Category - Social Science
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Caribbean Folk Tales: Stories from the Islands and the Windrush Generation
HardcoverOriginal price $22.95Original price $22.95 - Original price $22.95Original price $22.95Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /Caribbean folk tales set alongside local reminiscences of 1950s migration from the Caribbean to Britain Caribbean islands are rich in oral stories...
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Eve's Enlightenment: Women's Experience in Spain and Spanish America, 1726-1839 / Edition 1
HardcoverOriginal price $28.50 - Original price $28.50Original price $28.50$38.99$38.99 - $38.99Current price $38.99| /Eve's portrayal in the Bible as a sinner and a temptress seemed to represent — and justify — women's inferior position in society for much of his...
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Drag: A British History Volume 23
HardcoverOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /A rich and provocative history of drag's importance in modern British culture. Drag: A British History is a groundbreaking study of the sustained ...
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Queer Footprints: A Guide to Uncovering London's Fierce History
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /This groundbreaking guide will take you through the city streets to uncover the scandalous, hilarious and empowering events of London's queerstory...
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New Orleans, Louisiana, and Saint-Louis, Senegal: Mirror Cities in the Atlantic World, 1659-2000s
HardcoverOriginal price $50.00 - Original price $50.00Original price $50.00$60.99$60.99 - $60.99Current price $60.99| /This book explores the intertwined histories of Saint-Louis, Senegal, and New Orleans, Louisiana. Although separated by an ocean, both cities wer...
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That Most Precious Merchandise: The Mediterranean Trade in Black Sea Slaves, 1260-1500
HardcoverOriginal price $84.95 - Original price $84.95Original price $84.95$92.99$92.99 - $92.99Current price $92.99| /The history of the Black Sea as a source of Mediterranean slaves stretches from ancient Greek colonies to human trafficking networks in the present...
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Tales of Times Now Past: Sixty-Two Stories from a Medieval Japanese Collection
PaperbackOriginal price $22.00 - Original price $22.00Original price $22.00$30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /Tales of Times Now Past is a translation of 62 outstanding tales freshly selected from Konjaku monogatari shu, a Japanese anthology dating from t...
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After the Romanovs: Russian Exiles in Paris from the Belle Époque Through Revolution and War
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99Original price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Notes From Your BooksellerHelen Rappaport’s vast and detailed knowledge of 18th- and early 19th-century imperial and revolutionary Russian histor...
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White Gold: The Extraordinary Story of Thomas Pellow and Islam's One Million White Slaves
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /Giles Milton's White Gold tells the true story of white European slaves in eighteenth century Algiers, Tunis, and Morocco."An elegantly discursiv...
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Making Space: Neighbors, Officials, and North African Migrants in the Suburbs of Paris and Lyon
HardcoverOriginal price $99.00 - Original price $99.00Original price $99.00$122.99$122.99 - $122.99Current price $122.99| /Since the 2005 urban protests in France public debate has often centered on questions of how the country has managed its relationship with its Nort...
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Negro Comrades of the Crown: African Americans and the British Empire Fight the U.S. Before Emancipation
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /While it is well known that more Africans fought on behalf of the British than with the successful patriots of the American Revolution, Gerald Horn...
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Queer Lives Across the Wall: Desire and Danger in Divided Berlin, 1945-1970
PaperbackOriginal price $36.95 - Original price $36.95Original price $36.95$47.99$47.99 - $47.99Current price $47.99| /Queer Lives across the Wall examines the everyday lives of queer Berliners between 1945 and 1970, tracing private and public queer life from the en...
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That Most Precious Merchandise: The Mediterranean Trade in Black Sea Slaves, 1260-1500
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /The history of the Black Sea as a source of Mediterranean slaves stretches from ancient Greek colonies to human trafficking networks in the present...
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Black Tudors: The Untold Story
PaperbackOriginal price $17.95 - Original price $17.95Original price $17.95$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /Shortlisted for the Wolfson History Prize 2018 A Book of the Year for the Evening Standard and the Observer A black porter publicly whips a whit...
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The Adoption Papers
PaperbackOriginal price $16.95 - Original price $16.95Original price $16.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /Jackie Kay tells the story of a black girl's adoption by a white Scottish couple, from three different viewpoints: the mother, the birth mother, an...
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The First Black Slave Society: Britain's Barbarity Time in Barbados, 1636-1876
PaperbackOriginal price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00$45.99$45.99 - $45.99Current price $45.99| /In this remarkable exploration of the brutal course of Barbados's history, Hilary McD. Beckles details the systematic barbarism of the British colo...
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Reflections: The Life and Writings of a Young Blind Woman in Post-Revolutionary France
HardcoverOriginal price $40.00 - Original price $40.00Original price $40.00$52.99$52.99 - $52.99Current price $52.99| /In the 1820s, several years before Braille was invented, Therese-Adele Husson, a young blind woman from provincial France, wrote an audacious manif...
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The House of Hemp and Butter: A History of Old Riga
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /Founded as an ecclesiastical center, trading hub, and intended capital of a feudal state, Riga was Old Livonia's greatest city and its indispensa...
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Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue: The Untold History of English
PaperbackOriginal price $17.00Original price $17.00 - Original price $17.00Original price $17.00Current price $16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /A survey of the quirks and quandaries of the English language, focusing on our strange and wonderful grammarWhy do we say “I am reading a catalog...
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Twenty-Eight: Stories from the Section 28 Generation
HardcoverOriginal price $23.99 - Original price $23.99Original price $23.99$27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /In May 1988, a law was passed that made 'promotion' of LGBTQI+ identities illegal across the United Kingdom. It was not repealed until the early 20...
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Prince Eddy and the Homosexual Underworld
PaperbackOriginal price $12.99 - Original price $12.99Original price $12.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /Prince Albert Victor, known to his family as 'Eddy', was the eldest child of King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra. This is the story of Prince Eddy'...
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Joseph: The Life, Times and Places of the Elephant Man
PaperbackOriginal price $20.00Original price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /The story of Joseph Carey Merrick, more popularly known as the Elephant Man, passed into the realm of legend from the moment he was first exhibited...
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Twenty-Eight: Stories from the Section 28 Generation
PaperbackOriginal price $15.99 - Original price $15.99Original price $15.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /In May 1988, a law was passed that made 'promotion' of LGBTQI+ identities illegal across the United Kingdom. It was not repealed until the early 20...
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Love, Madness, and Scandal: The Life of Frances Coke Villiers, Viscountess Purbeck
PaperbackOriginal price $21.95 - Original price $21.95Original price $21.95$29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /The high society of Stuart England found Frances Coke Villiers, Viscountess Purbeck (1602-1645) an exasperating woman. She lived at a time when w...
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