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Plantation Goods: A Material History of American Slavery Seth Rockman 9780226723457
RRP: $36.12$30.70An eye-opening rethinking of nineteenth-century American history that reveals the interdependence of the Northern industrial economy and Southern slave labor. The industrializing North and the agricultural South—that’s how we have been taught to think... -
Green Lands for White Men: Desert Dystopias and the Environmental Origins of Apartheid Meredith McKittrick 9780226834696
RRP: $33.54$28.51How an audacious environmental engineering plan fanned white settlers’ visions for South Africa, stoked mistrust in scientific experts, and gave rise to the Apartheid state. In 1918, South Africa’s climate seemed to be drying up. White farmers claimed... -
Playhouses and Privilege: The Architecture of Elite Childhood Abigail A. Van Slyck 9781517916954
RRP: $139.32$118.42Examining playhouses of the super-rich to understand how architecture contributed to the construction of elite identity and modern childhoodPlayhouses and Privilege explores children’s playhouses built on British and American estates between the 1850s... -
Holding the Political Center in Illinois: Conservatism and Union on the Brink of the Civil War Ian T. Iverson 9781606354797
RRP: $55.41$47.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781606354797Author Ian T. IversonFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Kent State University PressPublisher Kent State University Press -
Angel in the Forest: A Fairy Tale of Two Utopias Marguerite Young 9781628975512
RRP: $19.34$16.43Angel in the Forest is Marguerite Young's fascinating chronicle of two attempts to establish utopian communities in nineteenth-century America.In it, she recounts the strange tale of New Harmony, Indiana, a community originally founded in 1814 by the... -
Technology in Russian Strategic Culture: From the Nineteenth Century to the Present Day Anzhelika Solovyeva 9788024656632
RRP: $36.12$30.70A history of military-technological innovation in Russia. This book traces the dynamics of military-technological innovation in Russia over the last hundred and fifty years, particularly focusing on three distinct periods: the introduction of rifled... -
Strabo Dr Jessica Lightfoot 9781350160941
RRP: $24.50$20.82This book provides a short and accessible introduction to Strabo’s life, times and cultural context. It outlines the importance of geography and geographical writing in the Augustan period and its development in ancient Greece and Rome, as well as... -
Walking East Harlem: A Neighborhood Experience Christopher Bell 9781978836532
RRP: $27.08$23.01They call it Spanish Harlem or sometimes just El Barrio. But for over a century, East Harlem has been a melting pot of many ethnic groups, including Puerto Rican, Dominican, Cuban, and Mexican immigrants, as well as Italian, Jewish, and African-American... -
Gender and the Race for Space: Masculinity and the American Astronaut, 1957-1983 Erinn McComb 9781839987175
RRP: $103.20$87.72The American astronaut image was informed by early Cold War ideals of masculinity that helped mold a distinctly American (anti-communist) masculinity, which appeared—on the surface anyway—to resolve not only an American “crisis of masculinity” but helped... -
The Absence of Myth: Writings on Surrealism Georges Bataille 9781804296592
RRP: $14.18$12.05For Bataille, the absence of myth had itself become the myth of the modern age. In a world that had lost the secret of its cohesion, Bataille saw surrealism as both a symptom and a beginning of an attempt to address this loss. His writings on this theme... -
Shipping Lords and Coolie Stokers: Class, Race, and Maritime Capitalism in the Early 20th Century Ravi Ahuja 9781804293515
RRP: $24.50$20.82When eighty-seven passengers and crew died in the shipwreck of the Royal Mail Ship "Egypt" in 1922, the accident gave rise to a racist international press campaign against the employment of Indian seafarers who had been the majority of the ship's crew... -
The Conscience of the Party: Hu Yaobang, China’s Communist Reformer Robert L. Suettinger 9780674272804
RRP: $43.80$37.23The definitive story of a top Chinese politician’s ill-fated quest to reform the Communist Party.When Hu Yaobang died in April 1989, throngs of mourners converged on the Martyrs’ Monument in Tiananmen Square to pay their respects. Following Hu’s 1987... -
Water in World History Ellen F. Arnold 9780367650124
RRP: $174.15$148.03This book takes a thematic approach to the global history of water, covering a wide range of human interactions with water and the ways in which it carries both life and death.Water is one of the most common and valuable natural resources for the... -
Rock and Tempest: Surviving Cyclone Tracy and its Aftermath Patricia Collins 9780733650239
