars, a decline, and a rebirth. In addition, the long roll call of those who visited the area provides a history of the opening of the West.

This book will prove valuable to those interested in Missouri history; the developing nation; and the geographical, political, and recreational forces that were at work as so many came - and went. Like a visit to Arrow Rock itself, this book allows readers to step back into history and appreciate a time when the river was the highway.

The Legacy of Ancient Egypt

02 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT

By Charles Freeman, Charles Freeman

£39.95 02 Feb 2012 Hardback Chelsea House Publishers

A completely new, stunningly illustrated presentation of the facts and legends behind one of the world's most fascinating civilizations - which continues to shape our culture more than 2,500 years later.

The Papers of George Washington, Revolutionary War Volume 14

02 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT

The Definitive Biography, Including His Encounter with the Red Baron,

By George Washington, (Sp (Sp (Sp (Sp

£75.50 02 Feb 2012 Hardback University of Virginia Press

This volume opens with Washington praising his troops for the "uncomplaining Patience during the scarcity of provisions in Camp" at Valley Forge and exhorting them to persevere in the face of any "occasional" shortages that might yet occur. Washington writes about the goings-on during the army's time at the camp, as well as their preparations for the upcoming summer campaign.

Alien Immigrants to England 1337-1750

01 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT

A Documentary History

By Nigel Goose, Lien Luu

£55.00 01 Feb 2012 Hardback Sussex Academic Press

The period 1337 to 1750 has been widely regarded as a crucial one in the forging of a new sense of national identity. Topics covered include the foundations of immigrant communities, legal and economic statue, wealth and poverty, economic and cultural impacts and assimilation.

A Human Geography of Spain

01 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT

By J. M. Martinez, Russell King

£17.95 01 Feb 2012 Paperback Sussex Academic Press

This volume starts by placing Spain within the new political and economic context of Europe and then traces Spain's own political evolution from dictatorship to democracy and the autonomous regions. Subsequent chapters include demography, the agricultural crisis and mass tourism.

A Human Geography of Spain

01 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT

By J. M. Martinez, Russell King

£49.50 01 Feb 2012 Hardback Sussex Academic Press

Spain has witnessed the most remarkable economic, social and political transformation of any West European country over the past 25 years. During this time it has emerged from the shadow of Franco's dictatorship to its new status as a major EU country. This volume, the first book on the human geography of the new Spain, starts by placing Spain within the new politidcal and econnomic context of Europe and the traces Spain's own political evolution from dictatorship to democracy and the autonomous regions. Subsequent chapters deal with demography, the agricultural crisis, industrial restructuring, the growth of the service economy, mass tourism, the welfare state, transport and urban systems. The book concludes with and intergrated summary of the constituent elements of the new geography of Spain, set within the contexst of continuing and emerging regional disequelibria in Spain and with reference to Spain's position on the dynamidc semi-periphery of Europe.

Captain Roy Brown

01 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT

By Alan Bennett, Margaret Harmon, Denny May

£15.95 01 Feb 2012 Paperback Brick Tower Press

The decades-old question surrounding the death of the Red Baron has been embroiled in controversy. This study covers the life of Captain Arthur Roy Brown, who is well-known as an ace fighter pilot. It also covers Captain Brown's encounter with Manfred von Richthofen, the Red Baron, in detail.

Jewish Entrepreneurship in Salonica, 1912-1940

01 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT

An Ethnic Economy in Transition

By Orly C. Meron

£85.00 01 Feb 2012 Hardback Sussex Academic Press

Provides a multidisciplinary exploration of Salonica's Jewish-owned economy between the years 1912-1940, a period prior to and during Greece's national consolidation. This book presents the results of the author's comparative and inter-ethnic study of Jewish entrepreneurial patterns for three distinct historical periods and two levels of analysis.

American Indian Tribes

01 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT

£42.50 01 Feb 2012 Hardback Salem Press Inc

Numerous American Indian tribes are surveyed from ancient times to the twentieth century in this reference collection. The coverage beings with overview essays on the ten major cultural/geographical areas: Arctic, California, Great Basin, Northeast, Northwest Coast, Plains, Plateau, Southeast, Southwest, and Subarctic. These are followed by more than 300 alphabetically arranged entries on individual tribes. The set concludes with ten appendices: Educational Institutions and Programs; Festivals and Pow-wows; Museums, Archives, and Libraries; Organizations, Agencies, and Societies; Populations of U.S. Reservations; Reservations: US; Reserves and Bands: Canada; Time Line; Mediagraphy; and Bibliography. The final item in this outstanding work is a comprehensive subject index.

Studies in Ukranian History

01 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT

By Jaroslaw Pelenski

£39.50 01 Feb 2012 Hardback East European Monographs

Written over a period of 15 years, these essays reflect the author's preoccupation with central themes in Ukrainian history. Topics examined include Ukrainian political theory, the complex relations of Russia, Poland and the Ukraine, and the ethnic interests of Ukrainian Cossacks.

Voices of Eastleigh

01 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT

By Glen Jayson

£12.99 01 Feb 2012 Paperback The History Press Ltd

The book is illustrated with a wonderful selection of photographs that capture the spirit of this unique area over the past hundred years or so.

The Archaeology of Medieval Novgorod in Its Wider Context

31 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT

A Study of Centre/periphery Relations

By Mark Brisbane, Nikolaj Makarov, Evgenie Nosov

£60.00 31 Jan 2012 Multimedia Item Oxbow Books

Examines the wider context of the influence of medieval Novgorod through the evidence for the exploitation of natural resources and their conversion via craft activity into products for local consumotion and/or trade. This title offers an innovative approach to wider questions of extraction, manufacture and production, and consumption.

