Britain's Empire. Resistance, Repression and Revolt, Paperback - Richard Gott

A magisterial history of the foundation of the British Empire, and the forgotten story of native resistance.Publisher: Verso BooksAuthor(s): Richar...

Despite the rise in research and public awareness about rape culture and gendered violence, it remains a serious problem. Using case studies from t...

The Vienna Action Group, known for their grotesque, iconoclastic, ritualistic, and sexual works, formed one of the most provocative art movements o...

Reducere. The Bible tells the stories of many empires, and many are still considered some of the largest of the ancient and classical world: the Assyrians, t...

The world is undergoing a profound set of digital disruptions that are changing the nature of how governments counter dissent and assert control ov...

'Long before the friends of African freedom began to agitate for black freedom, the enslaved themselves had created their own strategies of resista...

Publisher: Penguin Books LtdAuthor(s): Priya SatiaNumber of pages: 384Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 129 x 198 x 23Cover type: Paperback / softb...

DescriptionHow rebellious colonies changed British attitudes to empireInsurgent Empire shows how Britain's enslaved and colonial subjects were acti...

The history and legacy of Indian and Chinese Caribbean indentured labourers who were part of the Windrush generationIllustrations: 17 Halftones, bl...

Reducere. J. Richard Gott was among the first cosmologists to propose that the structure of our universe is like a sponge made up of clusters of galaxies int...

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Reducere. DescriptionPublished in cooperation with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University. The Pueblo Revolt of ...

Only a few years after Britain defeated fascism came the Mau Mau uprising in Kenya - a mass armed rebellion by the Kikuyu people, demanding the ret...

India Conquered traces the rise and fall of British power in South Asia.

Effectively it is the story of the birth of modern South and South- East Asia and the hopes and fears of the dozens of armies' marching through the...

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Reducere. Time Travel in Einstein's Universe: The Physical Possibilities of Travel Through Time, Paperback

Reducere. DescriptionKwasi Kwarteng is the child of parents whose lives were shaped as subjects of the British Empire, first in their native Ghana, then as B...

Reducere. Revelation speaks to the reality that we are caught in the fray of cosmic conflict. We are guilty. We've already been contaminated. But it's not to...

DescriptionBuilding on his earlier studies of Jesus, Galilee, and the social upheavals in Roman Palestine, Horsley focuses his attention on how Jes...

In 1831 enslaved Jamaicans revolted. What began as a peaceful movement soon became a bloodbath as British troops retaliated. Tom Zoellner tells the...

Publisher: University of California PressAuthor(s): Aaron WindelIllustration(s): 7 b-w illustrationsNumber of pages: 274Collection: Berkeley Series...

Reducere. A Financial Times and The Economist Best Book of the Year and a New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceA SURPRISING, GRIPPING NARRATIVE DEPICTIN...

The book is a highly original and long overdue examination of the ways that European concepts of time were imposed on other cultures as a component...

A fresh new look at the Roman Empire, from the point of view of those regarded by the Romans as 'barbarians'. Kershaw builds a narrative around the...

The 1916 Revolt was a key event in the history of Central Asia, and of the Russian Empire in the First World War. This volume is the first comprehe...

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A collection of tragic and forgotten historic disasters around Britain, from the 1800s to the twenty-first centuryPublisher: The History Press LtdA...

The epic story of the forgotten black regiments of the regular British Army

The story of the Imperial Japanese Army's victory over the British forces during World War II, focusing on the significance of the aerial campaign ...

The true story of the Mau Mau rebellion of 1952-60 in Kenya, told for the first timePublisher: Orion Publishing CoAuthor(s): David AndersonIllustra...

In 1848, Karl Marx declared that a communist specter was haunting Europe. In 1994, Jacques Derrida considered how the specter of Marx would haunt t...

Detailed descriptions of the British Empire's worldwide fortress system.

Reducere. A fresh and daring take on ancient apocalyptic books. The year 167 b.c.e. marked the beginning of a period of intense persecution for the people of...

A fresh new look at the Roman Empire, from the point of view of those regarded by the Romans as 'barbarians'. Kershaw builds a narrative around the...

Novel set in small town Maine, with a colourful array of characters, which makes a sinuous exploration of the foibles of human nature, with a great...

Publisher: Pen PressAuthor(s): David JamillyNumber of pages: 194Publication date: 2010Dimensions: 199 x 131 x 15Cover type: Paperback / softbackRed...

Reducere. John Gotti was the epitome of the American Dream. He was born to a lower-class family in 1940 and work his way literally up from nothing. From a fa...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Richard YoungsNumber of pages: 256Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 138 x 216 x 17Cover type: Paperb...

Reducere. A sharp analysis of the struggle for Palestine--from the division of the Middle East by Western powers and the Zionist settler movement, to the fou...

Reducere. As a military police officer forty-four years ago, author W. Richard Viall made a traffic stop of an evangelical Christian woman. The interaction w...

Mexican American Baseball in the Inland Empire celebrates the thriving culture of former teams from Pomona, Ontario, Cucamonga, Chino, Claremont, S...

Publisher: Nabu PressAuthor(s): James Henry RamsayIllustration(s): Illustrations, black and whiteNumber of pages: 606Publication date: 2010Dimensio...

60 of Britain's unmissable wildlife wonders and where you can see them.Publisher: HarperCollins PublishersAuthor(s): Richard MaddenIllustration(s):...

Reducere. Thoughtful, revealing, chilling and always unputdownable, Unnatural Causes is the true crime book of the year. If you liked This is Going to Hurt, ...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Richard SallerIllustration(s): 11 colour and 5 bw illusNumber of pages: 352Publication date: 2014Dim...

The first book to explore the lives of pioneering women diplomats and development of equality in the governmentIllustrations: 6 Tables, black and w...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Victoria GottiTHE ASTONISHING NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The No-Holds-Barred Truth About Life Inside the Gotti Dynasty--Told...