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The Tradition: A New History of Welsh Art 1400-1990 Peter Lord 9781917140386
RRP: $97.50$82.88Peter Lord surveys the evolution of the visual culture of Wales from the Renaissance to the end of the twentieth century in this new, single-volume history.The author describes both how the work emerged from its Welsh historical context and was related... -
Disputing Disaster: A Sextet on the Great War Perry Anderson 9781804297674
RRP: $58.50$49.73In A Sextet on the Great War, Perry Anderson picks out from the highly charged historiography on the First World War one leading historian from each of the major powers that survived the conflagration: Fritz Fischer, famous historian of German war-guilt;... -
Mutiny on the Black Prince: Slavery, Piracy, and the Limits of Liberty in the Revolutionary Atlantic World James H. Sweet 9780197692721
RRP: $52.63$44.73The dramatic story of a mutiny aboard an eighteenth-century British ship and how its owners effectively rallied the power of the British Crown to protect their investment and expand their wealth and political power across multiple generations. In 1768,... -
L’Écriture est la peinture de la voix: essays in honour of Nicholas Cronk Gillian Pink 9781835537626
RRP: $224.25$190.61L’Écriture est la peinture de la voix honours and celebrates the inestimable contributions that Professor Nicholas Cronk has made to our understanding of the Enlightenment. As director of the University of Oxford’s Voltaire Foundation, he has played a... -
Houses, Families, and Cohabitation: Swedish Towns in the Eighteenth Century Dag Lindström 9780367436834
RRP: $253.50$215.48This book is an interdisciplinary study that draws on a combination of archaeological evidence, building archaeological analysis, archival sources to explore the dynamic relations between dwelling houses, social organization of households, and patterns... -
Pharaoh: Art and Power in Ancient Egypt Marie Vandenbeusch 9781512827217
RRP: $122.85$104.42Covers three thousand years of history and highlights key pieces from the British Museum’s outstanding collection of Egyptian antiquities The rulers of ancient Egypt were not always male, nor always Egyptian. At times, Egypt was divided by civil war,... -
Women Architects at Work: Making American Modernism Mary Anne Hunting 9780691206691
RRP: $107.25$91.16A comprehensive history of the women architects who left their enduring mark on American ModernismIn the decades preceding World War II, professional architecture schools enrolled increasing numbers of women, but career success did not come easily. Women... -
All the Seas of the World: The First Global Naval War, 1739-1748: Volume 2 - 1745-1748 Albert C E Parker 9781915113948
RRP: $87.75$74.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915113948Author Albert C E ParkerFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Our Onward March: The Grand Army of the Republic in the Progressive Era Jonathan D. Neu 9781531509019
RRP: $58.48$49.71Provides vital new evidence that Union veterans remained stubbornly opposed to the nation’s reconciliationist tendencies and unwilling to surrender the causes for which they fought Union soldiers’ service to the nation did not end in 1865. Instead, it... -
Caring for the Socially Marginalised in Interwar Europe, 1919–1939: The Mixed Economy of Welfare Michele Mioni 9783031533440
RRP: $214.48$182.31This book investigates the mixed economy of welfare that took care of the assistance of socially marginalised people in interwar Europe: namely, the state; local authorities; and a combination of voluntary and informal actors. While literature has... -
The New Television Rachel Churner 9781949484113
RRP: $79.95$67.96Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Gladiators 1st–5th centuries AD François Gilbert 9781472862761
RRP: $29.23$24.84This illustrated study lifts the veil on the gladiators of ancient Rome, who provided a bloody spectacle for the people of the Eternal City and its vast empire. By the start of the Principate in 27 BC, the gladiator games were a long-standing part of the... -
Thoughts and Adventures: Churchill Reflects on Spies, Cartoons, Flying and the Future Sir Sir Winston S. Churchill 9781350450264
RRP: $146.25$124.31First published in 1932, Thoughts and Adventures is Churchill’s most philosophical book. It conveys the extraordinary variety and depth of the statesman’s mature thoughts on questions facing modern men and women. Written in what biographers have called... -
Informelle Kunst: Begriffe, Kontexte, Rezeptionen Christoph Zuschlag 9783422988613
