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The Last Ride of the Pony Express: My 2,000-Mile Horseback Journey Into the Old West by Will Grant
RRP: £30.00£18.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316422314Author Will GrantFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Little Brown and CompanyPublisher Little Brown and CompanyWeight(grams) 544gDimensions(mm)... -
Imagining Robin Hood: The Late Medieval Stories in Historical Context by A. J. Pollard
RRP: £31.99£28.33A.J Pollard takes us back to the earliest surviving stories of Robin Hood, the stories, tales and ballads of the fifteenth century and he re-examines the story of this fascinating figure. Setting out the economic, social and political context of the... -
Petersfield At War by David W. Jeffery
RRP: £14.99£11.72The small Hampshire town of Petersfield saw little direct conflict during the Second World War, yet its story reflects all the anxieties and concerns of Britain's inhabitants during that period: food shortages, evacuees, blackout restrictions, family... -
Moving Against the System: The 1968 Congress of Black Writers and the Making of Global Consciousness by David Austin
RRP: £22.99£15.17In 1968, as protests shook France and war raged in Vietnam, the giants of black radical politics descended on Montreal to discuss the unique challenges and struggles facing their black comrades all over the world. Against a backdrop of widespread... -
Looking for History: Dispatches from Latin America by Alma Guillermoprieto 9780375725821
RRP: £22.00£15.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375725821Author Alma GuillermoprietoFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 288gDimensions(mm)... -
American Civilization: An Introduction by David Mauk 9780367620943
RRP: £39.99£36.06The eighth edition of the hugely successful American Civilization offers students the perfect background and introductory information on contemporary American life, examining the central dimensions of American society from geography and the environment... -
Target Tokyo: Jimmy Doolittle and the Raid That Avenged Pearl Harbor by James M. Scott 9780393352276
RRP: £15.99£14.22On April 18, 1942, sixteen U.S. Army bombers under the command of daredevil pilot Jimmy Doolittle lifted off from the deck of the USS Hornet on a one-way mission to pummel Japan's factories, refineries, and dockyards in retaliation for their attack on... -
The Nasirean Ethics (RLE Iran C) by Nasīr ad Dīn Tūsi 9781032547091
RRP: £31.99£28.94The Nasirean Ethics is the best known ethical digest to be composed in medieval Persia, if not in all mediaeval Islam. It appeared initially in 633/1235 when Tusi was already a celebrated scholar, scientist, politico-religious propagandist. The work has... -
Revolution Squared: Tahrir, Political Possibilities, and Counterrevolution in Egypt by Atef Shahat Said 9781478025504
RRP: £23.99£20.84In Revolution Squared Atef Shahat Said examines the 2011 Egyptian Revolution to trace the expansive range of liberatory possibilities and containment at the heart of every revolution. Drawing on historical analysis and his own participation in the... -
The Transformation of British Naval Strategy - Seapower and Supply in Northern Europe, 1808-1812 by James Davey
RRP: £80.00£76.41Shows how the system of supply was perfected during the later part of the Napoleonic Wars, enabling fleets to stay at sea on a permanent basis. After the Battle of Trafalgar, the navy continued to be the major arm of British strategy. Decades of... -
The English Chartered Trading Companies, 1688-1763: Guns, Money and Lawyers Michael Wagner 9781032401881
RRP: £39.99£35.33This book provides a collective view of the five major English chartered trading companies which were active during the period 1688-1763: The East India Company, the Royal African Company, the Hudson's Bay Company, The Levant Company, and the Russia... -
So Others May Live: Coast Guard's Rescue Swimmers: Saving Lives, Defying Death by Tom Ridge 9781599211596
RRP: £12.99£9.71So Others May Live is the untold story of the U.S. Coast Guard's quiet but resolute rescue swimmers. From deep ocean caves on the Oregon coast to the panicked and chaotic streets of post-Katrina New Orleans, here are their stunningly heroic stories. In... -
Moscow's Heavy Shadow: The Violent Collapse of the USSR by Isaac McKean Scarborough 9781501771026
RRP: £50.00£43.47Moscow's Heavy Shadow tells the story of the collapse of the USSR from the perspective of the many millions of Soviet citizens who experienced it as a period of abjection and violence. Mikhail Gorbachev and the leaders of the USSR saw the years of reform... -
The Story of Rufino: Slavery, Freedom, and Islam in the Black Atlantic by Joao Jose Reis
