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Jasper: The Tudor Kingmaker by Sara Elin Roberts 9781781553909
RRP: $39.00$29.33Jasper, Earl of Pembroke, Duke of Bedford, brother and uncle of kings, was a central figure in the Wars of the Roses, and the Lancastrian claimant during the reign of Edward IV. The second son of Owen Tudor and the widowed queen Katherine of Valois, he... -
Cambridge: A Cultural and Literary History by Garrett 9781902669793
RRP: $29.25$26.62From its origins in the 13th century the University of Cambridge has attracted many notable students and teachers, both brilliant and eccentric. From Erasmus to Bertrand Russell and Wittgenstein, the university has been at the forefront of philosophical... -
Special Force: The Untold Story of 22nd Special Air Service Regiment (SAS) by Alastair MacKenzie
$107.78The exploits of the British Army's elite 22nd Special Air Service Regiment - the regiment of the SAS that forms part of the Regular army - are shrouded in mystery and myths abound about its members. But what is the truth behind the public facade of... -
The Life and Thought of Herbert Butterfield: History, Science and God by Michael Bentley
RRP: $142.35$129.42Once recalled only for The Whig Interpretation of History (1931) and Christianity and History (1949), Sir Herbert Butterfield's contribution to western culture has undergone an astonishing revaluation over the past twenty years. What has been left out of... -
History of the Florentine People: v.2: Books 5-8 by Leonardo Bruni
RRP: $58.40$46.92Leonardo Bruni (1370-1444), the leading civic humanist of the Italian Renaissance, served as apostolic secretary to four popes (1405-1414) and chancellor of Florence (1427-1444). He was famous in his day as a translator, orator, and historian, and was... -
Why Study the Middle Ages? by Kisha G. Tracy
RRP: $31.10$30.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781641891974Author Kisha G. TracyFormat PaperbackPage Count 118Imprint Arc Humanities PressPublisher Arc Humanities Press -
The Orléans Collection by Vanessa I. Schmid 9781911282280
RRP: $87.65$64.45This magnificent new volume presents works of art from the fabled collection of Philippe II, Duke of Orleans (1674-1723), including masterpieces by Raphael, Titian, Veronese, Correggio, Poussin, Rubens, and Rembrandt, bringing them together for the first... -
Old Coldingham and St. Abbs Lawson Wood 9781840334456
RRP: $23.30$21.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781840334456Author Lawson WoodFormat PaperbackPage Count 52Imprint Stenlake PublishingPublisher Stenlake PublishingDimensions(mm) 175mm * 240mm * 4mm -
Death in Florence by Paul Strathern
RRP: $35.00$23.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681772301Author Paul StrathernFormat PaperbackPage Count 456Imprint Pegasus BooksPublisher Pegasus BooksWeight(grams) 488gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *... -
Scheming: A Social History of Glasgow Council Housing, 1919-1956 by Sean Damer
RRP: $175.50$159.84Sean Damer provides a sustained critique of the Corporation of Glasgow's council housing policy and argues that it had the unintended consequence of amplifying social segregation and ghettoisation in the city.Book InformationISBN 9781474440561Author Sean... -
Margins and Metropolis: Authority across the Byzantine Empire by Judith Herrin 9780691166629
RRP: $54.60$42.51This volume explores the political, cultural, and ecclesiastical forces that linked the metropolis of Byzantium to the margins of its far-flung empire. Focusing on the provincial region of Hellas and Peloponnesos in central and southern Greece, Judith... -
Mining in Cornwall Vol 6: Mid-County to the Tamar by L. J. Bullen
RRP: $25.33$18.76The interface of metalliferous mining with the China Clay Industry is addressed in some detail in the first chapter. It will be noticed that the decline of metal mining in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries is marked by the movement of... -
The European Seaborne Empires: From the Thirty Years' War to the Age of Revolutions by Gabriel Paquette
RRP: $53.63$45.42An accessible survey of the history of European overseas empires in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries based on new scholarship In this thematic survey, Gabriel Paquette focuses on the evolution of the Spanish, Portuguese, English, French, and... -
The English Reformation: Religion and Cultural Adaption Norman L. Jones (Utah State University) 9780631210436
RRP: $89.60$78.21This history tells the story of how the English, over three generations, adapted to the religious changes forced upon them by the Reformation and, in doing so, radically reconstructed their culture.About the AuthorNorman Jones is Professor and Chair of... -
