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Republic: Britain’s Revolutionary Decade, 1649–1660 Alice Hunt 9780571303199
RRP: $48.75$32.35A biography of a daring and an unprecedented decade: the 1650sEvents moved fast in the 1650s. Something cataclysmic happened every year, something that would thrust the newly formed republic, its people, and its eventual 'Lord Protector' Oliver Cromwell,... -
The Ancient World in Alternative History and Counterfactual Fictions Alberto J. Quiroga Puertas 9781350281622
RRP: $175.50$175.27Focusing in turn on history, powerful individuals, under-represented voices and the arts, the essays in this collection cover a wide variety of modern and contemporary narrative fiction from Jo Walton and L. Sprague De Camp to T. S. Chaudhry and... -
Analysing the Boundaries of the Ancient Roman Garden: (Re)Framing the Hortus Dr Victoria Austen 9781350265226
$57.23This book demonstrates how the Romans constructed garden boundaries specifically in order to open up or undermine the division between a number of oppositions, such as inside/outside, sacred/profane, art/nature, and real/imagined. Using case studies from... -
Food, Heresies, and Magical Boundaries in the Middle Ages Andrea Maraschi 9789463727969
RRP: $220.35$209.72In this book readers will find stories about medieval heresies and “magic” from an unusual perspective: that of food studies. The time span ranges from Late Antiquity to the Late Middle Ages, while the geographical scope includes regions as different as... -
The 1969 ‘Greek Case’ in the Council of Europe: A Game Changer for Human Rights Dr Kostis Kornetis 9781350296589
RRP: $165.75$165.67In 1969 Greece withdrew from the Council of Europe (CoE), following pressure exercised by various European countries, organisations, social movements and individuals in response to the brutal conduct of the military junta that had taken power by force on... -
Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain: Voir Venir, Venir Voir Alain Dominique Perrin 9782869251878
RRP: $68.25$43.74Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782869251878Author Alain Dominique PerrinFormat HardbackPage Count 436Imprint Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporainPublisher Fondation Cartier pour... -
Hero City: Leningrad 1943–44 Prit Buttar 9781472856616
RRP: $58.50$43.19One of the greatest ever sieges is masterfully brought to life by a leading expert on the Eastern Front. At the height of World War II the people of Leningrad endured a bitter 900-day siege, struggling against bombing, shelling, and starvation. Prit... -
Emma Goldman: Collected Essays on the Life and Impact of a Transnational Anarchist Frank Jacob 9783111539218
RRP: $133.58$120.55Emma Goldman’s life and work offer countless perspectives for study and analysis. As an anarchist activist she always attacked any form of inequality and was a lifelong agent for freedom. Goldman, who lived a transnational life, in her writings and... -
Pre-Columbian Contact between the Americas and Oceania Andrea Ballesteros Danel 9783031648762
RRP: $214.48$213.62This book weaves together theories of pre-Columbian trans-Pacific contact between Oceania and the Americas and analyses them from a history of ideas perspective. Despite limited factual evidence, trans-Pacific contact theories between the Americas and... -
Hitler's Crime Fighter: The Extraordinary Life of Konrad Morgen David Lee 9781785908668
RRP: $39.00$28.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781785908668Author David LeeFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Biteback PublishingPublisher Biteback Publishing -
Sir Ronald Storrs: Personality and Policy in Mandate Palestine, 1917–1926 Christopher Burnham 9781032597263
RRP: $263.25$228.70This volume utilises the personal papers of Sir Ronald Storrs, as well as other archival materials, to make a microhistorical investigation of his period as Governor of Jerusalem between 1917 to 1926.It builds upon Edward Said’s work on the Orientalist... -
Catalogue of Chinese Manuscripts in Danish Archives: Chinese diplomatic correspondence from the Ch'ing dynasty (1644-1911) Erik Baark 9781032323671
RRP: $54.58$47.35First published in 1980, Catalogue of Chinese Manuscripts in Danish Archives is a descriptive catalogue that gives the date, address, and a summary of the contents for some 500 Chinese manuscripts in three Danish archives: the National Archives, the... -
Ancient Egyptian Rituals Against Enemies Carina Kühne-Wespi 9783161625435
RRP: $216.26$215.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783161625435Author Carina Kühne-WespiFormat HardbackPage Count 220Imprint Mohr SiebeckPublisher Mohr Siebeck -
