Pathan Rising. Jihad on the North West Frontier of India 1897-1898, Hardback - Mark Simner

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Compares how photographers in Norway and the US represented the environment in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, when once-remote wilde...

In Jihad in West Africa during the Age of Revolutions, a preeminent historian of Africa argues that scholars of the Americas and the Atlantic world...

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Rare colour illustrations of trams and street scenes.

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A remarkable collection featuring rare colour and black and white images that document our railway heritage.

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