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Marginalized Religion and the Law in the Roman Empire K. P. S. Janssen 9780192856104
RRP: £119.00£101.15The Roman Empire's approach to religion has traditionally been described in paradoxical terms. On the one hand, Rome has often been regarded as almost proverbially tolerant, as well as highly flexible in its dealings with the diverse range of religious... -
Worldwide Family History Noel Currer-Briggs 9781032898162
RRP: £90.00£76.50First published in 1982, Worldwide Family History is an essential reference and guide for the professional genealogist and the interested amateur alike. Concentrating on non-British genealogical problems, it sets out as succinctly as possible the way in... -
Worlds of the Ring: Nation and Empire in the British and German Circus Sabine Hanke 9781526175090
RRP: £85.00£72.25Worlds of the Ring is a groundbreaking exploration of the interwar European circus scene, focusing on the German Sarrasani and British Bertram W. Mills’ circuses. This study illuminates the correlation between the circus’s evolution and... -
Living with Lodgers: Household Economy and Social Relations in Working-Class Victorian England Vicky Holmes 9781526170286
RRP: £85.00£72.25For the Victorian working class, lodging in someone else’s home was commonplace. Yet, despite their prevalence, lodgers and their householders have received little scholarly attention. Drawing on hundreds of coroners’ inquests reported in the Victorian... -
Horizontal Together: Art, Dance, and Queer Embodiment in 1960s New York Paisid Aramphongphan 9781526182517
RRP: £30.00£25.50Horizontal together tells the story of 1960s art and queer culture in New York through the overlapping circles of Andy Warhol, underground filmmaker Jack Smith and experimental dance star Fred Herko. Taking a pioneering approach to this intersecting... -
Gestures: A Body of Work Alice Butler 9781526168498
RRP: £100.00£85.00Gestures: A body of work is a cross-disciplinary collection of feminist approaches to ‘gesture’ that considers the term’s complex registers across embodied, aesthetic and political scenes. Attending to gestural movements, languages, feelings and... -
The Migrant's Jail: An American History of Mass Incarceration Assistant Professor of History Brianna Nofil 9780691237015
RRP: £28.00£23.80Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Clotilde Brewster: Pioneering Woman Architect Laura Fitzmaurice 9781848226951
RRP: £45.00£38.25Described by composer Ethel Smyth as brilliant, sociable, amusing and utterly original, Clotilde Brewster defied all the odds by becoming the first woman to work internationally as an architect. She was part of a group of pioneering women in the late... -
The Struggle for the Pacific Gregory Bienstock 9781032905235
RRP: £105.00£89.25The Struggle for the Pacific (1937) examines the rivalries and postures as various powers – European, the US, Japan and China – attempted to militarily, politically and economically dominate the Asia Pacific sphere. It traces the rise and fall of the... -
Franks and Saracens: A Psychoanalytic Study of the Crusades Avner Falk 9781032863863
RRP: £130.00£110.50Franks and Saracens is the first and only book to examine the Crusades from the viewpoint of psychoanalysis, studying the hidden emotions and fantasies that drove the Crusaders and the Muslims to undertake their terrible wars.Using original documents as... -
Die soziale Frage – ein transatlantischer Vergleich zwischen Walter Rauschenbusch und Martin Rade: Ein transatlantischer Vergleich zwischen Walter Rauschenbusch und Martin Rade Kurt Bangert 9783658455576
RRP: £64.99£55.24In dieser sozialhistorischen Monographie werden die beiden Theologen Walter Rauschenbusch (1861–1918) und Martin Rade (1857–1940) in einer transatlantischen Gegenüberstellung miteinander verglichen, wobei ein besonderer Schwerpunkt auf die... -
Operation Bribes: How Winston Churchill and Juan March Bought Franco’s Generals Ángel Viñas 9781032325194
RRP: £135.00£114.75This forensic study of recently opened documents in Britain’s National Archives reveals for the first time the details of an officially unnamed secret operation authorized by Winston Churchill in 1940 to keep Spain neutral in World War II through the... -
Design Agendas: Modern Architecture in St. Louis, 1930s–1970s Eric P. Mumford 9780936316505
