Modern History
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Vrysaki: A Neighborhood Lost in Search of the Athenian Agora [Hardback]
Sylvie Dumont (Author)
£70.00ISBN: 9780876619698
Published by : American School of Classical Studies at Athens
Not yet published - available for pre-order
Between 1931 and 1939, central Athens was transformed by the expropriation and demolition of the Vrysaki neighborhood at the foot of the Acropolis. In these few years, more than 5,000 inhabitants were displaced and 348 properties were torn down so... .... Learn More -
Malta in World War II: Contemporary watercolours by Alfred Gerada [Paperback]
Albert Ganado (Author)
£44.00ISBN: 9789993276166
Published by : Midsea Books
A unique collection of watercolors of World War Two in Malta which have never been seen before, executed on site by the Maltese war artist, Alfred Gera. He painted with vigor and enthusiasm capturing the whole gamut of life and action during warti... .... Learn More -
Fortress Colony: The Final Act 1945-1964 - Volumes 1-4 [Hardback]
Joseph M. Pirotta (Author)
£232.00ISBN: 9789993276173
Published by : Midsea Books
Series: Fortress Colony: The Final Act 1945-1964
In his four-volume study, Pirotta meticulously examines Malta’s twenty-year transformation from Britain’s foremost Mediterranean fortress colony to sovereign State. Acclaimed for its heroic resistance to fascism during the Second World War that os... .... Learn More -
Fortress Colony: The Final Act 1964-1968 - Vol 4: 1962-1968 [Hardback]
Joseph M. Pirotta (Author)
£62.00ISBN: 9789993276753
Published by : Midsea Books
The book describes and analyzes the complicated power game played by party, church and trade union leaders under the watchful eye of the imperial power. The author reveals much of what went on behind the scenes as the efforts of the Maltese to eco... .... Learn More -
Lost Lives, New Voices: Unlocking the Stories of the Scottish Soldiers at the Battle of Dunbar 1650 [Paperback]
Christopher Gerrard (Author); Pam Graves (Author); Andrew Millard (Author); Richard Annis (Author); Anwen Caffell (Author)
£20.00ISBN: 9781785708473
Published by : Oxbow Books
WINNER OF BEST ARCHAEOLOGICAL BOOK AT THE 2018 BRITISH ARCHAEOLOGICAL AWARDS. In November 2013 two mass burials were discovered unexpectedly on a construction site in the city of Durham in north-east England. Over the next 2 years, a complex jig... .... Learn More -
A Shadow of War: Archaeological approaches to uncovering the darker sides of conflict from the 20th century [Paperback]
Claudia Theune (Author)
£25.00ISBN: 9789088904547
Published by : Sidestone Press
This book presents archaeological research from places of war, violence, protest and oppression of the 20th and the 21st century; sites where the material relics give a deep insight to fateful events – a shadow of war. Alongside renewed interest... .... Learn More -
Nineteenth Century Childhoods in Interdisciplinary and International Perspectives [Paperback]
Jane Eva Baxter (Editor); Meredith a.B. Ellis (Editor)
£40.00ISBN: 9781785708435
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: Childhood in the Past Monograph
Volume: 6
The nineteenth century was a time when the world was becoming increasingly connected through global forces and networks. Colonial and capitalist expansion was bringing the world into closer contact, while nationalism and forms of indigenous resist... .... Learn More -
The Cambridge World History: Volume 7, Production, Destruction and Connection 1750-Present, Part 1, Structures, Spaces and Boundary Making [Paperback]
John McNeill (Editor); Kenneth Pomeranz (Editor)
£29.99ISBN: 9781108407755
Published by : Cambridge University Press
Series: The Cambridge World History
Since 1750, the world has become ever more connected, with processes of production and destruction no longer limited by land- or water-based modes of transport and communication. Volume 7 of the Cambridge World History series, divided into two boo... .... Learn More -
The Cambridge World History: Volume 7, Production, Destruction and Connection 1750-Present, Part 2, Shared Transformations? [Paperback]
John McNeill (Editor); Kenneth Pomeranz (Editor)
£29.99ISBN: 9781108407762
Published by : Cambridge University Press
Series: The Cambridge World History
Since 1750, the world has become ever more connected, with processes of production and destruction no longer limited by land- or water-based modes of transport and communication. Volume 7 of the Cambridge World History series, divided into two boo... .... Learn More -
Novels of Genocide: Remembering and Forgetting the Ethnic Other in Fictional Rwanda [Paperback]
Olivier Nyirubugara (Author)
£35.00ISBN: 9789088904318
Published by : Sidestone Press
Series: Memory Traps
Volume: 2
In the last 20 years or so, the 1994 genocide in Rwanda has inspired a number of creative writers who were eager to represent that genocide itself, its aftermath and, in some cases, the situation that they perceived as paving the way for it decade... .... Learn More
