Why Men?
A Human History of Violence and Inequality
ISBN: PB: 9781805266952,
ISBN: HB: 9781805260165,
Hurst Publishers,
December 2026
456 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
456 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
Are war and inequality inevitable, because evolution made men competitive and dominant? Think again with this entertaining yet powerful new history of "true" human nature.
How did humans, a species that evolved to be cooperative and egalitarian, dev...
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15.99 GBP
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25.00 GBP
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Central Fire of the Iroquois
A Five-Hundred-Year History of the Onondaga Nation
ISBN: HB: 9780300284843,
Yale University Press,
November 2026
640 pp., 23,4x15,5 cm, 35 black&white illus.
640 pp., 23,4x15,5 cm, 35 black&white illus.
A comprehensive history of the Native American community at the heart of the Haudenosaunee.
The people of the Onondaga Nation have lived in central New York State for hundreds of years. This is the incredible story of their survival and of the Natio...
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30.00 GBP
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Sheep Roads of Central Asia
A Global History of the Karakul Fur Trade
ISBN: HB: 9781805265825,
Hurst Publishers,
October 2026
364 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm, 24 black&white illus.
364 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm, 24 black&white illus.
A history of the fur trade originating on the Karakul sheep - raising steppe, and of the merchants who took the pelts to markets worldwide.
Indigenous to Central Asia, Karakul sheep can thrive in the region's arid environment. For centuries, men acr...
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35.00 GBP
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Goddesses
A History of Love and War
ISBN: HB: 9780300290721,
Yale University Press,
October 2026
304 pp., 23,4x15,2 cm, 18 black&white illus.
304 pp., 23,4x15,2 cm, 18 black&white illus.
A groundbreaking history of the ancient goddesses of love and war.
The figure of a goddess who represents both love and war can be found in cultures across the ancient world. These societies were all polytheistic, and all worshipped such deities as...
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25.00 GBP
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Unfinished Histories
Art, Memory, and the Visual Politics of Coloniality
ISBN: PB: 9788772198231,
Yale University Press,
October 2026
300 pp., 26,9x21,5 cm, 75 colour and black&white illus.
300 pp., 26,9x21,5 cm, 75 colour and black&white illus.
"Unfinished Histories: Art, Memory, and the Visual Politics of Coloniality" reveals how art and visual culture shape and challenge the unfinished legacies of Nordic colonialism
The anthology situates itself in the context of contemporary geopolitica...
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35.00 GBP
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Threads of Destiny
Kashmir, Paisley and the History of the Pashmina Shawl
ISBN: HB: 9781805266693,
Hurst Publishers,
September 2026
336 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm, 8 colour illus.
336 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm, 8 colour illus.
Exploring empire, fashion and technology, a pathbreaking history of the renowned pashmina shawl and the concurrent lives of weavers in Scotland and British India.
In the late seventeenth century, Kashmir was renowned worldwide for the beauty of its...
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25.00 GBP
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Celtic Wonder Tales
ISBN: PB: 9781851246823,
Bodleian Library Publishing,
September 2026
208 pp., 22,8x17,0 cm, 4 colour illus., 46 black&white illus.
208 pp., 22,8x17,0 cm, 4 colour illus., 46 black&white illus.
An evocative collection of fourteen tales exploring Gaelic mythology, magic and wonder.
First published in 1910 at the height of the Celtic Revival movement, this beautiful collection features fourteen tales based on Celtic legend. The stories encom...
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20.00 GBP
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Country House at War
A Story of Loss, Reinvention and the Birth of a New Britain
ISBN: HB: 9780300290134,
Yale University Press,
August 2026
304 pp., 23,4x15,2 cm, 18 colour illus., 1 map
304 pp., 23,4x15,2 cm, 18 colour illus., 1 map
The story of how English country houses were repurposed during the Second World War, told through the lives of those who lived and worked in them.
In the Second World War, country houses across England were requisitioned by the government for the wa...
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25.00 GBP
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Pyrenees
A Human History
ISBN: HB: 9780300287196,
Yale University Press,
August 2026
384 pp., 23,4x15,2 cm, 14 colour illus.
384 pp., 23,4x15,2 cm, 14 colour illus.
A fascinating account of the Pyrenees and their people - from prehistoric settlement to the present day.
The Pyrenees dominate the landscape between France and Spain, stretching from the Atlantic to the Mediterranean. Long thought of as an impassabl...
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25.00 GBP
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Nature's Apothecary
ISBN: PB: 9781851246694,
Bodleian Library Publishing,
July 2026
288 pp., 21,0x16,1 cm, 110 colour illus.
288 pp., 21,0x16,1 cm, 110 colour illus.
Beautifully illustrated throughout, this book shows the social, cultural and historical importance of plants and their role in both formal and folk medicine.
Herbs have been used for centuries to cure all manner of ailments. They were especially imp...
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