RRP: £32.00£27.20An examination of the complex connections in St. Louis among modern architecture, urban renewal, and racial and spatial change.Design Agendas: Modern Architecture in St. Louis, 1930s–1970s features essays on the modernist architects Charles E. Fleming, R... -
The Cold War: A New History Vladislav Zubok 9780241721674
RRP: £14.00£11.90Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780241721674Author Vladislav ZubokImprint PelicanPublisher Penguin Books Ltd -
On China’s History of Modernization: The Institutionalization of Socialism in China Jie Li 9789819756988
RRP: £119.99£101.99This book offers a comprehensive understanding of the developments in the modern Chinese history since the Opium War in 1840, by reflecting on the history of the Communist Party of China, the history of China since 1949, the history of the economic... -
Illustrated History of Chinese Art Ting Chen 9789819752911
RRP: £109.99£93.49This book aims to provide readers with a clear and comprehensive picture of the development of Chinese art. Its main feature is the combination of illustration and text. It highlights representative works of art in the form of illustrations and discusses... -
Entangled Art Histories in Ukraine Stefaniia Demchuk 9781032708638
RRP: £135.00£114.75This book explores ideologies, conflicts and ideas that underpinned art historical writing in Ukraine in the 20th century.Disciplinary beginnings testify both to its deep connection to Krakow, Saint Petersburg and especially Vienna with its school of art... -
Amir Sjarifoeddin: Politics and Truth in Indonesia, 1907-1948 Rudolf Mrázek 9781501777455
RRP: £116.00£98.60Amir Sjarifoeddin explores the experiences of a central figure in the Indonesian revolution, whose life mirrored the idealism and contradictions of the anti-colonial and post-war world of twentieth century Indonesia. Amir was born at the edge of an... -
Brutalist Hong Kong Map / 香港地圖 粗獷建築: Guide to Brutalist Architecture in Hong Kong Bob Pang 9781912018093
RRP: £9.95£8.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912018093Author Bob PangPage Count 2Imprint Blue Crow MediaPublisher Blue Crow MediaWeight(grams) 40g -
A History of the Roman World from 753 to 146 B.C. Howard H. Scullard 9781032767871
RRP: £120.00£102.00A History of the Roman World from 753 to 146 B.C. (1969) examines the rise of Rome from a small city-state to its conquest and unification of Italy and the founding of its overseas Empire. It covers in detail Rome’s struggle with Carthage for supremacy... -
Franks and Saracens: A Psychoanalytic Study of the Crusades Avner Falk 9781032863856
RRP: £31.99£27.19Franks and Saracens is the first and only book to examine the Crusades from the viewpoint of psychoanalysis, studying the hidden emotions and fantasies that drove the Crusaders and the Muslims to undertake their terrible wars.Using original documents as... -
Keeping to the Point in Athenian Forensic Oratory: Law, Character and Rhetoric Edward M Harris 9781399523875
RRP: £100.00£85.00The first volume to connect legal institutions and court arguments in a series of close readings of selected speeches from the Attic Orators -
The Cold War: A New History Vladislav Zubok 9780241696149
RRP: £22.00£18.70Why did the Cold War erupt so soon after the Second World War? How did it escalate so rapidly, spanning five continents over six decades? And what led to the spectacular collapse of the Soviet Union? In this comprehensive guide to the most widespread... -
Women and War: Stories from the Amazons to the Greatest Generation through Art and Artifacts Mary Raum 9781032523750
RRP: £36.99£31.44This volume explores how art and artifacts can tell women’s stories of war, a critical way into these stories, often hidden due to the second-tier status of reporting women’s accomplishments. This unique lens reveals personal, cultural, and historically... -
John Cage Composing, Computing, and Curating Sandra Skurvida 9781032717470
RRP: £135.00£114.75This study reassesses Cage’s multifaceted practice from an integrated transdisciplinary perspective, using text as a premise for his musical, visual, lingual, and museal compositions.In his compositions, John Cage opened the structures of music,... -
The Siop Newydd Girls: A Dolgellau Story Richard Jones 9781914345364
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Mobility in the Early Middle Ages, and beyond – Mobilität im Frühmittelalter und darüber hinaus: Interdisciplinary Approaches – Interdisziplinäre Zugänge Laury Sarti 9783111164496
