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Iceland's 1100 Years: History of a Marginal Society by Gunnar Karlsson
RRP: $32.25$28.42'Iceland's 1100 Years' recounts the history of a society on the margin of Europe as well as on the margin of reaching the size and wealth of a proper state. Iceland is unique among the European societies in being founded as late as the Viking Age, and in... -
Denbighshire Folk Tales by Fiona Collins 9780752451879
RRP: $12.89$9.74Wales is especially rich in the folklore of place, and this collection brings a new perspective to the history of Denbighshire, the oldest inhabited area of Wales. With hills, valleys, moorland and coast, this varied land has inspired many tales of... -
Poverty and Poor Law Reform in Nineteenth-Century Britain, 1834-1914: From Chadwick to Booth by David Englander 9780582315549
RRP: $45.14$44.92The Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834 is one of the most important pieces of social legislation ever enacted. Its principles and the workhouse system dominated attitudes to welfare provision for the next 80 years. This new Seminar Study explores the... -
World War One: A Short History by Norman Stone
RRP: $14.18$10.02'Do we need another history of the First World War? The answer in the case of Norman Stone's short book is, yes - because of its opinionated freshness and the unusual, sharp facts that fly about like shrapnel' Literary ReviewIn 1914 a new kind of war,... -
Armies of the Caliphates 862–1098 by Dr David Nicolle
RRP: $16.76$14.20The 8th century heralded the start of a golden age in the history of the Islamic world. At this time, the Sunni Muslim 'Abbasid Caliphate, with its capital at Baghdad, ruled virtually the entire Islamic world. Islamic military power peaked in the 9th... -
The Red Army 1922-41: From Civil War to 'Barbarossa' Philip Jowett 9781472850454
RRP: $15.47$10.87This study explores the organization, history and uniforms of the Soviet Red Army during the 20 years between its victory in the Civil War and the invasion of the USSR by Germany in 1941. The two decades following the Bolshevik victory over the... -
Chinese Power and Artificial Intelligence: Perspectives and Challenges William C. Hannas (Georgetown University, Washington DC) 9781032081090
RRP: $47.72$41.96This book provides a comprehensive account of Chinese AI in its various facets, based on primary Chinese-language sources.China's rise as an AI power is an event of importance to the world and a potential challenge to liberal democracies. Filling a gap... -
Let's Get Physical: How Women Discovered Exercise and Reshaped the World by Danielle Friedman 9781785788093
RRP: $21.92$14.94A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF 2022'Well-researched and readable' - Financial Times'An absorbing, pacy read' - New Statesman'The story of lycra-clad feminism' Stylist'Canny and informative' - The New YorkerThe untold history of women's exercise culture, from... -
Red Closet: The Hidden History of Gay Oppression in the USSR by Rustam Alexander
RRP: $23.21$16.98In 1934, Joseph Stalin enacted sodomy laws, unleashing a wave of brutal detentions of homosexual men in large Soviet cities. Rustam Alexander recounts the compelling stories of people whose lives were directly affected by those laws, including a naive... -
Taken at the Flood: The Roman Conquest of Greece by Robin Waterfield
RRP: $16.76$12.40The Romans first set military foot on Greek soil in 229 BCE; only sixty or so years later it was all over, and shortly thereafter Greece became one of the first provinces of the emerging Roman Empire. It was an incredible journey - a swift, brutal, and... -
The Left in China: A Political Cartography Ralf Ruckus 9780745342955
RRP: $21.92$14.89'Does a great service by shifting our attention to the oppositional movements of Chinese workers, peasants, students, and women who have contested inequality and exploitation' - Manfred Elfstrom Tracing the history of left-wing, subversive and... -
Bloody VerrièRes. the I. Ss-Panzerkorps Defence of the VerrièRes-Bourguebus Ridges: Volume II: the Defeat of Operation Spring and the Battles of Tilly-La-Campagne, 23 July–5 August 1944 by Arthur W. Gullachsen
RRP: $45.09$30.96South of the Norman city of Caen, Verrieres Ridge was seen a key stepping-stone for the British Second Army if it was to break out of the Normandy bridgehead in late July 1944. Imposing in height and containing perfect terrain for armoured operations,... -
Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War by Mark Bowden 9780802144737
RRP: $19.34$14.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802144737Format PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly PressPublisher Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press -
