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Peoples of the Roman World by Mary T. Boatwright
RRP: $48.73$41.30In this highly-illustrated book, Mary T. Boatwright examines five of the peoples incorporated into the Roman world from the Republican through the Imperial periods: northerners, Greeks, Egyptians, Jews and Christians. She explores the tension between... -
These Valiant Men: The Story of Eight British Servicemen in World War II in the Far East by Victor S. Ient
$31.04In 1941, Sgt Albert Victor Ient sought adventure and travel in the Services. Stationed in Hong Kong, he faced a different reality when his position was overrun. A generation later, his son Vic Ient set out to discover exactly what his father went through... -
The Not-So-Secret Service: Agency Tales from FDR to the Kennedy Assassination to the Reagan Era by Vincent Palamara 9781634241205
RRP: $40.93$25.80While there haven't been many Secret Service related books about U.S. presidents, the ones still in print (and even those long out of print) are often sanitized memoirs of a politically correct nature or "tell-all" tabloid historical junk meant merely... -
!Brigadistas!: An American Anti-Fascist in the Spanish Civil War by Miguel Ferguson
RRP: $25.33$22.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781583679609Author Miguel FergusonFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Monthly Review Press,U.S.Publisher Monthly Review Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 165g -
Sayajirao Gaekwad III: The Maharaja of Baroda by Uma Balasubramaniam 9789353337926
RRP: $25.35$17.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789353337926Author Uma BalasubramaniamFormat PaperbackPage Count 536Imprint Rupa Publications India Pvt Ltd.Publisher Rupa Publications India Pvt Ltd. -
A Traveller's History Of Egypt by Harry Ades
RRP: $29.23$17.39Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781623717582Author Harry AdesFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Interlink BooksPublisher Interlink Publishing Group, Inc -
Justinian I: A Captivating Guide to Justinian the Great and How This Emperor Ruled the Roman Empire by Captivating History 9781647486280
RRP: $30.30$18.33Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781647486280Author Captivating HistoryFormat PaperbackPage Count 54Imprint Captivating HistoryPublisher Captivating HistoryWeight(grams) 91gDimensions(mm)... -
Sixties Europe by Timothy Scott Brown 9781107552906
RRP: $46.78$40.37Sixties Europe examines the border-crossing uprisings of the 1960s in Europe on both sides of the Cold War divide. Placing European developments within a global context formed by Third World liberation struggles and Cold War geopolitics, Timothy Scott... -
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder by David Grann 9780593688809
RRP: $26.33$16.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593688809Author David GrannFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 283gDimensions(mm) 203mm *... -
Home after Fascism: Italian and German Jews after the Holocaust by Anna Koch 9780253066961
RRP: $74.10$64.88What was life like for Jews who wanted to return to their former homes in Europe after the Holocaust? In Home after Fascism, Anna Koch draws on a rich array of interviews, correspondence, and archival research to tell the first-person homecoming stories... -
Civvies: Middle-Class Men on the English Home Front, 1914-18 by Laura Ugolini 9780719086014
RRP: $165.75$117.33The history of the First World War continues to attract enormous interest. However, most attention remains concentrated on combatants, creating a misleading picture of wartime Britain: one might be forgiven for assuming that by 1918, the country had... -
Gods, Graves And Scholars by C.W. Ceram
$32.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780394743196Author C.W. CeramFormat PaperbackPage Count 576Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 266gDimensions(mm) 173mm * 107mm... -
The OSS in Burma: Jungle War against the Japanese by Troy J. Sacquety 9780700620180
$71.14One could not choose a worse place for fighting the Japanese,"" said Winston Churchill of North Burma, deeming it ""the most forbidding fighting country imaginable."" But it was here that the fledgling Office of Strategic Services conducted its most... -
After Charlemagne: Carolingian Italy and its Rulers by Clemens Gantner
RRP: $155.98$141.49After Charlemagne's death in 814, Italy was ruled by a succession of kings and emperors, all of whom could claim some relation to the Carolingians, some via the female line of succession. This study offers new perspectives on the fascinating but... -