RRP: £30.99£28.88Winner of the Casa de las America Prize for Brazilian Literature, The Story of Rufino reconstructs the lively biography of Rufino Jose Maria, set against the historical context of Brazil and Africa in the nineteenth century. The book tells the story... -
Reinventing Theology in Post-Genocide Rwanda: Challenges and Hopes by Marcel Uwineza
RRP: £100.00£87.35The first comprehensive examination of the Catholic Church's role in the genocide against the Tutsi and its attempts at reconciliation From April to July 1994, more than a million people were killed during the genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda... -
Scorpions' Dance: The President, the Spymaster, and Watergate by Jefferson Morley
RRP: £23.99£18.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250275837Author Jefferson MorleyFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 526gDimensions(mm) 242mm *... -
'Mae'r Beibl o'n tu': Ymatebion crefyddol y Cymry yn America i gaethwasiaeth (1838-1868) by Gareth Evans Jones 9781786838834
RRP: £19.99£15.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781786838834Author Gareth Evans JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint University of Wales PressPublisher University of Wales PressWeight(grams) 138g -
The History of Havana by Dick Cluster
RRP: £12.99£8.73"Serious but easily readable. The History of Havana employs conventional documentary, written and visual sources and a variety of testimonials from throughout the world to bring to life the complex portraits and challenges of contemporary Havana." -Harry... -
Routledge Handbook on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Joel Peters 9781138925373
RRP: £49.99£44.24The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is one of the most prominent issues in world politics today. Few other issues have dominated the world's headlines and have attracted such attention from policy makers, the academic community, political analysts, and the... -
A Concordance to Conrad's Under Western Eyes by David Leon Higdon 9780367893941
RRP: £31.99£28.33Originally published in 1983, this volume follows others in the series. The user is provided with a Verbal Index, citing each type and its location, a Word Frequency Table, and a Field of Reference. This volume is part of a series which produced verbal... -
Battle Story: Arnhem 1944 by Chris Brown
RRP: £9.99£7.77When we think of Arnhem we think of a Bridge too Far and a sky full of parachutes dropping the Allies into the Netherlands. Beyond these images, this was one of the most complex and strategically important operations of the war. Operation Market Garden... -
Verdun: The Left Bank by Christina Holstein 9781473827035
£16.00This new and enthralling study is the first detailed work in English of a largely unknown period of the Battle of Verdun. It considers the background to the battle and casts light on the first three critical months of fighting there. It explains the... -
Austerity in Britain: Rationing, Controls, and Consumption, 1939-1955 by Dr Ina Zweiniger-Bargielowska 9780199251025
£51.27Austerity in Britain is the first book to explore the entire episode of rationing, austerity, and fair shares from 1939 until 1955. These policies were central to the British war effort and to post-war reconstrucion. The book analyses the connections... -
The Quartet by Joseph J. Ellis
RRP: £13.99£11.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780804172486Author Joseph J. EllisFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Alfred A. KnopfPublisher Alfred A. KnopfWeight(grams) 232gDimensions(mm) 203mm *... -
An Analysis of Paul Kennedy's The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers: Ecomonic Change and Military Conflict from 1500-2000 Riley Quinn 9781912128150
RRP: £6.50£6.21Paul Kennedy owes a great deal to the editor who persuaded him to add a final chapter to this study of the factors that contributed to the rise and fall of European powers since the age of Spain's Philip II. This tailpiece indulged in what was, for an... -
Big History and the Future of Humanity Fred Spier (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands) 9781118881729
RRP: £24.95£22.12big history and the future of humanity "This remains the best single attempt to theorize big history as a discipline that can link core concepts and paradigms across all historical disciplines, from cosmology to geology, from biology to human history... -
The Charleston Scandal: Escape into the glamorous world of the Jazz Age . . . by Pamela Hart
RRP: £8.99£5.62Fans of THE CROWN will love this exuberant story of a young Australian actress caught up in the excesses, royal intrigues and class divide of Jazz Age London, losing her way but reclaiming her heart in the processAbout the AuthorPamela Hart is an... -
