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Gettysburg in Color: Volume 3: Sacred Ground, 1863-1938 Patrick Brennan 9781611217292
RRP: $37.40Booksplease Price: $29.97The third and final entry of this groundbreaking trilogy examines the battlefield’s transformation from post-battle Hell to American shrine. -
Five Flags: The Warship that Reshaped the World Stuart Buxton 9780811777230
RRP: $38.70Booksplease Price: $33.85As wooden ships gave way to ironclads in the middle of the nineteenth century, one warship stood out. Born in the American Civil War and buffeted by the rivalries of North and South and Europe, it ultimately helped secure the foundations of modern Japan... -
Strong Men of the Regiment Sobbed Like Children: John Reynolds’ I Corps at Gettysburg on July 1, 1863 John Michael Priest 9781611217506
RRP: $27.08Booksplease Price: $21.57The fighting on the first day at Gettysburg on July 1, 1863, was unexpected, heavy, confusing, and in many ways, decisive. Much of it consisted of short and often separate simultaneous engagements or "firefights," a term soldiers often use to describe... -
The Vanguard: Central European Emigres and American Modern Design, 1910-1940 Jewel Stern 9780300278781
Booksplease Price: $78.14An insightful and beautifully illustrated new perspective on the role of Central European émigré artists, architects, and designers on American modernism While the history of modernism in the United States is often seen as having roots in French art... -
Frei Otto: Building with Nature Joaquín Medina Warmburg 9783791377506
RRP: $64.50Booksplease Price: $46.23Drawing on the latest research and exclusive access to archival materials, this visually stunning monograph traces Otto's groundbreaking career as one of the twentieth century's most important and influential architects. Published to mark the... -
Indian Club Swinging and the Birth of Global Fitness: Mugdars, Masculinity and Marketing Conor Heffernan 9781350401662
RRP: $37.40Booksplease Price: $33.81Emerging in colonial India, the fitness fad that was Indian Club Swinging became a global exercise practice in the early 19th century. Used by physicians, soldiers, gymnasts, children and athletes alike, clubs were used to solve numerous social concerns... -
Dismantling the League of Nations: The Quiet Death of an International Organization, 1945-8 Postdoctoral Researcher Jane Mumby 9781350376939
RRP: $37.40Booksplease Price: $27.93The League of Nations, one of the world's first multi-function intergovernmental organisations, was also one of the first to undergo liquidation. This book unveils the last chapter in its story, showing how complex and time-consuming the end of this... -
Sacred Habitat: Nature and Catholicism in the Early Modern Spanish Atlantic Ran Segev 9780271095349
RRP: $43.85Booksplease Price: $41.94Known as a time of revolutions in science, the early modern era in Europe was characterized by the emergence of new disciplines and ways of thinking. Taking this conceit a step further, Sacred Habitat shows how Spanish friars and missionaries used new... -
The Zambezi: A History Malyn Newitt 9781805263173
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $22.30The Zambezi is the fourth-longest river in Africa, and one of the continent's principal arteries of movement, migration, conquest and commerce. In this book, historian Malyn Newitt quotes rarely used Portuguese sources that throw vivid light on the... -
Affordable Housing in Charlotte: What One City's History Tells Us about America's Pressing Problem Thomas W Hanchett 9781469686202
Booksplease Price: $29.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781469686202Author Tom HanchettFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint University of North Carolina PressPublisher University of North Carolina Press -
Midwest Unrest: 1960s Urban Rebellions and the Black Freedom Movement Ashley Howard 9781469684864
RRP: $28.37Booksplease Price: $27.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781469684864Author Ashley HowardFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint University of North Carolina PressPublisher University of North Carolina Press -
In the Global Vanguard: Agrarian Development and the Making of Modern Taiwan Prof. James Lin 9780520398665
RRP: $38.70Booksplease Price: $31.42A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. In just half a century, Taiwan transformed from an agricultural colony into an... -
Imagining the Tropics: Women, Romance, and the Making of Modern Tourism Elizabeth Manley 9781978826908
RRP: $139.32Booksplease Price: $120.42Imagining the Tropics is a history of the development of tourism in the Caribbean from the 1910s through the 1970s that focuses on the ways women's labors of hospitality, writing, and advocacy built the industry and its ubiquitous imagery of tropical... -
Into the Inferno: Over Nazi-Occupied Europe with a B-17 Waist Gunner Bill Ibelle 9781636245584
