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The Soviet Union: A Documentary History Volume 1: 1917-1940 by Edward Acton 9780859895811
RRP: £34.99£32.12This is the first volume of a new integrated documentary history of the Soviet Union. The Soviet story-the revolution, Lenin, Stalinism, the Great Patriotic War, the era of Khrushchev, Brezhnev and Cold War, and the dramatic collapse under... -
The Kiss of Lamourette: Reflections in Cultural History by Robert Darnton 9780393307528
RRP: £22.50£18.95At home in the eighteenth and the twentieth centuries, Robert Darnton is a shrewd and entertaining guide to the shifting borderlands of history and culture. These wide-ranging essays appear under various headings: "Current Events" -this section includes... -
1806-1807 - Tsar Alexander's Second War with Napoleon: The Russian Official History by Alexander Ivanovich Mikhailovsky-Danilevsky
RRP: £29.95£20.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804511930Author Alexander Ivanovich Mikhailovsky-DanilevskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Edward II the Man: A Doomed Inheritance by Stephen Spinks
RRP: £9.99£6.64Edward II is one of the most controversial kings of English history. On numerous occasions he brought England to the brink of civil war. Author Stephen Spinks argues that Edward and the later murdered Piers Gaveston were lovers, not merely... -
A Walk in the Park: The Life and Times of a People's Institution by Travis Elborough
RRP: £10.99£7.77'A fascinating, informative, revelatory book' William Boyd, GuardianParks are such a familiar part of everyday life, you might be forgiven for thinking they have always been there. In fact, public parks are an invention. From their medieval inception as... -
National Bus Company Service Vehicles 1972-1986 by Michael Hitchen
RRP: £14.99£10.70Throughout the 1970s and early 1980s the state-owned National Bus Company, with its familiar corporate livery, was a common sight across much of England and Wales. The huge variety of the various buses is well documented, but alongside there was a much... -
What It Means To Be Human: Reflections from 1791 to the present Professor Joanna Bourke 9781844086450
RRP: £12.99£8.60In 1872, a woman known only as 'An Ernest Englishwoman' published an open letter entitled 'Are women animals?', in which she protested the fact that women were not treated as fully human. In reality, their status was worse than that of animals:... -
Ancient Egyptian Statues: Their Many Lives and Deaths by Simon Connor 9781617971341
RRP: £39.99£33.17A fascinating, richly illustrated study of the role and significance of ancient statues in Egyptian history and beliefWhy do ancient Egyptian statues so often have their noses, hands, or genitals broken? Although the Late Antiquity period appears to have... -
Secret Science: A Century of Poison Warfare and Human Experiments by Ulf Schmidt
RRP: £19.99£15.64From the early 1990s, allegations that servicemen had been duped into taking part in trials with toxic agents at top-secret Allied research facilities throughout the twentieth century featured with ever greater frequency in the media. In Britain, a whole... -
Ulster Will Fight: Volume 1 - Home Rule and the Ulster Volunteer Force 1886-1922 by David R Orr
RRP: £29.95£24.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804510551Author David R OrrFormat PaperbackPage Count 360Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Thistle Soup by Peter Kerr 9780957306226
RRP: £9.99£8.97Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780957306226Author Peter KerrFormat PaperbackPage Count 301Imprint Oasis-WERPPublisher Oasis-WERPWeight(grams) 324gDimensions(mm) 198mm * 129mm * 21mm -
The Gaucho Martin Fierro by Jose Hernandez 9780873952842
RRP: £20.40£20.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780873952842Author Jose HernandezFormat PaperbackPage Count 99Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York... -
Growth in a Traditional Society: The French Countryside, 1450-1815 by Philip T. Hoffman 9780691070087
RRP: £55.00£42.91Philip Hoffman shatters the widespread myth that traditional agricultural societies in early modern Europe were socially and economically stagnant and ultimately dependent on wide-scale political revolution for their growth. Through a richly detailed... -
The Bastard's Sons: Robert, William and Henry of Normandy by Jeffrey James 9781445683140
RRP: £20.00£13.34William the Conqueror's intellect is said to have remained clear right up to his death. He would have questioned whether any of his three sons individually had the ability to rule the troublesome amalgam of England, Normandy and Maine once he was gone... -