A Narrative of Events, since the First of August, 1834, by James Williams, an Apprenticed Labourer in Jamaica by James Williams 9780822326472
RRP: $38.98$34.73This book brings back into print, for the first time since the 1830s, a text that was central to the transatlantic campaign to fully abolish slavery in Britain's colonies. James Williams, an eighteen-year-old Jamaican "apprentice" (former slave), came to... -
A Mighty Fortress: Lead Bomber Over Europe by Charles Alling
RRP: $33.05$21.27A Mighty Fortress is the personal account of the Captain and crew of a lead bomber in the enormous formation raids made by the 8th Airforce during the last few months of World War II. It is an extraordinary tale of heroism and bravery on the part of the... -
In The Shadows Of The American Century: The Rise and Decline of US Global Power by Alfred McCoy 9781608467730
RRP: $33.13$28.14In a completely original analysis, McCoy explores America's rise as a world power, from the 1890s through the Cold War and its bid to extend its hegemony deep into the twenty-first century through a fusion of cyberwar, space warfare, trade pacts, and... -
Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life by Jon Lee Anderson 9780802144119
$35.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802144119Author Jon Lee AndersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 672Imprint Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly PressPublisher Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press -
A Fascist Decade of War: 1935-1945 in International Perspective Marco Maria Aterrano 9781032236223
RRP: $77.98$68.89From the invasion of Ethiopia in 1935 through to the waning months of the World War II in 1945, Fascist Italy was at war. This Fascist decade of war comprised an uninterrupted stretch of military and political engagements in which Italian military forces... -
Goodbye, Eastern Europe: An Intimate History of a Divided Land by Jacob Mikanowski
RRP: $58.50$44.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781524748500Author Jacob MikanowskiFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint PantheonPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 601gDimensions(mm) 242mm * 165mm... -
The Bretons Patrick Galliou (Universite de Bretagne Occidentale) 9780631201052
RRP: $75.95$67.20This book draws upon a wide range of archaeological and literary material to provide a history of one of the most distinctive and individualistic regions of France and its people, from prehistoric times to the present. Focusing upon such themes as trade,... -
The Unexceptional Case of Haiti: Race and Class Privilege in Postcolonial Bourgeois Society by Philippe-Richard Marius
$62.52When Philippe-Richard Marius arrived in Port-au-Prince to begin fieldwork for this monograph, to him and to legions of people worldwide, Haiti was axiomatically the first Black Republic. Descendants of Africans did in fact create the Haitian nation-state... -
The Mirror Test by J. Kael Weston
RRP: $31.18$23.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345806949Author J. Kael WestonFormat PaperbackPage Count 624Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 488gDimensions(mm) 201mm *... -
Transcribing Oral History Teresa Bergen 9780815350934
RRP: $74.08$65.60Transcribing Oral History offers a comprehensive guide to the transcription of qualitative interviews, an often richly debated practice within oral history. Beginning with an introduction to the field and an overview of the many disciplines that conduct... -
The Secret War Against Sweden: US and British Submarine Deception in the 1980s Ola Tunander 9780714682754
RRP: $105.28$92.18Following the stranding of a Soviet Whiskey-class submarine in 1981 on the Swedish archipelago, a series of massive submarine intrusions took place within Swedish waters.However, the evidence for these appears to have been manipulated or simply invented... -
The Destruction of the Bison: An Environmental History, 1750-1920 by Andrew C. Isenberg
RRP: $38.98$32.31For the last twenty years, The Destruction of the Bison has been an essential work in environmental history. Andrew C. Isenberg offers a concise analysis of the near-extinction of the North American bison population from an estimated 30 million in 1800... -
Conflict-Sensitive Conservation: Lessons from the Global Environment Facility Carl Bruch 9781032397955
RRP: $72.13$63.43This book provides an empirically formulated foundation for conflict-sensitive conservation, a field in which the existing literature relies primarily on anecdotal evidence.Seeking to better understand the impact of conflict on the implementation and... -
