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The Postwar Fleet: Volume I, 1944-1950 Captain Jeremy Stocker 9781739296414
RRP: £110.00£104.74The book begins in January 1944, the point at which serious thought started to be given to the size and shape of the future Navy. Postwar retrenchment meant the Admiralty needed to reduce spending on the Fleet and release manpower for the civilian... -
History in the House: Some Remarkable Dons and the Teaching of Politics, Character and Statecraft Richard Davenport-Hines 9780008285722
RRP: £26.00£17.05History in the House pulls back the curtains on Christ Church, Oxford and reveals its great and lasting historical significance. This is an exciting new historiographical study from the much-acclaimed historian Richard Davenport-Hines. It shows the... -
Wild Girls: How the Outdoors Shaped the Women Who Challenged a Nation Tiya Miles 9781324076155
RRP: £9.99£8.68Harriet Tubman, forced to labour outdoors on a Maryland plantation, learned from the land a terrain for escape. Louisa May Alcott ran wild, eluding gendered expectations in New England. The Indigenous women’s basketball team from Fort Shaw, Montana,... -
Arboreal Symbolism in European Art, 1300–1800 Katherine T. Brown 9781032235080
RRP: £130.00£112.11Arboreal Symbolism in European Art, 1300–1800 probes the significance of trees in religious iconography of Western art.Based in the disciplines of art history, botany, and theology, this study focuses on selected works of art in which tree forms embody... -
Gibbon’s Christianity: Religion, Reason, and the Fall of Rome Hugh Liebert 9780271092362
RRP: £29.95£26.91There has never been much doubt about the faith of the “infidel historian” Edward Gibbon. But for all of Gibbon’s skepticism regarding Christianity’s central doctrines, the author of The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire did not merely... -
Time and Chronology in Creation Narratives Silvie Kilgallon 9780367481667
RRP: £130.00£112.11This book explores the ways in which the origins of time, of the gods, and processes associated with time were conceptualised in antiquity, examining a variety of ancient sources from across the ancient world and addressing issues surrounding the sources... -
Stalking the Great Killer: Arkansas's Long War on Tuberculosis Larry C. Floyd 9780806194820
£22.37Imagine a time when a killer disease took lives at a rate rivaling Covid-19 in 2020 and 2021, and continued that grim harvest year after year, decade after decade. Such a nightmare scenario played out in the state of Arkansas—and across the United... -
Camps: A Global History of Mass Confinement Aidan Forth 9781487588281
RRP: £22.99£20.01The concentration of terrorists, political suspects, ethnic minorities, prisoners of war, enemy aliens, and other potentially “dangerous” populations spans the modern era. From Konzentrationslager in colonial Africa to strategic villages in Southeast... -
Empire's Son, Empire's Orphan: The Fantastical Lives of Ikbal and Idries Shah Nile Green 9781324002413
RRP: £22.00£18.53Claiming to come from Afghanistan, Ikbal and Idries Shah convinced spies, poets, orientalists, diplomats, occultists, hippies and even a prime minister that they held the keys to understanding the Muslim world. Gambling with the currency of cultural... -
The House of War: The Struggle between Christendom and the Caliphate Sir Simon Mayall 9781472864338
RRP: £25.00£17.62A powerful new history detailing the most significant military clashes between Islam and Christendom over the 1300 years of the Muslim caliphate. From the taking of the holy city of Jerusalem in the 7th century AD by Caliph Umar, to the collapse of the... -
Trucks in the Garden of Eden: In Search of Britain's Utopias Vitali Vitaliev 9781398100244
RRP: £22.99£15.18Award-winning Ukrainian-born writer Vitali Vitaliev takes stock of Britain today and investigates the state of the nation’s many disparate attempts to create a utopian community, including the Garden City that inspired Lenin; the model villages where... -
The Home I Worked to Make: Voices from the New Syrian Diaspora Wendy Pearlman 9781324092230
RRP: £23.99£17.99In 2011, Syrians took to the streets demanding freedom. Brutal government repression transformed peaceful protests into one of the most devastating conflicts of our times, killing hundreds of thousands and displacing millions. The Home I Worked to Make... -
Intelligent Action: A History of Artistic Research, Aesthetic Experience, and Artists in Academia Timothy Ridlen 9781978837706
RRP: £31.00£28.25Through archival research and analysis of artworks by Gyorgy Kepes, Allan Kaprow, Mel Bochner, and Suzanne Lacy, among others, Intelligent Action examines how these artists brought alternatives to dominant conceptions of research and knowledge production... -