Mapping the State: English Boundaries and the 1832 Reform Act Martin Spychal 9781914477393
RRP: $175.50$175.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914477393Author Martin SpychalFormat HardbackPage Count 354Imprint University of London PressPublisher University of London -
Dutch Neorealism, Cinema, and the Politics of Painting, 1927–1945 Stephanie Lebas Huber 9781032680262
RRP: $263.25$228.70This study offers a radically new perspective on Dutch Neorealist work, one that emphasizes the role of film as an apparatus, the effects of which, when emulated in painting, can reproduce the affective experience of film-watching.More of a tendency than... -
The Global Wireless: Transnational Radiotelegraphy and Its Disruption in World War I Maria Rikitianskaia 9783111201306
RRP: $159.90$144.16The Global Wireless charts a history of wireless beginning in the 1910s, when it was used as a tool for global communication, and ending as it declined and slowly fell from view. Located at a crossroads of media history and science and technology... -
Early Civilization and the American Modern: Images of Middle Eastern Origins in the United States, 18931939 Eva Miller 9781800087224
RRP: $107.25$93.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800087224Author Eva MillerFormat HardbackImprint UCL PressPublisher UCL Press -
This Horrible Uncertainty: A German Woman Writes War, 1939-1948 Erika Quinn 9781805396420
RRP: $193.05$156.92Through the diaries and personal papers of a German woman, Vera Conrad, this book documents her wartime experiences and deepens our understanding of the complex experiences of trauma and grief that National Socialist supporters experienced. Building on... -
Queens in Antiquity and the Present: Speculative Visions and Critical Histories Patricia Eunji Kim 9781350380882
$192.78This interdisciplinary edited volume explores the notion of queenship as it has manifest from antiquity to the present, in contexts ranging from political acts to art production. Featuring the work of scholars, educators, curators and artists, this book... -
Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI Yuval Noah Harari 9781911717089
RRP: $54.60$39.04The story of how information networks have made, and unmade, our world from the #1 Sunday Times bestselling author of Sapiens.For the last 100,000 years, humans have accumulated enormous power. But despite all our discoveries, inventions and conquests,... -
The Falls of Rome: Crises, Resilience, and Resurgence in Late Antiquity Michele Renee Salzman 9781107529090
RRP: $42.88$36.56Over the course of the fourth through seventh centuries, Rome witnessed a succession of five significant political and military crises, including the Sack of Rome, the Vandal occupation, and the demise of the Senate. Historians have traditionally... -
Blue: A History of Postpartum Depression in America Rachel Louise Moran 9780226835792
RRP: $46.80$35.41A powerful look at the changing cultural understanding of postpartum depression in America. “If you begin to feel at all depressed,” the famous pediatrician Dr. Benjamin Spock advised new mothers, “go to a movie, or to the beauty parlor, or to get... -
Berthe Weill: Art Dealer of the Parisian Avant-Garde Lynn Gumpert 9782080447203
RRP: $68.25$43.74Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782080447203Author Lynn GumpertFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint FlammarionPublisher Editions Flammarion -
Spies, Invaders and Saboteurs: The East of England and the Great War Ben Gristwood 9781910996645
RRP: $25.33$22.97Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910996645Author Ben GristwoodFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Greenwich Exchange LtdPublisher Greenwich Exchange Ltd -
Spiritual Criminals: How the Camden 28 Put the Vietnam War on Trial Michelle M. Nickerson 9780226834382
RRP: $42.90$41.38A surprising look at the 28 Catholic radicals who raided a draft board in 1971—and got away with it. When the FBI arrested twenty-eight people in connection to a break-in at a Camden, New Jersey, draft board in 1971, the Bureau celebrated. The case... -
A Cultural History of Sport in Antiquity Paul Christesen 9781350460980
$56.69A Cultural History of Sport in Antiquity covers the period 800 BCE to 600 CE. From the founding of the Olympics and Rome’s celebratory games, sport permeated the cultural life of Greco-Roman antiquity almost as it does our own. Gymnasiums, public baths,... -
Five Hundred Years of LGBTQIA+ History in Western Nicaragua Victoria González-Rivera 9780816542802