The Ambassador: Joseph P. Kennedy at the Court of St. James's 1938-1940 by Susan Ronald 9781250238740
RRP: $33.13$22.66On February 18, 1938, Joseph P. Kennedy was sworn in as US Ambassador to the Court of St. James. To say his appointment to the most prestigious and strategic diplomatic post in the world shocked the Establishment was an understatement - known for his... -
Luftwaffe Codes, Markings & Units: 1939-1945 by Barry C. Rosch
RRP: $142.33$93.58This new volume is a handy reference to Luftwaffe units and their coding systems used in World War II.Book InformationISBN 9780887407963Author Barry C. RoschFormat HardbackPage Count 448Imprint Schiffer Publishing LtdPublisher Schiffer Publishing... -
The Information Revolution in Early Modern Europe by Paul M. Dover 9781316602034
RRP: $46.78$39.72This provocative new history of early modern Europe argues that changes in the generation, preservation and circulation of information, chiefly on newly available and affordable paper, constituted an 'information revolution'. In commerce, finance,... -
Norse Myths: Viking Legends of Heroes and Gods by Martin J. Dougherty
RRP: $38.98$28.88The stories of Thor, Odin and Loki are familiar to most of us. Many people know that the Norse gods fought against giants and were ultimately betrayed by Loki the trickster. The end of the world and the death of the gods in a grim battle called Ragnarok... -
Feeding Fascism: The Politics of Women's Food Work by Diana Garvin 9781487551575
RRP: $50.68$40.64Feeding Fascism explores how women negotiated the politics of Italy's Fascist regime in their daily lives and how they fed their families through agricultural and industrial labour. The book looks at women's experiences of Fascism by examining the... -
The Northern Ireland Troubles in Britain: Impacts, Engagements, Legacies and Memories by Graham Dawson
RRP: $68.25$61.70This ground-breaking book provides the first comprehensive investigation of the history and memory of the Northern Ireland Troubles in Britain. It examines the impacts of the conflict upon individual lives, political and social relationships, communities... -
The Normans Marjorie Chibnall (University of Cambridge) 9781405149655
RRP: $54.50$47.29This book provides the most comprehensive examination of the Normans available, examining the emergence of the Normans, their characteristics as a group, and their various achievements in war, culture and civilization.About the AuthorMarjorie Chibnall is... -
No Place for Russia: European Security Institutions Since 1989 by William Hill 9780231704588
RRP: $68.25$54.09The optimistic vision of a "Europe whole and free" after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 has given way to disillusionment, bitterness, and renewed hostility between Russia and the West. In No Place for Russia, William H. Hill traces the development... -
Perceptions of the Prehistoric in Anglo-Saxon England: Religion, Ritual, and Rulership in the Landscape by Sarah Semple 9780199683109
$227.00Perceptions of the Prehistoric in Anglo-Saxon England represents an unparalleled exploration of the place of prehistoric monuments in the Anglo-Saxon psyche, and examines how Anglo-Saxon communities perceived and used these monuments during the period AD... -
Hippodrome of Constantinople by Engin Akyurek
RRP: $33.15$28.70The Hippodrome of Constantinople was constructed in the fourth century AD, by the Roman Emperor Constantine I, in his new capital. Throughout Byzantine history the Hippodrome served as a ceremonial, sportive and recreational center of the city; in the... -
Byzantine Matters by Averil Cameron 9780691157634
RRP: $58.50$45.42For many of us, Byzantium remains "byzantine"--obscure, marginal, difficult. Despite the efforts of some recent historians, prejudices still deform popular and scholarly understanding of the Byzantine civilization, often reducing it to a poor relation of... -
Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts: Twelve Journeys Into the Medieval World by Christopher de Hamel
RRP: $87.75$76.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781594206115Author Christopher de HamelFormat HardbackPage Count 640Imprint The Penguin PressPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 1378gDimensions(mm)... -
One Day That Shook the Communist World: The 1956 Hungarian Uprising and Its Legacy by Paul Lendvai 9780691132822
RRP: $42.90$34.63On October 23, 1956, a popular uprising against Soviet rule swept through Hungary like a force of nature, only to be mercilessly crushed by Soviet tanks twelve days later. Only now, fifty years after those harrowing events, can the full story be told... -
