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Pietro Bembo: History of Venice: v. 1: Books I-IV by Robert W. Ulery, Jr.
RRP: €35.64€28.16Pietro Bembo (1470-1547), a Venetian nobleman, later a cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church, was the most celebrated Latin stylist of his day and was widely admired for his writings in Italian as well. His early dialogue on the subject of love greatly... -
Poland 1939: The Outbreak of World War II by Roger Moorhouse 9780465095384
RRP: €38.08€23.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780465095384Author Roger MoorhouseFormat HardbackPage Count 432Imprint Basic BooksPublisher Basic BooksWeight(grams) 658gDimensions(mm) 236mm * 155mm * 33mm -
Quarry Bank & The Delph: Britain in Old Photographs by Ned Williams 9780752451343
RRP: €15.46€11.45This is Ned Williams and the Mount Pleasant Local History Group's third book about Quarry Bank and this time they take a fresh look at this little Black Country township, plus the even smaller place next door - simply known as The Delph. The area covered... -
Changing Identities, Ancient Roots: The History of West Dunbartonshire from Earliest Times by Ian Brown 9780748625611
RRP: €32.12€29.08The aim of this book is to place developments in the region of West Dunbartonshire, that is, the area covered by Clydebank, Dumbarton and the Vale of Leven running up to the southern end of Loch Lomond, in the context of the larger national - and indeed... -
Stroud Streets & Shops by Wilfred Merrett 9780752433073
RRP: €15.46€11.45Looking at the past of Stroud's streets and shops through the use of pictures and informative captions.Book InformationISBN 9780752433073Author Wilf MerrettFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint The History Press LtdPublisher The History Press... -
Kidderminster The Second Selection by Robert Barber 9780752426198
RRP: €15.46€11.45This book is part of the Images of England series, which uses old photographs and archived images to show the history of various local areas in England, through their streets, shops, pubs, and people.Book InformationISBN 9780752426198Author Robert... -
We Learnt About Hitler at the Mickey Mouse Club: A Childhood on the Eve of War by Enid Elliott Linder
RRP: €11.89€7.97For fans of Call the Midwife, a unique autobiography of a 1930s London childhood.Enid Elliot Linder was the daughter of a butler and a lady's maid in service in some of England's grandest country houses. Evoking the lost world of a childhood 'below... -
Art and Celebrity in the Age of Reynolds and Siddons by Heather McPherson 9780271074078
RRP: €111.80€99.72In this volume, Heather McPherson examines the connections among portraiture, theater, the visual arts, and fame to shed light on the emergence of modern celebrity culture in eighteenth-century England.Popular actors in Georgian London, such as David... -
The Empire That Would Not Die: The Paradox of Eastern Roman Survival, 640-740 by Professor John Haldon 9780674088771
RRP: €52.30€42.30The eastern Roman Empire was the largest state in western Eurasia in the sixth century. Only a century later, it was a fraction of its former size. Surrounded by enemies, ravaged by warfare and disease, the empire seemed destined to collapse. Yet it did... -
A People's History of Catalonia by Michael Eaude 9780745342122
RRP: €101.15€77.78On October 1, 2017, the Spanish police assault on Catalans voting in a peaceful referendum shot Catalonia's struggle for independence onto the world's front pages. Today, those two million-plus voters have neither forgiven nor forgotten: the struggle... -
The Wealth of the Nation: Scotland, Culture and Independence by Cairns Craig
RRP: €23.79€21.87A critical appraisal of Scotland's cultural wealth and global distinction'The Wealth of the Nation' explores how Scotland has continued to assert its distinctive cultural difference despite the three-hundred-year union with England and the modern forces... -
Poland: The First Thousand Years by Patrice M Dabrowski
RRP: €29.74€26.26Since its beginnings, Poland has been a moving target, geographically as well as demographically, and the very definition of who is a Pole has been in flux. In the late medieval and early modern periods, the country grew to be the largest in continental... -
Adolfo Kaminsky: A Forger's Life: A Forger's Life by Sarah Kaminsky
RRP: €38.07€28.32[An] engrossing literary debut...Writing in Adolfo's voice gives this suspenseful narrative candor and immediacy. - Kirkus Reviews Adolfo Kaminsky: A Forger's Life is "worthy of the best spy novels" and tells the story of Sarah Kaminsky's father, "the... -
