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To Boldly Go: Leadership, Strategy, and Conflict in the 21st Century and Beyond Jonathan Klug 9781636244549
RRP: $31.10$22.60A multi-author exploration of leadership and strategy through the lens of classic science fiction. The literature of ideas. When author Pamela Sargent used those words to describe science fiction in 1975, the genre had exploded into the literary... -
The Lion and the Dragon: Britain and China: A History of Conflict Lawrence James 9781474610209
RRP: $25.33$16.77Napoleon warned 'Let China sleep; when she wakes, she will shake the world'. Lawrence James's magisterial history analyses the relationship between Britain and China between the beginning of the Opium Wars in 1839 and the transfer of power in Hong Kong... -
Recipes and Book Culture in England, 1350–1600 Carrie Griffin 9781802074635
$194.24Recipes are not just instructions. They also embody culture, class, belief, linguistic and literary form, and even include celebrity endorsement. Medieval and early modern recipes can be short and simple but sometimes are not – sometimes they work, and... -
Four Points of the Compass: The Unexpected History of Direction Jerry Brotton 9780241556870
RRP: $39.00$27.87North, south, east and west: almost all societies use the four cardinal directions to orientate themselves, to understand who they are by projecting where they are. For millennia, these four directions have been foundational to our travel, navigation and... -
Patriarchy and Gender Stereotypes in the Contemporary World Naznin Tabassum 9781032754710
RRP: $253.50$218.61Patriarchy and Gender Stereotypes in the Contemporary World offers a thorough analysis of the stereotyping of women, particularly in organisations and higher education. The book considers both theoretical and empirical evidence and articulates the... -
The Rising Generation: Gradual Abolition, Black Legal Culture, and the Making of National Freedom Sarah L. H. Gronningsater 9781512826319
$79.85Chronicles the history of emancipation through the cradle-to-grave experiences of a remarkable generation of black northerners The Rising Generation chronicles the long history of emancipation in the United States through the cradle-to-grave experiences... -
Latin American Economic History: An Introduction to Daily Life, Debt, and Development Molly C. Ball 9781032255460
RRP: $263.25$228.70Latin American Economic History: An Introduction to Daily Life, Debt, and Development guides readers through significant features and developments in the region’s economic history from independence through 2022.In approachable language, the book... -
Critical Digital Art History: Interface and Data Politics in the Post-Digital Era Amanda Wasielewski 9781835950487
$52.20Digital Art History has often aligned itself with the practical concerns of digital technology and the responsibilities of art institutions and associated institutional roles such as collection managers, information specialists, curators, and... -
The World of the Gladiator Susanna Shadrake 9781803997896
RRP: $29.23$22.52The figure of the gladiator is as compelling to us as it was to the Romans. Why are we drawn to this ancient blood sport? The usual explanation of the savagery lurking beneath our veneer of civilisation is too simplistic. Gladiatorial combat has always... -
British Policy Towards the Indian States 1905–1939 S.R. Ashton 9781032436487
$61.99British Policy Towards the Indian States (1982) examines the concept of indirect rule in terms of both its application and consequences in the princely states of India during the first four decades of the twentieth century. The author first deals with... -
The Struggle for Asia 1828–1914: A Study in British and Russian Imperialism David Gillard 9781032446417
$61.99The Struggle for Asia 1828–1914 (1977) studies a classic case of rival imperialisms. British leaders tended to believe that Russian expansion threatened India; Russian leaders came to believe in a British threat to their empire. Each sought security by... -
The British West Indies: The Search for Self-Government Morley Ayearst 9781032422763
$61.99The British West Indies (1960) examines the islands and two mainland colonies of the West Indies as they approached self-government. They exemplified in miniature almost all of the problems of emergent self-government in a colonial milieu with a... -
The Essential Speeches of the Cold War: A Primary Source Collection Sean Brennan 9781032637570
RRP: $263.25$228.70This book is a primary source collection of thirty speeches of the Cold War from 1917 to 1991, representing a cross section of leaders on all sides of the conflict from North America, the Caribbean, Europe, and Asia.As ideological conflict between... -
Churchill Cold War Warrior: Winston Churchill and the Iron Curtain Anthony Tucker-Jones 9781399047456
