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Indigenous Borderlands: Native Agency, Resilience, and Power in the Americas by Joaquín Rivaya-Martínez 9780806191935
$50.82Pervasive myths of European domination and indigenous submission in the Americas receive an overdue corrective in this far-reaching revisionary work. Despite initial upheavals caused by the European intrusion, Native people often thrived after contact,... -
Race and the Education of Desire: Foucault's History of Sexuality and the Colonial Order of Things by Ann Laura Stoler
RRP: $40.93$36.39Michel Foucault's History of Sexuality has been one of the most influential books of the last two decades. It has had an enormous impact on cultural studies and work across many disciplines on gender, sexuality, and the body. Bringing a new set of... -
First in Last out: The Post-War Organisation, Employment and Training of Royal Marines Commandos by Paul Winter
$42.80The official document Amphibious Warfare Handbook No. 10a: The Organisation, Employment and Training of Commandos is a unique piece of post-war Royal Marines Commando doctrine, never before published, or quoted at length.Prepared in 1951 at the height of... -
Euripides: Cyclops by Richard Hunter
RRP: $48.73$42.47Euripides' Cyclops is the only example of Attic satyr-drama which survives intact. It is a brilliant dramatisation of the famous story from Homer's Odyssey of how Odysseus blinded the Cyclops after making him drunk. The play has much to teach us, not... -
The First Crusaders, 1095-1131 by Professor Jonathan Riley-Smith 9780521646031
RRP: $54.58$46.04Much has been written about the crusades, but very little about the crusaders. What moved them to go? What preparations did they need to make? How did they react to their experiences? This book comes up with detailed answers to these questions, and... -
A Seaman's Pocketbook: June 1943, by the Lord Commissioners of the Admiralty by Brian Lavery
RRP: $19.48$11.91At the height of the Second World War this small pocket-book was issued to all ratings on board ships of the Royal Navy. In straight period prose it outlines all the basic expressions and tasks a seaman needed to know to perform his duties efficiently... -
Wellington's Unsung Heroes: The Fifth Division in the Peninsular War, 1810-1814 by Carole Divall
RRP: $58.40$40.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915113924Author Carole DivallFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Sunny Vale Pleasure Gardens: A Postcard from Sunny Bunces by Chris Helme 9780752443553
RRP: $29.23$22.85A history of Sunnyvale Pleasure GardensBook InformationISBN 9780752443553Author Chris HelmeFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint The History Press LtdPublisher The History Press LtdWeight(grams) 400g -
Empire and Holy War in the Mediterranean: The Galley and Maritime Conflict between the Habsburgs and Ottomans by Phillip Williams 9781784533755
$56.20In the century after 1530 the Habsburgs of Spain and the Ottoman Turks fought a maritime war that seemed destined to lead nowhere. Lasting peace was as unlikely as final triumph, in part because the principal beneficiaries of the fighting were pirates... -
Cold War Kent by Clive Holden
RRP: $31.18$21.16For almost forty-five years following the end of the Second World War, the world held its breath as the spectre of an even more terrible and devastating conflict hung over it. Britain played a significant role in what became known as the 'Cold War'... -
The Jewish Question: A Marxist Interpretation by Abram Leon
RRP: $29.25$23.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781604881165Author Abram LeonFormat PaperbackPage Count 372Imprint Pathfinder PressPublisher Pathfinder PressWeight(grams) 408gDimensions(mm) 213mm * 142mm... -
Tudor Power and Glory: Henry VIII and the Field of Cloth of Gold by Keith Dowen 9781913013004
RRP: $19.48$13.96The Field of Cloth of Gold was one of the greatest courtly spectacles of the sixteenth century. A carefully-orchestrated meeting outside Calais between Henry VIII and Francis I, it encapsulated Henry's imperial ambitions and confirmed the role of the... -
Prisoner 1082: Escape from Crumlin Road Prison, Europe's Alcatraz by Donal Donnelly
$27.34On 26 December 1960, 12,000 Ulster police and B Specials began one of their biggest manhunts. It was for Prisoner 1082 - Donal Donnelly - who had made a dramatic escape from the prison known as 'Europe's Alcatraz'. Using hacksaw blades, torn sheets and... -
The Jews of Wales: A History by Cai Parry-Jones