Environment, Knowledge, and Injustice in Lesotho: The Poverty of Progress Christopher Conz 9781847013309
RRP: £80.00£76.61Shows that a fraught historical process was at work in which Basotho drew on local and global sources of knowledge and how this small nation surrounded by South Africa can serve as a valuable case-study for wider conversations about 'progress' and... -
A Quiet Company of Dangerous Men: The Forgotten British Special Operations Soldiers of World War II Shannon Monaghan 9780593491225
RRP: £25.00£16.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593491225Author Shannon MonaghanFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint Viking Press IncPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc -
Staying in the Fight: How War on Terror Veterans in Congress Are Shaping US Defense Policy Jeffrey S. Lantis 9781985900400
RRP: £32.00£31.67During the chaotic evacuation of the United States from Afghanistan in 2021, a group of Congress members who were also military veterans of the War on Terror leapt into action to assist vulnerable people in Afghanistan who had aided the American war... -
I, Yantra: Exploring Self and Selflessness in Ancient Indian Robot Tales Signe Cohen 9781438496627
£25.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781438496627Author Signe CohenFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York... -
The Death of General Sikorski: The Polish Leader’s Last Flight in 1943 and The Tangled Web of Poland, the Allies, and the Soviets Peter Zablocki 9781399039222
RRP: £25.00£17.62Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Understanding Syria through 40 Monuments: A Story of Survival Ross Burns 9780755645282
RRP: £21.99£18.10How can a nation's archaeological treasures help explain its history, especially one as richly complex as Syria's? Ross Burns chooses 40 among Syria's outstanding range of sites to take the reader through the tangled paths of this crossroads of the... -
Twenty-Five Women Who Shaped the Early Modern Holy Roman Empire Katrin Keller 9781032181042
RRP: £130.00£112.11Challenging the conception that only men shaped the Holy Roman Empire, this book provides students and general readers with biographies of preachers, nuns, princesses, businesswomen, artists, scientists, writers, and social movers who exercised agency in... -
Thinking about Animals in Thirteenth-Century Paris: Theologians on the Boundary Between Humans and Animals Ian P. Wei 9781108821728
RRP: £24.99£22.37Exploring what theologians at the University of Paris in the thirteenth century understood about the boundary between humans and animals, this book demonstrates the great variety of ways in which they held similarity and difference in productive tension... -
States of Mind: Two Centuries of Anglo-Irish Conflict, 1780-1980 Oliver MacDonagh 9781032861777
£78.81Originally published in 1983 and slightly revised in 1985, joint winner of the Christopher Ewart-Biggs Memorial Prize, States of Mind is an exploration f the ideas underlying Anglo-Irish conflict over the past two centuries. This is a book about... -
Celebrating Derby Michael Smith 9781398116566
RRP: £15.99£10.85Derby has been variously described as the ‘crossroads of history’, ‘the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution’, ‘the real ale capital of the world’, ‘Jubilee City’ and ‘the most haunted place in the country’. It is all of these and much, much more. For... -
The Holocaust in 100 Histories Professor Paul R. Bartrop 9781350435124
RRP: £21.99£19.41This chronologically-arranged collection of articles demonstrates the complex and multifaceted nature of the Holocaust. From January 1933 and the ascent to office of Hitler and the Nazi Party in Germany, through to October 1945 and the opening of the... -
Tanks on Iwo Jima 1945 Romain Cansière 9781472860392
RRP: £12.99£9.09An award-winning US Marine Corps armor historian's account of the role of US and Japanese tanks on Iwo Jima. The battle of Iwo Jima is iconic and known for its brutality: this was the only battle in which the number of US casualties outnumbered those of... -
Impressionism and the Sea Cyrille Sciama 9782080455482
RRP: £30.00£20.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782080455482Author Cyrille SciamaFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint FlammarionPublisher Editions Flammarion -
The Story of Bradford Alan Hall 9781803995076
RRP: £22.00£16.44The Story of Bradford traces the city's history from earliest times to the present, concluding with comments on the issues, challenges and opportunities that the 21st century will present. The departure of the German wool merchants in 1914 and the... -
