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The Annals of Dunstable Priory by Harriett R. Webster
RRP: $185.25$176.22The 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... -
Errand Into the Wilderness of Mirrors: Religion and the History of the CIA by Michael Graziano
RRP: $78.00$65.50Reveals the previous underexplored influence of religious thought in building the foundations of the CIA. Michael Graziano's intriguing book fuses two landmark titles in American history: Perry Miller's Errand into the Wilderness (1956), about the... -
When the War Came Home: The Ottomans' Great War and the Devastation of an Empire by Yigit Akin
RRP: $46.78$40.64The Ottoman Empire was unprepared for the massive conflict of World War I. Lacking the infrastructure and resources necessary to wage a modern war, the empire's statesmen reached beyond the battlefield to sustain their war effort. They placed... -
The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors: The Extraordinary World War II Story of the U.S. Navy's Finest Hour by James D Hornfischer
RRP: $58.40$42.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781682473382Author James D HornfischerFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Dead ReckoningPublisher Dead ReckoningWeight(grams) 168g -
Ethos, Logos, and Perspective: Studies in Late Byzantine Rhetoric Florin Leonte 9781032343365
RRP: $243.75$210.33Ethos, Logos, and Perspective represents the first comprehensive study of late Byzantine court rhetorical praise as a general phenomenon surfacing in many types of rhetorical epideictic compositions dating from the fourteenth and the fifteenth centuries:... -
When Death Falls Apart: Making and Unmaking the Necromaterial Traditions of Contemporary Japan by Hannah Gould 9780226829012
RRP: $46.80$44.91Through an ethnographic study inside Japan's Buddhist goods industry, this book establishes a method for understanding change in death ritual through attention to the dynamic lifecourse of necromaterials. Deep in the Fukuyama mountainside, "the grave... -
The Late Roman Army by Gabriele Esposito
RRP: $58.50$35.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780996365796Author Gabriele EspositoFormat PaperbackPage Count 150Imprint Winged Hussar PublishingPublisher Winged Hussar PublishingWeight(grams)... -
Year of Glory: The Life and Battles of Jeb Stuart and His Cavalry, June 1862-June 1863 by Monte Akers
RRP: $48.75$43.54No commander during the Civil War is more closely identified with the "cavalier mystique" as Major General J.E.B. (Jeb) Stuart. And none played a more prominent role during the brief period when the hopes of the nascent Confederacy were at... -
If the Allies Had Fallen: Sixty Alternate Scenarios of World War II by Harold C Deutsch 9781616085469
RRP: $38.98$24.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781616085469Author Dennis E ShowalterFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Skyhorse PublishingPublisher Skyhorse PublishingWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm)... -
Unbecoming Modern: Colonialism, Modernity, Colonial Modernities Saurabh Dube 9781032653709
RRP: $77.98$68.37In this volume well-known scholars from India and Latin America - Enrique Dussel, Madhu Dubey, Walter D. Mignolo, and Sudipta Sen, to name a few - discuss the concepts of modernity and colonialism and describe how the two relate to each other. This... -
1001 Days That Shaped the World by Editors of Thunder Bay Press
RRP: $48.73$43.66Apologies 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)... -
Puget Sound Whales for Sale: The Fight to End Orca Hunting by Sandra Pollard 9781626196025
RRP: $38.98$29.52Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781626196025Author Sandra PollardFormat PaperbackPage Count 190Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 327gDimensions(mm) 229mm... -
The Demands of Liberty: Civil Society in France Since the Revolution by Pierre Rosanvallon 9780674024960
RRP: $68.15$56.16How does France reconcile the modern movement toward pluralism and decentralization with a strong central governing power? One of the country's most distinguished political historians offers a radical new interpretation of the development of democracy in... -
German Eagles in Spanish Skies: The Messerschmitt Bf 109 in Service with the Legion Condor during the Spanish Civil War, 1936-39 by ,David Johnston 9780764356346
RRP: $79.93$60.02Willy Messerschmitt's Bf 109 is among the most famous fighter aircraft in the history of military aviation, and it was during the Spanish Civil War that it first saw combat. Using newly discovered records, the author describes the Bf 109's operational... -
The Meiji Restoration by W. G. Beasley
RRP: $154.05$136.99For Japan, the Meiji Restoration of 1868 has something of the significance that the French Revolution has for France: it is the point from which modern history begins. In this now classic work of Japanese history, the late W. G. Beasley offers a... -
A History of Cuba and its Relations with the United States, Vol 1 1492-1845: From the Conquest of Cuba to La Escalera by Phillip Sheldon Foner 9780717808601
RRP: $37.03$33.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780717808601Author Phillip Sheldon FonerFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint International Publishers Co Inc.,U.S.Publisher International Publishers Co Inc... -
Insurance Era: Risk, Governance, and the Privatization of Security in Postwar America by Caley Horan
RRP: $68.25$58.44Charts 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... -
A Woman's Life Is a Human Life by Felicia Kornbluh 9780802160683
RRP: $38.98$35.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802160683Author Felicia KornbluhFormat HardbackPage Count 432Imprint Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly PressPublisher Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press -
Religions of the Ancient World: A Guide by Sarah Iles Johnston
RRP: $128.60$105.63Religious 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,... -
Making a Muslim: Reading Publics and Contested Identities in Nineteenth Century North India by S. Akbar Zaidi
RRP: $146.25$133.15Using 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... -
