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Insular Manuscripts
History and Security Sector Reform
The Carceral Archipelago
Flood and Flow
Charnwood Roots
Healthy Citizens
Disputed Bodies
Fear Across Borders
Rough Skin
The Impact of Diasporas on the Making of Britain
Consuming Authenticities
Crusading in the Fifteenth Century
The Habitable City
Motor Cities
A Scholarly Edition of Richard Baxters Reliquiae Baxterianae
Pauper letters and petitions for poor relief in Germany and Great Britain
Health care in public and private
British Abolitionists and Protestant Millennialism
Heresy and Orthodoxy in the works of Bede
Integrated Histories of the Andaman Islands
Internationalism Ideology and the debate over US entry into World War II
Un Americans
Sickness poverty and medical relief in England
Anglo American Liberation Theology from the Puritans to the Abolitionists
Death and community in rural settlements
Sport and the Imperial bond
New world plants in Italy

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Rough Skin: Maize, Pellagra and Society in Italy, 1750-1930

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