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Romania 1944: The Turning of Arms against Nazi Germany Grant Harward 9781472861641
RRP: £16.99£12.28The complex and fascinating story of Romania’s 'turning of arms' against Nazi Germany, and the battle for Romania - an important but overlooked and misunderstood episode of World War II. The battle for Romania from March to September 1944 is a... -
Education and the Cultural Cold War in the Middle East: The Franklin Book Programs in Iran Mahdi Ganjavi 9780755643462
£29.35WINNER OF THE 2023 MIDDLE EAST LIBRARIANS ASSOCIATION BOOK AWARD. The Franklin Book Programs (FBP) was a private not-for-profit U.S. organization founded in 1952 during the Cold War and was subsidized by the United States’ government agencies as well as... -
A Farm Family on Long Island's North Fork: The Lost World of the Hallocks and Their Sound Avenue Community Richard A. Wines 9781438499833
£72.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781438499833Author Richard A. WinesFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York... -
Jewish Men and the Holocaust: Sexuality, Emotions, Masculinity: An Intimate History Florian Zabransky 9783111335452
RRP: £64.00£57.30During the Holocaust, amid death and violence, Jewish men were not mere powerless victims. Linking gender studies with a history of sexuality and emotions will highlight intimate agency, power struggles, negotiations of relationships, social dynamics,... -
Tutankhamun's Tomb: Spot the Myths Carol Kim 9781398256569
RRP: £13.99£10.95The 1922 discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb is one of the most important ancient Egyptian finds in history. People have told stories about it ever since. Are there rooms in Tutankahmun’s tomb yet to be discovered? Did clues point to Tutankhamun being... -
Tropical Despotisms: Enlightened Reform in the French Caribbean David Allen Harvey 9781501776670
RRP: £54.00£46.79Tropical Despotisms reveals the alarm that spread among France's Caribbean possessions during the period between the Seven Years' War and the Revolution and the determination to cultivate a new patriotic community rooted in the Enlightenment principles... -
Pandemic Kinship: Families, Intervention, and Social Change in Botswana's Time of AIDS Koreen M. Reece 9781009150217
RRP: £29.99£27.40Shaped around the stories of one extended family, their friends, neighbours, and community, Pandemic Kinship provides an intimate portrait of everyday life in Botswana's time of AIDS. It challenges assumptions about a 'crisis of care' unfolding in the... -
Arrivals and Departures: The Human Relationship with Changing Biodiversity Otto Latva 9783111212715
£105.91This book examines a topical phenomenon from a previously neglected perspective by bringing together multidisciplinary insights from the field of humanities into human-nature relations. So far, the changes in biodiversity have been mainly studied by... -
The Dominicans in the British Isles and Beyond: A New History of the English Province of the Friars Preachers Richard Finn 9781009164313
RRP: £29.99£27.40The history of the Dominicans in the British Isles is a rich and fascinating one. Eight centuries have passed since the Friars Preachers landed on England's shores. Yet no book charting the history of the English Province has appeared for close on a... -
Bright Eyes of Danger: An Account of the Anglo-Sikh Wars 1845-1849 Bill Whitburn 9781804515648
RRP: £35.00£24.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804515648Author Bill WhitburnFormat PaperbackPage Count 344Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Conflicts of Colonialism: The Rule of Law, French Soudan, and Faama Mademba Sèye Richard L. Roberts 9781009107686
RRP: £29.99£25.94Based around the life of Mademba Sèye, an African born in the colonial town of Saint Louis du Sénégal in 1852, who transformed himself with the help of his French patrons from a telegraph clerk into an African king, this book examines Mademba's life and... -
Dark Skies over Budapest: Raoul Wallenberg, Resistance and Rescue of the Hungarian Jews, 1944–1945 Gellert Hardi-Kovacs 9781800792814
RRP: £35.00£30.95Budapest in the autumn of 1944 was a city full of terror, tension and conspiracies. Members of the SS and the Hungarian Arrow Cross movement roamed the streets looking for Jews and other opponents. The German and Hungarian Nazis planned to exterminate... -
