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A History of the Roman Equestrian Order, Hardcover/Caillan Davenport
Description In the Roman social hierarchy, the equestrian order stood second only to the senatorial aristocracy in status and prestige. Throughout more than a thousand years of Roman history, equestrians…Catre Magazin -
Voices on War and Genocide: Three Accounts of the World Wars in a Galician Town, Hardcover/Omer Bartov
Taking as its point of departure Omer Bartov 's acclaimed Anatomy of a Genocide , this volume brings together previously unknown accounts by three individuals from Buczacz. These rare narratives…Catre Magazin -
Operation Barbarossa: the Complete Organisational and Statistical Analysis, and Military Simulation, Volume IIIB/Nigel Askey
Operation Barbarossa: the Complete Organisational and Statistical Analysis, and Military Simulation, Volume IIIB is the second of two volumes relating to (and completing) the Soviet armed forces, mobilisation and war-economy…Catre Magazin -
A History of Western Music/J. Peter Burkholder
Description The definitive survey, combining current scholarship with a vibrant narrative. Carefully informed by feedback from dozens of scholars, it remains the book that students and teachers trust to explain…Catre Magazin -
The Commemoration of Women in the United States: Remembering Women in Public Space, Hardcover/Teresa Bergman
Description The Commemoration of Women in the United States examines the public memorialization of women in the US over the past century, with a particular focus on the late twentieth…Catre Magazin -
Nero. Makers of History Series. Makers of History Series, Hardback/Jacob Abbott
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Gargilius Martialis: The Agricultural Fragments, Hardcover/James L. Zainaldin
In the third century CE, the North African polymath, soldier, and provincial official Q. Gargilius Martialis (died 260) wrote a treatise on the cultivation and medical use of fruits, vegetables,…Catre Magazin -
Legacies in Steel: Personalized and Historical German Military Edged Weapons 1800-1990, Hardcover/Hermann Hampe
Description Legacies in Steel is focused on historical edged weapons of the German military from 1800 to 1990. Nearly 100 examples have been carefully selected from some of the most…Catre Magazin -
Hearing Enslaved Voices. African and Indian Slave Testimony in British and French America, 1700-1848, Hardback/***
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Migrants and the Making of the Urban-Maritime World. Agency and Mobility in Port Cities, c. 1570-1940, Hardback/***
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Fieldwork of Empire, 1840-1900. Intercultural Dynamics in the Production of British Expeditionary Literature, Hardback/Adrian S. Wisnicki
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Maltese Dialogue. Giuseppe Cambiano, History, Institutions, and Politics of the Maltese Knights 1554-1556, Hardback/Kiril Petkov
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Operation Barbarossa: The Complete Organisational and Statistical Analysis, and Military Simulation, Volume Iiia/Nigel Askey
Volume IIIA is the first of two volumes relating to the Soviet armed forces, mobilisation and war-economy from June to December 1941. All the significant Soviet weapon systems and combat…Catre Magazin -
Operation Barbarossa: The Complete Organisational and Statistical Analysis, and Military Simulation, Volume Iia, Hardcover/Nigel Askey
Operation Barbarossa: the Complete Organisational and Statistical Analysis, and Military Simulation includes full analyses of the Axis and Soviet armed-forces organisation, weapons, equipment, personnel, transport, logistics, war-production, mobilisation and replacements…Catre Magazin -
Agency in Transnational Memory Politics, Hardcover/***
The dynamics of transnational memory play a central role in modern politics, from postsocialist efforts at transitional justice to the global legacies of colonialism. Yet, the relatively young subfield of…Catre Magazin -
Seeing Islam as Others Saw It: A Survey and Evaluation of Christian, Jewish and Zoroastrian Writings on Early Islam, Hardcover/Robert Hoyland
Description This seminal work continues to shape the thought of specialists studying the Late Antique crossroads at which Christian, Jewish, Zoroastrian, and Islamic histories met, by offering the field a…Catre Magazin -
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The Civil War Boxed Set [With American Homer], Boxed set/Shelby Foote
Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time On the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the Civil War, the Modern Library…Catre Magazin -
Velvet Retro: Postsocialist Nostalgia and the Politics of Heroism in Czech Popular Culture, Hardcover/Veronika Pehe
