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The Old Regime and the French Revolution by Alexis de Tocqueville 9780385092609
RRP: £15.99£11.47Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385092609Author Alexis De TocquevilleFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing GroupPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell... -
The Secret Within: Hermits, Recluses, and Spiritual Outsiders in Medieval England by Wolfgang Riehle 9781501725166
RRP: £28.99£25.36Spiritual seekers throughout history have sought illumination through solitary contemplation. In the Christian tradition, medieval England stands out for its remarkable array of hermits, recluses, and spiritual outsiders-from Cuthbert, Godric of Fichale,... -
Venetian Ships and Shipbuilders of the Renaissance by Frederic Chapin Lane
£30.34This major study by Frederic Lane tracks the rise and decline of the great shipbuilding industry of Renaissance Venice. Drawing on a wealth of archival sources, Lane presents detailed descriptions of the Venetian arsenal, including the great galleys that... -
Medieval Merchants: York, Beverley and Hull in the Later Middle Ages by Jenny Kermode
RRP: £30.99£28.68This book is based on some 1400 individuals who lived in three northern English towns during the later middle ages. It analyses the many aspects of merchant society visible to the historian: achievements in politics, attitudes towards religion, the... -
Englishmen at Sea: Labor and the Nation at the Dawn of Empire, 1570-1630 by Eleanor Hubbard
RRP: £25.00£21.32A deeply researched, analytically rich, and vivid account of England's early maritime empire Drawing on a wealth of understudied sources, historian Eleanor Hubbard explores the labor conflicts behind the rise of the English maritime empire. Freewheeling... -
Fifteenth Air Force against the Axis: Combat Missions over Europe during World War II by Kevin A. Mahoney 9780810884946
RRP: £125.00£109.35In Fifteenth Air Force against the Axis: Combat Missions over Europe during World War II, Kevin A. Mahoney provides a detailed combat history of the crucial role played by this air force from November 1943 through May 1945. Presented by month in... -
Ibn Khaldun: An Intellectual Biography by Robert Irwin 9780691197098
RRP: £15.99£13.08The definitive account of the life and thought of the medieval Arab genius who wrote the MuqaddimaIbn Khaldun (1332-1406) is generally regarded as the greatest intellectual ever to have appeared in the Arab world-a genius who ranks as one of the world's... -
Folklore, Magic, and Witchcraft: Cultural Exchanges from the Twelfth to Eighteenth Century by Marina Montesano
RRP: £36.99£32.53This volume offers 18 studies linked together by a common focus on the circulation and reception of motifs and beliefs in the field of folklore, magic, and witchcraft. The chapters traverse a broad spectrum both chronologically and thematically; yet... -
Britain's History and Memory of Transatlantic Slavery: Local Nuances of a 'National Sin' by Katie Donington
£35.23Transatlantic slavery, just like the abolition movements, affected every space and community in Britain, from Cornwall to the Clyde, from dockyard alehouses to country estates. Today, its financial, architectural and societal legacies remain, scattered... -
The Masses Are Revolting: Victorian Culture and the Political Aesthetics of Disgust by Zachary Samalin
RRP: £36.00£31.58The Masses Are Revolting reconstructs a pivotal era in the history of affect and emotion, delving into an archive of nineteenth-century disgust to show how this negative emotional response came to play an outsized, volatile part in the emergence of... -
Reform and the Papacy in the Eleventh Century: Spirituality and Social Change by Kathleen G. Cushing 9780719058349
RRP: £19.99£17.82This book explores the relationship between the papacy and reform against the backdrop of social and religious change in later tenth and eleventh-century Europe. Placing this relationship in the context of the debate about 'transformation', it reverses... -
Magna Carta: Manuscripts and Myths Claire Breay 9780712358330
RRP: £8.99£6.20The Magna Carta is one of the most celebrated documents in English history and one of the British Library's greatest treasures. But despite this, the reinterpretations of it since 1215 have tended to obscure its real meaning for King John and his... -
Swein Forkbeard`s Invasions and the Danish Conquest of England, 991-1017 by Ian Howard
RRP: £80.00£73.28New insight gained into this exciting period of English history through focusing on the activities of Swein Forkbeard and, after his death in 1014, the Danish warlord Thorkell the Tall. From the battle of Maldon in 991 during the reign of AEethelred... -
