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British Isles and Europe 1789-1991 Paper by Keith Robbins
$75.56At critical moments, Britain has played a crucial part in the political evolution of modern Europe, yet its stance has often been ambivalent: sometimes glad to be part of 'European civilization' but at other times rejoicing in the blessings of insularity... -
Roath, Splott and Adamsdown: One Thousand Years of History by Jeff Childs
RRP: $29.23$22.52Over 250 old photographs, many published for the first time, appear in this new collection covering the districts of Roath, Splott and Adamsdown. This area, along with Penylan, Tremorfa and part of Cathays, once had a collective unity as the... -
Haulbowline: The Naval Base & Ships of Cork Harbour by Daire Brunicardi
RRP: $38.98$29.29From the first proposal that Cork Harbour was more suitable as a naval base than Kinsale, development began which would continue for almost 200 years. This book outlines that history, from the development of Haulbowline Island, and covering its many... -
The British Civil Wars at Sea, 1638-1653 by Richard J. Blakemore
RRP: $156.00$150.17A comprehensive overview of the subject, demonstrating that the maritime aspects of the civil wars were much more important than has hitherto been acknowledged. NOMINATED FOR THE MILITARY HISTORY MONTHLY BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD! The civil wars in... -
Architects of Terror: Paranoia, Conspiracy and Anti-Semitism in Franco’s Spain by Paul Preston 9780008522124
$34.22A TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR From the preeminent historian of 20th century Spain Paul Preston, Architects of Terror is a new history of how paranoia, conspiracy and anti-Semitism was used to justify the... -
Common Law and Feudal Society in Medieval Scotland by Hector MacQueen
RRP: $46.78$38.04Exploring the relationship between law and society, this classic edition of Common Law and Feudal Society brings a key legal history text back to life in a popular new series. The close links between the Scots and English law in the Middle Ages have long... -
Irish Tweed: History, Tradition, Fashion by Vawn Corrigan 9781788490214
RRP: $23.38$18.90'To be human is to be involved with cloth.' Irish Tweed explores the history, the traditions, the patterns, the fashions and the legacy of Ireland's distinctive, natural woven fabric. Arising from ancient woven traditions of brat (cloak), leine... -
Manliness and Masculinities in Nineteenth-Century Britain: Essays on Gender, Family and Empire by John Tosh 9780582404496
RRP: $93.58$89.66In the space of barely fifteen years, the history of masculinity has become an important dimension of social and cultural history. John Tosh has been in the forefront of the field since the beginning, having written A Man's Place: Masculinity and the... -
The Balkans in World History by Andrew Wachtel 9780195338010
RRP: $50.68$33.40In the historical and literary imagination, the Balkans loom large as a somewhat frightening and ill-defined space, often seen negatively as a region of small and spiteful peoples, racked by racial and ethnic hatred, always ready to burst into violent... -
The Industrial Revolution and British Society by Patrick O'Brien
RRP: $77.98$64.86The Industrial Revolution and British Society is an original and wide-ranging textbook survey of the principal economic and social aspects of the Industrial Revolution in Britain in the eighteenth- and early nineteenth-centuries. The distinguished... -
Man with His Head in the Clouds: James Sadler: the First Englishman to Fly by Richard O. Smith 9781909930018
RRP: $29.23$26.60This is the story of how an uneducated Oxford pastry cook became the first Englishman to fly, in a self-built balloon powered by primitive, and potentially lethal, hydrogen. Despite taking off in force 8 gales, crashing into hills and plopping into the... -
Food Worth Fighting for: From Food Riots to Food Banks by Josh Sutton 9781909248489
RRP: $27.28$23.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909248489Author Josh SuttonFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Prospect BooksPublisher Prospect Books -
The Man Who Understood Democracy: The Life of Alexis de Tocqueville by Olivier Zunz
RRP: $58.50$45.32A definitive biography of the French aristocrat who became one of democracy's greatest championsIn 1831, at the age of twenty-five, Alexis de Tocqueville made his fateful journey to America, where he observed the thrilling reality of a functioning... -
