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Republics of Difference: Religious and Racial Self-Governance in the Spanish Atlantic World by Karen B. Graubart
RRP: $48.73$43.91Spanish monarchs recognized the jurisdictions of many self-governing corporate groups, including Jews and Muslims on the peninsula, indigenous peoples in their American colonies, and enslaved and free people of African descent across the empire... -
Percy Maylam's The Kent Hooden Horse by Richard Maylam 9780752449975
RRP: $29.23$22.52In 1909, Canterbury antiquarian Percy Maylam published his research and remarkable photographs of the fascinating Kent tradition of the hooden horse. He caught the custom in its last traditional phase, but his work inspired a revival after the Second... -
The Girls Who Went to War: Heroism, heartache and happiness in the wartime women's forces by Duncan Barrett 9780007501229
RRP: $19.48$14.78The personal accounts of three young women who joined up in 1940. In the summer of 1940, Britain stood alone against Germany. The British Army stood at just over one and a half million men, while the Germans had three times that many, and a... -
From the Ashes: Reconstruction of Flanders Fields after the Great War by Simon Augustyn 9789492346551
RRP: $17.55$12.50Once the steel storm of the industrial war had passed, the idyllic Flanders Fields region in Belgium was left as a desolate moon landscape. The First World War had wiped dozens of villages and cities completely off the map. The fields had been destroyed... -
Cicero: A Political Biography by David Stockton 9780198720331
$90.48Cicero: A Political BiographyBook InformationISBN 9780198720331Author David StocktonFormat PaperbackPage Count 376Imprint Oxford University PressPublisher Oxford University PressDimensions(mm) 201mm * 135mm * 22mm -
Life in the Victorian Kitchen by Karen Foy 9781783036394
RRP: $25.33$17.73Have you ever wondered what life was like for domestic servants, the etiquette involved during upper class banquets, or simply wished for a glimpse of day-to-day life in the Victorian kitchen? During the nineteenth century,the kitchen was a place where... -
Voices of Rawmarsh & Parkgate by Anthony Dodsworth
RRP: $25.33$18.76This fascinating book is the culmination of more than a year's research by Anthony Dodsworth helped by members of the Rawmarsh and Parkgate Local History Group and some of the students from St Pius X Catholic High School, Wath-upon-Dearne. The area's... -
The Military Airfields of Britain: Scotland and Northern Ireland by Ken Delve
RRP: $33.13$28.28This series of books, based on the author's popular series for Flypast magazine, provides a fresh user-friendly look at the military airfields of Britain. The books, each of which includes a number of counties on a regional basis, are designed for the... -
Managing Scotland's Environment by Charles Warren
RRP: $76.05$71.76Scotland's natural environment is its most treasured asset and the subject of its most vociferous debates. In this book Charles Warren tackles the hottest current debates - land reform, the future of farming, public access, conservation of moorland and... -
The Spanish Tercios 1536-1704 by Ignacio J. N. Lopez
RRP: $23.38$18.92A mixed infantry formation made up of about 3,000 men armed with pikes, swords and handguns, the innovative and influential tercio or 'Spanish square' was the basic combat unit of the armies of Spain throughout much of the 16th and 17th centuries... -
The Irish Story: Telling Tales and Making It Up in Ireland by R. F. Foster 9780195168877
RRP: $22.41$17.57Roy Foster is one of the leaders of the iconoclastic generation of Irish historians. In this opinionated, entertaining book he examines how the Irish have written, understood, used, and misused their history over the past century. Foster argues that,... -
OCR GCSE History SHP: Aztecs and the Spanish Conquest, 1519-1535 by Richard Woff
$42.76Exam board: OCR (Specification B, SHP)Level: GCSE (9-1)Subject: HistoryFirst teaching: September 2016First exams: Summer 2018An OCR endorsed textbookLet SHP successfully steer you through the OCR B specification with an exciting, enquiry-based series,... -
The Dukes of Burgundy - Charles the Bold, John the Fearless, Philip the Bold, Philip the Good - 4 vol by Richard Vaughan 9781843833970
RRP: $146.25$144.94Richard Vaughan's classic history of Burgundy under the four Valois dukes, now available as a specially-priced 4 volume set. First published nearly forty years ago, Richard Vaughan's masterly 4 volume set history of the Valois dukes of Burgundy has... -
Breaking Seas, Broken Ships: People, Shipwrecks and Britain, 1854-2007 by Ian Friel
