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40 Maps That Will Change How You See the World Alastair Bonnett 9780711293533
RRP: $42.00$28.88Turn the pages of this thought-provoking book and discover maps that challenge conventional wisdom, confront social and political norms, and offer fresh perspectives on familiar landscapes. This meticulously curated selection of 40 maps spans the ages,... -
A Cultural History of the Sea in the Global Age Dr. Franziska Torma 9781350451292
RRP: $54.58$47.48In 1972 an image became an icon: ‘Blue Marble’, a photograph of the Earth as seen from outer space. The picture features prominently the globe’s water-covered surface. The ocean connects nature and culture in the modern world. Within the time-span of 100... -
Mapping the State: English Boundaries and the 1832 Reform Act Martin Spychal 9781915249258
$63.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915249258Author Martin SpychalFormat PaperbackPage Count 354Imprint University of London PressPublisher University of London -
Daybreak in Gaza: Stories of Palestinian Lives and Culture Matthew Teller 9781849250696
RRP: $31.48$20.58‘A city so rich in trees it looks like a cloth of brocade spread out upon the land’ Fourteen-century Syrian scholar al-Dimashqi ‘Trees all about the city, olives and almond groves’ Twentieth century historian Ibrahim Skeik This was Gaza. Not the Gaza... -
Creole: Portraits of France’s Foreign Relations During the Long Nineteenth Century Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby 9780271091556
RRP: $79.70$74.30This book addresses the unique and profound indeterminacy of “Creole,” a label applied to white, black, and mixed-race persons born in French colonies during the nineteenth century. "Creole” implies that the geography of one’s birth determines identity... -
Global Economic History Professor Tirthankar Roy 9781350290075
$168.08Guiding the reader through the many guises of global economic history, this book uncovers its key issues, debates and subjects. With contributions from leading scholars around the world, it delves into the economic histories of Africa, Europe, Asia and... -
Far-Right Vanguard: The Radical Roots of Modern Conservatism John S. Huntington 9781512826951
RRP: $44.08$38.58The history of the ultraconservative movement, its national network, and its influence on Republican Party politics Donald Trump shocked the nation in 2016 by winning the presidency through an ultraconservative, anti-immigrant platform, but, despite the... -
Peter Weibel: Art as an Act of Cognition Jens Lutz 9780262049139
RRP: $153.30$98.72Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262049139Author Jens LutzFormat HardbackPage Count 568Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd -
Into Unknown Skies: An Unlikely Team, a Daring Race, and the First Flight Around the World David K. Randall 9780063371408
RRP: $52.50$41.71Equal parts The Right Stuff and The Boys in the Boat, Into Unknown Skies tells the unbelievable history of the 1924 race to circumnavigate the globe for the first time by air, a nail-biting contest that pitted underdog US pilots against their... -
Peter Gregory: Publisher and Patron of Modern British Artists Valerie Holman 9781848226999
RRP: $73.50$56.03Peter Gregory (1887-1959), Director and then Chairman of Lund Humphries, was at the heart of the avant-garde British art world for nearly thirty years of major change in society, politics, and culture. A pioneering art publisher who produced scholarly... -
What the Greeks Did for Us Tony Spawforth 9780300278699
RRP: $25.18$21.32An enjoyable, accessible exploration of the legacy of ancient Greece today, across our daily lives and all forms of popular culture Our contemporary world is inescapably Greek. Whether in a word like “pandemic,” a Freudian state of mind like the... -
The Great Encounter of China and the West, 1500–1800 D. E. Mungello 9798881801052
RRP: $63.00$56.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798881801052Author D. E. MungelloFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Rowman & Littlefield PublishersPublisher Rowman & Littlefield Publishers -
The Pullman Strike: A Gilded Age Clash between Labor, Capital, and Government Edward T. O'Donnell 9781032473826
$78.04This book examines the 1894 Pullman Strike, one of the most consequential clashes between labor and capital that paralyzed America’s railroad system.The Gilded Age saw rapid economic growth, expansion of industrialization, and real wage growth. Yet... -
Legitimation as Political Practice: Crafting Everyday Authority in Tanzania Kathy Dodworth 9781009015721
