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Dictatorship in Fact and in Fiction

Edited By: Keith Ellis

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Simón Bolívar. Fidel Castro. Hugo Chávez. Dictators or liberators? This book challenges the loaded term "dictatorship," re-examining Latin American independence movements and exposing the politics behind a word often used as a weapon.

Simón Bolívar. Fidel Castro. Hugo Chávez. Dictators or liberators? This book challenges the loaded term “dictatorship,” re-examining Latin American independence movements and exposing the politics behind a word often used as a weapon.

Diefenbaker and Latin America

The Pursuit of Canadian Autonomy

By: Jason Gregory Zorbas

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John Diefenbaker’s Latin American policy was driven by Canada’s national interest. He sought greater foreign policy autonomy from the US and expanded exports to lessen Canada's dependency, pursuing a policy aligned with, but not subservient to, the US.

John Diefenbaker’s Latin American policy was driven by Canada’s national interest. He sought greater foreign policy autonomy from the US and expanded exports to lessen Canada’s dependency, pursuing a policy aligned with, but not subservient to, the US.

Disability and Medieval Law

History, Literature, Society

Edited By: Cory James Rushton

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Disability and Medieval Law considers how medieval societies dealt with crime, punishment, and mental illness. When did law take disability into account? When did it choose to cause disabilities? How did authors use disability to discuss law and human nature?

Discourses That Matter

Selected Essays on English and American Studies

Edited By: Maria José Canelo

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Confronting our age of deep instability, this collection asks how English and American Studies can intervene. The essays explore how discourses on gender, race, and power matter, demonstrating the field's capacity to foster critical thought and challenge injustice.

Confronting our age of deep instability, this collection asks how English and American Studies can intervene. The essays explore how discourses on gender, race, and power matter, demonstrating the field’s capacity to foster critical thought and challenge injustice.

Discrimination in Northern Ireland, 1920-1939

Myth or Reality?

By: John O’Brien

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This book examines allegations of discrimination by Northern Ireland's Unionist government against the Catholic minority. Focusing on 1920-39, it assesses whether the charges of overt discrimination levelled against the government were warranted.

This book examines allegations of discrimination by Northern Ireland’s Unionist government against the Catholic minority. Focusing on 1920-39, it assesses whether the charges of overt discrimination levelled against the government were warranted.

Disobedient Histories in Ancient and Modern Times

Regionalism, Governance, War and Peace

By: Marsha R. Robinson

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Tired of Cold War analysis and history as only war? Disobedient Histories breaks tradition by considering alternative international relations theories from societies in Europe, Africa, and Asia, suggesting the UN's goals for global peace, prosperity, and dignity are viable.

Tired of Cold War analysis and history as only war? Disobedient Histories breaks tradition by considering alternative international relations theories from societies in Europe, Africa, and Asia, suggesting the UN’s goals for global peace, prosperity, and dignity are viable.

Dispatches from the Frontlines of Humanity

A Book of Reportage

By: Boštjan Videmšek

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Using the disappearing art of reportage to analyse some of the most defining issues of our time – namely the global refugee crisis, the conflicts displacing these masses of humanity and their causes ¬– this text provides the oft forgotten human stories behind the suffering.

Diversity, Freedom and Evolution

By: William Magnusson

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What if evolution provides our moral compass? This book argues that evolution’s true tenets—diversity and freedom—form a universal ethic. This framework can guide our future with humans, AI, and memes, uniting us to face our greatest challenges together.

Divided we stand

The French and Italian political parties and the rearmament of West Germany, 1949-1955

By: Linda Risso

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In the 1950s, fears of a ‘new Wehrmacht’ clashed with the ambition for European integration, sparking passionate political debates. This book offers an innovative examination of the role non-state actors and political parties played in France and Italy.

Divine Sounds from the Heart—Singing Unfettered in their Own Voices

The Bhakti Movement and its Women Saints (12th to 17th Century)

By: Rekha Pande

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In a world dominated by male voices, medieval women saints embraced bhakti (devotion) as a form of resistance. They questioned society, family, and relationships, rejecting patriarchal control and finding their own voices by reimagining God as a lover, a husband, and a friend.

Domestic Policy Discourse in the US and the UK in the ‘New World Order’

Edited By: Lori Maguire

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A unique comparative study of US & UK politics, blending personal accounts with sharp analysis. It tackles the era's defining issues, from the Clinton-Obama healthcare debate to the economic crisis, Climategate, and the 2010 UK election.

A unique comparative study of US & UK politics, blending personal accounts with sharp analysis. It tackles the era’s defining issues, from the Clinton-Obama healthcare debate to the economic crisis, Climategate, and the 2010 UK election.

Doubt, Time and Violence in Philosophical and Cultural Thought

Sino-Western Interpretations and Analysis

Edited By: Artur K. Wardega

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These essays confront the traumas of our postmodern world: loss of identity, media uniformity, violence, and climate change. Distinguished scholars explore these and other fascinating topics from Western and Chinese history to address our shared global concerns.

Dr Johnson’s Friend and Robert Adam’s Client Topham Beauclerk

By: David Noy

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Dr Johnson would walk to the ends of the earth to save him, yet others rejoiced at his death. How did a beautiful, privileged youth become infamous for causing a lice infestation? A friend to the Enlightenment's leading figures, he lived life to the full.

Dr Rudolph Virchow, the Father of Pathology

By: Robert A. Norman

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Rudolf Virchow, the “Father of Pathology,” viewed life in microscopic detail and from a sweeping public health perspective. This book explores his innovations, his political life, and his fascinating work on race amid the rising anti-Semitism of 19th-century Germany.

Dublin Castle and the Anglo-Irish War

Counter Insurgency and Conflict

By: Eamonn T. Gardiner

£24.99

This book examines why the British, with a modern army and vast empire, were unable to suppress an infant Irish insurgency. It probes the operational failures and complex animosities within the British security apparatus to find the answer.

Dying and Death in 18th-21st Century Europe

Edited By: Marius Rotar

£44.99

This book invites you on a fascinating journey across three centuries of Europe, with death as your guide. Experts from varying backgrounds—historians, sociologists, doctors, and more—explore the complex phenomena of death and dying across the continent.

Dying to Eat

Health, Heresy and Hysteria

By: Michael David Trevan

£80.99

Trevan examines our oft emotional relationship with food, and challenges how the science and knowledge of food, health and nutrition are derived. He also investigates those foods that come ready loaded with poisonous compounds and carcinogens.

Dynamics and Policies of Prejudice from the Eighteenth to the Twenty-first Century

By: Giuseppe Motta

£67.99

This anthology defines the dynamics and policies of prejudice in the historical passage between the modern and contemporary age, and includes interesting chapters on anti-Semitism, the ethnic conflicts of the twentieth century, the Balkans, and gender bias, among other subjects.

Early Modern Ethnic and Religious Communities in Exile

Edited By: Yosef Kaplan

£64.99

The international group of historians represented here focus on several significant groups of minorities who were driven into exile from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries. They discuss a broad range of topics, including the religious meaning they accorded to their exile.

Early Modernity and Video Games

Edited By: Florian Kerschbaumer, Tobias Winnerling

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How do video games portray history? This volume questions the conceptions of history games embody, focusing on the early modern period (1450-1815). From Age of Empires to Assassin’s Creed, it explores what happens when games encounter early modernity.