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    Vienna
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    Vienna

    Vienna is unique amongst world capitals in its consistent international importance over the centuries. From the ascent of the Habsburgs as Europe's leading dynasty to the Congress of Vienna, which reordered Europe after Napoleon, to bridge- building...
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  • The Declaration of Arbroath
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    The Declaration of Arbroath

    The Declaration of Arbroath, 6 April, 1320, is one of the most remarkable documents to have been produced anywhere in medieval Europe. Signed by 51 Scottish nobles, it confirms Scotland's status as an independent sovereign state with the right...
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    Tracing Your Scottish Ancestors
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    Tracing Your Scottish Ancestors

    This is a new edition of the bestselling guide to this increasingly popular pursuit. Scotland has the best-maintained records and facilities of any country in the world for undertaking family research, and now that the National Archives of Scotland are...
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  • When The Clyde Ran Red
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    When The Clyde Ran Red

    When the Clyde Ran Red paints a vivid picture of the heady days when revolution was in the air on Clydeside. Through the bitter strike at the huge Singer Sewing machine plant in Clydebank in 1911, Bloody Friday in Glasgow's George Square in 1919, the...
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    Scotland: A History from Earliest Times
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    Scotland: A History from Earliest Times

    From the Ice Age to the recent Scottish Referendum, historian and author Alistair Moffat explores the history of the Scottish nation. As well as focusing on key moments in the nation's history such as the Battle of Bannockburn and the Jacobite Risings,...
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  • Orkney
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    Orkney

    Orkney lies only 20 miles north of mainland Scotland, yet for many centuries its culture was more Scandanavian than Scottish. Strong westerly winds account for the scarcity of trees on Orkney and also for the tradition of well-constructed stone...
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    Teatimes
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    Teatimes

    In Teatimes: A World Tour food historian Helen Saberi takes us on a journey into the fascinating history of teatimes, from elegant afternoon teas, hearty high teas and delicious cream teas, to cricket and tennis teas, the funeral teas of Britain and much...
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    The Greeks
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    The Greeks

    This is ancient Greece - but not as we know it. Few people today appreciate that Greek civilisation was spread across the Middle East, and that there were Greek cities in the foothills of the Himalayas. This book tells the story of the Greeks outside...
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    Empire of Tea
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    Empire of Tea

    Tea has a rich and well-documented past. The beverage originated in Asia long before making its way to seventeenth-century London, where it became an exotic, highly sought-after commodity. Over the subsequent two centuries, tea's powerful psychoactive...
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    Goths
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    Goths

    The Goths are truly a 'lost civilization'. Sweeping down from the north, ancient Gothic tribes sacked the imperial city of Rome and set in motion the decline and fall of the western Roman Empire. Ostrogothic and Visigothic kings ruled over Italy and...
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    Cuba
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    Cuba

    Cuba is a rare and fascinating place. In a world where revolutionary socialism seems an almost quaint reminder of the Cold War, the island remains one of the few nations on the planet guided by a Communist party, still committed to fighting imperialism,...
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    Echoes of Valhalla
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    Echoes of Valhalla

    Tolkien's wizard Gandalf, Wagner's Valkyrie Brnnhilde and Marvel's superhero the Mighty Thor: these are just a few examples of how Icelandic medieval literature has shaped the human imagination during the past 150 years.  Echoes of Valhalla...
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    Zombies: A Cultural History
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    Zombies: A Cultural History

    The zombie has shuffled with dead-eyed, remorseless menace from its beginnings in obscure folklore and superstition to become the dominant image of the undead today. In contemporary visions of global apocalypse, such as the...
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    Fish and Chips
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    Fish and Chips

    Double-decker buses, bowler hats, and cricket may be synonymous with British culture, but when it comes to their cuisine, nothing comes to mind faster than fish and chips. Sprinkled with salt and vinegar and often accompanied by mushy peas, fish and...
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    Pandexicon
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    Pandexicon

    'Did you keep a list of the words coined by Covid? Wayne Grady did! They're deftly woven into a journal/timeline, taking us through two years of surrealism and limbo.' - Margaret AtwoodThis exploration of the many new terms of...
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    Kinauvit?
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    Kinauvit?

