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Island and Empire: How Civil War in Crete Mobilized the Ottoman World by Uğur Z. Peçe 9781503639232
RRP: £23.99£21.57In the 1890s, conflict erupted on the Ottoman island of Crete. At the heart of the Crete Question, as it came to be known around the world, were clashing claims of sovereignty between Greece and the Ottoman Empire. The island was of tremendous... -
Postcards to Hitler: A German Jew's Defiance in a Time of Terror by Bruce Neuburger 9781685900557
RRP: £75.00£59.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781685900557Author Bruce NeuburgerFormat HardbackPage Count 408Imprint Monthly Review Press,U.S.Publisher Monthly Review Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 703g -
The Rise of Devils: Fear and the Origins of Modern Terrorism by James Crossland 9781526178190
RRP: £11.99£8.57In the dying light of the nineteenth century, the world came to know and fear terrorism. Like today, this was a time of progress and dread, characterised by political and technological breakthroughs and waves of immigration that swelled the populations... -
Insurance Era: Risk, Governance, and the Privatization of Security in Postwar America by Caley Horan 9780226833293
RRP: £26.00£24.85Charts the social and cultural life of private insurance in postwar America, showing how insurance institutions and actuarial practices played crucial roles in bringing social, political, and economic neoliberalism into everyday life. Actuarial thinking... -
Hitler's Special Forces: The elite troops of the German war machine by James Lucas 9781835980057
RRP: £10.99£9.49Blood, fire and iron: An unforgettable portrait of the most feared soldiers of World War TwoIn the closing years of the 1930s, German agent-provocateurs worked in secrecy. These crack units of elite soldiers paved the way for the invasions of... -
The Liberal Dilemma in South Africa by P. L. van den Berghe 9781032322193
£31.79Originally published in 1979, The Liberal Dilemma in South Africa discusses the dilemma of how to overthrow an oppressive social order maintained through violence in a non-violent manner. The contributors to this volume were all established social... -
Behind the Wall: My Brother, My Family and Hatred in East Germany by Ines Geipel 9781509559978
RRP: £20.00£13.35Germany, like many countries, has witnessed the rise of extremist far-right groups and parties in recent years, and no more so than in the eastern regions. Why have those parts of Germany that used to be part of the old GDR turned out to be so supportive... -
Beyond Molotovs - A Visual Handbook of Anti-Authoritarian Strategies by International Research Group on Authoritarianism and Counter-Strategies 9783837670554
RRP: £50.00£37.14Authoritarianism operates on a visceral level rather than relying on arguments. How can we counter authoritarian affects? This publication brings together more than 50 first-hand accounts of anti-authoritarian movements, activists, artists, and scholars... -
Pragmatism as Anti-Authoritarianism by Richard Rorty 9780674295476
RRP: £16.95£13.63“Provocative and engaging…The array of urgent questions and crises facing our democracy makes one miss Richard Rorty’s voice: insistent, relentlessly questioning, and dedicated to the proposition that we can’t afford to let our democracy fail.”—Chris... -
We Refuse: A Forceful History of Black Resistance by Kellie Carter Jackson 9781541602908
RRP: £30.00£19.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781541602908Author Kellie Carter JacksonFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Seal Press (CA)Publisher Seal Press (CA) -
Urban Battlefields: Lessons Learned from World War II to the Modern Era by Gregory Fremont-Barnes 9781682477243
RRP: £44.95£36.71Urban Battlefields: Lessons Learned from World War II to the Modern Era offers a detailed study of the complexities of urban operations, demonstrating through historical conflicts their key features, the various weapons and tactics employed by both... -
The Wrong Stuff: How the Soviet Space Program Crashed and Burned by John Strausbaugh 9781541703346
RRP: £30.00£18.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781541703346Author John StrausbaughFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint PublicAffairsPublisher PublicAffairs -
Reds: The Tragedy of American Communism by Maurice Isserman 9781541620032