Irish Ghost Tales: And Things that go Bump in the Night by Tony Locke 9781845888671
RRP: €17.84€13.74Do ghosts exist, do supernatural beings walk the land and do creatures linger in the shadows. Are legends of blood-sucking creatures based on some truth found on the edges of reality? Within these pages Tony Locke will take you on a journey through the... -
Wonderful Blood: Theology and Practice in Late Medieval Northern Germany and Beyond by Caroline Walker Bynum
RRP: €36.89€33.03The quiet market town of Wilsnack in northeastern Germany is unfamiliar to most English-speakers and even to many modern Germans. Yet in the fifteenth century it was a European pilgrimage site surpassed in importance only by Rome and Santiago de... -
Tartan for Me! Suggested Tartans for Scottish, Scotch-Irish, Irish, and North American Surnames with Lists of Clan, Family, and District Tartans. Expa by Philip D Smith 9780788452703
€25.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780788452703Author Philip D SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 262Imprint Heritage BooksPublisher Heritage BooksWeight(grams) 612g -
The Industrial Revolution: The State, Knowledge and Global Trade by William J. Ashworth
RRP: €32.12€27.89The British Industrial Revolution has long been seen as the spark for modern, global industrialization and sustained economic growth. Indeed the origins of economic history, as a discipline, lie in 19th-century European and North American attempts to... -
The Royal Forests of Medieval England by Charles R. Young 9780812277609
€51.46The distinction between the forest and the trees is fundamental to this study, for the royal forest of medieval England was a complex institution with legal, political, economic, and social significance. To protect the "beasts of the forest" and their... -
Hinckley by Graham Kempster
RRP: €17.84€13.74The life and times of Hinckley over more than a century are illustrated in this fascinating collection of old photographs selected from the archives of the Hinckley Times.Young Hinckley people and recent arrivals to the town will be amazed to see... -
The Erotomaniac by Ian Gibson
RRP: €17.84€11.66Henry Spencer Ashbee seemed a prosperous and respectable Victorian gentleman. But his well-upholstered chambers in Gray's Inn concealed a shocking secret: a vast collection of erotica and pornography, thousands of volumes strong.The Erotomaniac is a... -
Black and Field Gray Uniforms of Himmler's SS Vol. 2 by Lorenzo Silvestri 9780764351570
RRP: €97.57€64.24Originally one of the paramilitary groups that arose in Germany's turbulent 1920s , the SS grew from its original protection activities into the"Death's Head" troops and the Verfugungstruppe, and later during WWII, the Waffen-SS. During its evolution,... -
Images of Cardiff by "South Wales Echo" 9781859838662
€16.39Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781859838662Author "South Wales Echo"Format PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint DB PublishingPublisher DB Publishing -
Early Days of World History: Reflections on the Past by Oswald Spengler 9788367583022
€24.06Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788367583022Author Oswald SpenglerFormat PaperbackPage Count 552Imprint Legend Books Sp. Z O.O.Publisher Legend Books Sp. Z O.O.Weight(grams)... -
Saltley, Duddeston and Nechells by Maria Twist 9780752422794
RRP: €15.46€11.45A history of Saltley, Duddeston and NechellsBook InformationISBN 9780752422794Author Maria TwistFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint The History Press LtdPublisher The History Press LtdWeight(grams) 300gDimensions(mm) 235mm * 165mm * 10mm -
Peace and War: Britain in 1914 Nigel Jones 9781781852538
RRP: €29.75€20.381914 dawned with Britain at peace, albeit troubled by faultlines within and threats without: Ireland trembled on the brink of civil war; suffragette agitation was assuming an ever more violent hue; and suspicions of Germany's ambitions bred a paranoia ... -
The French at War, 1934-1944 by Nicholas Atkin 9780582368996
€42.53The years 1934 to 1944 remain the most contentious and dramatic decade in modern French history. Covering the Occupation, the Vichy regime, the Resistance and collaboration, Nick Atkin provides an important introduction to this key period. Accessible and... -
Challenger: The British Main Battle Tank: No. 2 by M. P. Robinson 9781473896659
€19.31For much of the Cold War, the British Armys main battle tanks (MBT) were first the Centurion and then the Chieftain. The question of the latters replacement became urgent when in 1980 MBT80 was cancelled. While the Royal Ordnance Challenger (originally... -
