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The Heart and Stomach of a King: Elizabeth I and the Politics of Sex and Power by Carole Levin
RRP: $54.58$47.07In her famous speech to rouse the English troops staking out Tilbury at the mouth of the Thames during the Spanish Armada's campaign, Queen Elizabeth I is said to have proclaimed, "I may have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and... -
State Formation in Early Modern England, c.1550-1700 by Michael J. Braddick
RRP: $77.98$65.64This book examines the development of the English state during the long seventeenth century, emphasising the impersonal forces which shape the uses of political power, rather than the purposeful actions of individuals or groups. It is a study of state... -
Switzerland: A Cartoon Survival Guide by Wolfgang Koydl
RRP: $50.68$33.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783038690214Author Wolfgang KoydlFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint Bergli BooksPublisher Bergli BooksWeight(grams) 676g -
The Oratory of Light: Poems in the spirit of St Columba by James Harpur
RRP: $15.58$11.47Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781849527903Author James HarpurFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Wild Goose PublicationsPublisher Wild Goose PublicationsWeight(grams) 108gDimensions(mm)... -
Yeomen of England: Tales of the Northamptonshire Yeomanry 1794-1966 by Ken Tout 9780752468815
RRP: $25.33$18.76Yeomen of England were called to bring their own horses to form England's first Home Guard when a dictator assembled his army across the Channel in 1794. They went on to become one of the most famous mounted regiments of the British Army. During the... -
The Delamere Saga: The Untold Story of Vale Royal Abbey by Geoffrey Hebdon
RRP: $44.85$39.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781922332110Author Geoffrey HebdonFormat PaperbackPage Count 342Imprint Digital Publishing CentrePublisher Interactive PublicationsWeight(grams) 494g -
A History of the British Isles by Jeremy Black 9781137573605
RRP: $50.68$47.11A core introductory textbook that provides students with a concise overview of the full sweep of English, Irish, Scottish and Welsh history, from pre-Roman times right through to the present day. Jeremy Black offers a balanced and absorbing account of a... -
Old Inverkeithing by Edward Robinson 9781840335996
RRP: $17.55$15.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781840335996Author Edward RobinsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Stenlake PublishingPublisher Stenlake Publishing -
Llywelyn ap Gruffudd: Prince of Wales by J. Beverley Smith 9781783160068
RRP: $107.25$89.08This is a new edition of the first full-length English-language study of Llywelyn ap Gruffudd (c.1225 - 82), prince of Wales. In this scholarly and lucid book, J. Beverley Smith offers an in-depth assessment not only of Llywelyn, but of the age in which... -
Postcards from Checkpoint Charlie: Images of the Berlin Wall Andrew Roberts 9781851243228
RRP: $17.53$15.23Between 1945 and 1961, an estimated 2.5 million people fled East Germany in search of the political and economic freedom offered by West Germany. To thwart this tide of defections, on the morning of 13 August 1961, hundreds of East German troops began... -
Public Life in Renaissance Florence by Richard C. Trexler
RRP: $60.45$54.13Covering the history of Renaissance Florence from the fourteenth century to the beginnings of the Medici duchy, Richard C. Trexler traces collective ritual behavior in all its forms, from a simple greeting to the most elaborate community festival. He... -
Irish Catholic Identities by Oliver P. Rafferty 9780719097317
RRP: $48.73$43.25What does it mean to be Irish? Are the predicates Catholic and Irish so inextricably linked that it is impossible to have one and not the other? Does the process of secularisation in modern times mean that Catholicism is no longer a touchstone of what it... -
John de Vere, Thirteenth Earl of Oxford (1442-15 - `The Foremost Man of the Kingdom` by James Ross
RRP: $185.25$165.26First book to deal with de Vere's life and extraordinary career, during the Wars of the Roses and beyond. Earl of Oxford for fifty years, and subject of six kings of England during the political strife of the Wars of the Roses, John de Vere's career... -
The Reformations in Britain, 1520-1603 Anna French 9781032021898
