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Mississippi: A History Westley F. Busbee (Belhaven College) 9781118755907
RRP: £27.95£24.65The second edition of Mississippi: A History features a series of revisions and updates to its comprehensive coverage of Mississippi state history from the time of the region's first inhabitants into the 21st century. Represents the only available... -
Milk and Honey: Technologies of Plenty in the Making of a Holy Land by Tamar Novick
RRP: £43.00£29.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262039079Author Tamar NovickFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd -
War by Professor Richard Smoke 9780674434554
£55.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674434554Author Professor Richard SmokeFormat HardbackPage Count 435Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 785g -
Shakespeare's Theater: A Sourcebook Tanya Pollard (Montclair State University in New Jersey) 9781405111942
RRP: £43.95£38.12Shakespeare's Theater: A Sourcebook brings together in one volume the most significant Elizabethan and Jacobean texts on the morality of the theater. A collection of the most significant Elizabethan and Jacobean texts on the morality of the theater... -
A History of the Alans in the West: From Their First Appearance in the Sources of Classical Antiquity through the Early Middle Ages by Bernard S. Bachrach 9780816656998
RRP: £32.00£28.43A History of the Alans in the West was first published in 1973. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions... -
Tales from the Canadian Rockies by Brian Patton 9780771069482
RRP: £18.95£11.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780771069482Author Brian PattonFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint McClelland & Stewart Inc.Publisher McClelland & Stewart Inc.Weight(grams)... -
Trials of Nature: The Infinite Law Court of Milton's Paradise Lost by Bjoern Quiring
RRP: £39.99£35.06Focusing on John Milton's Paradise Lost , this book investigates the metaphorical identification of nature with a court of law - an old and persistent trope, haunted by ancient aporias, at the intersection of jurisprudence, philosophy and literature. In... -
Sultana Tragedy, The: America's Greatest Maritime Disaster by Jerry Potter
RRP: £26.99£18.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780882898612Author Jerry PotterFormat HardbackPage Count 312Imprint Pelican Publishing CoPublisher Pelican Publishing Co -
The Economy of Roman Religion by Andrew Wilson
RRP: £83.00£75.34This interdisciplinary edited volume presents twelve papers by Roman historians and archaeologists, discussing the interconnected relationship between religion and the Roman economy over the period c. 500 BC to AD 350. The connection between Roman... -
Alamo in the Ardennes: The Untold Story of the American Soldiers Who Made the Defense of Bastogne Possible by John C. McManus 9780471739050
£25.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780471739050Author John C. McManusFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint John Wiley & Sons IncPublisher Turner Publishing CompanyWeight(grams)... -
The Contagion of Liberty: The Politics of Smallpox in the American Revolution by Andrew M. Wehrman
RRP: £26.50£21.88Now an LA Times Book Prize finalist: a timely and fascinating account of the raucous public demand for smallpox inoculation during the American Revolution and the origin of vaccination in the United States.Finalist of the LA Times Book Prize for History... -
Sight, Touch, and Imagination in Byzantium by Roland Betancourt
RRP: £36.99£30.73Considering the interrelations between sight, touch, and imagination, this book surveys classical, late antique, and medieval theories of vision to elaborate on how various spheres of the Byzantine world categorized and comprehended sensation and... -
The Scientific Revolution: An Historiographical Inquiry by H. Floris Cohen 9780226112800
RRP: £52.00£50.11In this historiographical study of the Scientific Revolution, the author examines the body of work on the intellectual, social and cultural origins of early modern science. Cohen critically surveys a wide range of scholarship since the 19th century,... -
Ancient Rome on the Silver Screen: Myth versus Reality by Gregory S. Aldrete 9781538159514
RRP: £30.00£28.31An unparalleled exploration of films set in Ancient Rome, from the silent Cleopatra to the modern rendition of Ben-Hur.No sooner had the dazzling new technology of cinema been invented near the end of the 19th century than filmmakers immediately turned... -
