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A History of the Peloponnesian War: Bk. 5-6 by Thucydides
RRP: £24.95£23.39Classic political realism.Thucydides of Athens was born about 471 BC. He saw the rise of Athens to greatness under the inspired leadership of Pericles. In 430, the second year of the Peloponnesian War, he caught and survived the horrible plague that ... -
The Revolt of the Masses by Jose Ortega y Gasset 9780393310955
RRP: £12.99£9.79Social upheaval in early 20th-century Europe is the historical setting for this seminal study by the Spanish philosopher, Jose Ortega y Gasset. Continuously in print since 1932, Ortega's vision of Western culture as sinking to its lowest common... -
Regimes of Historicity: Presentism and Experiences of Time by Francois Hartog
RRP: £22.00£17.36Francois Hartog explores crucial moments of change in society's "regimes of historicity," or its ways of relating to the past, present, and future. Inspired by Hannah Arendt, Reinhart Koselleck, and Paul Ricoeur, Hartog analyzes a broad range of texts,... -
History as Mystery by Michael Parenti 9780872863576
RRP: £15.99£11.04In a lively challenge to mainstream history, Michael Parenti does battle with a number of mass-marketed historical myths. He shows how history's victors distort and suppress the documentary record in order to perpetuate their power and privilege. And he... -
Works: v. 5: Jewish Antiquities, Bks.I-III by Flavius Josephus
RRP: £24.95£23.39Greco-Roman antiquity's premier Jewish historian.Josephus, soldier, statesman, historian, was a Jew born at Jerusalem about AD 37. A man of high descent, he early became learned in Jewish law and Greek literature and was a Pharisee. After pleading in... -
Royal Books and Holy Bones by Eamon Duffy
RRP: £25.00£18.02In these vivid and approachable essays Eamon Duffy engages with some of the central aspects of Western religion in the thousand years between the decline of pagan Rome and the rise of the Protestant Reformation. In the process he opens windows on the... -
The Way I Heard It by Mike Rowe 9781982130855
RRP: £28.00£17.63NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Executive producer and host Mike Rowe presents a delightfully entertaining, seriously fascinating collection of his favorite episodes from America's #1 short-form podcast, The Way I Heard It, along with a host of personal... -
The Greek Revolution: A Critical Dictionary by Paschalis M Kitromilides
RRP: £33.95£27.81Winner of the 2022 London Hellenic PrizeOn the bicentennial of the Greek Revolution, an essential guide to the momentous war for independence of the Greeks from the Ottoman Empire.The Greek war for independence (1821-1830) often goes missing from... -
English Grounds: A Pastoral Journal by Andrew Rumsey 9780334061144
£20.30In this journal of short, lyrical reflections, Andrew Rumsey takes the reader on an exploration of faith, place and identity. Focusing on the author's home in Wiltshire, as he arrives to take up an ancient role in a testing time, English Grounds is both... -
Colonial West Africa: Collected Essays by Michael Crowder 9780714629438
RRP: £37.99£33.78Originally published in 1978, this volume provides a selection of Michael Crowder's wrtings on the impact of colonial rule in West Africa and African reaction to it from the conquest to independence. Key themes include the impact of European culture on... -
The Histories: Bks. 1-3 by Cornelius Tacitus
RRP: £24.95£23.39The paramount historian of the early Roman empire.Tacitus (Cornelius), famous Roman historian, was born in AD 55, 56 or 57 and lived to about 120. He became an orator, married in 77 a daughter of Julius Agricola before Agricola went to Britain, was... -
Book 1: Text in Greek, Commentary in English by Herodotus
RRP: £15.99£13.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780929524139Author HerodotusFormat PaperbackPage Count 292Imprint Bryn Mawr CommentariesPublisher Bryn Mawr CommentariesWeight(grams) 290g -
The Learned Banqueters: v. 1 by Athenaeus
RRP: £24.95£23.39Scholars at dinner.In The Learned Banqueters, Athenaeus describes a series of dinner parties at which the guests quote extensively from Greek literature. The work (which dates to the very end of the second century AD) is amusing reading and of... -
Fallen Leaves: Last Words on Life, Love, War, and God by Will Durant
