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The Birth of Industrial Britain: 1750-1850 by Kenneth Morgan 9781408230954
RRP: £36.99£35.74The Industrial Revolution had a profound and lasting effect on socioeconomic and cultural conditions in Britain.The Birth of Industrial Britain examines the impact of early industrialisation on British society in the century before 1850, coinciding with... -
Muslims in Eastern Europe by Egdunas Racius
RRP: £27.99£26.01Introduces the centuries-old history of Muslim communities in Eastern EuropeThe history and contemporary situation of Muslim communities in Eastern Europe are explored here from three angles. First, survival, telling of the resilience of these Muslim... -
The Official History of the UK Strategic Nuclear Deterrent: Volume II: The Labour Government and the Polaris Programme, 1964-1970 by Matthew Jones
RRP: £41.99£36.75Volume II of The Official History of the UK Strategic Nuclear Deterrent provides an authoritative and in-depth examination of the British government's strategic nuclear policy from 1964 to 1970.Written with full access to the UK documentary record,... -
The Medici: Power, Money, and Ambition in the Italian Renaissance by Paul Strathern
RRP: £28.95£17.94A dazzling history of the modest family that rose to become one of the most powerful in Europe, The Medici is a remarkably modern story of power, money, and ambition. Against the background of an age that saw the rebirth of ancient and classical learning... -
The Oxford History of the British Empire: Volume IV: The Twentieth Century by Judith Brown 9780199246793
£55.32The Oxford History of the British Empire is a major new assessment of the Empire in the light of recent scholarship and the progressive opening of historical records. From the founding of colonies in North America and the West Indies in the seventeenth... -
Animals in the First World War by Neil R. Storey
RRP: £7.99£6.25The burden of the Great War was not shouldered by soldiers alone: the tasks, the camaraderie, the day-to-day life and the devastation were all shared with the animals that accompanied the forces abroad. The horses that took part in the last cavalry... -
The Appearance of Evil: Apparitions of Spirits in Wales by Edmund Jones
RRP: £14.99£11.66Edmund Jones (1702-1793) was a Calvinist Independent Minister, born at Penllwyn in Monmouthshire. He wrote several works on doctrine, as well as three collections of material on apparitions, of which "A Relation of Apparitions" (1780) is the third. His... -
The Emergence of Minorities in the Middle East: The Politics of Community in French Mandate Syria by Benjamin Thomas White
RRP: £28.99£23.38This book shows which historical developments led people to start describing themselves and others as 'minorities'. Why, in the years around 1920, did the concept of 'minority' suddenly become prominent in public affairs worldwide? Within a decade of... -
Great War Britain Coventry: Remembering 1914-18 by Peter Walters
RRP: £12.99£9.62The First World War claimed over 995,000 British lives, and its legacy continues to be remembered today. Great War Britain: Coventry offers an intimate portrayal of the city and its people living in the shadow of the 'war to end all wars'. A beautifully... -
From East of Suez to the Eastern Atlantic: British Naval Policy 1964-70 Edward Hampshire 9781138271340
RRP: £49.99£43.50Exploring British naval policy during the first two governments of Harold Wilson (1964-70), this book analyses how the Navy Department of the Ministry of Defence and the Navy's professional leadership dealt with six years of defence reviews, retrenchment... -
North Uist by Erskine Beveridge
RRP: £20.00£14.45A stranger, upon landing at Lochmaddy - the principal harbour of North Uist - is apt to receive an unfavourable impression from the vast expanse of bogs occupying its east side, which is also absolutely treeless and relieved only by a few hills of no... -
Emmet Dalton: Somme Soldier, Irish General, Film Pioneer by Sean Boyne 9781785370748
£18.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781785370748Author Sean BoyneFormat PaperbackPage Count 450Imprint Merrion PressPublisher Merrion Press -
Vichy France and the Jews: Second Edition by Michael R. Marrus 9781503609815
RRP: £24.99£22.07When Vichy France and the Jews was first published in France in 1981, the reaction was explosive. Before the appearance of this groundbreaking book, the question of the Vichy regime's cooperation with the Third Reich had been suppressed. Michael R... -
Camp Foxley: The History of the 123rd and 156th General Hospitals - US Army by Martin Collins 9781858582856
