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Friends and Enemies: Essays in Canada's Foreign Relations by J.L. Granatstein 9781487549831
$109.15Friends and Enemies presents a collection of essays on Canadian foreign policy written by J.L. Granatstein, one of the leading political and military historians in the country. The essays cover a period primarily from the Second World War through to the... -
Recasting the Nation in Twentieth-Century Argentina by Benjamin Bryce 9781032344034
RRP: $51.59$45.23Recasting the Nation in Twentieth-Century Argentina tackles the meaning of "the nation" by looking to the geographical, ideological, and political peripheries of society.What it means to be Argentine has long consumed writers, political leaders, and many... -
Island and Empire: How Civil War in Crete Mobilized the Ottoman World by Uğur Z. Peçe 9781503638723
$129.79In the 1890s, conflict erupted on the Ottoman island of Crete. At the heart of the Crete Question, as it came to be known around the world, were clashing claims of sovereignty between Greece and the Ottoman Empire. The island was of tremendous... -
Armed Bluejackets Ashore: US Navy Landing Guns 1850-1942 by Nelson Lawry 9781625450821
RRP: $51.60$37.91Among other major navies, that of the United States put armed naval landing parties ashore during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Although done primarily to protect American interests, they also safeguarded international communities against... -
Space in Holocaust Research: A Transdisciplinary Approach to Spatial Thinking by Janine Fubel 9783111078144
RRP: $94.17$87.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783111078144Author Janine FubelFormat HardbackPage Count 440Imprint Walter de Gruyter & CoPublisher De Gruyter -
What the War Left Behind: Women's Stories of Resistance and Struggle in Lebanon by Malek Abisaab 9780815638384
RRP: $38.64$31.13Conspicuously missing from narratives of the Lebanese Civil War are the stories of women who took part in daily social activism and political advocacy during the tumultuous conflict. What the War Left Behind gives voice to their stories, with eight women... -
A Short History of Greenville by Judith T. Bainbridge 9781643364674
RRP: $28.32$21.56A Concise and engaging history that traces Greenville's development from backcountry settlement to one of America's best small citiesToday, Greenville, South Carolina, is regularly included on lists of the best cities and places to live in the United... -
Unbreakable: The Spies Who Cracked the Nazis' Secret Code by Rebecca E F Barone 9781250346636
RRP: $16.76$11.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250346636Author Rebecca E F BaroneFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 454g -
The Little History of Derbyshire by Julia A. Hickey 9781803994154
RRP: $19.34$14.55Derbyshire is a county of dramatic variations and contrasts created by millennia of geological change. Situated in the very middle of England, it is the furthest county from the sea. Its minerals, rivers and landscapes have guided the people of... -
The D-Day Landings: IWM Photography Collection by Stephen Walton 9781912423736
RRP: $16.76$11.29IWM holds approximately 11 million photographs in its archives, covering the causes, course and consequences of modern conflict from the First World War to the present day. Offering a snapshot into this unique collection, The D-Day Landings showcases 50... -
Worthy of Freedom: Indenture and Free Labor in the Era of Emancipation by Jonathan Connolly 9780226833644
RRP: $33.54$32.06A study of Indian indentured labor in Mauritius, British Guiana, and Trinidad that explores the history of indenture’s normalization. In this book, historian Jonathan Connolly traces the normalization of indenture from its controversial beginnings to... -
The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story by Nikole Hannah-Jones 9780593230596
RRP: $32.25$19.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593230596Author Nikole Hannah-JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 624Imprint One World BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 760g -
rmy of Transylvania (1613-1690): War and Military Organization from the 'Golden Age' of the Principality to the Habsburg Conquest by Florin Nicolae Ardelean 9781804513491
RRP: $32.25$22.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804513491Author Florin Nicolae ArdeleanFormat PaperbackPage Count 156Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
The Soap Man: Lewis, Harris and Lord Leverhulme by Roger Hutchinson 9781839830594
