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Letters, Kinship, and Social Mobility in Nigeria Olufemi Vaughan 9780299344542
RRP: $62.90$53.47In 2003, Olufemi Vaughan received from his ninety-five-year-old father, Abiodun, a trove of more than three thousand letters written by four generations of his family in Ibadan, Nigeria, between 1926 and 1994. The people who wrote these letters had... -
The Complete History of the Black Death Professor Ole J Benedictow 9781837652099
RRP: $125.98$107.08A truly definitive work, this magisterial study draws on the latest evidence from across Europe to show in exhaustive detail the nature of the disease, its origin, spread, mortality, and its profound impact on history. The Black Death was a disaster of... -
Texian Exodus: The Runaway Scrape and Its Enduring Legacy Stephen L. Hardin 9781477330050
RRP: $75.60$64.26A narrative account of the evacuation of the Texians in 1836, which was redeemed by the defeat of the Mexican army and the creation of the Republic of Texas. Two events in Texas history shine so brightly that they can be almost blinding: the stand at the... -
History of Cities in Maps Philip Parker 9780008671815
RRP: $63.00$53.55The city, a concept nearly as old as history itself, is a paradox of human innovation and intervention, order and conflict. From ancient civilizations to modern-day metropolises, maps have played a crucial role in urban progress. This book explores the... -
The Great Roll of the Pipe for the Forty-Third Year of the Reign of King Henry III Michaelmas 1259: (Pipe Roll 103) Paul Dryburgh 9780901134929
RRP: $126.00$107.10Critical insights into the period of baronial reform and rebellion in England (1258-67) and the evolution of parliament. This new edition of the 1259 pipe roll sees the Pipe Roll Society returning to its roots by publishing the financial records of the... -
The Classical World in Bite-sized Chunks Mark Daniels 9781789296556
RRP: $27.28$23.18Explore the fascinating world of Greek and Roman history in this new entry in the bestselling Bite-Sized Chunks series.Perhaps more than any other period in history, the era of classical antiquity shaped the Western world as we know it today. From the... -
A Black Corps d'Elite: An Egyptian Sudanese Conscript Battalion with the French Army in Mexico, 1863-1867, and its Survivors in Subsequent African History Richard Hill 9781611865028
RRP: $54.50$46.33For several years, the armies of Napoleon III deployed some 450 Muslim Sudanese slave soldiers in Veracruz, the port of Mexico City. As in the other case of Western hemisphere military slavery (the West India Regiments, a British unit in existence... -
Surreal Geographies: A New History of Holocaust Consciousness Kathryn L. Brackney 9780299346003
RRP: $168.00$142.80Surreal Geographies recovers a forgotten archive of Holocaust representation. Examining art, literature, and film produced from the immediate postwar period up to the present moment, Kathryn L. Brackney investigates changing portrayals of Jewish victims... -
Unholy Kingdom: Religion, Corruption and Violence in Saudi Arabia Malise Ruthven 9781839760105
RRP: $46.20$39.27Unholy Kingdom reveals a riveting portrait of a nation mired in complexities. In recent years Saudi Arabia has promoted itself as an open country: oil-rich but investing in culture, tourism, social innovation, and establishing itself as a beacon in the... -
Forms Come Alive Kohei Sugiura 9789629966447
RRP: $123.90$105.32Kohei Sugiura explores the history of a variety of Japanese and Asian forms from cloth patterns to Buddha’s hands, from paintings to kanji characters, and from the human body to the universe. Richly illustrated, the book captures the beauty of the birth... -
The Material World of a Restoration Queen Consort: The Privy Purse Accounts of Catherine of Braganza Maria Hayward 9781910653142
RRP: $84.00$71.40This book provides you with the chance to explore the world of Catherine of Braganza, the Portuguese wife of Charles II, by the means of a full transcript of the surviving four volumes of her privy purse accounts. Kept by the keeper of her privy purse,... -
Time and Chronology in Creation Narratives Silvie Kilgallon 9780367481667
RRP: $273.00$232.05This book explores the ways in which the origins of time, of the gods, and processes associated with time were conceptualised in antiquity, examining a variety of ancient sources from across the ancient world and addressing issues surrounding the sources... -
Ring Around the Maple: A Sociocultural History of Children and Childhoods in Canada, 19th and 20th Centuries Cynthia R. Comacchio 9781771126151
RRP: $109.20$92.82Ring Around the Maple is about the condition of children in Canada from roughly 1850 to 2000, a time during which “the modern” increasingly disrupted traditional ways. Authors Cynthia R. Comacchio and Neil Sutherland trace the lives of children over this...Qty in Cart: 0Quantity:Price:RRP: $109.20$92.82Subtotal: -
