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Decolonizing Roman Imperialism: The Study of Rome, Romanization, and the Postcolonial Lens Danielle Hyeonah Lambert 9781009491020
RRP: $178.50$151.73The 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... -
Team of Giants: The Making of the Spanish-American War Matthew Bernstein 9780806194714
RRP: $67.10$57.04If 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: $283.50$240.98Victorians 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: $63.00$53.55The 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: $75.58$64.24The 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: $62.98$53.53Senegal 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,... -
Race Traffic: Antislavery and the Origins of White Victimhood, 1619-1819 Gunther Peck 9781469675145
RRP: $94.40$80.24Fantasies 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: $62.98$53.53Living 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... -
Urban Activism in Western Europe from the 1950s to the 1980s Tim Verlaan 9783031576416
RRP: $230.98$196.33Bringing 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: $46.10$39.19Relieve 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: $31.48$26.75Drawn 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: $62.90$53.47The 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: $52.50$44.63The 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: $205.80$174.93The 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: $83.90$71.32Rachel 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: $58.80$49.98An 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: $62.90$53.47What 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: $23.08$19.61From 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: $197.40$167.79A 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: $62.98$53.53How 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: $46.18$39.25Apologies 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: $46.18$39.25Subtotal: -
Disasters in World History Benjamin Reilly 9781032566221
RRP: $73.48$62.45Disasters 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... -
Toronto Street Names: An Illustrated Guide to Their Origins Leonard Wise 9780228105138
RRP: $52.50$44.63Toronto Street Names provides a fascinating look at a highly visible record of the past of Canada’s largest city — its streets. It commemorates the people and events that have shaped the city and tells the fascinating and curious stories of how more than... -
The Japanese Ideology: A Marxist Critique of Liberalism and Fascism Jun Tosaka 9780231216524
RRP: $226.80$192.78A major Marxist thinker and critic in 1930s Japan, Tosaka Jun was among the world’s most incisive—yet underrecognized—theorists of capitalism, fascism, and ideology during the years before World War II. The Japanese Ideology is his masterpiece, first... -
The Snettisham Hoards Julia Farley 9780861592258
RRP: $84.00$71.40For over 60 years, spectacular discoveries have been made on a wooded hillside at Snettisham, overlooking the northwest Norfolk coast, close to Hunstanton. The location of the discoveries, at Ken Hill, is known as the 'gold field' because of the large... -
Mountain Commandos at War in the Falklands: The Royal Marines Mountain and Arctic Warfare Cadre in Action during the 1982 Conflict Rodney Boswell 9781526798787
RRP: $33.58$28.54Sunset, 8 June 1982, East Falkland. Eight specially trained Royal Marines infiltrate Goat Ridge, a long rocky hilltop between Mount Harriet and Two Sisters which are occupied by a battalion of 600 Argentine infantry. The next day, from their hiding place... -
The Prince Who Beat the Empire: How an Indian Ruler Took on the Might of the East India Company Moin Mir 9781398122550
RRP: $23.08$19.61An acclaimed history of empire and resistance: this is the moving story of the rebel prince who beat the world’s most powerful corporation. The ships of the East India Company first docked at India's shores in Surat in the early 17th century. In time,... -
Prosecuting the Powerful Steve Crawshaw 9780349128931
RRP: $52.50$44.63Getting a head of state in the dock was once unthinkable but as journalist and human rights advocate Steve Crawshaw uncovers in PROSECUTING THE POWERFUL - a blend of on-the-ground reportage and intellectual history - it is a real possibility. In recent... -
Raiders, Rulers, and Traders: The Horse and the Rise of Empires David Chaffetz 9781324051466
RRP: $52.50$44.63No animal is so entangled in human history as the horse. The thread starts in prehistory, with a small, shy animal, hunted for food. Over time, the domestication of horses, followed by the advent of riding, powered mighty empires: Persian, Mongol, Mughal... -
Bound Labor in the Turpentine Belt: Kinderlou Camp and Misdemeanor Convict Leasing in Georgia Thomas Aiello 9780813080826
RRP: $73.40$62.39Uncovering a little-known system of bound labor in the post-Reconstruction South After the constitutional end to slavery in the United States, southern white landowners replaced labor by enslaved people with systems of bound labor in which people worked... -
The Anarchy: The Darkest Days of Medieval England Teresa Cole 9781398122512
RRP: $23.08$19.61When the mighty Henry I died in December 1135, leaving no legitimate son, who was to replace him on the throne of England? Would it be Stephen, nephew to the king and showered with favours that maybe gave him ideas above his station? Or could it be a... -
Siena: The Rise of Painting, 1300–1350 Joanna Cannon 9781857097160
RRP: $84.00$71.40An exploration of a crucial turning point in Italian art, the early 1300s in the city of Siena In the early 1300s, the city of Siena gave rise to an extraordinary period of creativity and innovation. Painters, sculptors, and goldsmiths produced... -
Letter to My Children: From Romania to America via Auschwitz Rudolph Tessler 9780826223227
RRP: $60.80$51.68"Sixty-seven members of my family—my mother, her father, my three sisters, three of my brothers, aunts, uncles, and cousins—were murdered at Auschwitz."As Rudolph Tessler's mother stepped from the train in Auschwitz, shortly before she was sent to the... -
Midget Submarines 1939-45 Ingo Bauernfeind 9781636242798
RRP: $83.98$71.38Some of the most daring naval raids undertaken during World War II involved the use of midget submarines - craft of under 150 tons and crewed by just a handful of men - including Japanese midget submarines deployed at Pearl Harbor, the British X-craft... -
The First and Second Italian Wars, 1494-1504: Fearless Knights, Ruthless Princes and the Coming of Gunpowder Armies Julian Romane 9781526797599
RRP: $33.58$28.54An engaging narrative of the complex and dramatic events of the First and Second Italian Wars, ten years of warfare. -
Remaking History: 1948 Police Action and the Muslims of Hyderabad Afsar Mohammad 9781009339636
RRP: $178.50$151.73The story this book follows begins on August 15, 1947. As the new nation-states of India and Pakistan prepared to negotiate land and power, the citizens of the princely state of Hyderabad experienced the unravelling of an intense political conflict... -
The Great Waterloo Controversy: The Story of the 52nd Foot at History's Greatest Battle Glover, Gareth 9781526797506
RRP: $31.48$26.75As the Battle of Waterloo reached its momentous climax, Napoleon's Imperial Guard marched towards the Duke of Wellington's thinning red line. The Imperial Guard had never tasted defeat and nothing, it seemed, could stop it smashing through the British... -
Anti-Catholicism in the Mexican Revolution, 1913-1940 Jürgen Buchenau 9780826366900
RRP: $170.10$144.59Anti-Catholicism in the Mexican Revolution, 1913-1940 examines anti-Catholic leaders and movements during the Mexican Revolution, an era that resulted in a constitution denying the Church political rights. Anti-Catholic Mexicans recognized a common enemy... -
Training for Victory: U.S. Special Forces Advisory Operations from El Salvador to Afghanistan Frank Kenneth Sobchak 9781682471333
RRP: $83.90$71.32One of the most difficult security challenges of the post–Cold War era has been stabilizing failing states in an era of irregular warfare. A consistent component of the strategy to address this problem has been security force assistance where outside... -
Printing Terror: American Horror Comics as Cold War Commentary and Critique Michael Goodrum 9781526179005
RRP: $52.50$44.63Printing terror takes a fascinating look at American horror comics in the Cold War era, from the 1940s to the 1970s. It reveals how these comics both reflected and fed into the anxieties of the age, particularly in matters of race and gender.The book...