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The London Hanged: Crime and Civil Society in the Eighteenth Century

By Peter Linebaugh

The New Book of Snobs: A Definitive Guide to Modern Snobbery

By D.J. Taylor

Alistair Cooke's American Journey: Life on the Home Front in the Second World War

By Alistair Cooke

A History of the World in Twelve Shipwrecks

By David Gibbins

Lists of Note

By Shaun Usher

Letters of Note: Correspondence Deserving of a Wider Audience

By Shaun Usher, Shaun Usher

Bees and Their Keepers: From waggle-dancing to killer bees, from Aristotle to Winnie-the-Pooh

By Frank Perry, Lotte Moeller

City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles

By Mike Davis, Robert Morrow

Regulating Womanhood

By Carol Smart

The Many-Headed Hydra: The Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic

By Marcus Rediker, Peter Linebaugh

Glorious Goodwood: A Biography of England's Greatest Sporting Estate

By James Peill

Gender and Well-Being in Europe: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives

By Lina Galvez, Bernard Harris

Recovering Dorothy: The Hidden Life of Dorothy Wordsworth

By Polly Atkin

Macmillan Dictionary of Contemporary Phrase and Fa

By Market House Books

Manifestoes and Transformations in the Early Modernist City

By Christian Hermansen Cordua

Anatomy of a Nation: A History of British Identity in 50 Documents

By Dominic Selwood

Twenty Years of the Journal of Historical Sociology: Volume 1: Essays on the British State

By Yoke-Sum Wong (University of Lancaster), Derek Sayer (University of Lancaster)

Return Of Guatemala'S Refugees

By Clark Taylor

The Other Word: Women and Violence in Chiapas Before and After Acteal

By Rosalva Aida Castillo

The Politics of Educational Reform, 1920-40

By Brian Simon

Pricing the Priceless Child: The Changing Social Value of Children

By Viviana A. Zelizer

Sex, Politics and Society: The Regulation of Sexuality Since 1800

By Jeffrey Weeks

Coming to Terms with Superdiversity: The Case of Rotterdam

By Peter Scholten, Maurice Crul, Paul van de Laar

British Welfare Policy: Workhouse to Workfare

By Anne Digby

Rituals of Retribution: Capital Punishment in Germany, 1600-1987

By Richard J. Evans

History of English Criminal Law and Its Administration from 1750

By Sir Leon Radzinowicz, Roger Hood, QC (Hon) DCL FBA, Roger

Ours Was the Shining Future: The Story of the American Dream

By David Leonhardt

A History of Sociological Research Methods in America, 1920-1960

By Jennifer Platt (University of Sussex)

A Business History of Britain, 1900-90s

By David J. Jeremy

Daily Rituals: How Great Minds Make Time, Find Inspiration, and Get to Work

By Mason Currey