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War in Europe Askold Melnyczuk 9781739353797
RRP: €16.66€14.16“War in Europe” is an essential issue from Irish Pages, the island’s leading literary journal. The prime focus is the war in Ukraine, guest edited by the highly distinguished Ukrainian-American novelist Askold Melnyczuk. Much Ukrainian writing (from both... -
Contemporary Korean Art: New Directions Since the 1960s Mina Kim 9781789148718
RRP: €41.65€35.40Presenting fresh and thematic interpretations, this book showcases a collection of the most visually captivating, socially intriguing and often overlooked examples of Korean art. Set against the backdrop of a tumultuous history, artists in Korea embarked... -
No Road Leading Back: An Improbable Escape from the Nazis and the Tangled Way We Tell the Story of the Holocaust Chris Heath 9780349136271
RRP: €22.60€19.21This shattering and inspiring account of prisoners who dug their way out of torture and imprisonment by the Nazis is both a stunning escape narrative and an object lesson in how we remember and continually forget the particulars of the Holocaust.No Road... -
Searching for Authenticity: Rustic Architecture in America 1877-1940 Edward Ford 9781957183947
RRP: €59.44€50.53Rustic Architecture in America 1887-1940 is a history of a series of misunderstood masterpieces, the log-based architecture that emerged in the Adirondacks and the National Parks between 1890 and 1935. It is a history of how both form and technology of... -
Tracking the Texas Ranger Historians Bruce A. Glasrud 9781574419306
RRP: €47.54€40.41The first systematic inquiry into the Texas Rangers did not begin until 1935 with Walter Prescott Webb’s publication The Texas Rangers. Since then numerous works have appeared on the Rangers, but no volume has been published before that covers the... -
The Spirit of 1889: Restoring the Lost Promise of the High Plains and Northern Rockies Samuel Western 9780700637041
RRP: €45.16€38.39In August 1889, the five states that were once part of the Dakota 1861 Territory—North Dakota, South Dakota, Wyoming, Montana, and Idaho—drafted their state constitutions in preparation for inclusion in the United States. These constitutions were models... -
Oceans, Seas, Shorelines and Warfare Richard Harding 9780367443405
RRP: €160.65€136.55For as long as humanity has ventured on the seas, naval warfare has been an integral part of their activities and the focal point for many histories and ideas of heritage. This book presents a rarely explored aspect: the long-term impact of those battles... -
Cross-dressing in the Middle Ages Marina Montesano 9781032325781
RRP: €160.65€136.55By encompassing the hagiographies of the first centuries, the most famous case of Joan of Arc, numerous chivalrous novels, and the overlooked accounts of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, this is the first study to consider cross-dressing for the... -
Ours Was the Shining Future: The Story of the American Dream David Leonhardt 9781529435467
RRP: €17.84€15.16'An important book' Martin Wolf, Financial Times (BOOK OF THE YEAR)The clear-eyed, definitive history of the modern American economy and the decline of the American Dream, from the Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist behind The New York Times's "The... -
The South Korean Film Industry Junhyung Cho 9780472076925
RRP: €86.87€73.84As shown by the success of Squid Game and Parasite, South Korea's film industry is producing films and original series for streaming services, film studios, and television stations worldwide. South Korea is now arguably considered one of the few... -
Design Before Disaster: Japan's Culture of Preparedness Miho Mazereeuw 9780813950914
RRP: €116.62€99.13Models of disaster preparedness Across the globe, few sites have faced as many environmental disasters as the islands of the Japanese archipelago. They have endured typhoons, cyclones, floods, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and tsunamis. Residents of... -
Before the Movement: The Hidden History of Black Civil Rights Dylan C. Penningroth 9781324095644
RRP: €23.79€20.22The familiar story of civil rights goes like this: once, America’s legal system shut Black people out and refused to recognize their rights, their basic human dignity, or even their very lives. When lynch mobs gathered, police and judges often closed... -
Queer Chimerica: A Speculative Auto/Ethnography of the Cool Child Shana Leodar Ye 9780472057009
RRP: €30.88€26.25Blending archival work, ethnography, and cultural analysis with memoir, graphic arts, and science fiction, Queer Chimerica unpacks the ways in which the transnational circulation of queer culture, politics, and institutions are structured through the... -
50 Early Medieval Finds: From the Portable Antiquities Scheme Jo Ahmet 9781398118911
RRP: €19.03€16.17From the fall of the Roman Empire to the battle of Hastings, the early-mediaeval period is one of our most engaging historical eras. It covers the formation of the kingdoms and countries of Britain, the establishment of Christianity, Viking invaders and... -
