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Stockton-on-Tees A Colourful Past: Including Thornaby, Yarm, Norton & Billingham Paul Menzies 9781739819446
RRP: £20.00£17.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781739819446Author Paul MenziesFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint Destinworld Publishing LtdPublisher Destinworld Publishing Ltd -
Analysing the Boundaries of the Ancient Roman Garden: (Re)Framing the Hortus Dr Victoria Austen 9781350265226
RRP: £28.99£24.64This book demonstrates how the Romans constructed garden boundaries specifically in order to open up or undermine the division between a number of oppositions, such as inside/outside, sacred/profane, art/nature, and real/imagined. Using case studies from... -
Evie Hone: and the international avant garde Joseph McBrinn 9781801510837
RRP: £50.00£42.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781801510837Author Joseph McBrinnFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint Four Courts Press LtdPublisher Four Courts Press Ltd -
The 1969 ‘Greek Case’ in the Council of Europe: A Game Changer for Human Rights Dr Kostis Kornetis 9781350296589
RRP: £85.00£84.96In 1969 Greece withdrew from the Council of Europe (CoE), following pressure exercised by various European countries, organisations, social movements and individuals in response to the brutal conduct of the military junta that had taken power by force on... -
Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain: Voir Venir, Venir Voir Alain Dominique Perrin 9782869251878
RRP: £35.00£29.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782869251878Author Alain Dominique PerrinFormat HardbackPage Count 436Imprint Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporainPublisher Fondation Cartier pour... -
Soviet and Russian-Built Destroyers in Service with Foreign Navies, 1904-2023 Volume 1: 1904 to the 1930s Dmitry Zubkov 9781804515587
RRP: £19.95£16.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804515587Author Dmitry ZubkovFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
The History of the United States A. Glenn Crothers 9781440864872
RRP: £55.00£46.75This latest addition to the Histories of the Modern Nations series explores the complex and diverse history of the United States from the nation's precolonial origins to the present day. Supported by contemporary historiography, this book highlights... -
Artistic and Intellectual Practices in Contemporary China: China as an Issue Carol Yinghua Lu 9789819988143
RRP: £109.99£93.49This edited volume is the first internationally available English translation of key lectures and essays delivered at Beijing’s Inside Out Art Museum over the past decade. The book elevates a chorus of voices from domestic and international... -
The Bloomsbury Handbook of the Russian Revolution Professor Emeritus Geoffrey Swain 9781350243170
RRP: £39.99£33.99Through 30 interpretative essays, The Bloomsbury Handbook of the Russian Revolution sees an international team of leading scholars comprehensively examine Russia’s revolutionary years. In the wake of the 2017 centenary, this handbook is the first... -
History of Mind: Studies in the Philosophy of Simo Knuuttila José Filipe Silva 9783111378305
RRP: £79.50£67.58Simo Knuuttila was an influential philosopher, theologian, and historian of philosophy who conducted research on a variety of topics including modalities, emotions, perception, and change in different historical periods, from Ancient to Modern. His... -
Panoramic and Immersive Media Studies Yearbook Molly Briggs 9783111335421
RRP: £77.50£65.88Open AccessBook InformationISBN 9783111335421Author Molly BriggsFormat HardbackPage Count 280Imprint De Gruyter OldenbourgPublisher De Gruyter -
A Guide to Baroque Rome: The Palaces Anthony Langdon 9781843682530
RRP: £23.99£20.39The palaces built in Rome in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries are some of the most magnificent buildings in Europe – yet they remain relatively unfamiliar. This is the first stand-alone overview guide ever published. We produce it as a companion... -
The Rest is History Returns: An A–Z of Historical Curiosities Goalhanger Podcasts 9781526668653
RRP: £14.99£12.74From the podcast legends who brought you The Rest is History comes The Rest is History Returns. This time Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook bring you an alphabetical miscellany, taking on some of history’s best and most bizarre moments! Charge forth... -
Pre-Columbian Contact between the Americas and Oceania Andrea Ballesteros Danel 9783031648762