£11.39Camp Foxley tells the history of the military camp built in the grounds of Foxley Manor House, Herefordshire, from the outbreak of the Second World War until the late 1960s when it was demolished. During the war the camp saw the arrival and departure of... -
This Sporting Life: Sport and Liberty in England, 1760-1960 by Robert Colls
RRP: £22.49£19.16Why did killing a fox mean liberty? What did parish revels have to do with the Peterloo Massacre? What did animal cruelty have to do with the English constitution? What did the Factory Acts mean for modern football? In This Sporting Life, Robert Colls... -
Wells and Swells: The Golden Age of Harrogate Spa, 1842-1923 by Malcolm Neesam
RRP: £80.00£59.62Malcolm Neesam is an institution. He is a much-loved local historian and Freeman of the Borough of Harrogate, and there can be no one who knows more about the history of his native Harrogate. In this monumental work, Malcolm has left no archive... -
England in the Age of Dickens: 1812-70 by Jeremy Black 9781398115491
RRP: £10.99£7.25Beginning with an overview of the age of Dickens, Professor Jeremy Black guides the reader through the biography and writings of the great man to show how his work not only expressed his experience of Victorian England, but also defined it, for his... -
The Road to Wigan Pier by George Orwell 9780156767507
RRP: £10.99£7.25Before he authored the dystopian 1984 and the allegorical Animal Farm, George Orwell was a journalist, reporting on England's working class - an investigation that led him to examine democratic socialism. In the 1930s, the Left Book Club, a socialist... -
Gateacre & Belle Vale: Britain in Old Photographs by Beryl Plent 9780752450698
RRP: £12.99£9.62This captivating book contains more than 200 rare archive images that explore the social and architectural history of Gateacre and Belle Vale. Although now suburbs of Liverpool, Gateacre and Belle Vale were once nestled in the heart of Lancashire... -
History of the Paris Commune of 1871 by Prosper Olivier Lissagaray
£28.78In 1871, the working class of Paris, incensed by their lack of political power and tired of being exploited, seized control of the capital. This book is the outstanding history of the Commune, theheroic battles fought in its defence, and the bloody... -
The Spirit of the Oxford Movement by Christopher Dawson 9780813236063
RRP: £24.95£21.83This is the book we have been waiting for . . . a permanent enrichment of our understanding of the Oxford Movement" proclaimed The Downside Review upon the publication of Christopher Dawson's masterwork in 1933, exactly 100 years after John Keble's... -
Forest of Foes by Matthew Harffy 9781801102322
RRP: £20.00£18.47In this action-packed new Bernicia Chronicles adventure from Matthew Harffy, Beobrand finds himself in a dangerous foreign land, caught between warring factions of royalty and the Church. AD 652. Beobrand has been ordered to lead a group of pilgrims to... -
A Continental Distinction in the Common Law: A Historical and Comparative Perspective on English Public Law by J. W. F. Allison 9780198298656
£50.26The development of an autonomous English public law has been accompanied by persistent problems - a lack of systematic principles, dissatisfaction with judicial procedures, and uncertainty about the judicial role. It has provoked an ongoing debate on the... -
Kosovo: How Myths and Truths Started a War by Julie Mertus
RRP: £27.00£21.46Julie Mertus provides one of the first comprehensive looks at the explosive situation in Kosovo, where years of simmering tensions between Serbs and Albanians erupted in armed conflict in 1998. In a profound and detailed study of national identity and... -
The Deadly Tablet: The Abermule Railway Disaster of 1921 by David Burkhill-Howarth 9780752444291
RRP: £12.99£9.62The Abermule railway disaster is still the worst single line rail disaster the UK has ever known. It occurred on the Cambrian railway in 1921, killing thirty-four and injuring sixty-five people. The railway operational ramifications of this terrible... -
A Mad Catastrophe: The Outbreak of World War I and the Collapse of the Habsburg Empire by Geoffrey Wawro 9780465028351
RRP: £19.99£19.09The Austro-Hungarian army that marched east and south to confront the Russians and Serbs in the opening campaigns of World War I had a glorious past but a pitiful present. Speaking a mystifying array of languages and lugging outdated weapons, the... -
Lord of the Isles by Nigel Nicolson 9780861522156
RRP: £12.99£11.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780861522156Author Nigel NicolsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint AcairPublisher AcairDimensions(mm) 216mm * 139mm * 18mm -
