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Policing and Punishment in London 1660-1750: Urban Crime and the Limits of Terror by J. M. Beattie
£82.66This study examines the considerable changes that took place in the criminal justice system in the City of London in the century after the Restoration, well before the inauguration of the so-called 'age of reform'. The policing institutions of the City... -
The Banat of Timisoara: A European Melting Pot by Victor Neumann 9781785511240
RRP: £29.95£21.33The Banat is a uniquely fascinating example of a European cross-border region, incorporating parts of western Romania, northeastern Serbia and a small area of southeastern Hungary. The team of historians, headed by Professor Victor Neumann of the West... -
Angevin England: 1154 - 1258 by Richard Mortimer 9780631202844
RRP: £37.95£34.20Richard Mortimer's book covers the reigns of Henry II, his sons Richard the Lionheart and John, and much of that of his gradson Henry III. The period was beset by constant wars with France, frequent troubles with the popes, and baronial rebellions... -
Filton Voices by Jackie Sims 9780752430973
RRP: £12.99£9.62This fascinating book brings together the memories of people who have lived and grown up in Filton during the last century, watching it grow from a small village on the outskirts of Bristol into a fully fledged conurbation. Reminiscences range from... -
General William Roy, 1726-1790: Father of the Ordnance Survey by Humphrey Welfare
RRP: £95.00£77.27The first biography of William Roy, exploring his life, career and legacyAbout the AuthorHumphrey Welfare, Visiting Fellow in the School of History, Classics, and Archaeology, University of Newcastle.Book InformationISBN 9781399505789Author Humphrey... -
Governing Systems: Modernity and the Making of Public Health in England, 1830-1910 by Tom Crook 9780520290358
RRP: £30.00£23.29When and how did public health become modern? In Governing Systems, Tom Crook offers a fresh answer to this question through an examination of Victorian and Edwardian England, long considered one of the critical birthplaces of modern public health. This... -
Front-line Essex by Micheal Foley
RRP: £12.99£9.62Before the First World War, Essex was a very different county from that which we know today. The economy was largely based on agriculture, and the people rarely travelled beyond its borders, or even out of their towns or villages. The war opened up a... -
Land and Revolution: Nationalist Politics in the West of Ireland 1891-1921 by Fergus Campbell 9780199541508
RRP: £60.00£59.16In the 1890s, most of the inhabitants of the west of Ireland experienced great poverty and hardship, living - as they did - on farms that were too small to provide them with a reasonable standard of living. By 1921, however, the living conditions of many... -
The Book of Historic Fashion: A Newcomer's Guide to Medieval Clothing (1300 - 1450) by Nicole Allen
RRP: £26.50£24.62The Late Middle Ages (c.1350 - 1500) provides us with many of our stock, childhood images of the 'Middle Ages': the knight in shining armour, the joust, lords and ladies dressed in rich, voluminous robes and elegant dresses. Yet it is a paradox, for at... -
Catholic Spectacle and Rome's Jews: Early Modern Conversion and Resistance by Dr Emily Michelson
£41.31A new investigation that shows how conversionary preaching to Jews was essential to the early modern Catholic Church and the Roman religious landscapeStarting in the sixteenth century, Jews in Rome were forced, every Saturday, to attend a hostile sermon... -
Spectacle of Deformity: Freak Shows and Modern British Culture by Nadja Durbach 9780520257689
RRP: £71.00£55.05In 1847, during the great age of the freak show, the British periodical Punch bemoaned the public's 'prevailing taste for deformity'. This vividly detailed work argues that far from being purely exploitative, displays of anomalous bodies served a deeper... -
Women, Horse Sports and Liberation: Equestrianism and Britain from the 18th to the 20th Centuries Erica Munkwitz (American University, USA) 9780367769574
RRP: £37.99£33.38*Shortlisted for the 2022 Lord Aberdare Literary Prize*This book is the first, full-length scholarly examination of British women's involvement in equestrianism from the eighteenth through the twentieth centuries, as well as the corresponding... -
From Gibbon to Auden: Essays on the Classical Tradition by G.W. Bowersock 9780195376678
RRP: £68.00£55.40For several decades G. W. Bowersock has been one of our leading historians of the classical world. This volume collects seventeen of his essays, each illustrating how the classical past has captured the imagination of some of the greatest figures in... -
Anglo-Norman Durham 1093-1193 by David Rollason
