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Fire That Time Transnational Black Radicalism and the Sir George Williams Occupation
ISBN: PB: 9781551647371, ISBN: HB: 9781551647395, University of Chicago Press, Black Rose Books, October 2020
200 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
In 1969, in one of the most significant black student protests in North American history, Caribbean students called out discriminatory pedagogical practices at Sir George Williams University (now Concordia University), before occupying the computer c...
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£15,95
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£53,95
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Fire, Pestilence, and Death St. Louis, 1849
ISBN: PB: 9781883982935, University of Chicago Press, Missouri Historical Society Press, November 2019
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 37 halftones
In 1849, St. Louis was little more than a frontier town, swelling under the pressure of rapid population growth, creaking under the strain of poor infrastructure, and often trapped within the confines of ignorance and prejudice. The cholera epidemic...
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£16,00
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Federal Impeachment Process A Constitutional and Historical Analysis (Third Edition)
ISBN: PB: 9780226554839, University of Chicago Press, April 2019
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Twenty years after President Clinton's impeachment proceedings, talk of impeachment is again in the air. But what are the grounds for impeaching a sitting president? Who is subject to impeachment? Is impeachment effective as a safeguard against presi...
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£27,00
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Forgotten Americans An Economic Agenda for a Divided Nation
ISBN: HB: 9780300230369, Yale University Press, January 2019
272 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 25 black&white graphs
One of the country's leading scholars on economics and social policy, Isabel Sawhill addresses the enormous divisions in American society – economic, cultural, and political – and what might be done to bridge them. Widening inequality and the loss of...
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£20,00
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Fighting for General Lee Confederate General Rufus Barringer and the North Carolina Cavalry Brigade
ISBN: PB: 9781611213850, Casemate, Savas Beatie, December 2018
312 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 21 images, 10 maps
Rufus Barringer fought on horseback during the Civil War with General Lee's Army of Northern Virginia, and rose to lead the North Carolina Cavalry Brigade in some of the war's most difficult combats. Now in paperback, Fighting for General Lee: Confed...
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£15,00
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First Americans: U.S. Patriotism in Indian Country after World War I U.S. Patriotism in Indian Country after World War I
ISBN: HB: 9780300224337, Yale University Press, May 2018
312 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 8 black&white illus.
An energy revolution is under way with far-reaching consequences for nations, companies, and the way we address climate change Low oil prices are sending shockwaves through the global economy, and longtime industry observer Dieter Helm explains how t...
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£60,00
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Finance in America An Unfinished Story
ISBN: PB: 9780226502182, University of Chicago Press, January 2018
528 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 halftone, 2 line drawings
The economic crisis of 2008 led to an unprecedented focus on the world of high finance – and revealed it to be far more arcane and influential than most people could ever have imagined. Any hope of avoiding future crises, it's clear, rest on understa...
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£28,00
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First to Fight The U.S. Marines in World War I
ISBN: HB: 9781612005089, Casemate, December 2017
288 pp., 21x15 cm, 30 illus.
"Retreat, hell! We just got here!" The words of Captain Lloyd Williams at Belleau Wood in June 1918 entered United States Marine Corps legend, and the Marine Brigade's actions there – along with the censor's failure to take out the name of the Brigad...
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£25,00
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First Impressions A Reader's Journey to Iconic Places of the American Southwest
ISBN: HB: 9780300215045, Yale University Press, October 2017
368 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 12 colour illus., 52 black&white illus.
This unique guide for literate travelers in the American Southwest tells the story of fifteen iconic sites across Arizona, New Mexico, southern Utah, and southern Colorado through the eyes of the explorers, missionaries, and travelers who were the fi...
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£25,00
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Forgotten Continent A History of the New Latin America
ISBN: PB: 9780300224658, Yale University Press, October 2017
416 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm, 16 black&white illus.
Ten years after its first publication, Michael Reid's best-selling survey of the state of contemporary Latin America has been wholly updated to reflect the new realities of the "Forgotten Continent". The former Americas editor for the Economist, Reid...
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£12,99
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