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Unbecoming Modern: Colonialism, Modernity, Colonial Modernities by Saurabh Dube 9781032653709
£40.52In this volume well-known scholars from India and Latin America - Enrique Dussel, Madhu Dubey, Walter D. Mignolo, and Sudipta Sen, to name a few - discuss the concepts of modernity and colonialism and describe how the two relate to each other. This... -
Haunted War Tales: True Military Encounters with the Bizarre, Paranormal, and Unexplained by R.C. Bramhall 9781493075768
RRP: £17.99£13.33Some battlefields - such as Gettysburg - are known to be haunted. This book focuses on multiple tales of truly odd, and often bizarre, paranormal events on the battlefields of the world. Some popular stories are de-bunked, but most of these reports - all... -
Black Homeownership on Martha's Vineyard: A History by Thomas Dresser 9781467157070
RRP: £24.99£16.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467157070Author Thomas DresserFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint History PressPublisher History PressWeight(grams) 386g -
The Silent Attack: The Fallschirmj�ger Capture the Bridges of Veldwezelt, Vroenhoven and Kanne 1940 by �scar Gonz�lez 9781036150020
RRP: £25.00£17.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781036150020Author �scar Gonz�lezFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Pen & Sword MilitaryPublisher Pen & Sword Military -
Reeling in the Queers: Tales of Ireland’s LGBTQ Past by Páraic Kerrigan 9781848409224
RRP: £14.99£10.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781848409224Author Páraic KerriganFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint New Island BooksPublisher New Island BooksWeight(grams) 350g -
Nazi Propaganda Through Art and Architecture: Creating the Myth of Hitler’s Third Reich by Norman Ridley 9781036100216
RRP: £22.00£15.62When the Nazis came to power in January 1933, they began a programme of transforming Germany from a democracy into a totalitarian state, but it was not a matter of simply enforcing compliance. The people had to be coaxed into believing in the new regime... -
The Art of Ukraine by Alisa Lozhkina 9780500297780
RRP: £18.99£12.75Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
On Dragons' Wings: A History of No. 614 (County of Glamorgan) Squadron, Royal Auxiliary Air Force Martin Wade 9781800995994
£22.48Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800995994Author Martin WadeFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Y LolfaPublisher Y Lolfa -
Military Strategy: A Very Short Introduction: Second Edition Antulio J. Echevarria II 9780197760154
£9.17Distilling the ideas of the greatest military theoreticians of history, including Sun Tzu, Niccolò Machiavelli, and Carl von Clausewitz, this clear and engaging Very Short Introduction presents a fascinating account of the "art of the general." Antulio J... -
The Politics of Collecting: Race and the Aestheticization of Property Eunsong Kim 9781478030485
£29.32In The Politics of Collecting, Eunsong Kim traces how racial capitalism and colonialism situated the rise of US museum collections and conceptual art forms. Investigating historical legal and property claims, she argues that regimes of... -
The Persistence of Race: Continuity and Change in Germany from the Wilhelmine Empire to National Socialism Lara Day 9781805393344
RRP: £27.95£22.58Race in 20th-century German history is an inescapable topic, one that has been defined overwhelmingly by the narratives of degeneracy that prefigured the Nuremberg Laws and death camps of the Third Reich. As the contributions to this innovative volume... -
The Feminist Pacific: International Women's Networks in Hawai'i, 1820–1940 Rumi Yasutake 9780231208536
RRP: £30.00£27.39As 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... -
Sacred Capital: Methodism and Settler Colonialism in the Empire of Liberty Hunter Price 9780813951324
£101.51How Methodist settlers in the American West acted as agents of empire In the early years of American independence, Methodism emerged as the new republic’s fastest growing religious movement and its largest voluntary association. Following the contours of... -
Confessions of a Weekend Warrior: Thirty-Five Years in the National Guard Brig. Gen. Paul “Greg” Smith 9781476694108
