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Midway: The Pacific War’s Most Famous Battle Mark Stille 9781472862068
RRP: £25.00£18.88A detailed re-examination of Midway, one of the most significant battles in the Pacific Theater of World War II. In April 1942, the Combined Fleet of the Imperial Japanese Navy was at the zenith of its power. It had struck a severe blow against the US... -
A Male Hysteria: Diabetes and the Victorian Mind Edward Beasley 9781606189016
RRP: £39.00£34.12A history of diabetes science and the experience of diabetics in the nineteenth-century England A Male Hysteria examines both the science of diabetes in nineteenth-century England and the testimony of Victorian diabetics. What could be known about... -
Early Modern Maternities in the Iberian Atlantic Emily Colbert Cairns 9789463727297
RRP: £117.00£111.30Early Modern Maternities in the Iberian Atlantic is the first volume to emphasize women’s personal experiences and their life trajectories as mothers within the Peninsula and across the Atlantic. Although an official discourse that defined the conditions... -
Female Agency in the Ancient Mediterranean World Greg Gilles 9781802071856
£117.53Ebook available to libraries exclusively as part of the JSTOR Path to Open initiative. Female agency in the ancient world has long been implicitly, and on a few occasions explicitly, examined in classical scholarship, but few of these studies begin with... -
Freedom's Currency: Slavery, Capitalism, and Self-Purchase in the United States Julia Wallace Bernier 9781512826470
£43.64The first comprehensive study of self-purchase in the United States from the American Revolution to the Civil War Enslaved people lived in a world in which everything had a price. Even freedom. Freedom’s Currency follows enslaved people’s efforts to buy... -
Kurt Jackson's Rivers Kurt Jackson 9781848226791
RRP: £39.95£31.31From source to sea, artist Kurt Jackson's fascination with the rivers of the British Isles and beyond has endured throughout his life. This book explores, for the first time, Jackson's visual and written responses to the rivers that he has followed, from... -
The Invention of Good and Evil: A World History of Morality Hanno Sauer 9781800818293
RRP: £25.00£17.62For almost five million years, humans have been locked in a relationship with morality, inventing and reinventing the concepts of 'Good' and 'Evil', and weaving them into our cities, laws and customs. Morality is a concept that can feel joyless and... -
The Compleat Victory: The Battle of Saratoga and the American Revolution Kevin J. Weddle 9780197695166
RRP: £16.99£16.67Winner of the Gilder Lehrman Military History Prize, Winner of the Fraunces Tavern Museum Book Award & Winner of The Society of the Cincinnati Prize. In The Compleat Victory, award-winning military historian Kevin J. Weddle traces an epic panorama of... -
She Soars: Trailblazing Female Pilots in Florida Bridges DelPonte 9781683343707
RRP: £18.99£14.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781683343707Author Bridges DelPonteFormat PaperbackPage Count 196Imprint Pineapple Press Inc.,U.S.Publisher Rowman & Littlefield -
Britain's Airborne Forces of WWII: Uniforms and Equipment Mark Magreehan 9781399077781
RRP: £19.99£14.28The Second World War saw huge advancements in military tactics and technology occurring at an unprecedented pace. One such development was the employment of forces able to deploy at short notice by parachute across the globe, utilising the opportunities... -
The Webs of Humankind: A World History J. R. McNeill 9781324061281
£105.21Give your students a bird’s-eye view of world history -
Berlin Before the Wall: A Foreign Student's Diary with Sketches Hsi-Huey Liang 9781032844312
£100.95In the 1950’s, Berlin had come under four-power occupation while still struggling to recover from the war. It had also become the object of a fierce ideological conflict between Stalinist Communism and capitalist democracy, between traditional German... -
The American Indian Mind in a Linear World: American Indian Studies and Traditional Knowledge Donald L. Fixico 9781032694672
£37.24Now in its second edition, The American Indian Mind in a Linear World examines the persistence of Native peoples in retaining their own worldviews, from the pre-Columbian era into the twenty-first century.The book explores the ways in which Indian people... -
Virginia Hall: Clever Spy of World War II Samantha Feriolla Chow 9781398254756
RRP: £8.99£7.07An action-packed graphic novel about Virginia Hall, known as one of the most courageous spies of World War II. In the early 1940s, during World War II, Germany's Nazi regime expanded into neighboring European countries, committing horrific crimes... -
