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Unbecoming Modern: Colonialism, Modernity, Colonial Modernities by Saurabh Dube 9781032653709
RRP: £39.99£35.06In this volume well-known scholars from India and Latin America - Enrique Dussel, Madhu Dubey, Walter D. Mignolo, and Sudipta Sen, to name a few - discuss the concepts of modernity and colonialism and describe how the two relate to each other. This... -
Haunted War Tales: True Military Encounters with the Bizarre, Paranormal, and Unexplained by R.C. Bramhall 9781493075768
RRP: £17.99£13.33Some battlefields - such as Gettysburg - are known to be haunted. This book focuses on multiple tales of truly odd, and often bizarre, paranormal events on the battlefields of the world. Some popular stories are de-bunked, but most of these reports - all... -
The Good Forest: The Salzburgers, Success, and the Plan for Georgia by Karen Auman 9780820366104
RRP: £98.00£79.67Georgia, the last of Britain’s American mainland colonies, began with high aspirations to create a morally sound society based on small family farms with no enslaved workers. But those goals were not realized, and Georgia became a slave plantation... -
The Roads To Rome: A History by Catherine Fletcher 9781847928047
RRP: £16.99£13.70Brimming with life and drama, this is the first book to explore two thousand years of European history through one the greatest imperial networks ever built'A delightful, novel and authoritative history from the ground up' JUDITH HERRIN'Epic and witty ..... -
Black Homeownership on Martha's Vineyard: A History by Thomas Dresser 9781467157070
RRP: £24.99£16.82Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467157070Author Thomas DresserFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint History PressPublisher History PressWeight(grams) 386g -
Oregon's Others: Gender, Civil Liberties, and the Surveillance State in the Early Twentieth Century by Kimberly Jensen 9780295752587
£28.64In the era of the First World War and its aftermath, the quest to identify, restrict, and punish internal enemy “others,” combined with eugenic thinking, severely curtailed civil liberties for many people in Oregon and the nation. In Oregon’s Others,... -
Reeling in the Queers: Tales of Ireland’s LGBTQ Past by Páraic Kerrigan 9781848409224
RRP: £14.99£10.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781848409224Author Páraic KerriganFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint New Island BooksPublisher New Island BooksWeight(grams) 350g -
Nazi Propaganda Through Art and Architecture: Creating the Myth of Hitler’s Third Reich by Norman Ridley 9781036100216
RRP: £22.00£15.62When the Nazis came to power in January 1933, they began a programme of transforming Germany from a democracy into a totalitarian state, but it was not a matter of simply enforcing compliance. The people had to be coaxed into believing in the new regime... -
The Art of Ukraine by Alisa Lozhkina 9780500297780
RRP: £18.99£12.75Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Reflections on Stalinism J. Arch Getty 9781501775543
£118.94Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Glacial: The Untold History of Climate Politics Chelsea Henderson 9781684429585
RRP: £14.99£11.66It took nearly sixty years for a meaningful climate change bill to run the political gauntlet from Capitol Hill to the Oval Office. Why?From mavericks to party standard-bearers, U.S. Senators, members of the House of Representatives, and presidential... -
On Dragons' Wings: A History of No. 614 (County of Glamorgan) Squadron, Royal Auxiliary Air Force Martin Wade 9781800995994
RRP: £14.99£13.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800995994Author Martin WadeFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Y LolfaPublisher Y Lolfa -
Military Strategy: A Very Short Introduction: Second Edition Antulio J. Echevarria II 9780197760154
£9.40Distilling the ideas of the greatest military theoreticians of history, including Sun Tzu, Niccolò Machiavelli, and Carl von Clausewitz, this clear and engaging Very Short Introduction presents a fascinating account of the "art of the general." Antulio J... -
Video Games as Art: A Communication-Oriented Perspective on the Relationship between Gaming and the Art Frank G. Bosman 9783111523187
£15.46Video games are a relative late arrival on the cultural stage. While the academic discipline of game studies has evolved quickly since the nineties of the last century, the academia is only beginning to grasp the intellectual, philosophical, aesthetical,... -
Remembering the Holocaust in a Racial State: Holocaust Memory in South Africa from Apartheid to Democracy (1948–1994) Roni Mikel-Arieli 9783111521404
