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The Basque Witch-Hunt: A Secret History Dr Jan Machielsen 9781350441507
RRP: $48.75$36.82In June 1609, two judges left Bordeaux for a territory at the very edge of their jurisdiction, a Basque-speaking province on the Atlantic coast called the Pays de Labourd. In four months, they executed up to 80 women and men for the crime of witchcraft,... -
Solidarity Is the Political Version of Love: Lessons from Jewish Anti-Zionist Organizing Rebecca Vilkomerson 9798888901342
RRP: $126.75$94.85What does the politics of solidarity look like in practice, and how can left-wing organizations grow—in numbers and power—while remaining accountable to the broader movements of which they are a part? Against enormous odds and in the face of fierce... -
Proposed Airborne Assaults in the Liberation of Europe: Cancelled Allied Plans from the Falaise Pocket to Operation Market Garden James Daly 9781399036214
RRP: $42.90$34.36Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Architecture, Media, Archives: The Fun Palace of Joan Littlewood and Cedric Price as a Cultural Project Dr Ana Bonet Miró 9781350345362
$182.21Over 60 years on from its inception, the celebrated Fun Palace civic project – developed in the 1960s by the radical theatre director Joan Littlewood and the architect Cedric Price – continues to capture the architectural imagination. Despite the... -
Normal Women: 900 Years of Making History Philippa Gregory 9780008601690
RRP: $21.43$14.14A NEW STATESMEN BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 ‘A lasting work of social history’ THE TIMES ‘A genuinely new history of our nation’ DAN JONES ‘This celebration of women is a triumph of popular history’ SPECTATOR FROM THE MULTI-MILLION BESTSELLING... -
The Organic Line: Toward a Topology of Modernism Irene V. Small 9781890951993
RRP: $68.25$47.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781890951993Author Irene V. SmallFormat HardbackPage Count 448Imprint Zone BooksPublisher Zone Books -
A Cultural History of Medicine in the Modern Age Todd Meyers 9781350451629
RRP: $50.68$44.09A Cultural History of Medicine presents an authoritative survey from ancient times to the present. The set of six volumes covers over 2500 years of history, charting the changes in medical experience, knowledge and practices throughout history. This... -
Kabbalah and Catastrophe: Historical Memory in Premodern Jewish Mysticism Hartley Lachter 9781503640214
$114.84While premodern kabbalistic texts were not chronicles of historical events, they provided elaborate models for understanding the secret divine plan guiding human affairs. Hartley Lachter analyzes innovative kabbalistic doctrines, such as the idea of... -
Labors of Love: Gender, Capitalism, and Democracy in Modern Arab Thought Susanna Ferguson 9781503640337
RRP: $48.73$42.26How to raise a child became a central concern of intellectual debate from Cairo to Beirut over the course of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Intimately linked with discussions around capitalism and democracy, considerations about... -
Roman Army Units in the Western Provinces (3): 4th–5th Centuries AD Raffaele D’Amato 9781472862686
RRP: $25.33$17.73A fully illustrated account of the large-scale reformation of the Roman Army from the reign of Diocletian to the fall of the Western Empire in AD 476. After the 50-year chaos of the mid-3rd century AD, Emperor Diocletian (r. AD 284–305) and his... -
Immaculate Forms: Uncovering the History of Women's Bodies Helen King 9781788163873
RRP: $48.75$34.36'With unrivaled expertise and a wealth of classical and contemporary detail, the author weaves historical knowledge of medicine, anatomy, literature, art and religion into a narrative that surprises, informs, excites and frequently amuses' Adrian... -
Daily Life in 1990s America Richard A. Schwartz 9798216182702
$119.83With the end of the Cold War, the invention of the World Wide Web, the widespread availability to cellphones and personal computers, and remarkable advances in space exploration—the 1990s introduced a new era in human history. During that decade, the... -
Gesina ter Borch Adam Eaker 9781848225206
RRP: $68.25$52.03Gesina ter Borch (1631-1690) was a Dutch watercolourist and draughtswoman whose work survives primarily in the form of three albums of watercolours and calligraphy, now held at the Rijksmuseum. Despite the fact that her oeuvre is securely attributed and... -
Cherokee Civil Warrior: Chief John Ross and the Struggle for Tribal Sovereignty W. Dale Weeks 9780806194912