RRP: $48.75$34.36Following _Britain and the Ocean Road_, Ian Friel expertly navigates the history of Britain and the sea from the Middle Ages to modern times. With _Breaking Seas, Broken Ships_, we follow the story of Britain's maritime history through some of it's most... -
Statelessness: A Modern History by Mira L Siegelberg
RRP: $60.35$48.40The story of how a much-contested legal category-statelessness-transformed the international legal order and redefined the relationship between states and their citizens.Two world wars left millions stranded in Europe. The collapse of empires and the... -
Four Killings: Land Hunger, Murder and A Family in the Irish Revolution by Myles Dungan
RRP: $19.48$13.86The story of a single family during the Irish Revolution, Four Killings is a book about political murder, and the powerful hunger for land and the savagery it can unleash. 'A vivid and chilling narrative... Confronts uncomfortable questions that... -
A Mountain Republic: A Lake District Parish - Eighteen Men, The Lake Poets and the National Trust by Philippa Harrison
RRP: $68.25$60.35An affectionate but meticulously researched history of one of the most beautiful and best-loved corners of England - Crosthwaite Parish, nestling deep within the mountains and valleys of the Lake District. 'A unique contribution to English history'... -
Early Modern England 1485-1714: A Narrative History by Robert Bucholz
RRP: $62.30$55.95The new, fully-updated edition of the popular introduction to the Tudor-Stuart period--offers fresh scholarship and improved readability. Early Modern England 1485-1714 is the market-leading introduction to the Tudor-Stuart period of English history... -
Shadows of a Princess by Patrick D. Jephson
RRP: $25.33$17.73Reissued for the twentieth anniversary of Diana's death, this sensational bestseller is an explosive account of her life, from the man who was by her side throughout its most turbulent period. In 1981 Lady Diana Spencer was seen by many as a... -
The Republic Fights Back: The Franco-German War 1870-1871 Volume 2: Uniforms, Organisation and Weapons of the Armies of the Republican Phase of the War. by Ralph Weaver
RRP: $48.75$34.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915070500Author Ralph WeaverFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Mimi and Toutou's Big Adventure: The Bizarre Battle of Lake Tanganyika by Giles Foden 9781400075263
RRP: $31.20$22.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400075263Author Giles FodenFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 215gDimensions(mm) 203mm *... -
Provence: Food Wine Culture and Landscape by Lars Boesgaard 9781908337160
RRP: $78.00$60.04A mighty view of all aspects of Provence, from food and wine to landscape and history. Divided into three chapters, this 544pp book is the largest ever written on one of the world's most alluring, sun-drenched and seductive cultures. The first section... -
American Expeditionary Forces in the Great War: The Meuse Argonne 1918: Breaking the Line by Maarten Otte 9781526714459
RRP: $29.23$21.35Although the Meuse-Argonne Offensive, which began in late September 1918 and continued through to the Armistice, was not the first major action fought by the AEF, it was the greatest in which it engaged in the Great War. Indeed, the casualty count in the... -
Shoddy: From Devil's Dust to the Renaissance of Rags by Hanna Rose Shell
RRP: $42.90$42.16You know shoddy: an adjective meaning cheap and likely poorly made. But did you know that before it became a popular descriptor, shoddy was first coined as a noun? In the early nineteenth century, shoddy was the name given to a new textile material made... -
Hitler and the Final Solution by Gerald Fleming
RRP: $52.65$41.07Fleming is the only scholar given access to the interrogations of the German civilian crematoria engineers lying inaccessible, until a few months ago, in Moscow. This historically important information finally places the last stone in the mosaic of... -
Knoydart: A History by Denis Rixson
RRP: $21.43$14.90Knoydart - the northern edge of the 'Rough Bounds' is one of the most evocative names in Scotland. This text offers a history of Knoydart from the earliest times to the present day. A remote and desolate peninsula, its name derives from Viking settlers... -
London's Forgotten Children: Thomas Coram and the Foundling Hospital by Gillian Pugh
RRP: $29.23$22.52In 1739, the London Foundling Hospital opened its doors to take in the abandoned children of the city. It was the culmination of seventeen years of campaigning by Captain Thomas Coram, driven by his horror at seeing children die in the streets. He was... -
Islam and Nazi Germany's War by David Motadel