RRP: $48.73$36.66This study considers Welsh Jewry as a geographical whole and is the first to draw extensively on oral history sources, giving a voice back to the history of Welsh Jewry, which has long been a formal history of synagogue functionaries and institutions... -
Passport to Peckham: Culture and Creativity in a London Village by Robert Hewison
RRP: $62.40$44.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913380069Author Robert HewisonFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Goldsmiths, Unversity of LondonPublisher Goldsmiths, Unversity of London -
The Sister Queens: Isabella & Catherine de Valois by Mary McGrigor 9780750992374
RRP: $25.33$19.25Isabella de Valois was 3 years old when, on a hot August day in 1392, her father suddenly went mad. Less than four years later, she was married by proxy to the English King Richard II and arrived in England with a French retinue and her doll's house... -
Dundrum: Ireland in Old Photographs by Joe Curtis 9781845888886
RRP: $33.13$25.23For many years Dundrum was just another stop on the railway between Harcourt Street and Bray; it was a village in the foothills of the Dublin Mountains that, despite its rich history, was often thought of as simply the best place to rest on a journey to... -
What is the History of the Book? James Raven 9780745641621
RRP: $33.13$30.15James Raven, a leading historian of the book, offers a fresh and accessible guide to the global study of the production, dissemination and reception of written and printed texts across all societies and in all ages. Students, teachers, researchers and... -
Germany: A Nation in Its Time: Before, During, and After Nationalism, 1500-2000 Helmut Walser Smith (Vanderbilt University) 9781324091547
RRP: $35.08$30.01For nearly a century, conventional historians have depicted Germany as a rabidly nationalist land, born in a sea of aggression, its nineteenth-century ascent accompanied by militarism and brought to a murderous apex in the Third Reich. Not so, asserts... -
The Demon Under the Microscope by Thomas Hager 9781400082148
RRP: $25.33$16.97Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400082148Author Thomas HagerFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Fodor's Travel Publications Inc.,U.S.Publisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)... -
Nobody Looks Up: The History of the Counterweight Rigging System: 1500 to 1925 by R W Boychuk 9781508438106
RRP: $97.50$78.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781508438106Author R W BoychukFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing... -
The Final Crisis of the Stuart Monarchy: The Revolutions of 1688-91 in their British, Atlantic and European Contexts Tim Harris (Customer) 9781783270446
RRP: $48.73$46.64Written in a lively and engaging style, and designed to be accessible to a broader audience, this collection combines new research with the latest scholarship to provide a fresh and invigorating introduction to the revolutionary period that transformed... -
Containing Trauma: Nursing Work in the First World War by Christine Hallett 9780719085963
RRP: $38.98$34.34In this lucid and cogently-argued book, Christine Hallett explores the nature of the practices developed by nurses and their volunteer-assistants during the First World War. She argues that nurses found meaning in their complex and stressful work by... -
South Manchester Remembered by Graham Phythian 9780752470023
RRP: $29.23$22.85South Manchester Remembered is a fascinating compilation of articles written by author and South Manchester Reporter columnist Graham Phythian. Take a nostalgic journey into South Manchester's colourful past with this rich collection of tales from bygone... -
Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution by Adrienne Rich
RRP: $25.33$22.25In Of Woman Born, originally published in 1976, influential poet and feminist Adrienne Rich examines the patriarchic systems and political institutions that define motherhood. Exploring her own experience-as a woman, a poet, a feminist and a mother-she... -
The Templars at War by Grbasic, Zvonimir
RRP: $58.50$42.80The Poor Fellow-Soldiers of Christ and the Temple of Solomon, better known as the Knights Templar or simply the Templars, are the most famous of the Crusading knightly orders. Formed in 1119 to protect Christian pilgrims to the Holy Land, this curious... -
The Viking Wars: War and Peace in King Alfred's Britain: 789-955 by Max Adams 9781643132549