RRP: £21.99£17.97America's National Guard was once considered a ragtag gaggle of pretend soldiers. Beginning in the 1980s the National Guard gradually transformed into today's highly flexible operational force that answers our nation's call for overseas combat... -
Wales in England, 1914-1945: A Social, Cultural, and Military History Wendy Ugolini 9780198863274
RRP: £90.00£81.58At the beginning of the twentieth century, for many English men and women of Welsh origin the idea of being in some part 'Welsh' reaffirmed their own understanding of what it meant to 'be British'. Wales in England, 1914-1945 is the first cultural... -
The Little Book of Fermanagh Doreen McBride 9781803996684
RRP: £12.99£9.37Did You Know Van Morrison wrote ‘Brown Eyed Girl’ on a piano in Derrygonnelly Paddy Monaghan, from Ederney, befriended Mohammad Ali and became known as Paddy-Ali St Molaise brought soil containing blood from early Christian martyrs from the Colosseum... -
Aflame for Freedom in Tibet: The Origin and Development of the Self-Immolation Movement Namloyak Dhungser 9781666937794
£90.99Since 2009, the image of Tibetans setting themselves on fire in protest against the repressive policies of the Chinese government has drawn attention from around the world. In Aflame for Freedom in Tibet: The Origin and Development of the Self-Immolation... -
The Politics of Collecting: Race and the Aestheticization of Property Eunsong Kim 9781478026242
£107.95In The Politics of Collecting, Eunsong Kim traces how racial capitalism and colonialism situated the rise of US museum collections and conceptual art forms. Investigating historical legal and property claims, she argues that regimes of... -
Gdańsk: Portrait of a City Peter Oliver Loew 9780197603864
£37.63It was where World War II began on September 1, 1939. Its wartime experience was immortalized in Günter Grass`s The Tin Drum. Later it attracted worldwide attention as the site where workers` strikes led by Lech Walesa and the ensuing Solidarity movement... -
Multiplicity: On Constraint and Agency in Contemporary Architecture by Pari Riahi 9781625347992
£32.38Today, the field of architecture faces a reckoning. While there is no longer consensus on what defines an architectural work, theorists, historians, and practitioners are grappling with urgent issues—among them the impact of climate change, the dynamics... -
Farrell's Ice Cream Parlour by MR Baker 9781467161107
RRP: £24.99£16.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467161107Author MR BakerFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Arcadia Publishing (SC)Publisher Arcadia Publishing (SC)Weight(grams) 9g -
Strabo's Geography: A Translation for the Modern World by Strabo 9780691243139
£67.95A lively new translation of Strabo’s complete Geography—an encyclopedic guide to the ancient world of the first century CE—connecting it with the world of the twenty-first centuryStrabo’s Geography is an encyclopedic description of the ancient world as... -
The Jim Crow North: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Pottstown, Pennsylvania by Matthew George Washington 9781985900233
£78.74Located 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 Seer and the City: Religion, Politics, and Colonial Ideology in Ancient Greece by Margaret Foster 9780520401426
RRP: £30.00£25.95Seers featured prominently in ancient Greek culture, but they rarely appear in archaic and classical colonial discourse. Margaret Foster exposes the ideological motivations behind this discrepancy and reveals how colonial discourse privileged the city’s... -
US Marine vs Japanese Soldier: Saipan, Guam, and Peleliu, 1944 by Gregg Adams 9781472861139
RRP: £15.99£11.61Fully illustrated, this book assesses the US Marines and Japanese troops fighting in three bloody battles of World War II in the Pacific. In June 1944, the United States military launched an offensive against the Japanese forces holding the Mariana... -
Jamestown 1622: The Anglo-Powhatan Wars by Cameron Colby 9781472861924
RRP: £16.99£12.28A dramatic illustrated exploration of the infamous massacre of 1622, and the events of a pivotal conflict in colonial American history. Since 1607, English settlers of Jamestown maintained a shaky relationship with the Powhatan Confederacy. As the... -
The Raging Erie: Life and Labor Along the Erie Canal by Mark S. Ferrara 9780231216371
