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Long-Range Public Investment : The Forgotten Legacy of the New Deal
Jr. Leighninger
Paperback - $54.95
In this comprehensive survey combining architectural and social policy studies, Leighninger reappraises the enduring achievements of public investment during the New Deal era and argues that, though these initiatives produced the lasting backbone of ...
Shroom : A Cultural History of the Magic Mushroom
Andy Letcher
Paperback - $24.95
Informative, lively, and impeccably researched, "Shroom" is a unique and engaging study of the psychedelic magic mushroom. 38 photos throughout.
Childcare, Health and Mortality at the London Foundling Hospital, 1741-1800
Alysa Levene
Hardcover - $148.95
This book is a thorough and engaging examination of an institution and its young charges, set in the wider social, cultural, demographic and medical context of the eighteenth century. By examining the often short lives of abandoned babies, the book i ...
Gypsies : An Illustrated History
Jean-Pierre Liegeois
Paperback - $24.95
In this lively and informative book, Jean-Pierre Ligeois traces the origins of the Gypsies in a sympathetic though not uncritical portrayal. Ideal for anyone who wishes to learn more about this misunderstood people.
Rare Adventures & Painful Peregrinations
William Lithgow
Paperback - $44.95
An exciting and unusual book first published in 1632, Rare Adventures and Painful Peregrinations has been a much-ignored masterpiece of global literature, though it is one of the world's great travel tales. Beginning his travels in the Orkney and She ...
Penultimate Adventures with Britannia : Personalities, Politics and Culture in Britain
William Roger Louis
Paperback - $50.95
Generations in Twentieth-Century Europe
Stephen Lovell
Hardcover - $148.95
The concept of generation is ubiquitous in common parlance and public discourse: it is used to explain family relationships, consumer preferences, political change, and much else besides. But how can generation be used by historians? Do generations r ...
Defeat and Memory : Cultural Histories of Military Defeat Since 1815
Jenny MacLeod
Hardcover - $148.95
Dusty Bob : A Cultural History of Dustmen, 1780-1870
Brian Maidment
Hardcover - $168.95
Why did dustmen exercise an extended hold over the imagination of many Regency and Victorian artists and writers, including George Cruikshank, Henry Mayhew, Charles Dickens as well as numerous little known dramatists, caricaturists, print makers, jou ...