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The Forgotten Battles of the Chancellorsville Campaign: Fredericksburg, Salem Church, and Banks' Ford in Spring 1863 Erik F. Nelson 9781606354803
RRP: $55.41$47.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781606354803Author Erik F. NelsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Kent State University PressPublisher Kent State University Press -
A Companion to the Hellenistic and Roman Near East Ted Kaizer 9781119528531
RRP: $48.96$41.62Discover a comprehensive and cross-disciplinary handbook exploring several sub-regions and key themes perfect for a new generation of students A Companion to the Hellenistic and Roman Near East delivers the first complete handbook in the area of... -
Gulag Fiction: Labour Camp Literature from Stalin to Putin Professor Polly Jones 9781350250390
RRP: $58.05$49.34This unique exploration of Russian prose fiction about the Soviet labour camp system since the Stalin era compares representations of identity, ethics and memory across the corpus. The Soviet labour camp system, or Gulag, was a highly complex network of... -
Why Taiwan Matters: How a Small Island Will Dictate the Global Future Kerry Brown 9780241694299
RRP: $21.92$18.63An urgent, indispensable guide to why Taiwan matters – for China, the West and for everyone’s futureWhen the bloody Chinese Civil War concluded in 1949 two Chinas were born. Mao's communists won and took China’s Mainland; Chiang Kai-shek's nationalists... -
Butrint 8: The Middle Byzantine Archaeology of Butrint, Its Enclave, Saranda and Santa Quaranta Richard Hodges 9798888571323
RRP: $54.18$46.05Butrint 8 is largely devoted to the Middle Byzantine archaeology discovered by the Butrint Foundation's projects at Butrint itself, in its environs, and in the nearby port of Saranda, ancient Onchesmos. The volume includes a full report on the... -
The Last Dynasty: Ancient Egypt from Alexander the Great to Cleopatra Toby Wilkinson 9781526664662
RRP: $21.92$18.63A definitive and thrilling new account of the last great dynasty of ancient Egypt, from Alexander the Great to Cleopatra. When Alexander the Great arrived in Egypt, he overthrew the hated Persian overlords and was welcomed as a saviour. He repaid them... -
Prosecuting the Powerful Steve Crawshaw 9780349128948
RRP: $24.50$20.82Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780349128948Author Steve CrawshawFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Little, BrownPublisher Little, Brown Book Group -
Exchanging Peoples: How Borderlands became the Soviet boundary between Ukrainians and Poles (1944-1947) Catherine Gousseff 9783110757538
RRP: $94.17$80.04The exchange of populations between Poland and Ukraine, which took place in the context of the modification of territories and the establishment of the new Soviet border in 1944-45, has never been addressed as such. The reconstruction of this migratory... -
Diplomacy Ends at Midnight: The Long Return of Hong Kong to China Dalena Wright 9780241598832
RRP: $18.06$15.35Brought to you by Penguin.The compelling story of the inescapable return of Hong Kong to China, published for the 25th anniversary of the handoverBritish Hong Kong ended in the last minutes of 30 June 1997. Diplomacy Ends at Midnight traces the... -
Hard Neighbors: The Scotch-Irish Invasion of Native America and the Making of an American Identity Colin G. Calloway 9780197618394
RRP: $34.82$29.59An intricate portrayal of the early American settlers who came to be known as Scotch-Irish, who through collusion and bloody conflict acted as the tip of the spear for white colonial expansion into Indian lands, embodying what became the American pioneer... -
Firebrands: The Untold Story of Four Women Who Made and Unmade Prohibition Gioia Diliberto 9780226819679
RRP: $30.96$26.32Guaranteed to change how you picture Prohibition, this lively history turns the spotlight on four women in the immediate aftermath of winning the vote who played influential roles on all sides of the Eighteenth and Twenty-First Amendments. In the popular... -
The Rise and Fall of the Italian Communist Party: A Transnational History Silvio Pons 9781503638839
RRP: $81.27$69.08This book reassesses the history of Italian communism in international perspective. Analyzing the rise and fall of the Italian Communist Party as a case study in the global history of communism, Silvio Pons considers a wide range of relational and... -
Eastern Europe since 1939 Mark Pittaway 9781350009769
RRP: $90.30$76.76Eastern Europe since 1939 is a detailed exploration of the region’s history from the outbreak of the Second World War until now. Focusing on social history, the book examines life under the socialist dictatorships which dominated the region and how the... -