    From the winner of the 2021 Governor General's Award for literature, a revelatory look into an obscured piece of Canadian history: what was then called the Eskimo Identification Tag SystemIn 2001, Dr. Norma Dunning applied to the Nunavut Beneficiary...
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    An Uncommon Hangman
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    An Uncommon Hangman

    **Winner, The Danger Awards 2023, People's Choice Awards****Shortlisted, The Danger Awards 2023, Non-fiction**Executioners were once a critical component of the justice system in New South Wales. In an era when judges handed down death sentences...
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    Addressing Modern Slavery
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    Addressing Modern Slavery

    An estimated 40 million people are modern-day slaves, more than ever before in human history.Long after slavery was officially abolished, thepractice not only continues but thrives. Whether they are women inelectronics or apparel sweatshops, children in...
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    This Whispering in Our Hearts Revisited
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    This Whispering in Our Hearts Revisited

    'How is it our minds are not satisfied? What means this whispering in the bottom of our hearts?' Listening to the whispering in his own heart, Henry Reynolds was led into the lives of remarkable and largely forgotten white humanitarians who...
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  • Sydney Cemeteries
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    Sydney Cemeteries

    The ultimate handbook for exploring Sydney's cemeteries - from crowded inner-city plots to spacious burial grounds in semi-rural spots.Cemeteries are not simply places for the dead - they are designed for the living. Visiting cemeteries to admire the...
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    Fractured Families
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    Fractured Families

    Most convicts arriving in New South Wales didn't expect to make their fortunes. Some went on to great success, but countless convicts and free migrants struggled with limited prospects, discrimination and misfortune. Many desperate people turned to The...
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    I Should Be Dead By Now
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    I Should Be Dead By Now

    Whether it was helping Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls win three consecutive NBA titles in the 1990s, or showing up to a book signing in a dress and full makeup, Dennis Rodman has always distinguished himself as one of the great and most polarizing...
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    Decolonize Drag
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    Decolonize Drag

    Although imagined as a queer subcultural practice, drag seems to be everywhere we look: from AI filters on TikTok to brunchtime entertainment, from state legislations to political rallies. Yet as drag enters the mainstream - largely due to the intense,...
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    Decolonize Multiculturalism
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    Decolonize Multiculturalism

    For those interested in continuing the struggle for decolonisation, the word 'multiculturalism' can seem like a sad joke. After all, institutionalized multiculturalism today is a muck of buzzwords, branding strategies, and virtue...
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    In Their Footsteps
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    In Their Footsteps

    For over three-hundred years, the Qafa family name has been synonymous with fighting for Albanian independence. Since the 1600's, Qafa men have lost their lives and taken lives fighting against the Ottoman Turks, the Yugoslavian Serbs, and the communists...
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    Mizuko
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    Mizuko

    "Mizuko: True Spirit" is an epic American-immigrant tale of hardship, assimilation, and the eventual triumph that ensued. When the Takahashi's, one of the wealthiest families in western Japan lost their great fortune in 1900, five-year old Mizuko...
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    HELL BENT (with dramatic illustrations)
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    HELL BENT (with dramatic illustrations)

    Hell Bent (with dramatic illustrations) reveals how the very biology that led to our common Ancestor coming down from the trees on to the top of the food chain, is the very biology that will send our civilization spiraling toward extinction within the...
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    Destroying to Replace
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    Destroying to Replace

    'This book explores settler colonial genocides in a global perspective and over the long dure. It does so systematically and compellingly, as it investigates how settler colonial expansion at times created conditions for genocidal violence, and...
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    Lifting As They Climbed
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    Lifting As They Climbed

    An essential guidebook to influential Black women from Chicago's South and West Sides, and their social, cultural, and artistic contributions to movements both past and present. Geographically, historically, and politically, Lifting As They Climbed...
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    The Men With the Pink Triangle
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    The Men With the Pink Triangle

    Finally back in print, the classic, powerful first-hand account of Nazi persecution of gay people.For decades, history ignored the Nazi persecution of gay people. Only with the rise of the gay movement in the 1970s did historians finally recognise that...
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    On Shedding an Obsolete Past
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    On Shedding an Obsolete Past

