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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... -
Dangerous Pregnancies: Mothers, Disabilities, and Abortion in Modern America by Leslie J. Reagan 9780520274570
£27.75"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,... -
The Society for Irish Church Missions to the Roman Catholics, 1849-1950 by Miriam Moffitt
RRP: £85.00£60.17This work details traces the origins, development and impact of the proselytizing organization, the Society for Irish Church Missions to the Roman Catholics, from its Protestant foundation during the famine of 1845-47 to the early decades of Irish Free... -
Public History: A Textbook of Practice by Thomas Cauvin
RRP: £43.99£38.44The second edition of Public History: A Textbook of Practice offers an updated guide to the many opportunities and challenges that public history practitioners can encounter in the field.Historians can play a dynamic and essential role in contributing to... -
The Science of Describing: Natural History in Renaissance Europe by Brian W. Ogilvie
RRP: £32.00£31.51Out of the diverse traditions of medical humanism, classical philology, and natural philosophy, Renaissance naturalists created a new science devoted to discovering and describing plants and animals. In order to distinguish and catalog new plant and... -
Holy Wars: 3000 Years of Battles in the Holy Land by Gary L. Rashba 9781612001531
RRP: £14.99£13.61Today's Arab-Israeli conflict, ever-present in the news, is merely the latest iteration of an unending history of violence in the Holy Land-a region that is unsurpassed as witness to a kaleidoscopic military history involving forces from across the world... -
From Popular Sovereignty to the Sovereignty of Law: Law, Society, and Politics in Fifth-Century Athens by Martin Ostwald
RRP: £45.00£36.32Analyzing the 'democratic' features and institutions of the Athenian democracy in the fifth century B.C., Martin Ostwald traces their development from Solon's judicial reforms to the flowering of popular sovereignty, when the people assumed the right... -
The Saddest Words: William Faulkner's Civil War by Michael Gorra
RRP: £14.99£12.02Michael Gorra asks provocative questions in this historic portrait of William Faulkner and his world. He explores whether William Faulkner should still be read in this new century and asks what his works tell us about the legacy of slavery and the... -
Expedition to Disaster: The Athenian Mission to Sicily 415 BC by Philip Matyszak 9781399024846
RRP: £14.99£10.95The Athenian expedition to conquer Sicily was one of the pivotal events of the classical period. At this time (415 BC), Athens was locked in a decades-long struggle with Sparta for mastery of the Greek world. The expedition to Sicily was intended to give... -
'Rendering to God and Caesar': The Irish Churches and the Two States in Ireland, 1949-73 by Daithi Corrain
RRP: £19.99£14.52This book discusses the history of the Church of Ireland and the Catholic Church and their Episcopal leaders in the period from 1949 to 1973. It considers the opening years of the Troubles in Northern Ireland and their impact on the main churches, and... -
Marx And Latin America: Historical Materialism, Volume 57 by Jose M. Arico 9781608464111
RRP: £30.00£19.88In a work centred on Marx's harsh biography of Simon Bolvar, Jose Arico examines why Latin America was apparently excluded from Marx's thought, challenging the allegation that this expressed Eurocentric prejudice. Whilst criticising Marx's misreading of... -
1668: The Year of the Animal in France by Peter Sahlins
RRP: £35.00£28.52Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781935408994Author Peter SahlinsFormat HardbackPage Count 492Imprint Zone BooksPublisher Zone Books -
Cooperative Rule: Community Development in Britain's Late Empire by Aaron Windel
RRP: £30.00£23.29While many have interpreted the cooperative movement as propagating a radical alternative to capitalism, Cooperative Rule shows that in the late British Empire, cooperation became an important part of the armory of colonialism. The system was rooted in... -
Census and Social Structure Richard Lawton 9780714629650
RRP: £135.00£118.60First Published in 1978. The census of population is a key source for any study of nineteenth-century England. In association with parish registers and, from 1837, the civil registers recording births, deaths and marriages, population numbers and trends,... -
The New Counterinsurgency Era: Transforming the U.S. Military for Modern Wars by David H. Ucko 9781589014886
RRP: £48.00£42.08Confronting insurgent violence in Iraq and Afghanistan, the U.S. military has recognized the need to "re-learn" counterinsurgency. But how has the Department of Defense with its mixed efforts responded to this new strategic environment? Has it learned... -
The United Nations in Japan's Foreign and Security Policymaking, 1945-1992: National Security, Party Politics, and International Status by Liang Pan
RRP: £37.95£30.91In the mid-1950s, as part of Tokyo's goal of reinstating Japan as a full member of the international community, Japan sought and gained admittance to the United Nations. Since then, it has been a proactive member and a generous financial contributor to... -
Great Stagecoach Robberies of the Old West by R. Michael Wilson 9780762741274
RRP: £9.99£7.76Stagecoach robbers evolved as a consequence of the discovery of gold or silver, or some other mineral treasure, and a town would "spring forth from the earth" overnight. Roads were soon built and stage lines began operating. A "pitching Betsy" would take... -
Cahokia and the North American Worlds by Sarah E. Baires
RRP: £17.00£14.72The City of Cahokia provides a unique case study to review what draws people to a place and why. This Element examines not only the emergence and decline of this great American city but its intersection with the broader Native American world during this... -
Wounds in the Middle Ages Anne Kirkham 9781138245822
RRP: £53.99£46.87Wounds were a potent signifier reaching across all aspects of life in Europe in the middle ages, and their representation, perception and treatment is the focus of this volume. Following a survey of the history of medical wound treatment in the middle... -
Language of the Snakes: Prakrit, Sanskrit, and the Language Order of Premodern India by Andrew Ollett 9780520296220