Medicine, Natural Philosophy and Religion in Post-Reformation Scandinavia Ole Grell (The Open University, UK) 9781032402352
RRP: $77.98$68.37The close relationship between religion, medicine and natural philosophy in the post-Reformation period has been documented and explored in a body of research since the 1990s; however, the direct and continued impact of Melanchthonian natural philosophy... -
People of Portsmouth: The 20th Century in Their Own Words by John Stedman 9781780914961
$30.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781780914961Author John StedmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 162Imprint DB PublishingPublisher DB Publishing -
The Godwins: The Rise and Fall of a Noble Dynasty Frank Barlow 9781138138285
RRP: $263.25$228.70The family of Earl Godwin of Wessex stands among the most famous in English history, whose most famous son was King Harold.Frank Barlow charts the family through to Harold - the last Anglo-Saxon king - and finally the crowning of William the Conqueror... -
The Spingarn Brothers: White Privilege, Jewish Heritage, and the Struggle for Racial Equality by Katherine Reynolds Chaddock
RRP: $56.55$50.47An absorbing account of how two Jewish brothers devoted themselves to the struggle for racial equality in the United States.In the late nineteenth century, Joel and Arthur Spingarn grew up in New York City as brothers with very different personalities,... -
My Hijacking: A Personal History of Forgetting and Remembering by Martha Hodes
RRP: $62.40$38.82Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062699794Author Martha HodesFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 476gDimensions(mm) 231mm *... -
Minds on Stage: Greek Tragedy and Cognition by Felix Budelmann 9780192888938
RRP: $161.85$146.91Greek tragedy parades, tests, stimulates, and upends human cognition. Characters plot deception, try to fathom elusive gods, and fail to recognise loved ones. Spectators observe the characters' cognitive limitations and contemplate their own, grapple... -
Revolutions and Counter-Revolutions: 1917 and Its Aftermath from a Global Perspective Stefan Rinke 9783593507057
RRP: $73.13$70.10Unquestionably a watershed year in world history, 1917 not only saw the Russian Revolution and the US entry into World War I, it also marked a foundational moment in determining global political structures for the remaining twentieth century. Yet while... -
Practices of Ephemera in Early Modern England by Callan Davies
RRP: $243.75$211.11This collection is the first to historicise the term ephemera and its meanings for early modern England and considers its relationship to time, matter, and place. It asks: how do we conceive of ephemera in a period before it was routinely employed (from... -
Western Historical Thinking: An Intercultural Debate by Jorn Rusen 9781571814548
RRP: $54.50$44.03What is history - a question historians have been asking themselves time and again. Does "history" as an academic discipline, as it has evolved in the West over the centuries, represent a specific mode of historical thinking that can bedefined... -
Radicals in Exile: English Catholic Books During the Reign of Philip II by Freddy Cristobal Dominguez
RRP: $66.20$59.16Facing persecution in early modern England, some Catholics chose exile over conformity. Some even cast their lot with foreign monarchs rather than wait for their own rulers to have a change of heart. This book studies the relationship forged by English... -
Heroes, Rebels and Innovators: Inspiring Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people from history Karen Wyld 9780734419835
RRP: $29.23$19.60Be inspired and amazed by these incredible Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander icons! With colourful artwork and evocative writing, this book tells stories every Australian should know.SHORTLISTED CBCA BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARDS 2022 - EVE POWNALL... -
A Military History of the Cold War, 1944-1962 by Jonathan M. House 9780806142623
$76.73The Cold War did not culminate in World War III as so many in the 1950s and 1960s feared, yet it spawned a host of military engagements that affected millions of lives. This book is the first comprehensive, multinational overview of military affairs... -
The Tapestry of Early Christian Discourse: Rhetoric, Society and Ideology by Vernon K. Robbins
RRP: $74.08$65.09This study establishes a concept of culture and then combines it with Geertz' anthropological concept of thick description. Subsequently, the relation of texts to society and culture is discussed. In this manner, multiple methods of interpretation are...