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Bracket [On Sharing] Neeraj Bhatia 9781957183770
RRP: $60.04$51.03Bracket [On Sharing] considers the historic roots of sharing and their relationship to contemporary models of sharing. Sharing is one of humanity’s most basic traits; we intrinsically recognise the benefits of pooling resources within a community in... -
Generals and Admirals of the Third Reich: Volume 3: P-Z James Jack Webb 9781952715181
RRP: $68.53$58.25This third volume of a three-volume set offers concise biographical information for generals and admirals of the Third Reich with surnames between P and Z. The set covers all branches of service, providing a brief but scholarly overview of each... -
Tank Warfare on the Eastern Front, 1943–1945: Red Steamroller Robert Forczyk Forczyk 9781399077712
RRP: $25.71$21.85By 1943, after the catastrophic German defeat at Stalingrad, the Wehmacht's panzer armies gradually lost the initiative on the Eastern Front. The tide of the war had turned. Their combined arms technique, which had swept Soviet forces before it during... -
Christian–Jewish Relations 1000–1300: Jews in the Service of Medieval Christendom Anna Sapir Abulafia 9780367552237
RRP: $60.02$51.01This new and revised edition of Christian-Jewish Relations 1000-1300 expands its survey of medieval Christian-Jewish relations in England, Spain, France and Germany with new material on canon law, biblical exegesis, and Christian-Jewish polemics, along... -
Other Everests: One Mountain, Many Worlds Paul Gilchrist 9781526179166
RRP: $34.29$29.14This ground-breaking title, publishing to mark the centenary of the tragic 1924 British Everest expedition, reveals the hidden histories of the world’s highest mountain. -
Charlotte Salomon. Leben? oder Theater? Evelyn Benesch 9783836598668
RRP: $34.31$29.16When German artist Charlotte Salomon (1917–1943) handed her gouache series Life? or Theater? over to a friend, she beseeched him to “take good care of it, it is my entire life.” A few months later, the five-months pregnant Charlotte was picked up by a... -
Football and International Relations under Francoism, 1937–1945 Juan Antonio Simón 9781032260624
RRP: $231.57$196.83This book shines a light on the specific role football played in relation to the international relations of the Franco regime in mid-twentieth century Spain.In the thirty-five years of the dictatorship of General Francisco Franco, sport, and specifically... -
Race, Ethnicity, and Violence in South Sudan Amir Idris 9783031570407
RRP: $171.51$145.78The purpose of this book is to understand how and why “liberators” of South Sudan have become perpetrators of ethnically driven violence. How and why did violence happen immediately after independence in South Sudan?South Sudan slid into civil war in... -
Lockheed T-33 Shooting Star Omer Erkmen 9788365958051
RRP: $32.59$27.70"This book is the latest in a new reference series for aircraft modellers called "Spotlight On" and presents detailed illustrations of the famous Lockheed T-33 "Shooting Star" (or "T-Bird") American jet trainer aircraft. The book contains 40... -
The Eastern Front: A History of the Great War, 1914-1918 Nick Lloyd 9781324092711
RRP: $58.30$49.56Writing in the 1920s, Winston Churchill argued that the First World War on the Eastern Front was “incomparably the greatest war in history. In its scale, in its slaughter, in the exertions of the combatants, in its military kaleidoscope, it far surpasses... -
Modern Russian Air Power, Volume 1: The Russian Air Arms Today Piotr Butowski 9781950394166
RRP: $70.31$59.76This volume launches a new series of three books from Harpia Publishing about Russian air power. The first two volumes present all types of military aircraft currently operated by Russia, their purpose, features and characteristics. The third volume will... -
The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World Bettany Hughes 9781474610346
RRP: $18.85$16.02Their names still echo down the ages: The Great Pyramid at Giza. The Hanging Gardens of Babylon. The Temple of Artemis. The statue of Zeus at Olympia. The mausoleum of Halikarnassos. The Colossus at Rhodes. The Lighthouse of Alexandria. The Seven Wonders... -
100 Moments in the History of Mexico Alejandro Rosas 9781595342843
RRP: $42.87$36.43Our knowledge of Mexican history is primarily through the political and social events in recent centuries that have defined the country as we know it today. The Conquest, Independence, Reform, Revolution, and other fundamental events and periods frame... -
The British Police and Home Food Production in the Great War: Police as Ploughmen, 1917–1918 Mary Fraser 9783031587429