RRP: $70.18$61.80This entirely fresh narrative of the "British Reformations" focuses on the emotional as well as the material experience of living through the reformations in Britain during the sixteenth century.The Protestant reformations that took place in England and... -
The Supernatural in Early Modern Scotland by Julian Goodare 9781526167149
RRP: $48.75$42.96This book is about other worlds and the supernatural beings, from angels to fairies, that inhabited them. It is about divination, prophecy, visions and trances. And it is about the cultural, religious, political and social uses to which people in... -
The Eyes of Another Race: Roger Casement's Congo Report and 1903 Diary by Sir Roger Casement 9781900621991
RRP: $46.80$44.42In 1903, Roger Casement, then a British consul, left his consular base on the Lower Congo River and made a journey through the regions of the Upper Congo to investigate at first hand reports of alleged atrocities. His subsequent report was a crucial... -
The Senses in Late Medieval England by C. M. Woolgar 9780300206050
RRP: $81.90$79.58Crucial to an understanding of life in the past is an appreciation of how individuals perceived their world. This book captures the sights, sounds, smells, tastes and feelings of the late medieval period to recreate and explain the kinds of lives lived... -
A Small Town in Ukraine: The place we came from, the place we went back to by Bernard Wasserstein 9780241632703
RRP: $33.13$25.84'A fine and deeply affecting work of history and memoir' Philippe SandsDecades ago, the historian Bernard Wasserstein set out to uncover the hidden past of the town forty miles west of Lviv where his family originated: Krakowiec (Krah-KOV-yets). In... -
Battle of the Bulge: Then and Now by Jean-Paul Pallud
$106.04Drawing on contemporary material from public and private sources as well as combatants and civilians, this book uses photographs and still frames in their historical context in order to analyse the German advance during the Battle of the Bulge.About the... -
The Politics of Memory in Postwar Europe by Richard Ned Lebow
RRP: $46.78$40.64For sixty years, different groups in Europe have put forth interpretations of World War II and their respective countries' roles in it consistent with their own political and psychological needs. The conflict over the past has played out in diverse... -
Summer Meditations by Vaclav Havel
RRP: $31.20$22.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679744979Author Vaclav HavelFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 197gDimensions(mm) 203mm *... -
The Alps: An Environmental History Jon Mathieu 9781509527717
RRP: $25.33$16.77Stretching 1,200 kilometres across six countries, the colossal mountains of the Alps dominate Europe, geographically and historically. Enlightenment thinkers felt the sublime and magisterial peaks were the very embodiment of nature, Romantic poets looked... -
Swansea's Heritage by Richard Porch 9780752445595
RRP: $25.33$18.76Swansea is a highly individual place. Its character is certainly unique, and is the result of a combination of personalities and events that have shaped the city over the past millennium. In Swansea's Heritage Richard Porch brings together a series of... -
Rum: A Landscape Without Figures by John A. Love
RRP: $35.08$24.82This is an account of Rum, one of the Hebrides and the people who contributed to its story. The site of some of the earliest settlements in Scotland, Rum's history extends back to the Mesolithic period. It was also an isolated haven for the early Celtic... -
The Prince and the Law, 1200-1600: Sovereignty and Rights in the Western Legal Tradition by Professor Kenneth Pennington
RRP: $113.10$88.88The power of the prince versus the rights of his subjects is one of the basic struggles in the history of law and government. In this masterful history of monarchy, conceptions of law, and due process, Kenneth Pennington addresses that struggle and opens... -
Post-War Leicester by Ben Beazley
RRP: $29.23$22.52In the thirty years following the end of the Second World War Leicester underwent some of the most dramatic changes in its history. Along with the rest of Britain it saw the austerity of the late 1940s and '50s, the shortages and rationing, followed by... -
Our Friends the Enemies: The Occupation of France after Napoleon by Christine Haynes
RRP: $72.05$57.97The Napoleonic wars did not end with Waterloo. That famous battle was just the beginning of a long, complex transition to peace. After a massive invasion of France by more than a million soldiers from across Europe, the Allied powers insisted on a... -
