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Anzio Nettuno 1944 by Jörg Staiger 9781636241913
RRP: $78.00$54.50The Allied amphibious operation codenamed Shingle was launched in late January 1944. It was opposed by German forces in the area of Anzio and Nettuno. Success depended on the element of surprise, and the speed with which the invaders could build up... -
TA-U-RO-QO-RO: Studies in Mycenaean Texts, Language and Culture in Honor of Jose Luis Melena Jimenez by Julian Mendez Dosuna 9780674272576
RRP: $48.65$39.39TA-U-RO-QO-RO takes up problems of script and language representation and textual interpretation, ranging from the use of punctuation marks and numbers in the Linear B to personal names and place names reflecting the ethnic composition of Mycenaean... -
Hanover and the British Empire, 1700-1837 by Nick Harding
RRP: $185.25$177.61A 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... -
Shaped by the State: Toward a New Political History of the Twentieth Century by Brent Cebul
RRP: $60.45$58.87American political history has been built around narratives of crisis, in which what "counts" are the moments when seemingly stable political orders collapse and new ones rise from the ashes. No doubt the history of American politics is filled with such... -
Silver: Transformational Matter by Helen Hills 9780197267547
$176.05Silver transformed and convulsed the early modern world. Silver, even more than gold, occupied a deeply charged intersection of forces and dynamics - philosophical, religious, material, telluric, economic, colonialist, social, cultural, and courtly -... -
Pottery of the Southwest: Ancient Art and Modern Traditions by Carol Hayes
RRP: $17.53$15.91Native American pottery of the U.S. southwest has long been considered collectible and today can fetch many thousands of dollars per piece. Authors, collectors, and dealers Carol and Allen Hayes provide readers with a concise overview of the pottery of... -
The Severans: The Roman Empire Transformed by Michael Grant
RRP: $263.25$228.70The Severans analyses the colourful decline of the Roman Empire during the reign of the Severans, the first non-Italian dynasty. In his learned and exciting style, Michael Grant describes the foreign wars waged against the Alemanni and the Persians, and... -
The Shifting Sands of the North Sea Lowlands: Literary and Historical Imaginaries by Katie Ritson
RRP: $74.08$65.09Global seawater levels are rising and the low-lying coasts of the North Sea basin are amongst the most vulnerable in Europe. In our current moment of environmental crisis, the North Sea coasts are literary arenas in which the challenges and concerns of... -
Obstetrics and Gynaecology in Tudor and Stuart England by Audrey Eccles
RRP: $64.33$56.86Originally published in 1982 Obstetrics and Gynaecology in Tudor and Stuart England traces the development of obstetrics and gynaecology over the past two centuries. Between the 16th and 18th century midwifery passed from a female mystery, employing... -
Imagining Home: Gender, Race and National Identity, 1945-1964 Wendy Webster (University of Huddersfield, UK) 9781032345208
RRP: $35.08$31.77A 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... -
Making Heretics: Militant Protestantism and Free Grace in Massachusetts, 1636-1641 by Michael P. Winship 9780691089430
RRP: $126.75$99.27Making Heretics is a major new narrative of the famous Massachusetts disputes of the late 1630s misleadingly labeled the "antinomian controversy" by later historians. Drawing on an unprecedented range of sources, Michael Winship fundamentally recasts... -
Rome and the Enemy: Imperial Strategy in the Principate by Susan P. Mattern
RRP: $58.50$45.42How 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... -
Medieval Memories: Men, Women and the Past, 700-1300 by Professor Elisabeth M. C. van Houts 9780582369023
$102.34Who, exactly, was responsible for the preservation of knowledge about the past? How did people preserve their recollections and pass them on to the next generation? Did they write them down or did they hand then on orally? The book is concerned with the... -
Northern Ireland, the BBC, and Censorship in Thatcher's Britain, 1979-1990 by Robert J. Savage 9780192849748
RRP: $189.15$172.05This is a study of how the Northern Ireland conflict was presented to an increasingly global audience during the premiership of Britain's 'Iron Lady', Margaret Thatcher. It addresses the tensions that characterized the relationship between the broadcast... -