RRP: $188.67$160.36This book explores the role of the British Police in home food production during the First World War, a critical time when decreasing food imports threatened population starvation around the country. Drawing from the police’s most popular weekly journal,... -
Robert Hooke's Experimental Philosophy Felicity Henderson 9781789149548
RRP: $30.79$26.18Robert Hooke was England’s first professional scientist, and a pioneer in the field of science communication. He was also one of the few early scientists to leave a detailed manual describing how others could follow his lead and become ‘experimental... -
Energy Citizenship: Coal and Democracy in the American Century Trish Kahle 9780231215442
RRP: $200.69$170.59The history of the modern United States is the history of coal—and of coal miners. Trish Kahle reveals miners as forgers of a coal-fired social contract that was contested throughout the twentieth century as Americans sought to define the meaning of... -
Childhood in the Middle Ages Shulamith Shahar 9781032548791
RRP: $51.44$43.72Drawing on a wide variety of European sources, Childhood in the Middle Ages (1992) examines attitudes towards children, images of childhood, and the concept of the stages of childhood in medieval culture, from the nobility to the peasantry. It makes... -
Corruption, Anti-Corruption, Vigilance, and State Building from Early to Late Modern Times Ricard Torra-Prat 9781032479439
RRP: $222.99$189.54Corruption, Anti-Corruption, Vigilance, and State Building from Early to Late Modern Times challenges current historiographical approaches, proposing new interpretations to rethink the relation between corruption and the socio-political and economic... -
The Gambia Colony and Protectorate: An Official Handbook Francis Bisset Archer 9781032421742
RRP: $51.44$43.72The Gambia Colony and Protectorate (1967) provides both a history of the colony and a wealth of valuable practical and statistical information about its establishment and running. It provides a clear insight into the way that Britain’s colonies were... -
Creating and Failing the 9/11 Generation: The Real Story of September 11 Matthew Warshauer 9781032503875
RRP: $63.45$53.93Through a chronological and thematical approach, this book examines the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 and the effect on what President George W. Bush recognized as the 9/11 Generation.By providing cultural and generational context to 9/11 and... -
The Spanish Navy in the War of 1898 John Houghton 9781804511800
RRP: $60.04$51.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804511800Author John HoughtonFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Moral Conduct and Authority: The Place of Adab in South Asian Islam Barbara Daly Metcalf 9780520364370
RRP: $137.22$116.64This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices... -
The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World William Dalrymple 9781408864425
RRP: $32.57$27.68FROM THE AWARD-WINNING, BESTSELLING AUTHOR AND CO-HOST OF THE CHART-TOPPING EMPIRE PODCAST – A REVOLUTIONARY NEW HISTORY OF INDIA ‘A master storyteller’ Sunday Times India is the forgotten heart of the ancient world For a millennium and a half, India was... -
The Nordic Peace and Northeast Asia: Approaches, Solutions, and Principles of Conflict Transformation Gunnar Rekvig 9789819727483
RRP: $154.36$131.20This book offers a new analysis of the Nordic Peace after its onset in 1814, the year that marks the end to centuries of warfare between the Nordic countries, and the applicability of the Nordic solutions and principles for North East Asian conflicts... -
The Waffen SS Order of Battle in Normandy: Volume II: 1st SS Panzer Division Liebstandarte Adolf Hitler Jeff Dugdale 9781526760548
RRP: $42.88$36.45The 1st SS Panzer Division Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler started life as Hitler's personal bodyguard and would grow exponentially during the course of the Nazi regime to an absolute elite panzer division. Transferred from the Eastern Front, The 1st would... -
Niki de Saint Phalle: A-Z Katharina Sykora 9783775754378
RRP: $37.74$32.08The Many Facets of Niki de Saint Phalle Niki de Saint Phalle loved pseudo-orders, which she used to arbitrarily assemble terms and pictograms on a sheet of paper. Under the heading “I Love,” for example, the sign of a snake could be found next to the... -
Hellenistic Monarchies in the Mediterranean World: Building a New World Order? Mark Munn 9783658450892
