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American Dreamers by Michael Kazin
RRP: $24.50$17.16Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307279194Author Michael KazinFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 312gDimensions(mm) 201mm *... -
Making a Muslim: Reading Publics and Contested Identities in Nineteenth Century North India by S. Akbar Zaidi
RRP: $96.75$87.38Using primarily Urdu sources from the nineteenth century, this book allows us to rethink notions of 'the Muslim', in its numerous, complex and often contradictory forms, which emerged in colonial North India after 1857. Allowing the self-representation... -
Bloody Vienna: The Soviet Offensive Operations in Western Hungary and Austria, March-May 1945 by Kamen Nevenkin
$39.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9786155583261Author Kamen NevenkinFormat HardbackPage Count 212Imprint PeKo Publishing Kft.Publisher PeKo Publishing Kft. -
Another Bloody Chapter in an Endless Civil War Volume 1: Northern Ireland and the Troubles 1984-87 by Ken Wharton
RRP: $58.05$23.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804510469Author Ken WhartonFormat PaperbackPage Count 420Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Religions of the Ancient World: A Guide by Sarah Iles Johnston
RRP: $85.08$69.35Religious beliefs and practices, which permeated all aspects of life in antiquity, traveled well-worn routes throughout the Mediterranean: itinerant charismatic practitioners journeying from place to place peddled their skills as healers, purifiers,... -
Yugoslavia: A History of its Demise by Viktor Meier 9780415185967
RRP: $47.72$41.96Yugoslavia: A History of its Demise is a new history of the disintegration and collapse of the former Yugoslavia. Commencing with the death of Tito, Meier presents an insider's guide to all the regions of Yugoslavia, including Macedonia, and in... -
Changing Jarrow by Paul Perry 9781781552759
RRP: $19.34$14.90A nostalgic tour of Jarrow illustrated by old photographs of the town, selected from the author's quite unique and extensive collection. The images, many of which have never been published before, feature street scenes, notable buildings, social history,... -
A Military History of the Cold War, 1944-1962 by Jonathan M. House 9780806142623
$50.76The Cold War did not culminate in World War III as so many in the 1950s and 1960s feared, yet it spawned a host of military engagements that affected millions of lives. This book is the first comprehensive, multinational overview of military affairs... -
Lost in the Spanish Quarter by Heddi Goodrich
RRP: $16.76$10.94Told with intimacy and ferocity and set in the passionate and crumbling Spanish Quarter of Naples, comes a poignant tale of first love - of a place, of a person - where languages and cultures collide while dreams soar and crash in spectacular ways. ... -
Art Of Japanese Sword Polishing by Setsuo Takaiwa 9781568365183
RRP: $58.05$35.57To understand Japanese sword polishing is to understand the Japanese sword. Down through the years, the great sword connoisseurs in Japan have been sword polishers. A swordsmith can spend a large amount of time forging a classic sword, but refining and... -
Revolutionary Horizons: Popular Struggle in Bolivia by Forrest Hylton
$22.83In an age of military neoliberalism, social movements and center-Left coalition governments have advanced across South America, sparking hope for radical change in a period otherwise characterized by regressive imperial and anti-imperial politics... -
Bolt Action: Armies of Imperial Japan by Warlord Games
RRP: $32.25$26.95Following the assault on Pearl Harbor, the Imperial Japanese military saw action across Asia, from the capture and defence of the islands of the Pacific to the occupation of territory in China and Burma. With this latest supplement for Bolt Action,... -
A Cultural History of the Senses in Antiquity by Jerry Toner
$48.88The ancient world used the senses to express an enormous range of cultural meanings. Indeed the senses were functionally significant in all aspects of ancient life, often in ways that were complex and interconnected. Antiquity was also a period where the... -
Suburban London Cinemas by Gary Wharton
RRP: $20.63$16.71Among the 50 historic cinemas featured are the Finsbury Park Astoria, the Maida Vale Picture House, the Shepherds Bush Pavilion, the West Ealing Kinema, the Woolwich Granada and Kilburn's Gaumont State. Illustrated with 100 images, this well-researched... -