Dartmoor's Alluring Uplands: Transhumance and Pastoral Management in the Middle Ages by Harold Fox 9780859898652
RRP: £35.00£31.35A striking and famous feature of the English landscape, Dartmoor is a beautiful place, with a sense of wildness and mystery. This book provides a new perspective on an important aspect of Dartmoor's past. Its focus is transhumance: the seasonal transfer... -
Counterinsurgency: Theory and Reality by Daniel Whittingham
RRP: £20.00£18.79Counterinsurgency is defined as efforts to defeat and confine a rebellion against a constituted authority. While it has become a buzz-word in the last twenty years, it is as old as society itself. This concise history discusses the development of modern... -
Poverty in Ireland 1837: Szegenyseg Irlandban - A Hungarian's View by Baron Jozsef Eotvos 9781908420213
RRP: £14.95£11.10In 1837, the power of Daniel O'Connell's oratory focused the attention of Europeans on Ireland. They were horrified at what they saw there. The Irish poor - a third of the population - had no food except the potatoes they grew, and not enough clothing to... -
How Folklore Shaped Modern Art: A Post-Critical History of Aesthetics Wes Hill 9780815386551
RRP: £44.99£39.28Since the 1990s, artists and art writers around the world have increasingly undermined the essentialism associated with notions of "critical practice." We can see this manifesting in the renewed relevance of what were previously considered "outsider" art... -
A Brief History of the English Reformation Mr Derek Wilson 9781845296469
RRP: £12.99£8.60Religion, politics and fear: how England was transformed by the Tudors.The English Reformation was a unique turning point in English history. Derek Wilson retells the story of how the Tudor monarchs transformed English religion and why it still matters... -
History and International Relations: From the Ancient World to the 21st Century Howard LeRoy Malchow (Tufts University, USA) 9781350111646
RRP: £29.99£26.85This updated and enhanced second edition of History and International Relations charts the foundations, development and use of International Relations from a historian's perspective. Exploring its engagement with the history of war, peace and foreign... -
Popular Culture in Early Modern Europe Peter Burke 9780754665076
RRP: £36.99£32.93The concept of cultural history has in the last few decades come to the fore of historical research into early modern Europe. Due in no small part to the pioneering work of Peter Burke, the tools of the cultural historian are now routinely brought to... -
Diseases in the Ancient Greek World by Mirko D. Grmek
RRP: £28.00£24.94What were the illnesses that plagued men, women, and children of the ancient world? Traditional approaches to this subject have often relied exclusively on literary evidence, but ancient texts are extraordinarily difficult to interpret. Different... -
Oxford Guides to Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales by Prof Helen Cooper 9780198878780
RRP: £29.99£28.90Recognised on its first appearance as the most comprehensive single-volume guide to The Canterbury Tales yet produced, this third edition brings the Tales up to date in relation both to recent criticism and to the changing expectations of modern readers... -
Why Did Europe Conquer the World? by Philip T. Hoffman
RRP: £17.99£14.38Between 1492 and 1914, Europeans conquered 84 percent of the globe. But why did Europe establish global dominance, when for centuries the Chinese, Japanese, Ottomans, and South Asians were far more advanced? In Why Did Europe Conquer the World?, Philip... -
The Early Stewart Kings: Robert II and Robert III by Stephen Boardman
RRP: £30.00£21.00The Stewart Dynasty in Scotland series aims to bring the rich political heritage of late medieval and early modern Scotland before as wide a reading public as possible, with specialist authors writing for the general reader as well as the student or... -
Taming Manhattan: Environmental Battles in the Antebellum City by Catherine McNeur
RRP: £25.95£20.64George Perkins Marsh Prize, American Society for Environmental HistoryVSNY Book Award, New York Metropolitan Chapter of the Victorian Society in AmericaHornblower Award for a First Book, New York Society LibraryJames Broussard Best First Book Prize,... -
The Oxford Illustrated History of the Third Reich by Robert Gellately
RRP: £31.49£22.94At age thirty in 1919, Adolf Hitler had no accomplishments. He was a rootless loner, a corporal in a shattered army, without money or prospects. A little more than twenty years later, in autumn 1941, he directed his dynamic forces against the Soviet... -
