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The Court Society by Norbert Elias 9781904558408
RRP: $97.50$92.06This classic study of the life of the nobility at the royal court of France, especially under Louis XIV, has long been out of print. Recognised by historians as the benchmark for studies of early modern courts, which were an important but long neglected... -
The Nobility and Excellence of Women and the Defects and Vices of Men by Lucrezia Marinella
RRP: $46.80$44.91A poet, a women's rights activist, and an expert on moral and natural philosophy, Lucrezia Marinella (1571-1653) was known throughout Italy as the leading female intellectual of her age. Born into a family of Venetian physicians, she was encouraged to... -
Poor Relief in England, 1350-1600 by Marjorie Keniston McIntosh
RRP: $72.13$65.42Between the mid-fourteenth century and the Poor Laws of 1598 and 1601, English poor relief moved toward a more coherent and comprehensive network of support. Marjorie McIntosh's study, the first to trace developments across that time span, focuses on... -
Frisians of the Early Middle Ages John Hines 9781837650774
RRP: $68.23$57.60Multi-disciplinary approaches shed fresh light on the Frisian people and their changing cultures. Frisian is a name that came to be identified with one of the territorially expansive, Germanic-speaking peoples of the Early Middle Ages, occupying... -
Sister to Sister: the perfect addictive read for 2021 by Olivia Hayfield
RRP: $17.53$12.77'Rich people behaving badly' BooklistThe battle lines are drawn . . .Following the scandalous revelations about his love life, disgraced media mogul Harry Rose is searching for redemption. His daughters - bright, winsome Eliza and dark, difficult Maria -... -
The Revolting French, 1787-1889 Pamela Pilbeam (Royal Holloway, University of London, UK) 9781408204917
RRP: $70.18$67.90This book investigates the impact of revolution on the French from the Revolution of 1789 to its centenary in 1889. It explores specific and linking factors in the main revolts and how historians have differed in their explanations.Revolution has been... -
A Short History of the American Revolutionary War by Stephen Conway
RRP: $29.23$26.23The American war against British imperial rule (1775-1783) was the world's first great popular revolution. Ideologically defined by the colonists' formal Declaration of Independence in 1776, the struggle has taken on something of a mythic character. From... -
Isle of the Saints: Monastic Settlement and Christian Community in Early Ireland by Lisa M. Bitel
RRP: $54.58$47.07Isle of the Saints recreates the harsh yet richly spiritual world of medieval Irish monks on the Christian frontier of barbarian Europe. Lisa Bitel draws on accounts of saints' lives written between 800 and 1200 to explain, from the monks' own... -
The Transformation of British Politics, 1860-1995 by Brian Harrison 9780198731214
$60.88The British political system, though often criticised, has been the model and the inspiration for many national governments world-wide. Yet it is now at the centre of controversial debate within Britain itself. Over the 130 years since Bagehot wrote his... -
England Eats Out: A Social History of Eating Out in England from 1830 to the Present by Professor John Burnett 9780582472662
RRP: $85.78$83.19Why do so many people now eat out in England? Food and the culture surrounding how we consume it are high on everyone's agenda. England Eats Out is the ultimate book for a nation obsessed with food.Today eating out is more than just getting fed; it is an... -
Women in Old Norse Society by Jenny Jochens
RRP: $58.48$51.68Jenny Jochens captures in fascinating detail the lives of women in pagan and early Christian Iceland and Norway-their work, sexual behavior, marriage customs, reproductive practices, familial relations, leisure activities, religious practices, and legal... -
Waterways of the West Midlands by Davies Robert
RRP: $29.23$22.52This enjoyable new book delves into unexplored areas of history surrounding the great network of the West Midland Canals. It provides a new insight into its most fascinating figures and places, including interviews with some of the last true boatmen,... -
Daily Life in Anglo-Saxon England by Sally Crawford 9781846450136
$116.14In addition to its unshakeable position on academic History curricula, Anglo-Saxon England remains popular with the general public. However, despite numerous specialist volumes on the political and economic history of the period, there are no books... -
Power and Religion in Merovingian Gaul: Columbanian Monasticism and the Frankish Elites by Yaniv Fox