American Vintage

31 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT

The Rise of American Wine

By Paul Lukacs

£12.99 31 Jan 2012 Paperback WW Norton & Co

Winner of the James Beard Foundation, International Association of Culinary Professionals, and Clicquot Wine Book of the Year awards

In a Dark Time

30 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT

Memory, Community, and Gendered Nationalism in Postwar Okinawa

By Linda Isako Angst

£29.95 30 Jan 2012 Hardback Harvard University, Asia Center

Since the reversion of Okinawa from American occupation to Japanese sovereignty in 1972, these islands have become the site of a colonial and postcolonial relationship of resistance and dependence between Okinawa, Japan and the United States. This work provides a glimpse behind the historical and geopolitical dimensions of the Okinawan experience.

A Place of Belonging

26 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT

Five Founding Women of Fairbanks, Alaska

By Phyllis Demuth Movius

£11.50 26 Jan 2012 Hardback University of Alaska Press

Alaska has always attracted people from varied backgrounds. This book introduces us to five women who settled in Fairbanks between 1903 and 1923 and who typify the disparate population that has long enriched Alaska.

Dice Deception, Fate and Rotten Luck

26 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT

By Ricky Jay

£9.99 26 Jan 2012 Paperback The Quantuck Lane Press

A classic small celebration and meditation on dice through the ages; both brilliant and beautiful.
"Jay's writing is exactly what one would expect from the extremely erudite, witty and decent author of "Learned Pigs & Fireproof Women" and "Jay's Journal of Anomalies," There is an explanation of the etymology of "craps," and there are various tales of armless dicers, ingenious hustlers, and Scandinavian kings of the Middle Ages who diced for islands. Dice turn out to be rich subjects for Purcell's photography. She presents them as, in a way, monumental ruins on a Stonehenge-type of scale relative to the book. Their forms are enriched by their disintegration and are bathed in light that their varying translucence seems to contain for a moment before releasing it to the lens . . . The book itself is, like a die, a modest object, small for a book of photography and, with a short text, casually organized."--Crispin Sartwell, "Los Angeles Times" 21 color photographs.

Agricultural Transition in New York State

26 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT

By Donald H Parkerson

£52.50 26 Jan 2012 Hardback Purdue University Press

This study of Agricultural Transition in New York State focuses on the transformation of the U.S. agricultural economy in the middle of the nineteenth century and the its impact on farm families.

Guns and Garlic

26 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT

Politics and Contested Transformations

By Frederic D Homer

£61.50 26 Jan 2012 Hardback Purdue University Press

The Battle of the Alamo

26 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT

By Ben H Procter

£8.95 26 Jan 2012 Paperback Texas State Historical Association,U.S.

Understanding Central Asia

26 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT

By Sally Cummings

£85.00 26 Jan 2012 Hardback Taylor & Francis Ltd

Presents an introductory text to the history, politics and international relations of Central Asia. This book explores domestic and foreign politics of the five independent states of post-Soviet Central Asia: Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan, and the key issues facing the region.

Written on Bamboo and Silk

26 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT

By T.H. Tsien

£17.50 26 Jan 2012 Paperback The University of Chicago Press

A landmark in its field -- and the only book of its kind available in English -- this classic study comprehensively traces the development of Chinese writing from the earliest inscriptions to the advent of printing, organizing its history with significant attention to the tools used for these acts. For this revised edition, Tsien adds material treating the many major documents discovered since the book's original publication, and Edward L. Shaughnessy contributes a new introduction.

Written on Bamboo

26 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT

State Formation and Civil Society

By T.H. Tsien

£38.50 26 Jan 2012 Hardback The University of Chicago Press

This study traces the development of Chinese writing from the earliest inscriptions to the advent of printing, organizing its history with significant attention to the tools used for these acts. In this revised edition Edward L.Shaughnessy contributes a new introduction.

Europe's Uncertain Path 1814-1914

20 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT

By R. S. Alexander

£19.99 20 Jan 2012 Paperback John Wiley and Sons Ltd

Europe's Uncertain Path is an introduction to Europe's turbulent history from 1814 to 1914. It presents a clear narrative of the major political events, set against the backdrop of social, economic, and cultural change.

Europe's Uncertain Path 1814-1914

20 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT

State Formation and Civil Society

By R. S. Alexander

£65.00 20 Jan 2012 Hardback John Wiley and Sons Ltd

Kazakhstan's New Economy

19 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT

Post-Soviet, Central Asian Industries in a Global Era

By Jay Nathan

£26.00 19 Jan 2012 Paperback University of Scranton Press,U.S.

Kazakhstan has faced severe economic challenges since it gained independence from the former Soviet Union in 1991. "Kazakhstan's New Economy" explores how the country might shed the outdated business practices that continue to hamper its growth. Jay Nathan first provides a historical overview of the economy and then delves deeper into the strengths and weaknesses of nine major industries, including oil and gas, banking, telecommunications, and transportation. Nathan's careful analysis and recommendations will provide valuable insight for anyone interested in Central Asia's economic growth.
"An excellent resource on major industries in Kazakhstan."--Byrganym Aitimova, Minister of Education and Science, the Republic of Kazakhstan

The Genuine Article

19 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT

A Historian Looks at Early America

By Edmund S. Morgan

£11.99 19 Jan 2012 Paperback WW Norton & Co

Dividing his work into 24 essays with sections on "New Englanders," "Southerners," and "Revolutionaries," Morgan examines the history of the American colonies from the arrival of the first settlers in 1607 to the radical changes brought forth by the American Revolution.

