Battleground Ukraine
From Independence to the War with Russia
ISBN: HB: 9780300269468,
Yale University Press,
August 2024
352 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 24 black&white illus.
352 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 24 black&white illus.
The first major English-language history of Ukraine from its emergence after the demise of the Soviet Union through the current Russian invasion.
In 1991, after seventy years of imperial Soviet rule, Ukraine became an independent country. Since 202...
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£20.00
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Long Shadow of German Colonialism
Amnesia, Denialism and Revisionism
ISBN: PB: 9781805260455,
Hurst Publishers,
July 2024
416 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
416 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
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A no-holds-barred account of how German society struggles with its colonial legacy.
From 1884 to 1914, the world's fourth-largest overseas colonial empire was that of the German Kaiserreich. Yet this fact is little known in G...
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£30.00
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Fall
The Last Days of the English Republic
ISBN: HB: 9780300211498,
Yale University Press,
June 2024
464 pp., 23,4x15,3 cm, 15 black&white illus.
464 pp., 23,4x15,3 cm, 15 black&white illus.
Why did England's one experiment in republican rule fail?
Oliver Cromwell's death in 1658 sparked a period of unrivalled turmoil and confusion in English history. In less than two years, there were close to ten changes of government; rival armies o...
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£35.00
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Spycraft
Tricks and Tools of the Dangerous Trade from Elizabeth I to the Restoration
ISBN: HB: 9780300267549,
Yale University Press,
June 2024
400 pp., 23,4x15,2 cm, 60 colour illus., 1 map
400 pp., 23,4x15,2 cm, 60 colour illus., 1 map
A fascinating exploration of the devious tricks and ingenious tools used by early modern spies – from ciphers to counterfeiting, invisible inks to assassination.
Early modern Europe was a hotbed of espionage, where spies, spy-catchers, and conspira...
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£20.00
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Britain, 1947
Hope Amid Hardship
ISBN: HB: 9781911723219,
Hurst Publishers,
June 2024
400 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm, 12 illus.
400 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm, 12 illus.
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A poignant portrait of a decade of transformative change, chronicling how ordinary Britons confronted crisis, braved misfortune and found their place in the postwar world.
For the British people, 1947 was a momentous year. Fo...
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£30.00
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Realm of the Black Mountain
A History of Montenegro (New Edition)
ISBN: PB: 9781911723332,
Hurst Publishers,
June 2024
576 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
576 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
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Montenegro was admitted to the UN as its 192nd member in June 2006, thus recovering the independence it had lost nearly ninety years earlier at the Versailles Peace Conference. This is the first full-length history of the count...
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£18.99
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Truth About Empire
Real Histories of British Colonialism
ISBN: HB: 9781911723097,
Hurst Publishers,
June 2024
304 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
304 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
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Sharp, authoritative essays on the dark realities of Empire and the true historian's importance for democracy, amid history's appropriation by apologists, racists and culture warriors.
"The Truth About Empire" comes from expe...
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£25.00
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Belfast
The Story of a City and its People
ISBN: PB: 9780300278675,
ISBN: HB: 9780300264449,
Yale University Press,
May 2024
320 pp., 23,4x15,3 cm, 20 colour illus.
320 pp., 23,4x15,3 cm, 20 colour illus.
A lively and inviting history of Belfast – exploring the highs and lows of a resilient city.
Modern Belfast is a beautiful city with a vibrant tradition of radicalism, industry, architectural innovation, and cultural achievement. But the city's man...
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£11.99
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£20.00
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Thank You Mr Crombie
Lessons in Guilt and Gratitude to the British
ISBN: HB: 9781911723004,
Hurst Publishers,
May 2024
344 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm
344 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm
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Reflections on migration, race and British society since the 1960s, from a journalist who made history as the BBC's first non-white editor.
Mihir Bose, born in Kolkata shortly before Indian independence in 1947, still feels e...
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£25.00
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Lost Fatherland
Europeans between Empire and Nation-States, 1867-1939
ISBN: HB: 9780300267556,
Yale University Press,
April 2024
352 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 18 black&white illus.
352 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 18 black&white illus.
How the demise of the Habsburg Empire, postwar sovereignty, and new diplomatic frontiers shaped the nature of citizenship, identity, and belonging across Europe.
This book is a collective portrait of twenty-one key statesmen who came of age during...
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£25.00
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