The Modulated Scream: Pain in Late Medieval Culture by Esther Cohen
RRP: $107.25$103.17In the late medieval era, pain could be a symbol of holiness, disease, sin, or truth. It could be encouragement to lead a moral life, a punishment for wrongdoing, or a method of healing. Exploring the varied depictions and descriptions of pain - from... -
Divine Right and Democracy: An Anthology of Political Writing in Stuart England by David Wootton 9780872206533
RRP: $37.03$31.34The seventeenth century was England's century of revolution, an era in which the nation witnessed protracted civil wars, the execution of a king, and the declaration of a short-lived republic. During this period of revolutionary crisis, political writers... -
Franciscans and the Elixir of Life: Religion and Science in the Later Middle Ages by Zachary A. Matus
RRP: $113.10$97.83One of the major ambitions of medieval alchemists was to discover the elixir of life, a sovereign remedy capable not only of healing the body but of transforming it. Given the widespread belief that care for the body came at the cost of care for the... -
Imperial Germany 1871-1918: Economy, Society, Culture and Politics by Volker R. Berghahn
RRP: $54.50$44.03A comprehensive history of German society in this period, providing a broad survey of its development. The volume is thematically organized and designed to give easy access to the major topics and issues of the Bismarkian and Wilhelmine eras. The... -
Crisis of the Early Italian Renaissance: Revised Edition by Hans Baron
RRP: $117.00$91.85Hans Baron was one of the many great German emigre scholars whose work Princeton brought into the Anglo-American world. His Crisis of the Early Italian Renaissance has provoked more discussion and inspired more research than any other twentieth-century... -
Greek and Latin Poetry by Angelo Poliziano
RRP: $58.40$46.14Angelo Poliziano (1454-1494) was one of the great scholar-poets of the Renaissance and a leading figure in Florence during the Age of the Medici. His poetry, composed in a variety of meters, includes epigrams, elegies, and verse epistles, as well as... -
The Longing for Myth in Germany: Culture, Religion and Politics from Romanticism to Nietzsche by George S. Williamson
RRP: $58.50$57.82Since the dawn of Romanticism, artists and intellectuals in Germany have maintained an abiding interest in the gods and myths of antiquity while calling for a new mythology suitable to the modern age. In this study, George S. Williamson examines the... -
The Birth of the West: Rome, Germany, France, and the Creation of Europe in the Tenth Century by Paul Collins
RRP: $29.23$17.43Stimulating, encyclopaedic, and often downright funny, this is a book worth remembering." , Stephen O'Shea, Globe and Mail (Toronto, Canada) A lively, full-to-bursting history of the turbulent tenth century in Europe, . Collins presents chaotic upheaval... -
The Little Book of Bray & Enniskerry by Brian White 9780750987912
RRP: $25.33$18.76The Little Book of Bray & Enniskerry is a compendium of fascinating, obscure, strange and entertaining facts. Here you will find out about Bray and Enniskerry's history, their famous faces, their buildings and streets, their sporting heritage and their... -
Muslims of Medieval Italy by Alex Metcalfe
RRP: $56.53$53.25This significant new work focuses on the formation and fragmentation of an Arab-Muslim state and its society in Sicily and south Italy between 800 and 1300, which led to the formation of an enduring Muslim--Christian frontier during the age of the... -
Northern Emporium: Vol. 1 The Making of Viking-age Ribe by Soren Michael Sindbaek
RRP: $111.15$101.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788793423749Author Soren Michael SindbaekFormat HardbackPage Count 464Imprint Jysk Arkaeologisk SelskabPublisher Jysk Arkaeologisk Selskab -
A Frenchman's Year in Suffolk: French Impressions of Suffolk Life in 1784 Francois de la Rochefoucauld 9781843836759
RRP: $38.98$33.09When Francois de la Rochefoucauld and his brother Alexandre visited Suffolk in 1784, the events which were to lead to the French Revolution in 1789 were already in train. Francois' father, the duc de Liancourt, Grand Master of theWardrobe at Louis XVI's... -
St David's and Dewisland: A Social History by David W. James 9781783160013
RRP: $38.98$29.70St David's and Dewisland is a comprehensive social history of a parish grounded in a rich antiquity; intensely conservative and at the same time subjected by history to enormous change; central and isolated; Celtic and Norman; austere; once rich, then...