Red Orchestra: The Story of the Berlin Underground and the Circle of Friends Who Resisted Hitler - Revised Edition by Anne Nelson 9781350322387
$65.33For years, the history of the anti-Nazi resistance in Germany was hidden and distorted by Cold War politics. Providing a much-needed corrective, Red Orchestra presents the dramatic story of a circle of German citizens who opposed Hitler from the start,... -
Aikido Ground Fighting by Walther von Krenner
RRP: $35.08$24.51Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781583946060Author Walther G. Von KrennerFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Blue Snake BooksPublisher North Atlantic Books,U.S.Weight(grams)... -
Silencing the Sea: Secular Rhythms in Palestinian Poetry by Khaled Furani
RRP: $105.30$92.02Silencing the Sea follows Palestinian poets' debates about their craft as they traverse multiple and competing realities of secularism and religion, expulsion and occupation, art, politics, immortality, death, fame, and obscurity. Khaled Furani takes his... -
Red Land, Black Land: Daily Life in Ancient Egypt by Barbara Mertz
RRP: $46.78$33.33Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061252754Author Barbara MertzFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)... -
Black Dog of Fate: A Memoir by Peter Balakian
RRP: $27.28$24.94In 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... -
Feminists, Islam, and Nation: Gender and the Making of Modern Egypt by Margot Badran 9780691026053
RRP: $87.75$68.87The emergence and evolution of Egyptian feminism is an integral, but previously untold, part of the history of modern Egypt. Drawing upon a wide range of women's sources--memoirs, letters, essays, journalistic articles, fiction, treatises, and extensive... -
The Murders of Moises Ville by Javier Sinay
RRP: $38.98$26.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781632062987Author Javier SinayFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Restless BooksPublisher Restless Books -
Mild Ale: History and Brewing Techniques, Recipes by David Sutula 9780937381687
RRP: $23.38$20.01Once a designation for an entire class of beer, mild ale now refers to a beer style some describe as the "elixir of life for the salt of the earth." Mild is a beer that can be at once light or dark, very low or very high in alcohol, and either rich in... -
Barracoon: The Story of the Last "black Cargo" by Zora Neale Hurston
RRP: $35.08$14.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062748218Author Zora Neale HurstonFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)... -
India's Princely States: People, Princes and Colonialism by Waltraud Ernst
RRP: $85.78$74.96This is an invaluable work looking into new areas relating to India's princely states. Based on an abundance of rarely used archival material, the book sheds new light on diversities related to the princely states such as health policies and practices,... -
The Banality of Heidegger by Jean-Luc Nancy 9780823275939
RRP: $42.88$38.01Heidegger and Nazism: Ever since the philosopher's public involvement in state politics in 1933, his name has necessarily been a part of this unsavory couple. After the publication in 2014 of the private Black Notebooks, it is now unambiguously part of... -
Beyond Deviant Damsels: Re-evaluating Female Criminality in the Nineteenth Century by Anne-Marie Kilday
RRP: $191.10$172.98Using detailed case studies, Beyond Deviant Damsels undermines many of the conventional assumptions about how women committed crime in the nineteenth century. Previous historical accounts generally constructed gendered stereotypes of women acting in... -
Lust, Commerce, and Corruption: An Account of What I Have Seen and Heard, by an Edo Samurai, Abridged Edition Mark Teeuwen 9780231182775
RRP: $58.50$53.41By 1816, Japan had recovered from the famines of the 1780s and moved beyond the political reforms of the 1790s. Despite persistent economic and social stresses, the country seemed headed for a new period of growth. The idea that the shogunate would not... -
Witchcraft, the Devil, and Emotions in Early Modern England by Charlotte-Rose Millar 9780367204549
RRP: $85.78$74.96This book represents the first systematic study of the role of the Devil in English witchcraft pamphlets for the entire period of state-sanctioned witchcraft prosecutions (1563-1735). It provides a rereading of English witchcraft, one which moves away... -
Encounters with Islam: Studies in the Anthropology of Muslim Cultures by Lawrence Rosen 9781009388986
RRP: $44.83$38.14Too often, Western encounters with the Islamic world commence with stereotypes and end with a renewed distance. Drawing from decades of experience studying the Muslim world, Lawrence Rosen challenges these narrow understandings. Adopting an... -
The Environment and the Classical World by Patrica Jeskins 9781853995477
RRP: $44.83$44.56For the people of antiquity, the dominant force in shaping their life, economy and culture was the natural environment. This is an exploration of the direct influence of the geography, climate and resources of the Mediterranean world upon the Greeks and... -
Flight of Fantasy: New Perspectives on Inner Emigration in German Literature 1933-1945 by Neil H. Donahue 9781571810014
RRP: $208.65$168.03Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Imperial China: A Beginner's Guide Dr. Peter Lorge 9781786075789
RRP: $19.48$12.69In 221 BCE, the Qin state conquered its neighbours and created the first unified Chinese empire in history. So began the imperial era, where dynasties claiming divine assent ruled for more than 2,000 years. Borders shifted and emperors struggled to... -
A Leap in the Dark: The Struggle to Create the American Republic by John Ferling
RRP: $36.06$33.09It was an age of fascinating leaders and difficult choices, of grand ideas eloquently expressed and of epic conflicts bitterly fought. Now comes a brilliant portrait of the American Revolution, one that is compelling in its prose, fascinating in its... -
Growth in a Traditional Society: The French Countryside, 1450-1815 by Philip T. Hoffman 9780691070087
RRP: $107.25$83.67Philip Hoffman shatters the widespread myth that traditional agricultural societies in early modern Europe were socially and economically stagnant and ultimately dependent on wide-scale political revolution for their growth. Through a richly detailed...