    On Shedding an Obsolete Pastprovides a much-needed and comprehensive critique of recent US national security policies in both the Trump and Biden administrations. These policy decisions have produced a series of costly disappointments and outright...
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    Let This Radicalize You
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    Let This Radicalize You

    What fuels and sustains activism and organizing when it feels like our worlds are collapsing? Doing Justice is a practical and imaginative resource for activists and organizers building power in an era of destabilization and catastrophe.Longtime...
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    Dependency Theory After Fifty Years
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    Dependency Theory After Fifty Years

    Dependency Theory After Fifty Years is an insightful and timely review of dependency theory, its strengths, weaknesses, and how to reinvent the concept for the modern day.Dependency theory as a framework initially included distinct forms of Marxism,...
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    Sanctions as War
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    Sanctions as War

    Sanctions as War offers the first comprehensive account of economic sanctions as a tool for exercising American power on the global stage.Since the 1980s, the US has steadily increased its reliance on economic sanctions, or the imposition of extensive...
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    Critical Approaches to International Relations
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    Critical Approaches to International Relations

    Critical Approaches to International Relations: Philosophical Foundations and Current Debates explores the achievements of a wide variety of critical approaches in International Relations theory, discusses the barrage of criticism and theoretical...
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    The Right to Development in Africa
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    The Right to Development in Africa

    In The Right to Development in Africa, Carol Chi Ngang provides a conceptual analysis of the human right to development with a decolonial critique of the requirement to have recourse to development cooperation as a mechanism for its realisation. In his...
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    The Workers' Opposition in the Russian Communist Party
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    The Workers' Opposition in the Russian Communist Party

    The Russian Workers' Opposition in 1919-21 advocated trade union management of the Soviet economy and worker dominance of the Russian Communist Party's leading bodies. The Workers' Opposition in the Russian Communist Party: Documents, 1919-30 comprises...
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    The Workers' Movement and the National Question in Ukraine
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    The Workers' Movement and the National Question in Ukraine

    In this important book, influential historian Mark Bojcun explores the social democratic workers' movement in the Ukrainian provinces of the Russian Empire and its impact on the course of the 1917 Revolution. By focusing on the sections of the labour...
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    Revolutionary Social Democracy
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    Revolutionary Social Democracy

    Through extensive archival research in eight different languages, Revolutionary Social Democracy introduces readers to the politics and practices of socialists in Tsarist Russia's imperial borderlands. These parties fought for democracy and workers'...
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  • Sinking Middle Class
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    Sinking Middle Class

    The Sinking Middle Classchallenges the "save the middle class" rhetoric that dominates our political imagination. The slogan misleads us regarding class, nation, and race. Talk of middle class salvation reinforces myths holding that the US is a...
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    Light in Gaza
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    Light in Gaza

    As global solidarity for Palestinian liberation grows, the desire for Gaza-centered texts makes this book a seminal one. As an anthology of Palenstinian writers and artists, it also lends itself to the collective effort to organize and center Palestinian...
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    DEAR GOD. DEAR BONES. DEAR YELLOW.
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    DEAR GOD. DEAR BONES. DEAR YELLOW.

    Noor Hindi is a poet and journalist whose visibility continues to grow. A 2021 recipient of the prestigious Ruth Lilly & Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship; Viet Than Nguyen's NYT opinion piece recommending "please someone give Noor Hindi a...
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    Yiddish Revolutionaries in Migration
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    Yiddish Revolutionaries in Migration

    This ground-breaking history of the General Jewish Labour Bund in migration investigates how the organisation transformed itself from a revolutionary protagonist in early twentieth-century Russia to a socialist institution of secular Jewish life and...
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    Marx in Paris, 1871
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    Marx in Paris, 1871

    In celebration of the 150th anniversary of the Paris Commune, leftist writers Olivier Besancenot and Michael Lwy offer a deeply informed, and eminently enjoyable, imagined history of what might have been if Karl Marx and his eldest daughter, Jenny, had...
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History: specific events and topics