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The Enlightenment: A Genealogy by Dan Edelstein 9780226184494
RRP: $46.80$44.91What was the Enlightenment? Though many scholars have attempted to solve this riddle, none has made as much use of contemporary answers as Dan Edelstein does here. In seeking to recover where, when, and how the concept of 'the Enlightenment' first... -
How Paris Became Paris: The Invention of the Modern City by Joan DeJean
RRP: $25.33$19.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781620407684Author Joan DeJeanFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing USAPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing USAWeight(grams) 348g -
Sight, Touch, and Imagination in Byzantium by Roland Betancourt
RRP: $72.13$59.92Considering the interrelations between sight, touch, and imagination, this book surveys classical, late antique, and medieval theories of vision to elaborate on how various spheres of the Byzantine world categorized and comprehended sensation and... -
Diet for a Large Planet: Industrial Britain, Food Systems, and World Ecology by Chris Otter 9780226826530
RRP: $62.40$60.66A history of the unsustainable modern diet-heavy in meat, wheat, and sugar-that requires more land and resources than the planet is able to support. We are facing a world food crisis of unparalleled proportions. Our reliance on unsustainable dietary... -
Let's Pretend by Laura Vaughan 9781838952082
RRP: $17.53$11.86'Clever, sharp, and deliciously dark... A one-sitting read.' Andrea Mara_____________________________When you fake it for a living, the truth is hard to find...Former child star Lily Thane is now a struggling thirty-something actress. Her old... -
Francesca Caccini at the Medici Court: Music and the Circulation of Power by Suzanne G. Cusick 9780226132136
RRP: $76.05$74.16A contemporary of Shakespeare and Monteverdi, and a colleague of Galileo and Artemisia Gentileschi at the Medici court, Francesca Caccini was a dominant musical figure there for thirty years. Dazzling listeners with the transformative power of her... -
The Little Book of Wales by Mark Lawson-Jones 9780752489278
RRP: $19.48$14.72The Little Book of Wales is an intriguing, fast-paced, fact-packed compendium of places, people and history in Wales. Here we find out about the country's most unusual crimes and punishments, eccentric inhabitants, famous sons and daughters and literally... -
How Novels Think: The Limits of Individualism from 1719-1900 by Nancy Armstrong 9780231130592
RRP: $54.60$42.51Nancy Armstrong argues that the history of the novel and the history of the modern individual are, quite literally, one and the same. She suggests that certain works of fiction created a subject, one displaying wit, will, or energy capable of shifting... -
1st Fallschirmjager Division in World War II: VOLUME ONE: YEARS OF ATTACK by Ben Christensen 9780764327926
RRP: $142.33$93.58Based on their combat achievements, friends and foes alike have singled out the men from the German 1st Parachute Division as the best soldiers in World War II, as they at Eben Emael executed the most successful commando raid of the war; on Crete the... -
The Reign of Edward II - New Perspectives by Gwilym Dodd
RRP: $156.00$143.68A new review of the most significant issues of Edward II's reign. Edward II presided over a turbulent and politically charged period of English history, but to date he has been relatively neglected in comparison to other fourteenth and... -
Revel, Riot, and Rebellion: Popular Politics and Culture in England 1603-1660 by David Underdown 9780192851932
$99.98What have maypoles, charivari processions, and stoolball matches to do with the English Civil War? A great deal, argues David Underdown. Using three western counties as a case-study, he shows that the war was neither a dispute confined to the elite... -
Brierley Hill at Work: Britain in Old Photographs by Ned Williams 9780752465111
RRP: $29.23$22.52Brierley Hill was one of those Black Country towns which was identified by the work that went on within its boundaries. Everyone knows that Brierley Hill made steel and sausages and fine pieces of glassware. These activities are now in the past but the... -
Sovereignty and Revolution in the Iberian Atlantic by Jeremy Adelman
RRP: $68.25$62.65This book takes a bold new look at both Spain's and Portugal's New World empires in a trans-Atlantic context. It argues that modern notions of sovereignty in the Atlantic world have been unstable, contested, and equivocal from the start. It shows how... -
Lost to the West: The Forgotten Byzantine Empire That Rescued Western Civilization by Lars Brownworth
