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Black Robes Enter Coyote’s World: Chief Charlo and Father De Smet in the Rocky Mountains Sally Thompson 9781496239617
RRP: £32.00£27.20Black Robes Enter Coyote’s World brings to life the complicated history of Jesuit missionaries among Montana’s Native peoples—a saga of encounter, accommodation, and resistance during the transformative decades of the mid-to-late nineteenth century... -
The Port: Hà Tiên and the Mo Clan in Early Modern Asia Xing Hang 9781009426985
RRP: £80.00£68.00The Port (present-day Hà Tiên), situated in the Mekong River Delta and Gulf of Siam littoral, was founded and governed by the Chinese creole Mo clan during the eighteenth century and prospered as a free-trade emporium in maritime East Asia. Mo Jiu and... -
The 1914–2024 War Atlas: Modernity Deciphered Anew Marcin Wojciech Solarz 9781032543963
RRP: £135.00£114.75The 1914–2024 War Atlas deconstructs the contemporary widespread and well-known image of the 20th and 21st century, arguing for the continuity of the historical process covering the period 1914-2024.The years between 1914 and 2024 constitute a period of... -
Joan of Arc’s Army: French armies under Charles VII, 1415–53 Philippe Gaillard 9781472862112
RRP: £12.99£11.04A fully illustrated study of the French armies that were inspired by Saint Jeanne d’Arc, reformed under King Charles VII and eventually victorious over England in the Hundred Years’ War. Saint Jeanne d’Arc remains a central figure in France’s national... -
Lost Loot: Cursed Treasures and Blood Money Jim Willis 9781578598557
RRP: £14.99£12.74Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781578598557Author Jim WillisFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint Visible Ink PressPublisher Visible Ink Press -
Elie Bouhereau: the collections and communities of a Huguenot refugee Amy Boylan 9781801511292
RRP: £50.00£42.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781801511292Author Amy BoylanFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Four Courts Press LtdPublisher Four Courts Press Ltd -
Turncoat: Roundhead to Royalist, the Double Life of George Downing Dennis Sewell 9781786498250
RRP: £22.00£18.70George Downing came of age as a Puritan pioneer in colonial Massachusetts, before crossing the Atlantic to sign up for the English Civil War. He fast became Oliver Cromwell's chief of military intelligence and was later a diplomat and an MP. However,... -
The Little Book of Hertfordshire Ruth Herman 9781803995458
RRP: £14.99£12.74Hertfordshire is a county full of stories. Its closeness to London attracts the great and the good (and the not so good). We have saints - St Albans, St Thomas More and the only English Pope, Nicholas Breakspear. In contrast Hertford elections were once... -
Stuart Spouses: A Compendium of Consorts from James I of Scotland to Queen Anne of Great Britain Heather R Darsie 9781399095914
RRP: £25.00£21.25Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Westviking: The Ancient Norse in Greenland and North America Farley Mowat 9781771624077
RRP: £17.99£15.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781771624077Author Farley MowatFormat PaperbackPage Count 498Imprint Douglas & McIntyrePublisher Douglas & McIntyre -
Raising Philadelphia: The Making of America's First Great City, 1750-1775 Justin McHenry 9781955041201
RRP: £29.95£25.46Riots and revolutions. Relationships and rivalries. Freedom and enslavement.The generation of Philadelphians prior to the American Revolution propelled the meteoric rise of the city into the thriving cultural heart of Colonial America. This is the... -
CLARISSA: Muse to Power, The Untold Story of Clarissa Eden, Countess of Avon Hugo Vickers 9781399736787
RRP: £16.99£14.44Clarissa Eden, Countess of Avon, wife of Prime Minister Anthony Eden, once famously said: 'For the past few weeks I have really felt as if the Suez Canal was flowing through my drawing-room.'With her impressive intellect and acerbic wit, she was a highly... -
Victorian and Early 20th Century Baby Farming: The Darkest Business Eve Bacon 9781036110567
RRP: £25.00£21.25Mrs. Amelia Dyer was probably the most notorious baby farmer, but she was not working in isolation. The wider story of the myriad of others also classed as baby farmers is told here. Detailing the stories of over 100 baby farmers, the good, the bad and... -
99 Questions About: The Stone, Bronze and Iron Ages Annabel Stones 9781445187051
RRP: £12.99£11.04Discover the fascinating world of Stone, Bronze and Iron Age Britain through 99 questions and answersWhen were the Stone, Bronze and Iron Ages? How was Stonehenge built? And just who was Cheddar Man? Find out the answers to all these questions and many,... -
