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Fake Heroes: Ten False Icons and How they Altered the Course of History by Otto English 9781802795929
RRP: $12.89$8.77From the author of bestseller Fake History, Otto English, comes a shocking yet hilarious look at ten of the greatest liars in history. 'A brilliant book.' James O'BrienWhether it's virtuous leaders in just wars, martyrs sacrificing all for a cause, or... -
Endgame 1944: How Stalin Won The War by Jonathan Dimbleby 9780241536711
RRP: $32.25$22.10'Terrific . . . a tour de force' Sir Richard Evans 'Military history at its very best' Keith LoweA gripping and authoritative account of the year that sealed the fate of the Nazis, from the bestselling historian***********June 1944: In Operation... -
Sports and the American Presidency: From Theodore Roosevelt to Donald Trump by Adam Burns 9781399507950
RRP: $38.69$35.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781399507950Author Adam BurnsFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University Press -
The Enlightenment and Original Sin by Matthew Kadane 9780226832876
RRP: $118.68$113.34An eloquent microhistory that argues for the centrality of the doctrine of original sin to the Enlightenment. What was the Enlightenment? This question has been endlessly debated. In The Enlightenment and Original Sin, historian Matthew Kadane advances... -
Unveiling the Color Line: W. E. B. Du Bois on the Problem of Whiteness by Lisa J. McLeod 9781625347930
RRP: $37.35$30.13In The Souls of Black Folk, W. E. B. Du Bois brilliantly details the African American experience. Yet the renowned sociologist was also an astute chronicler of white people, particularly their racism. As Unveiling the Color Line demonstrates, Du Bois’s... -
Protestantism, Revolution and Scottish Political Thought: The European Context, 1637-1651 by Karie Schultz 9781474493116
RRP: $109.65$89.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474493116Author Karie SchultzFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University Press -
Home, Heat, Money, God: Texas and Modern Architecture by Kathryn E. O'Rourke 9781477328927
$52.93Thematically focused analysis of modern architecture throughout Texas with gorgeous photographs illustrating works by famous and lesser-known architects. In the mid-twentieth century, dramatic social and political change coincided with the ascendance and... -
Socialism Goes Global: The Soviet Union and Eastern Europe in the Age of Decolonisation by James Mark 9780198904113
RRP: $32.24$29.05Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Sanctity, Gender and Authority in Medieval Caucasia by Nikoloz Aleksidze 9781474498616
RRP: $129.00$104.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474498616Author Nikoloz AleksidzeFormat HardbackPage Count 366Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University Press -
Discovering Nothing: In Pursuit of an Elusive Northwest Passage by David L. Nicandri 9780774868877
$131.77The many attempts by navigators to find a Northwest Passage via its Pacific portal all ended in failure; however, their discoveries spurred expansionist developments that would forever alter the landscape of North America. In Discovering Nothing, David L... -
Endgame 1944: How Stalin Won The War by Jonathan Dimbleby 9780241536728
RRP: $24.50$19.47'Terrific . . . a tour de force' Sir Richard Evans 'Military history at its very best' Keith LoweA gripping and authoritative account of the year that sealed the fate of the Nazis, from the bestselling historian***********June 1944: In Operation... -
Catholicism and Native Americans in Early North America: Parish, Church, and Mission by Kathleen Deagan 9780268207557
$100.12Catholicism and Native Americans in Early North America interrogates the profound cultural impacts of Catholic policies and practice in La Florida during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Catholicism and Native Americans in Early North America... -
A History of Fans and Fandom: A Journey into the Passion and Power of Fan Culture by Holly Swinyard 9781399042833
RRP: $32.25$22.73Do you have a Google alert for your favourite band going on tour? Or maybe you have a pull list at your local comicbook shop? Or perhaps you’ve got a season ticket to your sports team of choice? That would make you a fan, whether you realise it or not,... -
Redreaming the Renaissance: Essays on History and Literature in Honor of Guido Ruggiero by Mary Lindemann 9781644533369
