LibGuides: History and Politics: Books

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UoG Library book collections

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eBook collections at UoG

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Library Discovery

Selected new books for History and Politics

Frederick Douglass and the Fourth of July

Difficult women: a history of feminism in 11 fights

Cults, Martyrs and Good Samaritans: religion in contemporary English political discourse

African American Women in the Struggle for the Vote, 1850-1920

The Jacobites: Britain and Europe, 1688-1788

The Wrath to Come: Gone with the wind and the lies America tells

European Fascist Movements: a sourcebook

In and Out of the Ghetto: Jewish-gentile relations in late medieval and early modern Germany

The Myth of Ritual Murder: Jews and magic in Reformation Germany

Social Control under Stalin and Khrushchev: the phantom of a well-ordered state

Marriage, Household and Home in Modern Russia: from Peter the Great to Vladimir Putin

Soviet and Muslim: the institutionalization of Islam in Central Asia

Cover image: Islam and Muslims in Victorian Britain

Cover image: The Conquistadors: a Very Short Introduction

Sisterhood and After: an oral history of the UK women's liberation movement, 1968-present

Have a look at the lists of new resources for History and Politics

Inter-Library Loan service for Books

Book not in the library?

Use the Inter-Library Loan (ILL) service to obtain print books and chapters from print or electronic books not held by the university. The service is primarily for final year undergrad students, postgrads, researchers and academics. Staff and students have an initial allocation of free requests. More information is available in the Guide to Inter-Library Loans.

Main subject areas in the Library

Topic	Shelf number
British politics	320.941
Civil and political rights	323
Civil rights in America	323.1196073
Democratic government	320.8
Ethnic groups, including history	305.8
Black American History	305.896073
History and geography	900
Historical research	907.2
History of Europe	940
History of World War II, 1939-1945	940.53
History of British Isles	941
Period of House of Hanover (Georgian Britain)	941.07
Victorian and modern era	941.08
History of England and Wales	942
Period of House of Tudor	942.05
History of Russia	947
History of United States of America	973
International relations	327
Political ideologies	320.5
Political process and elections	324
Politics and government	320
Urban communities, incl politics	307.76
Women, incl. feminism and women's history	305.4

History and Politics: Books