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This Land of Promise: A History of Refugees and Exiles in Britain Matthew Lockwood 9780008442569
RRP: £30.00£19.53‘Important, comprehensive, and superbly researched. All the more urgent at the present time’ BART VAN ES How have those who arrived on Britain’s shores shaped its history? Refugees seeking to reach Britain today often face perilous journeys,... -
Contested Territories: Native Americans and Non-Natives in the Lower Great Lakes, 1700-1850 Charles Beatty-Medina 9781611865066
RRP: £22.95£18.72A remarkable multifaceted history, Contested Territories examines a region that played an essential role in America's post-revolutionary expansion—the Lower Great Lakes region, once known as the Northwest Territory. As French, English, and finally... -
Anglo-Norman Studies XLVI: Proceedings of the Battle Conference 2023 Professor Stephen D. Church 9781837651047
£67.74"A series which is a model of its kind": Edmund King Considers the clerical friends of Ermengarde of Brittany, showing how these men enabled Ermengarde to fulfil both her duty and her desire to live an intensely pious life. Explores the ways in which... -
Pax: War and Peace in Rome's Golden Age - THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Tom Holland 9780349141213
RRP: £12.99£9.09THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'Holland, who co-hosts the podcast The Rest Is History, is at his best when having fun with Rome's bloody history' The Times 'A book for lovers of traditional, grand sweep narrative history' Sunday TimesThe definitive... -
Punjabi Rebels of the Columbia River: The Global Fight for Indian Independence and Citizenship Johanna Ogden 9781962645119
RRP: £29.95£19.70Oregon is commonly perceived to have little, let alone notable, South Asian history. Yet in the early 1900s Oregon was at the center of two entwined quests for Indian independence and civic belonging that rocked the world. Punjabi Rebels of the Columbia... -
The Webs of Humankind: A World History J. R. McNeill 9781324061519
£62.40McNeill’s The Webs of Humankind offers a refreshingly clear view of world history through the lens of connective “webs” of interaction—along which trade, religious beliefs, technologies, pathogens, and much else traveled. Instructors have hailed... -
Radical Ideas and the Crisis of Christianity in England, 1640-1740: The Politics of Religion Alex W. Barber 9781837651825
£95.42Examines the evolving relationship between Church and State, the character of radical thought in Enlightenment England, and the nature of that Enlightenment itself. A tribute to the work of the late Justin Champion, this volume explores the radical... -
Hurricane: The Plane that Won the War Jacky Hyams 9781789296846
RRP: £10.99£7.77Britain’s first-ever wartime fighter plane, the Hawker Hurricane, shot down more enemy planes than any other fighter. It was the true aviation hero of the Battle of Britain.Often eclipsed by the legend and aerial heroics of the Spitfire, the Hurricane... -
León and Galicia Under Queen Sancha and King Fernando I Bernard F. Reilly 9781512824629
RRP: £58.00£57.49A corrective to conventional accounts of the reign of Queen Sancha and King Fernando I in medieval Iberia Acclaimed historians Bernard F. Reilly and Simon R. Doubleday tell the story of the reign of Queen Sancha and King Fernando I, who together ruled... -
The Race for Mukalla: Arabian Elite Forces and the War Against Al-Qaeda Michael Knights 9781805221517
RRP: £25.00£17.62The sequel to Michael Knights' successful 25 Days to Aden, The Race for Mukalla is the story of elite UAE forces taking the counter-terrorism fight to Al -Qaeda in the southern Yemen port of Mukalla. In many senses this was the UAE's most challenging... -
The Postwar Fleet: Volume I, 1944-1950 Captain Jeremy Stocker 9781739296414
RRP: £110.00£104.74The book begins in January 1944, the point at which serious thought started to be given to the size and shape of the future Navy. Postwar retrenchment meant the Admiralty needed to reduce spending on the Fleet and release manpower for the civilian... -
History in the House: Some Remarkable Dons and the Teaching of Politics, Character and Statecraft Richard Davenport-Hines 9780008285722
RRP: £26.00£17.05History in the House pulls back the curtains on Christ Church, Oxford and reveals its great and lasting historical significance. This is an exciting new historiographical study from the much-acclaimed historian Richard Davenport-Hines. It shows the... -
Gibbon’s Christianity: Religion, Reason, and the Fall of Rome Hugh Liebert 9780271092362
RRP: £29.95£27.35There has never been much doubt about the faith of the “infidel historian” Edward Gibbon. But for all of Gibbon’s skepticism regarding Christianity’s central doctrines, the author of The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire did not merely... -