How to Fit All of Ancient Greece in an Elevator Theodore Papakostas 9780008596071
RRP: $31.48$26.75An enormous bestseller in Greece, this is a spectacularly iconoclastic take on the story of Ancient Greece by a rising star in archaeology Two strangers meet in a trapped elevator. One is an archaeologist, the other isn’t. A simple question, ‘What do... -
Branching Out: The Public History of Trees Leah Glaser 9781625348326
RRP: $62.90$53.47Trees are not just natural resources; they are also cultural ones that present unique challenges and opportunities for public historians. Trees can serve as important objects of memory, recalling past triumphs or tragedies. They can be the last living... -
Stalking the Great Killer: Arkansas's Long War on Tuberculosis Larry C. Floyd 9780806194820
RRP: $46.10$39.19Imagine a time when a killer disease took lives at a rate rivaling Covid-19 in 2020 and 2021, and continued that grim harvest year after year, decade after decade. Such a nightmare scenario played out in the state of Arkansas—and across the United... -
Violence in the Hill Country: The Texas Frontier in the Civil War Era Nicholas Keefauver Roland 9781477330746
RRP: $62.98$53.532022 Ramirez Family Award for Most Significant Scholarly Book, Texas Institute of Letters An in-depth history of the Civil War in the Texas Hill Country that examines patterns of violence on the Texas frontier to illuminate white Americans’ cultural and... -
Blue-Collar Empire: The Untold Story of US Labor's Global Anticommunist Crusade Jeff Schuhrke 9781839769054
RRP: $52.50$44.63There is power in a union. Not only the power to secure pay raises and employee benefits, but the power to bring economies to a screeching halt and overthrow governments. Recognizing this, in the late twentieth century, the US government sought to... -
Richard Hakluyt: A Bibliography 1580–1588: with essays on The Suppression of the Voyage to Cadiz in Hakluyt’s Principal Navigations and Hakluyt and the East India Company Anthony Payne 9781916931008
RRP: $283.50$240.98This bibliography concerns the ten works written by or produced with the involvement of Richard Hakluyt (1552-1616) between 1580 and 1588, describing each book and its history with as much primary and secondary documentation as possible. The introduction...Qty in Cart: 0Quantity:Price:RRP: $283.50$240.98Subtotal: -
Ask Not: The Kennedys and the Women They Destroyed Maureen Callahan 9780008473259
RRP: $35.68$30.32From New York Times bestseller Maureen Callahan, a fierce, character-driven exposé of the real Kennedy Curse—the family's generations-long legacy of misogyny, murder, and mayhem—and the women who have paid the price for our obsession with Camelot. For... -
Patton's Shadow: The Making of a Hero in Modern Memory Nathan C. Jones 9780817361563
RRP: $62.90$53.47An engrossing account of the myth and legend of George S. Patton and what his reputation illuminates about American culture and hero worshipPatton’s Shadow by Nathan C. Jones, a leading authority on George S. Patton, offers a definitive account of the... -
The Stones of Britain: A Geological History Jon Cannon 9781472116833
RRP: $63.00$53.55The Stones of Britain is about how rocks make places. The connection between geology and landscape, between the stones beneath the surface and the history that has played out above it. About the varied character of the British landscape, and the rich... -
Stealing Horses to Great Applause: The Origins of the First World War Reconsidered Paul W. Schroeder 9781804295793
RRP: $63.00$53.55Stealing Horses presents arguably the finest considerations yet of the origins of the First World War. Breaking with accounts which focus on the actions of a single state or the final countdown to hostilities, Paul W. Schroeder describes the systemic... -
The House of War: The Struggle between Christendom and the Caliphate Sir Simon Mayall 9781472864338
RRP: $52.50$44.63A powerful new history detailing the most significant military clashes between Islam and Christendom over the 1300 years of the Muslim caliphate. From the taking of the holy city of Jerusalem in the 7th century AD by Caliph Umar, to the collapse of the... -
Struggle for the City: Citizenship and Resistance in the Black Freedom Movement Derek G. Handley 9780271097763
RRP: $52.40$44.54The urban renewal policies stemming from the 1954 Housing Act and 1956 Highway Act destroyed the economic centers of many Black neighborhoods in the United States. Struggle for the City recovers the agency and solidarity of African American residents... -
Struggle for the City: Citizenship and Resistance in the Black Freedom Movement Derek G. Handley 9780271097756
RRP: $201.50$171.28The urban renewal policies stemming from the 1954 Housing Act and 1956 Highway Act destroyed the economic centers of many Black neighborhoods in the United States. Struggle for the City recovers the agency and solidarity of African American residents... -
Papers of John Adams: Volume 22 John Adams 9780674296473