Endgame: Britain, Russia and the Final Struggle for Central Asia by Jennifer Siegel
$78.21By the early 1900s both Britain and Russia, suspicious of Imperial Germany, decided to stabilize their relations and replace their rivalry in Central Asia - the 'Great Game' - with rapprochement. But as Jennifer Siegel here demonstrates, reality in the... -
Blood, Dreams and Gold: The Changing Face of Burma by Richard Cockett
RRP: $18.05$15.80The best single-volume analysis of Burma, its checkered history, and its attempts to reform Burma is one of the largest countries in Southeast Asia and was once one of its richest. Under successive military regimes, however, the country eventually... -
Central America's Forgotten History: Revolution, Violence, and the Roots of Migration by Aviva Chomsky
RRP: $21.92$12.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807055410Author Aviva ChomskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon Press -
Insurance Era: Risk, Governance, and the Privatization of Security in Postwar America by Caley Horan
RRP: $45.15$38.66Charts the social and cultural life of private insurance in postwar America, showing how insurance institutions and actuarial practices played crucial roles in bringing social, political, and economic neoliberalism into everyday life. Actuarial thinking... -
Dangerous Pregnancies: Mothers, Disabilities, and Abortion in Modern America by Leslie J. Reagan 9780520274570
$34.95"Dangerous Pregnancies" tells the largely forgotten story of the German measles epidemic of the early 1960s and how it created national anxiety about dying, disabled, and "dangerous" babies. This epidemic would ultimately transform abortion politics,... -
Qatar: Rise to Power and Influence by Allen James Fromherz
$70.78What role does Qatar play in the Middle East and how does it differ from the other Gulf states? How has the Al-Thani tribe shaped the history of modern Qatar? And how is a traditional tribal society adapting to its status as a burgeoning economic... -
The Political Writings of EVA Gore-Booth by Sonja Tiernan
RRP: $25.79$18.73The political writings of Eva Gore-Booth brings together a fascinating array of material from this important Irish author and political activist. The volume includes a selection of letters, political pamphlets, newspaper articles and poetry relating to... -
American Imperialism: The Territorial Expansion of the United States, 1783-2013 by Adam Burns
RRP: $33.53$30.42The United States has been described by many of its foreign and domestic critics as an empire. Providing a wide-ranging analysis of the United States as a territorial, imperial power from its foundation to the present day, this book explores the United... -
Telling America's Story to the World: Literature, Internationalism, Cultural Diplomacy by Harilaos Stecopoulos 9780192864635
RRP: $117.39$106.40Telling America's Story to the World argues that state and state-affiliated cultural diplomacy contributed to the making of postwar US literature. Highlighting the role of liberal internationalism in US cultural outreach, Harilaos Stecopoulos contends... -
1001 Days That Shaped the World by Editors of Thunder Bay Press
RRP: $32.24$28.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781645178194Author Editors of Thunder Bay PressFormat PaperbackPage Count 960Imprint Thunder Bay PressPublisher Thunder Bay PressWeight(grams)... -
The Polish Army in 1939 by Vincent W. Rospond
RRP: $51.60$28.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780990364948Author Vincent W. RospondFormat PaperbackPage Count 150Imprint Winged Hussar PublishingPublisher Winged Hussar PublishingWeight(grams)... -
The Slaves of the Churches: A History by Mary E. Sommar
RRP: $39.98$29.99In recent years, stories of religious universities and institutions grappling with their slave-owning past have made headlines in the news. People find it shocking that the Church itself could have been involved in such a sordid business. This timely... -
Rome and the Enemy: Imperial Strategy in the Principate by Susan P. Mattern
RRP: $38.70$30.04How did the Romans build and maintain one of the most powerful and stable empires in the history of the world? This illuminating book draws on the literature, especially the historiography, composed by the members of the elite who conducted Roman foreign... -