RRP: £109.99£93.49This book weaves together theories of pre-Columbian trans-Pacific contact between Oceania and the Americas and analyses them from a history of ideas perspective. Despite limited factual evidence, trans-Pacific contact theories between the Americas and... -
The Autobiography of Joshua Chamberlain Thomas A. Desjardin 9781684752263
RRP: £18.99£16.14Joshua Chamberlain has become a pop culture icon and his regiment is now the most famous small military unit in American history. A major focus of The Killer Angels, the largest selling Civil War novel of all time, save Uncle Tom’s Cabin, and two major... -
Business as Usual: How Sponsored Media Sold American Capitalism in the Twentieth Century Caroline Jack 9780226835143
RRP: £24.00£20.40How corporations used mass media to teach Americans that capitalism was natural and patriotic, exposing the porous line between propaganda and public service. Business as Usual reveals how American capitalism has been promoted in the most ephemeral of... -
Between Rebels and Rulers in the Early Islamicate World: Power, Contention and Identity Hannah-Lena Hagemann 9781399530187
RRP: £95.00£80.75Between Rebels and Rulers in the Early Islamicate World offers the first dedicated examination of the phenomenon of rebellion across the early Islamicate world. It combines discourse analysis with a return to long-neglected social-historical analysis in... -
Global Royal Families: Cultures of Transnational Monarchy in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Robert Aldrich 9780198931744
RRP: £80.00£68.00Monarchy as a form of government involves more than an individual sovereign, and encompasses consorts, heirs and other relatives. Since royals, especially in Europe, traditionally married other royals, there existed many familial ties across borders,...Qty in Cart: 0Quantity:Price:RRP: £80.00£68.00Subtotal: -
Psychoanalysis, Historiography, and the Nazi Camps: Accounting for Survival Dan Stone 9783031580093
RRP: £34.99£29.74In the postwar years, Dutch survivors Eddy de Wind, Louis Micheels, and Elie A. Cohen, who went on to become practicing psychoanalysts, penned accounts of their survival of the Nazi camps. Their sober assessments contrast sharply with those by Bruno...Qty in Cart: 0Quantity:Price:RRP: £34.99£29.74Subtotal: -
Sir Ronald Storrs: Personality and Policy in Mandate Palestine, 1917–1926 Christopher Burnham 9781032597263
RRP: £135.00£114.75This volume utilises the personal papers of Sir Ronald Storrs, as well as other archival materials, to make a microhistorical investigation of his period as Governor of Jerusalem between 1917 to 1926.It builds upon Edward Said’s work on the Orientalist... -
Acquittals in the Spanish Inquisition Gunnar W. Knutsen 9781032596679
RRP: £36.99£31.44The Spanish Inquisition has become such a byword for injustice that many forget it was also a judicial system capable of acquittal. This study of more than 67,000 trials uncovers over 2,500 formal acquittals, more than 6,600 suspended trials, and nearly... -
Smoke And Ashes: Opium's Hidden Histories Amitav Ghosh 9781529349269
RRP: £10.99£9.34'A bracing new history of the global opium trade . . . Ghosh's tentacular history embraces opium's entanglement with furniture, architecture, gardens and its role in modern wars . . . But it's Ghosh's big-picture thinking that has made his nonfiction so... -
The Rabbit Hole Book: 99 adventures into the history of stuff Richard Coles 9780241684863
RRP: £22.00£18.70Have you ever wondered why pubs have certain names?Or why jet lag exists?Or perhaps you have speculated about the origin of the paperclip?If any of these ring true or if you can relate to spending far too much time down an internet rabbit hole then you... -
The Rabbit Hole Book: 99 adventures into the history of stuff Richard Coles 9780241701829
RRP: £16.99£14.44Have you ever wondered why pubs have certain names?Or why jet lag exists?Or perhaps you have speculated about the origin of the paperclip?If any of these ring true or if you can relate to spending far too much time down an internet rabbit hole then you... -
Philip the Chancellor and Eudes of Châteauroux: Nine Sermons on Crusade and Heresy, 1226--1231 Nicole Beriou 9780198921394
RRP: £130.00£110.50Sermones Contra Hereticos presents an edition and translation of a group of mostly unpublished Latin sermons which were originally preached in the context of the Albigensian Crusade of 1226 and during the fight against heresy in northern France in 1231... -
Writing from Invention to Decipherment Silvia Ferrara 9780198908746
RRP: £119.00£101.15This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read on the Oxford Academic platform and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. Writing from Invention... -
Expresionismo Norbert Wolf 9783836505260
