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History of Venice: v. 2: Books V-VIII by Pietro Bembo
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... -
Nothing But an Unfinished Song: The Life and Times of Bobby Sands by Denis O'Hearn 9781560258889
€22.43At seventeen, Bobby Sands was interested in girls, soccer, and music. Ten years later he led his fellow prisoners on a protest against repressive conditions in Northern Ireland's H-Block prisons that grabbed the world's attention. After sixty-six days of... -
Monasteries and Landscape of the North York Moors and Wolds by Bryan Waites 9780752440996
RRP: €23.80€18.37Perhaps no comparable area of England was as intensively settled by the great monastic houses as the north-east of Yorkshire, which contained Whitby Abbey, Guisborough, Bridlington and Rievaulx. Including a set of maps, this work provides a comprehensive... -
Hazards of the Dark Arts: Advice for Medieval Princes on Witchcraft and Magic by Richard Kieckhefer
RRP: €24.93€22.17This volume comprises English translations of two fundamentally important texts on magic and witchcraft in the fifteenth century: Johannes Hartlieb's Book of All Forbidden Arts and Ulrich Molitoris's On Witches and Pythonesses. Written by laymen and... -
In the Wake of the Great Rebellion: Republicanism, Agrarianism and Banditry in Ireland After 1798 by James Patterson 9780719085567
RRP: €23.79€17.28On Monday 19 September 1803, the most significant trial in the history of Ireland took place in Dublin. At the dock stood a twenty-five year old former Trinity College student and doctor's son. His name was Robert Emmet and he was standing trial for... -
Edge of Irony: Modernism in the Shadow of the Habsburg Empire by Marjorie Perloff
RRP: €95.20€91.17Among the brilliant writers and thinkers who emerged from the multicultural and multilingual world of the Austro-Hungarian Empire were Joseph Roth, Robert Musil, and Ludwig Wittgenstein. For them, the trauma of World War I included the sudden loss of the... -
The Men With the Pink Triangle: The True, Life-and-Death Story of Homosexuals in the Nazi Death Camps by Heinz Heger 9781642598797
RRP: €57.12€38.20For decades, history ignored the Nazi persecution of gay people. Only with the rise of the gay movement in the 1970s did historians finally recognize that gay people, like Jews and others deemed "undesirable," suffered enormously at the hands of the Nazi... -
Conflict in Early Stuart England: Studies in Religion and Politics 1603-1642 by Richard Cust 9780582301733
€82.71This important collection of essays, based on extensive original research, presents a vigorous critique of ` revisionist' analyses of the period, and reasserts the importance of long term ideological and social developments in causing the outbreak of the... -
Europe in Flames: The Crisis of the Thirty Years War by John Matusiak 9780750985512
RRP: €23.80€18.37'War,' wrote Cardinal Richelieu, 'is one of the scourges with which it has pleased God to afflict men'. Yet the prelate's mournful observation scarcely begins to encapsulate the full complexity and unspeakable horror of the greatest man-made calamity to... -
Trafalgar Square: Emblem of Empire by Rodney Mace 9781905007110
RRP: €23.80€22.90Trafalgar Square tells the story of the creation and use of one of London's most famous landmarks, from its beginnings in the 1840s up until the present day. Drawing on detailed archival research, it describes how the Square and its memorials to military... -
Scotland: A Very Peculiar History by Fiona MacDonald 9781906714796
RRP: €9.51€6.22"Scotland: A Very Peculiar History - Volume 2" is the concluding part of a lively and informative account of the vibrant history of Scotland, from the beginnings of Stewart rule up to modern day Scotland. Celebrating the cultural and historic... -
Dissonant Lives: Generations and Violence Through the German Dictatorships, Vol. 2: Nazism through Communism by Mary Fulbrook
RRP: €26.76€21.53Dissonant Lives is not a standard 'history of Germany' in the twentieth century, or even of the German dictatorships. It is concerned with the ways in which Germans of different ages and life stages lived through this terrible period in German history,... -
Northern Ireland Since 1969 by Paul Dixon 9781405801355
€42.53The conflict in Northern Ireland since 1969 has cost over 3,600 lives and about 100,000 people in Northern Ireland live in a household where someone has been injured in a troubles-related incident. This has been a key issue in British and Irish politics... -
Broken Lives: How Ordinary Germans Experienced the 20th Century by Konrad H. Jarausch 9780691174587
