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England Under Edward I and Edward II: 1259-1327 Sandra Raban (University of Cambridge) 9780631223207
RRP: £46.95£40.94Examining the key events and institutions of the period, and exploring how and what we know about them, England Under Edward I and Edward II uses a wealth of artistic material to capture the atmosphere of late-thirteenth and early-fourteenth century... -
The Tudor Occupation of Boulogne: Conquest, Colonisation and Imperial Monarchy, 1544-1550 by Neil Murphy 9781108472012
RRP: £90.00£81.43In 1544, Henry VIII led the largest army then ever raised by an English monarch to invade France. This book investigates the consequences of this action by examining the devastating impact of warfare on the native population, the methods the English used... -
Ireland and the Picturesque: Design, Landscape Painting, and Tourism, 1700-1840 by Finola O'Kane
RRP: £45.00£39.23That Ireland is picturesque is a well-worn cliche, but little is understood of how this perception was created, painted, and manipulated during the long 18th century. This book positions Ireland at the core of the picturesque's development and argues for... -
The Great Demarcation: The French Revolution and the Invention of Modern Property by Rafe Blaufarb 9780190056520
RRP: £32.49£22.37What does it mean to own something? What sorts of things can be owned, and what cannot? How does one relinquish ownership? What are the boundaries between private and public property? Over the course of a decade, the French Revolution grappled with... -
Around Uxbridge Past & Present by Philip Sherwood
RRP: £12.99£9.62Explores the history of this town in a selection of historic and modern images. This book documents changes which include road developments, trade and industry, pubs and Inns and leisure and entertainment. It also takes a look at the neighbouring... -
Britain and the American Revolution by H. T. Dickinson 9780582318397
RRP: £47.99£45.98This is the first modern study to focus on the British dimension of the American Revolution through its whole span from its origins to the declaration of independence in 1776 and its aftermath. It is written by nine leading British and American scholars... -
Fighting Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking: History and Contemporary Policy by Genevieve LeBaron
RRP: £23.99£20.37Over the last two decades, fighting modern slavery and human trafficking has become a cause celebre. Yet large numbers of researchers, non-governmental organizations, trade unions, workers, and others who would seem like natural allies in the fight... -
The French Revolution by J. M. Roberts 9780192892928
£33.54In this book John Roberts studies the puzzling nature of what came to be called the French Revolution, with its Janus-like aspect, looking to past and future at the same time. The five main sections deal with the beginnings of the Revolution; the... -
Occult Roots of Nazism: Secret Aryan Cults and Their Influence on Nazi Ideology by Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke 9780814730607
£24.27Reveals how Nazism was influenced by powerful occult sects that thrived in Germany and Austria almost fifty years before Hitler's rise to power Over half a century after the defeat of the Third Reich, Nazism remains a subject of extensive historical... -
The Campbells of the Ark: Men of Argyll in 1745 - Volume 2 by Ronald Black
RRP: £25.00£18.32In the course of his long poem An Airce, 'The Ark', the Jacobite poet Alexander MacDonald shows the Campbells being subjected to trial by water for the part they played in defeating Prince Charles's army in 1745-6. Some will be drowned outright, he says,... -
Germany from Defeat to Partition, 1945-1963 by D. G. Williamson 9780582292185
RRP: £37.99£36.68This book covers the years, 1945-63 which witnessed th total defeat of the Third Reich, the occupation a nd evolution of the German Federal Republic and German Democratic Republic. The impact of the occupation is analysed, as are the events leading to... -
Drug Smuggler Nation: Narcotics and the Netherlands, 1920–1995 by Stephen Snelders
RRP: £25.00£17.92Why did the international drug regulatory regime of the twentieth century fail to stop an explosive increase in trade and consumption of illegal drugs? This book investigates the histories of smugglers and criminal entrepreneurs in the Netherlands who... -
The Last Cavalier: Richard Talbot (1631-91) by Padraig Lenihan 9781906359836
RRP: £34.00£33.21Left for dead at the sack of Drogheda, Richard Talbot later ingratiated himself with the future James II by plotting to assassinate Oliver Cromwell. Using fresh primary sources The Last Cavalier: Richard Talbot (1631-91) traces how Talbot, though a... -