RRP: $39.00$19.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307407962Author Lars BrownworthFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 203mm... -
Max Liebermann and International Modernism: An Artist's Career from Empire to Third Reich by Marion Deshmukh 9781845456627
RRP: $109.10$90.54Published in Association with the German Historical Institute, Washington, D.C. and the Centre Allemand d'histoire de l'art/Deutsches Forum fur Kunstgeschichte, Paris Although Max Liebermann (1847-1935) began his career as a realist painter depicting... -
Oxford: Britain in Old Photographs by Robert Blackham 9780752451282
RRP: $25.33$18.76This fascinating selection of 180 archive postcards and maps takes the reader on a nostalgic journey around historic Oxford, showcasing some of the finest buildings and streets in this English university city. The collection conjures a forgotten world of... -
Background to Contemporary Greece v.2 by Marion Sarafis 9780850363944
RRP: $24.38$22.52Indispensable for all serious students of modern Greece and essential reading for anyone interested in Greek politics, economy, foreign relations and culture. The contributors, from four different countries, combine empathy and objectivity in their... -
Birmingham: The Sixties Revisited Alton Douglas 9781858584980
$22.27Reality Shows. They may be all the rage on television at present but let's face it - the real reality is here! The minute you open the book you see life as it really was. The streets, and there are dozens of them, leaping out at you as true-to-life as... -
Communities of Violence: Persecution of Minorities in the Middle Ages - Updated Edition by David Nirenberg 9780691165769
RRP: $48.75$38.20In the wake of modern genocide, we tend to think of violence against minorities as a sign of intolerance, or, even worse, a prelude to extermination. Violence in the Middle Ages, however, functioned differently, according to David Nirenberg. In this... -
Plantagenet Queens & Consorts: Family, Duty and Power by Dr Steven J. Corvi 9781445699158
RRP: $19.48$12.71What unacknowledged theme can be found across 250 years of English history? What thread runs throughout the Plantagenet Royal House, including as it does the 'cadet' houses of Lancaster and York, to the beginning of the Modern Period in 1485? It is the... -
Ulverston by Carol Bennett 9780752437453
RRP: $29.23$22.52This fascinating collection of over 200 archive images explores the historic market town and port of Ulverston. Situated on the Furness peninsula at the southernmost tip of the Lake District, Ulverston has a long and proud past, and has witnessed many... -
Soldiers of God in a Secular World: Catholic Theology and Twentieth-Century French Politics by Sarah Shortall
RRP: $83.75$67.02Winner of a Catholic Media Association Book AwardA revelatory account of the nouvelle theologie, a clerical movement that revitalized the Catholic Church's role in twentieth-century French political life.Secularism has been a cornerstone of French... -
Drama, Poetry and Music in Late-Renaissance Italy: The Life and Works of Leonora Bernardi by Virginia Cox 9781800084322
RRP: $107.25$93.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800084322Author Virginia CoxFormat HardbackImprint UCL PressPublisher UCL PressWeight(grams) 1220g -
Oxford Botanic Garden & Arboretum: A Brief History Stephen A. Harris (Druce Curator, Oxford University Herbaria) 9781851244652
RRP: $29.23$25.41Oxford Botanic Garden is the oldest surviving botanic garden in Britain and has occupied its site in central Oxford since 1621. Conceived as a place to grow medicinal plants, born in the turmoil of civil war and nurtured during the restoration of the... -
The History of the Renaissance World: From the Rediscovery of Aristotle to the Conquest of Constantinople by Susan Wise Bauer 9780393059762
RRP: $54.58$49.04Beginning in the heady days just after the First Crusade, this volume-the third in the series that began with The History of the Ancient World and The History of the Medieval World-chronicles the contradictions of a world in transition. Popes continue to... -
A History of Cheltenham in 100 Objects by Steven Blake 9780752461199
RRP: $25.33$18.76Famous for its spa heritage, Regency architecture, schools and colleges and annual Festivals, Cheltenham was also once home to many notable inhabitants, including Gustav Holst, composer of 'The Planets', Edward Jenner, the pioneer of the smallpox vaccine... -
Recipes and Everyday Knowledge: Medicine, Science, and the Household in Early Modern England by Elaine Leong