$58.68Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
British Honduras: Past and Present Stephen L. Caiger 9781032418827
$61.99British Honduras (1951) examines this most neglected of the British colonies, from the early days of settlement by the logwood-cutters and buccaneers up to the post-war period. It examines the first occupation by British adventurers, consolidation by... -
The Feminist Pacific: International Women's Networks in Hawai'i, 1820–1940 Rumi Yasutake 9780231208529
RRP: $228.15$202.78As competing American, European, and later Japanese imperial and colonial ambitions spread across the ocean in the nineteenth century, Honolulu emerged as a transnational hub for the exchange of ideas. Rumi Yasutake reveals the pivotal role of women’s... -
History of Nigeria Sir Alan Burns 9781032425085
$66.28History of Nigeria (1969) was first published in 1929 and completely revised by its author, and gives the history of Nigeria from before its first encounters with the British, through colonial rule, and up to independence in 1960. It describes the... -
Hiding from the Nazis in Plain Sight: A Graphic Novel Biography of Zhanna and Frina Arshanskaya Aleksandar Sotirovski 9781398257085
RRP: $17.53$13.79Zhanna and Frina Arshanskaya were two talented child musicians when Nazis invaded their city of Kharkiv, Ukraine during World War II. Along with their parents, the Jewish sisters were forced into a death march. They each eventually escaped individually... -
The Travels of Cristoforo Buondelmonti and Ciriaco d’Ancona in the Aegean Sea: Humanism, Early Colonial Politics and Agency Eleni Tounta 9781032502342
RRP: $253.50$218.61This book explores the travels of Cristoforo Buondelmonti and Ciriaco d’Ancona to the Greek lands in the early fifteenth-century eastern Mediterranean.Drawing on post-colonial studies' frameworks, such as travel writing and imaginative geographies, this... -
Women in the Valley of the Kings: The Untold Story of Women Egyptologists in the Gilded Age Kathleen Sheppard 9781250284358
RRP: $48.73$33.81The history of Egyptology is often told as yet one more grand narrative of powerful men striving to seize the day and the precious artifacts for their competing homelands. But that is only half of the story. During the Golden Age of Exploration, there... -
Race, Politics, and Reconstruction: The First Black Cadets at Old West Point Rory McGovern 9780813951911
RRP: $50.60$50.25The first in-depth study of racial integration at West Point after the Civil WarRace, Politics, and Reconstruction tells the story of racial integration at the United States Military Academy after the Civil War and spotlights the social environment and... -
Churchill's Citadel: Chartwell and the Gatherings Before the Storm Katherine Carter 9780300270198
RRP: $39.00$32.04A major new history of Churchill in the 1930s, showing how his meetings at Chartwell, his country home, strengthened his fight against the Nazis In the 1930s, amidst an impending crisis in Europe, Winston Churchill found himself out of government and... -
Killing the Elites: Haiti, 1964 Jean-Philippe Belleau 9780231213783
RRP: $228.15$202.78In the summer and fall of 1964, a massacre took place in the small town of Jérémie, Haiti. After an ill-fated uprising, the brutal regime of François “Papa Doc” Duvalier ordered reprisals against the town that some of the insurgents were allegedly from... -
On Gladsmuir Shall the Battle Be!: The Battle of Prestonpans 1745 Arran Johnston 9781804515679
RRP: $48.75$34.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804515679Author Arran JohnstonFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
The Spirit of 1889: Restoring the Lost Promise of the High Plains and Northern Rockies Samuel Western 9780700637041
RRP: $74.00$55.34In August 1889, the five states that were once part of the Dakota 1861 Territory—North Dakota, South Dakota, Wyoming, Montana, and Idaho—drafted their state constitutions in preparation for inclusion in the United States. These constitutions were models... -
Oceans, Seas, Shorelines and Warfare Richard Harding 9780367443405
RRP: $263.25$228.70For as long as humanity has ventured on the seas, naval warfare has been an integral part of their activities and the focal point for many histories and ideas of heritage. This book presents a rarely explored aspect: the long-term impact of those battles... -
India and the Cold War Manu Bhagavan 9781469684048
RRP: $58.40$55.89This collection of essays inverts the way we see the Cold War by looking at the conflict from the perspective of the so-called developing world, rather than of the superpowers, through the birth and first decades of India's life as a postcolonial nation... -
Victorians and Modern Greece: Literary and Cultural Encounters Efterpi Mitsi 9781032495200