Scholars of state socialism have frequently invoked "nostalgia" to identify an uncritical longing for the utopian ambitions and lived experience of the former Eastern Bloc. However, this concept seems insufficient…Catre Magazin -
Screened Encounters: The Leipzig Documentary Film Festival, 1955-1990, Hardcover/Caroline Moine
Description Established in 1955, the Leipzig International Documentary Film Festival became a central arena for staging the cultural politics of the German Democratic Republic, both domestically and in relation to…Catre Magazin -
Fibonacci’s Liber Abaci: A Translation Into Modern English of Leonardo Pisano’s Book of Calculation, Paperback/Laurence Sigler
Description First published in 1202, Fibonacci's Liber abaci was one of the most important books on mathematics in the Middle Ages, introducing Arabic numerals and methods throughout Europe. Its author,…Catre Magazin -
The Holocaust in Bohemia and Moravia: Czech Initiatives, German Policies, Jewish Responses, Hardcover/Wolf Gruner
Description Prior to Hitler's occupation, nearly 120,000 Jews inhabited the areas that would become the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia; by 1945, all but a handful had either escaped or…Catre Magazin -
Schopenhauer: The World as Will and Representation: Volume 2, Hardcover/Arthur Schopenhauer
The purpose of the Cambridge Edition of the Works of Schopenhauer is to offer translations of the best modern German editions of Schopenhauer's work in a uniform format for Schopenhauer…Catre Magazin -
Escapees: The History of Jews Who Fled Nazi Deportation Trains in France, Belgium, and the Netherlands, Hardcover/Tanja Von Fransecky
Description Of the countless stories of resistance, ingenuity, and personal risk to emerge in the years following the Holocaust, among the most remarkable, yet largely overlooked, are those of the…Catre Magazin -
Sherman: A History of the American Medium Tank, Hardcover/R. P. Hunnicutt
In Sherman: A History of the American Medium Tank , R. P. Hunnicutt provides the comprehensive history of the technological evolution that led to the production of Sherman M4 in…Catre Magazin -
Dreams of Germany: Musical Imaginaries from the Concert Hall to the Dance Floor, Hardcover/Neil Gregor
Description For many centuries, Germany has enjoyed a reputation as the 'land of music'. But just how was this reputation established and transformed over time, and to what extent was…Catre Magazin -
Reconciliation Road: Willy Brandt, Ostpolitik and the Quest for European Peace, Hardcover/Benedikt Schoenborn
Among postwar political leaders, West German Chancellor Willy Brandt played one of the most significant roles in reconciling Germans with other Europeans and in creating the international framework that enabled…Catre Magazin -
Frontier Narratives: Liminal Lives in the Early Modern Mediterranean, Hardcover/Steven Hutchinson
This book explores how human interaction in the frontier zones of the early modern Mediterranean was represented during the period, across genres and languages. The Muslim-Christian divide in the region…Catre Magazin -
Resisting Persecution: Jews and Their Petitions During the Holocaust, Hardcover/Thomas Pegelow Kaplan
Since antiquity, European Jewish diaspora communities have used formal appeals to secular and religious authorities to secure favors or protection. Such petitioning took on particular significance in modern dictatorships, often…Catre Magazin -
Feudalism, Venality and Revolution: French Provincial Assemblies and the Late Ancien Régime, Hardcover/Stephen Miller
Feudalism, venality and revolution sheds new light on the political and social order of the Old Regime by examining the French monarchy's most ambitious effort to reform its institutions: the…Catre Magazin -
Victorian Literary Culture and Ancient Egypt: ., Hardcover/Eleanor Dobson
This edited collection considers representations of ancient Egypt in the literature of the nineteenth-century. It addresses themes such as reanimated mummies, ancient Egyptian mythology and contemporary consumer culture across literary…Catre Magazin -
Chosen peoples, Hardcover/Gareth Atkins
Chosen peoples demonstrates how biblical themes, ideas and metaphors shaped racial, national and imperial identities in the long nineteenth century. Even as radical new ideas challenged the historicity of the…Catre Magazin -
A History of the Early Croats, Hardcover/Ante Mrkonjic
Very few books have been written about the early Croats and their history remains in virtual ' terra incognita ' to the English-speaking world. This book has been written, specifically…Catre Magazin -
The Meanings of a Disaster: Chernobyl and Its Afterlives in Britain and France, Hardcover/Karena Kalmbach
