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The Ancient World in Alternative History and Counterfactual Fictions Alberto J. Quiroga Puertas 9781350281622
RRP: $189.00$188.75Focusing in turn on history, powerful individuals, under-represented voices and the arts, the essays in this collection cover a wide variety of modern and contemporary narrative fiction from Jo Walton and L. Sprague De Camp to T. S. Chaudhry and... -
Analysing the Boundaries of the Ancient Roman Garden: (Re)Framing the Hortus Dr Victoria Austen 9781350265226
$61.64This book demonstrates how the Romans constructed garden boundaries specifically in order to open up or undermine the division between a number of oppositions, such as inside/outside, sacred/profane, art/nature, and real/imagined. Using case studies from... -
The 1969 ‘Greek Case’ in the Council of Europe: A Game Changer for Human Rights Dr Kostis Kornetis 9781350296589
RRP: $178.50$178.42In 1969 Greece withdrew from the Council of Europe (CoE), following pressure exercised by various European countries, organisations, social movements and individuals in response to the brutal conduct of the military junta that had taken power by force on... -
Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain: Voir Venir, Venir Voir Alain Dominique Perrin 9782869251878
RRP: $73.50$47.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782869251878Author Alain Dominique PerrinFormat HardbackPage Count 436Imprint Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporainPublisher Fondation Cartier pour... -
Hero City: Leningrad 1943–44 Prit Buttar 9781472856616
RRP: $63.00$46.52One of the greatest ever sieges is masterfully brought to life by a leading expert on the Eastern Front. At the height of World War II the people of Leningrad endured a bitter 900-day siege, struggling against bombing, shelling, and starvation. Prit... -
Emma Goldman: Collected Essays on the Life and Impact of a Transnational Anarchist Frank Jacob 9783111539218
RRP: $143.85$129.82Emma Goldman’s life and work offer countless perspectives for study and analysis. As an anarchist activist she always attacked any form of inequality and was a lifelong agent for freedom. Goldman, who lived a transnational life, in her writings and... -
Pre-Columbian Contact between the Americas and Oceania Andrea Ballesteros Danel 9783031648762
RRP: $230.98$230.06This book weaves together theories of pre-Columbian trans-Pacific contact between Oceania and the Americas and analyses them from a history of ideas perspective. Despite limited factual evidence, trans-Pacific contact theories between the Americas and... -
Sir Ronald Storrs: Personality and Policy in Mandate Palestine, 1917–1926 Christopher Burnham 9781032597263
RRP: $283.50$246.29This volume utilises the personal papers of Sir Ronald Storrs, as well as other archival materials, to make a microhistorical investigation of his period as Governor of Jerusalem between 1917 to 1926.It builds upon Edward Said’s work on the Orientalist... -
Mapping the State: English Boundaries and the 1832 Reform Act Martin Spychal 9781914477393
RRP: $189.00$188.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914477393Author Martin SpychalFormat HardbackPage Count 354Imprint University of London PressPublisher University of London -
The Global Wireless: Transnational Radiotelegraphy and Its Disruption in World War I Maria Rikitianskaia 9783111201306
RRP: $172.20$155.25The Global Wireless charts a history of wireless beginning in the 1910s, when it was used as a tool for global communication, and ending as it declined and slowly fell from view. Located at a crossroads of media history and science and technology... -
This Horrible Uncertainty: A German Woman Writes War, 1939-1948 Erika Quinn 9781805396420
RRP: $207.90$168.99Through the diaries and personal papers of a German woman, Vera Conrad, this book documents her wartime experiences and deepens our understanding of the complex experiences of trauma and grief that National Socialist supporters experienced. Building on... -
Queens in Antiquity and the Present: Speculative Visions and Critical Histories Patricia Eunji Kim 9781350380882
$207.61This interdisciplinary edited volume explores the notion of queenship as it has manifest from antiquity to the present, in contexts ranging from political acts to art production. Featuring the work of scholars, educators, curators and artists, this book... -
Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI Yuval Noah Harari 9781911717089
RRP: $58.80$42.04The story of how information networks have made, and unmade, our world from the #1 Sunday Times bestselling author of Sapiens.For the last 100,000 years, humans have accumulated enormous power. But despite all our discoveries, inventions and conquests,... -