Eastern Europe since 1939 Mark Pittaway 9781350009752
RRP: $29.66$25.21Eastern Europe since 1939 is a detailed exploration of the region’s history from the outbreak of the Second World War until now. Focusing on social history, the book examines life under the socialist dictatorships which dominated the region and how the... -
The Dark Side of Peter Pan: J. M. Barrie, the Man Who Couldn’t Grow Up Olivia Camozzi 9781399047555
RRP: $25.80$21.93James Barrie has been marked in recent years as manipulative, perverted and without the ability to love. Having authored the story of _Peter Pan_, which has been enjoyed by children and adults for over 100 years, many literary critics have been intrigued... -
Hitler's Deserters: Breaking Ranks with the Wehrmacht Douglas Carl Peifer 9780197539668
RRP: $34.82$29.59The first English language account of deserters from the German army during World War II The German military executed between 18,000 and 22,000 of its personnel in World War II on the charges of desertion and "undermining the military spirt." This book... -
Forgotten: Searching for Palestine’s Hidden Places and Lost Memorials Raja Shehadeh 9781805222415
RRP: $24.50$20.82Forgotten is a search for hidden or neglected memorials and places in historic Palestine - now Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories - and what they might tell us about the land and the people who live on our small slip of earth between the... -
James and John: A True Story of Prejudice and Murder Chris Bryant 9781526644992
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Trading Freedom: How Trade with China Defined Early America Dael A. Norwood 9780226836751
RRP: $30.96$26.32Explores the surprisingly rich early history of US-China trade and its unexpected impact on the developing republic. The economic and geographic development of the early United States is usually thought of in trans-Atlantic terms, defined by... -
Motherhood and Early Childhood in Ancient Egypt: Culture, Religion, and Medicine Dr. Amandine Marshall 9781649030900
RRP: $77.40$65.79A richly nuanced analysis of how ancient Egyptian society regarded and dealt with pregnancy, mothers, birth, and children In ancient Egypt, a woman’s primary role was that of mother, and as such she ensured her place within both her household and her... -
A New Orient: From German Scholarship to Middle Eastern Studies in Israel Amit Levy 9781684582020
RRP: $41.28$35.09A history of knowledge transfer of Oriental Studies stretching along an axis from Germany to Palestine/Israel. This study examines the history of Zionist academic Orientalism—referred to throughout as Oriental studies, the term contemporary English... -
The History of Everywhere: All the Stuff That You Never Knew Happened at the Same Time Philip Parker 9781529523775
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2024 Günter Berghaus 9783111434810
RRP: $163.19$138.71The first part of Volume 14 of the Yearbook presents ten essays concerned with Futurism in Italy, Russia, Ukraine, Czechoslovakia, Romania and Germany, and two focusing on dance and typography. Among other things, this publication provides analysis of... -
The Alpine Enlightenment: Horace-Bénédict de Saussure and Nature’s Sensorium Kathleen Kete 9780226835488
RRP: $33.54$28.51A study of the experience of nature in the eighteenth century based on the life of Horace-Bénédict de Saussure (1740–99). In The Alpine Enlightenment, historian Kathleen Kete takes us into the world of the Genevan geologist, physicist, inventor, and... -
Conversing with Chaos in Graeco-Roman Antiquity: Writing and Reading Environmental Disorder in Ancient Texts Esther Eidinow 9781350344198
RRP: $116.10$98.69This volume starts from a reconsideration of the idea that ancient perceptions of the non-human world rested on the profound belief in universal order and therefore paid little attention to variety, irregularity, and change. Focusing on the ancient... -
A Training School for Elephants Sophy Roberts 9780857528377
RRP: $25.80$21.93'A modern-day Freya Stark' - Tatler'Roberts' writing is beguiling' - The i'Roberts is a wonderfully lyrical writer' - ObserverFrom the acclaimed author of The Lost Pianos of Siberia, comes a new journey tracing a colonial-era African expedition.In 1879,... -
Historical Studies On Comfort Women In Shanghai: A Field Study Approach Zhiliang Su 9789811271830
RRP: $161.25$137.06This book examines the history of the military comfort women system in China. It aims to give readers a deeper insight into the origin, establishment, and operations of comfort stations, as well as tell the sufferings of comfort women, many of whom were... -