Roman History by Cassius Cocceianus Dio
RRP: $48.65$48.44A sweeping chronicle from Aeneas to Alexander Severus.Dio Cassius (Cassius Dio), circa AD 150-235, was born at Nicaea in Bithynia in Asia Minor. On the death of his father (Roman governor of Cilicia) he went in 180 to Rome, entered the Senate, and... -
Barbot on Guinea: Volume II Adam Jones 9781032320946
RRP: $77.98$64.41Jean Barbot, who served as a commercial agent on French slave-trading voyages to West Africa in 1678-9 and 1681-2, in 1683 began an account of the Guinea coast, based partly on his voyage journals (only one of which is extant) and partly on previous... -
The Great Exodus from China: Trauma, Memory, and Identity in Modern Taiwan by Dominic Meng-Hsuan Yang
RRP: $155.98$141.49Dominic Meng-Hsuan Yang examines one of the least understood migrations in modern East Asia - the human exodus from China to Taiwan when Chiang Kai-shek's regime collapsed in 1949. Peeling back layers of Cold War ideological constructs, he tells a very... -
Seneca Letters: A Selection by Eliot Maunder
RRP: $29.23$27.96This 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... -
The American Republic: Primary Sources by Bruce Frohnen 9780865973336
RRP: $21.35$21.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865973336Author Bruce FrohnenFormat PaperbackPage Count 724Imprint Liberty Fund IncPublisher Liberty Fund IncWeight(grams) 1751g -
The Material Dynamics of Festivals in the Graeco-Roman East by Zahra Newby 9780192868794
RRP: $161.85$147.69The Material Dynamics of Festivals in the Graeco-Roman East explores the various ways in which the experience of civic festivals in the Graeco-Roman East was created and framed by material culture. By the second and third centuries AD, Greek festivals... -
The Mapmaker's Wife: A True Tale Of Love, Murder, And Survival In The Amazon by Robert Whitaker
$31.34In the early years of the 18th century, a band of French scientists set off on a daring, decade-long expedition to South America in a race to measure the precise shape of the earth. Like Lewis and Clark's exploration of the American West, their... -
Masters, Slaves, and Exchange: Power's Purchase in the Old South by Kathleen M. Hilliard 9781107636644
RRP: $44.83$38.14This book examines the political economy of the master-slave relationship viewed through the lens of consumption and market exchange. What did it mean when human chattel bought commodities, 'stole' property, or gave and received gifts? Forgotten... -
Generos de Gente in Early Colonial Mexico: Defining Racial Difference by Robert C. Schwaller 9780806167145
$45.65On December 19, 1554, the members of Tenochtitlan's indigenous cabildo, or city council, petitioned Emperor Charles V of Spain for administrative changes 'to save us from any Spaniard, mestizo, black, or mulato afflicting us in the marketplace, on the... -
On the Freedom of a Christian: With Related Texts by Martin Luther 9780872207684
RRP: $25.33$21.90Perhaps the clearest and most influential statement of the principles driving the early Protestant reformers, Martin Luther's On the Freedom of a Christian (1520) challenged the teachings and authority of the old Church while simultaneously laying out... -
<I>La Parisienne</i> in Cinema: Between Art and Life by Felicity Chaplin
RRP: $48.75$34.94Chic, sophisticated, seductive and enigmatic, the Parisienne possesses a je ne sais quoi that makes her difficult to define. But who or what is the Parisienne, and how is she depicted in cinema? The first book-length study on the subject combines... -
Routledge Handbook of Research Methods in Military Studies Joseph Soeters 9781138200852
RRP: $115.03$101.19This volume offers an overview of the methodologies of research in the field of military studies. As an institution relying on individuals and resources provided by society, the military has been studied by scholars from a wide range of disciplines:... -
The Happiest Man on Earth: The Beautiful Life of an Auschwitz Survivor by Eddie Jaku 9780063097698
RRP: $37.03$21.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063097698Author Eddie JakuFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm) 201mm *... -
The Lost History of the Capital: The Hidden and Tumultuous Saga of Congress and the Capitol Building by Edward P. Moser
