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Marital Violence: An English Family History, 1660-1857 by Elizabeth Foyster 9780521619127
RRP: €47.59€40.73This book exposes the 'hidden' history of marital violence and explores its place in English family life between the Restoration and the mid-nineteenth century. In a time before divorce was easily available and when husbands were popularly believed to... -
The Collaborators: Three Stories of Deception and Survival in World War II by Ian Buruma 9781838957674
RRP: €13.08€8.71'A multiple biography with overlapping chronology is a tricky feat and Buruma pulls it off magnificently.' Ben Macintyre, The TimesOn the face of it, the three characters here seem to have little in common - aside from the fact that each committed... -
Oil and Marble: A Novel of Leonardo and Michelangelo by Stephanie Storey 9781628729061
RRP: €20.22€13.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781628729061Author Stephanie StoreyFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Arcade PublishingPublisher Arcade PublishingWeight(grams) 420gDimensions(mm) 210mm... -
On Nationalism by Eric Hobsbawm 9781408711576
RRP: €29.75€6.79I remain in the curious position of disliking, distrusting, disapproving and fearing nationalism wherever it exists . . . but recognising its enormous force, which must be harnessed for progress if possible.In the last two decades the uses of the term... -
Belgian Ale by Pierre Rajotte 9780937381311
RRP: €10.70€7.68Rajotte travelled the world in search of the ultimate brew and found that Belgian ale is the pinnacle of brewing. Discover the importance of sugar, top-fermenting yeast's, and Belgian hops to this intricate, traditional ale.About the AuthorPierre... -
Ireland's Secret War: Dan Bryan, G2 and the lost tapes that reveal the hunt for Ireland's Nazi spies by Marc McMenamin
RRP: €21.41€15.41Ireland's Secret War is a thrilling account of the true extent of Irish-Allied co-operation during World War II. It reveals strategic Nazi intentions for Ireland and the real role of leading government figures of the time, placing Dan Bryan and G2 firmly... -
Marie Antoinette's Darkest Days: Prisoner No. 280 in the Conciergerie by Will Bashor
RRP: €17.84€13.72This compelling book begins on the 2nd of August 1793, the day Marie Antoinette was torn from her family's arms and escorted from the Temple to the Conciergerie, a thick-walled fortress turned prison. It was also known as the "waiting room for the... -
They Would Never Hurt A Fly: War Criminals on Trial in The Hague by Slavenka Drakulic
RRP: €13.08€8.81Slavenka Drakulic attended the Serbian war crimes trial in the Hague. This important book is about how ordinary people commit terrible crimes in wartime. With extraordinary story-telling skill Drakulic draws us in to this difficult subject. We cannot... -
The University of Oxford: A History by L. W. B. Brockliss 9780199243563
€71.15This fresh and readable account gives a complete history of the University of Oxford, from its beginnings in the eleventh century to the present day. Written by one of the leading authorities on the history of universities internationally, it traces... -
Framing the Early Middle Ages: Europe and the Mediterranean, 400-800 by Chris Wickham 9780199212965
€74.60The Roman empire tends to be seen as a whole whereas the early middle ages tends to be seen as a collection of regional histories, roughly corresponding to the land-areas of modern nation states. As a result, early medieval history is much more... -
Mantegna and Bellini by Caroline Campbell 9781857096347
RRP: €41.65€38.04An innovative study of the relationship between Andrea Mantegna and Giovanni Bellini, two masters of the Italian Renaissance Andrea Mantegna (c. 1431-1506) and Giovanni Bellini (active c. 1459; died 1516) each produced groundbreaking paintings, marked... -
After the Wall Came Down: Soldiering Through the Transformation of the British Army, 1990-2020 by Andrew Richards
RRP: €29.75€20.97The generation of young men and women who joined the British Army during the mid to late 1980s would serve their country during an unprecedented period of history. Unlike the two world war generations, they would never face total war - there was never... -
Chernobyl Strawberries: A Memoir by Vesna Goldsworthy
RRP: €10.70€7.38How would you make sense of your life if you thought it might end tomorrow? In this captivating and best-selling memoir Vesna Goldsworthy tells the story of herself, her family and her early life in her lost country. There follows marriage, a move to... -