The Medieval Irish Kings and the English Invasion Seán Ó Hoireabhárd 9781835538449
RRP: £125.00£106.25When Henry II accepted the Leinster king Diarmait Mac Murchada as his liegeman in 1166, he forged a bond between the English crown and Ireland that has never been undone. Ireland was to be changed forever as a result of the momentous events that followed... -
A Carpetbagger in Reverse: Arthur W. Mitchell, America's First Black Democratic Congressman John Morris Knapp 9780817361754
RRP: £29.95£25.46A long overdue reexamination of Mitchell and his accomplishments highlights his controversial personality, politics, and beliefs and calls for a reinterpretation of his importance to American history.Book InformationISBN 9780817361754Author John Morris... -
The Lost Chapel of Westminster: How a Royal Chapel Became the House of Commons John Cooper 9781801104517
RRP: £25.00£21.25The fascinating history of St Stephen's Chapel in the Palace of Westminster, a building at the heart of British life for over 700 years. Begun in 1292, the royal chapel of St Stephen was the crowning glory of the old palace of Westminster - a place... -
Generic Enrichment in Plutarch’s Lives Chrysanthos S. Chrysanthou 9780367135355
RRP: £135.00£114.75This volume addresses the important literary phenomenon of ‘generic enrichment’ in Plutarch’s Parallel Lives, examining the ways in which features of other genres are deployed and incorporated in Plutarch’s biographies and the effects of this on the... -
Crossings: Women on the Santa Fe Trail Frances Levine 9780700637812
RRP: £37.95£32.26The Santa Fe Trail has a special allure in southwestern history—it was a road of lucrative commerce, military expansion, and great adventure. Because these themes are connected with the Santa Fe Trail in the American imagination, however, the trail is... -
Captive Cosmopolitans: Black Mariners and the World of South Atlantic Slavery Mary E. Hicks 9781469671468
RRP: £44.95£38.21From the bustling ports of Lisbon to the coastal inlets of the Bight of Benin to the vibrant waterways of Bahia, Black mariners were integral to every space of the commercial South Atlantic. Navigating this kaleidoscopic world required a remarkable... -
The Business of Birth Control: Contraception and Commerce in Britain Before the Sexual Revolution Claire L. Jones 9781526182326
RRP: £20.00£17.62The business of birth control is the first book-length study to examine contraceptives as commodities in Britain before the pill. Drawing on new archives and neglected promotional and commercial material, the book demonstrates how hundreds of companies... -
The Women of Rendezvous: A Transatlantic Story of Family and Slavery Jenny Shaw 9781469682761
RRP: £29.95£25.46The Women of Rendezvous is a dramatic transatlantic story about five women who birthed children by the same prominent Barbados politician and enslaver. Two of the women were his wives, two he enslaved, and one was a servant in his household. All were... -
Imprisoning the Enemy: How 12 million Axis POWs were held in captivity during WW2 and after Nikolaos Theotokis 9781036100018
RRP: £25.00£21.25Prisoners of war (POWs) are an important part in the history of the Second World War. Nikolaos Theotokis, in this vividly written book, examines the subject, taking a closer look at the hundreds of thousands of Axis military personnel, including women... -
In Battle and Captivity 1916-1918: A British Officer's Memoirs of the Trenches and a German Prison Camp Henry Gilbert Nobbs 9781399024402
RRP: £14.99£12.74Initially published in 1917 under the title On the Right of the British Line, this is the first book written by the extraordinary Captain Gilbert Nobbs. Dedicated to his ever loving wife, the harrowing memories and experiences of Nobbs at the Battle of... -
Mexican Muralist, International Marxist: David Alfaro Siqueiros, 1941–74 Curtis Swope 9781526172655
RRP: £85.00£72.25David Alfaro Siqueiros was perhaps the most important communist painter of the twentieth century. This book, the first sustained engagement with Siqueiros’s work in the English language, focuses on the artist’s late murals, which are both aesthetically... -
The Unknown Warrior: A Personal Journey of Discovery and Remembrance John Nichol 9781398509443
RRP: £22.00£18.70'It is rare to find a tale so strange, intimate and human yet at the same time so enormous, so global in its importance. Yet again John Nichol impresses us with his ability to weave together the little details and the grand narrative' Dan Snow *** Over... -
