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Realm of Ice and Sky: Triumph, Tragedy, and History's Greatest Arctic Rescue by Buddy Levy 9781250289186
RRP: $36.11Booksplease Price: $22.96Arctic explorer and American visionary Walter Wellman pioneered both polar and trans-Atlantic airship aviation, making history's first attempts at each. Wellman has been cast as a self-promoting egomaniac known mostly for his failures. Instead he was a... -
The CIA Book Club by Charlie English 9780008495138
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The Greater Second World War: Global Perspectives by Andrew N. Buchanan 9781501780653
RRP: $65.79Booksplease Price: $56.53Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501780653Author Andrew N. BuchananFormat HardbackPage Count 402Imprint Cornell University PressPublisher Cornell University Press -
Italy and the 'Shock of the Global' during the 1970s Guido Formigoni 9783031821455
Booksplease Price: $59.24This open access book explores how Italy experienced the crucial period of transition that has come to be known as the 'Shock of the Global' during the 1970s. This decade marked a change between the prevailing socio-political and economic structures of... -
Untitled His Holiness The Dalai Lama 9780008743772
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $12.75In this unique book, His Holiness the Dalai Lama tells the full story of his 75-year struggle with China to save Tibet and its people. The Dalai Lama has had to contend with the People's Republic of China his entire life. He was 15 years old... -
Organizing Workers in the Shadow of Slavery: Global Inequality, Racial Boundaries, and the Rise of Unions in American and British Capitalism, 1870–1929 Rudi Batzell 9780226838762
RRP: $118.68Booksplease Price: $113.34An original analysis of the relationship between slavery and the labor movement in the late-nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. During the rise of the labor movement in the late nineteenth century, why were American workers unable to organize... -
Walking the Footsteps of a Forgotten Revolution: Friedrich Hecker’s Insurrection of 1848 Steven Nyole Fuller 9783111433844
Booksplease Price: $88.56Walking the Footsteps of a Forgotten Revolution details the bold and audacious insurrection in the opening phase of the German Revolution of 1848-1849. Friedrich Hecker, the most gifted young politician of his day, attempted to lead a group of rebels... -
The Courtiers and the Court of Louis XIII, 1610–1643 Marc Jaffré 9780198957614
RRP: $153.51Booksplease Price: $140.79Louis XIII's court has long been a feature of the popular imaginary, thanks in part to the many movie and TV adaptations of Alexandre Dumas' novel The Three Musketeers. Yet it remains misunderstood, commonly mischaracterised as weak, unimportant, or... -
Meiji Graves in Happy Valley: Stories of Early Japanese Residents in Hong Kong Yoshiko Nakano 9789888876853
RRP: $36.12Booksplease Price: $28.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789888876853Author Yoshiko NakanoFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Hong Kong University PressPublisher Hong Kong University Press -
Steamships Across the Pacific: Maritime Journeys Between Mexico, China, and Japan, 1867-1914 Ruth Mandujano López 9789888876761
RRP: $70.95Booksplease Price: $54.53Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789888876761Author Ruth Mandujano LopezFormat HardbackPage Count 212Imprint Hong Kong University PressPublisher Hong Kong University Press -
The Divided North: Black and White Families in the Age of Slavery Carol Gardner 9781625348753
Booksplease Price: $105.97Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781625348753Author Carol R GardnerFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint University of Massachusetts PressPublisher University of Massachusetts... -
Not Just a Man's War: Chinese Women's Memories of the War of Resistance Against Japan, 1931-45 Yihong Pan 9780774870368
RRP: $38.69Booksplease Price: $34.91Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780774870368Author Yihong PanFormat PaperbackPage Count 282Imprint University of British Columbia PressPublisher University of British Columbia... -
Slog or Swan: British Army Effectiveness in Operation Veritable, February and March 1945 Dermot Rooney 9781804516690
RRP: $45.15Booksplease Price: $32.74Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804516690Author Dermot RooneyFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Into the Inferno: Over Nazi-Occupied Europe with a B-17 Waist Gunner Bill Ibelle 9781636245584
RRP: $38.64Booksplease Price: $28.32The temperature was 40 degrees below zero when fighter planes screamed out of the clouds, puncturing the fuselage with a spray of machinegun fire and sending the bomber beside them into a death spin. This was followed by intense flak, as a hundred... -
Shifting Sovereignties: A Global History of a Concept in Practice Moritz Mihatsch 9783111446561
Booksplease Price: $77.30Shifting Sovereignties explores practical manifestations of sovereignty from antiquity to the Anthropocene. Taking a global-history perspective and centring Africa, the Middle East, and Asia, it destabilises overly neat theoretical notions of the concept... -
Chasing the Idea of Completeness: Great Book Collections in the Roman World Katarzyna Pietruczuk 9783111634388
Booksplease Price: $139.69This book sets out to explore how the Romans appropriated the Hellenistic concept of a complete library collection. Tracing this idea in the Roman world allows us to reconstruct the discourse on cultural transmission between Greece and Rome. The model of... -
Changes in Attitudes to Immigrants in Britain, 1921-2021: From Alien to Migrant Ben Braber 9781839994258
RRP: $103.20Booksplease Price: $98.78This book examines so far unused or relatively underused primary sources, investigates secondary resources and engages with the existing literature that deals with immigration but is not focused on attitudes nor always covers the entire period after 1921... -
Kaga and Akagi: Aircraft Carriers in the Imperial Japanese Navy Hans Lengerer 9780764368936
RRP: $36.11Booksplease Price: $18.49A pictorial guide to Akagi and Kaga, two early Japanese aircraft carriers that were sunk at the Battle of Midway. Akagi and Kaga were the second and third aircraft carriers to enter service with the Imperial Japanese Navy. Akagi was initially... -
The Revolution to Come: A History of an Idea from Thucydides to Lenin Dan Edelstein 9780691231853