Warnings to the Kings and Advice on Restoring Spain

19 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT

By Maria de Guevara

£27.50 19 Jan 2012 Hardback The University of Chicago Press

Guevara's writings call on Spanish women to bear responsibility equally with men for restoring Spain's power in Europe. This collection includes examples of Guevara's shorter writings on matters of state, network with dignitaries, and govern family affairs. It provides a perspective on the possibilities for women in the public sphere in Spain.

Indianola

18 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT

By Brownson Malsch

£17.95 18 Jan 2012 Paperback State House Press

Rockingham Ware in American Culture, 1830-1930

18 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT

Stories of Korea, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and an American University

By Jane Perkins Claney, PH.D.

£24.95 18 Jan 2012 Paperback University Press of New England

A groundbreaking case study that links social and cultural interpretation with descriptive classification and historical context.

Indian Depredations in Texas

18 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT

By J W Wilbarger

£32.95 18 Jan 2012 Hardback State House Press

This volume, first published in 1889, is one of the most thorough accounts of Indian warfare in Texas.

Three Tigers and Purdue

18 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT

By John Norberg

£22.50 18 Jan 2012 Hardback Purdue University Press

The Battle of San Jacinto

18 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT

By James W Pohl

£8.95 18 Jan 2012 Paperback Texas State Historical Association,U.S.

Basques in the Philippines

18 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT

By Marciano R De Borja

£35.50 18 Jan 2012 Hardback University of Nevada Press

The Grove Diaries

18 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT

Yankee Political Prisoners in an Australian Penal Colony 1839-1850

£33.50 18 Jan 2012 Hardback Associated University Presses

American Citizens, British Slaves

18 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT

By Pybus, Cassandra.

£26.95 18 Jan 2012 Paperback Michigan State University Press

An Elizabethan Progress

18 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT

The Transformation of Bergenfield, New Jersey, 1894-1994

By Zillah Dovey

£34.50 18 Jan 2012 Hardback Associated University Presses

A Country Place No More

18 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT

By Michael J Birkner

£39.95 18 Jan 2012 Hardback Associated University Presses

Arrow Rock

18 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT

By Authorene Wilson Phillips

£15.50 18 Jan 2012 Paperback University of Missouri Press

The Legacy of Ancient Egypt

18 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT

By Charles Freeman, Charles Freeman

£39.95 18 Jan 2012 Hardback Chelsea House Publishers

The Papers of George Washington, Revolutionary War Volume 14

18 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT

The De La Guerra Family, Power, and Patriarchy in Mexican California

By George Washington, (Sp (Sp (Sp (Sp

£75.50 18 Jan 2012 Hardback University of Virginia Press

American Indian Tribes

17 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT

£42.50 17 Jan 2012 Hardback Salem Press Inc

The Father of All

17 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT

By Louise Pubols

£30.95 17 Jan 2012 Hardback Huntington Library Press,US

Historian Louise Pubols presents a rich and nuanced study of a key family in California's past: the de la Guerras of Santa Barbara. Amid sweeping economic and political changes, including the U.S.Mexican War, the de la Guerra family continually adapted and reinvented themselves. This absorbing narrative is much more than the history of an elite and powerful family, however. Pubols analyzes the region's trading and provisioning economy and clarifies its volatile political rivalries. By tracing a web of business and family relationships, Pubols shows in practical terms how patriarchy functioned from generation to generation in Spanish and Mexican California. This is the first of a series of books on western history to be copublished by the Huntington Library and University of California Press.

The Border and the Buffalo

15 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT

An Untold Story of the Southwest Plains

By John R. Cook

£21.50 15 Jan 2012 Paperback State House Press

Written by the author who witnessed or participated in a string of important events that shaped America and sculpted the history of the West. It describes the organization of hunts, camp routines, and marketing of the buffalo hides.

The Portugal of Salazar

15 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT

By Michael Derrick, R.J. Stove

£17.50 15 Jan 2012 Paperback IHS Press

Analyzing the career and character of the popular Portuguese chief executive Antonio Salazar, this exhaustive study examines the socioeconomic, political, and religious arguments that won him decades of support from his people. Written in collaboration with the influential leader himself, this overview encapsulates the political and social landscape of Europe in the 1920s and 1930s and explains how Salazar came into power, maintained good international relationships, and became the "reluctant dictator" who was central in rebuilding the Portuguese state's finances and economy.

Price of Freedom

15 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT

By B.A. Santamaria

£19.95 15 Jan 2012 Paperback IHS Press

Compiling essays and reflections of B. A. Santamaria from the late 1940s and early 1950s, this survey concisely summarizes the first key decade of his Australian Catholic Social Movement, otherwise known as "the Movement." The strengths, weaknesses, and challenges faced by "the Movement" are examined, and in the process, the rocky relationship between the Catholic political-activist organizations and the Catholic hierarchy are explored along with Australian politics in the postwar period and anti-Communist social and political organizations.

Truth and Consequences

15 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT

Literary and Cultural Essays on Modern Ireland

By Harry Thayer Mahoney, Marjorie Locke Mahoney

£57.50 15 Jan 2012 Hardback Academica Press

Expands and enhances Professor Foster's well known work, Colonial Consequencs (Dublin, 1991). Covering both cultural and literary topics, the book discusses science and Oscar Wilde, Yeats and Nothern nationalism, the plays of Martin McDonagh and the Field Work phenomena.

Lincoln's Labels

15 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT

America's Best Known Brands and the Civil War

By James M. Schmidt

£22.95 15 Jan 2012 Hardback Edinborough Press

Relating a variety of rarely told stories, this overview explores the brand names that supplied food, medicine, clothing, and weapons during the Civil War from the perspective of the producers. From du Pont's gunpowder and Brooks Brothers' uniforms to Procter & Gamble's soap and Borden's condensed milk, each company and product are investigated in detail. This study also touches upon how combat affected the companies, with each firm telling a tale that mirrors the war itself: family and friendships torn asunder, political intrigue, pitched battles, and paths crossed with the book's namesake, Abraham Lincoln.

