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Drawn to the Promised Land: A Cartoon History of Britain, Palestine and the Jews: 1917-1949 Tim Benson 9781912600151
RRP: £14.99£12.74Drawn to the Promised Land charts the dramatic history of Palestine from the Balfour Declaration to the creation of the state of Israel. Through the acerbic wit of leading political cartoonists from Britain, the United States and other countries, we see... -
Pandemic Kinship: Families, Intervention, and Social Change in Botswana's Time of AIDS Koreen M. Reece 9781009150217
RRP: £29.99£25.49Shaped around the stories of one extended family, their friends, neighbours, and community, Pandemic Kinship provides an intimate portrait of everyday life in Botswana's time of AIDS. It challenges assumptions about a 'crisis of care' unfolding in the...Qty in Cart: 0Quantity:Price:RRP: £29.99£25.49Subtotal: -
Standardization in the Middle Ages: Volume 2: Europe Line Cecilie Engh 9783110998665
RRP: £40.50£34.43We live in a world riven through with standards. To understand more of their deep, rich past is to understand ourselves better.The two volumes, Standardization in the Middle Ages. Volume 1: The North and Standardization in the Middle Ages. Volume 2:... -
More-Than-Human Diasporas: Topologies of Empire, Settler Colonialism, Slavery Joseph Pugliese 9781032497235
RRP: £36.99£31.44Pugliese’s More-Than-Human Diasporas breaks the confines of existing scholarship in its vision of the way that more-than-human diasporic entities—such as water, trees, clay, stone and architectural styles—have functioned as agents within the context of... -
Immigration, Policy and the People of Latin America: Seven Sending Nations Bryce W. Ashby 9781032408316
RRP: £36.99£31.44Taking 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... -
Longbow: A Social and Military History Robert Hardy 9781803998022
RRP: £18.99£16.14Robert Hardy is famous throughout the world as an actor. Not so widely known is his deep interest in archery and its history. An acknowledged expert on the longbow, he is a Trustee of the Royal Armouries at HM Tower of London, and of the Mary Rose Trust... -
A History of Polar Exploration in 50 Objects: From Cook’s Circumnavigations to the Aviation Age Anne Strathie 9781803991054
RRP: £20.00£17.00A History of Polar Exploration in 50 Objects covers just over 150 years of polar exploration during which a mysterious southern continent and an elusive northern sea-route became less incognita and increasingly charted and understood.The objects of the... -
Margaret of Parma: The Emperor’s Daughter between Power and Image Katrien Lichtert 9789464941333
RRP: £50.00£42.50Step back in time to the captivating world of 16th-century Europe with this compelling portrait of Margaret of Parma, governor of the Netherlands for Philip II of Spain, and a woman who left an indelible mark on history. Through vivid storytelling and... -
Hercules Scott Bateman 9781405957984
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Culinary Technology of the Ancient Near East: From the Neolithic to the Early Roman Period Jill L. Baker 9781032827643
RRP: £135.00£114.75Culinary 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... -
The Spacefaring Earth: A History of the Space Age Michael G. Smith 9781032780719
RRP: £35.99£30.59This engaging survey of the Space Age links science and technology with politics and popular culture, war and peace, and crises and controversies. It examines the history of spaceflight as a mirror of human thought and action across the Earth.The volume... -
SAS Daggers Drawn: In For the Kill: the Mavericks Who Made the SAS Damien Lewis 9781529413885
RRP: £22.00£18.70In the summer of 1944, the SAS were charged with the most crucial D-Day missions, taking on the might of the Nazi Reich deep behind enemy lines. Facing Hitler's armoured legions - his fearsome Panzer divisions - with little more than raw courage and... -
Conflicts of Colonialism: The Rule of Law, French Soudan, and Faama Mademba Sèye Richard L. Roberts 9781009107686
RRP: £29.99£25.49Based around the life of Mademba Sèye, an African born in the colonial town of Saint Louis du Sénégal in 1852, who transformed himself with the help of his French patrons from a telegraph clerk into an African king, this book examines Mademba's life and...Qty in Cart: 0Quantity:Price:RRP: £29.99£25.49Subtotal: -
Doing Working-Class History: Research, Heritage, and Engagement Oliver Betts 9781032882963