Holidays with Hitler: State-sponsored Fun in Nazi Germany Nathan Morley 9781398122598
RRP: €13.08€11.11Holidays with Hitler tells the story of German leisure time and state-sponsored fun under the Nazi regime. Nathan Morley looks at consumerism, entertainment and travel in German society, and offers a vivid portrait of what it was like to visit as a... -
The Women of Rendezvous: A Transatlantic Story of Family and Slavery Jenny Shaw 9781469682754
RRP: €116.62€99.13The Women of Rendezvous is a dramatic transatlantic story about five women who birthed children by the same prominent Barbados politician and enslaver. Two of the women were his wives, two he enslaved, and one was a servant in his household. All were... -
A History of Railways in 100 Maps Jeremy Black 9780712355018
RRP: €47.60€40.46Continuing the thematic strand of the successful and proven British Library ‘100 Maps’ series, this new volume traces the fully international history of railways from their beginnings in the north-west of England through to the inter-continental lines of... -
Bringing War Back In: Victory, Defeat, and the State in Nineteenth-Century Latin America Luis L. Schenoni 9781009442138
RRP: €101.15€85.98Bringing War Back In provides a fresh theory connecting war and state formation that incorporates the contingency of warfare and the effects of war outcomes in the long run. The book demonstrates that international wars in nineteenth-century Latin... -
Decolonizing Roman Imperialism: The Study of Rome, Romanization, and the Postcolonial Lens Danielle Hyeonah Lambert 9781009491020
RRP: €101.15€85.98The framework of 'Romanization' developed by Haverfield in 1905 - that Romans 'civilized' their imperial subjects, particularly those in the 'barbarian' western provinces - remains hegemonic, notwithstanding multiple attempts at revisionism. It has been...Qty in Cart: 0Quantity:Price:RRP: €101.15€85.98Subtotal: -
Team of Giants: The Making of the Spanish-American War Matthew Bernstein 9780806194714
RRP: €38.02€32.32If not for an unlikely alliance among a bespectacled cowboy, a former Confederate general, and a millionaire newspaper publisher, the Spanish-American War might never have been. How these three outsize characters—Theodore Roosevelt, Joseph “Fighting Joe”... -
Victorians and Modern Greece: Literary and Cultural Encounters Efterpi Mitsi 9781032495200
RRP: €160.65€136.55Victorians and Modern Greece examines the representation of nineteenth-century Greece in British magazines, fiction, poetry, and travel writing, revealing the popular reception of the modern nation in the Victorian period. Reflecting upon the tensions –... -
Blue Jerusalem: British Conservatism, Winston Churchill, and the Second World War Kit Kowol 9780198868491
RRP: €35.70€30.35The untold story of how Winston Churchill and the Conservative Party envisioned Britain's post-war future We think we know all there is to know about Britain's Second World War. We don't. This radical re-interpretation of British history and British... -
Southern Brigadier Generals in the Revolutionary War: Eighteen Commanders Instrumental in American Victory Douglas M. Branson 9781476692920
RRP: €42.83€36.40The stories of Southern brigadier generals during the Revolutionary War remain largely forgotten or untold, but their experiences were unique. During the war, 13 of the 58 brigadier generals (the lowest-ranking generals) who served under George... -
Decolonizing Heritage: Time to Repair in Senegal Ferdinand De Jong 9781009087865
RRP: €35.69€30.33Senegal features prominently on the UNESCO World Heritage List. As many of its cultural heritage sites are remnants of the French empire, how does an independent nation care for the heritage of colonialism? How does it reinterpret slave barracks,...Qty in Cart: 0Quantity:Price:RRP: €35.69€30.33Subtotal: -
Race Traffic: Antislavery and the Origins of White Victimhood, 1619-1819 Gunther Peck 9781469675145
RRP: €53.49€45.47Fantasies of white slavery and the narratives of victimhood they spawn form the foundation of racist ideology. They also obscure the lived experience of trafficked servants and sailors in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Gunther Peck moves... -
Living for the City: Social Change and Knowledge Production in the Central African Copperbelt Miles Larmer 9781108972772
RRP: €35.69€30.33Living for the City is a social history of the Central African Copperbelt, considered as a single region encompassing the neighbouring mining regions of Zambia and the Democratic Republic of Congo. The Haut Katanga and Zambian Copperbelt mine towns have...Qty in Cart: 0Quantity:Price:RRP: €35.69€30.33Subtotal: -
Urban Activism in Western Europe from the 1950s to the 1980s Tim Verlaan 9783031576416
RRP: €130.89€111.25Bringing together contributions from social, political, and urban historians, this collection examines social movements in Western European cities from the 1950s to the 1980s. Since their post-war recovery and reconstruction, cities in this part of the... -