The Oxford History of Ireland by R. F. Foster 9780192802026
RRP: €20.22€14.61Under the editorship of R. F. Foster, a team of distinguished Irish historians has produced a challenging assessment of Ireland's history, invaluable for the student and general reader alike. Their approach stresses the ancient, rooted nature of Irish... -
West Africans in Britain, 1900-60: Nationalism, Pan-Africanism and Communism by Hakim Adi 9780853158486
RRP: €19.04€18.55This work captures the dynamism of the West-African student movement in Britain, and the struggle to articulate a coherent, anti-colonial politics. The emergence of the West African Students Union (WASU) and its alliances with influential Labour MPs, the... -
The Bookshop of the World: Making and Trading Books in the Dutch Golden Age by Andrew Pettegree
RRP: €19.03€15.91The untold story of how the Dutch conquered the European book market and became the world's greatest bibliophiles-"an instant classic on Dutch book history" (BMGN - Low Countries Historical Review)"[An] excellent contribution to book history."-Robert... -
Napoleon: The Decline and Fall of an Empire: 1811-1821 by Michael Broers 9781639364657
RRP: €20.22€18.67An accomplished Oxford scholar delivers a dynamic new history covering the last chapter of the emperor's life-from his defeat in Russia and the drama of Waterloo to his final exile-as the world Napoleon has created begins to crumble around him. In 1811,... -
Germany in the World: A Global History, 1500-2000 by David Blackbourn
RRP: €47.60€36.68With Germany in the World, award-winning historian David Blackbourn radically revises conventional narratives of German history, demonstrating the existence of a distinctly German presence in the world centuries before its unification-and revealing a... -
1066 by Frank McLynn
RRP: €20.22€14.61Everyone knows what William the Conqueror won the Battle of Hastings in 1066, but in recent years is has become customary to assume that the victory was virtually inevitable, given the alleged superiority of Norman military technology. In this new study,... -
Venice: A New History by Thomas F. Madden
RRP: €24.99€15.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780147509802Author Thomas F. MaddenFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint The Penguin PressPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 431gDimensions(mm) 213mm... -
England's Second Reformation: The Battle for the Church of England 1625-1662 by Anthony Milton
RRP: €47.59€41.21England's Second Reformation reassesses the religious upheavals of mid-seventeenth-century England, situating them within the broader history of the Church of England and its earlier Reformations. Rather than seeing the Civil War years as a destructive... -
The Bruce by John Barbour
RRP: €29.75€20.22This is a full translation of the Scottish epic "The Bruce". The poem is regarded as one of the key sources for the life of Robert the Bruce. It contains detailed notes explaining and simplifying the narrative, as well as contemporary accounts. The book... -
Romanian History: A Captivating Guide to the History of Romania and Vlad the Impaler by Captivating History 9781637161470
RRP: €24.95€16.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781637161470Author Captivating HistoryFormat PaperbackPage Count 310Imprint Captivating HistoryPublisher Captivating HistoryWeight(grams) 458gDimensions(mm)... -
Cromwell and Centaur Tanks: British Army and Royal Marines, North-west Europe 1944-1945 by Dennis Oliver 9781526725417
RRP: €17.84€13.03Designed with the hard lessons of the North African campaign in mind, including the adoption of a dual-purpose gun capable of firing high-explosive and anti-tank rounds, the Cromwell was one of the most successful of the British cruiser tanks produced... -
The Politics Of James Connolly by Kieran Allen
RRP: €22.60€15.17Born in 1868 and executed by the British in 1916 for his role in the Easter Rising, the work of Irish national hero James Connolly has long been misunderstood. From Fianna Fail and Sinn Fein, to conservative Irish nationalists and the Church, many groups... -
Oxford University: Stories from the Archives by Alice Blackford Millea
RRP: €35.70€27.44The University Archives was established in 1634. Based in the Bodleian Library, it is the institutional archive of Oxford University, holding records which span just over 800 years, documenting the University's activities and decisions throughout that... -
To Marry an English Lord by Gail MacColl
