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Socialism, Internationalism, and Development in the Third World: Envisioning Modernity in the Era of Decolonization Su Lin Lewis 9781350413436
$145.83In the wake of colonial and racial exploitation, political leaders, technocrats, activists, and workers across the Third World turned to socialism to offer a new vision of post-colonial development. Against a backdrop of decolonization, white supremacy,... -
Rebecca’s Country: A Welsh Story of Riot and Resistance Rhian E. Jones 9781915279743
RRP: $24.50$20.82In the early years of the Victorian era, men in Pembrokeshire, Carmarthenshire and Cardiganshire rebelled against the imposition of tolls on the roads they travelled while making their living. In a mass protest movement, they dressed themselves in... -
The Yugoslav Air Force in Battles for Slovenia, Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina, Volume 2: Jrvipvo in the Yugoslav War, 1991-1992 Aleksander Radic 9781914059179
RRP: $25.74$21.88Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914059179Author Aleksander RadicFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Wilde Sau Nightfighters Gareth Hector 9781472861948
RRP: $21.92$18.63An illustrated exploration of the development, technology and operations of Wilde Sau fighters in the night skies over Germany during the Defence of the Reich. In July 1943, the Nachtjagdverband’s defence of Germany from the RAF’s increasingly effective... -
Roman Military Diplomas VI Paul Holder 9781915249654
RRP: $154.80$131.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915249654Author Paul HolderFormat PaperbackPage Count 444Imprint University of London PressPublisher University of London -
Where Is Yellowstone? Sarah Fabiny 9780593660881
RRP: $9.02$7.66Which famous national park features a geyser that shoots water 185 feet into the air and thousands of American bison? Journey into the history of Yellowstone and its famous wildlife, canyons, rivers, forests, and more in this illustrated book for young... -
Blood River 1838: The Zulu–Boer War and the Great Trek Ian Knight 9781472860750
RRP: $21.92$18.63A myth-shattering study of the first clash between the Zulu kingdom and European interlopers and its dramatic effects on Boer and Zulu alike. By the 1830s, the Zulu kingdom was consolidating its power as the strongest African polity in the south-east,... -
Escorial: The Habsburgs and the Golden Age of Spain John Adamson 9781789542318
RRP: $24.50$20.82A portrait of the rhythms and rituals of the magnificent court of the Spanish Habsburgs during Spain's sixteenth- and seventeenth-century 'Golden Age'. Of all the European courts between the Renaissance and the French Revolution, none exercised a... -
Between Babasaheb and Mahatma: A Comparative Study of Ambedkar and Phule Hulas Singh 9781032861944
RRP: $174.15$148.03This book is a critical comparative study of Jotirao Phule and Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar, modern India's two most prominent dalit leaders. Although they were not close contemporaries, they came to construct a firm structure of not only dalit ideology, but... -
Immigration, Policy and the People of Latin America: Seven Sending Nations Bryce W. Ashby 9781032413389
RRP: $174.15$148.03Taking on historical events in Latin America as its starting point, this book examines the migration of its inhabitants to the U.S. with case studies from seven nations: Colombia, Cuba, Haiti, Honduras, Guatemala, Mexico, and Venezuela.Combining the... -
A Century of James Frazer’s The Golden Bough: Shaking the Tree, Breaking the Bough Stephanie Lynn Budin 9781032695631
RRP: $174.15$148.03This multidisciplinary volume examines the ongoing effects of James G. Frazer’s The Golden Bough in modern Humanities and its wide-ranging influence across studies of ancient religions, literature, historiography and reception studies.It begins by... -
The West Indies: The Federal Negotiations John Mordecai 9781032885971
RRP: $167.70$142.55First Published in 1968, The West Indies is the history of Federation in the British West Indies since 1920’s, in itself a fascinating story full of strong and colorful personalities; at the same time, it offers an incisive analysis of the reasons why... -
The Colour of Injustice Lee Lawrence 9780349146720
RRP: $32.24$27.40Like The Secret Barrister, The Colour of Injustice is a passionate call to reflect upon and re-examine Britain's relationship with justice. Lee Lawrence will tell the most compelling and outrageous stories of crimes against Black people in Britain and in... -
Return and Circular Migration in Contemporary European History Eva Pfanzelter 9783111185934