The Runic Inscriptions of the Isle of Man by Michael Barnes 9780903521970
RRP: £30.00£24.52This book provides a modern, scholary edition of the runic inscriptions, Scandinavian and Anglo-Saxon, discovered in the Isle of Man. All are carved into stone and most are commemorative in nature. A broad view has been taken of the Manx runic material... -
The National Question in Yugoslavia: Origins, History, Politics by Ivo Banac
RRP: £39.00£34.52Even before it collapsed into civil war, ethnic cleansing, and dissolution, Yugoslavia was an archetypical example of a troubled multinational mosaic, a state without a single national base or even a majority. Its stability and very existence were... -
England and the Papacy in the Early Middle Ages: Papal Privileges in European Perspective, c. 680-1073 by Savill 9780198887058
RRP: £83.00£75.74England and the Papacy in the Early Middle Ages: Papal Privileges in European Perspective, c. 680-1073 provides the first dedicated, book-length study of interactions between England and the papacy throughout the early middle ages. It takes as its lens... -
Approaching the Italian Renaissance Interior: Sources, Methodologies, Debates Marta Ajmar-Wollheim (Victoria and Albert Museum) 9781405161756
RRP: £20.75£18.32This collection provides a genuinely fresh outlook on the Italian interior and will form a rich resource for scholars and students of the Renaissance. Brings together an interdisciplinary group of scholars, combining innovative approaches, case studies,... -
City Women: Money, Sex, and the Social Order in Early Modern London by Eleanor Hubbard 9780198722045
£47.26City Women is a major new study of the lives of ordinary women in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century London. Drawing on thousands of pages of Londoners' depositions for the consistory court, it focuses on the challenges that preoccupied London women as... -
Hidden Landscapes of the Forest of Dean Jon Hoyle 9781848022584
£67.61The Forest of Dean in Gloucestershire, between the rivers Severn and Wye where England meets Wales, is known chiefly for its post-medieval industrial heritage. This book seeks to tell the story of its pre- and early history through written sources and... -
Curious Cotswolds by Mark Turner 9780752439303
RRP: £14.99£9.53Curious Cotswolds takes the reader on a tour of the area, looking at the history, archaeology and curiosities of the Cotswolds. The author, a former Cotswolds policeman, describes points of interest to be found in the towns, villages and hamlets of the... -
Albion's People: English Society 1714-1815 by J. Rule 9780582089167
£14.34This second volume of John Rule's major two-volume portrait of Georgian England is a comprehensive and authoritative survey of eighteenth-century society, incorporating the exciting new research findings of recent years. It deals in turn with the upper... -
The Age of the Crusades: The Near East from the Eleventh Century to 1517 by P. M. Holt 9780582493025
RRP: £58.99£56.20The kaleidoscopic political changes during the years covered by this volume include the rise and fall of the Crusader states, the expansion of the Mongol empire, the rise of the Mamluk sultanate and of its ultimate conquerors, the Ottomans. To all of... -
Growing Up in Cambridge: From Austerity to Prosperity by Alec Forshaw 9780752450049
RRP: £12.99£9.62It is said that, however long you live, and however far you travel, the streets and fields where you played as a child will always be home to you. So Cambridge is for Alec Forshaw. This is a story of a childhood in Cambridge in the 1950s and '60s,... -
Men Under Fire: Motivation, Morale, and Masculinity among Czech Soldiers in the Great War, 1914-1918 by Jiri Hutecka 9781789205411
RRP: £99.00£80.47In historical writing on World War I, Czech-speaking soldiers serving in the Austro-Hungarian military are typically studied as Czechs, rarely as soldiers, and never as men. As a result, the question of these soldiers' imperial loyalties has dominated... -
Learning Languages in Early Modern England by John Gallagher 9780192865151
RRP: £28.99£26.71In 1578, the Anglo-Italian author, translator, and teacher John Florio wrote that English was 'a language that wyl do you good in England, but passe Dover, it is woorth nothing'. Learning Languages in Early Modern England Learning Languages in Early... -
1939: The Alliance That Never Was and the Coming of World War II by Michael Jabara Carley 9781566637855
RRP: £14.99£11.53At a crucial point in the twentieth century, as Nazi Germany prepared for war, negotiations between Britain, France, and the Soviet Union became the last chance to halt Hitler's aggression. Incredibly, the French and British governments dallied, talks... -