RRP: $38.64Booksplease Price: $27.15The temperature was 40 degrees below zero when fighter planes screamed out of the clouds, puncturing the fuselage with a spray of machinegun fire and sending the bomber beside them into a death spin. This was followed by intense flak, as a hundred... -
Imagining the Tropics: Women, Romance, and the Making of Modern Tourism Elizabeth Manley 9781978826892
RRP: $36.11Booksplease Price: $32.53Imagining the Tropics is a history of the development of tourism in the Caribbean from the 1910s through the 1970s that focuses on the ways women's labors of hospitality, writing, and advocacy built the industry and its ubiquitous imagery of tropical... -
Art & Court of James VI & I: Bright Star of the North Kate Anderson 9781911054702
RRP: $32.24Booksplease Price: $21.45James VI & I, the only child of Mary, Queen of Scots, has often been overshadowed by the dramatic lives of his mother and son, Charles I. This book seeks to redress the balance by centering the first monarch to reign over both Scotland and England and... -
Paolo Portoghesi: Architecture Between History, Politics and Media Silvia Micheli 9781350408616
Booksplease Price: $38.34Through the work of the Italian architect, theorist and historian Paolo Portoghesi (1931-2023), this book offers a new perspective on postmodern architecture, showing the agency of other spheres of knowledge - history, politics and media - in the making... -
The Many Passions of Michael Hardwick: Sex and the Supreme Court in the Age of AIDS Martin Padgett 9781324035411
RRP: $30.95Booksplease Price: $26.16When a police officer stood at his bedroom door on 3 August 1982, Michael Hardwick had no idea that he would become an avatar of the gay rights movement. Arrested for sodomy, Hardwick sued for his right to privacy all the way to the Supreme Court, as the... -
Surgeons of Gettysburg: The Fight to Save the Wounded at the Civil War's Greatest Battle Barbara Franco 9780811776486
RRP: $38.70Booksplease Price: $28.38The Battle of Gettysburg was one of the Civil War's turning points-and one of its bloodiest clashes of arms. At places now etched in history-Devil's Den, the Wheatfield, Cemetery Ridge-the carnage was horrific: some 50,000 men became casualties, about... -
Singing Through Struggle: Music, Worship, and Identity in Postemancipation Black Churches Carolynne Hitter Brown 9781496856333
Booksplease Price: $32.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781496856333Author Carolynne Hitter BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint University Press of MississippiPublisher University Press of Mississippi -
Shifting Sovereignties: A Global History of a Concept in Practice Moritz Mihatsch 9783111446561
Booksplease Price: $76.08Shifting Sovereignties explores practical manifestations of sovereignty from antiquity to the Anthropocene. Taking a global-history perspective and centring Africa, the Middle East, and Asia, it destabilises overly neat theoretical notions of the concept... -
Leonardo / Dürer: In False Colors Ralph Gleis 9783777444680
RRP: $58.05Booksplease Price: $44.57Durer's Praying Hands are one of the world's most popular artworks. Few artists have changed the art world more profoundly than Leonardo and Durer. They bring their subjects to life with breath-taking virtuosity, creating masterpieces of incredible... -
Merchants of Knowledge: Intellectual Exchange in the Ottoman Empire and Renaissance Europe Robert G. Morrison 9781503642683
RRP: $36.11Booksplease Price: $31.45Between 1450 and 1550, a remarkable century of intellectual exchange developed across the Eastern Mediterranean. As Renaissance Europe depended on knowledge from the Ottoman Empire, and the courts of Mehmed the Conqueror and Bayezid II greatly benefitted... -
More Than Sheepherders: The American Basques of Elko County, Nevada Joxe K Mallea-Olaetxe 9781647791919
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $20.12Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781647791919Author Joxe K Mallea-OlaetxeFormat PaperbackPage Count 230Imprint University of Nevada PressPublisher University of Nevada PressWeight(grams)... -
Daily Life in Postcolonial Africa Dr. Toyin Falola 9798765130070
Booksplease Price: $77.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798765130070Author Dr. Toyin FalolaFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing USAPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing USA -
Night Fighter Aces of the Luftwaffe 1943-45 Neil Page 9781636245546
RRP: $32.19Booksplease Price: $22.63The week-long Allied bombing campaign against Hamburg in late July 1943 was not only hugely destructive but also had a significant impact on the German night fighter arm. From now on, the "boxes" of Kammhuber's "Raumnachtjagd" would be the starting point... -
Assault from the Sky: U.S Marine Corps Helicopter Operations in Vietnam Colonel Richard D Camp 9781636245249
RRP: $29.03Booksplease Price: $20.38This work describes U.S. Marine Corps helicopter operations, including their actions and evolution, throughout the Vietnam War. The book is divided into parts spanning the three stages of the Corps' combat deployment: "Buildup (1962-1966)," "Heavy... -