RRP: $14.18$9.86In 1918, as the First World War was drawing to a close, the eminent liberal industrial Lord Leverhulme bought - lock, stock and barrel - the Hebridean island of Lewis. His intention was to revolutionise the lives and environments of its 30,000 people,... -
D-Day Landing Craft: How 4,126 ‘Ugly and Unorthodox’ Allied Craft made the Normandy Landings Possible by Andrew Whitmarsh 9781803994451
RRP: $38.70$27.84‘This is a marvellous book. The research is very thorough and it will answer all my questions.’ – RICHARD WILLIS, Normandy veteran, first lieutenant on LCT 898 on D-Day‘Brings to life … the planning and execution of the largest amphibious landing which... -
Battlescapes: The Impact of Terrain on War and Military Strategy by Ian D Rotherham 9781399066112
RRP: $45.15$31.33Throughout history, nature – its resources, landscape and terrain – has shaped the tactics of warfare and determined its outcomes. From the medieval English Fens to the 20th century Iraqi Marsh Arabs, landscapes have fostered resistance and dissention... -
Apartheid: A Documentary Study of Modern South Africa by Edgar H. Brookes 9781032310558
$37.00Originally published in 1968, this volume traces the history and growth of Apartheid in South Africa. The acts which enforced Apartheid – the Group Areas Act, Population and Registration Act are given in full. The book also includes documents which... -
A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman who Stopped Them by Timothy Egan 9780735225282
RRP: $21.92$14.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780735225282Author Timothy EganFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Prentice Hall PressPublisher Prentice Hall Press -
Shaping the Past: Counterfactual History and Game Design Practice in Digital Strategy Games by Ylva Grufstedt 9783111520742
$24.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783111520742Author Ylva GrufstedtFormat PaperbackPage Count 241Imprint Walter de Gruyter & CoPublisher De Gruyter -
Moneta: A History of Ancient Rome in Twelve Coins by Gareth Harney 9781847927507
RRP: $28.38$20.67The extraordinary story of ancient Rome, history's greatest superpower, as told through humankind's most universal object: the coin.'Fantastic' CONN IGGULDEN, author of Nero'Brilliant' EMMA SOUTHON, author of A History of the Roman Empire in 21... -
Policing Same-Sex Relations in Eighteenth-Century Paris: Archival Voices from 1785 by Jeffrey Merrick 9780271097114
RRP: $134.10$119.43Police in Paris arrested thousands of men for sodomy or similar acts in the eighteenth century. In the mid-1780s, they recorded depositions in which prisoners recounted their own sexual histories. These remarkable documents, curated and translated into... -
Nehru's Bandung: Non-Alignment and Regional Order in Indian Cold War Strategy by Andrea Benvenuti 9781911723189
RRP: $51.60$45.00This book sheds light on a neglected aspect of India’s Cold War diplomacy, starting with the role of Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and his Congress government in organising the first Asian-African Conference in Bandung in April 1955. Andrea... -
The Sculpture of Alfred Gruber and Jacqueline Stieger: A Shared Language by Gerardine Mulcahy-Parker 9781848225855
RRP: $58.05$43.86For sculptors Alfred Gruber (1931-1972) and Jacqueline Stieger (b.1936), their meeting in 1962 marked the start of a bountiful partnership - their artistic chemistry conjuring works that exploited the transformative qualities of common and precious... -
Edgware Road: From Romans to Romanians and Everyone In Between by Léo Woodland 9781803996271
RRP: $19.34$14.55From Romans at one end to Romanians at the other, journey through time to discover the legacy of Edgware Road. Meet murderers, mayhemmakers, mistresses and Great Train Robbers who made their mark on history. Encounter the shy boffin who shortened the... -
The Music of Spain by Carl Van Vechten 9781032760629
RRP: $112.22$97.45First published in 1920, The Music of Spain deals with historical periods, schools and style and appears to embrace everything related to music provided it affects or is affected by Spain in some degree, no matter how small or insignificant. The period... -
Too Far on a Whim: The Limits of High-Steam Propulsion in the US Navy by Tyler A. Pitrof 9780817361402
RRP: $43.80$36.11In Too Far on a Whim, Tyler A. Pitrof presents a high-spirited revision of the US Navy’s commitment to high-steam propulsion systems, the mainstay of its World War II fleets. Pitrof’s research persuasively demonstrates that in its war against the... -
Shoulder to Shoulder: A Queer History of Solidarity, Coalition and Chaos by Jake Hall 9781398718593