Booksplease Price: $44.58How an event once considered the greatest of all political dangers came to be seen as a solution to all social problemsPolitical thinkers from Plato to John Adams saw revolutions as a grave threat to society and advocated for a constitution that... -
Spaces of Enslavement: A History of Slavery and Resistance in Dutch New York Andrea C. Mosterman 9781501781698
RRP: $30.95Booksplease Price: $30.22In Spaces of Enslavement, Andrea C. Mosterman addresses the persistent myth that the colonial Dutch system of slavery was more humane. Investigating practices of enslavement in New Netherland and then in New York, Mosterman shows that these ways of... -
Exceptionalism in Crisis: Faction, Anarchy, and Mexico in the Us Imagination During the Civil War Era Alys D Beverton 9781469685205
RRP: $105.78Booksplease Price: $101.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781469685205Author Alys D BevertonFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint University of North Carolina PressPublisher University of North Carolina Press -
Reformatting Agrarian Life: Urban History from the Countryside in Colonial India William J. Glover 9781503642263
Booksplease Price: $39.24Reformatting Agrarian Life presents a stealth urban history from the countryside that foregrounds the mutual entanglements of agrarian and urban expertise. Will Glover traces an essential genealogy for understanding how urbanism unexpectedly left the... -
F-4 Phantom II: McDonnell Douglas MiG Hunter David Doyle 9780764369025
RRP: $29.66Booksplease Price: $22.54A concise pictorial guide to the F-4 Phantom, featuring over 200 images. The McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II first flew in the 1950s, entered US military service in the 1960s, and remained on duty into the 1990s. The plane gained a reputation for... -
Los Angeles Before the Freeways: Images of an Era 1850–1950 Arthur Hylen 9781626401334
RRP: $49.02Booksplease Price: $31.81Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781626401334Author Arnold HylenFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint Angel City Press,U.S.Publisher Angel City Press,U.S. -
Popes and Princes 1417–1517: Politics and Polity in the Late Medieval Church by John A. F. Thomson 9781041012658
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Imagining the Roman Emperor: Perceptions of Rulers in the High Empire by Panayiotis Christoforou 9781009362528
RRP: $29.66Booksplease Price: $27.98Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Mercenaries of Knowledge: Vicente Nogueira, the Republic of Letters, and the Making of Late Renaissance Politics by Fabien Montcher 9781009340489
RRP: $38.69Booksplease Price: $35.85Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Church of Ireland under the Stuarts by Patrick Little 9781801510882
Booksplease Price: $78.14Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Carlo di Rudio and the Age of Revolution by Nick Ridley 9781032543604
RRP: $55.46Booksplease Price: $48.89Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Bath and Beyond: The Social and Cultural World of the Georgian Assembly Room by Hillary Burlock 9781032494463
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Coercive Commerce: Global Capital and Imperial Governance at the End of the Qing Empire by Stacie A Kent 9789888876754
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The Secret Staircase by J L Williams 9781738595150
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The Making of the Citizen-Worker: Labour and the Borders of Politics in Post-revolutionary France by Federico Tomasello 9781032301150
RRP: $55.46Booksplease Price: $48.89Over the course of the 19th century, European societies started thinking of themselves as “civilisations of work.” In the wake of the political and industrial revolutions, labour as a human activity and condition gradually came to embody a general... -
Oliver Cromwell’s Kin, 1643-1726: The Private and Public Worlds of the English Revolution and Restoration by David Farr 9781032403458
RRP: $55.46Booksplease Price: $48.89This study centres around three leading military statesmen who served under Oliver Comwell but were also his kin and shared the experiences of the civil wars, John Disbrowe (1608–80), Henry Ireton (1611–51), and Charles Fleetwood (1618–92). It seeks to... -
Race and Beauty: Early Modern Cosmetics and the Mythology of Whiteness by Josie Schoel 9781032499338
RRP: $51.59Booksplease Price: $45.65This work examines how beauty standards, specifically the ideology of "fairness," contributed to the racialization of bodies in early modern England. Schoel emphasizes the need to dismantle whiteness's invisibility in historical criticism, noting that it... -
China and Africa in the Middle Ages by Teobaldo Filesi 9781041010838
Booksplease Price: $38.20From the evidence of Chinese documents, East African excavations and the researches of scholars and historians, the author of this book, originally published in English in 1972, gives a fascinating account of China’s early relations with Africa, the... -
Outlaws of the Sea: Maritime Piracy in Modern China by Robert J Antony 9789888876778
RRP: $65.79Booksplease Price: $50.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789888876778Author Robert J AntonyFormat HardbackPage Count 268Imprint Hong Kong University PressPublisher Hong Kong University PressWeight(grams) 454g -
Rabindranath Tagore's Ideational Universe by Bidyut Chakrabarty 9781032629889
RRP: $55.46Booksplease Price: $48.89This book explores Tagore’s socio-political ideas through his novels, short stories, and essays. It looks at Tagore beyond his literary achievements and examines his notions of friendship, religion, nationalism, civilization, and knowledge. It highlights... -
Gordion Glass Vessels by Janet Duncan Jones 9781949057294
RRP: $129.00Booksplease Price: $120.63This volume is a study of the ancient glass vessels from 70 years of excavation at Gordion in central Anatolia. The corpus of vessel glass, currently numbering over 1,800 fragments, is extraordinary in that it includes exceptional examples of vessels... -
Antislavery in the Dissenting Atlantic: Archives and Unquiet Libraries, 1776-1865 by Bridget Bennett 9780807183717
RRP: $58.05Booksplease Price: $53.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807183717Author Bridget BennettFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint LSU PressPublisher LSU PressWeight(grams) 572g