RRP: $42.80$34.34For the Cherokee Nation, the Civil War was more than a contest between the Union and the Confederacy. It was yet another battle in the larger struggle against multiple white governments for land and tribal sovereignty. Cherokee Civil Warrior tells the... -
First Burma Campaign: The Japanese Conquest of 1942 Colonel E C V Foucar MC 9781526797643
RRP: $33.13$23.95Shortly after the British and Indian forces had withdrawn from Burma in the face of the Japanese onslaught in 1942, Colonel E.C.V. Foucar MC was instructed to undertake a ‘special duty’, namely seek out documentary material and information from the... -
The Camp 100: Glorious flamboyance, from Louis XIV to Lil Nas X Simon Doonan 9780711289963
RRP: $33.13$23.71'Simon Doonan’s CAMP 100 is majestic, life-enhancing, packed with info and bang up to date. And, yes, I am featured. Surprised?' - Alan CarrCelebrate the unapologetically, outrageously CAMP with this vivacious party of 100 people, objects, art movements... -
American Vikings: How the Norse Sailed into the Lands and Imaginations of America Martyn Whittock 9781639367849
RRP: $29.23$23.05A vivid and illuminating new history—separate fact from fiction, myth from legend—exploring the early Vikings settlements in North America.Vikings are an enduring subject of fascination. The combination of adventure, mythology, violence, and exploration... -
SOE in The Netherlands: The Special Operations Executive’s Dutch Section in WW2 An Official History 9781036110857
RRP: $48.75$34.36Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Brutalist Japan: A Photographic Tour of Post-War Japanese Architecture Paul Tulett 9783791393100
RRP: $78.00$56.14Featuring striking photography by an expert in the field, this exploration of Japanese Brutalist architecture celebrates the surprising beauty and grace of buildings forged in concrete. Emerging in the devastating aftermath of World War II, Brutalist... -
The Plot to Perpetuate Slavery: How George McClellan, Southern Spies and a Confidence Man Nearly Derailed Emancipation Phil Roycraft 9781476694955
RRP: $56.53$45.59In the aftermath of the September 1862 Battle of Antietam, President Abraham Lincoln issued the most significant presidential decree in American history, the Emancipation Proclamation, which would forever free all slaves in territory not under Union... -
Paul Huxley Jeremy Lewison 9781848226548
RRP: $97.48$73.42Paul Huxley RA (b.1938) has enjoyed a distinguished career both as a painter and a teacher. Huxley's fascinating artistic life, expertly surveyed by Jeremy Lewison, is at last given the attention that it deserves in this, the first monograph on the... -
Turkey’s Violent Formation: New Social Contracts at the End of the Ottoman Empire Hans-Lukas Kieser 9780755649556
$146.48The decade of war and violence culminating in the Conference of Lausanne was formative for the modern state of Turkey, as it was for interwar Europe’s diplomacy and appeasement. Yet the currents that gave rise to the defining events of the period –... -
The Worst Songs in the World: The Terrible Truth About National Anthems David Pate 9781459754560
RRP: $35.08$27.46The best-known songs in the world are violent, sexist, and religious — so why do we celebrate national anthems when we should be rewriting them? This fascinating popular history of national anthems begins in a London theatre in 1745 when the modern idea... -
Woodstock: From World War to Culture Wars Richard Heppner 9781438499321
RRP: $42.63$31.86Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781438499321Author Richard HeppnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Excelsior EditionsPublisher State University of New York PressWeight(grams) 227g -
Titans of the Twentieth Century: How They Made History and the History They Made Michael Mandelbaum 9780197782477
RRP: $52.63$47.97An engaging and original historical portrait of eight of the most influential political figures of the twentieth century: Woodrow Wilson, Lenin, Hitler, Churchill, FDR, Gandhi, David Ben-Gurion, and Mao. The Titans of the Twentieth Century addresses an... -
Unruly Labor: A History of Oil in the Arabian Sea Andrea Wright 9781503639423
RRP: $42.88$38.75In the mid-twentieth century, the Arabian Peninsula emerged as a key site of oil production. International companies recruited workers from across the Middle East and Asia to staff their expanding oil projects. Unruly Labor considers the working... -
Yugoslavia and Greece 1940–41: The Axis' aerial assault in the Balkans Pier Paolo Battistelli 9781472859242
RRP: $33.13$25.66A new illustrated history of the German and Italian air campaigns in the invasions of Greece and Yugoslavia, the last full-scale Axis air offensives before Operation Barbarossa. The Greece campaign was launched by Italy in October 1940, the first... -