RRP: £17.99£11.08Praised as a "revelatory" book by The Wall Street Journal, this is the last and most personal work of Pulitzer Prize-winning author and historian Will Durant, discovered thirty-two years after his death.The culmination of Will Durant's sixty-plus years... -
The Other Side of Silence: Voices from the Partition of India by Urvashi Butalia
RRP: £23.99£20.84The partition of India into two countries, India and Pakistan, caused one of the most massive human convulsions in history. Within the space of two months in 1947 more than twelve million people were displaced. A million died. More than seventy-five... -
Dagga: A short story by Hazel Crampton
RRP: £9.95£8.20This book is intended as a conversation piece. It does not purport to be a comprehensive take on dagga, aka cannabis, marijuana, bhanga, ganga, pot, zol, weed, etc., but is intended simply as an overview. Its hope is to provide a background to dagga in... -
A History of the Peloponnesian War: Bk.1-2 by Thucydides
RRP: £24.95£23.39Classic political realism.Thucydides of Athens was born about 471 BC. He saw the rise of Athens to greatness under the inspired leadership of Pericles. In 430, the second year of the Peloponnesian War, he caught and survived the horrible plague that he... -
Undelivered: The Never-Heard Speeches That Would Have Rewritten History by Jeff Nussbaum 9781250245670
RRP: £19.99£12.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250245670Author Jeff NussbaumFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Flatiron BooksPublisher Flatiron BooksWeight(grams) 386gDimensions(mm) 226mm * 142mm *... -
Looking for an Enemy: 8 Essays on Antisemitism by Jo Glanville
RRP: £9.99£6.80"Like all the best meetings of Jewish minds, this book will make you think, argue and see the world anew." Hadley Freeman, author of House of GlassConspiracy theories about Jews are back in the mainstream. The Pittsburgh gunman who murdered 11 people in... -
Essays in Indian History - Towards a Marxist Perception by Irfan Habib
RRP: £22.00£19.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789382381693Author Irfan HabibFormat PaperbackPage Count 392Imprint Tulika BooksPublisher Tulika BooksWeight(grams) 480gDimensions(mm) 217mm * 144mm * 22mm -
Campfire Stories: Tales from America's National Parks by Dave Kyu 9781680511444
RRP: £16.95£14.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorDave Kyu is a socially-engaged artist, writer, and project manager. Born in Seoul, South Korea and raised in the United States, he explores the creative tensions... -
The Life and Death of the Spanish Republic: A Witness to the Spanish Civil War by Henry Buckley
£22.41In 1940, Daily Telegraph correspondent Henry Buckley published his eyewitness account of his experiences reporting form the Spanish Civil War. The copies of the book, stored in a warehouse in London, were destroyed during the Blitz and only a handful of... -
Red Diapers: GROWING UP IN THE COMMUNIST LEFT by Judy Ann Kaplan 9780252067259
RRP: £22.99£20.72Red Diapers is the first anthology of autobiographical writings by the children of American communists. These memoirs, short stories, and poems reflect the joys and perils of growing up in a subculture defined by its... -
The Challenge of Things: Thinking Through Troubled Times by A. C. Grayling
RRP: £16.99£12.28A. C. Grayling's lucid and stimulating books, based on the idea that philosophy should engage with the world and make itself useful, are immensely popular. The Challenge of Things joins earlier collections like The Reason of Things and Thinking of... -
Past and Present by Kurt Almqvist
RRP: £20.00£13.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789189069343Author Erica BennerFormat HardbackPage Count 376Imprint Stolpe PublishingPublisher Stolpe PublishingWeight(grams) 1120g -
Liberating Sapmi: Indigenous Resistance in Europe's Far North by Gabriel Kuhn
RRP: £16.99£11.16Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629637129Author Gabriel KuhnFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint PM PressPublisher PM Press -
Christian Materiality: An Essay on Religion in Late Medieval Europe by Caroline Walker Bynum
RRP: £28.00£21.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781935408116Author Caroline Walker BynumFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Zone BooksPublisher Zone BooksDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 38mm -