RRP: $38.98$30.07The Secret History of the Capitol is an account of the many bizarre, tragic, and violent episodes that have occurred in and around the Capitol Building, from the founding of the federal capital city in 1790 up to contemporary times. In this 229-year... -
How the Jews Defeated Hitler: Exploding the Myth of Jewish Passivity in the Face of Nazism by Benjamin Ginsberg 9781442222380
RRP: $115.05$99.53One of the most common assumptions about World War II is that the Jews did not actively or effectively resist their own extermination at the hands of the Nazis. In this powerful book, Benjamin Ginsberg convincingly argues that the Jews not only resisted... -
From Monuments to Traces: Artifacts of German Memory, 1870-1990 by Rudy J. Koshar
RRP: $103.35$81.49Rudy Koshar constructs a powerful framework in which to examine the subject of German collective memory, which for more than a half century has been shaped by the experience of Nazism, World War II, and the Holocaust. Finding the assumptions of many... -
Ballot Battles: The History of Disputed Elections in the United States by Edward Foley, Capuchin
RRP: $45.81$42.18The 2000 presidential race resulted in the highest-profile ballot battle in over a century. But it is far from the only American election determined by a handful of votes and marred by claims of fraud. Since the founding of the nation, violence... -
History of the Dukes of Normandy and the Kings of England by the Anonymous of Bethune by Janet Shirley 9780367693909
RRP: $77.98$68.37In the first quarter of the thirteenth century, an anonymous Flemish writer set in writing, in Old French, a chronicle of Normandy, England, Flanders and northern France. It ranged from the arrival of the Vikings in Normandy to the early years of the... -
Seeing Silicon Valley: Life Inside a Fraying America by Mary Beth Meehan
RRP: $46.80$39.23It's hard to imagine a place more central to American mythology today than Silicon Valley. To outsiders, the region glitters with the promise of extraordinary wealth and innovation. But behind this image lies another Silicon Valley, one segregated by... -
German Aces of World War I: The Pictorial Record by Norman Franks 9780764321177
RRP: $107.23$69.44The air aces of Imperial Germany's Luftstreitkrafte are an ever-popular subject among aviation historians, enthusiasts, war gamers, and aircraft modelers. The images of famous airmen such as Manfred von Richthofen, Ernst Udet, and Werner Voss are well... -
Making Heritage Together: Archaeological Ethnography and Community Engagement with a Rural Community by Aris Anagnostopoulos 9781032194769
RRP: $42.88$37.71Making Heritage Together presents a case study of public archaeology by focusing on the collaborative creation of knowledge about the past with a rural community in central Crete. It is based on a long-term archaeological ethnography project that engaged... -
A History of European Women's Work: 1700 to the Present by Deborah Simonton
RRP: $77.98$68.37The work patterns of European women from 1700 onwards fluctuate in relation to ideological, demographic, economic and familial changes. In A History of European Women's Work, Deborah Simonton draws together recent research and methodological developments... -
Don't Think, Smile!: Notes on a Decade of Denial by Ellen Willis 9780807043219
RRP: $27.28$19.52Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807043219Author Ellen WillisFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 213mm * 138mm * 17mm -
Building Jewish Identity 4: Jewish History and Heritage by Behrman House 9780874418675
RRP: $15.58$15.35Students will explore the themes of exile and return and learn how the values and traditions that have defined our people for countless generations help us to understand our world today.Jewish History and Heritage is the fourth volume in the Building... -
All or Nothing: The Axis and the Holocaust 1941-43 by Jonathan Steinberg 9780415290692
RRP: $74.08$65.09German and Italian fascist armies in the Second World War treated the Jews quite differently. Jews who fell into the hands of the German army ended up in concentration camps; none of those taken by the Italians suffered the same fate. Yet the protectors... -
Learning from Experience: v. III: Lessons from the United Kingdom's Astute Submarine Program by John F. Schank 9780833058973
$40.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780833058973Author John F. SchankFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint RANDPublisher RAND