Filter By
- Book
- Qty in Cart
- Quantity
- Price
- Subtotal
-
History of the Mariana Islands Luis de Morales, S.J., S.J. 9781935198956
$24.72Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781935198956Author Luis de Morales, S.J., S.J.Format PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint University of Guam PressPublisher University of Guam Press -
The Madison Women: Gender, Higher Education, and Literacy in Nineteenth-Century Appalachia Amanda E. Hayes 9781959000259
RRP: $36.06$28.83By uncovering how higher education and gender roles evolved in Appalachia over time, The Madison Women delivers a history that contradicts the stereotype of the region as hostile to education, highlighting colleges that proliferated the area in the 19th... -
A Basilisk Glance: Poisoners from Plato to Putin Robert Templer 9781739424343
RRP: $16.76$11.09Poison - invisible, unknown, hard to detect and deadly - taps into hard-wired anxieties about the risks of the world around us. From ancient times to the modern age, it has always created more fear than any other threats. In A Basilisk Glance: Poisoners... -
Archaeology Versus Metal Detecting: The Cause and The Cure Peter G. Spackman 9781036101787
RRP: $28.38$20.15Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Late Roman Combat Tactics Ilkka Syvänne 9781526793959
$52.95Late Roman Combat Tactics by Dr. Ilkka Syvänne is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand land combat in the period from the Tetrarchy to the death of Heraclius, a period when the Romans faced serious and growing military threats on many... -
The Dark Side of Jane Austen's World Angela Youngman 9781399080842
RRP: $32.25$22.73Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Bone, Bronze, and Bamboo: Unearthing Early China with Sarah Allan Constance A. Cook 9781438499000
RRP: $93.23$81.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781438499000Author Constance A. CookFormat HardbackPage Count 350Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York... -
Authority and History: Ancient Models, Modern Questions Juliana Bastos Marques 9781350269484
$37.86This book examines authority in discourse from ancient to modern historians, while also presenting instances of current subversions of the classical rhetorical ethos. Ancient rhetoric set out the rules of authority in discourse, and directly affected the... -
They Also Serve Chris Gibson 9781800353084
RRP: $45.09$31.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800353084Author Chris GibsonFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Crecy PublishingPublisher Crecy Publishing -
Why the Nineties Matter Terry H. Anderson 9780197763018
RRP: $29.66$25.23An entertaining and deeply insightful history of a decade that matters more than we think: the 1990s. Nearly a quarter century after the decade of the 1990s ended, what really mattered in America during that era is finally coming into focus. Many of the... -
William Simpson's Afghanistan: Travels of a Special Artist and Antiquarian during the Second Afghan War 1878-1879 Harrington 9781804516355
RRP: $45.15$31.33Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804516355Author HarringtonFormat HardbackPage Count 312Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Business as Usual: How Sponsored Media Sold American Capitalism in the Twentieth Century Caroline Jack 9780226835143
RRP: $30.96$29.71How corporations used mass media to teach Americans that capitalism was natural and patriotic, exposing the porous line between propaganda and public service. Business as Usual reveals how American capitalism has been promoted in the most ephemeral of... -
Global Royal Families: Cultures of Transnational Monarchy in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Robert Aldrich 9780198931744
$103.25Monarchy as a form of government involves more than an individual sovereign, and encompasses consorts, heirs and other relatives. Since royals, especially in Europe, traditionally married other royals, there existed many familial ties across borders,... -
More-Than-Human Histories of Latin America and the Caribbean: Decentring the Human in Environmental History Diogo de Carvalho Cabral 9781915249517
$39.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915249517Author Diogo de Carvalho CabralFormat PaperbackPage Count 290Imprint University of London PressPublisher University of London -
Chrystal Macmillan, 1872-1937: Campaigner for Equality, Justice and Peace Helen Kay 9781399514521