The Vikings by Hermione Redshaw
RRP: $27.28$17.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781801558501Author Hermione RedshawFormat HardbackPage Count 32Imprint BookLife PublishingPublisher BookLife Publishing -
William Birchynshaw`s Map of Exeter, 1743 by Richard Oliver
RRP: $48.75$48.63A major re-examination of the history of map-making in Exeter, following on from the recent discovery of a 'new' town map of the city in 1743 This major re-examination of the history of map-making in Exeter, the historic county town of Devon, follows... -
The Comintern and the Global South: Global Designs/Local Encounters by Paolo Capuzzo
RRP: $70.18$61.80The Comintern and the Global South: Global Designs/Local Encounters studies the relations and productive tensions between the Third International, intellectual histories of racial justice and anti-imperialism, as well as other forms of internationalism... -
Medieval Latin Lives of Muhammad by Julian Yolles
RRP: $58.40$46.14Throughout the Middle Ages, Christians wrote about Islam and the life of Muhammad. These stories, ranging from the humorous to the vitriolic, both informed and warned audiences about what was regarded as a schismatic form of Christianity. Medieval Latin... -
Memory and the English Reformation by Alexandra Walsham
RRP: $243.75$177.22The dramatic religious revolutions of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries involved a battle over social memory. On one side, the Reformation repudiated key aspects of medieval commemorative culture; on the other, traditional religion claimed that... -
Periodization and Sovereignty: How Ideas of Feudalism and Secularization Govern the Politics of Time by Kathleen Davis
RRP: $46.78$40.64Despite all recent challenges to stage-oriented histories, the idea of a division between a "medieval" and a "modern" period has survived, even flourished, in academia. Periodization and Sovereignty demonstrates that this survival is no innocent affair... -
Total War: An Emotional History by Lucy Noakes
$85.82Love, grief, hate and fear are among the emotions most immediately associated with the rhetoric, experience and memory of war. Focusing on Europe during and after the two world wars, this volume explores the emotional worlds of those who lived their... -
Seven Myths of the Crusades by Alfred J. Andrea 9781624664038
RRP: $38.98$32.06"Seven Myths of the Crusades' rebuttal of the persistent and multifarious misconceptions associated with topics including the First Crusade, anti-Judaism and the Crusades, the crusader states, the Children's Crusade, the Templars and past and present... -
Frank Aiken's War: The Irish Revolution, 1916-23 by Matthew Lewis 9781906359829
RRP: $46.80$44.60From an adolescent farmer to a local Sinn Fein activist and provincial guerrilla leader, and eventually to chief-of-staff of the IRA, Frank Aiken has an early, hidden history. As with so many of his political generation, Aiken's path to politics began... -
Lye & Wollescote: A Fourth Selection: Britain in Old Photographs by Pat Dunn 9780752479712
RRP: $29.23$22.52Pat Dunn presents another glimpse into the history of Lye, Wollescote and Stambermill, small Black Country communities spawned by the Industrial Revolution. In a collection of over 200 atmospheric photographs, the independence, sociability and humour of... -
Victorian Radicals and Italian Democrats by Marcella Pellegrino Sutcliffe 9780861933228
RRP: $156.00$150.17An examination of the links between radicalism in Victorian England, and the Risorgimento movement in Italy. This book provides powerful new insights into the history of Italy's long Risorgimento, by tracing the entanglements of the Mazzinian... -
The Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial, 1963-1965: Genocide, History, and the Limits of the Law by Devin O. Pendas 9780521127981
RRP: $52.63$44.46The Frankfurt Auschwitz trial was the largest, most public, and most important trial of Holocaust perpetrators conducted in West German courts. Drawing on a wide range of archival sources, Devin O. Pendas provides a comprehensive history of this... -
Place-names, Language and the Anglo-Saxon Landscape by N. J. Higham
$165.26An exploration of the landscape of Anglo-Saxon England, particularly through the prism of place-names and what they can reveal. The landscape of modern England still bears the imprint of its Anglo-Saxon past. Villages and towns, fields, woods and...