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Picturing Citizenship

This book collection considers the unique role of visual culture in defining, contesting and advancing ideas of citizenship and its attendant rights in settler national contexts.

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Doing a Leeds charts the roller-coaster ride of Leeds United over two dramatic decades in 1996-2005, exploring how the Whites went from living the Champions League dream to bankruptcy, relegation and a fi…

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Augustine Sedgewick
Fatherhood

"Superbly intelligent...[a] rewarding Sapiens -style big history." ---The Times (London) A bold and original history of fatherhood, exploring its invention and transformation from the Bronze Age…

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Christoph Cornelissen, Jessica Spengler
Europe in the Long Twentieth Century

Tracing Europe in the long 20th century as it moved from a leading world region to a group of states constantly trying to assert themselves globally, this volume examines the tension between national and …

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John Parker
In My Time of Dying

"Why do people die and where do they go when they are dead? How should the dead be buried and mourned in order to ensure that they continue to work for the benefit of the living? How have perceptions…

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Leah Rothstein, Richard Rothstein
Just Action

"The most forceful argument ever published on how federal, state, and local governments gave rise to and reinforced neighbourhood segregation" (William Julius Wilson), The Color of Law has becom…

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Matthew Lockwood
Explorers

The impulse to seek out new worlds is universal to humanity. In a truly inclusive account of exploration, historian Matthew Lockwood interweaves stories of famous figures-including Sacagawea, Pocahontas a…

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Raffaele Danna
The Craft of Indo-Arabic Numerals

"A must-read." -Joel Mokyr, Nobel Prize-winning author of A Culture of Growth: The Origins of the Modern EconomyAn illuminating, fine-grained account of how Indo-Arabic numerals facilitated the …

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Linda Gordon
Seven Social Movements That Changed America

How do social movements arise, wield power and decline? Renowned scholar Linda Gordon investigates these questions in a ground-breaking work, narrating the stories of many of America's most influential tw…

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Darcy Ingram
The Second Greatest Show on Earth

In 1865 wealthy American expatriate Henry Bergh (1813--1888) chose suddenly to abandon a life of leisure in Europe. Returning to his home city of New York, he set to work on what soon proved a remarkable …

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Brian Groom
Made in Manchester

A rich and vivid history of Britain's second city through the people who made itWITH A NEW FOREWORD BY ANDY BURNHAM, MAYOR OF GREATER MANCHESTER'What Manchester thinks today, England thinks tomorrow.'Long…

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Petroc Trelawny
Cornwall

It would be hard to think of a more thoroughly Cornish name than Petroc Trelawny. His first name is shared with one of Cornwall's most celebrated saints, his second is the name of its unofficial national …

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Sally Coulthard
A Brief History of the Countryside in 100 Objects

A Waterstones Best Book of 2024: Nature WritingThe untold story of rural Britain revealed through its artefacts¿ ' A really lovely, fascinating book. I dived straight into this clever, joyous, celebration…

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Prosper Bender
Old and New Canada. 1753-1844: Historic Scenes and Social Pictures, Or, The Life of Joseph-Francois Perrault

Reprint of the original, first published in 1882. The Antigonos publishing house specialises in the publication of reprints of historical books. We make sure that these works are made available to the pub…

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Prosper Bender
Old and New Canada. 1753-1844: Historic Scenes and Social Pictures, Or, The Life of Joseph-Francois Perrault

Reprint of the original, first published in 1882. The Antigonos publishing house specialises in the publication of reprints of historical books. We make sure that these works are made available to the pub…

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Vasileios Balaskas
Revivals of Classical Drama in Greece and Spain (1860s-1970s)

Vasileios Balaskas examines how Classical drama was revived at ancient European venues during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, focusing on Spain and Greece. These revivals turned ancient theatres i…

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Charles-François Mathis
Coal in Modern Britain

An exploration of Britain's relationship with coal from the explosion of the coal industry in the 1830s to the 'coal-minded' society of the 1940s.

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A Cultural History of Translation

How has our relationship with translation changed for different cultures over the centuries? What effect has it had on politics, art and religion?In a work that spans 2,500 years these ambitious questions…

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John Parker
Great Kingdoms of Africa

A groundbreaking, sweeping overview of the great kingdoms in African history and their legacies, written by world-leading experts.This is the first book for nonspecialists to explore the great precolonial…

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Rebecca L Davis
Fierce Desires

Our era is one of sexual upheaval. Roe v. Wade was overturned in the summer of 2022, school systems across the country are banning books with LGBTQ+ themes, and the notion of a "tradwife" is gai…

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