RRP: £35.00£20.47Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781541620032Author Maurice IssermanFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint Basic BooksPublisher Basic BooksWeight(grams) 594g -
Ecologies of Bronze Age Rock Art: Organisation, Design and Articulation of Petroglyphs in Eastern-Central Sweden by Fredrik Fahlander 9798888571392
RRP: £40.00£32.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798888571392Author Fredrik FahlanderFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Casemate PublishersPublisher Casemate Publishers -
The Good Forest: The Salzburgers, Success, and the Plan for Georgia by Karen Auman 9780820366098
£24.72Georgia, 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 Jim Crow North: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Pottstown, Pennsylvania by Matthew George Washington 9781985900240
£37.05Located 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... -
The Western Front: A History of the Great War, 1914-1918 by Nick Lloyd 9781324095118
RRP: £17.99£14.65The Western Front evokes images of mud-spattered men in waterlogged trenches, shielded from artillery blasts and machine-gun fire by a few feet of dirt. This iconic setting was the most critical arena of the Great War, a 400-mile combat zone stretching... -
The World's Greatest Escape Stories by Lamar Underwood 9781493081479
RRP: £17.99£13.33Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781493081479Author Lamar UnderwoodFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint The Lyons PressPublisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams) 336g -
James VI, Britannic Prince: King of Scots and Elizabeth’s Heir, 1566–1603 by Alexander Courtney 9781138606265
RRP: £36.99£32.53By drawing upon recent scholarship, original manuscript materials, and previously unpublished sources, this new biography presents an analytical narrative of King James VI & I’s life from his birth in 1566 to his accession to the throne of England and... -
Entwined Homelands, Empowered Diasporas: Hispanic Moroccan Jews and Their Globalizing Community by Aviad Moreno 9780253069672
RRP: £34.00£30.87Entwined Homelands, Empowered Diasporas explores how the 30,000 Jews in northern Morocco developed a sense of kinship with modern Spain, medieval Sepharad, and the broader Hispanophone world that was unlike anything experienced elsewhere. The Hispanic... -
Lessons from Our Ancestors: Uncovering Ancient World Wisdom by Raksha Dave 9781419771200
RRP: £22.99£15.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781419771200Author Raksha DaveFormat HardbackPage Count 64Imprint Magic CatPublisher Magic Cat -
Burma '44: The Battle That Turned World War II in the East by James Holland 9780802160584
RRP: £21.99£18.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802160584Author James HollandFormat HardbackPage Count 448Imprint Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly PressPublisher Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press -
Understanding and Teaching Religion in US History by Karen J. Johnson 9780299346300
RRP: £34.95£28.78Religion is deeply embedded in American history, and one cannot understand American history’s broad dynamics without accounting for it. Without detailing the history of religions, teachers cannot properly explain key themes in US survey courses, such as... -
Emerging Digital Technologies and India’s Security Sector: AI, Blockchain, and Quantum Communications by Pankaj K Jha 9781032773704
RRP: £36.99£32.53This book is an introductory account for policy makers, academia, and interested readers on the digital technologies on Indian Military. It covers three technologies – AI, Blockchain, and Quantum communications – and provides a detailed account on the... -
Berengaria of Navarre: Queen of England, Lord of Le Mans by Gabrielle Storey 9781032121475
RRP: £36.99£32.53Berengaria of Navarre was queen of England (1191–99) and lord of Le Mans (1204–30), but has received little attention in terms of a fully encompassing biography from Navarrese, Anglophone, and French perspectives. This book explores her political career... -
Franks and Northmen: From Strangers to Neighbors by Daniel Melleno 9781032266992
RRP: £36.99£32.53Franks and Northmen explores the full spectrum of Franco-Scandinavian interaction, examining not just violence but also less well-known relationships centered on acts of diplomacy, commerce, and mission and demonstrating the transformative nature of... -
Embracing Emancipation: A Transatlantic History of Irish Americans, Slavery, and the American Union, 1840-1865 by Ian Delahanty 9781531506872