The Prussian Army of Frederick the Great, 1740-1786: History, Organization and Uniforms Gabriele Esposito 9781399051859
RRP: £25.00£17.62Frederick the Great was an acknowledged master of war. Admired and studied by Napoleon, he commanded the Prussian army at sixteen major battles and numerous sieges and other actions, often leading from the front. Under Frederick the Prussian Army became... -
Empire's Son, Empire's Orphan: The Fantastical Lives of Ikbal and Idries Shah Nile Green 9781324002413
RRP: £22.00£18.96Claiming to come from Afghanistan, Ikbal and Idries Shah convinced spies, poets, orientalists, diplomats, occultists, hippies and even a prime minister that they held the keys to understanding the Muslim world. Gambling with the currency of cultural... -
The Home I Worked to Make: Voices from the New Syrian Diaspora Wendy Pearlman 9781324092230
RRP: £23.99£18.26In 2011, Syrians took to the streets demanding freedom. Brutal government repression transformed peaceful protests into one of the most devastating conflicts of our times, killing hundreds of thousands and displacing millions. The Home I Worked to Make... -
Intelligent Action: A History of Artistic Research, Aesthetic Experience, and Artists in Academia Timothy Ridlen 9781978837706
RRP: £31.00£28.25Through archival research and analysis of artworks by Gyorgy Kepes, Allan Kaprow, Mel Bochner, and Suzanne Lacy, among others, Intelligent Action examines how these artists brought alternatives to dominant conceptions of research and knowledge production... -
Environment, Knowledge, and Injustice in Lesotho: The Poverty of Progress Christopher Conz 9781847013309
RRP: £75.00£61.81Shows that a fraught historical process was at work in which Basotho drew on local and global sources of knowledge and how this small nation surrounded by South Africa can serve as a valuable case-study for wider conversations about 'progress' and... -
I, Yantra: Exploring Self and Selflessness in Ancient Indian Robot Tales Signe Cohen 9781438496627
£25.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781438496627Author Signe CohenFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York... -
The Death of General Sikorski: The Polish Leader’s Last Flight in 1943 and The Tangled Web of Poland, the Allies, and the Soviets Peter Zablocki 9781399039222
RRP: £25.00£17.62Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
U.S. Immigration Policy, Ethnicity, and Religion in American History Michael C. LeMay 9798765128558
RRP: £21.99£21.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798765128558Author Michael C. LeMayFormat PaperbackPage Count 328Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing USAPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing USA -
Tanks on Iwo Jima 1945 Romain Cansière 9781472860392
RRP: £12.99£9.09An award-winning US Marine Corps armor historian's account of the role of US and Japanese tanks on Iwo Jima. The battle of Iwo Jima is iconic and known for its brutality: this was the only battle in which the number of US casualties outnumbered those of... -
U.S. Army Divisions of the Pacific War Stephen R Taaffe 9781636244495
RRP: £29.95£18.79A new narrative and analytic history of the twenty U.S. Army divisions that fought in the Pacific War. Despite the prevailing view that the Marine Corps bore the brunt of the fighting in the Pacific War, the men of the US Army played a decisive role in... -
Pictures and the Past: Media, Memory, and the Specter of Fascism in Postmodern Art Alexander Bigman 9780226833071
£34.96A fresh take on the group of artists known as the Pictures Generation, reinterpreting their work as haunted by the history of fascism, the threat of its return, and the effects of its recurring representation in postwar American culture. The artists of... -
Aztec Latin: Renaissance Learning and Nahuatl Traditions in Early Colonial Mexico Andrew Laird 9780197586358
£105.21In 1536, only fifteen years after the fall of the Aztec empire, Franciscan missionaries began teaching Latin, classical rhetoric, and Aristotelian philosophy to native youths in central Mexico. The remarkable linguistic and cultural exchanges that would... -
Afghanistan: Civilians in Support Andrew Canning 9781636244334
RRP: £22.50£14.35After decades in the Royal Marines, Andrew Canning spent four years working for coalition forces in Afghanistan as a civilian. During his time there, he met extraordinarily committed and brave civilians, not only on the program he was delivering but... -
Brilliant Exiles: American Women in Paris, 1900–1939 Robyn Asleson 9780300273588
RRP: £45.00£37.63A scintillating account of the cultural freedom and empowerment that American women experienced as leaders in the avant-garde scene in early twentieth-century Paris For the American women who made Paris their home during the early decades of the... -