RRP: $42.80$35.14Winner of the Ernst Fraenkel Prize, Wiener Holocaust LibraryAn Open Letters Monthly Best History Book of the YearA New York Post "Must-Read"In the most crucial phase of the Second World War, German troops confronted the Allies across lands largely... -
RAF's Centenary Flypast: The Story Behind the Event that Marked 100 Years of the Royal Air Force by Kevin Lee Gatland
RRP: $48.75$35.14On 10 July 2018, exactly 100 years and 100 days after the formation of the world's first independent air force, 103 aircraft of twenty-four types from twenty-five squadrons flew over London in the largest formation of military aircraft seen over the... -
Villages of Fife by Raymond Lamont-Brown 9781839830396
RRP: $21.43$14.90This book is an account of the people of Fife and their villages and hamlets, from medieval times to the present day. At one time or another, these habitations were the core of the country's community life, and their individual stories provide a rich... -
Bomber Command's War Against Germany: Planning the RAF's Bombing Offensive in WWII and its Contribution to the Allied Victory by An Official History 9781526790873
RRP: $48.75$34.36The all-too frequently cited mantra that 'the bomber will always get through' had dominated Britain's strategic air policy in the decades preceding the Second World War. However, the experiences of the Battle of Britain and the Blitz indicated that... -
Edwardian Devon 1900-1914: Before the Lights Went Out by David Parker
RRP: $29.23$22.52A century ago, Britain was locked in a devastating worldwide conflict that would change every aspect of society. This book explores life in Devon between 1900 and 1914, offering a revealing glimpse of a world now long-vanished before war broke out. Devon... -
Gurkha Odyssey: Campaigning for the Crown by Peter Duffell 9781399021920
RRP: $29.23$21.35"A compelling journey through Gurkha history -written with grace and style - it is indeed a wonderful read" - Field Marshal Lord Bramall KG GCB OBE MC It is 1814 and the Bengal Army of the Honourable East India Company is at war with a marauding Nepal... -
The Last Days of the High Seas Fleet: From Mutiny to Scapa Flow by Jellicoe, Nicholas C
RRP: $48.75$35.14On 21 June 1919 the ships of the German High Seas Fleet - interned at Scapa Flow since the Armistice - began to founder, taking their British custodians completely by surprise. In breach of agreed terms, the fleet dramatically scuttled itself, in a... -
Empires of the Mind: The Colonial Past and the Politics of the Present by Robert Gildea 9781107159587
RRP: $44.83$37.32'The empires of the future would be the empires of the mind' declared Churchill in 1943, envisaging universal empires living in peaceful harmony. Robert Gildea exposes instead the brutal realities of decolonisation and neo-colonialism which have shaped... -
The Prophecy of Death (Knights Templar Mysteries 25): A thrilling medieval adventure by Michael Jecks
RRP: $19.48$13.26The new thrilling medieval mystery from the West Country's master of crime.1325: There is turmoil in England. But could the Prophecy of St Thomas's Holy Oil save King Edward? It is believed that the king who is anointed with it will be a lion among men:... -
England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales: The Christian Church 1900-2000 by Keith Robbins 9780199570317
$90.69Keith Robbins, building on his previous writing on the modern history of the interlocking but distinctive territories of the British Isles, takes a wide-ranging, innovative and challenging look at the twentieth-century history of the main bodies, at once... -
Queen Emma and Queen Edith: Queenship and Women's Power in Eleventh-Century England by Pauline Stafford
RRP: $75.95$66.69Through detailed study of these women the author demonstrates the integral place of royal queens in the rule of the English kingdom and in the process of unification by which England was made.About the AuthorPauline Stafford was born and educated in... -
Germany 1858-1990: Hope, Terror and Revival by Alison Kitson
$97.77This book combines extended period cover with detailed study of sources on key issues and topics 'Document Exercises', offer opportunities for assessment and exam practice. Covering almost 150 years between unification and reunification, with a... -
Three Turk Plays from Early Modern England: Selimus, Emperor of the Turks; A Christian Turned Turk; and The Renegado by Daniel Vitkus 9780231110297
RRP: $58.50$45.42During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the Ottoman empire posed a clear and present danger to Christian rule in Europe. While English commerce with the Mediterranean world expanded, Ottoman forces invaded Greece, Hungary, and Austria. At the...