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Women in Allied Naval Intelligence in the Second World War: A Close Secret Sarah-Louise Miller 9781350402218
RRP: $165.75$140.89Closely 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: $23.38$19.87A 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: $165.75$140.89This 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: $117.00$99.45Examining 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: $97.50$82.88Apologies 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: $165.75$140.89The 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... -
Conditions of Violence Christian Gerlach 9783111567266
RRP: $88.73$75.43Mass violence comes not only from states, but also from people. By analyzing mass violence as social interaction through survivor accounts and other sources, this book presents understudied agents, aims and practices of direct violence and ways of action... -
Unjust Restitution: A Century of Black Struggle for Equality Michael Kingsley Brown 9780520410114
RRP: $48.75$41.44The 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... -
A Dirty, Filthy Book: Sex, Scandal, and One Woman’s Fight in the Victorian Trial of the Century Michael Meyer 9780753559949
RRP: $21.43$18.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780753559949Author Michael MeyerFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint W H AllenPublisher Ebury PublishingWeight(grams) 500g -
Narratives Without Guilt: Japanese Perpetrators and the Question of Responsibility Frank Jacob 9783110737028
RRP: $141.38$120.18During the Second World War Japanese soldiers committed several different war crimes, including the kidnapping and raping of women or the mistreatment of POWs. In relation to the war crime trials after 1945 these perpetrators were interviewed by the... -
Bombing Hitler's Hometown: The Untold Story of the Last Mass Bomber Raid of World War II in Europe Mike Croissant 9781804369586
RRP: $25.33$21.53Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804369586Author Mike CroissantFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint August BooksPublisher Canelo -
Texas: An American History Benjamin Heber Johnson 9780300226720
RRP: $48.75$41.44An exploration of the multifaceted characters and complex events that have defined the Lone Star State from its inception through today When Americans turn on their laptops, play video games, go to church, vote, eat TexMex, shop for groceries, listen to... -
Digital Papyrology III: The digital critical edition of Greek papyri: issues, projects, and perspectives Nicola Reggiani 9783111070131
RRP: $195.00$165.75In the ever-growing and evolving field of Digital Papyrology – intending both the set of electronic tools for papyrological research and a new way of representing our knowledge of the Greek papyri in digital environments – a focal current issue is the... -
West Germany: A Society in Motion, 1949-89 Associate Professor Julia Sneeringer 9781350193987
RRP: $87.75$74.59Julia Sneeringer’s book provides a concise overview of developments in the Federal Republic of Germany from the end of the Second World War and Germany’s division, to the unification of East and West Germany in 1990. Within the framework of key political... -
Turkey and the Global Political Economy: Geographies, Regions, and Actors in a Changing World Order Mehmet Erman Erol 9780755646708
RRP: $165.75$140.89While there has been a huge expansion of the literature on Turkish political economy and foreign policy in the last decade or so, fewer studies have explored Turkey’s engagement with the changing global political economy since 2008 in a holistic manner... -
Built by the People Themselves: African American Community Development in Arlington, Virginia, from the Civil War through Civil Rights Lindsey Bestebreurtje 9781643364971
RRP: $191.10$162.44The story of how racial segregation and suburbanization shaped lives, the built environment, and the law in Arlington, Virginia Arlington, Virgina, sits on the bank of the Potomac River, just opposite the nation's capital city of Washington, DC. This... -
Cartoon Conflicts: Contemporary Controversies and Historical Precedents Richard Scully 9783031697616
RRP: $214.48$182.31This edited collection of new research highlights the way in which the cartoon - long regarded as a staple of journalism and freedom of expression - faces new challenges in the twenty-first century that can be far better understood and appreciated if one... -
Transnational Feminism in Non-English Speaking Europe, c.1960-1990 Heidi Kurvinen 9783031691379
RRP: $233.98$198.88This edited collection aims to look beyond established narratives of feminist history, by focusing on non-English speaking European countries. Recent scholarship on the history of the women’s liberation movement in individual countries has enhanced our... -
Tools of Control or Seeds of Liberation?: Reformed Evangelism and Slavery in the Ante-Bellum American South Iain Whyte 9780718897963
RRP: $43.88$37.30Examining the history of slavery in the American South, it is impossible to separate the interpretations of Christianity from the arguments and counter-arguments surrounding liberation. In Tools of Control or Seeds of Liberation, Iain Whyte considers how... -
First Women of Hollywood: Female Pioneers in the Early Motion Picture Business Mary Mallory 9781493089307
RRP: $48.75$41.44The early motion picture industry exploded in the 1910s when middle class audiences became hooked on the beautiful storytelling images flashing by them onscreen. As movie attendance exploded, more workers were required to produce this riveting new form... -
War & Peace & War: Twenty years in Afghanistan Andrew North 9781804186893
RRP: $21.43$18.21'Andrew North has a deep empathy and understanding for Afghanistan and has seen sides of it - both good and horrifying - that very few international observers have encountered' - Rory Stewart'By weaving personal stories into a modern history of... -
Captain de Havilland's Moth: Tales of High Adventure from the Golden Age of Aviation Alexander Norman 9780349146447
RRP: $48.75$41.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780349146447Author Alexander NormanFormat HardbackPage Count 368Imprint AbacusPublisher Little, Brown Book Group -
Exporting Reconstruction: Ulysses S. Grant and a New Empire of Liberty Ryan P. Semmes 9781643365176
