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The Forth and Clyde Canal
A History
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 9781912476435
Pub Date: 2025-11-07
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Origin
144 Pages
The Forth and Clyde Canal, completed in 1790, was by far the largest engineering project that had ever been seen in Scotland. It allowed coal and machinery to travel East and grain to travel West. Passengers...
This Great Harbour
Scapa Flow
Price: $28.95
ISBN: 9781912476862
Pub Date: 2025-11-07
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Origin
400 Pages
Known by mariners since Viking times as a safe anchorage in notoriously savage waters, Scapa Flow is the seaway that runs between the Orkney mainland and the island of Hoy. As the northern base of the...
The Briggers
The Story of the Men Who Built the Forth Bridge
Price: $28.95
ISBN: 9781839830044
Pub Date: 2024-11-12
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Origin
144 Pages
The Forth Bridge has long been recognised as one of the finest examples of Victorian engineering on the planet and has achieved an iconic status as one of the great feats of western civilisation since...
Cupar
The History of a Small Scottish Town
Price: $21.95
ISBN: 9781912476732
Pub Date: 2024-11-05
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Origin
288 Pages
Cupar was created a royal burgh in 1328, though its name is Pictish, suggesting that there had been an important settlement there since the 7th or 8th century if not earlier. Until the 16th century...
Hebridean Island
Memories of Scarp
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9781912476695
Pub Date: 2024-07-31
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Origin
240 Pages
The island of Scarp lies off the west coast of North Harris in the Outer Hebrides and was populated for more than 400 years until 1971, when the last of the native population left. This magnificent...
Political Torture in the Twentieth Century
Price: $19.99
ISBN: 9788869773402
Pub Date: 2024-05-31
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Mimesis International
204 Pages
Unanimously banned and condemned, torture has been used in many countries throughout the 20th century. Ruxandra Cesereanu’s book gives us an overview of the phenomenon of torture, to refresh our collective memory.
Knowledge Actors
Revisiting Agency in the History of Knowledge
Price: $66.95
ISBN: 9789189361652
Pub Date: 2023-10-31
Format: Hardcover
Imprint: Nordic Academic Press
284 Pages
Historical actors are as central to the history of knowledge as to all historical scholarship. Every country, every era has its biographies of eminent scientists, intellectuals, and educational reformers....
Gender, Materiality, and Politics
Essays on the making of power
Price: $66.95
ISBN: 9789189361379
Pub Date: 2023-10-12
Format: Hardcover
Imprint: Nordic Academic Press
400 Pages
In this carefully curated volume, internationally renowned historians have come together to explore the interconnected perspectives of gender, materiality, and politics.
The Forth and Clyde Canal
A History
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 9781912476435
Pub Date: 2025-11-07
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Origin
144 Pages
This Great Harbour
Scapa Flow
Price: $28.95
ISBN: 9781912476862
Pub Date: 2025-11-07
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Origin
400 Pages
The Briggers
The Story of the Men Who Built the Forth Bridge
Price: $28.95
ISBN: 9781839830044
Pub Date: 2024-11-12
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Origin
144 Pages
Cupar
The History of a Small Scottish Town
Price: $21.95
ISBN: 9781912476732
Pub Date: 2024-11-05
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Origin
288 Pages
Hebridean Island
Memories of Scarp
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9781912476695
Pub Date: 2024-07-31
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Origin
240 Pages
Political Torture in the Twentieth Century
Price: $19.99
ISBN: 9788869773402
Pub Date: 2024-05-31
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Mimesis International
204 Pages
Knowledge Actors
Revisiting Agency in the History of Knowledge
Price: $66.95
ISBN: 9789189361652
Pub Date: 2023-10-31
Format: Hardcover
Imprint: Nordic Academic Press
284 Pages
Gender, Materiality, and Politics
Essays on the making of power
Price: $66.95
ISBN: 9789189361379
Pub Date: 2023-10-12
Format: Hardcover
Imprint: Nordic Academic Press
400 Pages