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A Male Hysteria: Diabetes and the Victorian Mind Edward Beasley 9781606189016
RRP: $56.76$48.25A history of diabetes science and the experience of diabetics in the nineteenth-century England A Male Hysteria examines both the science of diabetes in nineteenth-century England and the testimony of Victorian diabetics. What could be known about... -
The Making of Buddhism in Modern Indonesia: South and Southeast Asian Networks, 1900-1959 Yulianti 9789087283940
RRP: $138.03$117.33Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789087283940Author YuliantiFormat HardbackPage Count 290Imprint Leiden University PressPublisher Leiden University Press -
Our Nazi: An American Suburb’s Encounter with Evil Michael Soffer 9780226835549
RRP: $25.80$21.93The first book to lay bare the life of a Nazi camp guard who settled in a Chicago suburb and to explore how his community and others responded to discoveries of Nazis in their midst. Reinhold Kulle seemed like the perfect school employee. But in 1982,... -
Early Modern Maternities in the Iberian Atlantic Emily Colbert Cairns 9789463727297
RRP: $158.67$134.87Early Modern Maternities in the Iberian Atlantic is the first volume to emphasize women’s personal experiences and their life trajectories as mothers within the Peninsula and across the Atlantic. Although an official discourse that defined the conditions... -
Female Agency in the Ancient Mediterranean World Greg Gilles 9781802071856
RRP: $148.35$126.10Ebook available to libraries exclusively as part of the JSTOR Path to Open initiative. Female agency in the ancient world has long been implicitly, and on a few occasions explicitly, examined in classical scholarship, but few of these studies begin with... -
An Historical Map of Ripon: Cathedral City and Market Town Mick Stanley 9781838071981
RRP: $15.47$13.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781838071981Author Mick StanleyImprint The Historic Towns TrustPublisher The Historic Towns Trust -
Into Unknown Skies: An Unlikely Team, a Daring Race, and the First Flight Around the World David K. Randall 9780063371439
RRP: $20.63$17.53Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063371439Author David K. RandallImprint HarperAudioPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc -
Prose and Cons: The English Language in Just a Minute Gyles Brandreth 9781785946820
RRP: $21.92$18.63As fans of Just a Minute know, the key to the game is knowing your way around the English language: how it works, how it’s evolved, and how words connect, often in surprising ways. When it comes to the English language (and Just a Minute), Gyles... -
The Deys and Beys of Tunis, 1666–1922: From Military Power to the Monarchy Leïla Temime Blili 9781649033406
RRP: $90.29$76.74A foundational text on the early modern history of Tunis that places Tunisian history firmly within Ottoman historyThe Tunisian historiography of the modern era has broadly centered on a narrative of three successive powers: the pashas, first, followed... -
Conversations with David S. Lifton: Best Evidence to Final Charade Jim Hoffmann 9781634244770
RRP: $28.32$24.07Mr. Lifton and I initially started talking per phone once a month or so around mid-2018, this due to the David Lifton Project, a video interview my students created back in February 2018 - the point being to share his all important research with the next... -
Freedom's Currency: Slavery, Capitalism, and Self-Purchase in the United States Julia Wallace Bernier 9781512826470
RRP: $58.05$49.34The first comprehensive study of self-purchase in the United States from the American Revolution to the Civil War Enslaved people lived in a world in which everything had a price. Even freedom. Freedom’s Currency follows enslaved people’s efforts to buy... -
Something Wicked: The Lives, Crimes and Deaths of the Pendle Witches Carol Ann Lee 9781789465839
RRP: $24.50$20.82On 20 August 1612, ten people from Pendle were executed before a vast crowd at Lancaster's Gallows Hill. The condemned and their associates had endured six months of accusations, imprisonment and torture; their treatment was such that one of the group... -
The Apollo 11 Moon Landing: Spot the Myths Matt Chandler 9781398256545
RRP: $18.05$15.34In July 1969, astronauts on the Apollo 11 spacecraft became the first people to land on the moon. Since then, people have told stories about the historic event. Did an unmanned Soviet spacecraft crash into the moon while the Apollo astronauts were on it?... -