Japanese Aircraft Equipment: 1940-1945 by Robert C. Mikesh
RRP: £63.99£41.70As a companion book to the previously published Japanese Aircraft Interiors, by the same author, this book defines more closely the equipment that outfitted these aircraft. There are chapters on such aircraft installed equipment as instruments, radios,... -
Wales and Western Region Railways: The Late 1940s to late 1960s by Brian Reading
RRP: £15.99£10.85The 1950s and 1960s was a time of profound cultural and technological transformation. With images and vivid recollections, we journey back to post-war Wales and the Western Region of British Railways. We explore favourite routes and railway places, many... -
Seven Interpretive Essays on Peruvian Reality by Jose Carlos Mariategui
RRP: £25.99£22.49"Once again I repeat that I am not an impartial; objective critic. My judgments are nourished by my ideals, my sentiments, my passions. I have an avowed and resolute ambition: to assist in the creation of Peruvian socialism. I am far removed from the... -
German Song Onstage: Lieder Performance in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries by Natasha Loges
RRP: £24.99£21.67A singer in an evening dress, a grand piano. A modest-sized audience, mostly well-dressed and silver-haired, equipped with translation booklets. A program consisting entirely of songs by one or two composers. This is the way of the Lieder recital these... -
Did Singapore Have to Fall?: Churchill and the Impregnable Fortress by Kevin Blackburn
RRP: £43.99£38.44This book provides a sophisticated summary of up-to-date knowledge on the Fall of Singapore, including the critical tensions between Churchill and local commanders. A focus on the role of Churchill, and on his understanding of the guns and Singapore's... -
America: Made in Britain by Tom Arms
RRP: £20.00£13.74A key element of the American dream is an unwavering belief in its uniqueness. Somehow, it has become an article of faith that the United States emerged from the political mists of 1776 as a fully formed and unparalleled political entity without a past... -
The Irish Imperial Service: Policing Palestine and Administering the Empire, 1922-1966 by Sean William Gannon 9783030071851
RRP: £44.99£40.58This book explores Irish participation in the British imperial project after 'Southern' Ireland's independence in 1922. Building on a detailed study of the Irish contribution to the policing of the Palestine Mandate, it examines Irish imperial servants'... -
Abolitionism: A Very Short Introduction by Richard S. Newman
RRP: £8.99£8.00The abolitionist movement launched the global human rights struggle in the 18th and 19th centuries and redefined the meaning of equality throughout the Atlantic world. Even in the 21st century, it remains a touchstone of democratic activism-a timeless... -
Huguenot Heritage: The History and Contribution of the Huguenots in Britain by Robin D. Gwynn
RRP: £30.00£27.39A full length study of the Huguenots in Britain.About the AuthorRobin Gwynn is a historian of Early Modern England, formerly Reader in History at Massey University, New Zealand. His speciality has long been the study of Huguenot refugees and the French... -
1939: The Last Season Anne de Courcy 9781474625135
RRP: £10.99£7.40A wonderful portrait of British upper-class life in the Season of 1939 - the last before the Second World War.The Season of 1939 brought all those 'in Society' to London. The young debutante daughters of the upper classes were presented to the King and... -
The Art of War by Ralph D. Sawyer
RRP: £12.99£10.08The Art of War is almost certainly the most famous study of strategy ever written and has had an extraordinary influence on the history of warfare. The principles Sun-tzu expounded were utilized brilliantly by such great Asian war leaders as Mao... -
History of Japanese Art after 1945: Institutions, Discourse, Practice by Kitazawa Noriaki 9789462703544
RRP: £41.00£33.58History of Japanese Art after 1945 is a compilation of essays that surveys the development of art in Japan since WWII. The original Japanese work, which has become essential reading for those with an interest in modern and contemporary Japanese art and... -
Nazi Germany by Alan F. Wilt 9780882959108
RRP: £18.95£16.85Begins with a brief sketch of Hitler before turning to the political, economic, social, and cultural aspects of the Third Reich. A conclusion gives an historiographical assessment of Hitlerian Germany and its place in the 20th century.About the...