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The Open Empire: A History of China to 1800 by Valerie Hansen 9780393938777
$84.38The Open Empire takes an integrative, thematic approach to early Chinese history, using the concept of the "open empire" to highlight the dynamic, porous nature of China's past. Hansen builds her chronological narrative on a rich variety of archeological... -
Rome's Empire: How the Romans Acquired and Lost Their Provinces by Patricia Southern
RRP: $68.25$44.11The Roman Empire was forged in war and defended by military might. It also endured because of the Romans' ability to assimilate and pacify the different peoples and cultures within their provinces. In Rome's early years it did not annexe territory but... -
West Sussex Smugglers' Pubs by Terry Townsend 9780857101297
RRP: $25.33$21.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857101297Author Terry TownsendFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint PiXZ BooksPublisher PiXZ Books -
Hobbes's Philosophy of Religion by Thomas Holden 9780192871329
RRP: $144.30$131.25Hobbes's Philosophy of Religion presents a new scholarly interpretation of Hobbes's treatment of religious speech and practice. It argues that the key to Hobbes's treatment of religion is his theory of religious language. According to Hobbes, the proper... -
The Diasporic Condition: Ethnographic Explorations of the Lebanese in the World by Ghassan Hage
RRP: $46.80$44.91Bridging the gap between migration studies and the anthropological tradition, Ghassan Hage illustrates that transnationality and its attendant cultural consequences are not necessarily at odds with classic theory. In The Diasporic Condition, Ghassan Hage... -
Central Middlesbrough 1892: Yorkshire Sheet 6.14a by Robert Woodhouse 9781847845337
$7.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781847845337Author Robert WoodhouseImprint Alan Godfrey MapsPublisher Alan Godfrey Maps -
Dartmoor's Alluring Uplands: Transhumance and Pastoral Management in the Middle Ages by Harold Fox 9780859898652
RRP: $68.25$61.13A 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... -
National Bus Company Service Vehicles 1972-1986 by Michael Hitchen
RRP: $29.23$20.67Throughout 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... -
Vought A-7 Corsair II: The US Navy and Us Air Force's Light Attack Aircraft by Mat "Irish" Garretson
RRP: $37.03$24.71Born of necessity during the Vietnam War, the Vought A-7 Corsair II ushered in a level of lethality, target accuracy, and economy not realized in any plane before it, and, arguably, any that followed. Originally designed as a "bomb truck," the A-7 would,... -
Franklin and Winston: An Intimate Portrait of an Epic Friendship by Jon Meacham
RRP: $42.90$26.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812972825Author Jon MeachamFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 352gDimensions(mm) 202mm *... -
Carpathia: The extraordinary story of the ship that rescued the survivors of the Titanic by Jay Ludowyke
RRP: $39.00$26.42In the early hours of 15 April 1912, the Cunard steamship Carpathia receives a distress call from the new White Star liner Titanic. Captain Arthur Rostron immediately turns Carpathia northwest and sails full speed through the dark night, into waters... -
The Official History of the Falklands Campaign, Volume 1: The Origins of the Falklands War by Lawrence Freedman 9780415419123
RRP: $93.58$81.53Drawing on a vast range of previously classified government archives as well as interviews with key participants, this first volume of the official history of the Falklands Campaign is the most authoritative account of the origins of the 1982 war. In the... -
The Early Christians: From the Beginnings to Constantine by Hartmut Leppin 9781316517239
RRP: $68.23$56.96The early Christians were by no means a homogeneous group, let alone a church. This is the fascinating story of the beliefs, practices and experience of individual Christians of antiquity, their relationships to Jewish tradition and the wider Roman... -
The Crimean War: British Grand Strategy against Russia, 1853–56 by Andrew Lambert
RRP: $77.98$68.37In contrast to every other book about the conflict Andrew Lambert's ground-breaking study The Crimean War: British Grand Strategy against Russia, 1853-1856 is neither an operational history of the armies in the Crimea, nor a study of the diplomacy of the... -
Revolutionary France 1770 - 1880 Francois Furet (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris) 9780631198086
