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A Cultural History of Sport Wray Vamplew 9781350461062
RRP: £130.00£110.50Shortlisted by the North American Society for Sport History for its 2022 Anthologies Award From gladiatorial combat to knightly tournaments and from hunting to games and gambling, sport has been central to human culture. A Cultural History of Sport... -
Choreographing Mexico: Festive Performances and Dancing Histories of a Nation Manuel R. Cuellar 9781477330807
RRP: £29.99£25.492023 de la Torre Bueno® First Book Award, Dance Studies Association The impact of folkloric dance and performance on Mexican cultural politics and national identity. The years between 1910 and 1940 were formative for Mexico, with the ouster of Porfirio... -
The Waiting Game: The Untold Story of the Women Who Served the Tudor Queens Nicola Clark 9781474622226
RRP: £10.99£9.34Every Tudor Queen had ladies-in-waiting. They were her confidantes and her chaperones. Only the Queen's ladies had the right to enter her most private chambers, spending hours helping her to get dressed and undressed, caring for her clothes and jewels,... -
Sex and Sexuality in Victorian Britain Violet Fenn 9781526766830
RRP: £14.99£12.74Peek beneath the bedsheets of nineteenth-century Britain in this affectionate, informative and fascinating look at sex and sexuality during the reign of Queen Victoria. It examines the prevailing attitudes towards male and female sexual behaviour, and... -
Australia’s Doomed-Race Protective Myth: Impact and Aftermath Grant Rodwell 9781032905945
RRP: £135.00£114.75Periodically, in Australian society racial chasms emerge portraying the great divide between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians, exposing the sustained influence of the doomed-race protective myth and its residue.This book exposes a long and... -
Soviet Spies Worldwide: Country by Country, 1940-1988 Peter Polack 9781476685731
RRP: £67.99£57.79Between 1970 and 1986, countries around the world expelled hundreds of Soviet officials and personnel for espionage or other misconduct. One official source puts the number at 672 for the 16-year period, or an average of 42 expulsions per year. Some... -
Tank Craft 45 Nashorn Self-Propelled Tank Destroyer: German Army, Eastern Front 1943-1945 Dennis Oliver 9781399033923
RRP: £18.99£16.14Combining the destructive firepower of the famous 8.8cm gun with the mobility of the Pzkpfw IV medium tank, the Panzerjäger Nashorn, or rhinoceros, was quite possibly one of the most effective tank destroyers of the Second World War, although less than... -
Visuelle Skepsis: Wie Bilder zweifeln Margit Kern 9783110590180
RRP: £61.00£51.85Die Auseinandersetzung mit Positionen des Skeptizismus wurde in der Kunstgeschichte bisher geführt, indem man Thesen aus der Philosophie auf die Ikonographie von Gemälden bezog. Forschung, die sich mit Skepsis beschäftigte, fragte danach, wie... -
Continuity and Change in Medieval East Central Europe: Social, Ruling and Religious Transformations Dušan Zupka 9781032733234
RRP: £135.00£114.75Continuity and Change in Medieval East Central Europe explores the crucial societal, political, and cultural dynamics that defined medieval East Central Europe during the early and high Middle Ages. Focusing on the historical regions of Bohemia, Hungary,... -
Tripped: Nazi Germany, the CIA, and the Dawn of the Psychedelic Age Norman Ohler 9781838953607
RRP: £10.99£9.34AS FEATURED ON THE JOE ROAGN EXPERIENCE'Entertaining' The Times'Utterly fascinating and illuminating' Sinclair McKay'Fascinating... An astonishing read, with remarkably vivid protagonists' Harald Jähner'Ohler weaves a masterful tapestry of history in... -
The Atlantic Slave Trade: Volume II Seventeenth Century Jeremy Black 9781032423647
RRP: £40.99£34.84Originally published as a collection in 2006, this volume discusses the development of the Atlantic slave trade in the seventeenth century, looking at issues such as how African societies reacted to the trade; the economic origins of black slavery in the... -
The Atlantic Slave Trade: Volume I Origins–1600 Jeremy Black 9781032423548
RRP: £29.99£25.49Originally published as a collection in 2006, this volume covers the Atlantic slave trade from its origins to 1600, the selection of essays here look at the reasons for the causes of slavery and serfdom; slavery in Africa; the development of the slave... -
The Metaphysics of Race: Science and Faith in the Nazi Worldview Amit Varshizky 9781032455181
RRP: £135.00£114.75The book seeks to reframe debates on the conflicting scientific and spiritual traditions that underpinned Nazi worldview, and shows how despite the multitude of tensions and rivals among its adherents, it provided a coherent conceptual grid and possessed... -