The Feminist Pacific: International Women's Networks in Hawai'i, 1820–1940 Rumi Yasutake 9780231208529
RRP: £117.00£103.99As 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... -
Women in the Valley of the Kings: The Untold Story of Women Egyptologists in the Gilded Age Kathleen Sheppard 9781250284358
RRP: £24.99£19.20The history of Egyptology is often told as yet one more grand narrative of powerful men striving to seize the day and the precious artifacts for their competing homelands. But that is only half of the story. During the Golden Age of Exploration, there... -
India and the Cold War Manu Bhagavan 9781469684048
RRP: £29.95£28.58This collection of essays inverts the way we see the Cold War by looking at the conflict from the perspective of the so-called developing world, rather than of the superpowers, through the birth and first decades of India's life as a postcolonial nation... -
Male Professionals in Nineteenth Century Britain: Families, Intergenerational Mobility, and the Rise of the Professions Laurence Brockliss 9780198897552
RRP: £130.00£118.19Male Professionals in Nineteenth-Century Britain is the first statistically-based social, cultural and familial history of a fast-growing and socially prominent section of the Victorian propertied classes. It is built around a representative cohort of... -
The Tomb of Amenemhab: No. 44 at Qurnah: The Tomb-chapel of a Priest Carrying the Shrine of Amun Hassan El-Saady 9798888570852
RRP: £34.95£28.78This volume is a facsimile reissue of the full publication of the tomb identified as that of Amenemhab, a middle ranking priest of Amon. The tomb lies within the lower enclosure of the major cemetery of Elwet Sheikh-Abdel Qurnah in Thebes. It is cut into... -
The Boundless River: Stories from the Realm of the Rhine Mathijs Deen 9781529424188
RRP: £15.99£11.62The Boundless River takes the reader into a unique world ? the twilight zone between fact and fiction, science and imagination ? and on a journey which moves effortlessly from a time in prehistory, long before the existence of a European continent, to... -
Out Here: Governor Sir Humphrey Walwyn’s Quarterly Reports from Newfoundland, 1936–1946 Melvin Baker 9780228021063
£54.17Vice Admiral Sir Humphrey Thomas Walwyn (1879–1957) was the British-appointed governor of Newfoundland from 1936 to 1946 – a period of remarkable change that would culminate in Newfoundland’s union with Canada in 1949. Assembling records from the British... -
Fortress Britain 1940: Britain's Unsung and Secret Defences on Land, Sea and in the Air Andrew Chatterton 9781636243450
RRP: £20.00£12.86Alone, unprepared and weak. These are generally the words used to describe Britain's position in 1940, part of a narrative that has been built up ever since the end of World War II. However, the reality is very different. On land, sea and in the air,... -
Visualizing History’s Fragments: A Computational Approach to Humanistic Research Ashley R. Sanders 9783031469756
£30.33This book combines a methodological guide with an extended case study to show how digital research methods can be used to explore how ethnicity, gender, and kinship shaped early modern Algerian society and politics. However, the approaches presented have... -
Cold War Scotland Samuel J.M.M. Alberti 9781910682524
RRP: £14.99£12.55Scotland’s unique geography and topography provided a useful base for Allied military preparations during the Cold War, a 40-year nuclear stand-off between the USA and the Soviet Union ending with the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. This book... -
Amaravati: Art and Buddhism in Ancient India Jas Elsner 9781789148695
RRP: £45.00£42.27This exploration of the exceptional Buddhist stupa (reliquary mound) at Amaravati, one of ancient India's most extraordinary monuments, presents a fresh perspective on the rich visual culture of ancient South Asia viewed through the lens of art history,... -
Socialist Women and the Great War, 1914-21: Protest, Revolution and Commemoration Professor Ingrid Sharp 9781350343504
£29.35Socialist Women and the Great War: Protest, Revolution and Commemoration, an open access book, is the first transnational study of left-wing women and socialist revolution during the First World War and its aftermath. Through a discussion of the key... -
Raid and Reconciliation: Pancho Villa, Modernization, and Violence in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands Brandon Morgan 9781496237774
£60.05Around the turn of the twentieth century, the formation of the U.S.-Mexico border through the rise of capitalism brought new forms of violence, this time codified in law, land surveys, and capitalist land and resource regimes—the markers of modernity and...