Coalfield Justice: The 1984-85 Miners' Strike in Scotland Jim Phillips 9781399536493
£96.67Oral histories helped secure justice for Scottish miners victimised during the 1984-85 strike -
Groundbreakers: Remarkable Maps from the Low Countries, 1500–1900 Anne-Rieke van Schaik 9789464941043
RRP: £55.00£35.45As well as showing a particular region and historical situation, an old map endlessly provokes new questions. In Groundbreakers, map historian Anne-Rieke van Schaik delves into the stories behind various maps, prints, atlases, globes and instruments from... -
The People's Revolution of 1789 Micah Alpaugh 9781501776618
RRP: £50.00£43.41The People's Revolution of 1789 analyzes the historic events that unleashed a vast panoply of anarchic, destructive, and creative disorders that demolished France's Old Regime and founded a new revolutionary order. It captures the complex and dynamic... -
Contesting Indonesia: Islamist, Separatist, and Communal Violence since 1945 Kirsten E. Schulze 9781501777677
RRP: £28.99£27.59Contesting Indonesia explains Islamist, separatist and communal violence across Indonesian history since 1945. In a sweeping argument that connects endemic violence to a national narrative, Kirsten E. Schulze finds that the outbreak of violence is... -
Cecily Brown: Themes and Variations Anna Katherine Brodbeck 9780300278866
RRP: £40.00£33.59Surveying three decades of the British painter Cecily Brown’s career, with its vibrant mixture of gestural expression, canonical and pop references, and subversive themes This stunning volume surveys the pioneering career of Cecily Brown (b. 1969), one... -
The Failure of the Muslim Brotherhood in the Arab World Nawaf Obaid 9798765130230
£29.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798765130230Author Nawaf ObaidFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing USAPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing USA -
The Great Tri-State Tornado by Justin Harter 9781467157391
RRP: £24.99£16.16Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467157391Author Justin HarterFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint History PressPublisher History PressWeight(grams) 9g -
Iran under the Mongols: Ilkhanid Administrators and Persian Notables in Fars by Denise Aigle 9780755645732
RRP: £85.00£84.96Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Volunteers of the Empire: War, Identity, and Spanish Imperialism, 1855-1898 by Fernando J. Padilla Angulo 9781350281233
£29.35This book uncovers the history of The Volunteers, a Spanish loyalist militia who were committed to upholding Spanish imperial interests and influence in Cuba, Puerto Rico, Santa Domingo and The Philippines as the age of empire came to a close. Unpicking... -
Gender, Violence and Criminal Justice in the Colonial Pacific: 1880-1920 by Kate Stevens 9781350275553
£29.35Centering on cases of sexual violence, this book illuminates the contested introduction of British and French colonial criminal justice in the Pacific Islands during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, focusing on Fiji, New Caledonia, and Vanuatu/New... -
Fixing the Liturgy: Friars, Sisters, and the Dominican Rite, 1256-1516 by Claire Taylor Jones 9781512825688
£66.88A new history of the medieval Dominican liturgy, from the perspective of women’s communities In Fixing the Liturgy, Claire Taylor Jones opens a window into the daily practice of medieval liturgy, uncovering the astounding breadth of knowledge, the deep... -
WW2 Codebreaking People and Places: A Wartime Glossary by Ronald Koorm 9781399053495
RRP: £25.00£17.62_WW2 Codebreaking People and Places_ is the first volume of a series on a glossary of codebreaking, ‘People and Places’, brings to the reader an easily understandable account and listing, of those involved in collecting and analysing military... -
Time in Our Times: Stretching Contemporary Understandings of Time by Astrid Marie Holand 9783111428420
£59.61What is happening to perceptions of time, durability, and reality in the twenty-first century – and how do we deal with it? This anthology explores a diversity of uncommon insights about time, as seen from our historical and geographical standpoint. All... -
The Idea of India: A Dialogue by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak 9781803093840
RRP: £9.99£8.36A lively discussion between two eminent Indian academics that examines what it means to be an Indian. Through a stimulating dialogue, two old friends trace the history of the idea of India through digressions, anecdotes, and observations. Historian... -