RRP: $105.78$89.91Migration is often viewed as a one-way process, from the country of origin to the place of arrival, but recent academic research shows that this presumption is fundamentally flawed. Return migration has always been part of migration movements, as a... -
Le L'Histoire de Hawaii par sa Reine: Traduit et annote, y compris du materiel supplementaire Liliuokalani Kalakaua 9781914093722
RRP: $26.52$22.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914093722Author Liliuokalani KalakauaFormat PaperbackImprint Anulap BooksPublisher Island Ink Publishing Co. Ltd. -
What Would You Be in Ancient China Mary Auld 9781912944606
RRP: $14.18$12.05When China was first united some 2250 years ago, it was already a country rich in skills and tradition, where farmers grew rice in flooded fields, women wove beautiful silk cloth, and philosophers wrote important guides to life. China’s imperial age of... -
Acquittals in the Spanish Inquisition Gunnar W. Knutsen 9781032596662
RRP: $174.15$148.03The 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... -
Animals in World History Helen Louise Cowie 9781032015217
RRP: $46.43$39.46This volume provides a concise synthesis of human-animal relations over time, charting shifting attitudes towards animals from domestication to the present day. It asks how non-human species have shaped human history, and how humans have reconfigured the... -
Culinary Technology of the Ancient Near East: From the Neolithic to the Early Roman Period Jill L. Baker 9781032827667
RRP: $46.43$39.46Culinary Technology of the Ancient Near East discusses the technical aspects of meal preparation, cooking, and baking in the ancient Near East, exploring a wide range of topics including kitchens, cooking equipment, cooking and baking vessels, and... -
Forgotten Churches: Exploring England's Hidden Treasures Luke Sherlock 9780711294103
RRP: $20.63$17.53Spending his weekends exploring historic churches across the idyllic English countryside – and sharing their beauty and unsung history across social media – Luke Sherlock is bringing English history and the heritage of our rural countryside to a new... -
Watching the Jackals: Prague's Covert Liaisons with Cold War Terrorists and Revolutionaries Daniela Richterova 9781647125134
RRP: $123.84$105.26The untold history of Czechoslovakia's complex relations with Middle Eastern terrorists and revolutionaries during the closing decades of the Cold War In the 1970s and 1980s, Prague became a favorite destination for the world's most prominent terrorists... -
Disability in Ancient Egypt and Egyptology: All Our Yesterdays Alexandra F. Morris 9781032576480
RRP: $174.15$148.03This book explores disability across time and space—from ‘ancient Egypt’ as a culture to Egyptology as a contemporary field—to go beyond simply identifying disability, encouraging readers to thoughtfully consider the history of disabled people in ancient... -
Surviving Vesuvius: A Lucky Escape From the Tragic Fate of Ancient Pompeii Christopher Harrisson 9780711279230
RRP: $21.92$18.63This narrative non-fiction book brings to life the powerful story of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius and the destruction of Pompeii, based on the first-hand account of Pliny the Younger. The year is 79 AD. Seventeen year-old Roman student Pliny the... -
Social Life in Early England: Historical Association Essays Geoffrey Barraclough 9781032886824
RRP: $109.65$93.20First Published in 1960, Social Life in Early England provides an authoritative introduction to the periods of English history usually taught in the middle school. The essays in the volume are well adapted in picking out the social background and... -
The Black Douglas I. M. Davis 9781032882444
RRP: $109.65$93.20First Published in 1974, The Black Douglas is both exciting and informative, is based on fourteenth century chronicles and documents, and is the first full account of Douglas’s eventful and dangerous career up to his celebrated death carrying Bruce's... -
Orangeism in Ireland and Britain: 1795-1836 Hereward Senior 9781032870946
RRP: $103.20$87.72The Orange Lodges, originally a powerful agency for the defence of loyalist and protestant interest in Ireland, have flourished as fraternal societies in the British Army in nearly every part of the English-speaking world. Although founded by Irish... -
Yugoslavia, Nonalignment and Cold War Globalism: Tito's International Rise, Celebrity and Fall Zvonimir Stopić 9781032378541
RRP: $174.15$148.03This book explores the emergence of Yugoslav globalism and how it was influenced by the early Cold War, the changes once Yugoslavia established itself as a nonaligned leader, and what the decline of Yugoslav globalism reveals about the waning Cold War... -