Facts are Subversive: Political Writing from a Decade without a Name by Timothy Garton Ash 9781848870918 [USED COPY]
RRP: £25.00£2.30'Timothy Garton Ash holds a mirror that magnifies... He writes masterfully and with compassion' - Neal Ascherson, ObserverFor more than thirty years, Timothy Garton Ash has traveled among truth tellers and political charlatans to record, with... -
Facts are Subversive: Political Writing from a Decade without a Name by Timothy Garton Ash 9781848870918
RRP: £25.00£17.62'Timothy Garton Ash holds a mirror that magnifies... He writes masterfully and with compassion' - Neal Ascherson, ObserverFor more than thirty years, Timothy Garton Ash has traveled among truth tellers and political charlatans to record, with... -
Picking the President: Understanding the Electoral College by Eric Burin 9780692833445
RRP: £8.00£6.97Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692833445Author Eric BurinFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint Digital Press at the University of North Dakota, TPublisher Digital Press at the... -
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches by Audre Lorde
RRP: £28.00£16.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143134442Author Audre LordeFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Penguin ClassicsPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 283gDimensions(mm) 203mm *... -
Humanity in Context by J F Ade Ajayi 9781535335676
RRP: £16.99£14.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781535335676Author J F Ade AjayiFormat PaperbackPage Count 130Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent... -
Practicing History: Selected Essays by Barbara W. Tuchman 9780345303639
£14.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345303639Author Barbara W. TuchmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Ballantine Books Inc.Publisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)... -
Yearbook of Transnational History: (2022) by Thomas Adam 9781683933519
RRP: £81.00£71.06The Yearbook of Transnational History is dedicated to disseminating pioneering research in the field of transnational history. This fifth volume advances the frontier of transnational history into early modern times. The six chapters of this volume... -
Ideas Under Fire: Historical Studies of Philosophy and Science in Adversity by Jonathan Lavery 9781683930693
RRP: £50.00£43.76Since Aristotle's famous declaration that the speculative sciences originated with the emergence of a leisure class, it has been accepted as a truism that intellectual activity requires political stability and leisure in order to flourish. Paradoxically,... -
Greenwich Village, 1913: Suffrage, Labor, and the New Woman by Mary Jane Treacy 9781469670690
RRP: £29.95£27.73Greenwich Village, 1913 immerses students in the radical possibilities unlocked by the modern age. Exposed to ideas like women's suffrage, socialism, birth control, and anarchism, students experiment with forms of political participation and bohemian... -
Proceedings of the British Academy Volume 125, 2003 Lectures by Prof. P. J. Marshall 9780197263242
£95.80Volume 125 of the Proceedings of the British Academy contains 15 lectures delivered at the British Academy in 2003.Book InformationISBN 9780197263242Author Prof. P. J. MarshallFormat HardbackPage Count 484Imprint Oxford University PressPublisher Oxford... -
Proceedings of the British Academy, Volume 124. Biographical Memoirs of Fellows, III by Prof. P. J. Marshall 9780197263204
£80.44Volume 124 of the Proceedings of the British Academy contains 19 obituaries of recently deceased Fellows of the British Academy.Book InformationISBN 9780197263204Author Prof. P. J. MarshallFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint Oxford University... -
Tacitus and the Tacitean Tradition by Torrey James Luce 9780691631752
£87.90In this volume distinguished scholars from both sides of the Atlantic explore the work of Tacitus in its historical and literary context and also show how his text was interpreted in the sixteenth through eighteenth centuries. Discussed here, for... -
British Academy Lectures 2013-14 by Janet Carsten 9780197265864
£40.10This volume publishes texts from the British Academy's 2013 and 2014 lecture programmes, which were posted to the online Journal of the British Academy in 2014. The subjects covered include relic veneration in Confucianism, UK education policy,...