Great Contemporaries: Churchill Reflects on FDR, Hitler, Kipling, Chaplin, Balfour, and Other Giants of His Age Sir Sir Winston S. Churchill 9781350448759
RRP: $33.53$28.50Winston S. Churchill won the Nobel Prize for Literature for “his mastery of historical and biographical description.” Nowhere is that mastery more evident than in Great Contemporaries, first published in 1937. Written in the decade before Churchill... -
The History of the United States Supreme Court: A Modern Commentary and Analysis George Conyne 9781441134486
RRP: $25.79$21.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781441134486Author George ConyneFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Continuum Publishing CorporationPublisher Continuum Publishing... -
An Honourable and Impartial Tribunal: The Court Martial of Major General Henry Procter, Minutes of the Proceedings Guy St-Denis 9781771993197
RRP: $50.31$42.76“This way, General, this way!” With these words, Major General Henry Procter was ushered off the field of battle. It was the 5th of October 1813, and the British commander—having abandoned his army and Indigenous allies—had just lost not only the Battle... -
Subjugate the Earth: The Beginning and End of Human Mastery over Nature Philipp Blom 9781509561322
RRP: $32.25$27.41Subjugate the Earth traces the biography of a strange idea: the idea that human beings can subdue nature and rule over it, that humans are outside and above nature. Born in Mesopotamia at the dawn of civilisation, the idea of subjugating the Earth was... -
The Great War Illustrated 1918: Archive and Colour Photographs of WWI William Langford 9781399024518
RRP: $32.25$27.41The final book in a series of five titles which graphically cover each year of the war. Countless thousands of pictures were taken by photographers on all sides during the First World War. These pictures appeared in the magazines, journals and newspapers... -
Enchanted Creatures: Our Monsters and Their Meanings Natalie Lawrence 9781474619059
RRP: $32.24$27.40The hydra rears its many heads in a flurry of teeth and poisonous fumes. The cyborg lays waste to humanity with a ruthless, expressionless stare.From ancient mythology to modern science fiction, we have had to confront the monsters that lurk in the...Qty in Cart: 0Quantity:Price:RRP: $32.24$27.40Subtotal: -
Carnage and Care on the Eastern Front: The War Diaries of Bernhard Bardach, 1914-1918 Peter C. Appelbaum 9781805397465
RRP: $36.06$30.65For nearly all of the Great War, the Jewish doctor Bernhard Bardach served with the Austro-Hungarian army in present-day Ukraine. His diaries from that period, unpublished and largely overlooked until now, represent a distinctive and powerful record of... -
Worthy of Praise: The Dutch Army in the War of Liberation and the Hundred Days 1813-1815 Marc Geerdink-Schaftenaar 9781915070463
RRP: $32.25$27.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915070463Author Marc Geerdink-SchaftenaarFormat PaperbackPage Count 204Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Analysing Historical Narratives: On Academic, Popular and Educational Framings of the Past Stefan Berger 9781805397380
RRP: $41.22$35.04For all of the recent debates over the methods and theoretical underpinnings of the historical profession, scholars and laypeople alike still frequently think of history in terms of storytelling. Accordingly, historians and theorists have devoted much... -
Out of the Darkness: The Germans, 1942-2022 Frank Trentmann 9780141985848
RRP: $24.50$20.82In 1945, Germany lay in ruins, morally and materially. The German people stood condemned by history, responsible for a horrifying genocide and a war of extermination. But by 2015 Germany looked to many to be the moral voice of Europe, welcoming almost... -
Amazon Rachel First 9798893040029
RRP: $16.76$14.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798893040029Author Rachel FirstFormat HardbackPage Count 32Imprint Bellwether MediaPublisher Bellwether MediaWeight(grams) 227g -
South Atlantic 1982: The carrier campaign in the Falklands War Angus Konstam 9781472864710
RRP: $21.92$18.63A detailed account of the war-winning role that a handful of Harrier squadrons played in the Falklands War. On 5 April 1982, the British aircraft carriers Hermes and Invincible sailed for the South Atlantic at the heart of the task force that would... -
The Imperial School for Tribes: Educating the Provincial Elite in the Late Ottoman Empire Mehmet Ali Neyzi 9780755649778
RRP: $37.40$31.79Founded in the waning years of the Ottoman Empire, the Imperial School for Tribes (Asiret Mektebi) was an initiative by Sultan Abdulhamid II to bring the sons of prominent Arab tribal leaders to Istanbul for a world-class education and transform them...