RRP: $109.65$99.98This historical biography of Chrystal Macmillan, one of Scotland's most prominent campaigners for women's equality, justice and peace in the early twentieth century, is the first account of her life and work.?It describes her early life in a comfortable... -
The Oxford Handbook of the Merovingian World Bonnie Effros 9780197785263
RRP: $50.30$45.86The Merovingian era is one of the best studied yet least-known periods of European history. From the fifth to the eighth centuries, the inhabitants of Gaul (what now comprises France, southern Belgium, Luxembourg, Rhineland Germany, and part of modern... -
The Last Disco: The story of the Stardust tragedy Sean Murray 9781804184813
RRP: $19.34$14.13A tragic fire at the Stardust nightclub on Valentine's Day, 1981 in a working-class suburb of Dublin caused the deaths of 48 young people, with an average age of just 19 years. After years of families and survivors fighting to find out what really... -
Visualizing the Celtic Revival: The Arts and Crafts movement in Ireland - selected writings by Nicola Gordon Bowe Roisin Kennedy 9781801510820
RRP: $64.50$64.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781801510820Author Roisin KennedyFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Four Courts Press LtdPublisher Four Courts Press Ltd -
Making Monuments from Mass Graves in Contemporary Spain: Resistance through Remembrance Daniel Palacios González 9789048560134
RRP: $123.84$118.18This book narrates how, beginning in 1936, bodies buried in mass graves during the Spanish War and subsequent dictatorship were turned into monuments. The book describes how the production of monuments evolved and what forms this process and these... -
The Declaration in Script and Print: A Visual History of America’s Founding Document John Bidwell 9780271097305
RRP: $32.19$28.37Perhaps the single most important founding document of the United States of America, the Declaration of Independence became both a work of art and a mass-market commodity during the nineteenth century. In this book, graphic arts historian John Bidwell... -
A Concise History of the Middle East Arthur Goldschmidt Jr. 9780367513436
$46.78A Concise History of the Middle East provides a comprehensive introduction to the history of this region. Spanning from the pre-Islamic era to the present, it explores the evolution of Middle Eastern institutions and culture, the influence of European... -
El Fin del Mundo Volume 84: A Clovis Site in Sonora, Mexico Vance Holliday 9780816552993
RRP: $32.19$30.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816552993Author Vance HollidayFormat PaperbackPage Count 270Imprint University of Arizona PressPublisher University of Arizona Press -
Religion and Politics in Interwar Yugoslavia: Serbian Nationalism and East Orthodox Christianity Maria Falina 9781350282070
$37.86Religion and Politics in Interwar Yugoslavia explores the interaction between religion, nationalism, and political modernity in the first half of the 20th century, taking the case of the Serbian Orthodox Church as an example. This book historicizes the... -
Reclaiming the Don: An Environmental History of Toronto's Don River Valley, Second Edition Jennifer L. Bonnell 9781487560409
RRP: $39.99$35.32A small river in a big city, the Don River is often overlooked when it comes to explaining Toronto’s growth. With Reclaiming the Don, Jennifer L. Bonnell unearths the missing story of the relationship between the river, the valley, and the city, from the... -
Looking for America on the New Jersey Turnpike, Second Edition Angus Kress Gillespie 9781978835986
RRP: $28.37$22.63A twelve-lane behemoth cutting through the least scenic parts of the Garden State, the New Jersey Turnpike may lack the romantic allure of highways like Route 66, but it might just be a more accurate symbol of American life, representing the nation at... -
The American Art-Union: Utopia and Skepticism in the Antebellum Era Kimberly A. Orcutt 9781531506995
RRP: $39.99$35.29The first comprehensive treatment in seventy years of the American Art-Union’s remarkable rise and fall For over a decade, the New York–based American Art-Union shaped art creation, display, and patronage nationwide. Boasting as many as 19,000 members... -
The Civil War on Film Peg A. Lamphier 9798765130940
RRP: $28.37$28.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798765130940Author Peg A. LamphierFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing USAPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing USA -
The Destruction of Jewish Cemeteries in Poland Krzysztof Bielawski 9798887195698