Chasing the Idea of Completeness: Great Book Collections in the Roman World Katarzyna Pietruczuk 9783111634388
Booksplease Price: $136.91This book sets out to explore how the Romans appropriated the Hellenistic concept of a complete library collection. Tracing this idea in the Roman world allows us to reconstruct the discourse on cultural transmission between Greece and Rome. The model of... -
Island Endurance: Creative Heritage on Inishark and Inishbofin Ryan Lash 9780253072481
RRP: $45.15Booksplease Price: $40.51Many look to Ireland's Atlantic islands as timeless places, resistant to change. Island Endurance offers an alternative perspective, examining two neighboring islands where people have cultivated their heritage to confront new challenges and... -
The Nile: History's Greatest River Terje Tvedt 9781350522237
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $20.09"[A] vivid travelogue." New Statesman"Has much to offer." The Spectator"Sparks the imagination." BBC History Magazine "A fascinating study." BBC History Revealed Magazine "Essential reading." All About History"Valiant, valuable and entertaining." Times... -
The House of the Satrap: The Making of the Ancient Persian Empire Rhyne King 9780520416123
RRP: $103.20Booksplease Price: $81.06Starting in the sixth century BCE, the conquests of the Persian kings Cyrus, Cambyses, and Darius transformed the lives of humans on a continental scale, as their empire reached from the Iranian plateau to as far as eastern Europe, Central Asia, and... -
Changes in Attitudes to Immigrants in Britain, 1921-2021: From Alien to Migrant Ben Braber 9781839994258
RRP: $103.20Booksplease Price: $98.78This book examines so far unused or relatively underused primary sources, investigates secondary resources and engages with the existing literature that deals with immigration but is not focused on attitudes nor always covers the entire period after 1921... -
Revolutions in Modern German History Dr Andrew G. Bonnell 9781350072619
RRP: $109.65Booksplease Price: $109.61Andrew G. Bonnell's innovative survey examines the history of revolution in modern Germany by focusing on key revolutionary developments in the German states. There is coverage of Germany and the French Revolution, the 1848 revolutions, the Industrial... -
Air Battles Before D-Day: How Allied Airmen Crippled the Luftwaffe and German Army in France Col. Joseph T. Molyson, Jr. (RET) 9780811777063
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $25.84D-Day, June 6, 1944, was one of the largest and most complicated undertakings in military history. During the first twenty-four hours of Operation Overlord, the Allies landed some 150,000 men by sea and air, secured a beachhead in France, and began the... -
Cynoscephalae 197 BC: Rome Humbles Macedon Mark Van Der Enden 9781472865380
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $15.78A fascinating, illustrated study of how the Roman Republican legions defeated the Macedonian army's much-vaunted phalanxes.The battle of Cynoscephalae represents a key moment in the history of the Greco-Roman world. In this one battle the Macedonian hold... -
Forgotten Experts: Astrologers, Science, and Authority in the Ottoman Empire, 1450–1600 A. Tunç Şen 9781503642652
RRP: $69.66Booksplease Price: $61.58Forgotten Experts offers a history of Ottoman court astrologers and traces their shifting authority and prestige over the long sixteenth century. These individuals served the Ottoman court with their expertise in mathematical, astronomical, and... -
Central European Wars 1918-21: Revolutions and Border Wars in the Former Austro-Hungarian Empire Philip Jowett 9781472867155
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.86Depicts the forces involved in uprisings and border conflicts after the break-up of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. The Austro-Hungarian Empire during World War I had included peoples of German, Hungarian, Polish, Czech, Slovakian, Serbian, Bosnian and... -
Victory in Shanghai: A Korean American Family’s Journey to the CIA and the Army Special Forces Robert S. Kim 9781640126329
RRP: $34.82Booksplease Price: $31.45Victory in Shanghai tells the long-hidden story of a family from Korea that struggled for three decades to become Americans and ultimately fought their way to the United States through heroic actions with the U.S. Army during World War II. Among the... -
Cold War Asia: Unlearning Narratives, Making New Histories Hajimu Masuda 9781469686301
RRP: $129.00Booksplease Price: $122.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781469686301Author Hajimu MasudaFormat HardbackPage Count 368Imprint University of North Carolina PressPublisher University of North Carolina Press -
Alice's Oxford: People and Places that Inspired Wonderland Peter Hunt 9781851246298
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.98Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass are two of the most famous fantasies in world literature, and yet their roots are firmly in nineteenth century and the university city of Oxford, England. Oxford's, streets, colleges and...