The Words of Thomas Jefferson

15 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT

By Thomas Jefferson

£15.50 15 Jan 2012 Hardback Thomas Jefferson Memorial Fund,US

Contains a selection of quotations by and about Thomas Jefferson, chosen for the exhibition The Words of Thomas Jefferson, featured in the Thomas Jefferson Visitor Center at Monticello.

Infrastructure and Poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa

15 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT

By Quentin Wodon, Antonio Estache

£15.50 15 Jan 2012 Paperback World Bank Publications

The book provides evidence on the role of infrastructure in accelerating growth and progress towards the Millennium Development Goals, and on the financing needs for the sector to play this role. It also provides quantitative data and analysis on the performance of various sub-sectors in terms of access rates, affordability, quality and costs. Finally it discusses the impact of the main institutional, contractual and regulatory reforms implemented in the sector so far and the way forward.

American Indians in the Twentieth Century

15 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT

By Alexander Ewen, Jeffrey Wollock

£17.95 15 Jan 2012 Paperback Facts On File Inc

Presents the history, key individuals and events of 20th-century American Indians. This work contains a comprehensive range of entries - from biographies to concise analyses of major events, organizations, and topics - that provide an overview of the history of American Indians in the 20th century.

First Americans

13 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT

A History of Native Peoples

By Kenneth William Townsend, Mark A. Nicholas

£45.99 13 Jan 2012 Paperback Pearson Education (US)

A comprehensive narrative of the history of Native Americans that covers the complexity and diversity of Native history from their arrival on this continent to the twenty-first century. Through its chronological organization, the text clearly addresses the theme that Indians themselves have consciously struggled to preserve their cultures and their unique place in America and that they have worked to shape their own future. The authors address the cultural mechanisms that have allowed Indians to remain true to their own values while adapting to a rapidly and ever-changing world.

New York in Postcards 1880-1980

12 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT

The Andreas Adam Collection

By Andreas Adam, Paul Goldberger, Kent Lydecker

£45.00 12 Jan 2012 Hardback Scheidegger und Spiess AG, Verlag

New York - quintessential metropolis and global icon - shown in a vast variety of views that form a unique kaleidoscope of more than 900 full-colour plates.

Milovan Milovanovic

12 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT

Talented and Peaceloving Diplomat

By David Mackenzie

£31.00 12 Jan 2012 Hardback East European Monographs

The Health Seekers of Southern California, 1870-1900

12 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT

By John E. Baur

£16.95 12 Jan 2012 Paperback Huntington Library Press,US

Agricultural Transition in New York State

11 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT

By Donald H Parkerson

£52.50 11 Jan 2012 Hardback Purdue University Press

This study of Agricultural Transition in New York State focuses on the transformation of the U.S. agricultural economy in the middle of the nineteenth century and the its impact on farm families.

Guns and Garlic

11 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT

By Frederic D Homer

£61.50 11 Jan 2012 Hardback Purdue University Press

The Battle of the Alamo

11 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT

By Ben H Procter

£8.95 11 Jan 2012 Paperback Texas State Historical Association,U.S.

The Reign of Cnut

09 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT

£41.50 09 Jan 2012 Book Associated University Presses

Indianola

03 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT

By Brownson Malsch

£17.95 03 Jan 2012 Paperback State House Press

Rockingham Ware in American Culture, 1830-1930

03 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT

Stories of Korea, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and an American University

By Jane Perkins Claney, PH.D.

£24.95 03 Jan 2012 Paperback University Press of New England

A groundbreaking case study that links social and cultural interpretation with descriptive classification and historical context.

Indian Depredations in Texas

03 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT

By J W Wilbarger

£32.95 03 Jan 2012 Hardback State House Press

This volume, first published in 1889, is one of the most thorough accounts of Indian warfare in Texas.

Three Tigers and Purdue

03 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT

By John Norberg

£22.50 03 Jan 2012 Hardback Purdue University Press

The Battle of San Jacinto

03 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT

By James W Pohl

£8.95 03 Jan 2012 Paperback Texas State Historical Association,U.S.

Basques in the Philippines

03 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT

By Marciano R De Borja

£35.50 03 Jan 2012 Hardback University of Nevada Press

The Grove Diaries

03 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT

Yankee Political Prisoners in an Australian Penal Colony 1839-1850

£33.50 03 Jan 2012 Hardback Associated University Presses

American Citizens, British Slaves

03 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT

By Pybus, Cassandra.

£26.95 03 Jan 2012 Paperback Michigan State University Press

An Elizabethan Progress

03 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT

The Transformation of Bergenfield, New Jersey, 1894-1994

By Zillah Dovey

£34.50 03 Jan 2012 Hardback Associated University Presses

A Country Place No More

03 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT

By Michael J Birkner

£39.95 03 Jan 2012 Hardback Associated University Presses

Arrow Rock

03 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT

By Authorene Wilson Phillips

£15.50 03 Jan 2012 Paperback University of Missouri Press

The Legacy of Ancient Egypt

03 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT

By Charles Freeman, Charles Freeman

£39.95 03 Jan 2012 Hardback Chelsea House Publishers

The Papers of George Washington, Revolutionary War Volume 14

03 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT

The Rise of American Wine

By George Washington, (Sp (Sp (Sp (Sp

£75.50 03 Jan 2012 Hardback University of Virginia Press

American Indian Tribes

02 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT

£42.50 02 Jan 2012 Hardback Salem Press Inc

American Vintage

02 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT

By Paul Lukacs

£12.99 02 Jan 2012 Paperback WW Norton & Co

Winner of the James Beard Foundation, International Association of Culinary Professionals, and Clicquot Wine Book of the Year awards

