The Last of the Tsars: Nicholas II and the Russian Revolution
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In March 1917, Nicholas II, the last Tsar of All the Russias, abdicated and the dynasty that had...
The Long Eighteenth Century: British Political and Social History 1688-1832
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This long-awaited second edition sees this classic text by a leading scholar given a new lease of...
The Sahara: Past, Present and Future
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This collection examines the Sahara holistically from the earliest (prehistoric) times through the...
To Reform the World: International Organizations and the Making of Modern States
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This book explores how international organizations (IOs) have expanded their powers over time...
British Design: Tradition and Modernity After 1948
Christopher Breward, Ghislaine Wood and Fiona Fisher
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British Design brings together leading international scholars, designers and journalists to provide...
The Illustrated Dust Jacket 1920-1970
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In the modern era, the "beautiful book," an art object in its own right, has become the key to the...
A History of Pictures: From the Cave to the Computer Screen
David Hockney and Martin Gayford
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The making of pictures has a history going back perhaps 100,000 years to an African shell used as a...
A Tommy's Sketchbook: Writings and Drawings from the Trenches
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Henry Charles Buckle was an ordinary Tommy. A whitesmith from Tewkesbury, before the Great War he...
After Alexander: Central Asia Before Islam
Georgina Hermann and Joe Cribb
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This is a new study of the history, archaeology and numismatics of Central Asia, an area of great...