books by subject
Social & Cultural History

A Century in Oil : The "Shell" Transport and Trading Company 1897-1997

Don't Shoot The Clowns: War and the Circus in Iraq

Kings of Shanghai

Gentlemen's Gentlemen: From Boot Boys to Butlers, True Stories of Life Below Stairs

Security, Territory, Population: Lectures at the College De France, 1977 - 78

A Just Measure of Pain

The Sociology of Deviance

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

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

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

A History of the World in Twelve Shipwrecks

Lists of Note

Letters of Note: Correspondence Deserving of a Wider Audience

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

City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles

Regulating Womanhood

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

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

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

Recovering Dorothy: The Hidden Life of Dorothy Wordsworth

Macmillan Dictionary of Contemporary Phrase and Fa

Manifestoes and Transformations in the Early Modernist City

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

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

Return Of Guatemala'S Refugees

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

The Politics of Educational Reform, 1920-40

Pricing the Priceless Child: The Changing Social Value of Children

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