Alien Immigrants to England 1337-1750

01 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT

A Documentary History

By Nigel Goose, Lien Luu

£55.00 01 Jan 2012 Hardback Sussex Academic Press

A Human Geography of Spain

01 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT

By J. M. Martinez, Russell King

£17.95 01 Jan 2012 Paperback Sussex Academic Press

A Human Geography of Spain

01 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT

By J. M. Martinez, Russell King

£49.50 01 Jan 2012 Hardback Sussex Academic Press

Captain Roy Brown

01 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT

The Definitive Biography, Including His Encounter with the Red Baron,

By Alan Bennett, Margaret Harmon, Denny May

£15.95 01 Jan 2012 Paperback Brick Tower Press

Broken Circles

01 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT

Fragmenting Indigenous Families 1800-2000

By Anna Haebich

£15.99 01 Jan 2012 Paperback Fremantle Press

Haebich (curator of history, Western Australian Museum) describes the Aboriginal Australian's experiences as their children were abducted, enslaved, institutionalized, and culturally remodeled as a consequence of European colonialism. She discusses the history of these practices in all of the Australian colonies, states, and territories. The resist

Jewish Entrepreneurship in Salonica, 1912-1940

01 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT

An Ethnic Economy in Transition

By Orly C. Meron

£75.00 01 Jan 2012 Hardback Sussex Academic Press

German Jet Engine and Gas Turbine Development 1930-1945

01 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT

By Anthony L. Kay

£45.00 01 Jan 2012 Hardback The Crowood Press Ltd

The German war machine resulted in many innovations in jet engine and gas turbine development. The most noteworthy was the Me262, the world's first operational jet fighting aircraft.

Japanese Overseas Settlements to 1650

01 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT

By Thomas Nelson

£80.00 01 Jan 2012 Hardback Taylor & Francis Ltd

The book examines sources in a number of Asian and European languages to illustrate the differing roles of the Japanese as merchants, mercenaries and middlemen in Korea, the Ryukyus, Formosa, Siam, Vietnam and Cambodia.

Britain's War Plans 1919-1939

31 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT

By Steven T. Ross

£80.00 31 Dec 2011 Hardback Taylor & Francis Ltd

The advent of aggressive powers - Germany, Italy and Japan - forced the British government to contemplate and prepare for a World War. This book examines the government's war plans.

Written on Bamboo and Silk

28 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT

By T.H. Tsien

£17.50 28 Dec 2011 Paperback The University of Chicago Press

Written on Bamboo

28 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT

By T.H. Tsien

£38.50 28 Dec 2011 Hardback The University of Chicago Press

Dice Deception, Fate and Rotten Luck

27 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT

By Ricky Jay

£9.99 27 Dec 2011 Paperback The Quantuck Lane Press

Agricultural Transition in New York State

27 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT

By Donald H Parkerson

£52.50 27 Dec 2011 Hardback Purdue University Press

This study of Agricultural Transition in New York State focuses on the transformation of the U.S. agricultural economy in the middle of the nineteenth century and the its impact on farm families.

Guns and Garlic

27 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Five Founding Women of Fairbanks, Alaska

By Frederic D Homer

£61.50 27 Dec 2011 Hardback Purdue University Press

The Battle of the Alamo

27 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT

By Ben H Procter

£8.95 27 Dec 2011 Paperback Texas State Historical Association,U.S.

A Place of Belonging

23 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT

By Phyllis Demuth Movius

£11.50 23 Dec 2011 Hardback University of Alaska Press

Kazakhstan's New Economy

21 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Post-Soviet, Central Asian Industries in a Global Era

By Jay Nathan

£26.00 21 Dec 2011 Paperback University of Scranton Press,U.S.

The Genuine Article

21 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT

A Historian Looks at Early America

By Edmund S. Morgan

£11.99 21 Dec 2011 Paperback WW Norton & Co

Warnings to the Kings and Advice on Restoring Spain

21 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT

By Maria de Guevara

£27.50 21 Dec 2011 Hardback The University of Chicago Press

Indianola

19 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT

By Brownson Malsch

£17.50 19 Dec 2011 Paperback State House Press

Rockingham Ware in American Culture, 1830-1930

19 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Stories of Korea, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and an American University

By Jane Perkins Claney, PH.D.

£24.50 19 Dec 2011 Paperback University Press of New England

A groundbreaking case study that links social and cultural interpretation with descriptive classification and historical context.

Indian Depredations in Texas

19 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT

By J W Wilbarger

£32.50 19 Dec 2011 Hardback State House Press

This volume, first published in 1889, is one of the most thorough accounts of Indian warfare in Texas.

Three Tigers and Purdue

19 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT

By John Norberg

£21.95 19 Dec 2011 Hardback Purdue University Press

The Battle of San Jacinto

19 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT

By James W Pohl

£8.95 19 Dec 2011 Paperback Texas State Historical Association,U.S.

Basques in the Philippines

19 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT

By Marciano R De Borja

£34.95 19 Dec 2011 Hardback University of Nevada Press

The Grove Diaries

19 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT

The De La Guerra Family, Power, and Patriarchy in Mexican California

£32.50 19 Dec 2011 Hardback Associated University Presses

The Father of All

19 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT

By Louise Pubols

£30.95 19 Dec 2011 Hardback Huntington Library Press,US

American Citizens, British Slaves

19 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Yankee Political Prisoners in an Australian Penal Colony 1839-1850

By Pybus, Cassandra.

