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The Moral and Market Economies of Bread: Regulation and Reform in Vienna, 1775-1885 by Jonas Albrecht 9781350398474
RRP: €101.15€101.10From the 1770s the Vienna bread market was rocked by a series of politico-economic and technological changes that questioned the way this everyday foodstuff was sold and produced. In this book, Jonas Albrecht explores how this reconfiguration of the... -
Women's Suffrage in the Americas by Stephanie Mitchell 9780826366146
€76.81The first hemispheric study to trace how women in the Americas obtained the right to vote, Women's Suffrage in the Americas pushes back against the misconception that women's movements originated in the United States. The volume brings Latin American... -
The Politics of Service: American Quakers and the Emergence of international humanitarian aid 1917–1945 by Daniel Maul 9783110675597
€94.96This book provides the first comprehensive history of the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), the central aid agency of Religious Society of Friends or Quakers, from 1917 to 1939. Implying a thoroughly transnational approach, it sheds a light on... -
Helmets and Body Armour in New Kingdom Egypt by Alberto Maria Pollastrini 9781350323483
RRP: €101.15€101.10This book examines the dynamics around the introduction and spread of helmets and body armour throughout Egypt during the 18th, 19th and 20th Dynasties. It argues that the word 'introduction' is the best term to define this phenomenon because these types... -
NATO: What You Need To Know by Medea Benjamin 9781682195208
RRP: €15.46€10.27What is the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)? What role is played by its members and partners? Does the largest military alliance ever to exist serve the cause of peace or the causes of weapons sales and war mongering? Published to coincide with... -
Intimate Subjects: Touch and Tangibility in Britain's Cerebral Age by Simeon Koole 9780226834320
RRP: €109.48€104.55An insightful history of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Britain told through a single sense: touch. When, where, and who gets to touch and be touched, and who decides? What do we learn through touch? How does touch bring us closer together or push... -
Writing Local History Today: A Guide to Researching, Publishing, and Marketing Your Book by Thomas A Mason 9781538182628
RRP: €35.70€31.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781538182628Author Thomas A MasonFormat PaperbackPage Count 220Imprint Rowman & Littlefield PublishersPublisher Rowman & Littlefield -
The Whiskey Rebellion: A Distilled History of an American Crisis by Brady J Crytzer 9781594164354
RRP: €30.94€19.31Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781594164354Author Brady J CrytzerFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Westholme PublishingPublisher Westholme Publishing -
Forsaken Causes: Liberal Democracy and Anticommunism in Cold War Laos by Ryan Wolfson-Ford 9780299348601
RRP: €105.91€104.23Postcolonial and post–World War II Southeast Asia churned with new political, social, and cultural realities and possibilities. Liberal democracies flourished briefly, only to be discarded in favor of dictatorships and other authoritarian regimes, as the... -
The Yemeni Civil War: The Arab Spring, State formation and internal instability by Elham Manea 9781804130575
RRP: €101.15€88.67This book suggests an innovative theoretical framework to understand the meltdown and civil wars of countries such as Yemen, Syria, and Libya after their 2011 uprisings, using Yemen as a case study. The interaction between different types of state... -
The RAF’s Youngest Bomber Pilot of WW2: The Story of Flight Lieutenant Brian Slade DFC, Lancaster Pilot and Pathfinder by Graham Waterton 9781399080170
RRP: €29.75€20.97Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Dynamite Nashville: The FBI, The KKK, and the Bombers Beyond Their Control by Betsy Phillips 9798986614571
RRP: €26.12€16.65Dynamite Nashville explores a series of unsolved civil rights era bombings in Nashville. Betsy Phillips, who was named Best Nashville Historian by The Nashville Scene, believes she has solved those bombings. She has gained access to FBI files, that the... -
The KGB, Russian Academic Imperialism, Ukraine, and Western Academia, 1946–2024 by Sergei I. Zhuk 9781666943672
RRP: €104.72€91.74The KGB, Russian Academic Imperialism, Ukraine, and Western Academia, 1946-2024 is a study of Soviet and Russian intelligence operations against the centers for Soviet studies in North American academia. Using recently opened archival KGB and US... -
Automotive Empire: How Cars and Roads Fueled European Colonialism in Africa by Andrew Denning 9781501775369