Lili Marlene: The Soldiers' Song of World War II by Liel Leibovitz 9780393065848
RRP: £20.99£17.08"Lili Marlene," the unlikely anthem of World War II, cut across front lines and ideological divides, uniting soldiers across the globe. This love song, telling the story of a young woman waiting for her lover to return from the battlefield, began as a... -
Lakes and Empires in Macedonian History: Contesting the Waters by James Pettifer
£32.63Lakes and Empires in Macedonian History: Contesting the Waters tells the story of Psarades, a lakeside village in Macedonian Greece on the shores of the Prespa lake. This village, which is in many ways a completely typical Greek settlement and yet... -
The Nationalization of the Masses: Political Symbolism and Mass Movements in Germany from the Napoleonic Wars Through the Third Reich by George L Mosse
RRP: £21.95£21.86First published in 1975, The Nationalization of the Masses is George L. Mosse's major statement about political symbols and the means of their diffusion. Focusing on Germany and, to a lesser degree, France and Italy, Mosse analyzes the role of symbols in... -
Clerical Continence in Twelfth-Century England and Byzantium: Property, Family, and Purity by Maroula Perisanidi 9780367588939
RRP: £39.99£35.06Why did the medieval West condemn clerical marriage as an abomination while the Byzantine Church affirmed its sanctifying nature? This book brings together ecclesiastical, legal, social, and cultural history in order to examine how Byzantine and Western... -
China's Urban Transition by John Friedmann 9780816646159
RRP: £14.99£13.62Though China's urban history reaches back over five thousand years, it is only in the last quarter century that urbanization has emerged as a force of widespread social transformation while a massive population shift from country to city has brought... -
The Afghan Papers: Committing Britain to War in Helmand, 2005-06 by Michael Clarke
RRP: £37.99£33.38In 2006, British forces entered the Helmand Province of Afghanistan in what would become one of the defining military campaigns of the decade. At great cost in blood and treasure, the UK waged a protracted counter-insurgency against a resurgent Taliban... -
Muslims Under Latin Rule, 1100-1300 by James M. Powell
RRP: £32.00£24.76Covering Portugal and Castile in the West to the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem in the East, this collection focuses on Muslim minorities living in Christian lands during the high Middle Ages, and examines to what extent notions of religious tolerance... -
A Cultural History of the Senses in Antiquity by Jerry Toner
£38.34The ancient world used the senses to express an enormous range of cultural meanings. Indeed the senses were functionally significant in all aspects of ancient life, often in ways that were complex and interconnected. Antiquity was also a period where the... -
In the Wake of the Great Rebellion: Republicanism, Agrarianism and Banditry in Ireland After 1798 by James Patterson 9780719076930
RRP: £85.00£60.17On Monday 19 September 1803, the most significant trial in the history of Ireland took place in Dublin. At the dock stood a twenty-five year old former Trinity College student and doctor's son. His name was Robert Emmet and he was standing trial for... -
Political Society in Later Medieval England: A Festschrift for Christine Carpenter Benjamin Thompson 9781783270309
RRP: £80.00£76.01Essays on the connections between politics and society in the middle ages, showing their interdependence. Christine Carpenter's influential work on late-medieval English society aspires to encompass a wide spectrum of human experience. Her vision of... -
Feeling Media: Potentiality and the Afterlife of Art by Miryam Sas
RRP: £21.99£19.19In Feeling Media Miryam Sas explores the potentialities and limitations of media theory and media art in Japan. Opening media studies and affect theory up to a deeper engagement with works and theorists outside Euro-America, Sas offers a framework of... -
Making Representations: Museums in the Post-Colonial Era by Moira G. Simpson 9780415067850
RRP: £135.00£117.68Drawing upon material from Britain, Canada, the United States, Australia and New Zealand, Making Representations explores the ways in which museums and anthropologists are responding to pressures in the field by developing new policies and practices, and... -
The Owl and the Nightingale and the English Poems of Jesus College MS 29 (II) by Susanna Fein