RRP: $66.30$56.36Der erste Band der Reihe der Schriften der Forschungsstelle Informelle Kunst dokumentiert die Ergebnisse des ersten »Forschungskolloquiums Informelle Kunst«. Die Beiträge von Nachwuchswissenschaftler*innen decken ein breites Spektrum relevanter Themen... -
The Jewish Purging of a Small German Town: Personal Recollection, Private Letters, and Oral Testimony Professor Emerita Maria R. Boes 9781350450196
RRP: $165.75$140.89Through the analysis of 10 oral witness testimonies of local residents and a previously undocumented letter correspondence between a Jewish Holocaust survivor and her gentile friend, The Jewish Purging of a Small German Town provides new insights into... -
Algerian Independence and the British Left: Solidarities and Resistance in a Decolonising World Professor Mélanie Torrent 9781784537890
RRP: $195.00$165.75Based on archives from governments, parties, organisations and individuals, this book investigates the relationship between the British left and Algerian liberation movements during the Algerian War of Independence (1954-1962). It explores the presence... -
The King’s Road: Diplomacy and the Remaking of the Silk Road Xin Wen 9780691243191
RRP: $68.25$58.01An exciting and richly detailed new history of the Silk Road that tells how it became more important as a route for diplomacy than for tradeThe King’s Road offers a new interpretation of the history of the Silk Road, emphasizing its importance as a... -
Catholic Women and Mexican Politics, 1750–1940 Margaret Chowning 9780691264578
RRP: $54.60$46.41How women preserved the power of the Catholic Church in Mexican political lifeWhat accounts for the enduring power of the Catholic Church, which withstood widespread and sustained anticlerical opposition in Mexico? Margaret Chowning locates an answer in... -
The Eagle and the Hart: The Tragedy of Richard II and Henry IV Helen Castor 9780241419328
RRP: $48.75$41.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780241419328Author Helen CastorFormat HardbackPage Count 672Imprint Allen LanePublisher Penguin Books LtdWeight(grams) 750g -
Doomsday Torpedoes: Live Testing of Soviet Naval Nuclear Weapons, 1954-1962 Krzysztof Dabrowski 9781804515839
RRP: $38.90$33.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804515839Author Krzysztof DabrowskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Republic of Indians: Empires of Indigenous Law in the Early American South Bradley J. Dixon 9781512826425
RRP: $78.00$66.30A sweeping history of the Native Southerners who wrote their principles into Spanish and English law A sweeping history of the Native Southerners who challenged European empires from the inside, Republic of Indians tells the story of Indigenous leaders... -
In Defense of Partisanship Julian E. Zelizer 9798987053683
RRP: $25.33$21.53Partisanship is a dirty word in American politics. If there is one issue on which almost everyone in our divided country seems to agree, it’s the belief that the intense loyalty within the electorate toward Democrats and Republicans is the source of our... -
German Troops in the American Revolution (2): Hannover, Braunschweig, Waldeck, Hessen-Hanau, Ansbach-Bayreuth, and Anhalt-Zerbst Robbie MacNiven 9781472840196
RRP: $25.33$21.53Fully illustrated, this is the second volume in a detailed study of the German auxiliary troops who fought for Britain in the American Revolutionary War. During the American Revolutionary War (1775-83), German auxiliary troops provided a vital... -
Cutover Capitalism: The Industrialization of the Northern Forest Jason L. Newton 9781959000297
RRP: $58.40$49.65What happened to the loggers of America’s past when lumbermen moved west and south in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries? How did these communities continue to create value and meaning in these marginal lands? Cutover Capitalism: The... -
Mukden 1905: Russia and Japan's Battle for Manchuria John Valitutto 9781472864222
RRP: $33.13$28.16A compelling narrative of the largest land battle of its time, and the decisive engagement of the Russo-Japanese War. Mukden stands out as the most significant battle of the Russo-Japanese War. By February 1905, the conflict had reached its culmination,... -
For Russia with Hitler: White Russian Émigrés and the German-Soviet War Oleg Beyda 9781487556488
RRP: $169.65$144.20The Bolshevik takeover of Russia created an alternative Russia in exile that never laid down its arms. For two decades, expelled White Russians sought ways to retaliate against the Soviet Union and return home. Their irreconcilability was galvanized by a... -
Aircraft of World War 2 The Imperial War Museum 9780008704179
RRP: $58.50$49.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780008704179Author The Imperial War MuseumFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins PublishersWeight(grams) 270g -