RRP: $72.24$64.44Redreaming the Renaissance seeks to remedy the dearth of conversations between scholars of history and literary studies by building on the pathbreaking work of Guido Ruggiero to explore the cross-fertilization between these two disciplines, using the... -
The Blood-Tinted Waters of the Shenandoah: The 1864 Valley Campaign’s Battle of Cool Spring, July 17-18, 1864 by Jonathan A Noyalas 9781611217155
RRP: $18.05$16.11Decades after the Civil War’s end, Confederate veteran John Alexander Stikeleather reflected on his experiences as a soldier in the 4th North Carolina Infantry. Among all of the engagements in which Stikeleather had been involved during his four years of... -
Byzantine Media Subjects by Glenn A. Peers 9781501776267
RRP: $36.11$32.19Byzantine Media Subjects invites readers into a world replete with images—icons, frescoes, and mosaics filling places of worship, politics, and community. Glenn Peers asks readers to think themselves into a world where representation reigned and humans... -
A History of Herat: From Chingiz Khan to Tamerlane by Shivan Mahendrarajah 9781474499354
RRP: $32.24$26.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474499354Author Shivan MahendrarajahFormat PaperbackPage Count 382Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University Press -
Pulp Empire: The Secret History of Comic Book Imperialism by Paul S Hirsch 9780226829463
RRP: $28.38$27.37Winner of the Popular Culture Association's Ray and Pat Browne Award for Best Book in Popular or American Culture In the 1940s and '50s, comic books were some of the most popular-and most unfiltered-entertainment in the United States. Publishers sold... -
The Crusades: A Reader, Third Edition by S.J. Allen 9781487525781
RRP: $49.02$44.29Since its first appearance in 2004, The Crusades: A Reader has been the go-to sourcebook in the field. S.J. Allen and Emilie Amt cover the entire crusading movement, from its origins to its modern afterlife, using key primary source documents. The third... -
Nordhausen Concentration Camp: Then and Now by Daniel Taylor 9781399031219
RRP: $32.25$22.73In the history of Nazi concentration camps, and particularly labour camps, there is probably no place that bears the same stigma of wretchedness as 'Dora-Mittelbau' at Nordhausen. Located in the Harz mountains in central Germany, next to a quarry tunnel... -
Defining Corruption in the Ottoman Empire: Morality, Legality, and Abuse of Power in Premodern Governance by Boğaç A. Ergene 9780198916215
RRP: $139.32$125.94How did the premodern Ottomans understand public office corruption? To answer this question, Defining Corruption in the Ottoman Empire explores how Ottoman jurists, statesmen, political commentators, and others characterized this notion and what specific... -
Agent Zo: The Untold Story of Fearless WW2 Resistance Fighter Elzbieta Zawacka by Clare Mulley 9781399601078
RRP: $19.34$15.38Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Hitler's RAF Collaborators: Agents or Traitors: RAF Prisoners of War Alleged to Have Assisted the Third Reich by M S Morgan 9781399039529
RRP: $25.80$22.73Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Classics, Love, Revolution: The Legacies of Luigi Settembrini by Andrea Capra 9780198865445
RRP: $98.04$89.14Capra and Graziosi intervene in current debates about classics and its relation to revolutionary ruptures, nationalist movements, and identity politics today. They begin with The Neoplatonists, an explicit love story posing as the work of an imaginary... -
Royal Inbreeding and Other Maladies: A History of Royal Intermarriage and its Consequences by Juliana Cummings 9781399012195
$40.83When we think of kings and queens, we conjure up illusions of a magnificent kingdom where His and Her Majesties live in the lap of luxury and want for nothing. While this may be true, life wasn’t always as perfect. With the history of royal families... -
Representation: The Birth of Historical Reality from the Death of the Past by Franklin Rudolf Ankersmit 9780231215916
RRP: $38.70$35.33What makes historical writing distinctive? In Representation, Franklin Rudolf Ankersmit—the preeminent figure in the philosophy of history today—offers a deeply original way of understanding the practice of historical writing and a powerful vindication... -
Reflections on Stalinism by J. Arch Getty 9781501775550
RRP: $29.66$26.73Reflections on Stalinism distills decades of historical thought and research, bringing together twelve senior scholars of Soviet history who began their careers during the Cold War to examine their views of Stalinism. They present insights into the role... -