RRP: $138.02$137.51The Destruction of Jewish Cemeteries in Poland offers a comprehensive examination of the history of Jewish cemeteries in Poland, shedding light on an overlooked aspect of Holocaust history. Beginning with the settlement of Jewish communities in Poland,... -
East and West in the Early Middle Ages Stefan Esders 9781009563659
RRP: $32.24$28.86From their crystallisation in the late fifth century to their ultimate decline in the eighth, the Merovingian kingdoms were a product of a vibrant Mediterranean society with both a cultural past and a dynamic and ongoing dialogue between the member... -
Korea and the Fall of the Mongol Empire: Alliance, Upheaval, and the Rise of a New East Asian Order David M. Robinson 9781009102032
RRP: $38.69$35.35Korea and the Fall of the Mongol Empire explores the experiences of the enigmatic and controversial King Gongmin of Goryeo, Wang Gi, as he navigated the upheavals of the mid-fourteenth century, including the collapse of the Mongol Empire and the rise of... -
Inventing an African Alphabet: Writing, Art, and Kongo Culture in the DRC Ramon Sarró 9781009199483
RRP: $38.69$35.35In 1978, Congolese inventor David Wabeladio Payi (1958–2013) proposed a new writing system, called Mandombe. Since then, Mandombe has grown and now has thousands of learners in not only the Democratic Republic of Congo, but also France, Angola and many... -
The Madagascar Youths: British Alliances and Military Expansion in the Indian Ocean Region Gwyn Campbell 9781009054539
RRP: $38.69$35.35In 1820, King Radama of Imerina, Madagascar signed a treaty allowing approximately one hundred young Malagasy to train abroad under official British supervision, the so-called 'Madagascar Youths'. In this lively and carefully researched book, Gwyn... -
Metaphysics of Cooperation: Edward Abramowski's Social Philosophy. With a Selection of His Writings Edward Abramowski 9798888902424
RRP: $58.05$58.02The Metaphysics of Cooperation presents the intellectual achievements of the Polish associative socialist and pioneer of social sciences, Edward Abramowski.The volume is divided into five sections, each of them containing an analysis of the Polish... -
The Empire’s Reformations: Politics and Religion in Germany, 1495-1648 David M. Luebke 9781350253285
RRP: $58.05$58.02The Empire's Reformations provides a concise overview of reform movements in 16th-century Germany that gave birth to the modern division of western Christianity into multiple denominations – Roman Catholic, Lutheran, Calvinist, and more. It exposes the... -
The Other Trench: The WW1 Diary and Photos of a German Officer Alexander Pfeifer 9781068609800
RRP: $21.92$16.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781068609800Author Alexander PfeiferFormat PaperbackImprint True Perspective PressPublisher True Perspective Press -
World War II on Film David Luhrssen 9798765130957
RRP: $28.37$28.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798765130957Author David LuhrssenFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing USAPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing USA -
Sensory Warfare in the Global Cold War: Partition, Propaganda, Covert Operations Bodo Mrozek 9780271097404
$151.37The longest political conflict of the twentieth century, the Cold War, was carried out on the human senses—and through them. Largely conducted through nonlethal methods, it was a war of competing cultures, politics, and covert operations. While... -
Media and Power in Modern Iran: Mass Communication, Ideology, and the State Emily L. Blout 9780755639076
$37.86Successive Iranian leaders have struggled to navigate the fraught political-cultural space of media in the Islamic Republic–skirting the line between embracing Western communications technologies and rejecting them, between condemning social networking... -
Scimitar into Stanley: One Soldier’s Falklands War Roger Field 9781399023191
RRP: $19.34$14.13In May 1982, Captain Roger Field, The Blues and Royals, attached to HQ 5th Infantry Brigade, sailed on the Queen Elizabeth 2 as part of the second wave to liberate the Falkland Islands. Surprised by what he saw at Brigade HQ he started writing a diary... -
Patriot Presidents: From George Washington to John Quincy Adams William E. Leuchtenburg 9780197598856
RRP: $29.66$24.16A nuanced account of the early leaders who shaped the American presidency The founding fathers of the United States created a unique institution, the presidency, as they were determined to authorize an effective chief executive but wary of monarchy. They...