Cheltenham Past & Present: Britain in Old Photographs by David Hanks 9780752453668
RRP: €15.46€11.45After almost two thousand years of eventful but mostly unrecorded lives, a few Cheltenham folk first began to see themselves, and their town, captured by early photographers soon after 1841. Thereafter the medium of photography advanced relentlessly from... -
The Book of Chivalry of Geoffroi de Charny: Text, Context, and Translation by Richard W. Kaeuper 9780812215793
RRP: €33.31€28.73The Book of Chivalry is the most pragmatic of all surviving chivalric manuals. Written at the height of the Hundred Years War, it includes the essential commonplaces of knighthood in the mid-fourteenth century and gives a close-up view of what one knight... -
Capitalism and the Emergence of Civic Equality in Eighteenth-Century France by William H Sewell
RRP: €36.89€35.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780226770468Author William H SewellFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint University of Chicago PressPublisher University of Chicago PressWeight(grams) 152g -
South Asians and the Shaping of Britain, 1870-1950: A Sourcebook by Ruvani Ranasinha 9780719085147
RRP: €23.79€21.21This invaluable sourcebook intervenes in contemporary debates about Britain's heritage by illuminating the remarkable, yet still overlooked, impact that South Asians had on shaping the nature of British culture, politics and national identity during the... -
The Inquisition: A Global History 1478-1834 by Francisco Bethencourt 9780521748230
RRP: €36.88€32.33The Inquisition was the most powerful disciplinary institution in the early modern world, responsible for 300,000 trials and over 1.5 million denunciations. How did it root itself in different social and ethnic environments? Why did it last for three... -
Black '47: A Story of Ireland's Great Famine: A Graphic Novel by Damien Goodfellow
RRP: €16.65€13.73A gritty graphic novel about Ireland's Great Hunger. Jack and his family have been evicted by their landlord and given one way tickets to the USA. They refuse to leave Ireland, unknowingly placing themselves in grave peril. When Jack falls in with a... -
The Story of the Giro D'Italia: A Year-By-Year History of the Tour of Italy, Volume Two: 1971-2011 by Bill McGann 9780984311798
RRP: €14.22€12.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780984311798Author Bill McGannFormat PaperbackImprint McGann Publishing LLCPublisher McGann Publishing LLCWeight(grams) 463g -
Rethinking Medieval and Renaissance Political Thought: Historiographical Problems, Fresh Interpretations, New Debates Chris Jones (University of Canterbury, New Zealand) 9781032380544
RRP: €44.02€38.71This collection of essays, written by leading experts, showcases historiographical problems, fresh interpretations, and new debates in medieval and Renaissance history and political thought. Recent scholarship on medieval and Renaissance political... -
Yardley by Michael Byrne 9780752403397
RRP: €15.46€11.45This book is part of the Images of England series, which uses old photographs and archived images to show the history of various local areas in England, through their streets, shops, pubs, and people.Book InformationISBN 9780752403397Author Michael... -
Brislington Revisited: Britain in Old Photographs by Toni-Maree Rowe 9780752445557
RRP: €15.46€11.45In the nineteenth century, Brislington was described as 'the prettiest village in Somerset'. Although it is now a busy suburb of Bristol, it still retains something of its village past, and its history stretches back over 1,000 years. This intriguing... -
Revolution: A Short Sharp History of Scottish Wind Power - And Where it Goes From Here by Todd Westbrook
RRP: €11.89€8.65In the first and only book to explore Scotland's part in the green revolution and what the future may hold, Westbrook refutes common arguments against wind power with hard facts and a wry sense of humour.About the AuthorTodd Westbrook graduated from the... -
The Archaeology of the Gravel Terraces of the Upper and Middle Thames: The Early Historical Period: AD1-1000 by Paul Booth 9780954962753
€74.38The gravel terraces of the river Thames have revealed a wealth of archaeological information about the evolution of the landscape of the region, the development of the settlement pattern, and past human occupation. Much of this has come to light in... -
Planning in the Early Medieval Landscape by John Blair
RRP: €39.26€36.15The extent to which Anglo-Saxon society was capable of large-scale transformations of the landscape is hotly disputed. This interdisciplinary book - embracing archaeological and historical sources - explores this important period in our landscape...