RRP: £15.00£12.75Sharp angles, strange forms, lurid colors, and distorted perspectives are classic hallmarks of Expressionism, the twentieth century movement that prioritized emotion over objective reality. Though particularly present in Germany and Austria, the...Qty in Cart: 0Quantity:Price:RRP: £15.00£12.75Subtotal: -
Britain's Gulag: The Brutal End of Empire in Kenya Caroline Elkins 9781529946185
RRP: £16.99£14.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781529946185Author Caroline ElkinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint VintagePublisher Vintage PublishingWeight(grams) 500g -
The Traitor of Arnhem: WWII’s Greatest Betrayal and the Moment That Changed History Forever Robert Verkaik 9781802797442
RRP: £9.99£8.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781802797442Author Robert VerkaikFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Headline Welbeck Non-FictionPublisher Headline Publishing Group -
The Warren Court and the Democratic Constitution Morton J. Horwitz 9781647124755
RRP: £24.00£20.40A timely history of the profound impact of Earl Warren's Supreme Court on many areas of modern American government and society From 1953 to 1969, Earl Warren served as chief justice of the US Supreme Court. During that time, the Warren Court made a... -
Oathbreakers: The War of Brothers That Shattered an Empire and Made Medieval Europe Matthew Gabriele 9780063336704
RRP: £15.99£13.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063336704Author Matthew GabrieleImprint HarperAudioPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc -
Give Her Credit: The Untold Account of a Women's Bank That Empowered a Generation Grace L. Williams 9781542025508
RRP: £19.99£16.99The galvanizing true story of a group of remarkable women in the 1970s male-run world of business, banking, and finance. They didn’t play by the rules. They changed them and made history. In the 1970s, a new wave of feminism was sweeping America. But in... -
Canada and Eastern Europe, 1945-1991: Meeting in the Middle Andrea Chandler 9789633867723
RRP: £64.00£54.40How democratic regimes should engage with authoritarian regimes, or self-proclaimed authorities in states under occupation, has long been a subject of debate. The work examines Canada's relations with member-states of the Warsaw Pact during the Cold War...Qty in Cart: 0Quantity:Price:RRP: £64.00£54.40Subtotal: -
Jewish Country Houses Juliet Carey 9781800810358
RRP: £45.00£38.25'A magnificent work of scholarship' - Edmund de Waal 'I learned something new on every beautifully illustrated page' - Neil MacGregor 'A fascinating book about a long-forgotten world' - Hadley Freeman Through a series of striking case studies this... -
The Last Secret Agent: The Untold Story of One of Britain’s Last WW2 Spies – In Her Own Words Pippa Latour 9781800962774
RRP: £22.00£18.70An incredible story of courage, peril, secrecy and resistance.'You know you can change your mind, don't you? Even now. Even when you are halfway across the English Channel. Any time before you jump.''Yes, I know,' I quickly reassured her, 'and I won't... -
Mapping the State: English Boundaries and the 1832 Reform Act Martin Spychal 9781914477393
RRP: £90.00£76.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914477393Author Martin SpychalFormat HardbackPage Count 354Imprint University of London PressPublisher University of London -
What's Cooking in the Kremlin: A Modern History of Russia Through the Kitchen Door Witold Szablowski 9781837730209
RRP: £10.99£9.34'A spicy and original romp through Russian history' ROBERT SERVICE'Poignant, comical, and in the best sense disturbing' PAUL FREEDMAN, AUTHOR OF TEN RESTAURANTS THAT CHANGED AMERICA'This wickedly delicious tale uncovers the secret, gustatory history of... -
The Art of War: The Classic Text on the Conduct of Warfare Sun Tzu 9781398839892
RRP: £12.99£11.04Sorry no description is available for this book at this time.Qty in Cart: 0Quantity:Price:RRP: £12.99£11.04Subtotal: -
Building the Black City: The Transformation of American Life Joe William Trotter, Jr. 9780520344419
RRP: £24.00£20.40A new way of seeing Black history—the sweeping story of how American cities as we know them developed from the vision, aspirations, and actions of the Black poor. Building the Black City shows how African Americans built and rebuilt thriving cities for... -
Soviet Socialist Realism and Art in the Asia-Pacific Alison Carroll 9781032661308
RRP: £135.00£114.75This study evaluates how the ideology of Socialist Realism, developed by the Soviets in policies and the practices of art, has been influential in the Asia Pacific region from 1917 until today.Focusing primarily on Russia, then China, Vietnam, Korea,...