A Cultural History of Sport in the Age of Industry Dr Mike Huggins 9781350461048
RRP: £25.99£22.61A Cultural History of Sport in the Age of Industry covers the period 1800 to 1920. Over this period, sport become increasingly global, some sports were radically altered, sports clubs proliferated, and new team games - such as baseball, basketball and... -
The Sistine Chapel: History of a Masterpiece Antonio Forcellino 9781509565450
RRP: £17.99£12.14The Sistine Chapel is one of the world’s most magnificent buildings, and the frescos that decorate its ceiling and walls are a testimony to the creative genius of the Renaissance. Two generations of artists worked at the heart of Christianity, over the... -
Pictures and the Past: Media, Memory, and the Specter of Fascism in Postmodern Art Alexander Bigman 9780226833071
RRP: £30.00£24.85A fresh take on the group of artists known as the Pictures Generation, reinterpreting their work as haunted by the history of fascism, the threat of its return, and the effects of its recurring representation in postwar American culture. The artists of... -
Serpent in Eden: Foreign Meddling and Partisan Politics in James Madison's America Tyson Reeder 9780197628591
RRP: £26.99£26.60A story of espionage, shadow diplomacy, foreign scheming, and domestic backstabbing in the formative years of the American republic. Tyson Reeder's book traces early America's rocky beginnings, when foreign interference and political conflict threatened... -
Propaganda and Power in the Age of Globalization: The Myths We Live By Simon Sherratt 9781032603933
RRP: £120.00£103.61Following victory in World War II, the US and Western Europe claimed to be the champions of the political ideals of democracy and freedom, along with the economic ideal of free market capitalism.Two decades into the twenty-first century, these once noble... -
Introduction to Global Military History: 1775 to the Present Day Jeremy Black 9781032730837
£36.26Now in its fourth edition, Introduction to Global Military History is an accessible, up-to-date account of modern warfare from the eighteenth century to the present.The book engages with the social, cultural, political and economic contexts of war,... -
History Hit Story of England: The Making of a Nation History Hit 9781399726160
RRP: £25.00£16.38From battlefields, cathedrals and museums to castles and stately homes, from the Lancastrians, Yorkists and Roundhead Royalists to an abundance of kings called George (and Henry!), the history of our island nation unravels its rich tapestry beneath our... -
Aztec Latin: Renaissance Learning and Nahuatl Traditions in Early Colonial Mexico Andrew Laird 9780197586358
RRP: £71.00£64.64In 1536, only fifteen years after the fall of the Aztec empire, Franciscan missionaries began teaching Latin, classical rhetoric, and Aristotelian philosophy to native youths in central Mexico. The remarkable linguistic and cultural exchanges that would... -
Immigration Nation: Aid, Control, and Border Politics in Morocco Lorena Gazzotti 9781009514002
RRP: £25.99£23.23Over the past forty years, countries in the Global North have increasingly restricted their migration policies to reduce the arrival of migrants. As part of this, development aid has become a central tool in the migration control strategy pursued by... -
Opening The Gates of Hell: The untold story of Herbert Kenny, the man who discovered Belsen Mark Hodkinson 9781788404846
RRP: £22.00£14.56Herbert Kenny, an army dispatch rider, was the first Allied soldier to push open the gates at Belsen Concentration Camp, in April 1945. He kept his story from the world until an encounter with a trainee journalist brought it to light. Now, forty years... -
Money Talks: Art, Society & Power Shailendra Bhandare 9781910807620
RRP: £25.00£16.38This book aims to tell the story of social history through Money. Money and Art have shared a long history. Both words are metaphors derived from Latin terms used over 2,000 years ago. The word Money derives its modern meaning as the general term for all... -
Glorious Gloucestershire Mark Cummings 9781803997537
RRP: £16.99£14.10If you thought Gloucestershire’s claim to fame was simply honey-stone villages set in stunning Cotswold’s countryside then this book will surprise and delight you. For centuries, glorious Gloucestershire has been at the forefront of innovation and famous... -
Belonging: An Intimate History of Slavery and Family in Early New England Gloria McCahon Whiting 9781512824490
RRP: £36.00£24.28Explores how Black New Englanders maintained a sense of belonging among their kin in the face of slavery As winter turned to spring in the year 1699, Sebastian and Jane embarked on a campaign of persuasion. The two wished to marry, and they sought the...