RRP: $75.95$64.56How Reconstruction-era political battles reflected global struggles over the era's core ideals Exporting Reconstruction examines Ulysses S. Grant's Reconstruction-era policy, both foreign and domestic, as an integrated whole. Grant's vision for America's... -
West Germany: A Society in Motion, 1949-89 Associate Professor Julia Sneeringer 9781350193970
RRP: $29.23$24.84Julia Sneeringer’s book provides a concise overview of developments in the Federal Republic of Germany from the end of the Second World War and Germany’s division, to the unification of East and West Germany in 1990. Within the framework of key political... -
The Making of the Black Country: A Unique Industrial Landscape Geoff Marshall 9781836280514
RRP: $38.98$33.13In 1864 Abraham Lincoln appointed Elihu Burritt as United States consul in Birmingham. Burritt captured the very nature of the Black Country’s unique industrial landscape with his now famous phrase ‘black by day and red by night’, referring to the... -
Mary Turner and the Mob: The Brooks-Lowndes Race Riot of 1918 in History and Memory Thomas Aiello 9781643365046
RRP: $75.95$64.56A reinterpretation of one of America's most notorious lynchings The 1918 lynching of Mary Turner by a white mob in Brooks County, Georgia, is remembered and studied mainly because of the horror of an allegedly pregnant woman's murder. In Mary and the... -
Soldiers and Silver: Mobilizing Resources in the Age of Roman Conquest Michael J. Taylor 9781477330777
RRP: $58.48$49.71By the middle of the second century BCE, after nearly one hundred years of warfare, Rome had exerted its control over the entire Mediterranean world, forcing the other great powers of the region—Carthage, Macedonia, Egypt, and the Seleucid empire—to... -
The Palestinian National Revival: In the Shadow of the Leadership Crisis, 1937–1967 Moshe Shemesh 9780253071743
RRP: $58.48$49.71Former Israeli intelligence officer Moshe Shemesh offers a fresh understanding of the complex history and politics of the Middle East in this new analysis of the Palestinian national movement. Shemesh looks at the formative years of the movement that... -
Dearest Mama: The Lost Letters of a Fallen Soldier and the Stories of Those He Left Behind William S. Walker 9781643365022
RRP: $42.80$36.39A cache of letters leads to a journey of discovery that reveals the long and lasting consequences of war William Walker never knew his uncle, Fletcher "Bud" Blanton. Blanton had been killed fighting in Europe during World War II before Walker was born... -
Dangerous Learning: The South's Long War on Black Literacy Derek W Black 9780300272826
RRP: $48.75$41.44The enduring legacy of the nineteenth-century struggle for Black literacy in the American South Few populations have ever valued literacy as much as the enslaved Black people of the American South. To them, it was more than a means to a better life; it... -
Myths, Mummies and Magic in Ancient Egypt Núria Tamarit 9781835870068
RRP: $19.48$16.56The ancient Egyptian myths are some of the oldest and most famous stories in the world. This striking new comic book collection will be the perfect introduction to the world of the ancient Egyptians - containing six tales full of mythical creatures,... -
Rites of Passage: Death and Mourning in Victorian Britain Judith Flanders 9781509817511
RRP: $19.48$16.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781509817511Author Judith FlandersFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint PicadorPublisher Pan Macmillan -
The Origins of the Contemporary Global Order: From the Nineteenth Century to the Cold War Carl James Strikwerda 9783031638930
RRP: $126.73$107.72This textbook offers a new interpretation of the origins of the contemporary global order - the set of institutions and international practices created by the United States and its allies after the Second World War. Previous interpretations have argued... -
The Rise and Fall of the EAST: How Exams, Autocracy, Stability, and Technology Brought China Success, and Why They Might Lead to Its Decline Yasheng Huang 9780300281934
RRP: $29.23$24.84The long history of China’s relationship between stability, diversity, and prosperity, and how its current leadership threatens this delicate balance A Foreign Affairs Best Book of 2023 Chinese society has been shaped by the interplay of the... -
Built by the People Themselves: African American Community Development in Arlington, Virginia, from the Civil War through Civil Rights Lindsey Bestebreurtje 9781643364988
RRP: $50.60$43.02The story of how racial segregation and suburbanization shaped lives, the built environment, and the law in Arlington, Virginia Arlington, Virgina, sits on the bank of the Potomac River, just opposite the nation's capital city of Washington, DC. This... -
Steel Lobsters: Crown, Commonwealth, and the Last Knights in England Myke Cole 9781472863584
RRP: $48.75$41.44A dramatic history of the Steel Lobsters, Sir Arthur Hesilrige’s Regiment of Horse, in the English Civil War – the last fully armoured knights in England. The 17th-century battlefield ushered in a new era, with formed musketeers and pistol-wielding... -
Captain de Havilland's Moth: Tales of High Adventure from the Golden Age of Aviation Alexander Norman 9780349146454
RRP: $33.13$28.16Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780349146454Author Alexander NormanFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint AbacusPublisher Little, Brown Book Group -
Little Englanders: Britain in the Edwardian Era Alwyn Turner 9781800815315
RRP: $21.43$18.21'The very best sort of panoramic portrait' David Kynaston 'The Edwardians have long been the lost decade of British history, yet they are that history at its climax. Alwyn Turner sets the record straight, bringing its characters, strains and stresses... -
Poet, Mystic, Widow, Wife: The Extraordinary Lives of Medieval Women Hetta Howes 9781399420082
RRP: $33.13$28.16Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781399420082Author Hetta HowesFormat PaperbackImprint Bloomsbury ContinuumPublisher Bloomsbury Continuum -
Embers of the Hands: Hidden Histories of the Viking Age Eleanor Barraclough 9781788166751
RRP: $21.43$18.21Imagine a Viking, and a certain image springs to mind: a nameless, faceless warrior, leaping ashore from a longboat, and ready to terrorise the hapless local population of a northern European country. Yet while such characters define the Viking Age...