RRP: £29.99£27.38Challenges conventional narratives of the Civil War era that emphasize Irish Americans’ unceasing opposition to Black freedom Embracing Emancipation tackles a perennial question in scholarship on the Civil War era: Why did Irish Americans, who claimed to... -
A Global Sourcebook in Protestant Political Thought, Volume I: 1517–1660 by Matthew Rowley 9781032162102
£36.19Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Arming the World: American Gun-Makers in the Gilded Age by Geoffrey S. Stewart 9781493078585
RRP: £30.00£23.90Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781493078585Author Geoffrey S. StewartFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint The Lyons PressPublisher Rowman & Littlefield -
Japan Runs Wild, 1942–1943 by Peter Harmsen 9781636244310
RRP: £22.50£14.35A comprehensive view of World War Two in the Asia Pacific.In early 1942, the Japanese Army and Navy were advancing on all fronts, humiliating their US, British and Dutch foes throughout the Asia Pacific. In a matter of just months, the soldiers and... -
Wide Awake: The Forgotten Force That Elected Lincoln and Spurred the Civil War by Jon Grinspan 9781639730643
RRP: £25.00£18.97Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781639730643Author Jon GrinspanFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing USAPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing USA -
Rethinking the Red Power Movement by Sam Hitchmough 9781032012582
RRP: £35.99£31.69Rethinking the Red Power Movement examines Red Power ideology with a focus on its many forms of solidarity with African Americans, the role of gender in shaping the movement, its international expansion, and its current meaning in contemporary activism... -
Name Unknown: The Life of a Rusian Queen by Christian Raffensperger 9781032350776
RRP: £36.99£32.53Name Unknown: The Life of a Rusian Queen offers an example of an eastern European queen as a corrective to the western European focus of medieval queenship studies.Through a chronological approach, this book looks beyond the popular biographies of royal... -
Women and the American Experience: A Concise History by Nancy Woloch 9781032284897
RRP: £35.99£31.69The third edition of Women and the American Experience: A Concise History is a comprehensive survey of U.S. women’s history from the seventeenth century to the present that illuminates the diversity of women’s experience and underscores the roles that... -
Homes of the Past: A Lost Jewish Museum by Jeffrey Shandler 9780253069993
RRP: £27.99£24.95Homes of the Past tells the powerful story of how immigrant Jewish scholars in 1940s New York sought to build a museum to commemorate their lost worlds and people. Among the Jews who arrived in the United States in the early 1940s were a small number of... -
Greek Captives and Mediterranean Slavery, 1260-1460 by Alasdair C Grant 9781399523837
RRP: £90.00£73.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781399523837Author Alasdair C GrantFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University Press -
American Civil Wars: A Continental History, 1850-1873 by Alan Taylor 9781324035282
RRP: £33.99£24.28In a beautifully crafted narrative of soaring ideals and sordid politics, of civil war and foreign invasion, Alan Taylor presents a pivotal twenty-year period in which the United States, Mexico and Canada all transformed themselves into nations. The... -
American Bloods: The Untamed Dynasty That Shaped a Nation by John Kaag 9780374103910
RRP: £23.99£17.11The Bloods were one of America’s first and most expansive pioneer families. They explored and laid claim to the frontiers - geographic, political, intellectual, and spiritual - that would become the very core of the United States. John Kaag’s American... -
Israel/Palestine in World Religions: Whose Promised Land? by S. Ilan Troen 9783031509131
£35.34The struggle over Israel/Palestine is not just another contest by competing nationalisms or an instance of geopolitical competition. It is also about control of sacred territory that involves local Jews, Muslims, and Christians as well as worldwide faith... -
A Secretive Century: Monte Punshon's Australia by Tessa Morris-Suzuki 9780522879940
RRP: £14.95£12.53In a life that spanned more than a century - 1882 to 1989 - Monte Punshon witnessed crucial events in Australia's history. She was a pioneer radio broadcaster, travelled the country with children's theatrical troupes and defied convention with her active...