RRP: £36.99£31.44Economic and political uncertainty has brought the language of class—especially discussion of the working class—to a broad audience across scholarship and social debate. This introductory volume shows how the history of the working class has, is, and can... -
Doing Working-Class History: Research, Heritage, and Engagement Oliver Betts 9780367361341
RRP: £135.00£114.75Economic and political uncertainty has brought the language of class—especially discussion of the working class—to a broad audience across scholarship and social debate. This introductory volume shows how the history of the working class has, is, and can... -
My Brother, My Land: A Story from Palestine Sami Hermez 9781503642034
RRP: £14.99£12.74A riveting and unapologetic account of Palestinian resistance, the story of one family's care for their land, and a reflection on love and heartache while living under military occupation. In 1967, Sireen Sawalha's mother, with her young children, walked... -
Interwar: British Architecture 1919-39 Gavin Stamp 9781800817401
RRP: £20.00£17.00'Elegant, erudite and entertaining ... a superbly detailed picture of an architectural era' The Times 'A magnificent monument in itself to a fine architectural writer' Simon Heffer, Telegraph British architecture between the wars is most famous for the... -
SAS Daggers Drawn: In For the Kill: the Mavericks Who Made the SAS Damien Lewis 9781529413892
RRP: £15.99£13.59In the summer of 1944, the SAS were charged with the most crucial D-Day missions, taking on the might of the Nazi Reich deep behind enemy lines. Facing Hitler's armoured legions - his fearsome Panzer divisions - with little more than raw courage and... -
The Spacefaring Earth: A History of the Space Age Michael G. Smith 9781032799025
RRP: £135.00£114.75This engaging survey of the Space Age links science and technology with politics and popular culture, war and peace, and crises and controversies. It examines the history of spaceflight as a mirror of human thought and action across the Earth.The volume... -
Warrior Queens & Quiet Revolutionaries Kate Mosse 9781529092233
RRP: £9.99£8.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781529092233Author Kate MosseFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Pan PublishingPublisher Pan PublishingWeight(grams) 454g -
Animals in World History Helen Louise Cowie 9781032021232
RRP: £135.00£114.75This 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... -
A History of the World in Six Plagues Edna Bonhomme 9780349704364
RRP: £25.00£21.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780349704364Author Edna BonhommeFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Dialogue BooksPublisher Dialogue -
Detailing Worlds: A Conceptual History of Architectural Detail Eric Bellin 9781350204379
RRP: £85.00£72.25What is a “detail” in architecture? The concept of detail has long played an important role in the discourse and practice of architects, but the meaning of the term has been understood in radically different ways, from construction detail to ornament... -
A History of the World in Six Plagues Edna Bonhomme 9780349704371
RRP: £16.99£14.44A History of the World in Six Plagues is a timely examination of the role that confinement has played in fostering and hindering epidemics.In a rare blend of rigorous research and truly compelling story-telling, Dr Edna Bonhomme traces the long history... -
To War with the Gurkhas: War Diaries Estate of Harry Birrell 9780857505507
RRP: £25.00£21.25The war in the Far East from 1939 to 1945, as witnessed first-hand by Scottish soldier and celebrated documentarian Harry Birrell From the moment he received a cine-camera at age 10, Harry Birrell devoted his life to documenting the world around him,... -
Politics of Language: Foreign Nativeness and Identity in the Roman Empire Eleni Bozia 9781350430273
RRP: £85.00£72.25Examining the identity and belonging of native and non-native speakers of Greek during the time of the High Roman Empire, Eleni Bozia closely studies grammarians, lexicographers and literary writers who used Attic Greek. Bozia argues that... -
Jewels from the Sea: Pearl Fishing in the Arabian Gulf Frances Gillespie 9781909339309
RRP: £15.99£13.59Today, the citizens of the Arabian Gulf states enjoy an affluent and sophisticated lifestyle and the term 'oil state' conjures up images of vast, air-conditioned shopping malls, gleaming high-rise towers, green parks and sparkling fountains, fast new...Qty in Cart: 0Quantity:Price:RRP: £15.99£13.59Subtotal: -