The York Corpus Christi Plays by Clifford Davidson
RRP: £26.50£22.47The feast of Corpus Christi, celebrated annually on Thursday after Trinity Sunday, was devoted to the Eucharist, and the normal practice was to have solemn processions through the city with the Host, the consecrated wafer that was believed to have been... -
Manhood in Early Modern England: Honour, Sex and Marriage by Elizabeth Foyster 9780582307353
RRP: £54.99£52.48This is the first book to focus on the relationships which men formed with their wives in early modern England, making it an important contribution to a new understanding of English, social, family, and gender history. Dr Foyster redresses the balance of... -
Reversible Destiny: Mafia, Antimafia, and the Struggle for Palermo by Peter T. Schneider
RRP: £30.00£23.69Reversible Destiny traces the history of the Sicilian mafia to its nineteenth-century roots and examines its late twentieth-century involvement in urban real estate and construction as well as drugs. Based on research in the regional capital of Palermo,... -
The Eucharist in Pre-Norman Ireland by Neil Xavier O'Donoghue 9780268037321
RRP: £35.00£30.74A significant body of scholarship addresses pre-Norman Irish life and history, including the archaeology, art, and architecture from the time of St. Patrick (d. 493) to the arrival of the Normans in the twelfth century. While the place of the church and... -
Revolutionary Russia: New Approaches to the Russian Revolution of 1917 by Rex A. Wade
RRP: £135.00£117.68This collection presents the major recent writings on the Russian Revolution and its context. It brings together key texts to illustrate new interpretive approaches and covers the central topics and themes. Together, the chapters in this volume form a... -
Al-Haq: A Global History of the First Palestinian Human Rights Organization by Lynn Welchman
RRP: £30.00£23.29A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org.The leadership and legacy of al-Haq, from its origins in Palestine to its international impact Established in Ramallah in 1979, al-Haq was the first Palestinian... -
Hope Amidst Conflict: Philosophical and Psychological Explorations by Oded Adomi Leshem 9780197685303
RRP: £54.00£49.22How does hope for peace form and proliferate in the seemingly hopeless reality of conflict, and why do despair and fear often prevail? How do political elites utilize hope and skepticism to manipulate their public during conflict? And how does hope... -
Aggression, Crime and International Security: Moral, Political and Legal Dimensions of International Relations by Page Wilson
RRP: £32.99£29.16Aggression, Crime and International Security examines the concept of aggression in international relations and how it has been dealt with by international law and collective security organisations.This book analyses the evolution of the concept of... -
Billericay Voices by Sylvia Kent 9780752424705
RRP: £12.99£10.02This book is part of the oral history series, which combines the reminiscences of local people with old photographs and archived images to show the history of various local areas in Great Britain, through their streets, shops, pubs, and people.Book... -
Imperial Panegyric from Diocletian to Honorius by Adrastos Omissi
RRP: £32.99£29.75Imperial Panegyric from Diocletian to Honorius examines one of the most important literatures of the late Roman period - speeches of praise addressed to the reigning emperor - and the panegyrical culture of the late Roman world more generally. Unlike ... -
Living with the Enemy: German Occupation, Collaboration and Justice in the Western Pyrenees, 1940-1948 by Sandra Ott 9781316630877
RRP: £28.99£24.82In post-liberation France, the French courts judged the cases of more than one hundred thousand people accused of aiding and abetting the enemy during the Second World War. In this fascinating book, Sandra Ott uncovers the hidden history of collaboration... -
Power to the People: The World of the Black Panthers by Stephen Shames
£30.47In words and photographs, here is the story of the controversial Black Panther Party, founded in 1966 by Bobby Seale and Huey P. Newton. The words are Seale's, with contributions from Kathleen Cleaver and many others; the photographs, which capture range... -
The Marble Index: Roubiliac and Sculptural Portraiture in Eighteenth-Century Britain by Malcolm Baker
RRP: £50.00£44.05Providing the first thorough study of sculptural portraiture in 18th-century Britain, this important book challenges both the idea that portrait necessarily implies painting and the assumption that Enlightenment thought is manifest chiefly in French art...