Isle of Man Steam Packet in the Second World War Matthew Richardson 9781399051576
RRP: £20.00£17.00Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Red Baron of IBEW Local 213: Les McDonald, Union Politics, and the 1966 Wildcat Strike at Lenkurt Electric Ian McDonald 9781771993470
RRP: £34.00£28.90The “Red Baron” from Local 213 of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) was Les McDonald, once a firebrand Communist activist and the youthful leader of the left faction within the Vancouver electrical workers’ union. His fate would... -
Black Americans in Mourning: Reactions to the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln Leonne M. Hudson 9780809339549
RRP: £26.95£22.91Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780809339549Author Leonne M. HudsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint Southern Illinois University PressPublisher Southern Illinois University... -
The Fate of Nazi Germany’s Jet Engineers: The Allies' Race for Technology in 1945 and into the Cold War Reiner Decher 9781036111007
RRP: £25.00£21.25In April 1945, American forces were sweeping eastwards toward Berlin, in part advancing across territory that would eventually become part of the Soviet Occupation Zone. As they advanced, US troops uncovered major parts of the manufacturing facilities... -
Scars of War: The Politics of Paternity and Responsibility for the Amerasians of Vietnam Sabrina Thomas 9781496241030
RRP: £29.99£25.49Best First Book Award from the History Honor Society, Phi Alpha ThetaScars of War examines the decisions of U.S. policymakers who denied American citizenship to the Amerasians of Vietnam—the biracial sons and daughters of American fathers and Vietnamese... -
Richard III A C McMillin 9781473867895
RRP: £20.00£17.00Richard III remains one of Englands most controversial kings. Tales and descriptions of his persona and reign have been set forth by many writers and historians, including Shakespeare and Sir Thomas More, of a man who was cruel and a hunchback, as well... -
Medieval Iceland: Politics, Patronage and Power Sverrir Jakobsson 9781032348940
RRP: £135.00£114.75At the beginning of this history, in the ninth century, Iceland was uninhabited save for fowl and smaller arctic animals. At its end, in the middle of the sixteenth century, it had embarked on a course that led to the creation of a small country on the... -
Badges of the Territorial Infantry, 1914–1918 David Bilton 9781526758101
RRP: £25.00£21.25A must for those interested in badges of the Great War. -
The Real Miss Moneypenny: The Forgotten Women of British Intelligence Claire Hubbard-Hall 9781399603430
RRP: £25.00£21.25Since the inception of the Secret Service Bureau back in 1909, women have worked at the very heart of British secret intelligence - yet their contributions have been all but written out of history. Now, drawing on private and previously-classified... -
General Wladyslaw Sikorski, 1881–1943: The Life and Controversial Death of Poland's Leader in Exile Evan McGilvray 9781526795144
RRP: £25.00£21.25Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Hitler's New Command Structure and the Road to Defeat: A Study through Field Marshals Kesselring, Rommel and Model Andrew Sangster 9781036106942
RRP: £25.00£21.25As the war progressed Hitler did not need obedient bureaucrats like Keitel, failures like Paulus and was paranoid about having military leaders who were loyal. The three field marshals in this book were amongst the best. Field Marshal Kesselring gained a... -
Cádiz: The Story of Europe's Oldest City Helen Crisp 9781911723615
RRP: £25.00£21.25This is the tale of Western Europe’s oldest continuously inhabited city, a 3,000-year history of war and seafaring, culture and commerce, liberalism and resistance. Helen Crisp and Jules Stewart offer a vibrant account of Cádiz past and present, from its... -
Understanding the American South: Slavery, Race, Identity, and the American Century Lacy K. Ford, Jr. 9781009522014
RRP: £22.99£19.54Americans in the twenty-first century find themselves searching for new understandings of their history. They seek explanations for chronic political polarization, acute pandemic polarization, social media addiction, heightened concern over global... -
The Crisis of Colonial Anglicanism: Empire, Slavery and Revolt in the Church of England Martyn Percy 9781911723585
RRP: £25.00£21.25This book offers a fresh, bold and unsettling truth: the British Empire and Great Britain are primarily English constructions; and the Church of England has presumed to act for and benefit from English enterprise and exploitation, serving as the...