There Is a Deep Brooding in Arkansas: The Rape Trials That Sustained Jim Crow, and the People Who Fought It, from Thurgood Marshall to Maya Angelou Scott W. Stern 9780300273571
RRP: £30.00£25.50A sweeping study of sexual assault trials in the Jim Crow South, detailing the racial and economic inequities of rape law and the resistance of ordinary women In the early years of the twentieth century, Mississippi County, Arkansas, was a brutal and... -
Speeches That Changed the World Quercus 9781529443141
RRP: £20.00£17.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781529443141Author QuercusFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint GreenfinchPublisher Quercus Publishing -
Agency and Author: German Literature Beyond the Bestseller List Rachel J. Halverson 9781805398011
RRP: £99.00£84.15The image of the solitary author devoting days and nights to writing endless bestselling novels remains an insidious and largely unchallenged myth within German culture. In this exacting examination of the German publishing industry, Agency and Author... -
Between Britain: Walking the History of England and Scotland Alistair Moffat 9781838854416
RRP: £10.99£9.34The border between England and Scotland is rich in history. It has been the site of battles, treaties, castles and crossroads. But it can also be a lens through which to look at the changing history and identities of these two countries. Between Britain... -
Forgers and Thieves: The Shadowlands of Art Crime Noah Charney 9798881802639
RRP: £30.00£25.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798881802639Author Noah CharneyFormat PaperbackPage Count 170Imprint Rowman & Littlefield PublishersPublisher Rowman & Littlefield Publishers -
First Class Comrades: Stasi espionage and secret police operations in the early Cold War 1945-1961 J. Boulter 9780857305206
RRP: £30.00£25.50No country in history has been more deeply penetrated by spies than divided Germany after the Second World War. Fighting for the eastern corner were the 'first class comrades' of the Stasi - the East German Ministry for State Security. Rising from the... -
German Conquistadors in Venezuela: The Welsers' Colony, Racialized Capitalism, and Cultural Memory Giovanna Montenegro 9780268203221
RRP: £40.00£34.00This fascinating study traces sixteenth-century German colonialism in Venezuela through the lens of racialized capitalism and the subsequent memorialization of the period through to the twentieth century. Giovanna Montenegro investigates one of the... -
Enemy Encounters in Modern Warfare Holly Furneaux 9783031567476
RRP: £119.99£101.99While the 1914 Christmas truces have a mythological status in British culture, intimate interactions with the enemy are, this edited collection shows, a staple of modern warfare. Spanning the nineteenth century to the present, chapters consider how... -
Schooling the Nation: The Success of the Canterbury Academy for Black Women Jennifer Rycenga 9780252046308
RRP: £112.00£95.20Founded in 1833 by white teacher Prudence Crandell, Canterbury Academy educated more than two dozen Black women during its eighteen-month existence. Racism in eastern Connecticut forced the teen students to walk a gauntlet of taunts, threats, and legal... -
On Wars Michael Mann 9780300281965
RRP: £19.99£16.99A history of wars through the ages and across the world, and the irrational calculations that so often lie behind them Benjamin Franklin once said, “There never was a good war or a bad peace.” But what determines whether war or peace is chosen?... -
Mercer Illustrated: The Places, People, and Experiences of a Uniquely Impactful University William D. Underwood 9780881469387
RRP: £60.00£36.08This folio of more than two hundred-fifty photographs with a foreword by President William D. Underwood and accompanying text by Gordon Johnston celebrates Georgia's oldest private university. Since its founding in 1833 in Penfield as Mercer Institute,... -
Schooling the Nation: The Success of the Canterbury Academy for Black Women Jennifer Rycenga 9780252088377
RRP: £23.99£20.39Founded in 1833 by white teacher Prudence Crandell, Canterbury Academy educated more than two dozen Black women during its eighteen-month existence. Racism in eastern Connecticut forced the teen students to walk a gauntlet of taunts, threats, and legal... -
Europe in the Long Twentieth Century: A Transnational History Christoph Cornelissen 9780192871428
RRP: £119.00£101.15Thanks to their economic and military strength, the European empires had achieved global supremacy by 1900, with large parts of the world under their dominance in the wake of colonial expansion. This situation fuelled ideas of Europe's permanent, almost... -
Beyond Cort�s and Montezuma: The Conquest of Mexico Revisited Vitus Huber 9781646426645