The Falls of Rome: Crises, Resilience, and Resurgence in Late Antiquity Michele Renee Salzman 9781107529090
RRP: $46.18$39.38Over the course of the fourth through seventh centuries, Rome witnessed a succession of five significant political and military crises, including the Sack of Rome, the Vandal occupation, and the demise of the Senate. Historians have traditionally... -
Blue: A History of Postpartum Depression in America Rachel Louise Moran 9780226835792
RRP: $50.40$38.14A powerful look at the changing cultural understanding of postpartum depression in America. “If you begin to feel at all depressed,” the famous pediatrician Dr. Benjamin Spock advised new mothers, “go to a movie, or to the beauty parlor, or to get... -
Berthe Weill: Art Dealer of the Parisian Avant-Garde Lynn Gumpert 9782080447203
RRP: $73.50$47.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782080447203Author Lynn GumpertFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint FlammarionPublisher Editions Flammarion -
Five Hundred Years of LGBTQIA+ History in Western Nicaragua Victoria González-Rivera 9780816542802
RRP: $136.50$124.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816542802Author Victoria González-RiveraFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint University of Arizona PressPublisher University of Arizona... -
Captivity of the Oatman Girls R. B. Stratton 9781496237705
RRP: $35.68$29.74In the spring of 1851 nine members of the Oatman family set out for California on the old Santa Fe Trail. Seventy miles from the California border they were attacked by Indians, who killed the entire family, except a boy, Lorenzo (mistakenly left for... -
The Posthumous Papers of the Manuscripts Club Christopher de Hamel 9780241304389
RRP: $35.68$28.04‘Exquisite... intelligent, illuminating, mischievous … delightful The TimesThe acclaimed author of Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts introduces us to the extraordinary keepers and companions of medieval manuscripts over a thousand years of historyThe... -
Sparks: China's Underground Historians and Their Battle for the Future Ian Johnson 9780141997957
RRP: $27.28$19.09A FINANCIAL TIMES AND NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023‘Johnson’s stories bring … this history chillingly alive’ Christina Patterson, Sunday Times'An indelible feat of reporting and an urgent read ... It's a privilege to read books like these' Te-Ping... -
Unruly Labor: A History of Oil in the Arabian Sea Andrea Wright 9781503632578
$194.48In 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... -
Migrant Citizenship: Race, Rights, and Reform in the U.S. Farm Labor Camp Program Verónica Martínez-Matsuda 9781512826920
RRP: $50.38$43.76An examination of the Farm Security Administration's migrant camp system and the people it served Today's concern for the quality of the produce on our plates has done little to guarantee U.S. farmworkers the necessary protections of sanitary housing,... -
Gastrofascism and Empire: Food in Italian East Africa, 1935-1941 Simone Cinotto 9781350436831
$196.22Food stood at the centre of Mussolini’s attempt to occupy Ethiopia and build an Italian Empire in East Africa. Seeking to redirect the surplus of Italian rural labor from migration overseas to its own Empire, the fascist regime envisioned transforming... -
Baphomet Revealed: Mysteries and Magic of the Sacred Icon Heather Lynn 9781637480199
RRP: $31.48$25.47Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781637480199Author Heather LynnFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint New Page Books,USPublisher Red Wheel/Weiser -
Stolen Fragments: Black Markets, Bad Faith, and the Illicit Trade in Ancient Artefacts Roberta Mazza 9781503632509
RRP: $52.50$38.85In 2012, Steve Green, billionaire and president of the Hobby Lobby chain of craft stores, announced a recent purchase of a Biblical artefact—a fragment of papyrus, just discovered, carrying lines from Paul's letter to the Romans, and dated to the second... -
German Colonialism in Africa and its Legacies: Architecture, Art, Urbanism, and Visual Culture Professor Itohan Osayimwese 9781350326200
$61.64Germany developed a large colonial empire over the last thirty years of the 19th century, spanning regions of the west coast of Africa to its east coast and beyond. Largely forgotten for many years, recent intense debates about Africa’s cultural heritage... -
Israel-Palestine: Federation or Apartheid? Shlomo Sand 9781509564408
RRP: $37.78$25.49Since the brutal massacre perpetrated by Hamas on 7 October and the subsequent bombing and invasion of Gaza, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has been thrust back to the centre of the world’s attention. How can this deep-rooted conflict, stretching back... -