RRP: €35.70€28.19The gripping stories of ordinary Germans who lived through World War II, the Holocaust, and Cold War partition-but also recovery, reunification, and rehabilitationBroken Lives is a gripping account of the twentieth century as seen through the eyes of... -
Ruling Minds: Psychology in the British Empire by Erik Linstrum 9780674088665
RRP: €48.73€39.54At its zenith in the early twentieth century, the British Empire ruled nearly one-quarter of the world's inhabitants. As they worked to exercise power in diverse and distant cultures, British authorities relied to a surprising degree on the science of... -
Alcester by Melvyn Amos 9780752411705
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 9780752411705Author Melvyn... -
Life History and the Irish Migrant Experience in Post-War England: Myth, Memory and Emotional Adaption by Barry Hazley 9781526163752
RRP: €35.70€31.75Life history and the Irish migrant experience offers a fresh perspective on the significance of England's largest post-war migrant group for current debates on identity and difference in contemporary Britain. The first book to apply Popular Memory Theory... -
Your Death Would Be Mine: Paul and Marie Pireaud in the Great War by Martha Hanna
RRP: €32.07€25.48Paul and Marie Pireaud, a young peasant couple from southwest France, were newlyweds when World War I erupted. With Paul in the army from 1914 through 1919, they were forced to conduct their marriage mostly by correspondence. Drawing upon the hundreds of... -
The Consumer Revolution, 1650-1800 by Michael Kwass
RRP: €28.55€24.24The production, acquisition, and use of consumer goods defines our daily lives, and yet consumerism is seen as increasingly controversial. Movements for sustainable and ethical consumerism are gaining momentum alongside an awareness of how our choices in... -
Grantham Revisited by Fred Leadbetter 9780752438252
RRP: €15.46€11.45From archive images of the Belvoir Hounds mustering on St Peter's Hill to familiar streets, this collection sheds light on the region's past. This work also includes well-known vistas, everyday events and important aspects of the history of the town... -
Budapest: A Cultural and Literary History (Cities of the Imagination) by Bob Dent 9781904955269
RRP: €17.85€16.24The views of Budapest by the River Danube are unparalleled in Europe. On one side, the Buda Hills reach almost to the riverside, with Castle Hill and Gellert Hill offering outstanding panoramas. Pest, linked to Buda by a series of imposing bridges, with... -
Simon V of Montfort and Baronial Government, 1195-1218 by G. E. M. Lippiatt 9780198805137
€111.11Dissenter from the Fourth Crusade, disseised earl of Leicester, leader of the Albigensian Crusade, prince of southern France: Simon of Montfort led a remarkable career of ascent from mid-level French baron to semi-independent count before his violent... -
Intelligent Town: An Urban History of Swansea, 1760-1855 by Louise Miskell 9780708325100
RRP: €29.74€22.37This is the first full-length study of Swansea's urban development from the late eighteenth to the late nineteenth century. It tells the little known story of how Swansea gained an unrivalled position of influence as an urban centre, which led it briefly... -
The Portuguese Empire, 1415-1808: A World on the Move by A. J. R. Russell-Wood
RRP: €31.54€27.72This is the story of the first and one of the greatest colonial empires: its birth, apotheosis, and decline. By approaching the history of the Portuguese empire thematically, A. J. R. Russell-Wood is able to pursue ideas and make connections that... -
Aberdeen Beyond the Granite by Ian R. Mitchell 9781906817220
RRP: €11.89€8.65Ian R Mitchell recognises his hometown is an often underloved place, but in Aberdeen: Beyond the Granite he sets out an overwhelming case as to why this sentiment is thoroughly undeserved. An Aberdonian born and bred, Mitchell has lived in Glasgow for... -
Winslow: The Archive Photographs Series by Julian Hunt
RRP: €15.46€11.45THIS unique collection of over 150 old photographs of Winslow has ben compiled largely from the collection of local historian Terry Foley, a former Mayor of Winslow. His own photographs are supplemented by many postcards loaned by friends in the town... -
Church and University in the Scottish Enlightenment: The Moderate Literati of Edinburgh by Richard Sher
RRP: €28.55€23.69Since its original publication in 1985, Church and University in the Scottish Enlightenment has come to be regarded as a classic work in 18th-century Scottish history and Enlightenment studies. It depicts Hugh Blair, Alexander Carlyle, Adam Ferguson,... -