RRP: $20.63$17.53When Cyclone Tracy flattened Darwin on Christmas Day 1974, it was the worst natural disaster Australians had ever experienced. Stationed in the city with the Women's Royal Australian Naval Service, Patricia Collins not only lived through Tracy but was... -
The Ancient Shore Paul J. Kosmin 9780674296244
RRP: $48.96$41.62An esteemed historian explores the natural and social dynamics of the ancient coastline, demonstrating for the first time its integral place in the world of Mediterranean antiquity.As we learn from The Odyssey and the Argonauts, Greek dramas frequently... -
A Promised Land: Jewish Patriots, the American Revolution, and the Birth of Religious Freedom Adam Jortner 9780197536865
RRP: $34.82$29.59A new history that centers Judaism at the dawn of the United States Jews played a critical role both in winning the American Revolution--fighting for the Patriot cause from Bunker Hill to Yorktown--and in defining the republic that was created from it... -
Conversion and Catastrophe in German-Jewish Émigré Autobiography Abraham Rubin 9781487561093
RRP: $27.08$23.01Conversion and Catastrophe in German-Jewish Émigré Autobiography is a collective biography of four German-Jewish converts to Christianity, recounting their spiritual and confessional journeys against the backdrop of the Holocaust and its aftermath... -
The Cult of St Swithun Michael Lapidge 9781803270203
RRP: $148.35$126.10St Swithun was an obscure ninth-century bishop of Winchester about whom little was, and is, known. But following the translation of his relics from a conspicuous tomb into the Old Minster, Winchester, on 15 July 971, the massive rebuilding of the... -
Letters, Kinship, and Social Mobility in Nigeria Olufemi Vaughan 9780299344542
RRP: $38.64$32.84In 2003, Olufemi Vaughan received from his ninety-five-year-old father, Abiodun, a trove of more than three thousand letters written by four generations of his family in Ibadan, Nigeria, between 1926 and 1994. The people who wrote these letters had... -
Texian Exodus: The Runaway Scrape and Its Enduring Legacy Stephen L. Hardin 9781477330050
RRP: $46.44$39.47A narrative account of the evacuation of the Texians in 1836, which was redeemed by the defeat of the Mexican army and the creation of the Republic of Texas. Two events in Texas history shine so brightly that they can be almost blinding: the stand at the... -
The Great Roll of the Pipe for the Forty-Third Year of the Reign of King Henry III Michaelmas 1259: (Pipe Roll 103) Paul Dryburgh 9780901134929
RRP: $77.40$65.79Critical insights into the period of baronial reform and rebellion in England (1258-67) and the evolution of parliament. This new edition of the 1259 pipe roll sees the Pipe Roll Society returning to its roots by publishing the financial records of the... -
Unholy Kingdom: Religion, Corruption and Violence in Saudi Arabia Malise Ruthven 9781839760105
RRP: $28.38$24.12Unholy Kingdom reveals a riveting portrait of a nation mired in complexities. In recent years Saudi Arabia has promoted itself as an open country: oil-rich but investing in culture, tourism, social innovation, and establishing itself as a beacon in the... -
Forms Come Alive Kohei Sugiura 9789629966447
RRP: $76.11$64.69Kohei Sugiura explores the history of a variety of Japanese and Asian forms from cloth patterns to Buddha’s hands, from paintings to kanji characters, and from the human body to the universe. Richly illustrated, the book captures the beauty of the birth... -
The Material World of a Restoration Queen Consort: The Privy Purse Accounts of Catherine of Braganza Maria Hayward 9781910653142
RRP: $51.60$43.86This book provides you with the chance to explore the world of Catherine of Braganza, the Portuguese wife of Charles II, by the means of a full transcript of the surviving four volumes of her privy purse accounts. Kept by the keeper of her privy purse,... -
Branching Out: The Public History of Trees Leah Glaser 9781625348326
RRP: $38.64$32.84Trees are not just natural resources; they are also cultural ones that present unique challenges and opportunities for public historians. Trees can serve as important objects of memory, recalling past triumphs or tragedies. They can be the last living... -
Violence in the Hill Country: The Texas Frontier in the Civil War Era Nicholas Keefauver Roland 9781477330746
RRP: $38.69$32.882022 Ramirez Family Award for Most Significant Scholarly Book, Texas Institute of Letters An in-depth history of the Civil War in the Texas Hill Country that examines patterns of violence on the Texas frontier to illuminate white Americans’ cultural and... -
Richard Hakluyt: A Bibliography 1580–1588: with essays on The Suppression of the Voyage to Cadiz in Hakluyt’s Principal Navigations and Hakluyt and the East India Company Anthony Payne 9781916931008
