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Muhammad: A Critical Biography Robert Spencer 9798888453087
RRP: €29.75€25.47Muhammad: What can we really know about him?We know a great deal about Muhammad—or so it seems. Islamic tradition contains an astonishing wealth of information about the founding figure of the Islamic faith, and most historians take for granted that this... -
Modern Spain: Politics and Society since 1874 Dr Francisco J. Romero Salvadó 9781350455184
€89.39Using a wealth of varied sources, this book is an inspiring and essential gateway to understanding the foundations of modern Spain. Francisco J. Romero Salvadó employs a chronological framework to chart the country’s experience, commencing with the... -
The Fear of Robachicos in Mexico: Media, Childhood and Child Kidnapping 1900-1968 Susana Sosenski 9781350424432
RRP: €101.15€101.10Civil society organizations report that fourteen children disappear every day in Mexico. This book studies the origins of this social phenomenon and its consequences, not only in the emotional sphere, but also in how children have been treated. Focusing... -
Iran's Ministry of Intelligence: A Concise History Steven R. Ward 9781647125110
€85.72The first book about Iran's shadowy Ministry of Intelligence Steven R. Ward provides an accessible overview of Iran's Ministry of Intelligence (MOIS) and its focus on tracking and countering domestic dissent and perceived foreign-inspired sedition. The... -
Craxton's Cats Andrew Lambirth 9780500028049
RRP: €17.84€11.66An appealing picture book of cats depicted by John Craxton, one of the major figures of modern British painting, with an introduction and commentary by Andrew Lambirth, who knew Craxton well. By concentrating on a single subject very dear to John... -
Beutepanzers of World War II: Captured tanks and AFVs in German service Steven J. Zaloga 9781472859389
RRP: €15.46€11.65Illustrated with original artwork and archive photos, this is the history of Germany's extensive use of captured tanks in World War II. In this book Steven J. Zaloga, one of the world's leading armor authorities, uncovers the history of one of the... -
In Plain Sight: Muslims of the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem Ann E. Zimo 9781512824896
RRP: €64.26€55.68How Muslims integrated themselves into the Kingdom of Jerusalem, founded in the wake of the First Crusade In Plain Sight draws from a wide array of interdisciplinary sources to show how Muslims, seemingly hostile to the entire crusading enterprise,... -
At Sea Alex Hall 9781805056034
RRP: €7.13€4.82Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781805056034Author Alex HallFormat PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint BookLife PublishingPublisher BookLife Publishing -
The Order and Disorder of Communication: Pamphlets and Polemics in the Seventeenth-Century Ottoman Empire Nir Shafir 9781503638952
€74.79The seventeenth-century Ottoman Empire was rife with polemical debate, around worshipping at saints' graves, medical procedures, smoking tobacco, and other everyday practices. Fueling these debates was a new form of writing—the pamphlet, a cheap, short,... -
Republic: Britain’s Revolutionary Decade, 1649–1660 Alice Hunt 9780571303199
RRP: €29.75€19.74A biography of a daring and an unprecedented decade: the 1650sEvents moved fast in the 1650s. Something cataclysmic happened every year, something that would thrust the newly formed republic, its people, and its eventual 'Lord Protector' Oliver Cromwell,... -
The Ancient World in Alternative History and Counterfactual Fictions Alberto J. Quiroga Puertas 9781350281622
RRP: €107.10€106.96Focusing 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
€34.93This 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: €101.15€101.10In 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: €41.65€26.69Apologies 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: €35.70€26.36One 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: €81.52€73.57Emma 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: €130.89€130.36This 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: €160.65€139.56This 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: €107.10€106.96Apologies 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: €97.58€87.98The 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: €117.81€95.76Through 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
€117.64This 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: €33.32€23.82The 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: €26.17€22.31Over 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: €28.56€21.61A 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: €41.65€26.69Apologies 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: €77.35€70.52Apologies 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: €20.22€16.85In 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: €20.22€15.89‘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: €15.46€10.82A 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
€110.21In 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: €28.55€24.80An 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
€111.19Food 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: €17.84€14.43Apologies 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: €29.75€22.02In 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
€34.93Germany 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: €21.41€14.45Since 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: €23.80€16.36Turn 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: €30.93€26.91In 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
€36.09Apologies 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