Oxbridge Men: British Masculinity and the Undergraduate Experience, 1850-1920 by Paul R. Deslandes
RRP: €32.12€28.23The mythic status of the Oxbridge man at the height of the British Empire continues to persist in depictions of this small, elite world as an ideal of athleticism, intellectualism, tradition, and ritual. In his investigation of the origins of this myth,... -
The Revival of Evangelicalism: Mission and Piety in the Victorian Church of Scotland by Andrew Michael Jones 9781474491679
RRP: €29.74€24.15Explores the revival and impact of evangelicalism within the Church of Scotland after the Disruption of 1843 Locates the chronological development of established evangelicalism within the broader context of British imperialism, German biblical... -
Newark-on-Trent by Clive Hardy 9781859373668
RRP: €17.85€13.04Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781859373668Author Clive HardyFormat PaperbackPage Count 87Imprint Frith Book Company Ltd.Publisher Frith Book Company Ltd. -
Postcards from the Edge: Remote British lighthouses in vintage postcards by Christopher Nicholson 9781904445593
RRP: €22.60€18.62We've been sending one another postcards for well over a century now - usually brief messages to our friends and family telling them about the weather on our holidays or where we're visiting next on our travels. A hundred years ago we sent postcards with... -
Bloody British History: Brighton by David J. Boyne 9780752490823
RRP: €17.84€13.74Burned in a barrel of tar! Brighton's Historical Horrors Revealed! Brighton scandals including rioting rockers, military misdemeanours and three terrible trunk murders! Strike! Barbarity at the Battle of Lewes Road. Baptised then beheaded: Stories of... -
The Poetics of Scientific Investigation in Seventeenth-Century England by Claire Preston 9780192867032
RRP: €35.09€32.31How should science be written? It is a question that piqued natural philosophers of the seventeenth century as they experimented with the rhetorical figures, neologisms, verse-forms, and generic variety that characterise the literary texture of their... -
Cumbrae Since the War Walter Kerr 9781840331905
RRP: €14.22€12.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781840331905Author Walter KerrFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Stenlake PublishingPublisher Stenlake PublishingDimensions(mm) 165mm * 173mm * 4mm -
For the Dying Calves: Beyond Literature: Oxford Lectures Durs Grunbein 9780857429544
RRP: €19.03€16.92Poetically written and originally given as lectures, this is a moving essay collection from Durs Grunbein. In his four Lord Weidenfeld Lectures held in Oxford in 2019, German poet Durs Grunbein dealt with a topic that has occupied his mind ever since he... -
Electric Pictures: A Guide to the Films, Film-Makers & Cinemas of Worthing & Shoreham by Ellen Cheshire
RRP: €15.46€11.45Written as part of the Worthing WOW festival celebrations, Electric Pictures commemorates 120 years of film in the Sussex coastal towns of Worthing and Shoreham, capturing the region's rich cinematic legacy and its place in British film history. From... -
Poles in the Battle of Britain: A Photographic Album of the Polish 'Few' by Peter Sikora 9781526782410
RRP: €29.75€29.62The Polish Air Force, which was created in Britain in the summer of 1940 from flying and ground personnel evacuated from Poland and then from France, proved to be one of the most successful formations to fight the Luftwaffe during the Battle of Britain... -
Netherton People & Places: Britain In Old Photographs by Ned Williams
RRP: €17.84€13.74For years Netherton has lived in the shadow of Dudley, of which it is a part. However, this book shows that Netherton was a remarkably complete community in its own right - even though this was never recognised by the organisation of local government... -
The European Renaissance: Centers and Peripheries Peter Burke (Emmanuel College, Cambridge) 9780631198451
RRP: €48.73€42.71This is a fascinating account of the geography, chronology and sociology of one of the major cultural movements in European history.About the AuthorPeter Burke is Professor of Cultural History at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Emmanuel College... -
Bede the Scholar by Peter Darby
RRP: €71.40€50.92Distilling a decade of research by leading experts on the Venerable Bede, Bede the scholar investigates the Northumbrian monk's place within the wider intellectual developments of the early medieval world. Demonstrating the centrality of the Bible to his...