RRP: £35.00£28.82An edition of the early Middle English verse sequence contained in the thirteenth-century Oxford Jesus College MS 29 (II) with accompanying translations in Modern English and scholarly introduction and apparatus. The sequence is varied in subject, with... -
History and the Historians of Medieval Spain by Peter Linehan 9780198219453
£89.15This is a study of medieval Spain and its historians, from the chroniclers of the middle ages to the revisionists of the post-Franco era. The history of medieval Spain has long been perceived as a tale of original sin followed by a long-drawn-out process... -
Martial Law and English Laws, c.1500-c.1700 by John M. Collins 9781107092877
RRP: £90.00£81.43John M. Collins presents the first comprehensive history of martial law in the early modern period. He argues that rather than being a state of exception from law, martial law was understood and practiced as one of the King's laws. Further, it was a... -
Totalitarianism and Political Religion: An Intellectual History by A. Gregor
RRP: £62.00£53.98The totalitarian systems that arose in the twentieth century presented themselves as secular. Yet, as A. James Gregor argues in this book, they themselves functioned as religions. He presents an intellectual history of the rise of these political... -
Human Rights in Africa by Bonny Ibhawoh
RRP: £25.99£21.99Human rights have a deep and tumultuous history that culminates in the age of rights we live in today, but where does Africa's story fit in with this global history? Here, Bonny Ibhawoh maps this story and offers a comprehensive and interpretative... -
T.H. Green by John Morrow 9781138620759
RRP: £19.99£17.96This volume collects a range of the most important published critical essays on T.H. Green's political philosophy. These essays consider Green's ethical and political philosophy, his accounts of freedom, rights, political obligation and property and the... -
Eminent Victorian Women by Elizabeth Longford
RRP: £9.99£7.77Elizabeth Longford has chosen eleven Victorian women who in their actions or writing challenged the repressive rules of established society. They include Charlotte, Emily and Anne Bronte, whose cloistered lives were illuminated by the vividness of their... -
Stukeley and Stamford, Part I: Cakes and Curiosity: the Sociable Antiquarian, 1710-1737 Diana Honeybone 9781910653074
RRP: £40.00£38.25Key texts by the antiquarian William Stukeley offer fascinating insights into rural England at the time. William Stukeley's antiquarian interest in his native Lincolnshire has not been widely noted. He is more often associated with his pioneering work... -
Den of Lions by Terry Anderson 9780345467928
RRP: £23.00£17.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345467928Author Terry AndersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 522gDimensions(mm)... -
The Angevin Empire: Or the Three Reigns of Henry II, Richard I, and John (A.D. 1154-1216) by James Henry Ramsay 9781143823558
£4.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781143823558Author James Henry RamsayFormat PaperbackPage Count 606Imprint Nabu PressPublisher Nabu PressWeight(grams) 1066gDimensions(mm) 246mm * 189mm *... -
Racial Justice and Nonviolence Education: Building the Beloved Community, One Block at Time by Arthur Romano
RRP: £25.99£22.63This book examines the role that community-based educators in violence-affected cities play in advancing Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s radical nonviolent vision for racial and social justice.This work argues that nonviolence education can help communities... -
This Here Now: Japanese Building and the Architecture of the Individual by Kevin Nute 9781786349651
RRP: £80.00£69.64This Here Now explains how traditional Japanese buildings respond to distinctive materials, objects and moments, and argues that the built acknowledgment of such events can help to affirm the individuality of our own being. The book also shows how... -
The Cartoon History of the Universe III: From the Rise of Arabia to the Renaissance by Larry Gonick
RRP: £19.99£18.22Larry Gonick's celebrated series The Cartoon History of the Universe is a unique fusion of world history and the comics medium, a work of serious scholarship and a masterpiece of popular literature. Praised by Jonathan Spence in the New York Times Book... -
Operational Warfare at Sea: Theory and Practice by Milan Vego 9780367594947
RRP: £45.99£40.13This work explains and critically examines the main theoretical aspects of operational warfare at sea. It utilizes diverse examples from naval history, ranging from the ancient era to the present day, to offer a comprehensive description and analysis of...