The Jacobites: Britain and Europe 1688-1788 by Daniel Szechi 9780719037740
RRP: £19.99£17.82This work provides a pan-European survey of the Jacobite phenomenon. It examines Jacobitism in all three kingdoms and offers an interpretation of the impact of the Jacobites on the history of Britain and Europe. The book also provides a survey of the... -
Strolling Player: The Life and Career of Albert Finney by Gabriel Hershman 9780750978866
RRP: £20.00£16.26'Hershman has managed to gather a huge amount of information and distill it into a book that is not only respectful but full of insights into what makes this unstarriest of stars able to produce brilliant work without appearing to break a sweat.' -... -
Ostkrieg: Hitler's War of Extermination in the East by Stephen G. Fritz
RRP: £43.50£39.10On June 22, 1941, Germany launched the greatest land assault in history on the Soviet Union, an attack that Adolf Hitler deemed crucial to ensure German economic and political survival. As the key theater of the war for the Germans, the eastern front... -
Carnal Knowledge and Imperial Power: Race and the Intimate in Colonial Rule, With a New Preface by Ann Laura Stoler 9780520262461
RRP: £30.00£23.29This landmark book tracks matters of intimacy to investigate matters of state in late nineteenth and early twentieth century Indonesia, particularly the critical role played by sexual arrangements and affective attachments in creating colonial categories... -
For the Sake of Simple Folk: Popular Propaganda for the German Reformation by R. W. Scribner 9780198203261
£81.65In this book R. W. Scribner provides the first detailed analysis of the forms of propaganda - such as illustrated broadsheets, picture books, title pages, and book illustrations - which were aimed at the illiterate and semi-literate during the... -
Islamic Spain, 1250-1500 by L. P. Harvey 9780226319629
RRP: £30.00£29.25This is a richly detailed account of Muslim life throughout the kingdoms of Spain, from the fall of Seville, which signaled the beginning of the retreat of Islam, to the Christian reconquest. "Harvey not only examines the politics of the Nasrids, but... -
Scotland and Poland: Historical Encounters 1500-2010 by Tom Devine
RRP: £20.00£14.05This collection of essays explores more than five centuries of Scottish-Polish interactions. It focuses on the two main moments of contact: the early modern experiences of Scottish pedlars, merchants, mercenaries and diplomats in the Polish-Lithuanian... -
The Cambridge History of the Napoleonic Wars: Volume 2, Fighting the Napoleonic Wars by Bruno Colson
£110.56The Napoleonic Wars saw almost two decades of brutal fighting. Fighting took place on an unprecedented scale, from the frozen wastelands of Russia to the rugged mountains of the Peninsula; from Egypt's Lower Nile to the bloody battlefield of New Orleans... -
The Relics of Thomas Becket: A True-Life Mystery by John Butler
RRP: £12.99£8.91In a ceremony of great solemnity in July 1220, almost fifty years after his murder in December 1170, the relics of Saint Thomas Becket, Canterbury's most famous archbishop, were taken from the tomb in the crypt of Canterbury Cathedral where they had lain... -
The Anglo-Saxon Age: The Birth of England by Martin Wall
RRP: £10.99£7.25The discovery of the Staffordshire Hoard in 2009 has captured the imagination and stimulated renewed interest in the history and culture of the Anglo-Saxons. The discovery poses some interesting questions. Who owned the treasure and how did they acquire... -
The Devil's Cloth: A History of Stripes and Striped Fabric by Michel Pastoureau 9780231123662
£37.97Michel Pastoureau's lively study of stripes offers a unique and engaging perspective on the evolution of fashion, taste, and visual codes in Western culture. The Devil's Cloth begins with a medieval scandal. When the first Carmelites arrived in France... -
Unspeakable: A Life Beyond Sexual Morality by Rachel Hope Cleves
RRP: £31.00£26.33The sexual exploitation of children by adults has a long, fraught history. Yet how cultures have reacted to it is shaped by a range of forces, beliefs, and norms, like any other social phenomenon. Changes in how Anglo-American culture has understood... -
Maritime Kent Through the Ages: Gateway to the Sea Stuart Bligh 9781783276257
RRP: £65.00£62.21A wide-ranging history of the geography and communities of Kent from the earliest times to the present day. Kent, with its long coastline and its important geopolitical position close to London and continental Europe, and on major trading routes...