RRP: $38.90$23.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781643132549Author Max AdamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint Pegasus BooksPublisher Pegasus BooksWeight(grams) 431gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 137mm * 38mm -
Ka-50 and Ka-52 Hokum by Piotr Butowski
RRP: $31.18$22.64The Ka-50 (NATO reporting name: Hokum A) helicopter made its maiden flight 40 years ago on 17 June 1982. After undergoing extensive tests and tweaks, the helicopter was ready for full-scale production almost 10 years later. However, by then Russia had... -
King Arthur: The Man Who Conquered Europe by Caleb Howells
RRP: $39.00$26.79Who was King Arthur? That question has puzzled researchers for hundreds of years, yet still, no consensus has been reached. However, whether it is concluded that he was a Celtic king or a Roman officer, or something in-between, there is one conclusion... -
Disability in Eighteenth-Century England: Imagining Physical Impairment David M. Turner 9781138107588
RRP: $85.78$75.54This is the first book-length study of physical disability in eighteenth-century England. It assesses the ways in which meanings of physical difference were formed within different cultural contexts, and examines how disabled men and women used,... -
Target Hong Kong: A true story of U.S. Navy pilots at war by Steven K. Bailey 9781472860101
RRP: $48.75$34.36Brought to life by the personal accounts of six Navy pilots and one British POW, this is the history of the U.S. Navy airstrikes on Japanese-held Hong Kong. Commander John Lamade started the war in 1941 a nervous pilot of an antiquated biplane. Just... -
Discovering Gilgamesh: Geology, Narrative and the Historical Sublime in Victorian Culture by Vybarr Cregan-Reid 9780719090516
RRP: $165.75$119.07In 1872, a young archaeologist at the British Museum made a tremendous discovery. While he was working his way through a Mesopotamian 'slush pile', George Smith, a self-taught expert in ancient languages, happened upon a Babylonian version of Noah's... -
Every Man A King: The Autobiography Of Huey P. Long by Huey Long 9780306806957
RRP: $42.88$30.44Huey Long (1893-1935) was one of the most extraordinary American politicians, simultaneously cursed as a dictator and applauded as a benefactor of the masses. A product of the poor north Louisiana hills, he was elected governor of Louisiana in 1928, and... -
Economic Interdependence and War by Dale C. Copeland 9780691161594
RRP: $62.40$49.84Does growing economic interdependence among great powers increase or decrease the chance of conflict and war? Liberals argue that the benefits of trade give states an incentive to stay peaceful. Realists contend that trade compels states to struggle for... -
An Introduction to the History of Trinidad and Tobago by Bridget Brereton
$31.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780435984748Author Bridget BreretonFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Heinemann International Literature and TextbooksPublisher Heinemann International... -
Medieval Wrestling: Modern Practice of a Fifteenth-Century Art by Jessica Finley
RRP: $61.43$57.82In the Middle Ages, wrestling was practiced as both pastime and self-defense by every level of society - nobles, townsman and peasants alike - and was regarded as the foundation of all other martial arts. And no medieval wrestler's name looms as large as... -
The Story of Exeter by Hazel Harvey 9780750966184
RRP: $39.00$30.11Exeter is one of the oldest cities in Britain. It was an inhabited place some two hundred years before the Romans came, and people have lived here without a break for more than two thousand years. The High Street has been in continuous use as a... -
The First Asians in the Americas: A Transpacific History by Diego Javier Luis 9780674271784
RRP: $74.00$59.96The definitive account of transpacific Asian movement through the Spanish empire-from Manila to Acapulco and beyond-and its implications for the history of race and colonization in the Americas.Between 1565 and 1815, the so-called Manila galleons enjoyed... -
Rebellion: Britain's First Stuart Kings, 1567-1642 by Tim Harris 9780199209002
RRP: $67.26$49.84A gripping new account of one of the most important and exciting periods of British and Irish history: the reign of the first two Stuart kings, from 1567 to the outbreak of civil war in 1642 - and why ultimately all three of their kingdoms were to rise... -
Cold War Berlin: An Island City: Volume 3 - US Forces in Berlin - Keeping the Peace, 1945-1994 by Andrew Long
RRP: $38.90$27.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804510292Author Andrew LongFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company