The disaster at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant was an event of obviously transnational significance--not only in the airborne particulates it deposited across the European continent, but in the political…Catre Magazin -
Voices from the Second World War: A Collection of Documents, Paperback/Stephen K. Stein
Description Voices from the Second World War: A Collection of Primary Documents provides students with an accessible primary source overview of the largest and most far-reaching conflict in human history.…Catre Magazin -
Invisible Founders: How Two Centuries of African American Families Transformed a Plantation Into a College, Hardcover/Lynn Rainville
Description Literal and metaphorical excavations at Sweet Briar College reveal how African American labor enabled the transformation of Sweet Briar Plantation into a private women's college in 1906. This volume…Catre Magazin -
Ramesses III: The Life and Times of Egypt’s Last Hero, Hardcover/Eric H. Cline
Description In the tumultuous and vivid history of New Kingdom Egypt, Ramesses III's reign was prosperous and culturally rich. He fended off attacks by the "Sea Peoples" and others who…Catre Magazin -
Picturing Genocide in the Independent State of Croatia, Hardback/Jovan Byford
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Cosmopolitan Radicalism: The Visual Politics of Beirut’s Global Sixties, Hardcover/Zeina Maasri
Exploring the intersections of visual culture, design and politics in Beirut from the late 1950s to the mid-1970s, this compelling interdisciplinary study critically examines a global conjuncture in Lebanon's history,…Catre Magazin -
Our Time Is Now, Hardcover/Julie Gibbings
Postcolonial histories have long emphasized the darker side of narratives of historical progress, especially their role in underwriting global and racial hierarchies. Concepts like primitiveness, backwardness, and underdevelopment not only…Catre Magazin -
Remembering Popular Music’s Past: Memory-Heritage-History, Hardcover/Lauren Istvandity
Description 'Remembering Popular Music's Past' capitalises on the growing interest, globally, in the preservation of popular music's material past and on scholarly explorations of the ways in which popular music,…Catre Magazin -
The Purchase of the Past, Hardcover/Tom Stammers
Offering a broad and vivid survey of the culture of collecting from the French Revolution to the Belle poque, The Purchase of the Past explores how material things became a…Catre Magazin -
Finding Afro-Mexico: Race and Nation After the Revolution, Hardcover/Theodore W. Cohen
In 2015, the Mexican state counted how many of its citizens identified as Afro-Mexican for the first time since independence. Finding Afro-Mexico reveals the transnational interdisciplinary histories that led to…Catre Magazin -
Apollonia-Arsuf: Final Report of the Excavations. Volume II: Excavations Outside the Medieval Town Walls, Hardback/Oren Tal
Reports findings from the 1996, 2002, 2006, 2012, 2013, and 2017 excavation seasons at the Apollonia-Arsuf archaeological site, located on a fossilized sandstone dune ridge on the Mediterranean coast of…Catre Magazin -
Kings, Lords and Courts in Anglo-Norman England, Hardcover/Nicholas Karn
About the year 1000, hundreds and shires were the dominant and probably the only local assemblies for doing legal and other business in England. However, this simple pattern did not…Catre Magazin -
Christian Intellectuals and the Roman Empire: From Justin Martyr to Origen, Hardcover/Jared Secord
Early in the third century, a small group of Greek Christians began to gain prominence and legitimacy as intellectuals in the Roman Empire. Examining the relationship that these thinkers had…Catre Magazin -
Handbook of Evolutionary Research in Archaeology, Hardcover/Anna Marie Prentiss
Description Evolutionary Research in Archaeology seeks to provide a comprehensive overview of contemporary evolutionary research in archaeology. The book will provide a single source for introduction and overview of basic…Catre Magazin -
Ancient Lives. An Introduction to Archaeology and Prehistory, Paperback/Nadia Durrani
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Roman Tombs and the Art of Commemoration: Contextual Approaches to Funerary Customs in the Second Century Ce, Hardcover/Barbara E. Borg
Description The history of funerary customs in Rome contains many unanswered questions and controversial debates, especially concerning the significant developments of the second century CE. In this book, distinguished historian…Catre Magazin -
The House of the Cylinder Jars: Room 28 in Pueblo Bonito, Chaco Canyon, Hardcover/Patricia L. Crown
The House of the Cylinder Jars details the archaeological excavations led by Patricia L. Crown at Pueblo Bonito's famed Room 28 in Chaco Canyon in 2013. Originally excavated in 1896…Catre Magazin -