RRP: £18.50£15.36The lens of apartheid-era Jewish commemorations of the Holocaust in South Africa reveals the fascinating transformation of a diasporic community. Through the prism of Holocaust memory, this book examines South African Jewry and its ambivalent position as... -
The Politics of Collecting: Race and the Aestheticization of Property Eunsong Kim 9781478030485
£29.32In The Politics of Collecting, Eunsong Kim traces how racial capitalism and colonialism situated the rise of US museum collections and conceptual art forms. Investigating historical legal and property claims, she argues that regimes of... -
Oxford Revise: Edexcel GCSE History: Henry VIII and his ministers, 1509-40 Complete Revision and Practice Aaron Wilkes 9781382053778
RRP: £5.99£5.63Oxford Revise Edexcel GCSE History: Henry VIII and his ministers, 1509-40 is a complete revision and practice book covering the full topic specification, containing everything you need to revise for this choice of British depth study. All key knowledge... -
Oxford Revise: Edexcel GCSE History: Migrants in Britain, c800-present Aaron Wilkes 9781382053792
RRP: £5.99£5.63Oxford Revise Edexcel GCSE History: Migrants in Britain, c800-present is a complete revision and practice book covering the full topic specification, containing everything you need to revise for this choice of thematic study. All key knowledge is clearly... -
A History of the Roman Empire in 21 Women Emma Southon 9780861548323
RRP: £10.99£7.77Rome as you’ve never seen it before – brazenly unconventional, badly behaved and ever so feminine. ‘Hugely entertaining and illuminating’ —Elodie Harper, author of The Wolf Den A WATERSTONES BEST HISTORY BOOK OF 2023 Here’s how the history of the Roman... -
The Persistence of Race: Continuity and Change in Germany from the Wilhelmine Empire to National Socialism Lara Day 9781805393344
RRP: £27.95£22.58Race in 20th-century German history is an inescapable topic, one that has been defined overwhelmingly by the narratives of degeneracy that prefigured the Nuremberg Laws and death camps of the Third Reich. As the contributions to this innovative volume... -
The Feminist Pacific: International Women's Networks in Hawai'i, 1820–1940 Rumi Yasutake 9780231208536
RRP: £30.00£27.39As competing American, European, and later Japanese imperial and colonial ambitions spread across the ocean in the nineteenth century, Honolulu emerged as a transnational hub for the exchange of ideas. Rumi Yasutake reveals the pivotal role of women’s... -
Sacred Capital: Methodism and Settler Colonialism in the Empire of Liberty Hunter Price 9780813951324
£101.51How Methodist settlers in the American West acted as agents of empire In the early years of American independence, Methodism emerged as the new republic’s fastest growing religious movement and its largest voluntary association. Following the contours of... -
Write to Return: Huguenot Refugees on the Frontiers of the French Enlightenment Bryan A. Banks 9780228021094
£107.72The revocation of the Edict of Nantes led more than 200,000 Huguenots to flee France after 1685. Many settled close to the country’s frontiers, where their leaders published apologetic texts arguing for their right to return to France and be recognized... -
Confessions of a Weekend Warrior: Thirty-Five Years in the National Guard Brig. Gen. Paul “Greg” Smith 9781476694108
RRP: £21.99£17.97America's National Guard was once considered a ragtag gaggle of pretend soldiers. Beginning in the 1980s the National Guard gradually transformed into today's highly flexible operational force that answers our nation's call for overseas combat... -
Wales in England, 1914-1945: A Social, Cultural, and Military History Wendy Ugolini 9780198863274
RRP: £90.00£81.58At the beginning of the twentieth century, for many English men and women of Welsh origin the idea of being in some part 'Welsh' reaffirmed their own understanding of what it meant to 'be British'. Wales in England, 1914-1945 is the first cultural... -
Making Men in the Age of Sail: Masculinity, Memoir, and the British Merchant Seafarer, 1860–1914 Graeme J. Milne 9780228021308
£37.20Myths and stereotypes surrounding seafarers in the Age of Sail persist to this day. Sailors were celebrated for their courage, strength, and skill, yet condemned for militancy, vice, and fecklessness. As sail gave way to steam, sailing-ship mariners... -
The Little Book of Fermanagh Doreen McBride 9781803996684
RRP: £12.99£9.37Did You Know Van Morrison wrote ‘Brown Eyed Girl’ on a piano in Derrygonnelly Paddy Monaghan, from Ederney, befriended Mohammad Ali and became known as Paddy-Ali St Molaise brought soil containing blood from early Christian martyrs from the Colosseum... -