RRP: $176.30$149.86Entering the presidency in full service to the American people, John Adams vowed: “Their Confidence, which has been the Chief Consolation of my Life, is too prescious and Sacred a deposit ever to be considered lightly.” This volume of the Papers of John... -
A Pathway to American Renewal: Red, White, and Black Volume II Robert L. Woodson 9798888454466
RRP: $46.20$39.27A celebration of resilience: the inspiring story of how Black America survived unimaginable odds and an examination of the real challenges it faces today.This challenging and inspiring collection of essays constructively frames the story of Black... -
Art, Power, and Resistance in the Middle Ages Pamela A. Patton 9780271097374
RRP: $176.30$149.86This volume addresses a vital point of intersection between images in the Middle Ages and those in the modern world: the potential of medieval works of art to convey messages of power and resistance. Provoked by the misuse of medieval imagery in modern... -
Thutmose III and Hatshepsut, Pharaohs of Egypt: Their Lives and Afterlives Aidan Dodson 9781649031594
RRP: $62.98$53.53An innovative account of the lives and times of the ‘warrior king’ Thutmose III, and the female pharaoh Hatshepsut, by renowned Egyptologist Aidan Dodson Thutmose III and Hatshepsut are among the best-known figures in Egyptian history. Thutmose has been... -
St Stephen's Chapel and the Palace of Westminster Tim Ayers 9781837651634
RRP: $178.50$151.73Traces the history of a magnificent landmark in the history of late medieval art and architecture. As the principal royal chapel in the medieval Palace of Westminster, St Stephen's was at the centre of worship for the Plantagenets, a major collegiate... -
365 Lessons from the Stoics: Transform your daily life using the Stoics’ wisdom and understanding Andrea Kirk Assaf 9780008714154
RRP: $27.28$23.18The teachings of Stoic philosophy began and thrived in the Greek and Roman world until the 3rd century AD, and has since experienced multiple revivals right up to the modern day. With wise lessons in subjects from friendship and passions to virtue and... -
The Hundred Years War Vol 5: Triumph and Illusion Jonathan Sumption 9780571274598
RRP: $63.00$53.55'Sumption is that rare and precious thing: a serious, decent, honest thinker . . . and one of our finest historians.' Dan Jones, Sunday Times'Gripping and eminently readable . . . a compelling justification for the enduring value of historical narrative... -
Constructing Cuban America: Race and Identity in Florida's Caribbean South, 1868–1945 Andrew Gomez 9781477329757
RRP: $84.00$71.40How Black and white Cubans navigated issues of race, politics, and identity during the post-Civil War and early Jim Crow eras in South Florida. On July 4, 1876, during the centennial celebration of US independence, the city of Key West was different from... -
From Peasant Struggles to Indian Resistance: The Ecuadorian Andes in the Late Twentieth Century Amalia Pallares 9780806194929
RRP: $35.60$30.26Drawing on extensive research in her native Ecuador, Amalia Pallares examines the South American Indian movement in the Ecuadorian Andes and explains its shift from class politics to racial politics in the late twentieth century. Pallares uses an... -
America's Fatal Leap: 1991-2016 Paul W. Schroeder 9781804295762
RRP: $52.50$44.63America's Fatal Leap deconstructs US geopolitics after the end of the Cold War, informed by its author's unsurpassed command of modern history. Paul W. Schroeder, an acclaimed historian of international diplomacy, was a conservative and a natural... -
Branching Out: The Public History of Trees Leah Glaser 9781625348333
RRP: $178.50$151.73Trees are not just natural resources; they are also cultural ones that present unique challenges and opportunities for public historians. Trees can serve as important objects of memory, recalling past triumphs or tragedies. They can be the last living... -
Roman Decorative Stone Collections in the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology J. Clayton Fant 9780472131952
RRP: $144.90$123.17At the turn of the twentieth century, Francis W. Kelsey began to amass a large collection of artifacts from ancient sites across the Mediterranean, with an emphasis on Imperial Rome, to broaden the teaching of antiquity at the University of Michigan... -
Intelligent Action: A History of Artistic Research, Aesthetic Experience, and Artists in Academia Timothy Ridlen 9781978837713
RRP: $281.40$239.19Through archival research and analysis of artworks by Gyorgy Kepes, Allan Kaprow, Mel Bochner, and Suzanne Lacy, among others, Intelligent Action examines how these artists brought alternatives to dominant conceptions of research and knowledge production... -
The 1619 Project: A Visual Experience Nikole Hannah-Jones 9780593232255
RRP: $115.50$98.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593232255Author Nikole Hannah-JonesFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA Inc