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Legacies of the Portuguese Colonial Empire: Nationalism, Popular Culture and Citizenship Nuno Domingos 9781350289789
RRP: £28.99£24.64Decolonization 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: £29.99£25.49Apologies 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: £30.00£25.50A 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... -
Kansas and Kansans in World War I: Service at Home and Abroad Blake Andrew Watson 9780700637416
RRP: £35.95£30.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780700637416Author Blake Andrew WatsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint University Press of KansasPublisher University Press of Kansas -
Prague, Jan Hus and Prague University Martin Nodl 9788024656366
RRP: £24.00£20.40Contextualizes 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... -
Mountains of the Pharaohs: The Untold Story of the Pyramid Builders Zahi Hawass 9781649033987
RRP: £18.99£15.65World-renowned archaeologist Zahi Hawass weaves a spellbinding narrative about how the pyramids were built and why, new in paperbackNearly five thousand years ago, the fourth dynasty of Egypt’s Old Kingdom reigned over a highly advanced civilization... -
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: £12.99£11.04'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... -
Scimitar into Stanley: One Soldier’s Falklands War Roger Field 9781399023191
RRP: £14.99£10.95In May 1982, Captain Roger Field, The Blues and Royals, attached to HQ 5th Infantry Brigade, sailed on the Queen Elizabeth 2 as part of the second wave to liberate the Falkland Islands. Surprised by what he saw at Brigade HQ he started writing a diary... -
The Internal Colony: Race and the American Politics of Global Decolonization Sam Klug 9780226820514
RRP: £32.00£27.20An 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: £96.00£81.60A 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: £8.99£7.64Take 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: £130.00£110.50Shortlisted 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... -
Sacred Space and Anglo-Turkish Relations: The Politics of British Churches, Cemeteries and War Graves in Turkey, 1825 to 1976 Dr John Fisher 9780755654611
RRP: £85.00£72.25This work investigates how various sacred spaces in Ottoman and Republican Turkey interfaced with British foreign policy. It considers how these spaces impacted upon British prestige in the context of its dealings with Turkey chiefly, as well as other... -
Socialist Internationalism and the Gritty Politics of the Particular: Second-Third World Spaces in the Cold War Kristin Roth-Ey 9781350302815
RRP: £28.99£24.64This 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: £25.00£21.25In 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: £27.99£23.79A 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... -
Sharon Kivland - L'Esprit d'escalier Sharon Kivland 9780955309243
RRP: £7.50£6.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780955309243Author Sharon KivlandFormat PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint information as materialPublisher MA BIBLIOTHEQUEQty in Cart: 0Quantity:Price:RRP: £7.50£6.38Subtotal: -
A Footnote to History. Eight Years of Troubles in Samoa: Annotated with additional material and maps Robert Louis Stevenson 9781914093661
RRP: £20.99£17.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914093661Author Robert Louis StevensonFormat HardbackPage Count 300Imprint Anulap BooksPublisher Island Ink Publishing Co. Ltd. -
Left Adrift: What Happened to Liberal Politics Timothy Shenk 9798987053669
RRP: £12.99£11.04A rivalry that remade the political world as we know it today Politics today doesn’t look much like it did fifty years ago. Electorates that were once divided by economics—with blue-collar workers supporting leftwing parties while the wealthy trended... -
Animating Central Park: A Multispecies History Dawn Day Biehler 9780295753195
RRP: £29.99£25.49The entangled human and more-than-human histories of one of the world’s iconic urban green spacesFrom deer and beavers to “free range” pigs and goats in and around Seneca Village, what we now know as Central Park has long been home to an abundance of... -
Taking Stock: Media Inventories in the German Nineteenth Century Sean B. Franzel 9783111059853
RRP: £82.00£69.70The volume examines the proliferation of inventorying models and practices as cultural techniques of knowledge organization and production during the long nineteenth century. While inventories are still broadly treated as raw data and unprocessed source... -
Airborne to Arnhem Volume 3: Personal reminiscences of the Battle of Arnhem, Operation MARKET, 17th-26th September 1944 Vincent Hunt 9781804515297
RRP: £59.95£50.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804515297Author Vincent HuntFormat HardbackPage Count 536Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Soft Power beyond the Nation Sylvia Dummer Scheel 9781647124991
RRP: £40.00£34.00An innovative, interdisciplinary perspective on soft power in history, moving beyond the framework of the nation-state Starting in the nineteenth century, as world events became more interconnected than ever, and as public opinion began to weigh on... -
1588: The Spanish Armada and the 24 Ships lost on Ireland's shores Michael B. Barry 9781838485931
RRP: £30.00£25.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781838485931Author Michael B. BarryFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Andalus PressPublisher Andalus Press -