The Haitians: A Decolonial History, Hardcover/Jean Casimir
In this sweeping history, leading Haitian intellectual Jean Casimir argues that the story of Haiti should not begin with the usual image of Saint-Domingue as the richest colony of the…Catre Magazin -
British and French Colonialism in Africa, Asia and the Middle East: Connected Empires Across the Eighteenth to the Twentieth Centuries, Hardcover/James R. Fichter
This book examines the connections between the British Empire and French colonialism in war, peace and the various stages of competitive cooperation between, in which the two empires were often…Catre Magazin -
A Troubled Marriage: Indigenous Elites of the Colonial Americas, Hardcover/Sean F. McEnroe
A Troubled Marriage describes the lives of native leaders whose resilience and creativity allowed them to survive and prosper in the traumatic era of European conquest and colonial rule. They…Catre Magazin -
Vaudeville and the Making of Modern Entertainment, 1890-1925, Hardcover/David Monod
Today, vaudeville is imagined as a parade of slapstick comedians, blackface shouters, coyly revealed knees, and second-rate acrobats. But vaudeville was also America's most popular commercial amusement from the mid-1890s…Catre Magazin -
The Dawning of the Apocalypse: The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, Settler Colonialism, and Capitalism in the Long Sixteenth Century/Gerald Horne
August 2019 saw numerous commemorations of the year 1619, when what was said to be the first arrival of enslaved Africans occurred in North America. Yet in the 1520s, the…Catre Magazin -
The Socio-Economics of Roman Storage: Agriculture, Trade, and Family, Hardcover/Astrid Van Oyen
In a pre-industrial world, storage could make or break farmers and empires alike. How did it shape the Roman empire? The Socio-Economics of Roman Storage cuts across the scales of…Catre Magazin -
African American Cinema Through Black Lives Consciousness/Mark a. Reid
Description African American Cinema through Black Lives Consciousness uses critical race theory to discuss American films that embrace contemporary issues of race, sexuality, class, and gender. Its linear history chronicles…Catre Magazin -
Art Since 1900: 1945 to the Present, Paperback/Hal Foster
Art Since 1900 introduces students to the key theoretical approaches to modern and contemporary art. A flexible year-by-year structure and extensive cross-referencing allow teachers and students to pursue a chronological…Catre Magazin -
Radical Black Theatre in the New Deal, Hardcover/Kate Dossett
Between 1935 and 1939, the United States government paid out-of-work artists to write, act, and stage theatre as part of the Federal Theatre Project (FTP), a New Deal job relief…Catre Magazin -
Operation Barbarossa: the Complete Organisational and Statistical Analysis, and Military Simulation, Volume IIB/Nigel Askey
Volume IIB is the second volume relating to (and completing) the Wehrmacht , and the German mobilisation and war-economy, from June to December 1941. It includes the most detailed Orders…Catre Magazin -
The Philosophical Progress of Hume’s Essays, Hardcover/Margaret Watkins
Description For those open to the possibility that philosophical thought can improve life, David Hume's Essays: Moral, Political, and Literary have something to say. In the first comprehensive study of…Catre Magazin -
Ceramics in Circumpolar Prehistory: Technology, Lifeways and Cuisine, Hardcover/Peter Jordan
Description Throughout prehistory the Circumpolar World was inhabited by hunter-gatherers. Pottery-making would have been extremely difficult in these cold, northern environments, and the craft should never have been able to…Catre Magazin -
A History of West Central Africa to 1850, Hardcover/John K. Thornton
Based on substantial new research from primary sources and archives, this accessible interpretative history of West Central Africa from earliest times to 1852 gives comprehensive and in-depth coverage of the…Catre Magazin -
Queer Exceptions: Solo Performance in Neoliberal Times, Hardcover/Stephen Greer
Description This book is a study of post-millennial solo performance in the UK and Western Europe that explores the contentious relationship between identity, individuality and neoliberalism. Featuring artists as varied…Catre Magazin -
‘an Alien Ideology’: Cold War Perceptions of the Irish Republican Left, Hardcover/John Mulqueen
An 'Irish Cuba' - on Britain's doorstep? This book studies perceptions of the Soviets' influence over Irish revolutionaries during the Cold War. The Dublin authorities did not allow the Irish…Catre Magazin -
Economic Thought in Modern China: Market and Consumption, C.1500-1937, Hardcover/Margherita Zanasi