RRP: $174.15$148.03This bibliography concerns the ten works written by or produced with the involvement of Richard Hakluyt (1552-1616) between 1580 and 1588, describing each book and its history with as much primary and secondary documentation as possible. The introduction... -
Patton's Shadow: The Making of a Hero in Modern Memory Nathan C. Jones 9780817361563
RRP: $38.64$32.84An engrossing account of the myth and legend of George S. Patton and what his reputation illuminates about American culture and hero worshipPatton’s Shadow by Nathan C. Jones, a leading authority on George S. Patton, offers a definitive account of the... -
The Stones of Britain: A Geological History Jon Cannon 9781472116833
RRP: $38.70$32.90The Stones of Britain is about how rocks make places. The connection between geology and landscape, between the stones beneath the surface and the history that has played out above it. About the varied character of the British landscape, and the rich...Qty in Cart: 0Quantity:Price:RRP: $38.70$32.90Subtotal: -
Stealing Horses to Great Applause: The Origins of the First World War Reconsidered Paul W. Schroeder 9781804295793
RRP: $38.70$32.90Stealing Horses presents arguably the finest considerations yet of the origins of the First World War. Breaking with accounts which focus on the actions of a single state or the final countdown to hostilities, Paul W. Schroeder describes the systemic... -
Struggle for the City: Citizenship and Resistance in the Black Freedom Movement Derek G. Handley 9780271097763
RRP: $32.19$27.36The urban renewal policies stemming from the 1954 Housing Act and 1956 Highway Act destroyed the economic centers of many Black neighborhoods in the United States. Struggle for the City recovers the agency and solidarity of African American residents... -
Papers of John Adams: Volume 22 John Adams 9780674296473
RRP: $108.30$92.05Entering the presidency in full service to the American people, John Adams vowed: “Their Confidence, which has been the Chief Consolation of my Life, is too prescious and Sacred a deposit ever to be considered lightly.” This volume of the Papers of John... -
Art, Power, and Resistance in the Middle Ages Pamela A. Patton 9780271097374
RRP: $108.30$92.05This volume addresses a vital point of intersection between images in the Middle Ages and those in the modern world: the potential of medieval works of art to convey messages of power and resistance. Provoked by the misuse of medieval imagery in modern... -
Thutmose III and Hatshepsut, Pharaohs of Egypt: Their Lives and Afterlives Aidan Dodson 9781649031594
RRP: $38.69$32.88An innovative account of the lives and times of the ‘warrior king’ Thutmose III, and the female pharaoh Hatshepsut, by renowned Egyptologist Aidan Dodson Thutmose III and Hatshepsut are among the best-known figures in Egyptian history. Thutmose has been... -
365 Lessons from the Stoics: Transform your daily life using the Stoics’ wisdom and understanding Andrea Kirk Assaf 9780008714154
RRP: $16.76$14.24The teachings of Stoic philosophy began and thrived in the Greek and Roman world until the 3rd century AD, and has since experienced multiple revivals right up to the modern day. With wise lessons in subjects from friendship and passions to virtue and... -
The Hundred Years War Vol 5: Triumph and Illusion Jonathan Sumption 9780571274598
RRP: $38.70$32.90'Sumption is that rare and precious thing: a serious, decent, honest thinker . . . and one of our finest historians.' Dan Jones, Sunday Times'Gripping and eminently readable . . . a compelling justification for the enduring value of historical narrative... -
From Peasant Struggles to Indian Resistance: The Ecuadorian Andes in the Late Twentieth Century Amalia Pallares 9780806194929
RRP: $21.87$18.59Drawing on extensive research in her native Ecuador, Amalia Pallares examines the South American Indian movement in the Ecuadorian Andes and explains its shift from class politics to racial politics in the late twentieth century. Pallares uses an... -
America's Fatal Leap: 1991-2016 Paul W. Schroeder 9781804295762
RRP: $32.25$27.41America's Fatal Leap deconstructs US geopolitics after the end of the Cold War, informed by its author's unsurpassed command of modern history. Paul W. Schroeder, an acclaimed historian of international diplomacy, was a conservative and a natural... -
Branching Out: The Public History of Trees Leah Glaser 9781625348333
RRP: $109.65$93.20Trees are not just natural resources; they are also cultural ones that present unique challenges and opportunities for public historians. Trees can serve as important objects of memory, recalling past triumphs or tragedies. They can be the last living... -
Through Hell to Dunkirk: A Frontline Story of the Miraculous Evacuation of France in World War II Henry de la Falaise 9780811776608
RRP: $23.21$19.72Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780811776608Author Henry de la FalaiseFormat PaperbackPage Count 172Imprint Stackpole BooksPublisher Stackpole Books