Travelers in the Third Reich: The Rise of Fascism: 1919-1945 by Julia Boyd
RRP: £18.95£12.26Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781643132532Author Julia BoydFormat PaperbackPage Count 472Imprint Pegasus BooksPublisher Pegasus BooksWeight(grams) 476gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 140mm * 36mm -
Xenocracy: State, Class, and Colonialism in the Ionian Islands, 1815-1864 by Sakis Gekas 9781805391272
RRP: £31.95£26.40Of the many European territorial reconfigurations that followed the wars of the early nineteenth century, the Ionian State remains among the least understood. Xenocracy offers a much-needed account of the region during its half-century as a Protectorate... -
Ladies Elect: Women in English Local Government, 1865-1914 by Patricia Hollis 9780198221579
£61.70Fifty years before the suffragettes fought to have the parliamentary vote, women in England were able to elect and be elected to local district councils, school boards and Poor Law boards. This pioneering study explores the world of those women who held... -
British Christianity and the Second World War by Canon Professor Michael Snape
RRP: £80.00£76.61Examines the role of Christianity in British statecraft, politics, media, the armed forces and in the education and socialization of the young during the Second World War. This volume presents a major reappraisal of the role of Christianity in Great... -
Devon's Torre Abbey: Faith, Politics and Grand Designs by Michael Rhodes 9780750962674
RRP: £16.99£13.34Torre Abbey is an archaeological site of national importance. Founded in 1196, it became the wealthiest English monastery of the order of Premonstratensian canons. The extent of its survival makes Torre Abbey the best preserved medieval abbey in Devon... -
The Older Gulathing Law Erik Simensen 9780367681470
RRP: £37.99£33.38The Gulathing Law regulates relations between the social classes, the king and his officers, the clergy, and the peasantry. Parts of the law appear to be a social contract between two parties: on the one hand the people, on the other hand the church and... -
Russian Popular Culture: Entertainment and Society since 1900 by Richard Stites
RRP: £22.99£19.56This book presents a side of Russian life that is largely unknown to the West - the world of popular culture. By surveying detective and science fiction, popular songs, jokes, box office movie hits, stage, radio and television, Professor Richard Stites... -
The British Army 1815-1914 by Harold E. Raugh
RRP: £19.99£18.69This collection of essays examines the evolution of the British Army during the century-long Pax Britannica, from the time Wellington considered its soldiers 'the scum of the earth' to the height of the imperial epoch, when they were highly-respected... -
Brighton in Diaries by Paul K. Lyons 9780752462226
RRP: £13.99£10.85This fascinating collection of extracts contains diarists famous and ordinary, young and old, serious and cynical, but with Brighton always setting the scene. Many legendary writers - including Walter Scott, Arnold Bennett and Virginia Woolf (who... -
Kings, Lords and Courts in Anglo-Norman England by Nicholas Karn
RRP: £80.00£73.68First study of the origins of the lordship courts that dominated the lives of the peasantry of medieval England. About the year 1000, hundreds and shires were the dominant and probably the only local assemblies for doing legal and other business in... -
Cheshire Railways: Britain's Railways in Old Photographs by Mike Hitches 9780752449791
RRP: £14.99£11.55Cheshire Railways is a detailed insight into the branch lines of Cheshire. Mike Hitches provides us with a rich pictorial history, highlighting the golden age of steam, through to the sad closure of many of the county's lines in the 20th century. Crewe... -
Battlefields of Leicestershire by Trevor Hickman
RRP: £16.99£12.94Leading historian Trevor Hickman uncovers the sites of Leicestershire battles that have taken place throughout history, as well as military sites - from skirmishes to the Vikings to World War II airfields and gun emplacements.About the AuthorTrevor... -
Richard Crossman: Pioneer of Welfare Provision and Labour Politics in Post-war Britain by Victoria Honeyman
RRP: £55.00£54.74"Yes, Minister! No, Minister! If you wish it, Minister!" - Richard Crossman, "Diaries Vol. 1". As a politician and personality, Richard Crossman was anything but the deferential public servant he mocked so concisely. This revealing biography of the... -
Memories Aberdeen: A Hidden Archive Uncovered by "Evening Express" 9781908234018
£13.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908234018Author "Evening Express"Format PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint DB PublishingPublisher DB Publishing