£25.95 19 Dec 2011 Paperback Michigan State University Press

An Elizabethan Progress

19 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT

By Zillah Dovey

£33.50 19 Dec 2011 Hardback Associated University Presses

The Reign of Cnut

19 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT

The Transformation of Bergenfield, New Jersey, 1894-1994

£40.50 19 Dec 2011 Book Associated University Presses

A Country Place No More

19 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT

By Michael J Birkner

£38.95 19 Dec 2011 Hardback Associated University Presses

Arrow Rock

19 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT

By Authorene Wilson Phillips

£14.95 19 Dec 2011 Paperback University of Missouri Press

The Legacy of Ancient Egypt

19 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT

By Charles Freeman, Charles Freeman

£38.95 19 Dec 2011 Hardback Chelsea House Publishers

The Papers of George Washington, Revolutionary War Volume 14

19 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Diversity and Development

By George Washington, (Sp (Sp (Sp (Sp

£73.95 19 Dec 2011 Hardback University of Virginia Press

American Indian Tribes

16 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT

£41.95 16 Dec 2011 Hardback Salem Press Inc

Africa

15 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT

By Tony Binns, Alan Dixon, Etienne Nel

£100.00 15 Dec 2011 Hardback Taylor & Francis Ltd

"Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada"--T.p. verso.

The Making of Western Indology

15 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Henry Thomas Colebrooke and the East India Company

By Ludo Rocher, Rosane Rocher

£85.00 15 Dec 2011 Hardback Taylor & Francis Ltd

Henry Thomas Colebrooke was an East India Company civil servant who became the father of modern Indology. He embodies the significant passage from the speculative yearnings attendant on eighteenth century colonial expansion. This biography traces, explains, and evaluates Colebrooke's importance.

Milovan Milovanovic

14 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Talented and Peaceloving Diplomat

By David Mackenzie

£31.00 14 Dec 2011 Hardback The University Press Group Ltd

The Health Seekers of Southern California, 1870-1900

14 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT

By John E. Baur

£16.95 14 Dec 2011 Paperback Huntington Library Press,US

Agricultural Transition in New York State

12 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT

By Donald H Parkerson

£51.50 12 Dec 2011 Hardback Purdue University Press

This study of Agricultural Transition in New York State focuses on the transformation of the U.S. agricultural economy in the middle of the nineteenth century and the its impact on farm families.

Guns and Garlic

12 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT

By Frederic D Homer

£59.95 12 Dec 2011 Hardback Purdue University Press

The Battle of the Alamo

12 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT

By Ben H Procter

£8.95 12 Dec 2011 Paperback Texas State Historical Association,U.S.

Studies in Ukranian History

07 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT

By Jaroslaw Pelenski

£39.50 07 Dec 2011 Hardback The University Press Group Ltd

The History of Freedom

03 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT

From Moses to Mandela

By Michael Moynihan

£17.99 03 Dec 2011 Hardback Palgrave Macmillan

Michael Moynihan provides a historical measure for the fundamental concept of freedom. He reaches back through history to the primordial moment for freedom in the West: the flight of Jews from slavery in Egypt. He then traces an arc that takes the reader through ancient Athens and Rome, Runnymede in the 13th century, Philadelphia in 1787, through to the overthrow of the Raj, the collapse of the Berlin Wall, and up to the present.

This engaging tour illustrates his thesis that freedom has never been the natural state of man, but rather a privilege that must be constantly attended to, fought for, and earned. The fascinating result is both a popular history of freedom as well as a catalyst for discussion of the status of freedom today.

Indianola

02 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT

By Brownson Malsch

£17.50 02 Dec 2011 Paperback State House Press

Rockingham Ware in American Culture, 1830-1930

02 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Stories of Korea, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and an American University

By Jane Perkins Claney, PH.D.

£24.50 02 Dec 2011 Paperback University Press of New England

A groundbreaking case study that links social and cultural interpretation with descriptive classification and historical context.

Indian Depredations in Texas

02 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT

By J W Wilbarger

£32.50 02 Dec 2011 Hardback State House Press

This volume, first published in 1889, is one of the most thorough accounts of Indian warfare in Texas.

Three Tigers and Purdue

02 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT

By John Norberg

£21.95 02 Dec 2011 Hardback Purdue University Press

The Battle of San Jacinto

02 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT

By James W Pohl

£8.95 02 Dec 2011 Paperback Texas State Historical Association,U.S.

Basques in the Philippines

02 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT

By Marciano R De Borja

£34.95 02 Dec 2011 Hardback University of Nevada Press

The Grove Diaries

02 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Yankee Political Prisoners in an Australian Penal Colony 1839-1850

£32.50 02 Dec 2011 Hardback Associated University Presses

American Citizens, British Slaves

02 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT

By Pybus, Cassandra.

£25.95 02 Dec 2011 Paperback Michigan State University Press

An Elizabethan Progress

02 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT

By Zillah Dovey

£33.50 02 Dec 2011 Hardback Associated University Presses

The Reign of Cnut

02 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT

The Transformation of Bergenfield, New Jersey, 1894-1994

£40.50 02 Dec 2011 Book Associated University Presses

A Country Place No More

02 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT

By Michael J Birkner

£38.95 02 Dec 2011 Hardback Associated University Presses

Arrow Rock

02 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT

By Authorene Wilson Phillips

£14.95 02 Dec 2011 Paperback University of Missouri Press

The Legacy of Ancient Egypt

02 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT

By Charles Freeman, Charles Freeman

£38.95 02 Dec 2011 Hardback Chelsea House Publishers

The Papers of George Washington, Revolutionary War Volume 14

02 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT

The Rise of American Wine

By George Washington, (Sp (Sp (Sp (Sp

£73.95 02 Dec 2011 Hardback University of Virginia Press

American Vintage

02 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT

By Paul Lukacs

£12.99 02 Dec 2011 Paperback WW Norton & Co

Winner of the James Beard Foundation, International Association of Culinary Professionals, and Clicquot Wine Book of the Year awards

A History of Australia

02 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT

By Mark Peel, Christina Twomey

£16.99 02 Dec 2011 Paperback Palgrave Macmillan

From the first explorers to present-day Australians, via the great migrations of the centuries in between, Australia's story has been shaped by movement and mobility. This cultural, political and social history offers a clear chronological narrative which brings to life the ideas, hopes and journeys of Australia's past and present.