RRP: $72.05$64.47Revolutionary France is a vivid narrative history. It is also a radical reinterpretation of the period, and testimony to the power both of ideas and of personality in movements of the past. Francois Furet is France's leading historian of the periodA work... -
Listening to Nineteenth-Century America by Mark M. Smith 9780807849828
$77.77Sound, sectionalism, and the coming of the Civil War; Arguing for the importance of the aural dimension of history, Mark Smith contends that to understand what it meant to be northern or southern, slave or free - to understand sectionalism and the... -
The Great Gamble: The Soviet War in Afghanistan by Gregory Feifer 9780061143199
$22.11The Soviet war in Afghanistan was a grueling debacle that has striking lessons for the 21st century. In "The Great Gamble", Gregory Feifer examines the conflict from the perspective of the soldiers on the ground. In gripping detail, he vividly depicts... -
Holocaust Journey: Travelling In Search Of The Past by Sir Martin Gilbert 9781399610902
RRP: $25.33$14.84Includes a new foreword by Rob RinderWhat readers are saying about HOLOCAUST JOURNEY:'Brilliant ... A must read for everybody' 'Devastating' 'Fascinating, thought provoking and shocking' 'Everybody should read this' 'Informative and... -
Sources of Chinese Tradition: From Earliest Times to 1600 by Wm. Theodore De Bary
RRP: $81.90$66.38A collection of seminal primary readings on the social, intellectual, and religious traditions of China, Sources of Chinese Tradition, Volume 1 has been widely used and praised for almost forty years as an authoritative resource for scholars and students... -
The King Arthur Conspiracy: How a Scottish Prince Became a Mythical Hero by Simon Stirling
RRP: $29.23$22.85Arthur led the Britons to the brink of victory but was cut down by treachery and betrayal. Arthurian legends have since been corrupted, leading to popular but false assumptions about the king and the belief that his grave could never be found. Drawing on... -
Operation Pineapple Express: The Incredible Story of a Group of Americans Who Undertook One Last Mission and Honored a Promise in Afghanistan by LT Col Scott Mann 9781668003640
RRP: $38.98$23.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781668003640Author LT Col Scott MannFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 476gDimensions(mm) 213mm *... -
Secret Shepperton: England's Hollywood by Jill Armitage
RRP: $31.18$22.11Secret Shepperton explores the history of the town from its early origins as an Iron Age settlement nestling on the banks of the River Thames. It's the place where Caesar crossed the river in AD 54. Subsequent river finds reveal that this area regularly... -
Justice Rising: Robert Kennedy's America in Black and White by Patricia Sullivan
RRP: $66.20$58.46"A profound and uplifting account of Robert F. Kennedy's brave crusade for racial equality. This is narrative history at its absolute finest, with RFK squarely at the center of the 1960s civil rights movement along with Martin Luther King Jr., James... -
Eastern Inferno: The Journals of a German PanzerjaGer on the Eastern Front, 1941-1943 by Christine Alexander
RRP: $29.23$25.74This book presents the remarkable personal journals of a German soldier who participated in Operation Barbarossa and subsequent battles on the Eastern Front, revealing the combat experience of the German-Russian War as seldom seen before. Hans Roth was... -
The Stuff of Soldiers: A History of the Red Army in World War II through Objects by Brandon M. Schechter 9781501739798
RRP: $56.53$48.20The Stuff of Soldiers uses everyday objects to tell the story of the Great Patriotic War as never before. Brandon M. Schechter attends to a diverse array of things-from spoons to tanks-to show how a wide array of citizens became soldiers, and how the... -
Oil Money: Middle East Petrodollars and the Transformation of US Empire, 1967<I>-</I>1988 by David M. Wight
RRP: $85.80$74.96In Oil Money, David M. Wight offers a new framework for understanding the course of Middle East-US relations during the 1970s and 1980s: the transformation of the US global empire by Middle East petrodollars. During these two decades, American, Arab, and... -
Cannae: Hannibal's Greatest Victory by Adrian Goldsworthy
RRP: $33.13$19.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781541699250Author Adrian GoldsworthyFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Basic BooksPublisher Basic BooksWeight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 140mm *... -