Henry VIII and Charles V: Rival Monarchs, Uneasy Allies by Richard Heath
RRP: £22.00£16.02King Henry VIII and Emperor Charles V both ruled for almost forty years at a time when momentous changes in society, politics and religion were taking place in England and across Europe. Richard Heath takes a fresh look at these two individuals and the... -
Memories of Milton Keynes by Marion Hill 9780752433974
RRP: £14.99£11.55People living in the Milton Keynes area forty years ago came under the auspices of three towns, thirteen villages and a country council. Many changes have taken place in this time and it is the people, whose experiences and reminiscences are recorded... -
The Invention of the Modern World by Alan MacFarlane 9780615919638
RRP: £16.95£14.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615919638Author Alan MacFarlaneFormat PaperbackPage Count 334Imprint Odd VolumesPublisher Odd VolumesWeight(grams) 331g -
Cattle Lords and Clansmen: The Social Structure of Early Ireland by Nerys Thomas Patterson
RRP: £27.99£24.54In Cattle Lords and Clansmen, Nerys Patterson provides an analysis of the social structure of medieval Ireland, focusing on the pre-Norman period. By combining difficult, often fragmentary primary sources with sociological and anthropological methods,... -
Feminism, Marriage, and the Law in Victorian England, 1850-1895 by Mary Lyndon Shanley
RRP: £40.00£31.53Bridging the fields of political theory and history, this comprehensive study of Victorian reforms in marriage law reshapes our understanding of the feminist movement of that period. As Mary Shanley shows, Victorian feminists argued that justice for... -
The Lost History of Liberalism: From Ancient Rome to the Twenty-First Century by Helena Rosenblatt 9780691203966
RRP: £16.99£12.21The changing face of the liberal creed from the ancient world to todayThe Lost History of Liberalism challenges our most basic assumptions about a political creed that has become a rallying cry-and a term of derision-in today's increasingly divided... -
Mobile Saints: Relic Circulation, Devotion, and Conflict in the Central Middle Ages by Kate Craig
RRP: £37.99£33.38Mobile Saints examines the central medieval (ca. 950-1150 CE) practice of removing saints' relics from rural monasteries in order to take them on out-and-back journeys, particularly within northern France and the Low Countries. Though the permanent... -
The Skipper's War: Dragon School, Oxford & The Great War by Desmond Devitt
RRP: £25.00£17.54Charles 'Skipper' Lynam, the celebrated preparatory school headmaster at the Dragon School, Oxford, during the First World War, inspired a generation of his pupils as they found themselves caught up in the conflict. This book tells the story of the... -
Resistance: Warsaw Ghetto Uprising by Yisrael Gutman
£14.88One of the few survivors of the 1943 Warsaw ghetto uprising, Holocaust scholar Gutman draws on diaries, personal letters, and underground press reports in this compelling, authoritative account of a landmark event in Jewish history. Here, too, is a... -
The Republic of Letters: A Cultural History of the French Enlightenment by Dena Goodman
RRP: £25.99£22.49In the first major reinterpretation of the French Enlightenment in twenty years, Dena Goodman moves beyond the traditional approach to the Enlightenment as a chapter in Western intellectual history and examines its deeper significance as cultural history... -
The Great Commanders of the Medieval World 454-1582AD Andrew Roberts 9780857385895
RRP: £12.99£8.60What qualities made Attila the Hun a strategist of genius? How did Henry V of England achieve victory at Agincourt for the loss of a few hundred of his men, when the mounted French knights suffered casualties in the thousands? Why was Hernan Cortes able... -
Whitehaven by Alan Routledge
RRP: £14.99£11.55This fascinating new volume of archive photographs covers the Whitehaven area from St Bees in the south to Parton in the north. The majority of the images have never appeared in print before, and many have come from recently discovered private... -
Smell in Eighteenth-Century England: A Social Sense by William Tullett 9780198844136
£97.41In England from the 1670s to the 1820s a transformation took place in how smell and the senses were viewed. The role of smell in developing medical and scientific knowledge came under intense scrutiny, and the equation of smell with disease was actively... -
Beaten Paths are Safest: From D-Day to the Ardennes - Memories of the 61st Reconnaissance Regiment - 50th (TT) Northumbrian Division by Roy Howard 9781858582566
