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Human Rights, Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity in The Commonwealth: Struggles for Decriminalisation and Change
- Publisher
- Institute of Commonwealth Studies
- Editor(s)
- Corinne Lennox, Matthew Waites
£20.00
Human rights in relation to sexual orientation and gender identity are at last reaching the heart of global debates. Yet 78 states worldwide continue to criminalise same-sex sexual behaviour, and due …
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A history of the French in London: liberty, equality, opportunity
- Publisher
- School of Advanced Study
- Editor(s)
- Debra Kelly, Martyn Cornick
£40.00
This book examines, for the first time, the history of the social, cultural, political and economic presence of …
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Currency & exchange in ancient Pompeii (BICS Supplement 116)
- Publisher
- Institute of Classical Studies
- Author(s)
- Richard Hobbs
£48.00
Currency & exchange in ancient Pompeii examines how coinage became a key component of the economic life of the town from the third century BC to the dramatic destruction of …
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Fourteenth-Century Classicism: Petrarch and Bernat Metge
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- Warburg Institute
- Editor(s)
- Lluís Cabré, Alejandro Coroleu, Jill Kraye
£40.00
The papers in this volume study the early influence of Petrarch in France and in the Crown of Aragon. They focus, in particular, on Bernat Metge (c. 1348–1413), a prominent member …
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Vanishing Acts on Ancient Greek Amulets (BICS Supplement 115)
- Publisher
- Institute of Classical Studies
- Editor(s)
- Christopher A. Faraone
£38.00
Greek magical texts sometimes contain peculiar triangular formations created by repeating the same word over and over again in the same column, but leaving off one letter at the beginning or …
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Broken Government? American Politics in the Obama Era
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- Institute for the Study of the Americas
- Editor(s)
- Iwan Morgan, Philip John Davies
£12.50
Barack Obama’s election as president in 2008 generated widespread hope that the United States was entering a new era whereby government, in a reversal of Ronald Reagan’s famous dictum, would be …
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The Victoria County History 1899-2012: A Diamond Jubilee Celebration. Second edition.
- Publisher
- Institute of Historical Research
- Editor(s)
- John Beckett, Matthew Bristow, Elizabeth Williamson
£12.99
Her Majesty the Queen has graciously permitted the Victoria County History to rededicate its series of county volumes, in celebration of her Diamond Jubilee. The History keeps the name it was …
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Gender and historiography: Studies in the earlier middle ages in honour of Pauline Stafford
- Publisher
- Institute of Historical Research
- Editor(s)
- Janet L. Nelson, Susan Reynolds, Susan M. Johns
£40.00
The chapters in this volume celebrate the work of Pauline Stafford, highlighting the ways in which it has advanced research in the fields of both Anglo-Saxon history and the history of …
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What future for human rights in a non-western world?
- Publisher
- Institute of Commonwealth Studies
- Editor(s)
- Simon Bennett, Éadaoin O’Brien
£25.00
The countries of the global north and west that have enjoyed hegemonic preponderance in international affairs over the last two centuries are seeing their relative influence on the world stage decline …