The Geopolitics of Culture: James Billington, the Library of Congress, and the Failed Quest for a New Russia by John Van Oudenaren 9781501775765
$67.02Through the lens of James Billington and the institution he led as Librarian of Congress during a key period of US-Russian relations, The Geopolitics of Culture examines culture as a neglected area of US foreign policy. Billington advised presidents and... -
Mission Manifest: American Evangelicals and Iran in the Twentieth Century by Matthew K. Shannon 9781501775949
$64.44In Mission Manifest, Matthew Shannon argues that American evangelicals were central to American-Iranian relations during the decades leading up to the 1979 revolution. These Presbyterian missionaries and other Americans with ideals worked with US... -
Bounds of Blackness: African Americans, Sudan, and the Politics of Solidarity by Christopher Tounsel 9781501775628
$50.89Bounds of Blackness explores the history of Black America's intellectual and cultural engagement with the modern state of Sudan. Ancient Sudan occupies a central place in the Black American imaginary as an exemplar of Black glory, pride, and... -
DD Sherman Tank Warriors: The 13th/18th Royal Hussars through Dunkirk, D-Day and the Liberation of Europe by Andrew May 9781036104580
$41.00When the amphibious Duplex Drive (DD) Sherman tanks of the 13th/18th Royal Hussars (QMO) touched down on the sand of Sword Beach as the vanguard of the D-Day invasion, ahead of the infantry and Commandos, it was the culmination of an evolution spanning... -
The End of Everything: How Wars Descend into Annihilation by Victor D Hanson 9781541673526
RRP: $32.25$24.88A New York Times-bestselling historian charts how and why societies from ancient Greece to the modern era chose to utterly destroy their foes, and warns that similar wars of obliteration are possible in our timeWar can settle disputes, topple tyrants,... -
The Origins of Aegis: Eli T. Reich, Wayne Meyer, and the Creation of a Revolutionary Naval Weapons System by Thomas Wildenberg 9781682479230
$55.12This book provides readers with an in-depth understanding of the professional development of two notable and highly accomplished naval officers and their contributions to the development of the Aegis Weapons System. The main argument is that there was no... -
Spanning the Gilded Age: James Eads and the Great Steel Bridge by John K. Brown 9781421448626
RRP: $37.41$27.72The fascinating history of the St. Louis Bridge, the first steel structure in the world.In Spanning the Gilded Age, John K. Brown tells the daring, improbable story of the construction of the St. Louis Bridge, known popularly as the Eads Bridge... -
Stephen King's Maine: A History & Guide by Sharon Kitchens 9781467157148
RRP: $32.24$20.81Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467157148Author Sharon KitchensFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint History PressPublisher History PressWeight(grams) 9g -
New under the Sun: Early Zionist Encounters with the Climate in Palestine by Dr. Netta Cohen 9780520397231
RRP: $32.25$27.34New under the Sun explores Zionist perceptions of—and responses to—Palestine’s climate. From the rise of the Zionist movement in the late 1890s to the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948, Netta Cohen traces the production of climactic knowledge... -
Army of the Manchu Empire: The Conquest Army and the Imperial Army of Qing China, 1600-1727 by Michael Fredholm Von Essen 9781804513477
$40.83Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804513477Author Michael Fredholm Von EssenFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
The President Woodrow Wilson House by Elizabeth A Karcher 9781467161244
RRP: $32.24$21.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467161244Author Elizabeth A KarcherFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Arcadia Publishing (SC)Publisher Arcadia Publishing (SC)Weight(grams) 9g -
Historic Storms of Cape Cod by Don Wilding 9781467157261
RRP: $32.24$20.81Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467157261Author Don WildingFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint History PressPublisher History PressWeight(grams) 9g -
Pixel Flesh: How Toxic Beauty Culture Harms Women by Ellen Atlanta 9781035411634
RRP: $21.92$16.06A generation defining exposé of toxic beauty culture in our digital age and how it is harming women We are living in a new age of beauty. With advancements in cosmetic surgery, augmented reality face filters, photo editing apps, and exposure to more...