RRP: $72.13$42.69This study is the first to attempt a thorough investigation of the activities of the Columbanian congregation, which played a significant role in the development of Western monasticism. This was a new form of rural monasticism, which suited the needs and... -
Beyond the Racial State: Rethinking Nazi Germany by Devin O. Pendas
RRP: $60.43$52.98The 'racial state' has become a familiar shorthand for the Third Reich, encapsulating its raison d'etre, ambitions, and the underlying logic of its genocidal violence. The Nazi racial state's agenda is generally understood as a fundamental reshaping of... -
Family Men: Fatherhood and Masculinity in Britain, 1914-1960 by Laura King
RRP: $57.51$52.94Fathers are often neglected in histories of family life in Britain. Family Men provides the first academic study of fathers and families in the period from the First World War to the end of the 1950s. It takes a thematic approach, examining different... -
The De Re Militari of Vegetius: The Reception, Transmission and Legacy of a Roman Text in the Middle Ages by Christopher Allmand
RRP: $74.08$67.92Vegetius' late Roman text became a well-known and highly respected 'classic' in the Middle Ages, transformed by its readers into the authority on the waging of war. Christopher Allmand analyses the medieval afterlife of the De Re Militari, tracing the... -
Listening in Paris: A Cultural History by James H. Johnson
$80.26Beginning with the simple question, 'Why did audiences grow silent?' "Listening in Paris" gives a spectator's-eye view of opera and concert life from the Old Regime to the Romantic era, describing the transformation in musical experience from social... -
Influences: Art, Optics, and Astrology in the Italian Renaissance by Mary Quinlan-McGrath
RRP: $156.00$150.17Today few would think of astronomy and astrology as fields related to theology. Fewer still would know that physically absorbing planetary rays was once considered to have medical and psychological effects. But this was the understanding of light... -
Policing Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow: The View from South Wales by Martin Innes 9781837720842
RRP: $48.73$36.66Through the lens of South Wales Police, this volume reflects upon the changing role of the police in society. Conceptually, by connecting the pasts, presents and futures of policing, each chapter individually and collectively demonstrates how some of... -
Motherland: Russia in the Twentieth Century by David R. Marples 9780582438347
$71.64Motherland tells the dramatic story of the rise and fall of the Soviet Union. From Lenin's virtual coup in November 1917 to Boris Yeltsin's ruthless takeover of power in 1991, the book culminates with a new view of the Yeltsin years.David Marples focuses... -
Canterbury: A history since 1500: the story of a city and its people by Dr Doreen Rosman
RRP: $38.98$28.63This informative and entertaining book, written by well-known Canterbury historian, Doreen Rosman, explores 500 often overlooked years in the life of the city. In these readable and well-illustrated pages can be found accounts of the destruction of... -
Trenches to Trams: The George Pine Story: The Life of a Bristol Tommy by Clive Burlton 9781906477462
RRP: $29.23$25.31Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906477462Author Clive BurltonFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Tangent BooksPublisher Tangent BooksWeight(grams) 950gDimensions(mm) 245mm * 245mm *... -
The Ancien Regime: A History of France 1610 - 1774 Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie (College de France) 9780631211969
RRP: $99.35$88.35This is a story of brilliance, order and sophistication, of supreme confidence and great achievement - that begins in uncertainty and ends in iconoclasm.About the AuthorEmmanuel Le Roy Ladurie is the author of numerous books - including the immensely... -
A Schoolboy's War in Cornwall by Jim Reeve 9780752455402
RRP: $25.33$18.76Although only children at the time, the Second World War had a permanent effect on the schoolboys who lived through the conflict. Watching a country preparing for war and then being immersed in the horrors of the Blitz brought encounters and events that... -
Night Raiders: Burglary and the Making of Modern Urban Life in London, 1860-1968 by Eloise Moss
RRP: $69.21$52.47Night Raiders is the first history of burglary in modern Britain. Until 1968, burglary was defined in law as occurring only between the 'night-time' hours of nine pm and six am in residential buildings. Time and space gave burglary a unique cloak of... -
A Spur Called Courage: SOE Heroes in Italy by Alan Ogden 9781903071359
RRP: $48.73$34.53Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781903071359Author Alan OgdenFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Bene Factum Publishing LtdPublisher Bene Factum Publishing Ltd -