Aflame for Freedom in Tibet: The Origin and Development of the Self-Immolation Movement Namloyak Dhungser 9781666937794
RRP: £81.00£71.06Since 2009, the image of Tibetans setting themselves on fire in protest against the repressive policies of the Chinese government has drawn attention from around the world. In Aflame for Freedom in Tibet: The Origin and Development of the Self-Immolation... -
The Politics of Collecting: Race and the Aestheticization of Property Eunsong Kim 9781478026242
£107.95In The Politics of Collecting, Eunsong Kim traces how racial capitalism and colonialism situated the rise of US museum collections and conceptual art forms. Investigating historical legal and property claims, she argues that regimes of... -
Gdańsk: Portrait of a City Peter Oliver Loew 9780197603864
£37.83It was where World War II began on September 1, 1939. Its wartime experience was immortalized in Günter Grass`s The Tin Drum. Later it attracted worldwide attention as the site where workers` strikes led by Lech Walesa and the ensuing Solidarity movement... -
Multiplicity: On Constraint and Agency in Contemporary Architecture by Pari Riahi 9781625347992
£32.38Today, the field of architecture faces a reckoning. While there is no longer consensus on what defines an architectural work, theorists, historians, and practitioners are grappling with urgent issues—among them the impact of climate change, the dynamics... -
Strabo's Geography: A Translation for the Modern World by Strabo 9780691243139
£67.95A lively new translation of Strabo’s complete Geography—an encyclopedic guide to the ancient world of the first century CE—connecting it with the world of the twenty-first centuryStrabo’s Geography is an encyclopedic description of the ancient world as... -
The Jim Crow North: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Pottstown, Pennsylvania by Matthew George Washington 9781985900233
£78.74Located approximately forty miles northwest of Philadelphia, the working-class borough of Pottstown does not immediately come to mind as an influential site of the Black Freedom Struggle. Yet this small town in Pennsylvania served as a significant hub of... -
Cleaning Up the Bomb Factory: Grassroots Activism and Nuclear Waste in the Midwest by Casey A. Huegel 9780295752556
RRP: £25.99£22.61In 1984, a uranium leak at Ohio’s outdated Fernald Feed Materials Production Center highlighted the decades of harm inflicted on Cold War communities by negligent radioactive waste disposal. Casey A. Huegel tells the story of the unlikely partnership of... -
US Marine vs Japanese Soldier: Saipan, Guam, and Peleliu, 1944 by Gregg Adams 9781472861139
RRP: £15.99£11.61Fully illustrated, this book assesses the US Marines and Japanese troops fighting in three bloody battles of World War II in the Pacific. In June 1944, the United States military launched an offensive against the Japanese forces holding the Mariana... -
Jamestown 1622: The Anglo-Powhatan Wars by Cameron Colby 9781472861924
RRP: £16.99£12.28A dramatic illustrated exploration of the infamous massacre of 1622, and the events of a pivotal conflict in colonial American history. Since 1607, English settlers of Jamestown maintained a shaky relationship with the Powhatan Confederacy. As the... -
The Raging Erie: Life and Labor Along the Erie Canal by Mark S. Ferrara 9780231216371
RRP: £84.00£75.11The completion of the Erie Canal in 1825 was a monumental achievement. Linking the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean, it transformed New York City into a hub of international trade, drove the rise of industrial cities in once sparsely populated areas,... -
A Neo-Fatimid Treasury of Books: Arabic Manuscripts Among the Alawi Bohras of South Asia by Olly Akkerman 9781474479578
RRP: £24.99£20.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474479578Author Olly AkkermanFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University Press -
Honest John Williams: U.S. Senator from Delaware by Carol E Hoffecker 9781644533536
£37.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781644533536Author Carol E HoffeckerFormat PaperbackPage Count 278Imprint University of Delaware PressPublisher University of Delaware PressWeight(grams)... -
Lismore: The Great Garden by Robert K. M. Hay 9781839830587
RRP: £10.99£9.59This island of Lismore boasts a remarkably rich heritage, both in terms of historic monuments and of an unbroken tradition of Gaelic culture. From their first sight of Tirefour Broch, dominating approaches from the mainland, visitors to the Isle of...