RRP: $32.25$21.13This is a love letter to the pioneers of solidarity and coalition. It's a new global look at those bold moments where marginalised voices came together to say 'enough is enough'. It's the story of those who sacrificed individual gains to fight for... -
Spatial Justice After Apartheid: Nomos in the Postcolony by Jaco Barnard-Naudé 9781032288109
RRP: $51.59$45.23This book considers the question of spatial justice after apartheid from several disciplinary perspectives – jurisprudence, law, literature, architecture, photography and psychoanalysis are just some of the disciplines engaged here. However, the main... -
Collaborators, Rebels and Traitors: Dissenters from Frontiers React to the Indian Union by Awadhesh Coomar Sinha 9788119139866
$81.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788119139866Author Awadhesh Coomar SinhaFormat HardbackPage Count 310Imprint Manohar Publishers and DistributorsPublisher Manohar Publishers and Distributors -
Tracking the Jews: Ecumenical Protestants, Conversion, and the Holocaust by Carolyn Sanzenbacher 9781526161291
RRP: $32.25$28.11Tracking the Jews analyses the beliefs, ideas, concepts, arguments and policies of an unprecedented conversionary initiative during the years immediately before, during and after the Holocaust.From the rubbles of World War I to the ashes of World War II,... -
A Rumor of Black Lutherans: The Formation of Black Leadership in Early American Lutheranism by James R. Thomas 9781506486185
RRP: $19.34$17.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781506486185Author James R. ThomasFormat PaperbackPage Count 138Imprint Fortress Press,U.S.Publisher 1517 MediaWeight(grams) 318g -
Passion, Persecution, and Epiphany in Early Jewish Literature by Nicholas Peter Legh Allen 9781032474557
RRP: $49.01$43.06This volume examines Jewish literature produced from c. 700 B.C.E. to c. 200 C.E. from a socio-theological perspective. In this context, it offers a scholarly attempt to understand how the ancient Jewish psyche dealt with times of extreme turmoil and how... -
City of Light, City of Shadows: Paris in the Belle �poque by Mike Rapport 9781541647497
RRP: $45.15$26.33Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781541647497Author Mike RapportFormat HardbackPage Count 448Imprint Basic BooksPublisher Basic Books -
Authority, Gender and Space in the Anglo-Norman World, 900-1200 by Katherine Weikert 9781837651641
RRP: $38.69$32.03An interdisciplinary approach to the medieval manor pre- and post-Conquest. SHORTLISTED for the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain's Hitchcock Medallion. SHORTLISTED for the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain's... -
One Week to Change the World: An Oral History of the 1999 Wto Protests by Dw Gibson 9781668033562
RRP: $25.79$15.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781668033562Author Dw GibsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 272g -
The Battle of the Beams: The secret science of radar that turned the tide of the Second World War by Tom Whipple 9780552177801
RRP: $14.18$10.02'Deeply researched and engagingly written' The Times'Has the pace and style of a well-crafted thriller' Mail on Sunday'Chock full of memorable characters and written with all the drama and pace of a Robert Harris thriller' Rowland White, author of... -
Bismarck's War: The Franco-Prussian War and the Making of Modern Europe by Rachel Chrastil 9780141991610
RRP: $16.76$11.73'Superb on the human consequences of war, ravishing in its evocations of wartime life' The Times'Compassionate and thought-provoking history' Daily TelegraphLess than a month after it marched into France in summer 1870, the Prussian army had devastated... -
The Other Olympians: A True Story of Gender, Fascism and the Making of Modern Sport by Michael Waters 9781529910193
RRP: $28.38$20.67In December 1935, Zdenek Koubek, one of the most famous sprinters in European women’s sports, declared he was now living as a man. Around the same time, the celebrated British field athlete Mark Weston, also assigned female at birth, announced that he,... -
From Tudor to Stuart: The Regime Change from Elizabeth I to James I by Susan Doran 9780198754640
RRP: $38.70$27.03From Tudor to Stuart: The Regime Change from Elizabeth I to James I tells the story of the troubled accession of England's first Scottish king and the transition from the age of the Tudors to the age of the Stuarts at the dawn of the seventeenth century... -
The Pocket Calculator Story by Andrew Morten 9781398116863
RRP: $20.63$14.00Before the 1970s, for anything but basic arithmetic, a pen and paper was needed, and complex calculations required a slide rule or logarithm tables. Electronic calculators were in use in the 1960s, but they were based on valve or transistor technology,...