In this major new study, Margherita Zanasi argues that basic notions of a free market economy emerged in China a century and half earlier than in Europe. In response to…Catre Magazin -
Feeling and Classical Philology: Knowing Antiquity in German Scholarship, 1770-1920, Hardcover/Constanze Güthenke
Nineteenth-century German classical philology underpins many structures of the modern humanities. In this book, Constanze G thenke shows how a language of love and a longing for closeness with a…Catre Magazin -
1956 Suez War and the New World Order in the Middle East. Exodus in Reverse, Hardback/Yagil Henkin
The 1956 Suez War, fought between Egypt and the improbable coalition of Britain, France, and Israel, was a key turning point in the history of the Middle East and the…Catre Magazin -
The Materiality of Remembering: An ethnographic study of the living spaces in a Nahua municipality in Veracruz, Mexico/Julieta Flores-Muñoz
Although oral narrations are the way in which history has survived in Mexican indigenous contexts, they have been long disregarded as a valid source of information for archaeological research. The…Catre Magazin -
Chinese Culture: Its Humanity and Modernity, Hardcover/Suoqiao Qian
Understanding China and the Chinese is of paramount importance in today's world. With China's rapid economic growth and increasing political influence, there has been significant interest in learning the Chinese…Catre Magazin -
From Empire to Exile. History and Memory within the Pied-Noir and Harki Communities, 1962-2012, Hardback/Claire Eldridge
This book explores the memory of the war of independence in France as viewed by the former European settlers (pieds-noirs) and the harkis, those Algerians who worked for the French…Catre Magazin -
Empire and Enterprise. Money, Power and the Adventurers for Irish Land During the British Civil Wars, Hardback/David Brown
The Adventurers for Irish land transformed England's trade and government finances in the mid-seventeenth century, laying the foundations of the British Empire and modern fiscal state. This is the first…Catre Magazin -
Great Exodus from China. Trauma, Memory, and Identity in Modern Taiwan, Hardback/Dominic Meng-Hsuan Yang
Yang uncovers the traumatic aftermath of the Chinese civil war by examining the lives of ordinary people who were displaced from China to Taiwan in 1949. He presents a trajectory…Catre Magazin -
Subversive Seas: Anticolonial Networks Across the Twentieth-Century Dutch Empire, Hardcover/Kris Alexanderson
Description This revealing portrait of the Dutch Empire repositions our understanding of modern empires from the terrestrial to the oceanic. It highlights the importance of shipping, port cities, and maritime…Catre Magazin -
Equality Beyond Debate: John Dewey’s Pragmatic Idea of Democracy, Hardcover/Jeff Jackson
Description While many current analyses of democracy focus on creating a more civil, respectful debate among competing political viewpoints, this study argues that the existence of structural social inequality requires…Catre Magazin -
Philippine Sanctuary: A Holocaust Odyssey, Hardcover/Bonnie M. Harris
During World War II, the United States government and many Western democracies limited or closed themselves off entirely to Jewish refugees. By contrast, a Pacific island nation decided to keep…Catre Magazin -
Thirty-Three Victories and Counting: (The Life and Time of Oblt Kurt (Robert Wilhelm) Wolff), Paperback/Thomas Crean
Thirty-three Victories and Counting (The Life and time of Oblt Kurt (Robert Wilhelm) Wolff) Part One by Thomas Crean Here is the life of Kurt Wolff, a World War One…Catre Magazin -
100 Years of UFO Patents: Scans of Government Archived Data on Advanced Tech/Luke Fortune
Description The UFO How-To Aerospace Technical Manuals are complete records of aerospace patents detailing that man has had the ability to build the flying craft that people have mistakenly called…Catre Magazin -
The Idea of Development in Africa: A History, Hardcover/Corrie Decker
The Idea of Development in Africa challenges prevailing international development discourses about the continent, by tracing the history of ideas, practices, and 'problems' of development used in Africa. In doing…Catre Magazin -
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, 1933-1945, Volume II: Ghettos in German-Occupied Eastern Europe/Christopher Browning
This volume offers a comprehensive account of how the Nazis conducted the Holocaust throughout the scattered towns and villages of Poland and the Soviet Union. It covers more than 1,150…Catre Magazin -
People and a Nation. A History of the United States, Brief 10th Edition, Paperback/Jane Kamensky
Offers a narrative that tells the stories of all people in the United States.Catre Magazin