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Sheunesu E Kasiamhuru: The Art of Decisiveness

Do you ever feel like you don’t know how to be a great leader? In Sheunesu E Kasiamhuru’s leadership book The Art of Decisiveness, we are taken on a blast to the past to learn key skills from the …

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Allyson Fiddler: The Art of Resistance

Well before the far-right resurgence that has most recently transformed European politics, Austria’s 1999 parliamentary elections surprised the world with the unexpected success of the Freedom Party …

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Bálint Varga: The Monumental Nation

From the 1860s onward, Habsburg Hungary attempted a massive project of cultural assimilation to impose a unified national identity on its diverse populations. In one of the more quixotic episodes in …

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Catherine Rice: Cottage Gardens and Gardeners in the East of Scotland, 1750-1914

This pioneering study tells the story of the emergence of rural workers’ gardens during a period of unprecedented economic and social change in the most dynamic and prosperous region of Scotland. …

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Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger: Maria Theresa

A major new biography of the iconic Austrian empress that challenges the many myths about her life and rule Maria Theresa (1717–1780) was once the most powerful woman in Europe. At the age of twenty- …

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Anna Boroffka: Between Encyclopedia and Chorography

During the early modern period, regional specified compendia – which combine information on local moral and natural history, towns and fortifications with historiography, antiquarianism, images serie …

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Adam Clulow: Amboina, 1623

In 1623, a Japanese mercenary called Shichizō was arrested for asking suspicious questions about the defenses of a Dutch East India Company fort on Amboina, a remote set of islands in what is now eas …

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John Rees: The Leveller Revolution

The Levellers, formed out of the explosive tumult of the 1640s and the battlefields of the Civil War, are central figures in the history of democracy. In this thrilling narrative, John Rees brings to …

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Bernard Gauthiez: The production of Urban Space, Temporality, and Spatiality

The production of urban space in scarcely studied by scholars in historical and urban studies, the city being still predominantly seen as a frame in which activities and social relationship develop, …

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Stefano Condorelli & Daniel Menning: Boom, Bust, and Beyond

Few financial crises, historically speaking, have attracted such attention as the Mississippi and South Sea Bubbles of 1719–20. The twin bubbles had major economic and political implications, sending …