RRP: $126.75$115.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816542802Author Victoria González-RiveraFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint University of Arizona PressPublisher University of Arizona... -
Cleopatra: The Woman Behind the Stories Alexandra Stewart 9781526619037
RRP: $33.13$23.15Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Captivity of the Oatman Girls R. B. Stratton 9781496237705
RRP: $33.13$27.61In the spring of 1851 nine members of the Oatman family set out for California on the old Santa Fe Trail. Seventy miles from the California border they were attacked by Indians, who killed the entire family, except a boy, Lorenzo (mistakenly left for... -
The Posthumous Papers of the Manuscripts Club Christopher de Hamel 9780241304389
RRP: $33.13$26.03‘Exquisite... intelligent, illuminating, mischievous … delightful The TimesThe acclaimed author of Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts introduces us to the extraordinary keepers and companions of medieval manuscripts over a thousand years of historyThe... -
Sparks: China's Underground Historians and Their Battle for the Future Ian Johnson 9780141997957
RRP: $25.33$17.73A FINANCIAL TIMES AND NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023‘Johnson’s stories bring … this history chillingly alive’ Christina Patterson, Sunday Times'An indelible feat of reporting and an urgent read ... It's a privilege to read books like these' Te-Ping... -
Unruly Labor: A History of Oil in the Arabian Sea Andrea Wright 9781503632578
$180.59In the mid-twentieth century, the Arabian Peninsula emerged as a key site of oil production. International companies recruited workers from across the Middle East and Asia to staff their expanding oil projects. Unruly Labor considers the working... -
Religion in the Public Square: Sheen, King, Falwell James M. Patterson 9781512826906
RRP: $38.98$34.20Ven. Fulton J. Sheen, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and Rev. Jerry Falwell—religious leaders who popularized theology through media campaigns designed to persuade the public In Religion in the Public Square, James M. Patterson considers religious leaders... -
Migrant Citizenship: Race, Rights, and Reform in the U.S. Farm Labor Camp Program Verónica Martínez-Matsuda 9781512826920
RRP: $46.78$40.64An examination of the Farm Security Administration's migrant camp system and the people it served Today's concern for the quality of the produce on our plates has done little to guarantee U.S. farmworkers the necessary protections of sanitary housing,... -
Gastrofascism and Empire: Food in Italian East Africa, 1935-1941 Simone Cinotto 9781350436831
$182.21Food stood at the centre of Mussolini’s attempt to occupy Ethiopia and build an Italian Empire in East Africa. Seeking to redirect the surplus of Italian rural labor from migration overseas to its own Empire, the fascist regime envisioned transforming... -
Baphomet Revealed: Mysteries and Magic of the Sacred Icon Heather Lynn 9781637480199
RRP: $29.23$23.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781637480199Author Heather LynnFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint New Page Books,USPublisher Red Wheel/Weiser -
This Stolen Land: A People's History of the Gwent Levels Marsha O'Mahony 9781781727645
RRP: $19.48$13.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781727645Author Marsha O'MahonyFormat PaperbackImprint SerenPublisher Poetry Wales Press -
Stolen Fragments: Black Markets, Bad Faith, and the Illicit Trade in Ancient Artefacts Roberta Mazza 9781503632509
RRP: $48.75$36.08In 2012, Steve Green, billionaire and president of the Hobby Lobby chain of craft stores, announced a recent purchase of a Biblical artefact—a fragment of papyrus, just discovered, carrying lines from Paul's letter to the Romans, and dated to the second... -
German Colonialism in Africa and its Legacies: Architecture, Art, Urbanism, and Visual Culture Professor Itohan Osayimwese 9781350326200
$57.23Germany developed a large colonial empire over the last thirty years of the 19th century, spanning regions of the west coast of Africa to its east coast and beyond. Largely forgotten for many years, recent intense debates about Africa’s cultural heritage... -
Israel-Palestine: Federation or Apartheid? Shlomo Sand 9781509564408
RRP: $35.08$23.67Since the brutal massacre perpetrated by Hamas on 7 October and the subsequent bombing and invasion of Gaza, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has been thrust back to the centre of the world’s attention. How can this deep-rooted conflict, stretching back...