Monstrous Fantasies: England's Crusading Imaginary and the Romance of Recovery, 1300-1500 by Leila K. Norako 9781501776311
RRP: £50.00£43.41Monstrous Fantasies asks why medieval romances reimagining the crusades ending in a Christian victory circulated in England with such abundance after the 1291 Muslim reconquest of Acre, the last of the Latin crusader states in the Holy Land, and what... -
Experimental Histories: Interpolation and the Medieval British Past by Hannah Weaver 9781501776205
RRP: £37.00£32.42In Experimental Histories, Hannah Weaver examines the medieval practice of interpolation—inserting material from one text into another—which is often categorized as being a problematic, inauthentic phenomenon akin to forgery and pseudepigraphy. Instead,... -
Russian Archaism: Nationalism and the Quest for a Modernist Aesthetic by Irina Shevelenko 9781501776342
RRP: £43.00£37.50Russian Archaism considers the aesthetic quest of Russian modernism in relation to the nation-building ideas that spread in the late imperial period. Irina Shevelenko argues that the cultural milieu in Russia, where the modernist movement began as an... -
We the People: The United States Constitution Explored and Explained by Aura Lewis 9780711297739
RRP: £14.99£9.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780711297739Author Aura LewisFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint White Lion PublishingPublisher Quarto Publishing PLCWeight(grams) 349g -
Black France, White Europe: Youth, Race, and Belonging in the Postwar Era by Emily Marker 9781501775888
RRP: £20.99£18.37Winner of the George Louis Beer Prize Black France, White Europe illuminates the deeply entangled history of European integration and African decolonization. Emily Marker maps the horizons of belonging in postwar France as leaders contemplated the... -
When Food Became Scarce: How Chinese Peasants Survived the Great Leap Forward Famine by Yixin Chen 9781501776380
RRP: £47.00£40.88Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Hueys over Khe Sanh: Missions with VMO-6 by Peter Greene 9781636244457
RRP: £32.95£21.72A vivid memoir of the Vietnam War by a crew chief who flew on hundreds of flights during his tour. During Vietnam, the basic role of the USMC gunship squadrons was to protect the transport helicopters during medevac missions, troop insertions and... -
Years of Rage: White Supremacy in the United States from the Klan to the Alt-Right by D. J. Mulloy 9781538199992
RRP: £19.99£17.61Years of Rage is a revealing—and frightening—history of the many and varied white supremacist groups that have operated in the United States from the rebirth of the Klan in 1915 through to the rise of the alt-right and the presidency of Donald J. Trump... -
To Reach the Nation's Ear: A History of African American Public Speaking by Richard W. Leeman 9781538199923
RRP: £19.99£17.61Throughout much of American history, African Americans have been denied easy access to most of the traditional modes of effective reform, such as newspapers, legislative assemblies, unions and political parties. Public speaking has thus been one of the... -
Surviving Three Shermans: With the 3rd Armored Division Into the Battle of the Bulge: What I Didn't Tell Mother about My War by Walter Boston Stitt 9781636244280
RRP: £29.95£21.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781636244280Author Walter Boston StittFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Casemate PublishersPublisher Casemate Publishers -
The Comintern in Spain before the Civil War: Red Tide Rising by Dr Gustavo Martín Asensio 9781350443358
RRP: £85.00£84.96Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Bookshop: A History of the American Bookstore by Evan Friss 9780593299920
RRP: £30.00£17.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593299920Author Evan FrissFormat HardbackPage Count 416Imprint VikingPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 651g -
The Moral and Market Economies of Bread: Regulation and Reform in Vienna, 1775-1885 by Jonas Albrecht 9781350398474
RRP: £85.00£84.96From 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... -
The Politics of Service: American Quakers and the Emergence of international humanitarian aid 1917–1945 by Daniel Maul 9783110675597
£79.80This 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...