A History of Australia

02 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT

By Mark Peel, Christina Twomey

£55.00 02 Dec 2011 Hardback Palgrave Macmillan

Things from the Town

01 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Artefacts & Inhabitants in Viking-Age Kaupang

By Dagfinn Skre

£46.00 01 Dec 2011 Hardback Aarhus University Press

Presents a range of artefacts of the excavations of the Viking town of Kaupang of 2000-2003, along with a discussion of the town's inhabitants: their origins, activities and trading connections. This title describes and dates the artefacts and discusses their areas of origin.

Alien Immigrants to England 1337-1750

01 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT

A Documentary History

By Nigel Goose, Lien Luu

£55.00 01 Dec 2011 Hardback Sussex Academic Press

A Human Geography of Spain

01 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT

By J. M. Martinez, Russell King

£17.95 01 Dec 2011 Paperback Sussex Academic Press

A Human Geography of Spain

01 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT

By J. M. Martinez, Russell King

£49.50 01 Dec 2011 Hardback Sussex Academic Press

Captain Roy Brown

01 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT

The Definitive Biography, Including His Encounter with the Red Baron,

By Alan Bennett, Margaret Harmon, Denny May

£15.95 01 Dec 2011 Paperback Brick Tower Press

Centre & Periphery, Roots & Exile

01 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Interpreting the Music of Istvan Anhalt & Gyorgy Kurtag

By Friedemann Sallis, Robin Elliott, Kenneth DeLong

£70.99 01 Dec 2011 Hardback Wilfrid Laurier University Press

Examines the impact place and displacement can have on the composition and interpretation of Western art music, using as its primary objects of study the work of Istvan Anhalt and Gyorgy Kurtag.

American Indian Tribes

01 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT

£41.95 01 Dec 2011 Hardback Salem Press Inc

Phormio

01 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT

By Terence

£18.00 01 Dec 2011 Paperback Aris & Phillips Ltd

Based on the traditional elements of love, deception and mistaken identity, this play provides an introduction to the genre of New Comedy. This edition attempts to highlight Terence's skill in plot development and character portrayal.

Phormio

01 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT

By Terence

£40.00 01 Dec 2011 Hardback Aris & Phillips Ltd

Routledge Handbook of South Asian Culture and Society

01 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT

By Veena Das

£115.00 01 Dec 2011 Hardback Taylor & Francis Ltd

Presents key issues on culture and society in the South Asian context. Taking into account economic and political changes in the different South Asian societies, this book provides insight into the cultural life of the region. It is suitable for students interested in cultural studies, anthropology and sociology and South Asian studies.

North Atlantic Treaty Organisation

30 Nov 2011 00:00:00 GMT

An Encyclopedia of International Security

By Craig T. Cobane

£134.95 30 Nov 2011 Hardback ABC-CLIO Ltd

A comprehensive reference work, which is focused on NATO, covering the people, events, and historical context that have shaped history's successful military partnership among nations. This encyclopedia also offers a portrait of NATO at work responding to a variety of challenges.

Written on Bamboo and Silk

29 Nov 2011 00:00:00 GMT

By T.H. Tsien

£17.50 29 Nov 2011 Paperback The University of Chicago Press

Written on Bamboo

29 Nov 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Agricultural Change in Virginia, 1861-1920

By T.H. Tsien

£38.50 29 Nov 2011 Hardback The University of Chicago Press

Dice Deception, Fate and Rotten Luck

28 Nov 2011 00:00:00 GMT

By Ricky Jay

£9.99 28 Nov 2011 Paperback The Quantuck Lane Press

A Kind of Fate

25 Nov 2011 00:00:00 GMT

By G Terry Sharrer

£46.95 25 Nov 2011 Hardback Purdue University Press

A Kind Of Fate: Agricultural Change In Virginia, 1861-1920 surveys farming in Virginia through the experiences of Jacob Manning and his son James. We read about their individual struggles, the impact of the Civil War, contrasts between farming and country life, Jacob having to farm through the harsh times of the Civil War, his son James farming experiences during a post-war time of rising prosperity. Author Terry Sharrer (curator of health sciences at the Smithsonian Institutions, Washington, D.C.) focuses on the changes in agriculture and its shift from crop-focused to livestock-dominated farming.

Agricultural Transition in New York State

25 Nov 2011 00:00:00 GMT

By Donald H Parkerson

£51.50 25 Nov 2011 Hardback Purdue University Press

This study of Agricultural Transition in New York State focuses on the transformation of the U.S. agricultural economy in the middle of the nineteenth century and the its impact on farm families.

Over-Fulfiled Expectations

25 Nov 2011 00:00:00 GMT

A Life and an Era in Rural America

By Harold F Breimyer

£46.95 25 Nov 2011 Hardback Purdue University Press

During the 1920s, the United States, suddenly aware of its potential following success in World War I, offered bright promise to its youth and especially to its rural youth. Harold Breimyer, the author of this memoir, was one of those rural youth- an Ohio farm boy. In this evocative memoir, told in the third person, Breimyer recounts how he and his fellows were encouraged to form high expectations for themselves, and how they fulfilled them.