Abraham Lincoln: His Life in Print: From the Americana collection of David M. Rubenstein David M. Rubenstein 9781605831183
RRP: $46.44$39.47An illustrated study of Abraham Lincoln’s reading life. Few people in history are written about more than Abraham Lincoln, and deservedly so, for as America’s sixteenth president he oversaw both the victory of the Union in the Civil War and the end of... -
Das Recht der Reformation in Frankreich und die Vollendung des modernen Staates Mathias Schmoeckel 9783161632983
RRP: $131.58$111.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783161632983Author Mathias SchmoeckelFormat HardbackPage Count 360Imprint Mohr SiebeckPublisher Mohr SiebeckWeight(grams) 236g -
Occupiers, Humanitarian Workers, and Polish Displaced Persons in British-Occupied Germany Samantha K. Knapton 9781526629289
RRP: $37.40$31.79Concepts of migration and displacement are all too often separated from ideas of international humanitarianism and occupations; and yet, between 1945 and 1951, victims of war became the joint responsibility of humanitarian workers and military officials... -
Work and Labour in the Cities of Roman Italy Miriam J. Groen-Vallinga 9781835538487
RRP: $38.69$32.88Work and labour are fundamental to an understanding of Roman society. In a world where reliable information was scarce and economic insecurity loomed large, social structures and networks of trust were of paramount importance to the way work was provided... -
Painting as a Way of Life: Philosophy and Practice in French Art, 1620–1660 Professor Richard Neer 9780226835495
RRP: $56.76$48.25Neer uncovers a key moment in the history of early modern art, when painting was understood to be a tool for self-transformation and for living a philosophical life. In this wide-ranging study, Richard Neer shows how French painters of the seventeenth... -
Die Hauptform Mittelalterlicher Weltanschauung: Eine Geisteswissenschaftliche Studie �ber Die Summa Alois Dempf 9783486751598
RRP: $129.00$109.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783486751598Author Alois DempfFormat HardbackPage Count 179Imprint Walter de GruyterPublisher Walter de GruyterWeight(grams) 467g -
Kurt Jackson's Rivers Kurt Jackson 9781848226791
RRP: $51.54$43.81From source to sea, artist Kurt Jackson's fascination with the rivers of the British Isles and beyond has endured throughout his life. This book explores, for the first time, Jackson's visual and written responses to the rivers that he has followed, from... -
Colonial Algeria and the Politics of Citizenship Avner Ofrath 9781350260054
RRP: $37.40$31.79This book explores citizenship politics in colonial Algeria, which became a key battlefield for struggles over participation of the body politic and the reach of universal promise in 1789. In examining these struggles, Avner Ofrath shows how colonialism... -
The Invention of Good and Evil: A World History of Morality Hanno Sauer 9781800818293
RRP: $32.25$27.41For almost five million years, humans have been locked in a relationship with morality, inventing and reinventing the concepts of 'Good' and 'Evil', and weaving them into our cities, laws and customs. Morality is a concept that can feel joyless and... -
Borneo 1945: The Last Major Allied Campaign in the South-West Pacific Angus Konstam 9781472862242
RRP: $21.92$18.63A fascinating account of the last major Allied operation in the South-West Pacific, and the largest Australian military operation of World War II. A week after Pearl Harbor in December 1941, Japanese troops landed near Brunei on the South-East Asian... -
Crimean Tatar Folktales: As Collected by Ignác Kúnos (1860-1945) Imre Baski 9783111441979
RRP: $141.26$120.07This volume contains Crimean Tatar folklore texts that had been collected by the noted Hungarian Turkologist Ignác Kúnos during World War I, specifically from Russian Muslim prisoners of war in Hungarian camps. The collection consists of 38 fairy tales... -
An Atmospheric History of Smoking in Modern Britain Ivan Markovic 9781350420243
RRP: $109.65$93.20This book studies the historiography of smoking in modern Britain, with a focus on the social, cultural, and emotional aspects of the practice. Centring on four specific moments in modern British history; the turn of the 20th century, the Second World... -
Hunting the Last Great Pirate: Benito de Soto and the Rape of the Morning Star Michael Edward Ashton Ford 9781399021500
RRP: $19.34$16.43Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Global Yorùbá: Regional and Diasporic Networks Toyin Falola 9780253070555