A History of the World in Twelve Shipwrecks David Gibbins 9781399603508
RRP: $14.18$12.05'Masterful and entrancing - this is big history at its best.' Professor Alice Roberts, author of AncestorsFrom a Bronze Age ship built during the age of Queen Nefertiti and filled with ancient treasures, a Viking warship made for King Cnut himself, Henry... -
The Soviet Military And The Communist Party Roman Kolkowicz 9780367311476
RRP: $47.72$40.56Originally published in 1986, this book investigates the relationship between the Communist Party and the military establishment in the Soviet Union. It indicates that there are several factors influencing the dynamics of that relationship, and thus the... -
Beneath our Feet: Everyday Discoveries Reshaping British History Michael Lewis 9780500027523
RRP: $38.70$32.90Recounts the incredible stories of more than 50 archaeological treasures recently found by ordinary people, and which are reshaping our understanding of British history. Britain has a rich past, with incredible archaeology. Every day, new discoveries... -
Hyperart: Thomasson Genpei Akasegawa 9781885030788
RRP: $20.00$17.00"Akasegawa is the kind of artist who inspires everybody every time he makes a new piece of art." -Yoko Ono In the 1970s, estranged from the institutions and practices of high art, avant-garde artist and award-winning novelist Genpei Akasegawa... -
The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the United States and the Middle East, 1979-2003 Steve Coll 9781802065206
RRP: $19.34$16.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781802065206Author Steve CollFormat PaperbackPage Count 576Imprint PenguinPublisher Penguin Books Ltd -
Irish Servicewomen in the Great War: From Western Front to the Roaring Twenties Barbara Walsh 9781399021487
RRP: $19.34$16.43When the call went out in 1917 for volunteers willing to serve both at home and on the Western Front in a newly founded Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps, young women from every province of Ireland responded just as eagerly as those from homes in Scotland,... -
Watching the Jackals: Prague's Covert Liaisons with Cold War Terrorists and Revolutionaries Daniela Richterova 9781647125141
RRP: $41.28$35.09The untold history of Czechoslovakia's complex relations with Middle Eastern terrorists and revolutionaries during the closing decades of the Cold War In the 1970s and 1980s, Prague became a favorite destination for the world's most prominent terrorists... -
Fluchtgut: Zwischen Fairness und Gerechtigkeit für Nachkommen und heutige Besitzer Marc Fehlmann 9783110486803
RRP: $47.09$40.03Der Begriff „Fluchtgut" bereitet Unbehagen, da es für ihn im Unterschied zur „Raubkunst" noch keine international anerkannten Richtlinien oder Vereinbarungen gibt. Während sich Raubkunst geographisch und zeitlich auf die Herrschaft des NS-Regimes... -
Hawaii's Story by Hawaii's Queen: (Annotated) Liliuokalani Kalakaua 9781914093678
RRP: $21.90$18.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914093678Author Liliuokalani KalakauaFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Anulap BooksPublisher Island Ink Publishing Co. Ltd. -
Iranian Kurdistan Under the Islamic Republic: Change, Revolution, and Resistance Marouf Cabi 9780755654352
RRP: $109.65$93.20This book presents a social, political, cultural, and socioeconomic history of Iranian Kurdistan since the 1979 Revolution. In this study, Marouf Cabi shines a spotlight on the modern history of Iranian Kurdistan – an area of Greater Kurdistan... -
Cicero in Basel: Locating Classical Reception in a Humanist City Cédric Scheidegger Laemmle 9783111447827
RRP: $105.78$89.91The fifteen contributions to the multilingual volume together chart Cicero’s presence in the cultural history of Basel – from the city’s foundation to the heyday of humanist print culture, to the cultural politics of the modern day. Written by scholars... -
The Art of the Scribe: Practical Projects Inspired by the Calligraphy and Illuminations of Medieval Manuscripts Patricia Lovett 9780712354844
RRP: $45.15$38.38Pages from some of the most celebrated and exquisite medieval manuscripts in the British Library provide the inspiration for twenty-one practical art and calligraphy projects. Seven classic scripts are explored in turn by expert Patricia Lovett. She... -
A History of the Ozarks, Volume 3: The Ozarkers Brooks Blevins 9780252088513
RRP: $24.50$20.82Between the world wars, America embraced an image of the Ozarks as a remote land of hills and hollers. The popular imagination stereotyped Ozarkers as ridge runners, hillbillies, and pioneers—a cast of colorful throwbacks hostile to change. But the real...