RRP: $263.25$228.70Victorians and Modern Greece examines the representation of nineteenth-century Greece in British magazines, fiction, poetry, and travel writing, revealing the popular reception of the modern nation in the Victorian period. Reflecting upon the tensions –... -
Blue Jerusalem: British Conservatism, Winston Churchill, and the Second World War Kit Kowol 9780198868491
RRP: $58.50$50.60The untold story of how Winston Churchill and the Conservative Party envisioned Britain's post-war future We think we know all there is to know about Britain's Second World War. We don't. This radical re-interpretation of British history and British... -
Southern Brigadier Generals in the Revolutionary War: Eighteen Commanders Instrumental in American Victory Douglas M. Branson 9781476692920
RRP: $70.18$57.72The stories of Southern brigadier generals during the Revolutionary War remain largely forgotten or untold, but their experiences were unique. During the war, 13 of the 58 brigadier generals (the lowest-ranking generals) who served under George... -
The Stadium: An American History of Politics, Protest, and Play Frank Andre Guridy 9781541601451
RRP: $48.75$35.90The sweeping story of the American stadium-from the first wooden ballparks to today's glass and steel mega-arenas-revealing how it has made, and remade, American lifeStadiums are monuments to recreation, sports, and pleasure. Yet from the earliest... -
Ghosts of a Holy War: The 1929 Massacre in Palestine that Ignited the Arab-Israeli Conflict Yardena Schwartz 9781454949213
RRP: $54.60$34.01An award-winning journalist presents an even-handed, thoroughly researched examination of the Arab-Israeli conflict, and illustrates how a shocking yet little-known massacre one century ago in what was then Palestine became ground zero of a war that... -
The Great Elector's Table: The Politics of Food in Seventeenth-Century Brandenburg-Prussia Molly Taylor-Poleskey 9780813951607
$58.81What food production, presentation, and consumption reveals about the exercise of power in early modern Germany In politics, as with food, presentation is everything. At the court of Elector Friedrich Wilhelm in Brandenburg-Prussia, the two combined in a... -
Disasters in World History Benjamin Reilly 9781032566221
RRP: $68.23$60.16Disasters in World History surveys the development of disaster studies as a discipline as well as the historical case studies and theories used by historians to understand disasters.Disasters, here defined as the complex interaction between natural... -
Toronto Street Names: An Illustrated Guide to Their Origins Leonard Wise 9780228105138
RRP: $48.75$36.76Toronto Street Names provides a fascinating look at a highly visible record of the past of Canada’s largest city — its streets. It commemorates the people and events that have shaped the city and tells the fascinating and curious stories of how more than... -
The Japanese Ideology: A Marxist Critique of Liberalism and Fascism Jun Tosaka 9780231216524
RRP: $228.15$177.31A major Marxist thinker and critic in 1930s Japan, Tosaka Jun was among the world’s most incisive—yet underrecognized—theorists of capitalism, fascism, and ideology during the years before World War II. The Japanese Ideology is his masterpiece, first... -
Mountain Commandos at War in the Falklands: The Royal Marines Mountain and Arctic Warfare Cadre in Action during the 1982 Conflict Rodney Boswell 9781526798787
RRP: $31.18$22.64Sunset, 8 June 1982, East Falkland. Eight specially trained Royal Marines infiltrate Goat Ridge, a long rocky hilltop between Mount Harriet and Two Sisters which are occupied by a battalion of 600 Argentine infantry. The next day, from their hiding place... -
The Prince Who Beat the Empire: How an Indian Ruler Took on the Might of the East India Company Moin Mir 9781398122550
RRP: $21.43$14.14An acclaimed history of empire and resistance: this is the moving story of the rebel prince who beat the world’s most powerful corporation. The ships of the East India Company first docked at India's shores in Surat in the early 17th century. In time,... -
Raiders, Rulers, and Traders: The Horse and the Rise of Empires David Chaffetz 9781324051466
RRP: $48.75$38.08No animal is so entangled in human history as the horse. The thread starts in prehistory, with a small, shy animal, hunted for food. Over time, the domestication of horses, followed by the advent of riding, powered mighty empires: Persian, Mongol, Mughal... -
Siena: The Rise of Painting, 1300–1350 Joanna Cannon 9781857097160
RRP: $78.00$65.50An exploration of a crucial turning point in Italian art, the early 1300s in the city of Siena In the early 1300s, the city of Siena gave rise to an extraordinary period of creativity and innovation. Painters, sculptors, and goldsmiths produced...