Akenfield: Portrait of an English Village by Ronald Blythe 9781590178300
RRP: $44.75$29.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590178300Author Ronald BlytheFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams)... -
Charlemagne's Courtier: The Complete Einhard by Paul Edward Dutton
RRP: $37.03$31.01Among the readings included are several existing letters by Emma (Einhard's wife), The Life of Charlemagne, and The History of His Relics. The latter work transports us into an almost unknown world as Einhard, the cool rationalist, arranges for a relic... -
Eleftherios Venizelos: Greece by Andrew Dalby 9781905791644
RRP: $25.33$17.53The Greek Prime Minister Eleftherios Venizelos (1864-1936) was one of the stars of the Paris Peace Conference, impressing many of the Western delegates, already possessed of a romantic view of 'the grandeur that was Greece', with his charm and oratorical... -
Not a Guide to: Kensington & Chelsea by Simon Webb 9780752466330
RRP: $11.68$9.32This is not a guidebook. This little book brings together past and present to offer a taste of Kensington & Chelsea. Learn about the movers and shakers who shaped this fantastic royal borough. The great and the good; the bad and the ugly. Small wonders,... -
Repeal and Revolution: 1848 in Ireland by Christine Kinealy
RRP: $48.75$42.96Repeal and revolution. 1848 in Ireland examines the events that led up to the 1848 rising and examines the reasons for its failure. It places the rising in the context of political changes outside Ireland, especially the links between the Irish... -
Thinking Sex with the Early Moderns by Valerie Traub
RRP: $68.25$60.72What do we know about early modern sex, and how do we know it? How, when, and why does sex become history? In Thinking Sex with the Early Moderns, Valerie Traub addresses these questions and, in doing so, reorients the ways in which historians and... -
Metaphysics and Oppression: Heidegger's Challenge to Western Philosophy by John McCumber
RRP: $42.88$38.20"In this stunning philosophical accomplishment, McCumber sheds important new light on the history of substance metaphysics and Heidegger's challenge to metaphysical thinking. . . . Well-documented, brilliant, definitely a major contribution to... -
Aberdeen Remembered: By Aberdeen City Libraries and Museums Aberdeen City Libraries and Museums 9781840332681
RRP: $23.30$21.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781840332681Author Aberdeen City Libraries and MuseumsFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Stenlake PublishingPublisher Stenlake PublishingDimensions(mm)... -
Sarah Cecilia Harrison (1863-1941): Artist, Social Campaigner and City Councillor by Margarita Cappock 9781838463519
$53.33Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781838463519Author Margarita CappockFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint Dublin City Public LibrariesPublisher Dublin City Public Libraries -
Thomas More's Vocation by Frank Mitjans 9780813236100
RRP: $146.25$123.40The book considers Thomas More's early life-choices. An early letter is cited by biographers but most miss More's reference to the market place. More's great-grandson, Cresacre, a Londoner, understood it correctly, and that gives reason to trust him on... -
Working Class Heroines: The Extraordinary Women of Dublin’s Tenements by Kevin C. Kearns 9780717183517
$36.02In Working Class Heroines acclaimed historian Kevin C. Kearns brings us the voices of the forgotten women of Dublin's tenements. If it weren't for his work the lives of these everyday heroines would be lost forever. Based on 30 years of research spent... -
The Debate on the French Revolution by Peter J. Davies 9780719071775
RRP: $38.98$34.75This book deals with the various types of revolutionary history and the numerous schools of historical thought concerned with the French Revolution. By the time of the Bicentenary celebrations in 1989, the historiographical field had been opened up so... -
Wollaton Remembered by Keith Taylor 9780752422701
RRP: $21.43$16.09Wollaton RememberedBook InformationISBN 9780752422701Author Keith TaylorFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint The History Press LtdPublisher The History Press LtdWeight(grams) 300gDimensions(mm) 235mm * 165mm * 10mm -
Eastern Question 1774-1923, The: Revised Edition by Alexander Lyon Macfie 9780582291959
RRP: $72.13$69.69A clear and concise guide to the Eastern Question - the problem facing the European states of how to react to the decline of the Ottoman Empire. A L MacFie's study shows how the question was a major factor in shaping the policies of all the major powers... -