Guns and Garlic

25 Nov 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Identities and Politics within the Successor States

By Frederic D Homer

£59.95 25 Nov 2011 Hardback Purdue University Press

The Battle of the Alamo

25 Nov 2011 00:00:00 GMT

By Ben H Procter

£8.95 25 Nov 2011 Paperback Texas State Historical Association,U.S.

Herakles

25 Nov 2011 00:00:00 GMT

By Emma Stafford

£19.99 25 Nov 2011 Paperback Taylor & Francis Ltd

Examines the various aspects of Herakles' myth, representations in literature and art, monographs and articles, and presents an account of Herakles. This book highlights areas of consensus and dissent in the theories, and the discussion on Herakles. It is suitable for students of classics and related disciplines.

Herakles

25 Nov 2011 00:00:00 GMT

By Emma Stafford

£70.00 25 Nov 2011 Hardback Taylor & Francis Ltd

After Yugoslavia

25 Nov 2011 00:00:00 GMT

By Robert Hudson, Glenn Bowman

£57.50 25 Nov 2011 Hardback Palgrave Macmillan

An investigation of recent developments and trends within the Yugoslav successor states since the signing of the Dayton Agreements in Autumn 1995. This book offers a distinctive and desirable perspective on the seven successor states, their cultures, politics and identities by providing an internal perspective on the region and its developments.

A Place of Belonging

24 Nov 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Five Founding Women of Fairbanks, Alaska

By Phyllis Demuth Movius

£18.50 24 Nov 2011 Hardback University of Alaska Press

The Business and Household Accounts of Joyce Jeffreys, Spinster of Hereford,

24 Nov 2011 00:00:00 GMT

By Judith M. Spicksley

£50.00 24 Nov 2011 Hardback Oxford University Press

Joyce Jeffreys' accounts overturn our perceptions of the social, cultural and economic world of the 17th century spinster. The unusual wealth of detail reveals her business dealings, mainly as a moneylender (and how she suffered financially in the civil war), and also her vibrant kinship network which linked her with prominent local people.

Kazakhstan's New Economy

22 Nov 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Post-Soviet, Central Asian Industries in a Global Era

By Jay Nathan

£27.50 22 Nov 2011 Paperback University of Scranton Press,U.S.

The Genuine Article

22 Nov 2011 00:00:00 GMT

A Historian Looks at Early America

By Edmund S. Morgan

£11.99 22 Nov 2011 Paperback WW Norton & Co

Warnings to the Kings and Advice on Restoring Spain

22 Nov 2011 00:00:00 GMT

By Maria de Guevara

£27.50 22 Nov 2011 Hardback The University of Chicago Press

The Father of All

18 Nov 2011 00:00:00 GMT

The De La Guerra Family, Power, and Patriarchy in Mexican California

By Louise Pubols

£30.95 18 Nov 2011 Hardback Huntington Library Press,US

Delta Nigeria

17 Nov 2011 00:00:00 GMT

The Rape of Paradise

By George Osodi

£24.99 17 Nov 2011 Hardback Trolley Books

The Niger Delta is one of the most corrupt and dangerous places in the world for one reason - oil. Discovered in the Niger Delta in the 1950s, it soon triggered the development of a powerful oil industry. This book features images that present the eternal days of a land bathed in the orange glow of burning oil.

Indianola

17 Nov 2011 00:00:00 GMT

By Brownson Malsch

£17.50 17 Nov 2011 Paperback State House Press

Rockingham Ware in American Culture, 1830-1930

17 Nov 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Stories of Korea, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and an American University

By Jane Perkins Claney, PH.D.

£24.50 17 Nov 2011 Paperback University Press of New England

A groundbreaking case study that links social and cultural interpretation with descriptive classification and historical context.

Indian Depredations in Texas

17 Nov 2011 00:00:00 GMT

By J W Wilbarger

£33.50 17 Nov 2011 Hardback State House Press

This volume, first published in 1889, is one of the most thorough accounts of Indian warfare in Texas.

Three Tigers and Purdue

17 Nov 2011 00:00:00 GMT

By John Norberg

£21.95 17 Nov 2011 Hardback Purdue University Press

The Battle of San Jacinto

17 Nov 2011 00:00:00 GMT

By James W Pohl

£9.50 17 Nov 2011 Paperback Texas State Historical Association,U.S.

Basques in the Philippines

17 Nov 2011 00:00:00 GMT

By Marciano R De Borja

£34.95 17 Nov 2011 Hardback University of Nevada Press

The Grove Diaries

17 Nov 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Yankee Political Prisoners in an Australian Penal Colony 1839-1850

£33.95 17 Nov 2011 Hardback Associated University Presses

American Citizens, British Slaves

17 Nov 2011 00:00:00 GMT

By Pybus, Cassandra.

£25.95 17 Nov 2011 Paperback Michigan State University Press

An Elizabethan Progress

17 Nov 2011 00:00:00 GMT

By Zillah Dovey

£33.50 17 Nov 2011 Hardback Associated University Presses

The Reign of Cnut

17 Nov 2011 00:00:00 GMT

The Transformation of Bergenfield, New Jersey, 1894-1994

£40.50 17 Nov 2011 Book Associated University Presses

A Country Place No More

17 Nov 2011 00:00:00 GMT

By Michael J Birkner

£38.95 17 Nov 2011 Hardback Associated University Presses

Arrow Rock

17 Nov 2011 00:00:00 GMT

By Authorene Wilson Phillips

£14.95 17 Nov 2011 Paperback University of Missouri Press

The Legacy of Ancient Egypt

17 Nov 2011 00:00:00 GMT

By Charles Freeman, Charles Freeman

£38.95 17 Nov 2011 Hardback Chelsea House Publishers

The Papers of George Washington, Revolutionary War Volume 14

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