Muslim Armies 1800-1914 Mmp Books 9788367227438
RRP: £20.00£17.00During the 19th century, coming under the increasing military pressure exerted by the colonial military powers of Europe, several Muslim countries of both Africa and Asia were forced to modernize - in a progressive way - their armies in order to face the... -
Lost in Austin: The Evolution of an American City Alex Hannaford 9780063253025
RRP: £25.00£21.25A long-time Austinite and journalist’s exploration of the profound movements that have shaped Austin, Texas—charting the shifts within its vibrant music scene, the impact of rapid urbanization, and the challenges of gentrification—ultimately questioning... -
John J. Pershing and the American Expeditionary Forces in World War I, 1917-1919: March 21-May 19, 1918 Volume 4 John T Greenwood 9781985900769
RRP: £58.50£49.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781985900769Author John T GreenwoodFormat HardbackPage Count 598Imprint The University Press of KentuckyPublisher The University Press of Kentucky -
Ethics of the Algorithm: Digital Humanities and Holocaust Memory Todd Presner 9780691258966
RRP: £35.00£29.75How computational methods can expand how we see, read, and listen to Holocaust testimonyThe Holocaust is one of the most documented—and now digitized—events in human history. Institutions and archives hold hundreds of thousands of hours of audio and... -
Cold War Anthropologist: Isabel Kelly and Rural Development in Mexico Stephanie Baker Opperman 9780816553914
RRP: £59.00£50.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816553914Author Stephanie Baker OppermanFormat HardbackPage Count 248Imprint University of Arizona PressPublisher University of Arizona Press -
Textual Lives of Caste Across the Ages: Hierarchy, Humanity and Equality in Indian History Prathama Banerjee 9781350355019
RRP: £85.00£72.25The essays in this volume explore the myriad ways in which caste (varna and jati) has been theorized and critiqued in multiple philosophical, religious, logical and narrative traditions in India. Spanning ancient, medieval and modern times, and in... -
Russian Culture under Putin Professor Eliot Borenstein 9781350399402
RRP: £45.00£38.25This timely text charts the metamorphosis of Russian media and culture in the 21st century. It considers how, when Vladimir Putin came to power in 2000, Russia's media and culture industry had enjoyed nearly a decade of almost unrestricted freedom and... -
Worlds at the End: Los Angeles, Infrastructure, and the Apocalyptic Imagination Pacharee Sudhinaraset 9781439925508
RRP: £112.00£95.20Forthcoming Fall 2024Book InformationISBN 9781439925508Author Pacharee SudhinarasetFormat HardbackPage Count 250Imprint Temple University Press,U.S.Publisher Temple University Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 454g -
A Hudson Valley Reckoning: Discovering the Forgotten History of Slaveholding in My Dutch American Family Debra Bruno 9781501776564
RRP: £27.99£23.79A Hudson Valley Reckoning tells the long-ignored story of slavery's history in upstate New York through Debra Bruno's absorbing chronicle that uncovers her Dutch ancestors' slave-holding past and leads to a deep connection with the descendants of the... -
Archives and Emotions Valeria Vanesio 9781350415188
RRP: £85.00£72.25This volume examines the interplay between emotions and archives from the 18th to the 21st century. Exploring how feelings have affected the ways in which the past is preserved, remembered, controlled and experienced by various peoples and societies, and... -
Worlds at the End: Los Angeles, Infrastructure, and the Apocalyptic Imagination Pacharee Sudhinaraset 9781439925515
RRP: £29.99£25.49Forthcoming Fall 2024Book InformationISBN 9781439925515Author Pacharee SudhinarasetFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint Temple University Press,U.S.Publisher Temple University Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 454g -
Capitalism: The Age of Unmasked Gods and Naked Kings: Manifesto of the Democratic Civilisation, Volume II Abdullah Ocalan 9781629637877
RRP: £25.99£22.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629637877Author Abdullah OcalanFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint PM PressPublisher PM Press -
The Anointed: New York's White Shoe Law Firms—How They Started, How They Grew, and How They Ran the Country Jeremiah Lambert 9781493071876
RRP: £14.99£12.74This is the story of how and why such powerhouse Wall Street law firms as Cravath, Swaine & Moore, Davis Polk & Wardwell, and Sullivan & Cromwell, grew from nineteenth-century entrepreneurial origins into icons of institutional law practice; how, as... -
Return to the Place I Never Left Tobias Schiff 9780814351628
RRP: £24.95£21.21A personal testament in poetry to survival, resilience, and the complex legacy of the Holocaust.In this harrowing firsthand account of the Holocaust, survivor Tobias Schiff displays the depths of human suffering, the capacity for hope and renewal, and... -
We Are Black History Board Book Mudpuppy 9780735382572
RRP: £8.99£7.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780735382572Author MudpuppyPage Count 22Imprint GalisonPublisher Galison -
T&T Clark Encyclopedia of Second Temple Judaism Volume One Professor Loren T. Stuckenbruck 9780567716927
RRP: £49.99£42.49The T&T Clark Encyclopedia of Second Temple Judaism provides a comprehensive reference resource of over 600 scholarly articles aimed at scholars and students interested in Judaism of the Second Temple Period. The two-volume work is split into four parts...