Wirral Tragic Tales by Daniel K. Longman
RRP: $25.33$18.76Fresh from his research into the dark side of Wirral's history, in his first book 'Criminal Wirral', Daniel K. Longman has plunged back into a brand new selection of terrible and tragic tales.About the AuthorDan Longman was born in 1988 and has lived in... -
Medieval Islamic Maps: An Exploration by Karen C. Pinto
RRP: $101.40$98.88Hundreds of exceptional cartographic images are scattered throughout medieval and early modern Arabic, Persian, and Turkish manuscript collections. The plethora of copies created around the Islamic world over the course of eight centuries testifies to... -
Subterranean Shropshire by Steve Powell 9780752427614
RRP: $29.23$22.52Shropshire is not a place usually associated with natural caves, due to its irregular geological positioning. Nevertheless, unknown to many, there are small numbers of explorable cave passages and underground features to be found. Nearly a decade ago,... -
The King's Pearl: Henry VIII and His Daughter Mary by Melita Thomas
RRP: $21.43$14.14Mary Tudor has always been known as 'Bloody Mary', the name given to her by later Protestant chroniclers who vilified her for attempting to re-impose Roman Catholicism in England. Although a more nuanced picture of the first queen regnant has since... -
Bygone Steyning, Bramber and Beeding by Aylwin Guilmant 9780750966221
RRP: $29.23$22.52Steyning, Bramber and Beeding are now quiet backwaters. It is a large part of their present charm that they preserve much of the atmosphere of a past age. Yet, paradoxically, the three adjacent communities were relatively busier. Bustling river trade on... -
Landscape, Nature, and the Sacred in Byzantium by Veronica Della Dora
RRP: $60.43$50.41Nature is as much an idea as a physical reality. By 'placing' nature within Byzantine culture and within the discourse of Orthodox Christian thought and practice, Landscape, Nature and the Sacred in Byzantium explores attitudes towards creation that are... -
German Orientalism in the Age of Empire: Religion, Race, and Scholarship by Suzanne L. Marchand
RRP: $74.08$56.12Nineteenth-century studies of the Orient changed European ideas and cultural institutions in more ways than we usually recognize. 'Orientalism' certainly contributed to European empire-building, but it also helped to destroy a narrow Christian-classical... -
Gunpowder Technology in the Fifteenth Century: A Study, Edition and Translation of the Firework Book by Professor Axel Müller 9781783277315
RRP: $214.50$196.85The first full edition and English translation of the RA I.34 Firework Book. Produced from the early fifteenth century onwards, Firework Books are, broadly speaking, manuals on how to use gunpowder, witnessing a major development in warfare... -
The History of Anti-Semitism, Volume 3: From Voltaire to Wagner by Leon Poliakov
RRP: $87.75$77.18Covering the story of prejudice against Jews from the time of Christ through the rise of Nazi Germany, The History of Anti-Semitism presents in elegant and thoughtful language a balanced, careful assessment of this egregious human failing that is nearly... -
Strange Bird: The Albatross Press and the Third Reich by Michele K. Troy 9780300215687
RRP: $68.25$66.90The first book about the Albatross Press, a Penguin precursor that entered into an uneasy relationship with the Nazi regime to keep Anglo-American literature alive under fascism The Albatross Press was, from its beginnings in 1932, a "strange... -
So That's Why They Call It Great Britain: How One Tiny Country Gave So Much to the World by Steve Pope 9781906308063
RRP: $15.58$10.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906308063Author Steve PopeFormat PaperbackPage Count 278Imprint Monday BooksPublisher Monday BooksWeight(grams) 211g -
Ballad of the Anarchist Bandits: The Crime Spree that Gripped Belle Epoque Paris by John Merriman
RRP: $42.88$34.42Paris, 1911. Picasso, Debussy, and Proust were revolutionizing art, music, and literature. Electricity had transformed the City of Lights. And the Parisian elites were mad about their fancy new cars. The Belle Epoque was well underway, yet it was not... -
Tunguska: A Siberian Mystery and Its Environmental Legacy by Andy Bruno
RRP: $58.48$51.36In 1908, thunderous blasts and blazing fires from the sky descended upon the desolate Tunguska territory of Siberia. The explosion knocked down an area of forest larger than London and was powerful enough to obliterate Manhattan. The mysterious nature of...