RRP: £78.00£66.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781646426645Author Vitus HuberFormat HardbackPage Count 370Imprint University Press of ColoradoPublisher University Press of Colorado -
The Puritan Ideology of Mobility: Corporatism, the Politics of Place and the Founding of New England Towns before 1650 Scott McDermott 9781839993763
RRP: £25.00£21.25The Puritan Ideology of Mobility: Corporatism, the Politics of Place, and the Founding of New England Towns before 1650 examines the ideology that English Puritans developed to justify migration: their migration from England to New England, migrations... -
Antitrinitarianism and Unitarianism in the Early Modern World Kazimierz Bem 9783031696572
RRP: £119.99£101.99This collection offers an innovative and fresh interpretation of Antitrinitarian and rational dissent in the early modern world. The central themes focus on the fierce debates surrounding Antitrinitarianism and Unitarianism that emerged from the... -
Beyond Cort�s and Montezuma: The Conquest of Mexico Revisited Vitus Huber 9781646426652
RRP: £30.95£26.31Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781646426652Author Vitus HuberFormat PaperbackPage Count 370Imprint University Press of ColoradoPublisher University Press of Colorado -
Mining Men: Britain’s Last Kings of the Coalface Emily P Webber 9781784745448
RRP: £22.00£18.70This is the story of the last generation of British miners: fathers and sons, brothers and comrades, big hitters and broken men, strikers and scabs. Men for whom the masculine world of pit was all they had ever known, who reluctantly emerged into the... -
Napoleon and British Culture: c.1815 - 1840 Dr James Gregory 9781350422940
RRP: £85.00£72.25This book studies British cultural engagement with Napoleon Bonaparte from his 1815 surrender and time in British custody, until the return of his remains to France in 1840. Adopting a chronological approach, James Gregory studies the British use of... -
The Malayan Emergency in Film, Literature and Art: Cultural Memory as Historical Other Jonathan Driskell 9781350410862
RRP: £85.00£72.25Examining film, literature and art produced during and after the Malayan Emergency, the guerrilla war fought between independence fighters of the Malayan National Liberation Army and the military forces of the British Empire, this collection demonstrates... -
Women in Allied Naval Intelligence in the Second World War: A Close Secret Sarah-Louise Miller 9781350402218
RRP: £85.00£84.28Closely examining the work of women in the US and British naval services towards Allied naval intelligence during the Second World War, this book focuses on their contributions during the Battle of the Atlantic and Pacific Naval War, in order to shed new... -
The Abduction of Betty and Barney Hill: Alien Encounters, Civil Rights, and the New Age in America Matthew Bowman 9780300281859
RRP: £11.99£10.19A gripping account of an alien abduction and its connections to the breakdown of American society in the 1960s “Excellent and exhaustive.”—Colin Dickey, Slate In the mid-1960s, Betty and Barney Hill became famous as the first Americans to claim that... -
Japanese Medical Lives in Transformation: Contesting Modernity in the Late Nineteenth Century Dr Ellen Gardner Nakamura 9781350344242
RRP: £85.00£72.25This book examines how, at the end of the 19th century, Japanese modernizers abandoned the traditional Chinese-style medicine that had dominated for centuries, and turned instead to Western medical theory and practice. Ellen Gardner Nakamura considers... -
Michelangelo Pistoletto: Figuration and Cultural Politics Tenley Bick 9780300278347
RRP: £60.00£51.00Examining the Italian artist’s career-long exploration of the human figure, this book offers new perspectives on the history of postwar and contemporary art Widely regarded as the central protagonist of the twentieth-century Italian art movement Arte... -
War Essays Zainab Bahrani 9781800087521
RRP: £50.00£42.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800087521Author Zainab BahraniFormat HardbackImprint UCL PressPublisher UCL Press -
The Age of Liutprand: Dynamics of Power in Eighth-Century Italy Dr Christopher Heath 9781350168343
RRP: £85.00£72.25The Age of Liutprand provides a thematic analysis of Lombard Italy in the pivotal early part of the 8th century. It surveys the crucial role and rule of Liutprand [712-44], the powerful and effective Lombard king. By restoring this successful exemplar of... -
Unjust Restitution: A Century of Black Struggle for Equality Michael Kingsley Brown 9780520410114
RRP: £25.00£21.25The question of economic justice for Black Americans remains unresolved and continues to be the subject of contentious political debate. In Unjust Restitution, Michael K. Brown examines the meaning of racial equality during three transformative periods...