The Political History of Modern Iran: Revolution, Reaction and Transformation, 1905 to the Present Ali Rahnema (American University of Paris, France) 9780755643998
RRP: $30.95$27.19From the rise of constitutionalism during the rule of despotic Qajars, foreign invasions, the Pahlavi regimes' destructive politics, economic, cultural and social modernization efforts and the oil nationalization movement, to the Iranian Revolution, its... -
Sex and Sexuality in Victorian Britain by Violet Fenn 9781526756688
RRP: $32.25$18.42Peek beneath the bedsheets of nineteenth-century Britain in this affectionate, informative and fascinating look at sex and sexuality during the reign of Queen Victoria. It examines the prevailing attitudes towards male and female sexual behaviour, and... -
Manchester at War 1939-45: The People's Story by Graham Phythian 9780752491028
RRP: $16.76$12.41This new book is a remarkable and moving account of life on the home front in Manchester during the Second World War. Based on transcripts of recorded interviews with senior civilians and former members of the Armed Services, this is an invaluable... -
Fair Mile Hospital: A Victorian Asylum by Ian Wheeler
RRP: $19.34$14.90Fair Mile was more than just a psychiatric hospital; it was an example of a nationwide network of 'pauper lunatic asylums', born of responsible Victorian legislation and compassion for the disadvantaged. It was a secure home to many of its patients and... -
A Turn in the South by V. S. Naipaul
RRP: $15.47$11.09A Turn in the South is a reflective journey by V. S. Naipaul in the late 1980s through the American South. Naipaul writes of his encounters with politicians, rednecks, farmers, writers and ordinary men and women, both black and white, with the insight... -
Futures Past: On the Semantics of Historical Time by Reinhart Koselleck
RRP: $38.70$30.04Modernity in the late eighteenth century transformed all domains of European life -intellectual, industrial, and social. Not least affected was the experience of time itself: ever-accelerating change left people with briefer intervals of time in which to... -
The Perfect Police State: An Undercover Odyssey Into China's Terrifying Surveillance Dystopia of the Future by Geoffrey Cain
RRP: $32.25$22.45An in-depth, on-the ground view of how Chinese officials have co-opted technology, infrastructure and the minds of their people to establish the definitive police state.When blocked from facts and truth, and constantly under surveillance, most citizens... -
A Thousand Years of Nonlinear History by Manuel de Landa
RRP: $32.25$24.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780942299328Author Manuel De LandaFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Zone BooksPublisher Zone BooksWeight(grams) 590gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 25mm -
Armies of the Iran-Iraq War 1980-88 by Stephen Walsh
RRP: $19.34$14.13Driven by the Iranian Revolution of 1979 and the insecurities it provoked in Saddam Hussein's Iraqi dictatorship, the Iran-Iraq War would become the largest conventional conflict of the period. Curiously little-known considering its scale and longevity,... -
How to Fly a Battle of Britain Fighter: Spitfire, Messerschmitt, Hurricane by Campbell McCutcheon
RRP: $16.76$10.94Find out how a pilot was instructed in flying a Battle of Britain fighter, using the original Pilot's Notes for the Supermarine Spitfire and Hawker Hurricane, as well as Air Ministry flying notes on captured Messerschmitt Bf 109s. See how each compares,... -
It's All a Game: A Short History of Board Games by Tristan Donovan
RRP: $14.18$10.28'Timely... wonderfully entertaining' - The Wall Street JournalIn It's All A Game renowned games expert Tristan Donovan opens the box on the incredible and often surprising history and psychology of board games. He traces the evolution of the game across... -
Deadly Companions: How microbes shaped our history by Dorothy H. Crawford
RRP: $15.47$10.87Ever since we started huddling together in communities, the story of human history has been inextricably entwined with the story of microbes. They have evolved and spread amongst us, shaping our culture through infection, disease, and pandemic. At the... -
Prince Eddy: The King Britain Never Had by Andrew Cook
RRP: $19.34$14.90Prince Albert Victor, King Edward Vll's (r 1901-10) first son and heir to the throne, and popularly known as Eddy, has virtually been airbrushed out of history. In this book, Andrew Cook, the presenter and historical consultant of the Channel 4... -
An Intimate History of Killing: Face to Face Killing in Twentieth Century Warfare by Professor Joanna Bourke 9780465007387