The Welsh and the Medieval World: Travel, Migration and Exile by Patricia Skinner 9781786831897
RRP: $58.48$43.62How did the Welsh travel beyond their geographical borders in the Middle Ages? What did they do, what did they take with them in their baggage, and what did they bring back? This book seeks for the first time to capture the medieval Welsh on the move,... -
Inferior Politics: Social Problems and Social Policies in Eighteenth-Century Britain by Joanna Innes
RRP: $56.53$52.86Inferior Politics explores how social policy was created in Britain in a period when central government was not active in making it. Parliament proved capable of generating national legislation nonetheless-and provided a forum for debate even when it was... -
Material Conflicts: Parades and Visual Displays in Northern Ireland Neil Jarman 9781859731291
RRP: $70.18$61.80The deep and abiding sectarian divide splintering Northern Ireland has been the focus of considerable attention recently. In particular, the role parades and visual displays play in underscoring opposition has come into the spotlight with the emergence... -
Billy Wilder on Assignment: Dispatches from Weimar Berlin and Interwar Vienna by Noah Isenberg
RRP: $39.00$32.64A Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year, chosen by Tom Stoppard"A revelation."-Marc Weingarten, Washington PostAcclaimed film director Billy Wilder's early writings-brilliantly translated into English for the first timeBefore Billy Wilder became the... -
Unfinished Utopia: Nowa Huta, Stalinism, and Polish Society, 1949-56 by Katherine Lebow
RRP: $33.13$29.39Unfinished Utopia is a social and cultural history of Nowa Huta, dubbed Poland's "first socialist city" by Communist propaganda of the 1950s. Work began on the new town, located on the banks of the Vistula River just a few miles from the historic city of... -
Scotland’s Foreshore: Public Rights, Private Rights and the Crown 1840 - 2017 by John MacAskill
RRP: $54.58$44.09The ownership of Scotland's foreshore has been a matter of a prolonged controversy. In the past, the debate centered on whether the shore was owned by the Crown or by adjacent proprietors and on how, and by whom, Crown-owned foreshore should be managed... -
Four Sisters: The History of Ringsend, Irishtown, Sandymount and Merrion by Kurt Kullmann 9780750984355
RRP: $35.08$26.60This book traces the development of the four coastal villages - often referred to as 'the Four Sisters' - that make up the eastern part Dublin 4 from their foundation to the present day. Richly illustrated with modern and historic images, this work looks... -
Ireland and the Great War: 'A War to Unite Us All'? by Adrian Gregory 9780719059254
RRP: $38.98$34.75As the twentieth century drew to a close, people in all parts of Ireland began to recover the memory of the First World War as the last great common experience of the island as a whole. Brings together research whilst re-evaluating older assumptions... -
Cross and Scepter: The Rise of the Scandinavian Kingdoms from the Vikings to the Reformation by Sverre Bagge 9780691161501
RRP: $68.25$54.09Christianity and European-style monarchy--the cross and the scepter--were introduced to Scandinavia in the tenth century, a development that was to have profound implications for all of Europe. Cross and Scepter is a concise history of the Scandinavian... -
The History of Broadcasting in the United Kingdom: Volume III: The War of Words by Asa Briggs 9780192129567
$194.49This is the third part of a five-volume history of broadcasting in the UK, giving an authoritative account of the rise of broadcasting in this country. This volume covering the period from 1939 to 1945, is concerned not only with the impact of the... -
Married Life in the Middle Ages, 900-1300 by Elisabeth van Houts
RRP: $56.53$52.08Married Life in the Middle Ages, 900-1300 contains an analysis of the experience of married life by men and women in Christian medieval Europe, c. 900-1300. The study focusses on the social and emotional life of the married couple rather than on the... -
England on Edge: Crisis and Revolution 1640-1642 by David Cressy 9780199280902
$66.55England on Edge deals with the collapse of the government of Charles I, the disintegration of the Church of England, and the accompanying cultural panic that led to civil war. Focused on the years 1640 to 1642, it examines stresses and fractures in... -
Death in War and Peace: A History of Loss and Grief in England, 1914-1970 by Pat Jalland 9780199265510
$176.94Death in War and Peace is the first detailed historical study of experience of death, grief, and mourning in England in the fifty years after 1914. In it Professor Jalland explores the complex shift from a culture where death was accepted and grief was...