RRP: €53.55€46.62In Automotive Empire, Andrew Denning uncovers how roads and vehicles began to transform colonial societies across Africa but rarely in the manner Europeans expected. Like seafaring ships and railroads, automobiles and roads were more than a mode of... -
Devil's Mile: The Rich, Gritty History of the Bowery by Alice Sparberg Alexiou 9781531507268
RRP: €19.03€16.24Devil’s Mile tells the rip-roaring story of New York’s oldest and most unique street The Bowery was a synonym for despair throughout most of the 20th century. The very name evoked visuals of drunken bums passed out on the sidewalk, and New Yorkers... -
After the Flying Saucers Came: A Global History of the UFO Phenomenon by Greg Eghigian 9780190869878
RRP: €27.36€27.08Roswell, 1947. Washington, DC, 1952. Quarouble, 1954. New Hampshire, 1961. Pascagoula, 1973. Petrozavodsk, 1977. Copley Woods, 1983. Explore how sightings of UFOs and aliens seized the world's attention and discover what the fascination with flying... -
Witnesses to Interwar Subcarpathian Rus’: The Sojourns of Petr Bogatyrev and Ivan Olbracht by Patricia A. Krafcik 9781666931709
RRP: €119.00€109.05In the midst of a contentious atmosphere of the interwar period, the far-eastern province of Subcarpathian Rus’ attracted the personal curiosity and professional attention of Russian ethnographer and theoretician Petr Bogatyrev and Czech... -
The Untold Journey of the Nazarene Emigration from Yugoslavia to North America by Aleksandra Djuric Milovanovic 9781666922769
RRP: €91.63€84.35What role does religion play in migration processes? What is the reason behind migration of religious minorities? Is religious affiliation a deciding factor in choosing emigration? Some of these questions have been the focus of The Untold Journey of the... -
The Cold War through Documents: A Global History by Edward H. Judge 9781538195673
RRP: €91.63€80.47This text is a comprehensive collection of more than 100 carefully edited documents (speeches, treaties, statements, and articles), making the great events of the era come alive through the words and phrases of those who were actively involved. Coverage... -
Voices From the Past: Channel Islands Invaded by Simon Hamon 9781399078825
RRP: €19.03€13.82In the summer of 1940 the British Isles stood isolated and alone facing the might of a seemingly unstoppable German war machine. Never before had the United Kingdom been in a state of such uncertainty and possible peril. Fortunately the full breadth of... -
Pricing the Land: The Buying and Selling of Frontier New York and the Cayuga Reservation by Scott W. Anderson 9781501775697
RRP: €44.03€38.58Pricing the Land reconstructs the complicated history of buying and selling land along the New York frontier after the American Revolution. Scott W. Anderson focuses on the prices bid for lots in central New York that had been set aside for veterans of... -
Sacred Capital: Methodism and Settler Colonialism in the Empire of Liberty by Hunter Price 9780813951331
€37.20How 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... -
Rethinking the Anthropology of Islam: Dynamics of Change in Muslim Societies. In Honour of Roman Loimeier by Katja Föllmer 9783111302263
€116.98The contributions of this volume discuss the broad field of transformation processes in Muslim societies from different perspectives with various disciplinary approaches. Apart from methodological questions the authors investigate religious and social... -
Monuments for Posterity: Self-Commemoration and the Stalinist Culture of Time by Antony Kalashnikov 9781501774270
RRP: €26.17€22.84Monuments for Posterity challenges the common assumption that Stalinist monuments were constructed with an immediate, propagandistic function, arguing instead that they were designed to memorialize the present for an imagined posterity. In this respect,... -
How Drones Fight: How Small Drones are Revolutionizing Warfare by Lars Celander 9781636244587
RRP: €23.74€19.41Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Traitor By Default: The Trials of Kanao Inouye, the Kamloops Kid by Patrick Brode 9781459753693
RRP: €21.41€17.90At the end of World War II, a young Japanese Canadian would stand trial and face execution for having committed war crimes and betraying his country.One of the most bizarre stories to emerge at the end of the Second World War was that of Kanao Inouye... -
Worlds Together, Worlds Apart by Jeremy Adelman 9781324064008
€125.20Instructors have made Worlds Together, Worlds Apart the #1-selling collegiate survey because its global-by-design narrative builds each chapter around big themes in world history that allow most of the regions to be discussed in each chapter while... -