RRP: $171.51$145.78The contributions to this volume represent a range of case studies that provide perspectives on the question of how deeply Hellenic influence penetrated into the lives of the subjects of the Hellenistic monarchies. Greek became the language of... -
Modern Rwanda: A Political History Filip Reyntjens 9781009284479
RRP: $120.05$102.04Rwanda has been the subject of much research following the genocide against the Tutsi ethnic group in 1994. Moving beyond recent histories which examine Rwanda's past predominantly through the lens of this tragic event, Filip Reyntjens utilises a longue... -
The Little History of Galway Colm Wallace 9781803997070
RRP: $25.71$21.85Galway has a long and fascinating history. Today, it is home to over 250,000 people and plays host to over a million tourists per year, many coming to admire the scenery and to learn about the culture and history of this beautiful place. But it has not... -
Performance, Masculinity, and Self-Injury Lucy Weir 9781032027098
RRP: $222.99$189.54This book is an ambitious and expansive examination of the visual language of self-injury in performance art from the 1960s to the present.Inspired by the gendered nature of discussion around self-harm, the book challenges established readings of... -
Global Ships: Seafaring, Shipwrecks, and Boatbuilding in the Global Middle Ages Amanda Respess 9781009494373
RRP: $85.75$72.88Global Ships examines the major seafaring traditions and technologies that engendered long-distance connections across the world's oceans during the Global Middle Ages. Between the years 500–1500 CE, maritime trade networks spanning the seas globalized... -
The Mexican Revolution Robert Weis 9781032317144
RRP: $231.57$196.83This volume untangles the multiple threads of the Mexican Revolution to present an accessible introduction to its causes, development, and consequences.Grounded in a detailed narrative that readers can actively explore through accompanying primary... -
The Mexican Revolution Robert Weis 9781032317120
RRP: $61.73$52.47This volume untangles the multiple threads of the Mexican Revolution to present an accessible introduction to its causes, development, and consequences.Grounded in a detailed narrative that readers can actively explore through accompanying primary... -
A Short History of the Minoans Professor John Bennet 9781780763255
RRP: $77.19$65.61The Minoans have for decades tantalized all those who have tried to understand this most enigmatic people of the ancient world. The Minoan allure lies in large part in the riddles to which their mysterious culture gives rise. What is contained in their... -
Spanish Colonial Troops 1828-1936 Mmp Books 9788367227445
RRP: $34.31$29.16Until 1825 Spain controlled a vast colonial empire in the Americas, which stretched from Mexico in the north to Argentina in the south; following several years of bloody wars, however, most of the American colonies of Spain became independent republics... -
Land Between the Rivers: A 5,000-Year History of Iraq Bartle Bull 9780802162502
RRP: $42.87$36.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802162502Author Bartle BullFormat HardbackPage Count 576Imprint Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly PressPublisher Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press -
Anti-Colonialism and the Crises of Interwar Fascism Michael Ortiz 9781350334953
RRP: $49.73$42.26What is fascism? Is it an anomaly in the history of modern Europe? Or its culmination? In Anti-Colonialism and the Crises of Interwar Fascism, Michael Ortiz makes the case that fascism should be understood, in part, as an imperial phenomenon. He contends... -
H Blocks: An Architecture of the Conflict in and about Northern Ireland Louise Purbrick 9781350240063
RRP: $49.73$42.26Shortlisted for the Alice Davis Hitchcock Medallion 2023 A place of incarceration and liberation, political debate and historical denial, the H Block cell units of Long Kesh/Maze prison in Northern Ireland housed members of both Republican and Loyalist... -
Henry VIII and the Merchants: The World of Stephen Vaughan Susan Rose 9781350343498
RRP: $49.73$42.26Drawing heavily from the State Papers of the King, Henry VIII and the Merchants traces Stephen Vaughan’s careers as a servant of Thomas Cromwell and of Henry VIII in the 16th century. Stephen Vaughan, a Londoner with an international outlook, was a... -
Three Roads to Death: The Massacre at Goliad David Garlock 9781648430947
RRP: $59.95$50.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781648430947Author David GarlockFormat HardbackPage Count 264Imprint Texas A&M University PressPublisher Texas A&M University Press