£11.39Beaten Paths are Safest - was the motto of The Reconnaissance Regiment. This book tells the story of the 61st Recce Regiment whose own official history was never completed for the period 23rd Feb 1944 to 1st October 1944. Roy Howard who compiled the book... -
Peasants and Historians: Debating the Medieval English Peasantry by Phillipp Schofield
RRP: £25.00£17.61Peasants and historians is an examination of historical discussion of the medieval English peasantry. In this book, the first such study of its kind, the author traces the development of historical research aimed at exploring the nature of peasant... -
Names and History: People, Places and Things by George Redmonds 9781852855079
£27.73How names were acquired, and how they have changed, is a subject of perennial fascination. They are part of our personal histories, defining who we are and where we live. Names are everywhere, identifying people, places, animals, ships, materials,... -
The Suitcase: Refugee Voices from Bosnia and Croatia by Julie A. Mertus
RRP: £27.00£21.06The whirlwind of Europe's longest war in half a century has produced this powerful collection of personal narratives - essays, letters, and poems - from refugees fleeing Bosnia and Croatia. Taking us behind the barrage of media coverage, these stories... -
Baltic Facades: Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania Since 1945 by Aldis Purs
£21.26Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania - most accounts of modern European history group these nations together under the umbrella term 'Baltic states'. In reality, these three separate, quite different countries are each continually struggling to find their own... -
Slavery in Brazil by Herbert S. Klein
RRP: £30.99£23.54Brazil was the American society that received the largest contingent of African slaves in the Americas and the longest lasting slave regime in the Western Hemisphere. This is the first complete modern survey of the institution of slavery in Brazil and... -
Eastward Bound: Travel and Travellers, 1050-1550 by Rosamund Allen 9780719066917
RRP: £19.99£17.82Eastward bound looks at travel and travellers in the medieval period. An international range of distinguished contributors offer discussions on a wide range of themes, from the experiences of Crusaders on campaign, to the lives of pilgrims, missionaries... -
Voices of Rochdale by Helen Caffrey 9780752416519
RRP: £14.99£11.55Personal memories of ordinary people give us a unique and powerful view of life in the past. These reminiscences of Rochdale people were collected by Helen Caffrey in the closing months of the twentieth century. She interviewed a group of Rochdale... -
Bilston, Bradley & Ladymoor: A Sixth Selection: A Sixth Selection by Ron Davies 9780752454597
RRP: £12.99£9.62This is Ron Davies's sixth book about the Black Country townships of Bilston, Bradley & Ladymoor. The area has a rich industrial heritage, which forged a strong sense of community among its residents, many of who worked in the factories, foundries and... -
Walking the Streets of Eighteenth-Century London: John Gay's Trivia (1716) by Clare Brant
£42.75Walking the Streets of Eighteenth-Century London will entertain and inform all who are interested in literature, history, and the city of London. This unique book invites the reader to walk along the dirty, crowded, and fascinating streets of... -
Dorset's Military Heritage by Dean Hollands
RRP: £15.99£10.85The making of Dorset's military heritage has been a dramatic, brutal, and often turbulent affair. From the time of the Durotriges tribes and their spectacular Iron Age strongholds, to the more modern sea forts and blast-proof nuclear bunkers of the Cold... -
The Connell Guide To The Rise and the Fall of the Third Reich by Caroline Sharples 9781911187523
RRP: £8.99£7.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911187523Author Caroline SharplesFormat PaperbackImprint Connell GuidesPublisher CONNELL PUBLISHING LTD -
Tunstall by Don Henshall 9780752437217
RRP: £12.99£9.62Tunstall is the northernmost of the six towns which make up Stoke on Trent. The growth of the pottery industry in the nineteenth century transformed it into a thriving town. This volume offers a collection of approx 200 archive images accompanied by... -
Stalinism Revisited: The Establishment of Communist Regimes in East-Central Europe by Professor Vladimir Tismaneanu 9789639776630
RRP: £33.95£31.95Deals with the period of takeover and of 'high Stalinism' in Eastern Europe (1945-1955). These years are considered to be fundamentally characterized by institutional and ideological transfers based upon the premise of radical transformism and of...