RRP: €14.27€11.19From the Gilded Age until 1914, more than 100 American heiresses invaded Britannia and swapped dollars for titles - just like Cora Crawley, Countess of Grantham, the first of the Downton Abbey characters Julian Fellowes was inspired to create after... -
The Field of Cloth of Gold by Glenn Richardson
RRP: €19.03€16.45Glenn Richardson provides the first history in more than four decades of a major Tudor event: an extraordinary international gathering of Renaissance rulers unparalleled in its opulence, pageantry, controversy, and mystery. Throughout most of the late... -
Labour's Civil War: How infighting has kept the left from power (and what can be done about it) by Patrick Diamond 9781913368593
RRP: €20.22€14.41The biblical adage that 'if a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand' remains sound theological advice. It also essential counsel for any political party that aspires to win elections. Though both major parties have been subject to... -
Lords of the Isles: From Viking Warlords to Clan Chiefs by Timothy Venning
RRP: €22.60€15.12In contrast to most of Scotland, the north-western coast and the islands beyond were a region of mixed political control as well as culture into the sixteenth century. The divergent influences of Celtic and Scandinavian culture were more marked here than... -
Sunderland by Carol Roberton 9780752436166
RRP: €17.84€13.74Looks at the last hundred years of Sunderland through a sequence of old photographs selected from the archives of the Sunderland Echo by journalist Carol Roberton. Here are the shipyards and the miners, the shopkeepers and publicans, the schools, the... -
The Country House at War: Life below stairs and above stairs during the war by Simon Greaves
RRP: €23.80€17.06A fascinating illustrated history of the First World War told through the great houses of the National Trust. The First World War touched every family in the country and this book tells a story of national collective action and intense private experience... -
Sheffield Workhouse by Margaret Drinkall 9780752459639
RRP: €19.03€14.58The records of the Sheffield Workhouse were destroyed in the bombing of Sheffield during the Second World War. However, using archive material, newspaper reports and the remaining Guardians' minutes from 1890, this book reveals the story of this feared... -
Princes at War by Deborah Cadbury
RRP: €20.22€14.61In 1936, the monarchy faced the greatest threats to its survival in the modern era - the crisis of abdication and the menace of Nazism. The fate of the country rested in the hands of George V's sorely unequipped sons: Edward VIII abandoned his throne to... -
The Bridge at Andau: The Compelling True Story of a Brave, Embattled People by James A. Michener 9780812986747
RRP: €16.65€12.26Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812986747Author James A. MichenerFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Presidio PressPublisher Presidio Press -
Richard III by Charles Ross 9780300079791
RRP: €29.75€24.89Richard III ruled England for a mere twenty-six months, yet few English monarchs remain as compulsively fascinating, and none has been more persistently vilified. In his absorbing and universally praised account, Charles Ross assesses the king within the... -
Patriots and Liberators by Simon Schama 9780006861560
RRP: €22.60€15.60A reissue of Simon Schama's landmark study of the Netherlands from 1780-1813, this is a tale of a once-powerful nation's desparate struggle to survive the treacheries and brutality of European war and politics. Between 1780 and 1813 the Dutch... -
1545: Who Sank the Mary Rose? by Peter Marsden 9781526749352
RRP: €35.70€26.12The raising of the _Mary Rose_ in 1982 was a remarkable feat of archaeology and her subsequent preservation and display at Portsmouth a triumph of technical skill and imagination. She is more than a relic, however. She has a story to tell, and her... -
The Albert Memmi Reader by Albert Memmi
RRP: €78.54€67.75Born in 1920 on the edge of Tunis's Jewish quarter, the French-Jewish-Tunisian sociologist, philosopher, and novelist Albert Memmi has been a central figure in colonial and postcolonial studies. Often associated with the anticolonial struggles of the... -
Poverty in Ireland 1837: Szegenyseg Irlandban - A Hungarian's View by Baron Jozsef Eotvos 9781908420213
RRP: €17.79€13.21In 1837, the power of Daniel O'Connell's oratory focused the attention of Europeans on Ireland. They were horrified at what they saw there. The Irish poor - a third of the population - had no food except the potatoes they grew, and not enough clothing to...