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Pinning down Byzantium (or East Rome) is as difficult today as it was for contemporaries during its 1,000-year-long existence. Dimitri Obolensky sought to characterize its impact on Eastern Europe in his classic The Byzantine Commonwealth, focusing on the elements of...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-09-15
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The early twenty-first century ushered in a period of change in Bolivia.The country welcomed its first Indigenous president, a new constitution, and a profusion of laws that recognized individual music and dance expressions as intangible cultural heritage. Using...
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Oxford University Press
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2025-09-15
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This book brings together a range of researchers to explore the growth and development of the women’s game in Britain and Ireland. They are active across a diverse range of fields, from historians and heritage practitioners, to those from the arts such as playwrights...
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Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
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2025-09-12
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Sir Syed Ahmad Khan, a 19th-century educationist and reformer, pioneered modern education among Indian Muslims. He founded the Mohammedan Anglo-Oriental (MAO) College in 1875, which became Aligarh Muslim University in 1920, revolutionizing Muslim thought and promoting...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-09-12
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Inchon: the battle that saved South Korea
Operation Chromite, the American-led amphibious landing at the port of Inchon [Incheon] in September 1950, is arguably the most famous battle of the Korean War. Often hailed as a masterstroke on the part of its creator, General...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-09-12
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The Roman emperor Julian (r. 361-363 CE) was a man of action and of letters, which he employed in an effort to return the Empire to the light of the pagan gods, and reverse the Christianization of the empire advanced by his uncle Constantine and the sons of Constantine....
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Oxford University Press
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2025-09-12
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50th ANNIVERSARY EDITION - now a Virago Modern Classic with a new introduction by Alexandra Harris'Full of dignity, courage and humour, and as fresh and insightful as the day it was written, FENWOMEN is a vital portrait of rural women's lives - not only as they were...
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Virago
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2025-09-11
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'Tony is the real deal.' Andy McNabSierra Leone, 2000.While on patrol as part of a peacekeeping mission, eleven British soldiers are kidnapped.The captors are a dangerous rebel group known as the West Side Boys. Fuelled by alcohol and drugs, the behaviour of the rebels...
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Headline Welbeck Non-Fiction
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2025-09-11
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Pizza is the Italian food that has conquered the world: from Brussels to LA, from Beijing to Buenos Aires, pizzas and pizzerias can be found everywhere today. But what are the origins of this food and how did it rise from its humble beginnings to become the world’s...
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Polity
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2025-09-10
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**SHORTLISTED FOR THE JAMES TAIT BLACK BIOGRAPHY PRIZE**"Idiosyncratic and entertaining," Sunday Times"A fascinating family and social history," Catherine Taylor, author of The Stirrings: A Memoir in Northern Time"A fascinating dual story," Edel Coffey, The GlossWe all...
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The Bridge Street Press
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2025-09-04
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A delightful, thoughtful and original new way to understand England's historyA Times Best Book of the Year 2025 A History Extra History Book of the Year 2025 'This is a marvellous idea, quite brilliantly realised. Catherine Clarke takes 25 poems [...] and uses them as...
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Penguin
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2025-09-04
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History Hit podcast presenter Dr Anthony Delaney reveals the fascinating lives of those long written out of the nation's story, now lovingly restored.'If you’ve been intrigued by the gay romances that featured in Bridgerton, or the inspiration behind Gentleman Jack,...
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Transworld Digital
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2025-09-04
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**SHORTLISTED FOR WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEAR****SHORTLISTED FOR THE NERO BOOK AWARDS NON-FICTION AWARD 2025**Britain was once a craft land. For generations what we made with our hands shaped our identities, built our communities and defined our regions. Craftland...
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Vintage Digital
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2025-09-04
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A Times Best Book of the Year 2025A remarkable micro-history from the author of The Sleepwalkers and Revolutionary Spring'It takes a confident historian to write a short book… the story is distilled to its powerful essence; he knows precisely what’s important… This...
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Penguin
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2025-09-04
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*Longlisted for the 2026 Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction*Named a Book of the Year by Financial Times, Sunday Times, Prospect, TLS, Washington Post, NPR'Stunningly multilayered... explores what happens when philosophies meet history, when decisions have to be made at the...
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Penguin
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2025-09-04
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This book is about the making of intellectual property law in Vietnam across colonial and socialist space and time from 1864 to 1994. It provides a completely new, provoking narrative, disproving previously published scholarship which claimed that there was no...
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Springer
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2025-09-03
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Discover the meteoric rise of one of the most extraordinary and singular figures in American jurisprudence, Robert H. Jackson, from self-trained lawyer to influential Supreme Court Justice and chief U.S. prosecutor at the Nuremberg trials, in this compelling new...
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Oxford University Press
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2025-09-03
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Offers a sweeping, entertaining journey through the real power structures of world history Five Thousand Years of Monarchy challenges everything you thought you knew about political history. With wit, clarity, and a deep command of historical detail, Michael Arnheim...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2025-09-03
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