RRP: $63.21$53.73In Global Yorùbá, renowned scholar Toyin Falola covers the history, people, traditions, environment, religion, spirituality, cosmology, culture, and philosophy of one of Africa's largest cultural groups, the Yorùbá, all while considering the people's... -
The animals of the Artemidor Papyrus: An Indian embassy to Rome Ragnar Kinzelbach 9783110636253
RRP: $133.52$113.49Das Verso des Artemidor-Papyrus, zum Ende des 1. Jh. v. Chr. in Alexandria entstanden, zeigt Zeichnungen von 45 Tierarten. Darunter sind 15 südasiatischer Herkunft, die um 20 v. Chr. von einer indischen Gesandtschaft überbracht wurden. Es erfolgt eine... -
The Songs of Queen Lili'uokalani Lili'uokalani 9798888971116
RRP: $19.34$16.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798888971116Author Lili'uokalaniFormat PaperbackPage Count 198Imprint Mint EditionsPublisher Mint Editions -
American Shoes: A Refugee's Story Rosemarie Lengsfeld Turke 9781582709314
RRP: $16.76$14.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781582709314Author Rosemarie Lengsfeld TurkeFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Beyond Words PublishingPublisher Beyond Words Publishing -
The Ottomans Diana Darke 9780500298183
RRP: $16.76$14.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780500298183Author Diana DarkeFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Thames & Hudson LtdPublisher Thames & Hudson Ltd -
Mother’s Milk and Male Fantasy in Nineteenth-Century French Narrative Lisa Algazi Marcus 9781835537176
RRP: $25.79$21.92Should all mothers breast-feed their children? This question remains controversial in the twenty-first century. In an interview with the newspaper Liberation in 2010, feminist philosopher Elisabeth Badinter claimed that the pressure to breast-feed... -
Humans in Shackles: An Atlantic History of Slavery Ana Lucia Araujo 9780226771588
RRP: $41.28$35.09A sweeping narrative history of the Atlantic slave trade and slavery in the Americas. During the era of the Atlantic slave trade, more than twelve million enslaved Africans were forcibly transported to the Americas in cramped, inhumane conditions. Many... -
All His Spies: The Secret World of Robert Cecil Stephen Alford 9781802067590
RRP: $18.06$15.35Brought to you by Penguin.From the acclaimed author of The Watchers, the untold story of Robert Cecil - the ultimate Tudor spy-masterRobert Cecil, statesman and spymaster, lived through an astonishingly threatening period in English history. Queen... -
A Cultural History of Genocide in the Ancient World Dr Tristan S. Taylor 9781350469747
RRP: $33.53$28.50The preamble to the United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide recognizes “that at all periods of history genocide has inflicted great losses on humanity”. Studies of the phenomenon of genocide have, however,... -
A Cultural History of Genocide in the Modern World Dr Deborah Mayersen 9781350469785
RRP: $33.53$28.50The cry of “never again” reverberated around the world in the aftermath of the Holocaust. Yet despite the unprecedented horrors of the Shoah, and the subsequent creation of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, the... -
The Turkish War of Independence: A Military History, 1919–1923 Edward J. Erickson 9798765130124
RRP: $37.40$31.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798765130124Author Edward J. EricksonFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing USAPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing USA -
The Russiagate Racket: Elite Fantasies from the Steele Dossier to War in the Ukraine Aaron Mate 9781682193655
RRP: $41.27$35.08"This penetrating study asks whether the actual evidence concerning alleged Russian interference in the US elections of 2016 justifies the enormous hue and cry it has elicited ... A highly instructive inquiry into our current malaise." - Noam ChomskyCold... -
The Strategists: Churchill, Stalin, Roosevelt, Mussolini and Hitler – How War Made Them, And How They Made War Phillips Payson O'Brien 9780241696330
RRP: $21.92$18.63'Phillips Payson O'Brien is one of our finest historical thinkers' James Holland Churchill. Hitler. Stalin. Mussolini. Roosevelt. Five of the most impactful leaders of WW2, each with their own individualistic and idiosyncratic approach to warfare. But if... -
The Crowd in the Early Middle Ages Dr. Shane Bobrycki 9780691189697
RRP: $45.15$38.38The importance of collective behavior in early medieval EuropeBy the fifth and sixth centuries, the bread and circuses and triumphal processions of the Roman Empire had given way to a quieter world. And yet, as Shane Bobrycki argues, the influence and...