RRP: $62.98$57.54Legitimacy has long been perceived through a Westernized lens as a fixed, binary state. In this book, Kathy Dodworth offers an exploration of everyday legitimation practices in coastal Tanzania, which challenges this understanding within postcolonial... -
A Cultural History of Sport in the Medieval Age Noel Fallows 9781350461000
RRP: $54.58$47.48A Cultural History of Sport in the Medieval Age covers the period 600 to 1450. Lacking any viable ancient models, sport evolved into two distinct forms, divided by class. Male and female aristocrats hunted and knights engaged in jousting and tournaments,... -
Poisoned Relations: Healing, Power, and Contested Knowledge in the Atlantic World Chelsea Berry 9781512826494
RRP: $81.90$71.65Illuminates the competing understandings of poison and power in the Atlantic world By the time of the opening of the Atlantic world in the fifteenth century, Europeans and Atlantic Africans had developed significantly different cultural idioms for and... -
101 Surrealists Desmond Morris 9780500027813
RRP: $31.48$20.58A concise compendium of the lives and work of the 101 most significant Surrealists by one of the last surviving members of the movement, bestselling author and artist Desmond Morris, who knew several of the key participants personally. 2024 marks the... -
The Business of Transition: Jewish and Greek Merchants of Salonica from Ottoman to Greek Rule Paris Papamichos Chronakis 9781503639669
$123.67The Business of Transition examines how the cosmopolitan bourgeoisie of the Eastern Mediterranean navigated the transition from empire to nation-state in the early twentieth century. In this social and cultural history, Paris Papamichos Chronakis shows... -
Zephaniah Kingsley Jr. and the Atlantic World: Slave Trader, Plantation Owner, Emancipator Daniel L. Schafer 9780813080789
RRP: $56.60$39.69A biography of a controversial patriarch of a mixed-race family A controversial figure for his views on manumission and his unorthodox marital arrangements, Zephaniah Kingsley Jr. (1765-1843) is mostly known today for his Fort George Island plantation in... -
Political Violence in Turkey, 1975-1980: The State at Stake Benjamin Gourisse 9780755646432
$61.64This book examines the period of political violence in Turkey between 12 March 1971 and 12 September 1980. It sets out a close analysis of the tactics used by the various protagonists in the conflict, showing how they took over public institutions, the... -
The Incarcerations: Bk16 and the Search for Democracy in India Alpa Shah 9781682195185
RRP: $52.48$45.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781682195185Author Alpa ShahFormat PaperbackPage Count 688Imprint OR BooksPublisher OR Books -
Affective Betrayal: Mind, Music, and Embodied Action in Late Qing China Jean Tsui 9781438498782
$152.12Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781438498782Author Jean TsuiFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York PressWeight(grams)... -
Prehistories of the War on Terror: A Critical Genealogy A. J. Yumi Lee 9781512825169
RRP: $94.50$82.28Reveals fundamental continuities between the contemporary War on Terror and earlier U.S. imperial conflicts Prehistories of the War on Terror examines the longstanding American project of classifying enemies who challenge U.S. power abroad as terrorists... -
Selections from Petronius, The Satyrica: The Tales of Eumolpus Debra Freas 9781350341289
RRP: $37.78$35.74Taking the reader through the fragmentary text of Petronius’ Satyrica in a coherent sequence, this book gives a deeper understanding of the fascinating aesthetic, literary and social issues raised within the text. Petronius' Satyrica has long been... -
The Revelation of Ireland: 1995-2020 Diarmaid Ferriter 9781800810945
RRP: $52.50$37.00Ireland is a strikingly different country now to the one it was in the mid-1990s. Dramatic economic, social and cultural changes, including the Celtic Tiger boom and increasingly secular debate about abortion, the status of women and same-sex marriage... -
A More Democratic Community: The Place of Democracy in the HIstory of European Integration Sara Lorenzini 9781805395423
RRP: $207.90$168.99The histories of European unification and of West European democracy during the second half of the twentieth century have often been considered as separate or even antagonistic processes with the institutions of European integration being regarded as... -
Cassino '44 James Holland 9780857505538
RRP: $52.50$37.84There are no such thing as an easy victory in war but after triumph in Tunisia, the sweeping success of the Sicilian invasion, and with the Italian surrender, the Allies were confident that they would be in Rome before Christmas 1943.And yet it didn't... -