Dark Waters, Starry Skies: The Guadalcanal-Solomons Campaign, March–October 1943 Jeffrey Cox 9781472849878
RRP: £16.99£14.44Esteemed Pacific War historian Jeffrey Cox has produced a fast-paced and absorbing read of the crucial New Georgia phase of the Guadalcanal-Solomons Campaign during the Pacific War. Thousands of miles from friendly ports, the US Navy had finally managed... -
99 Questions About: The Ancient Greeks Annabel Stones 9781445186948
RRP: £12.99£11.04Discover the fascinating world of the ancient Greeks through 99 questions and answersWhere did the ancient Greeks do their shopping? Why did the Athenians worship Athena? And just what happened in a hippodrome?! Find out the answers to all these... -
Mediterranean Sweep: The Usaaf in the Italian Campaign Thomas McKelvey Cleaver 9781472863454
RRP: £25.00£21.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781472863454Author Thomas McKelvey CleaverFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Osprey Publishing (UK)Publisher Osprey Publishing (UK)Weight(grams) 454g -
The Denuclearisation of the Oceans R. B. Byers 9781032389516
RRP: £27.99£23.79In the 1980s concern throughout the world was growing about the use of the oceans by nuclear-powered naval vessels and naval vessels carrying nuclear weapons. Many countries were keen to keep their ports and the waters off their coastlines "nuclear-free"... -
Irish Nationalism and British Democracy E. Strauss 9781032398259
RRP: £29.99£25.49Originally published in 1951, this study of the Irish nationalist movement examines social forces behind the ceaseless agitation in Ireland from the 18th to the 20th Century and gives an account of the influence of the Irish question on the political... -
The Reshaping of French Democracy Gordon Wright 9781032414140
RRP: £29.99£25.49Originally published in 1950, this book is a narrative and analytical account of the making of the new French Constitution and views that process in its historical setting. Although the book’s central theme is the constitutional problem, it is in a... -
The Charitable Imperative: Hospitals and Nursing in Ancien Régime and Revolutionary France Colin Jones 9781032896342
RRP: £105.00£89.25Drawing on a wide variety of archival and secondary sources, The Charitable Imperative, originally published in 1989, provides an overview of the very different institutions that treated the poor in France from the seventeenth through to the early... -
England in the Nineteenth Century Volume 1: 1801-1805 A. F. Fremantle 9781032901398
RRP: £80.00£68.00Originally published in 1929, this volume discusses the early effects of the industrial revolution – the condition of the cotton spinners, the hardships for labouring children, the overcrowded prisons and other brutal punishments. -
Barbarians and Romans: The Birth Struggle of Europe, A.D. 400–700 Justine Davis Randers-Pehrson 9781032903217
RRP: £115.00£97.75Barbarians and Romans (1983) examines the rise of the barbarian tribes and the consequent decline of the Roman Empire. The book ranges across the Roman world, and from the rulers to the ruled, combining the study of monuments and artefacts with the... -
New World Empires: Cultures of Power and Governance in the Americas Ilhan Niaz 9781032059815
RRP: £135.00£114.75This book is a sweeping reexamination of the evolution of the state, covering the indigenous orders of pre-Columbian America, the Spanish, Portuguese, and British Empires in the Americas, and their major successor states of Mexico, Brazil, and the United... -
The Dala Law Inger Larsson 9781032893310
RRP: £135.00£114.75The Dala Law is known through only one remaining medieval manuscript, written c.1335 – 1353, and shows strong influence from older Swedish provincial law. It is one of the oldest known texts revealing details of life and conditions in Dalar during the... -
Heraldry in Urban Society: Visual Culture and Communication in Late Medieval England and Germany Marcus Meer 9780198910275
RRP: £99.00£84.15Heraldry is often seen as a traditional prerogative of the nobility. But it was not just knights, princes, kings, and emperors who bore coats of arms to show off their status in the Middle Ages. The merchants and craftsmen who lived in cities, too,... -
The Eastern Front: War, Myth, and Memory Yan Mann 9781032506104
RRP: £135.00£114.75The Second World War in Eastern Europe is far from a neglected topic, especially since social, cultural, and diplomatic historians have entered a field previously dominated by operational histories and produced a cornucopia of new scholarship offering a...