RRP: £34.00£30.63At publication date, a free ebook version of this title will be available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Language of the Snakes traces the history of the Prakrit... -
The Population of Europe Massimo Livi-Bacci (University of Florence) 9780631218814
RRP: £33.95£30.21This book describes the history of the inter-relationships in Europe between population, land, resources, and disease.About the Author Massimo Livi Bacci is Professor of Demography at the University of Florence. From 1989 to 1993 he was President of the... -
Smashing Hitler's Panzers: The Defeat of the Hitler Youth Panzer Division in the Battle of the Bulge by Steven Zaloga
RRP: £25.00£20.72In his riveting new book, Steven Zaloga describes how American foot soldiers faced down Hitler's elite armored spearhead - the Hitler Youth Panzer Division - in the snowy Ardennes forest during one of World War II's biggest battles, the Battle of the... -
The Long Honduran Night: Resistance, Terror, and the United States in the Aftermath of the Coup by Dana Frank
RRP: £24.99£15.10This powerful narrative recounts the tumultuous time in Honduras that witnessed then-President Manuel Zelaya deposed by a coup in June 2009, told through first-person experiences and layered with deeper political analysis. It weaves together two... -
Telling America's Story to the World: Literature, Internationalism, Cultural Diplomacy by Harilaos Stecopoulos 9780192864635
RRP: £91.00£82.48Telling 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... -
The Renaissance by Alison M. Brown
RRP: £35.99£31.69The Renaissance, now in its third edition, engages with earlier and current debates about the Renaissance, especially concerning its 'modernity', its elitism and gender bias and its globalism. This new edition has been revised to include a discussion of... -
Chippenham: Britain in Old Photographs by Mike Stone 9780752453835
RRP: £14.99£11.72This collection of old photographs and postcards provides the reader with a fascinating and informative guide to Chippenham and its history over the past hundred years. The book spans the expansion and development of the thriving market town by the River... -
The Polish Army in 1939 by Vincent W. Rospond
RRP: £40.00£22.90Apologies 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 Beastly Battles Of Old England: The misguided manoeuvres of the British at war by Nigel Cawthorne
RRP: £9.99£3.05Throughout history the English have been a warlike lot. Often we fight among ourselves - there have been a good few civil wars - and when we were not slaughtering each other, we practiced on our neighbours, the Scots, the Irish, the French . . . When... -
Slave Traders by Invitation: West Africa's Slave Coast in the Precolonial Era by Finn Fuglestad
RRP: £55.00£48.44The Slave Coast, situated in what is now the West African state of Benin, was the epicentre of the Atlantic Slave Trade. But it was also an inhospitable, surf-ridden coastline, subject to crashing breakers and devoid of permanent human settlement. Nor... -
American Ground: Unbuilding the World Trade Center by William Langewiesche 9780865476752
RRP: £19.00£12.39Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865476752Author William LangewiescheFormat PaperbackPage Count 218Imprint North Point PressPublisher North Point PressWeight(grams) 218gDimensions(mm)... -
There's Something Happening Here: The New Left, the Klan, and FBI Counterintelligence by David Cunningham 9780520246652
RRP: £25.00£19.59Using over twelve thousand previously classified documents made available through the Freedom of Information Act, David Cunningham uncovers the riveting inside story of the FBI's attempts to neutralize political targets on both the Right and the Left... -
Age of Alexander: Fast Play Rules for Exciting Ancient Battles by Philip Garton
RRP: £19.95£15.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915070272Author Philip GartonFormat PaperbackPage Count 78Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
The Slaves of the Churches: A History by Mary E. Sommar
RRP: £30.99£23.25In 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... -
Backfire: A History of How American Culture Led Us into Vietnam and Made Us Fight the Way We Did by Loren Baritz 9780801859533
RRP: £25.50£22.79In a probing look at the myths of American culture that led us into the Vietnam quagmire, Loren Baritz exposes our national illusions: the conviction of our moral supremacy, our assumption that Americans are more idealistic than other people, and our... -
The French Revolution and Napoleon: A Sourcebook by Philip Dwyer 9780415199087
£37.01The upheavals, terror, and drama of the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic period restructured politics and society on a grand scale, making this the defining moment for modern European history.This volume collects together a wide selection of primary... -
Weimar Cinema: An Essential Guide to Classic Films of the Era by Noah Isenberg
RRP: £28.00£22.91Taken as a whole, the sixteen remarkable films discussed in this provocative new volume of essays represent the brilliant creativity that flourished in the name of German cinema between the wars. Encompassing early gangster pictures and science fiction,... -
Central America's Forgotten History: Revolution, Violence, and the Roots of Migration by Aviva Chomsky
RRP: £16.99£10.31Apologies 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 -
The (Not So) Secret Lives of Food Packaging Anne Murcott (SOAS, University of London, UK) 9781350022102
RRP: £19.99£17.61Tracing developments from the classical period to the early industrial revolution and beyond, Anne Murcott provides us with an accessible and entertaining social history of food packaging. From tin cans, glass jars and bottles, plastic trays and... -
Work for Giants: The Campaign and Battle of Tupelo/Harrisburg, Mississippi, June-July 1864 by Thomas E. Parson 9781606354766
RRP: £32.95£18.51Fighting Nathan Bedford Forrest in North Mississippi During the summer of 1864, a Union column commanded by Maj. Gen. Andrew Jackson Smith set out from Tennessee with a goal that had proven impossible in all prior attempts-to find and defeat the cavalry... -
How to Dress Like a Tudor by Judith Arnopp 9781399015356
RRP: £25.00£18.57Have you ever hankered to dress like a Tudor lord or lady, or perhaps you prefer the status of goodwife, or costermonger, or even a bawd? For beginner historical reenactors, the path to authenticity can be bewildering and sometimes intimidating. Judith...