Yom Kippur War 1973: Airpower in Israel's hardest-fought war Shlomo Aloni 9781472858283
RRP: $35.68$25.79The story of the hardest-fought air war of the jet era, where highly trained Israeli air forces almost met their match against Egypt and Syria's high-tech MiGs and missiles. The Yom Kippur War, or October War of 1973 was perhaps the most intensive and... -
Confronting the Irish Past: The 1912-1923 Decade in Light of the 1998 Good Friday Agreement Séamus Murphy 9781839991103
RRP: $168.00$160.61The 1998 Belfast (Good Friday) Agreement established power-sharing arrangements between the two divided communities in Northern Ireland. The Agreement is not set in stone but is rather a hopeful yet uncertain project. Making it put down deep cultural... -
City of Echoes: A New History of Rome, its Popes and its People Jessica Wärnberg 9781837731824
RRP: $25.18$16.65In Rome the echoes of the past resound clearly in its palaces and monuments, and in the remains of the ancient imperial city. But another presence has dominated Rome for 2,000 years -the pope, whose actions and influence echo down the ages. In this epic... -
Kansas and Kansans in World War I: Service at Home and Abroad Blake Andrew Watson 9780700637416
RRP: $75.50$62.16Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780700637416Author Blake Andrew WatsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint University Press of KansasPublisher University Press of Kansas -
Mountains of the Pharaohs: The Untold Story of the Pyramid Builders Zahi Hawass 9781649033987
RRP: $39.88$32.87World-renowned archaeologist Zahi Hawass weaves a spellbinding narrative about how the pyramids were built and why, new in paperbackNearly five thousand years ago, the fourth dynasty of Egypt’s Old Kingdom reigned over a highly advanced civilization... -
Explorers: Discover Amazing People Nila Aye 9781035035731
RRP: $18.88$14.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781035035731Author Nila AyePage Count 10Imprint Campbell Books LtdPublisher Pan MacmillanWeight(grams) 100g -
Dying for Freedom: Political Martyrdom in South Africa Jacob Dlamini 9781509561087
RRP: $33.58$30.26What happens when death becomes the ultimate marker of one’s commitment to one’s freedom? What happens when the opposite of freedom is not unfreedom but death, not slavery but mortality? How are we to think of the right to life when a political demand... -
Faith in War: Religion and the Military in Germany, c.1500-1650 Nikolas M. Funke 9781805396178
RRP: $207.90$168.99While the social and cultural history of the early modern military has greatly advanced in the last few decades, the religious dimension of the military life in the Holy Roman Empire between 1500 and 1650 has hardly been explored. The Reformation... -
Life Lessons From Historical Women Eleanor Morton 9781804192276
RRP: $39.88$26.78Take a tour of the past and uncover stories of the women whose lives and achievements have shaped our modern world. In Life Lessons from Historical Women, Eleanor Morton celebrates the ordinary women whose decisions and accomplishments in their everyday... -
The Britannias: And the Islands of Women Alice Albinia 9781846149115
RRP: $27.28$19.09SHORTLISTED FOR THE EDWARD STANFORD TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR'A dazzlingly brilliant book' Hannah Dawson'Fascinating, often exhilarating ... Albinia is an intrepid, imaginative guide' TLSThe Britannias tells the story of Britain's islands and how they are... -
Sacred Space and Anglo-Turkish Relations: The Politics of British Churches, Cemeteries and War Graves in Turkey, 1825 to 1976 Dr John Fisher 9780755654611
RRP: $178.50$178.42This work investigates how various sacred spaces in Ottoman and Republican Turkey interfaced with British foreign policy. It considers how these spaces impacted upon British prestige in the context of its dealings with Turkey chiefly, as well as other... -
Impressionist Places: Revealed in Paintings and Photographs Miriam Leimer 9783791379593
RRP: $57.75$41.35This sumptuous art book offers a unique perspective on the Impressionist achievement, celebrating the magic of the past and revealing its legacy in the reality of the present. In their light-filled landscapes, Impressionist artists created a new way of... -
Making the Modern Turkish Citizen: Vernacular Photography in the Early Republican Era Özge Baykan Calafato 9780755643318
$67.83Featuring over 100 colour images, this book explores the photographic self-representations of the urban middle classes in Turkey in the 1920s and the 1930s. Examining the relationship between photography and gender, body, space as well as materiality and...