Worlds Together, Worlds Apart by Jeremy Adelman 9781324063896
€124.30Instructors have made Worlds Together, Worlds Apart the #1-selling collegiate survey because its global-by-design narrative builds each chapter around big themes in world history that allow most of the regions to be discussed in each chapter while... -
The Shortest History of Migration by Ian Goldin 9781913083441
RRP: €17.84€13.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913083441Author Ian GoldinFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Old Street PublishingPublisher Old Street PublishingDimensions(mm) 216mm * 135mm * 22mm -
The Apollo 11 Moon Landing: Spot the Myths Matt Chandler 9781398256545
RRP: €16.65€13.03In July 1969, astronauts on the Apollo 11 spacecraft became the first people to land on the moon. Since then, people have told stories about the historic event. Did an unmanned Soviet spacecraft crash into the moon while the Apollo astronauts were on it?... -
Colonial Algeria and the Politics of Citizenship Avner Ofrath 9781350260054
€34.93This book explores citizenship politics in colonial Algeria, which became a key battlefield for struggles over participation of the body politic and the reach of universal promise in 1789. In examining these struggles, Avner Ofrath shows how colonialism... -
The Turkish War of Independence: A Military History, 1919–1923 Edward J. Erickson 9798765130124
€34.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798765130124Author Edward J. EricksonFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing USAPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing USA -
The Strategists: Churchill, Stalin, Roosevelt, Mussolini and Hitler – How War Made Them, And How They Made War Phillips Payson O'Brien 9780241696330
RRP: €20.22€16.72'Phillips Payson O'Brien is one of our finest historical thinkers' James Holland Churchill. Hitler. Stalin. Mussolini. Roosevelt. Five of the most impactful leaders of WW2, each with their own individualistic and idiosyncratic approach to warfare. But if... -
Corps Competency?: III Marine Amphibious Force Headquarters in Vietnam Michael F. Morris 9780700636938
RRP: €70.21€58.74The Vietnam War ended nearly fifty years ago but the central paradox of the struggle endures: how did the world’s strongest nation fail to secure freedom for the Republic of Vietnam? Michael F. Morris addresses this vexing question by focusing on the... -
Ujamaa’s Army: The Creation and Evolution of the Tanzania People's Defence Force, 1964–1979 Charles G. Thomas 9780821425596
RRP: €33.31€28.73The immediate postcolonial moment brought both promise and peril for the states of Africa and their security. The process of decolonization generated instability, and the emergent Cold War caught up the still-fragile independent states in a global... -
Dreams of the Future in Nineteenth-Century Ireland: 2021 Richard J. Butler 9781835538036
RRP: €41.64€37.75This interdisciplinary collection focuses on the history of the future and in particular how Irish people in the nineteenth century thought about their future, in many different ways and contexts. It spans the long nineteenth century from c. 1800 to c... -
'The Age-Old Struggle': Irish republicanism from the Battle of the Bogside to the Belfast Agreement, 1969-1998 Jack Hepworth 9781835537749
RRP: €35.69€32.58This is a wide-ranging analysis of the internal dynamics of Irish republicanism between the outbreak of ‘the Troubles’ in 1969 and the Good Friday Agreement of 1998. Engaging a vast array of hitherto unused primary sources alongside original and re-used... -
Gezi: The Making of a New Political Community in Turkey Kaan A?artan 9781399525909
RRP: €101.15€82.44Focusing on the intense aftermath of the Gezi park episode, this book scrutinises the ways in which activists pursued a rugged journey of radical democratic mobilisation in Istanbul, including public parks, neighbourhoods and squat houses. Synthesising... -
Glacial: The Untold History of Climate Politics Chelsea Henderson 9781684429585
RRP: €17.84€11.76It took nearly sixty years for a meaningful climate change bill to run the political gauntlet from Capitol Hill to the Oval Office. Why?From mavericks to party standard-bearers, U.S. Senators, members of the House of Representatives, and presidential... -
Aid to Armenia: Humanitarianism and Intervention from the 1890s to the Present Joanne Laycock 9781526179050
RRP: €23.80€21.23Interventions on behalf of Armenia and Armenians have come to be identified by scholars and practitioners alike as defining moments in the history of humanitarianism. This book reassesses these claims, critically examining a range of interventions by...