Stepping-Stones: A Journey through the Ice Age Caves of the Dordogne by Christine Desdemaines-Hugon
RRP: $48.75$40.79An awe-inspiring study of the enduring power of Paleolithic art The cave art of France's Dordogne region is world-famous for the mythology and beauty of its remarkable drawings and paintings. These ancient images of lively bison, horses, and mammoths, as... -
Old York Paul Chrystal 9781840338508
RRP: $38.90$34.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781840338508Author Paul ChrystalFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Stenlake PublishingPublisher Stenlake PublishingDimensions(mm) 273mm * 210mm * 5mm -
Ninja Attack!: True Tales of Assassins, Samurai, and Outlaws by Hiroko Yoda
RRP: $25.33$17.59Ninja Attack! introduces dozens of unforgettable real-life ninja straight out of the annals of Japanese history--many of whom are all but unknown outside their home country.Ninja masters. Solo assassins and operatives. Femme fatales as deadly as they... -
Serial Killers: The World's Most Evil Nigel Blundell 9781526781741
RRP: $29.23$21.35On an internationally acknowledged Scale of Evil, these are the worlds worst serial killers. The qualifications for entry to this list of the vilest criminals of all time are a propensity for sadism, torture and murder without a shred of remorse. Using... -
Dim Croeso '69 - Gwrthsefyll yr Arwisgo Arwel Vittle 9781784617103
$20.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781784617103Author Arwel VittleFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Y LolfaPublisher Y Lolfa -
The Routledge Atlas of Classical History: From 1700 BC to AD 565 by Michael Grant
RRP: $74.08$65.09Covering an enormous range of topics in 97 clear and detailed maps,this Routledge Historical Atlas includes: Politics: from ancient Egypt and the growth of the Greek city-states, to the rise and fall of the Roman Empire Religion: from the spread of... -
A Century of Aylesbury: Britain in Old Photographs by Karl Vaughan 9780752458106
RRP: $25.33$19.25This fascinating selection of photographs illustrates the extraordinary transformation that has taken place in Aylesbury over the past century. The book offers an insight into the daily lives and living conditions of local people and gives the reader a... -
Main Street: Heart of Wexford by Nicky Rossiter 9780750987547
RRP: $33.13$25.60Wexford is one of the few towns or cities in Ireland where Main Street is still the main retail and commercial street of the town. In Dublin this honour goes to O'Connell and Grafton Street; in Cork it is Patrick Street; but in Wexford, Main Street is... -
Encountering the Book of Margery Kempe by Laura Kalas 9781526171580
RRP: $48.75$42.96This innovative critical volume brings the study of Margery Kempe into the twenty-first century. Structured around four categories of 'encounter' - textual, internal, external and performative - the volume offers a capacious exploration of The Book of... -
Pirate Women: The Princesses, Prostitutes, and Privateers Who Ruled the Seven Seas by Laura Sook Duncombe 9781641602228
RRP: $33.05$23.05In the first-ever comprehensive survey of the world's female buccaneers, Pirate Women tells of the women, both real and legendary, who through the ages sailed alongside-and sometimes in command of-their male counterparts. These women came from all walks... -
A History of Modern Oman by Jeremy Jones
RRP: $48.73$40.31The ideal introduction to the history of modern Oman from the eighteenth century to the present, this book combines the most recent scholarship on Omani history with insights drawn from a close analysis of the politics and international relations of... -
Beyond Orientalism: Ahmad ibn Qasim al-Hajari between Europe and North Africa by Oumelbanine Nina Zhiri 9780520390454
RRP: $48.75$38.20The first in-depth study of the collaborative intellectual exchange between the European and the Arabic Republics of Letters. Beyond Orientalism reformulates our understanding of the early modern Mediterranean through the remarkable life and career of... -
The Honoured Society: My Journey to the Heart of the Mafia by Petra Reski
RRP: $35.08$24.57In the early hours of an August morning a gunfight broke out in an Italian restaurant in Duisburg; in less than five minutes over seventy shots were fired into the bodies of six men. Both victims and assassins were members of the 'Ndrangheta crime...