RRP: $54.60$53.41Across early modern Europe, men and women from all ranks gathered medical, culinary, and food preservation recipes from family and friends, experts and practitioners, and a wide array of printed materials. Recipes were tested, assessed, and modified by... -
Around Stannington by Stannington Local History Group
RRP: $25.33$18.76Once an independent village, Stannington is now part of bustling Sheffield, England's fourth largest city. Walking around Stannington, it is difficult to picture the solitary settlement it once was as it stood isolated on top of a ridge; this book of... -
The Great Famine: Northern Europe in the Early Fourteenth Century by William Chester Jordan
RRP: $81.90$73.73The horrors of the Great Famine (1315-1322), one of the severest catastrophes ever to strike northern Europe, lived on for centuries in the minds of Europeans who recalled tales of widespread hunger, class warfare, epidemic disease, frighteningly high... -
OST: A History of Nazi Germany's Forced Labour Camps by MEMORIAL
RRP: $68.25$46.47Winner of the Jan Michalski Prize 2021 An Ostarbeiter was an 'Eastern Worker', rounded up by Nazi Germany from the captured territories in Central and Eastern Europe. By the end of the war, it is estimated that approximately 3 million to 5.5. million... -
Modern Spain, 1875-1980 by Raymond Carr
RRP: $31.18$22.64The word 'liberal', as part of our political vocabulary comes from Spain. It was first used to describe a group of radical patriots cooped up in Cadiz, refugees from the French invasion of 1808. In 1812 they drew up a constitution enshrining the... -
The Science of Describing: Natural History in Renaissance Europe by Brian W. Ogilvie
RRP: $62.40$61.44Out of the diverse traditions of medical humanism, classical philology, and natural philosophy, Renaissance naturalists created a new science devoted to discovering and describing plants and animals. In order to distinguish and catalog new plant and... -
The SS: A History 1919-1945 by Robert Lewis Koehl 9780752425597
RRP: $25.33$18.76The SS grew out of Adolf Hitler and Heinrich Himmler's obsession to prevent the treachery they believed to have caused the German defeat in the First World War. The SS was to be an elite corps of politically aware soldiers whose primary aim was to... -
The Prince (Royal Collector's Edition) (Annotated) (Case Laminate Hardcover with Jacket) by Niccolo Machiavelli 9781774378588
$59.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781774378588Author Niccolo MachiavelliFormat HardbackPage Count 108Imprint Royal ClassicsPublisher Royal ClassicsWeight(grams) 331gDimensions(mm) 229mm *... -
Jena 1800: The Republic of Free Spirits by Shelley Frisch
$41.79Around the turn of the nineteenth century, a steady stream of young German poets and thinkers coursed to the town of Jena to make history. The French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars had dealt a one-two punch to the dynastic system. Confidence in... -
The National Government, 1931-40 by Nick Smart
$79.74The National Government that ran Britain during the 1930s has always received a very bad press. Its ultimate disgrace over the Munich crisis and the catastrophic opening phase of the Second World War sealed the fate of an experiment which had always been... -
Theologia Cambrensis: A History of Protestant Theology and Religion in Wales, Volume 2: The Long Nineteenth Century, 1760-1900 by D. Densil Morgan 9781786838063
RRP: $48.73$36.66As well as outlining the shape of Welsh religious history generally, this volume describes the development of Calvinistic Methodist thought up to and beyond the secession from the Established Church in 1811, and the way in which the Evangelical Revival... -
Around Uttoxeter by Roy Lewis
RRP: $25.33$18.76Around UttoxeterBook InformationISBN 9780752415130Author Roy LewisFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint The History Press LtdPublisher The History Press LtdWeight(grams) 300gDimensions(mm) 240mm * 172mm * 10mm -
The Mistress of Paris: The 19th-Century Courtesan Who Built an Empire on a Secret by Catherine Hewitt 9781848319264
RRP: $39.00$27.03Valtesse de la Bigne was a celebrated nineteenth-century Parisian courtesan. She was painted by Manet and inspired Emile Zola, who immortalised her in his scandalous novel Nana. Her rumoured affairs with Napoleon III and the future Edward VII kept gossip... -
The Divorce of Henry VIII: The Untold Story by Catherine Fletcher 9780099554899
RRP: $31.18$22.64'An eye-opening book, an intricate and fascinating story' Hilary Mantel1527. Henry, desperate to marry Anne Boleyn and ensure the Tudor line asks Pope Clement VII to grant him a divorce. Enter Gregorio Casali, an Italian diplomat hired to represent...