Beyond the Devil's Road Volume 8: Francisco Garcés and the Spanish Encounter with the American Southwest Jeremy Beer 9780806194578
£36.19The explorations of Francisco Garcés, an intrepid Franciscan friar of the eighteenth century, led to the opening of the first overland route from Mexico to California, produced new knowledge of unmapped terrain and unknown peoples, and revived dreams of... -
Elizebeth Friedman: Expert Codebreaker of World War II Alisha Monnin 9781398254732
RRP: £8.99£7.07An inspiring graphic novel about Elizebeth Friedman, a codebreaking pioneer who changed the course of World War II. Nazi spy rings! No-good gangsters! Shakespearian lies! Discover the courageous woman who cracked all these cases and more-with only a... -
German Soldier vs British Soldier: Spring Offensive and Hundred Days 1918 Dr Stephen Bull 9781472861177
RRP: £15.99£11.61This illustrated study pits the Kaiser’s troops against their British opponents during the climactic year of 1918 on the Western Front. Launched on 21 March 1918, the Spring Offensive saw Germany use veteran, highly trained assault troops and innovative... -
Land of the Dead: How the West Changed Death in America Terry Hamburg 9781633889866
RRP: £17.99£13.64Living in America, we are often confronted by our past. But those in San Francisco literally come face-to-face with it. At the turn of the twentieth century, a 1901 decree ordered the exhumation and relocation of over 150,000 graves in the city – the... -
Secret Swanage and Around Andrew Jackson 9781398116641
RRP: £15.99£10.85Swanage’s position on the Dorset coast has shaped its history since its earliest years. In 877 a Danish fleet threatening King Alfred’s army was destroyed in Swanage Bay and in the nineteenth century the town became a popular seaside resort for the... -
Buffalo Soldiers in California: Charles Young and the Ninth Cavalry, 1902–1904 Brian G. Shellum 9781496238511
RRP: £20.99£16.89When Captain Charles Young and the Ninth U.S. Cavalry stepped ashore in San Francisco in 1902, Young was only one of three Black officers serving in the U.S. Army. He had graduated from West Point as its third Black graduate, established the first Black... -
Artists' Lives Michael Peppiatt 9780500297964
RRP: £12.99£8.60Engaging encounters, personal anecdotes and jargon-free critical insights into some of the liveliest creative minds in modern art, by an international art world insider. Praised by the Art Newspaper as ‘the best art writer of his generation’, Michael... -
Celebrating Evesham Stan Brotherton 9781398117976
RRP: £15.99£10.85Evesham was an important town in the Middle Ages, its abbey being one of the largest in Europe. One of the country’s earliest musical theorists, Walter Odington, was a monk at the abbey. The abbey is long gone but the remaining bell tower has played host... -
Exhibiting Irishness: Empire, Race and Nation, c. 1850-1970 Shahmima Akhtar 9781526157263
RRP: £85.00£74.51Exhibiting Irishness analyses how exhibitions enabled Irish individuals and groups to work out (privately and publicly) their politicised existences across two centuries. As a cultural history of Irish identity, the book considers exhibitions as a... -
Combing Through the White House: Hair and Its Shocking Impact on the Politics, Private Lives, and Legacies of the Presidents Theodore Pappas 9781400246151
RRP: £16.99£15.65Discover a fascinating and novel look at the U.S. presidents, the first families, and American history—all through the lens of hair. With meticulous detail, engaging storytelling, and full-color visuals, encyclopedia editor Theodore Pappas combs through... -
The Government of Northern Ireland: A Study in Devolution Nicholas Mansergh 9781032352527
RRP: £29.99£26.64Originally published in 1936, The Government of Northern Ireland examines the practical operation of devolution which was granted to Northern Ireland in 1920. The later phases of the Ulster Question, interacting with a theoretic conception of devolution,... -
100 Reasons to Celebrate Welsh History Virginia Butler 9781803995298
RRP: £14.99£11.55What has the small nation of Wales given to the wide world?Well, to name but a few examples: the NHS, magical drama, mail order, sleeping bags, the basis of the internet, the ‘Town of Books’, the first powered flight, presidents, prime ministers and... -
Louis XIV and the Peace of Europe: French Diplomacy in Northern Italy, 1659 – 1701 John Condren 9780367691875
RRP: £135.00£117.28In recent generations, the study of dynastic politics and diplomatic history has undergone a revival. This field provides invaluable context for understanding international relations, and focuses on aspects of cultural exchange and intellectual currents... -
The British Co-operative Movement Jack Bailey 9781032800837
