The Brother Gardeners: Botany, Empire and the Birth of an Obsession
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One January morning in 1734, cloth merchant Peter Collinson hurried down to the docks at London's...
The French Revolution and Religion in Global Perspective: Freedom and Faith
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This edited collection examines the French Revolution's relationship with and impact on religious...
The Gun in Central Africa: A History of Technology and Politics
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Why did some central African peoples embrace gun technology in the nineteenth century, and others...
The Mongols and the Islamic World: From Conquest to Conversion
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An epic historical consideration of the Mongol conquest of Western Asia and the spread of Islam...
The Practice of Freedom: Anarchism, Geography, and the Spirit of Revolt
Simon Springer, Marcelo Lopes de Souza and Richard J. White
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The last two decades have seen a re-birth of practices and principles that connect with the 'soul'...
The Varieties of Legal Order: The Politics of Adversarial and Bureaucratic Legalism
Jeb Barnes, Thomas F. Burke and Malcolm Feeley
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Across the globe law in all its variety is becoming more central to politics, public policy and...
Theatre in Europe Under German Occupation
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The Second World War went beyond previous military conflicts. It was not only about specific...
Tracing Your Ancestors' Lives: A Guide to Social History for Family Historians
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Tracing Your Ancestors Lives is not a comprehensive study of social history but instead an...
Union Castle Liners: from Great Britain to Africa 1946-1977
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It was one of the most important British liner routes of all - the express run from Southampton to...
Varieties of Legal Order: The Politics of Adversarial and Bureaucratic Legalism
Jeb Barnes and Thomas F. Burke
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Across the globe law in all its variety is becoming more central to politics, public policy and...