RRP: £84.00£75.11The completion of the Erie Canal in 1825 was a monumental achievement. Linking the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean, it transformed New York City into a hub of international trade, drove the rise of industrial cities in once sparsely populated areas,... -
A Neo-Fatimid Treasury of Books: Arabic Manuscripts Among the Alawi Bohras of South Asia by Olly Akkerman 9781474479578
RRP: £24.99£20.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474479578Author Olly AkkermanFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University Press -
Honest John Williams: U.S. Senator from Delaware by Carol E Hoffecker 9781644533536
£37.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781644533536Author Carol E HoffeckerFormat PaperbackPage Count 278Imprint University of Delaware PressPublisher University of Delaware PressWeight(grams)... -
Lismore: The Great Garden by Robert K. M. Hay 9781839830587
RRP: £10.99£9.59This island of Lismore boasts a remarkably rich heritage, both in terms of historic monuments and of an unbroken tradition of Gaelic culture. From their first sight of Tirefour Broch, dominating approaches from the mainland, visitors to the Isle of... -
The North Caucasus Borderland: Between Muscovy and the Ottoman Empire, 1555-1605 by Murat Yasar 9781474498708
RRP: £24.99£20.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474498708Author Murat YasarFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University Press -
The Highlands and Islands of Scotland: A New History by Alistair Moffat 9781780278575
RRP: £25.00£16.59Alistair Moffat tells the extraordinary story of the Highlands in the most detailed book ever written about this remarkable part of Scotland. The chronicle begins millions of years ago, with the dramatic geological events that formed the awe-inspiring... -
Catland: Louis Wain and the Great Cat Mania by Kathryn Hughes 9781421448145
RRP: £29.95£24.21How cat mania exploded in the early twentieth century, transforming cats from pests into beloved pets.In 1900, Britain and America were in the grip of a cat craze. An animal that had for centuries been seen as a household servant or urban nuisance had... -
How to Lose a War: The Story of America’s Intervention in Afghanistan by Amin Saikal 9780300266245
RRP: £18.99£16.18An incisive, authoritative account of the West’s failures in Afghanistan, from 9/11 to the fall of Kabul In 1958, Richard Nixon described Afghanistan as “unconquerable.” On 15 August 2021, he was proven right. After twenty years of intervention, US and... -
Sports and the American Presidency: From Theodore Roosevelt to Donald Trump by Adam Burns 9781399507950
RRP: £29.99£27.26Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781399507950Author Adam BurnsFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University Press -
Unveiling the Color Line: W. E. B. Du Bois on the Problem of Whiteness by Lisa J. McLeod 9781625347930
£32.25In The Souls of Black Folk, W. E. B. Du Bois brilliantly details the African American experience. Yet the renowned sociologist was also an astute chronicler of white people, particularly their racism. As Unveiling the Color Line demonstrates, Du Bois’s... -
Protestantism, Revolution and Scottish Political Thought: The European Context, 1637-1651 by Karie Schultz 9781474493116
RRP: £85.00£69.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474493116Author Karie SchultzFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University Press -
Sanctity, Gender and Authority in Medieval Caucasia by Nikoloz Aleksidze 9781474498616
RRP: £100.00£89.39Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474498616Author Nikoloz AleksidzeFormat HardbackPage Count 366Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University Press -
The Blood-Tinted Waters of the Shenandoah: The 1864 Valley Campaign’s Battle of Cool Spring, July 17-18, 1864 by Jonathan A Noyalas 9781611217155
RRP: £13.99£12.49Decades after the Civil War’s end, Confederate veteran John Alexander Stikeleather reflected on his experiences as a soldier in the 4th North Carolina Infantry. Among all of the engagements in which Stikeleather had been involved during his four years of... -
Byzantine Media Subjects by Glenn A. Peers 9781501776267
RRP: £27.99£24.95Byzantine Media Subjects invites readers into a world replete with images—icons, frescoes, and mosaics filling places of worship, politics, and community. Glenn Peers asks readers to think themselves into a world where representation reigned and humans...