RRP: £100.00£85.00Das Reisen in der Vormoderne war grundsätzlich mit Fragen und Ungewissheit verbunden. Das Fehlen detaillierter Wegekarten zwang Reisende sich ihren Weg mit Hilfe von Itineraren, topographischen Merkmalen wie den Straßen- und Flussläufen, den Bergen, oder... -
Medieval Art, Modern Politics Brigitte Buettner 9783111436814
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River and Society in Northern Italy: The Po Valley, 500-1000 AD Marco Panato 9789048558803
RRP: £137.00£116.45This book considers for the first time the relationship between the river environment and the economic and political structures of northern Italy in the post-Roman period. Through the study of the relationship between river and society over time, it...Qty in Cart: 0Quantity:Price:RRP: £137.00£116.45Subtotal: -
A Nation of Refugees: Russia's Jews in World War I Polly Zavadivker 9780197629352
RRP: £86.00£73.10When the Great War began, the Russian Empire was home to more than five million Jews, the most densely settled Jewish population anywhere in the world. Thirty years later, only remnants of this civilization remained. The years of war from 1914 to 1918... -
The Economics of War in Ancient Greece Roel Konijnendijk 9781350471788
RRP: £90.00£76.50In recent decades the study of the ancient economy and ancient warfare have both been transformed by ground-breaking new studies and methodological approaches. Offering a selection of cutting-edge research on the interlocked themes of economics and war,... -
Dive: Australian Submariners at War Mike Carlton 9781761342882
RRP: £22.00£18.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781761342882Author Mike CarltonFormat HardbackPage Count 480Imprint Penguin Random House AustraliaPublisher Penguin Random House Australia -
A History of the Roman World from 146 to 30 B.C. Frank Burr Marsh 9781032767826
RRP: £120.00£102.00A History of the Roman World from 146 to 30 B.C. (1963) analyses the workings of the Roman constitution alongside looking at the events in Roman history from the time of the Gracchi to the death of Antony. -
Royal Navy Grand Fleet 1914–18: Britain’s last supreme naval fleet Angus Konstam 9781472866837
RRP: £15.99£13.59World War I was Britain’s last moment as the world’s naval superpower, and its Grand Fleet was then the most powerful ever seen. Fully illustrated, this explores its fighting power. At the start of World War I, the Royal Navy’s forces were amalgamated... -
Beyond Jefferson: The Hemingses, the Randolphs, and the Making of Nineteenth-Century America Christa Dierksheide 9780300226522
RRP: £25.00£21.25A global history of how Thomas Jefferson’s descendants navigated the legacy of the Declaration of Independence on both sides of the color line -
Go Public!: Zugänge zur Public History Marion Großmann 9783658454159
RRP: £39.99£33.99Public History ist ein Weg, wissenschaftliche Erkenntnisse nicht nur in die Öffentlichkeit zu bringen, sondern ihnen auch Akzeptanz zu verschaffen. Dies kann gelingen, indem die Öffentlichkeit, d. h. auch die so genannten „Laien“ in den... -
In the Beginning: Some Greek Views on the Origins of Life and the Early State of Man W.K.C. Guthrie 9781032903385
RRP: £85.00£72.25In the Beginning (1957) represents a series of lectures given by the author at Cornell University, examining the views of the Ancient Greeks on the central foundation myths of their civilisation. From stories of ‘mother earth’ to later philosophical and... -
A History of the Greek World from 323 to 146 B.C. M. Cary 9781032767642
RRP: £120.00£102.00A History of the Greek World from 323 to 146 B.C. (1951) looks at the period of Greek history from the Macedonian to the Roman conquests. It contains a narrative of the political history of the Hellenistic states; a description of their statecraft,... -
Palestine of the Jews: Past, Present, and Future Norman Bentwich 9781032903873
RRP: £105.00£89.25Palestine of the Jews (1919) examines the history of Jewish Palestine, from 4,000 years ago to the early twentieth century and the Balfour Declaration. It details the importance of Palestine to the Jews, it being for two thousand years the centre of... -
From Renaissance to Revolution: A Study of the Influence of the Renaissance upon the Political Development of Europe Sylvia Benians 9781032903965
RRP: £90.00£76.50From Renaissance to Revolution (1923) traces in some of its many expressions the influence of the Renaissance on the politics and culture of Europe during the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. It starts with the decay of medieval...