The Black Populations of France: Histories from Metropole to Colony, Paperback - Sylvain Pattieu

Reducere. The Black Populations of France is a study of Black peoples and their history in France and the French Empire during the modern era, from the eight...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: John AytoThe average contemporary English speaker knows 50, 000 words. Yet stripped down to its origins, this apparently hu...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Fae (University of Sussex, UK) DussartNumber of pages: 256Collection: Empire's Other HistoriesPublic...

Reducere. One consequence of the triumph of the political left is the proliferation of fanciful psychiatric diagnoses for all manner of conservatives. Now Ke...

Reducere. This volume confronts black problems rooted in historical and material realities of oppression, colonialism, slavery, corruption, and subjugation i...

How can researchers study magic without destroying its mystery? Drawing on a collaborative project between the playwright Poppy Corbett, the poet A...

Reducere. Do you know why the Queen of England used to ride around Nice in a little cart pulled by a donkey? Or why the Apollo Fountain in Place Massena does...

Publisher: Tippermuir Books LimitedPublication date: 2020Dimensions: 155 x 218 x 33Cover type: Paperback / softbackEditor(s): Fraser BrownRedescope...

A journey through time and space, grappling with the ghosts of empirePublisher: Oneworld PublicationsAuthor(s): Iain SinclairNumber of pages: 432Pu...

Laughing Histories breaks new ground by exploring moments of laughter in early modern Europe, showing how laughter was inflected by gender and soci...

When hurricanes, earthquakes, wildfires, and other disasters strike, we count our losses, search for causes, commiserate with victims, and initiate...

From the bestselling author of Viking Britain, a new epic history of our forgotten past. As Tolkien knew, Britain in the 'Dark Ages' was a mosaic o...

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The first thirteen centuries in France saw a new religion, a new language, new learning institutions and the beginnings of a great nation. The regi...

Showing how the Gothic can be read as a complex reaction to Enlightenment methods of historical representation, Sinister histories uncovers hithert...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Rachel (The National Archives, UK) HillmanNumber of pages: 208Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 210 ...

Publisher: The Library of AmericaAuthor(s): Kelly WisecupNumber of pages: 1300Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 133 x 208 x 45Cover type: HardbackR...

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DescriptionWithin the history of African American struggle against racist oppression that often verges on dystopia, a hidden tradition has depicted...

DescriptionWashington has poured billions into Israel's economy and military and, since 1967, Israel has undertaken innumerable operations on Washi...

Publisher: University of Illinois PressAuthor(s): Stephen MennellNumber of pages: 408Publication date: 1995Dimensions: 228 x 154 x 26Cover type: Pa...

A British tank commanders classic eyewitness account of the Second World War.Publisher: Pen & Sword Books LtdAuthor(s): Bill CloseIllustration(s): ...

Examines a set of perennial narrative motifs centred on violence within the family as they have appeared in French, English, Spanish, and American ...

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Seven engaging stories set along the Cotswold Canals - a unique blend of waterways history and folk tales

A darkly humorous and heartbreaking account of the writer and satirist, Teffi, who was forced to leave Russia forever following the revolution. Set...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCIllustration(s): 48 bw illus, 4 tablesNumber of pages: 312Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 157 x 234 x 24Cover...

A witty history of 2000 years of French history and the last book from legendary popular historian John Julius Norwich

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Reducere. Concerned scholars and educators, since the early 20th century, have asked questions regarding the viability of Black history in k-12 schools. Over...

DescriptionWinner of the J. Russell Major Prize, American Historical Association Winner of the David H. Pinkney Prize, Society for French Historica...

Reducere. An intricately plotted novel by the Whitbread winner, her first since Emotionally Weird. A commericial story full of suspense and often very funny....

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DescriptionThe Elements of a Home reveals the fascinating stories behind more than 60 everyday household objects and furnishings. Brimming with amu...

'Entertaining, shocking, uproarious, hilarious . . . like eavesdropping on a wake, as the mourners get gradually more drunk and tell ever more outr...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Sarah NicholsNumber of pages: 288Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 218 x 280 x 25Cover type: H...

Black Georgetown Remembered is a journey through more than two hundred years of history. This one-of-a-kind book invites readers to consider how th...

Scholars have debated the role of the occult in Nazism since it first appeared on the German political landscape in the 1920s. After 1945, a consen...

Reducere. Reveals the existence of a Templar colony in the New World and how the explorer Verrazano, also a member of a secret society, attempted to reestabl...

Do you ever wonder about the hearts and souls of the men who make up our society? Have you ever been tempted to ask them about their life realities...

Thames estuary native Crampton looks at the past and present of the key entrance/exit to Britain - the politics of the area, the shifting economic ...

This is the second of two volumes describing the Danube Cycle route, a 1717km cycle ride following the lower part of the Danube, Europe's second lo...

Reducere. Junaluska is one of the oldest African American communities in western North Carolina and one of the few surviving today. After Emancipation, many ...

The Architectural Guide Chechnya and the North Caucasus represents the first pioneering work of its type to shed light on a little-known mountainou...

Reducere. Opening a window onto the little-known Japanese-American heritage of Florida, Yamato Colony is the true tale of a daring immigrant venture that lef...