Relieve Us of This Burthen: American Prisoners of War in the Revolutionary South, 1780-1782 Carl P. Borick 9781643365237
RRP: €26.12€22.21Relieve Us of This Burthen is the first book-length study of Continental soldiers, officers, and militiamen held as prisoners of war by the British in the South during the American Revolution. Carl P. Borick focuses his study on the period 1780-82, when... -
The Most Interesting Book in the World Edward Brooke-Hitching 9781398532373
RRP: €17.84€15.16Drawn from a lifetime’s search for the weird and the wonderful, The Most Interesting Book in The World is a miscellany of things too strange to be true, yet somehow are. Written by a former BBC QI Elf turned bestselling author, this remarkable treasury... -
Under Alien Skies: Environment, Suffering, and the Defeat of the British Military in Revolutionary America Vaughn Scribner 9781469680774
RRP: €35.64€30.30The Revolutionary War is often celebrated as the marking the birth of American republicanism, liberty, and representative democracy. Yet for the tens of thousands of British and Hessian troops sent 3,000 miles across the Atlantic Ocean to wage war under... -
The Stadium: An American History of Politics, Protest, and Play Frank Andre Guridy 9781541601451
RRP: €29.75€25.29The sweeping story of the American stadium-from the first wooden ballparks to today's glass and steel mega-arenas-revealing how it has made, and remade, American lifeStadiums are monuments to recreation, sports, and pleasure. Yet from the earliest... -
Under Alien Skies: Environment, Suffering, and the Defeat of the British Military in Revolutionary America Vaughn Scribner 9781469680767
RRP: €116.62€99.13The Revolutionary War is often celebrated as the marking the birth of American republicanism, liberty, and representative democracy. Yet for the tens of thousands of British and Hessian troops sent 3,000 miles across the Atlantic Ocean to wage war under... -
Trouble, Trials Trouble, Trials, and Vexations: The Journal and Correspondence of Rachel Perry Moores , Texan Plantation Mistress: The Journal and Correspondence of Rachel Perry Moores , Texan Plantation Mistress Thomas W. Cutrer 9781649670243
RRP: €47.54€40.41Rachel Moores and her husband David operated a cotton plantation in the bottoms of the Sulphur River in North East Texas. From that vantage point, they viewed the changing fortunes of Texas as the American Civil War opened their privileged lifestyle... -
Ghosts of a Holy War: The 1929 Massacre in Palestine that Ignited the Arab-Israeli Conflict Yardena Schwartz 9781454949213
RRP: €33.32€28.32An award-winning journalist presents an even-handed, thoroughly researched examination of the Arab-Israeli conflict, and illustrates how a shocking yet little-known massacre one century ago in what was then Palestine became ground zero of a war that... -
The Great Elector's Table: The Politics of Food in Seventeenth-Century Brandenburg-Prussia Molly Taylor-Poleskey 9780813951607
RRP: €35.64€30.30What food production, presentation, and consumption reveals about the exercise of power in early modern Germany In politics, as with food, presentation is everything. At the court of Elector Friedrich Wilhelm in Brandenburg-Prussia, the two combined in a... -
Ireland: A Short History Joseph Coohill 9780861543687
RRP: €13.08€11.11From the first prehistoric inhabitants of the island to the Windsor Framework for Northern Ireland, this uniquely concise account of Ireland and its people reveals how modern Irish society is the product of a rich, multivalent history. Combining factual... -
A Carpetbagger in Reverse: Arthur W. Mitchell, America's First Black Democratic Congressman John Morris Knapp 9780817322151
RRP: €111.86€95.08A long overdue reexamination of Mitchell and his accomplishments highlights his controversial personality, politics, and beliefs and calls for a reinterpretation of his importance to American history.Book InformationISBN 9780817322151Author John Morris... -
Women’s Libraries in Late Medieval Bourbonnais, Burgundy, and France S. C. Kaplan 9781835538401
RRP: €35.69€30.33How were the libraries of aristocratic women in the late French-speaking Middle Ages developed? Which reading trends and topics were embraced by female readers of the fifteenth century? What substantial gaps in evidence and data loss impede our knowledge... -
The Tanishq Story C.K. Venkataraman 9789353455811
RRP: €26.17€22.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789353455811Author C.K. VenkataramanFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Juggernaut PublicationPublisher Juggernaut PublicationQty in Cart: 0Quantity:Price:RRP: €26.17€22.24Subtotal: -
Disasters in World History Benjamin Reilly 9781032566221
RRP: €41.64€35.39Disasters in World History surveys the development of disaster studies as a discipline as well as the historical case studies and theories used by historians to understand disasters.Disasters, here defined as the complex interaction between natural...