$24.20The characteristic act of men at war is not dying, but killing. Politicians and military historians may gloss over human slaughter, emphasizing the defence of national honor, but for men in active service, warfare means being - or becoming - efficient... -
Revolution: An Intellectual History Enzo Traverso 9781839763335
RRP: $32.25$26.70This book reinterprets the history of nineteenth and twentieth-century revolutions by composing a constellation of "dialectical images": Marx's "locomotives of history," Alexandra Kollontai's sexually liberated bodies, Lenin's mummified body, Auguste... -
Laughter in Ancient Rome: On Joking, Tickling, and Cracking Up by Mary Beard
RRP: $20.63$17.93What made the Romans laugh? Was ancient Rome a carnival, filled with practical jokes and hearty chuckles? Or was it a carefully regulated culture in which the uncontrollable excess of laughter was a force to fear a world of wit, irony, and knowing... -
Halton Boys: True Tales from Pilots and Ground Crew Proud to be called 'Trenchard Brats' by Sean Feast
RRP: $32.25$22.73The RAF Halton Apprenticeship Scheme has a deserved reputation for excellence. The brainchild of MRAF Hugh Trenchard, the founder of the Royal Air Force, it took the 'traditional' idea of an apprenticeship and interpreted it in a novel way. It allowed... -
A Social History of English Rugby Union by Tony Collins
RRP: $56.75$50.10From the myth of William Webb Ellis to the glory of the 2003 World Cup win, this book explores the social history of rugby union in England.Ever since Tom Brown's Schooldays the sport has seen itself as the guardian of traditional English middle-class... -
King of the World: The Life of Cyrus the Great by Matt Waters
RRP: $34.17$28.88The Persian Empire was the world's first hyperpower, with territory stretching from Central Asia to Northeastern Africa and from Southeastern Europe to the Indus Valley. It was the dominant geopolitical force from the later sixth century to its conquest... -
In Search of Madness: A psychiatrist's travels through the history of mental illness by Brendan Kelly 9780717193783
RRP: $24.50$17.56A psychiatrist's travels through the history of mental illness - Who is 'mad'? Who is not? And who decides? In this fascinating new exploration of mental illness, Professor Brendan Kelly examines 'madness' in history and how we have responded to it... -
The Men Who Would Be Kings: Colonial Wargaming Rules by Daniel Mersey
RRP: $16.76$11.73The Men Who Would Be Kings is a set of rules designed for fighting historical or Hollywood colonial battles in the mid to late 19th Century, from the Indian Mutiny to the Boxer Rebellion. Large scale colonial clashes tended to be one-sided affairs, but... -
The Hated Cage: An American Tragedy in Britain's Most Terrifying Prison Nicholas Guyatt 9780861542215
RRP: $15.47$9.79'Beguiling.' The Times 'Compelling.' Wall Street Journal 'A vivid portrait.' Daily Mail Buried in the history of our most famous jail, a unique story of captivity, violence and race. It's 1812 - Britain and America are at war. British... -
Raiders from New France by Rene Chartrand
RRP: $19.34$16.19Though the French and British colonies in North America began on a 'level playing field', French political conservatism and limited investment allowed the British colonies to forge ahead, pushing into territories that the French had explored deeply but... -
Lust for Liberty: The Politics of Social Revolt in Medieval Europe, 1200-1425 by Samuel K. Cohn, Jr. 9780674030381
$57.22Lust for Liberty challenges long-standing views of popular medieval revolts. Comparing rebellions in northern and southern Europe over two centuries, Samuel Cohn analyzes their causes and forms, their leadership, the role of women, and the suppression or... -
Class of '37: Voices from Working-class Girlhood by Hester Barron
RRP: $12.89$8.84LONGLISTED FOR THE RSL ONDAATJE PRIZE___'A moving microhistory of working-class girlhood' BBC History Magazine___It is 1937 in a northern mill-town and a class of twelve- and thirteen-year-old girls are writing about their lives, their world, and the... -
Kos and Leros 1943: The German Conquest of the Dodecanese by Anthony Rogers
RRP: $20.63$14.98This title is an illustrated account of the autumn 1943 battle for the Dodecanese, as Winston Churchill attempted to secure the Aegean islands in the wake of the Italian armistice. The occupation was a gamble intended to increase pressure against Germany... -
Access to History for the IB Diploma: The Cold War and the Americas 1945-1981 Second Edition Vivienne Sanders 9781471841378
$42.56A new edition for HL Option 2, History of the Americas, Topic 16: The Cold War and the Americas (1945-1981)The renowned IB Diploma History series, combining compelling narratives with academic rigor.An authoritative and engaging narrative, with the...