War in the Mediterranean, 1940-1943 by Bernard Ireland
RRP: $19.34$14.13For 1,000 days the Allied and Axis armies fought for the domination of the North African shores knowing that defeat would bring disastrous consequences. Much has been written about the conduct of the land battles and the commanders who faced each other... -
Imagining Home: Gender, Race and National Identity, 1945-1964 Wendy Webster (University of Huddersfield, UK) 9781032345208
RRP: $23.21$20.69A vital work for its exploration of the way the very idea of home became white in Britain in the postwar periodAhead of its time when first published and reviewed in the Guardian Highly relevant in light of the Windrush scandal and recent debates... -
Seneca Letters: A Selection by Eliot Maunder
RRP: $19.34$18.50This is the OCR-endorsed publication from Bloomsbury for the Latin A-Level (Group 2) prescription of Seneca's Letters, giving full Latin text, commentary and vocabulary for Letters 51, 53 and 57, with a detailed introduction that also covers the... -
Marital Violence in Post-Independence Ireland, 1922-96: 'A Living Tomb for Women' by Cara Diver
RRP: $109.65$77.62Marital violence in post-independence Ireland, 1922-96 represents the first comprehensive history of marital violence in modern Ireland, from the founding of the Irish Free State in 1922 to the passage of the Domestic Violence Act and the legalisation of... -
Turn On, Tune In, Drift Off: Ambient Music's Psychedelic Past by Victor Szabo 9780190699307
RRP: $148.35$134.01Turn On, Tune In, Drift Off: Ambient Music's Psychedelic Past rethinks the history and socioaesthetics of ambient music as a popular genre with roots in the psychedelic countercultures of the late twentieth century. Victor Szabo reveals how anglophone... -
Modern Germany Reconsidered: 1870-1945 by Gordon Martel
RRP: $54.17$47.41First Published in 2004. In this major textbook, leading international scholars provide clear, concise summaries of many of the most important controversies and developments in German history from 1870-1945. Twelve contributors, distinguished for their... -
The Annals of Dunstable Priory by Harriett R. Webster
RRP: $122.55$117.49The Annals of Dunstable Priory are a major and accurate source for the Barons' War of Henry III's reign, including material from official documents, The Annals of Dunstable Priory are a valuable witness to thirteenth-century England. They record much... -
A Patriot's History of the United States: From Columbus's Great Discovery to the War on Terror by Larry Schweikart
RRP: $30.96$24.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781595231154Author Larry SchweikartFormat PaperbackPage Count 1008Imprint SentinelPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 1g -
Goodbye, Eastern Europe: An Intimate History of a Divided Land by Jacob Mikanowski
RRP: $38.70$29.48Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781524748500Author Jacob MikanowskiFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint PantheonPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 601gDimensions(mm) 242mm * 165mm... -
Black Dog of Fate: A Memoir by Peter Balakian
RRP: $18.05$16.09In this tenth anniversary edition of his award-winning memoir, New York Times bestselling author Peter Balakian has expanded his compelling story about growing up in the baby-boom suburbs of the '50s and '60s and coming to understand what happened to... -
Hanover and the British Empire, 1700-1837 by Nick Harding
RRP: $122.55$109.33A reappraisal of the links between Hanover and Great Britain, highlighting their previously un-explored importance. The dynastic union which existed between Great Britain and Hanover between 1714 and 1837 is often seen as simply a subject for... -
Human Rights in Africa by Bonny Ibhawoh
RRP: $33.53$28.37Human rights have a deep and tumultuous history that culminates in the age of rights we live in today, but where does Africa's story fit in with this global history? Here, Bonny Ibhawoh maps this story and offers a comprehensive and interpretative... -
Easter Sepulchre in England by Pamela Sheingorn
RRP: $34.19$28.21The Easter Sepulchre is the English form of a monument known throughout Western Europe in the Middle Ages as the sepulchrum domini, the tomb of the Lord, the monument associated specifically with the commemorative Easter rites. The Easter Sepulchre stood...