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Spas in Britain and in France in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries

Edited By: Annick Cossic, Patrick Galliou

£14.99

Originating from a belief in healing waters, spas became exclusive resorts for 18th-19th century elites. Amid fierce competition, these centers of leisure and medicine declined, paving the way for modern thalassotherapy, the latest avatar of this long story.

Spatial Appropriations in Modern Empires, 1820-1960

Beyond Dispossession

Edited By: Didier Guignard, Iris Seri-Hersch

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This book offers fresh insights into colonial histories through spatial appropriations—the ways people claim a space as their own. These were not sites of simple domination or resistance, but complex interactions, explored on a journey from Russia to Africa in the imperial age.

Speaking of Endangered Languages

Issues in Revitalization

Edited By: Anne Marie Goodfellow

£39.99

This book provides an overview of endangered indigenous languages, describing local responses to maintaining them. Each chapter presents a case study of a threatened language, examining local grassroots efforts at revival and suggesting a re-examination of retention programs.

Speaking With Their Own Voices

The Stories of Slaves in the Persian Gulf in the 20th Century

By: Jerzy Zdanowski

£39.99

This unique study of slavery in the 20th-century Persian Gulf gives voice to the enslaved. Through their own statements asking for manumission, it presents hundreds of life stories, uncovering new aspects of everyday life in the Arabian Peninsula.

Spooked

Britain, Empire and Intelligence since 1945

Edited By: Patrick Major, Christopher R. Moran

£34.99

Britain's leading intelligence historians present a fresh study of British secrecy since 1945. Drawing on recently declassified archives, these essays explore the use and misuse of intelligence, from the era of decolonisation to the ‘War on Terror’.

Britain’s leading intelligence historians present a fresh study of British secrecy since 1945. Drawing on recently declassified archives, these essays explore the use and misuse of intelligence, from the era of decolonisation to the ‘War on Terror’.

St. John’s Fever and Lock Hospital Limerick, 1780-1890

By: Patricia M. Bennis

£34.99

Before St. John’s, the first fever hospital, patients suffered and died in their homes. The spread of fever was controlled by isolating them. This Irish study covers the cholera epidemic of 1832 and the Great Famine of the 1840s.

Stalin, Mao, Communism, and their 21st-Century Aftermath in Russia and China

By: Miguel A. Faria, Jr.

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Challenging the official record, this book reveals the gruesome history of communism under Stalin and Mao and their confrontations with the West. A stark warning against totalitarianism and a powerful argument for freedom.

Stepney

Profile of a London Borough from the Outbreak of the First World War to the Festival of Britain, 1914-1951

By: Samantha L. Bird

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A vivid history of Stepney, an iconic East End borough. From the murders of Jack the Ripper and the Blitz to the Battle of Cable Street, this ground-breaking book charts the rise and fall of the docks, waves of immigration, and the struggles of its people.

Stones that Speak

By: Robert D. Morritt

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What would a piece of clay say if it could speak? This book revisits the enigma of the Phaistos Disc, exploring archaeological excavations, archaic languages, and myths to uncover new information and allow “The Stones to Speak.”

Street Literature of the Long Nineteenth Century

Producers, Sellers, Consumers

Edited By: David Atkinson, Steve Roud

£64.99

For centuries, street literature was the main reading material of the working classes. Fascinating today for the unique light it shines on the lives of ordinary people, it has long been neglected as a historical resource, and this title is the first book on the trade for decades.

Struggle for the Control over the Red Sea

Ottoman British Relations in Sudan 1821-1914

By: Kenan Aksu, Süleyman Kiziltoprak

£72.99

This book unveils the untold power struggle between the Ottoman and British Empires for control of the Red Sea and Sudan. Political intrigue and military strategy shaped the region’s future, forever altering Sudan's history and defining its modern era.

Studies on Karachi

Papers Presented at the Karachi Conference 2013

Edited By: Sabiah Askari

£52.99

This book, a landmark in scholarship on Karachi, explores the city's development from a sleepy settlement into a mega-city. It depicts a city that, despite its vibrancy, is afflicted with problems ranging from poor planning to colossal mismanagement.

This book, a landmark in scholarship on Karachi, explores the city’s development from a sleepy settlement into a mega-city. It depicts a city that, despite its vibrancy, is afflicted with problems ranging from poor planning to colossal mismanagement.

Sublimer Aspects

Interfaces between Literature, Aesthetics, and Theology

Edited By: Natasha Duquette

£34.99

How did eighteenth-century aesthetics influence Christian theology and practice? These essays answer this by examining interfaces between literature, aesthetics, and theology from 1715-1885, considering writers from Kant and Coleridge to rediscovered women writers.

Suicide in Eighteenth-Century France

By: Jeffrey Merrick

£67.99

Police records from 18th-century Paris lay bare the intimate tragedies behind hundreds of suicides. Through suicide notes and witness accounts, these dossiers reveal not only private despair but a society's shifting view of self-destruction—from a crime to a sign of insanity.

Police records from 18th-century Paris lay bare the intimate tragedies behind hundreds of suicides. Through suicide notes and witness accounts, these dossiers reveal not only private despair but a society’s shifting view of self-destruction—from a crime to a sign of insanity.

Surfing and Modernity in the North of Scotland

By: Matthew L. McDowell

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After WWII, surfing found an unlikely home on the north coast of Scotland. The first to ride its world-class waves were workers from a nuclear facility, braving brutal weather. This book is a history of the region, examining how sport can be used to reinvent a community.

Surveillance and Memory

Our Daily Lives

By: Sanda Golopentia

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This book contains secret police reports from the 1948-1950 surveillance of sociologist Anton Golopentia. Including transcriptions of phone conversations and personal declarations, it provides a chilling insight into political repression at the dawn of Romania's communist regime.

Swindlers All, a Brief History of Government Business Frauds from Alexander Hamilton to AIG

By: Michael Powelson

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In 2008, corporations were bailed out while millions suffered. This book chronicles government and business fraud throughout US history, from scams by the Founders to the swindles that spawned the Great Depression, and warns that the factors are in place for the next collapse.

Symbolic Identity and the Cultural Memory of Saints

Edited By: Anu Mänd, Nils Holger Petersen, Sebastián Salvadó

£64.99

This volume examines the relationship between medieval cults of saints and regional and national identity formation in Europe. It studies how saints were used for religious and political agendas, revealing changing cultural and social values over time.

Symon Patrick (1626-1707) and His Contribution to the Post-1660 Restored Church of England

By: Nicholas Fisher

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A leading clergy member and prolific author, Symon Patrick influenced a major change in the character of the Established Church. This volume assesses the significance and quality of Patrick’s contribution to the Church of England in its volatile historical and political context.

T. S. Eliot, Dante, and the Idea of Europe

Edited By: Paul Douglass

£39.99

T. S. Eliot greatly enhanced Dante's profound influence on European literature. The essays in this volume explore what Eliot made of Dante, assessing modernism's legacy by engaging its roots and covering topics from Eliot's poetics to European unity.

T. S. Eliot greatly enhanced Dante’s profound influence on European literature. The essays in this volume explore what Eliot made of Dante, assessing modernism’s legacy by engaging its roots and covering topics from Eliot’s poetics to European unity.