The Weimar Years: Rise and Fall 1918–1933 Frank McDonough 9781803284798
RRP: $25.33$21.53A DAILY MAIL BOOK OF THE WEEK A SPECTATOR BOOK OF THE YEAR A DAILY TELEGRAPH BEST HISTORY BOOK OF 2023 ASPECTS OF HISTORY BOOKS OF THE YEAR A GUARDIAN BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 A DAILY MAIL BEST CHRISTMAS BOOK OF 2023 The prequel to Frank McDonough's... -
Legacies of the Portuguese Colonial Empire: Nationalism, Popular Culture and Citizenship Nuno Domingos 9781350289789
RRP: $56.53$48.05Decolonization represented the end of colonial rule, but did not eradicate imperial and colonial categories and mythologies. Situated in the wider context of European colonial legacies, this book looks at the legacies of the Portuguese empire in today’s... -
The Best Land: Four Hundred Years of Love and Betrayal on Oneida Territory Susan A. Brewer 9780801452598
RRP: $58.48$49.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780801452598Author Susan A. BrewerFormat HardbackPage Count 376Imprint Three HillsPublisher Three HillsWeight(grams) 907g -
Lost Souls: Soviet Displaced Persons and the Birth of the Cold War Sheila Fitzpatrick 9780691230023
RRP: $58.50$49.73A vivid history of how Cold War politics helped solve one of the twentieth century’s biggest refugee crisesWhen World War II ended, about one million people whom the Soviet Union claimed as their citizens were outside the borders of the USSR, mostly in... -
Prague, Jan Hus and Prague University Martin Nodl 9788024656366
RRP: $46.80$39.78Contextualizes the Czech Reformation in the setting of Prague University. The Czech Reformation offered a radical solution to the spiritual and institutional crisis of the late medieval church at the end of the fourteenth century. The beginnings of this... -
Melting Point: Family, Memory and the Search for a Promised Land: A groundbreaking family history for fans of Edmund de Waal and Philippe Sands Rachel Cockerell 9781035408931
RRP: $25.33$21.53'A truly radical book; radical in subject, radical in form. For the most tragic reasons, it could not feel more immediate; and yet it's a fluid, fast-paced, hugely enjoyable and engaging read.' - Andrew Marr''Unforgettable... Non fiction will be... -
The Internal Colony: Race and the American Politics of Global Decolonization Sam Klug 9780226820514
RRP: $62.40$53.04An explication of how global decolonization provoked profound changes in American political theory and practice. In The Internal Colony, Sam Klug reveals the central but underappreciated importance of global decolonization to the divergence between... -
The Marital Knot: Agunot in the Ashkenazi Realm, 1648–1850 Noa Shashar 9781684582419
RRP: $187.20$159.12A long overdue study of agunot based on exhaustive research in rabbinic sources, memoirs, and communal records. Noa Shashar sheds light on Jewish family life in the early modern era and on the activity of rabbis whose Jewish legal rulings determined the... -
Adventures in Time: The Fall of the Aztecs Dominic Sandbrook 9780141999210
RRP: $17.53$14.90Take a journey to a vanished world with the ADVENTURES IN TIME series - stories so exciting you won't believe they're all true'An invisible tremor ran through the Aztecs on the rooftops, a breathless gasp of excitement. On the edge of the city the... -
A Cultural History of Sport Wray Vamplew 9781350461062
RRP: $253.50$215.48Shortlisted by the North American Society for Sport History for its 2022 Anthologies Award From gladiatorial combat to knightly tournaments and from hunting to games and gambling, sport has been central to human culture. A Cultural History of Sport... -
Socialist Internationalism and the Gritty Politics of the Particular: Second-Third World Spaces in the Cold War Kristin Roth-Ey 9781350302815
RRP: $56.53$48.05This collection takes a case study approach to enter into and explore spaces of ‘Second-Third World’ interaction during the Cold War. From the dining halls of a university, to hospital wards, construction sites, military barracks, pubs and more, the... -
Mixed Signals: Alien Communication Across the Iron Curtain Rebecca Charbonneau 9781509556915
RRP: $48.75$41.44In the shadow of the Cold War, whispers from the cosmos fueled an unlikely alliance between the US and USSR. The search for extraterrestrial intelligence (or SETI) emerged as a foundational field of radio astronomy characterized by an unusual level of... -
Three Impeachments: Guo Xiu and the Kangxi Court R. Kent Guy 9780295752938
RRP: $54.58$46.39A probe into corruption in late Imperial ChinaAt the beginning of China's long eighteenth century or "High Qing" era, a time of peace and prosperity when the foundations of Manchu rule under the Qing dynasty were established, a courageous official named...