40 Maps That Will Change How You See the World Alastair Bonnett 9780711293533
RRP: $42.00$28.88Turn the pages of this thought-provoking book and discover maps that challenge conventional wisdom, confront social and political norms, and offer fresh perspectives on familiar landscapes. This meticulously curated selection of 40 maps spans the ages,... -
A Cultural History of the Sea in the Global Age Dr. Franziska Torma 9781350451292
RRP: $54.58$47.48In 1972 an image became an icon: ‘Blue Marble’, a photograph of the Earth as seen from outer space. The picture features prominently the globe’s water-covered surface. The ocean connects nature and culture in the modern world. Within the time-span of 100... -
Mapping the State: English Boundaries and the 1832 Reform Act Martin Spychal 9781915249258
$63.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915249258Author Martin SpychalFormat PaperbackPage Count 354Imprint University of London PressPublisher University of London -
Daybreak in Gaza: Stories of Palestinian Lives and Culture Matthew Teller 9781849250696
RRP: $31.48$20.58‘A city so rich in trees it looks like a cloth of brocade spread out upon the land’ Fourteen-century Syrian scholar al-Dimashqi ‘Trees all about the city, olives and almond groves’ Twentieth century historian Ibrahim Skeik This was Gaza. Not the Gaza... -
Global Economic History Professor Tirthankar Roy 9781350290075
$168.08Guiding the reader through the many guises of global economic history, this book uncovers its key issues, debates and subjects. With contributions from leading scholars around the world, it delves into the economic histories of Africa, Europe, Asia and... -
Far-Right Vanguard: The Radical Roots of Modern Conservatism John S. Huntington 9781512826951
RRP: $44.08$38.58The history of the ultraconservative movement, its national network, and its influence on Republican Party politics Donald Trump shocked the nation in 2016 by winning the presidency through an ultraconservative, anti-immigrant platform, but, despite the... -
Wartime Entertainment: How Britain Kept Smiling Through the Second World War Anton Rippon 9781399034845
RRP: $52.50$30.01It might have ended 80 years ago, but we still have a warm, nostalgic relationship with the Second World War, due in no small part to the love we have for the entertainment from those turbulent times. Singers like Vera Lynn – the ‘Forces Sweetheart’ –... -
Into Unknown Skies: An Unlikely Team, a Daring Race, and the First Flight Around the World David K. Randall 9780063371408
RRP: $52.50$41.71Equal parts The Right Stuff and The Boys in the Boat, Into Unknown Skies tells the unbelievable history of the 1924 race to circumnavigate the globe for the first time by air, a nail-biting contest that pitted underdog US pilots against their... -
Peter Gregory: Publisher and Patron of Modern British Artists Valerie Holman 9781848226999
RRP: $73.50$56.03Peter Gregory (1887-1959), Director and then Chairman of Lund Humphries, was at the heart of the avant-garde British art world for nearly thirty years of major change in society, politics, and culture. A pioneering art publisher who produced scholarly... -
The Great Encounter of China and the West, 1500–1800 D. E. Mungello 9798881801052
RRP: $63.00$56.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798881801052Author D. E. MungelloFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Rowman & Littlefield PublishersPublisher Rowman & Littlefield Publishers -
The Pullman Strike: A Gilded Age Clash between Labor, Capital, and Government Edward T. O'Donnell 9781032473826
$78.04This book examines the 1894 Pullman Strike, one of the most consequential clashes between labor and capital that paralyzed America’s railroad system.The Gilded Age saw rapid economic growth, expansion of industrialization, and real wage growth. Yet... -
Legitimation as Political Practice: Crafting Everyday Authority in Tanzania Kathy Dodworth 9781009015721
RRP: $62.98$57.54Legitimacy has long been perceived through a Westernized lens as a fixed, binary state. In this book, Kathy Dodworth offers an exploration of everyday legitimation practices in coastal Tanzania, which challenges this understanding within postcolonial... -
Poisoned Relations: Healing, Power, and Contested Knowledge in the Atlantic World Chelsea Berry 9781512826494
RRP: $81.90$71.65Illuminates the competing understandings of poison and power in the Atlantic world By the time of the opening of the Atlantic world in the fifteenth century, Europeans and Atlantic Africans had developed significantly different cultural idioms for and...