RRP: £86.99£75.54First published in 1955, The British Co-operative Movement presents a comprehensive overview of the cooperative movement in Britain. It discusses important themes like co-operative beginnings; co-operative principles and methods; the retail societies;... -
The Party Is Always Right: The Untold Story of Gerry Healy and British Trotskyism Aidan Beatty 9780745348728
RRP: £16.99£14.10Love it or hate it, it’s hard to deny that British Trotskyism created some fascinating stories. Finding themselves increasingly irrelevant in modern politics, these political sects often became twisted aberrations of Comrade Trotsky’s ideals. Gerry... -
Women in Medicine in the Long Nineteenth Century: Volume IV: Patient Perspectives Claire Brock 9781032207940
£117.53Vital to the acceptance of medical women was the willingness of patients – largely women and children – to be treated by them. By the end of 1914, this more usual patient base was expanded to include injured soldiers. To provide a full consideration of... -
Making a Massacre: Cromwell, Ireland and the Slaughter of Innocents Scandal (Not a Real History Book) Tom Reilly 9781803415031
RRP: £12.99£11.46If history were music, then the genre of this book would be punk. For nearly 400 years, it has been widely accepted that Oliver Cromwell committed civilian atrocities at Drogheda and Wexford in 1649, thus adversely infecting Anglo-Irish relations for... -
A History of Italy 1700-1860: The Social Constraints of Political Change Stuart Woolf 9781032270470
RRP: £40.99£35.91First Published in 1979, A History of Italy 1700-1860 provides a comprehensive overview of Italy’s political history from 1700-1860. Divided in five parts it deals with themes like the re-emergence of Italy; Italy as the ‘pawn’ of European diplomacy;... -
Women in Medicine in the Long Nineteenth Century: Volume II: Medical Women Claire Brock 9781032207919
£117.53As an exciting, challenging, and for some, repulsive, novelty and phenomenon, the medical woman was fictionalised swiftly in the second half of the nineteenth century. This volume reproduces literary examples which explore the many facets of women’s... -
Palestine Old and New Albert M. Hyamson 9781032287478
RRP: £29.99£26.64First published in 1928, Palestine Old and New is a historical travel guide providing a preliminary account of Palestine through the eye of a Zionist. The book takes the reader through the natural landscape of Palestine, familiarizing them with the local... -
Land Between the Rivers: A 5000-Year History of Iraq Bartle Bull 9781838957858
RRP: £25.00£16.59Land Between the Rivers is the result of ten years of research, writing, and thinking about the subject. It is an enormous topic: five thousand years, beginning with Gilgamesh at the edge of historical time. It is a big topic in another way. More than... -
The Abolition of the Ottoman Caliphate, 1924: Debates and Implications Elisa Giunchi 9781032613376
RRP: £130.00£112.11This book explores the decision by the Grand National Assembly of Turkey in 1924 to abolish the caliphate. The Ottoman sultans had long borne the title of caliphs of Islam, with all the prestigious authority throughout the Muslim world that went with it,... -
Violence in Defeat: The Wehrmacht on German Soil, 1944–1945 Bastiaan Willems 9781108790642
RRP: £22.99£19.56In the final year of the Second World War, as bitter defensive fighting moved to German soil, a wave of intra-ethnic violence engulfed the country. Bastiaan Willems offers the first study into the impact and behaviour of the Wehrmacht on its own... -
Women in Central and Southeastern Europe, 1700–1900: Life, Literacy, and Social Entanglements in a Transnational Setting Polly Thanailaki 9783031604645
RRP: £109.99£109.55This book explores portraits of significant women living in central and southeastern Europe whose lives and activities remain unknown, uncovering their lifestyles as well as the social entanglements relating to their education. The book also examines... -
Metropolitain: An Ode to the Paris Metro Andrew Martin 9781472157904
RRP: £10.99£7.40'An utterly enjoyable voyage under Paris' - THE OLDIE'Delightful and diverting... Martin is the most unpretentious and companionable of guides; the book is great fun' - LITERARY REVIEW'An eclectic blend of engineering and travelogue, urban planning and... -
Unraveling Abolition: Legal Culture and Slave Emancipation in Colombia Edgardo Pérez Morales 9781009514415
RRP: £25.99£23.23Unraveling Abolition tells the fascinating story of slaves, former slaves, magistrates and legal workers who fought for emancipation, without armed struggle, from 1781 to 1830. By centering the Colombian judicial forum as a crucible of antislavery,...