Dope Girls: The Birth Of The British Drug Underground Dr Marek Kohn 9781803511634
RRP: $21.43$14.2727th November 1918, London. Just 16 days after the end of the Great War, with the nation on its knees, Billie Carleton takes to the stage for the last time. She is found dead the next day in her bedroom. The cause of death: a cocaine overdose. The drugs... -
Enslaved Native Americans and the Making of Colonial South Carolina D. Andrew Johnson 9781421449807
RRP: $88.73$78.51A compelling study into the history and lasting influence of enslaved Native people in early South Carolina.In 1708, the governor of South Carolina responded to a request from London to describe the population of the colony. This response included an... -
Freud’s British Family: Reclaiming Lost Lives in Manchester and London Roger Willoughby 9781032651989
$70.57Freud’s British Family presents ground-breaking research into the lives of the British branch of the Freud family, their connections to the founder of psychoanalysis, and into Freud’s relationship to Britain.Documenting the complex relationships the... -
Antisemitism in the Arab-Israeli Conflict: Time to Confront the Elephant in the Room David H Stone 9781803710549
RRP: $33.05$32.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781803710549Author David H StoneFormat PaperbackPage Count 220Imprint Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdPublisher Vallentine Mitchell & Co Ltd -
Brooklynites: The Remarkable Story of the Free Black Communities that Shaped a Borough Prithi Kanakamedala 9781479833092
RRP: $46.78$35.63Meet the Black Brooklynites who defined New York City’s most populous borough through their search for social justice Before it was a borough, Brooklyn was our nation’s third largest city. Its free Black community attracted people from all walks of... -
First Lady of Laughs: The Forgotten Story of Jean Carroll, America's First Jewish Woman Stand-Up Comedian Grace Kessler Overbeke 9781479818150
$68.21Before Hacks and The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, there was the comedienne who started it all First Lady of Laughs tells the story of Jean Carroll, the first Jewish woman to become a star in the field we now call stand-up comedy. Though rarely mentioned among... -
Nadia Comaneci and the Secret Police: A Cold War Escape Dr Stejarel Olaru 9781350511507
RRP: $29.23$22.91Nadia Comaneci is the Romanian child prodigy and global gymnastics star who ultimately fled her homeland and the brutal oppression of a communist regime. At the age of just 14, Nadia became the first gymnast to be awarded a perfect score of 10.0 at the... -
Beyond the Timeline: Resetting Historiography Julia Seeberger 9783111154749
RRP: $142.35$128.93Different from literary works (prose, drama etc.) with techniques like montage and contemporary media (film, documentaries, video games, internet) where time-lines are being questioned through flashbacks and flashwords, historiography seems to have... -
Disorder and Diagnosis: Health and the Politics of Everyday Life in Modern Arabia Laura Frances Goffman 9781503640818
RRP: $46.78$42.06Disorder and Diagnosis offers a social and political history of medicine, disease, and public health in the Persian Gulf from the late nineteenth century until the 1973 oil boom. Foregrounding the everyday practices of Gulf residents—hospital patients,... -
The Jews of Lithuania: A Journey Through the long Twentieth Century Nicholas Sayers 9781803710655
RRP: $38.90$29.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781803710655Author Nicholas SayersFormat PaperbackPage Count 324Imprint Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdPublisher Vallentine Mitchell & Co Ltd -
Faithful unto Death: Pet cemeteries, animal graves and eternal devotion Paul Koudounaris 9780500027516
RRP: $48.75$31.94The remarkable stories of beloved pets – from the famous and unusual to the everyday – memorialized at burial sites around the world, accompanied by a rich selection of archival photos and the author’s evocative images of their final resting places. ... -
Picnics and Porcupines: Eating in the Wilderness of Michigan's Upper Peninsula Candice Goucher 9780814351543
RRP: $52.55$39.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814351543Author Candice GoucherFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Wayne State University PressPublisher Wayne State University Press -
The Big, Big Treasure Dig Autumn Publishing 9781835440636
RRP: $25.33$16.22Join an archaeological dig with a difference on this interactive treasure huntBook InformationISBN 9781835440636Author Autumn PublishingPage Count 12Imprint Autumn PublishingPublisher Bonnier Books LtdWeight(grams) 472g