RRP: £45.00£40.49Impressive... for many readers of these papers their cumulative effect will be very great indeed... Admirable collaborative volume. JOURNAL OF ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY Specialists explore the influence of twelfth-centuryDurham, in ecclesiastical... -
Fama: The Politics of Talk and Reputation in Medieval Europe by Thelma Fenster
RRP: £31.00£27.36In medieval Europe, the word fama denoted both talk (what was commonly said about a person or event) and an individual's ensuing reputation (one's fama). Although talk by others was no doubt often feared, it was also valued and even cultivated as a... -
Red Sauce: How Italian Food Became American by Ian MacAllen 9781538162347
RRP: £25.00£21.79A narrative social history tracing the evolution of traditional Italian-American cuisine from its origins in Italy and its transformation in America into a distinct new cuisine.About the AuthorIan MacAllen is a writer and book critic. His maternal... -
Shaping the Past: Theme, Time and Place in Local History - Essays in Honour of David Dymond by Evelyn Lord
RRP: £18.99£16.98Dr David Dymond is one of Britain's most highly respected local historians. He is a Vice President of the British Association for Local History and of the Suffolk Institute of Archaeology and History, President of the Suffolk Records Society, and an... -
Conquerors, Brides, and Concubines: Interfaith Relations and Social Power in Medieval Iberia by Simon Barton
RRP: £58.00£50.57Conquerors, Brides, and Concubines investigates the political and cultural significance of marriages and other sexual encounters between Christians and Muslims in the Iberian Peninsula, from the Islamic conquest in the early eighth century to the end of... -
Rocking the Boat: Welsh Women who Championed Equality 1840-1990 Prof. Angela V. John 9781912109500
RRP: £20.00£14.29This insightful and revealing collection of essays focuses on seven Welsh women who, in a range of imaginative ways, resisted the status quo in Wales, England and beyond during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Written by an acclaimed biographical... -
A History of Scottish Medicine: Themes and Influences by Helen Dingwell
RRP: £31.00£28.69Great names, research and innovations, celebrated centres of medical training - Scotland has always been associated with medicine. In this exciting book, Helen Dingwall introduces the history of Scottish medicine from earliest times to the present day... -
Imagining the Witch: Emotions, Gender, and Selfhood in Early Modern Germany by Laura Kounine 9780198799085
RRP: £97.00£71.46Imagining the Witch explores emotions, gender, and selfhood through the lens of witch-trials in early modern Germany. Witch-trials were clearly a gendered phenomenon, but witchcraft was not a uniquely female crime. While women constituted approximately... -
Paris and the Commune 1871-78: The Politics of Forgetting by Colette Wilson 9781526106582
RRP: £25.00£21.79Despite the scholarship and political activism devoted to keeping the memory of the Paris Commune alive, there still remains much ignorance both in France and elsewhere, about the traumatic civil war of 1871; some 20,000 to 35,000 people were killed on... -
Italy in the Modern World: Society, Culture and Identity by Linda Reeder
£27.99Providing a comprehensive history of Italy from around 1800 to the present, Italy in the Modern World traces the social and cultural transformations that defined the lives of Italians during the 19th and 20th century. The book focuses on how social... -
Aleksandur Stanboliiski: Bulgaria - The Peace Conferences of 1919-23 and Their Aftermath by R. J. Crampton 9781905791774
RRP: £12.99£8.99Aleksandur Stamboliiski was one of the most original politicians of the 20th century. His tragedy was that he came to power at the end of the First World War in which Bulgaria had been defeated. It fell to him, therefore, to accept and apply the peace... -
War in a European Borderland: Occupations and Occupation Plans in Galicia and Ukraine, 1914-1918 by Mark L. Von Hagen
RRP: £23.99£20.84War in a European Borderland examines the many regime changes that took place in occupied Ukraine during World War I. The decimation of people living between Austria-Hungary and the Russian empire - specifically Poles, Jews, Ukrainians, Belorussians, and... -
Day Place: 'the most respectable locality in Tralee' by Lawrence Jones 9781801510974
£12.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781801510974Author Lawrence JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Four Courts Press LtdPublisher Four Courts Press Ltd -
China Station: The British Military in the Middle Kingdom, 1839-1997 by Mark Felton
RRP: £14.99£10.95Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Irish Labour Party 1922-73 by Niamh Puirseil 9781904558675
RRP: £24.00£23.27The first fifty years of the state saw Ireland change dramatically, and the Irish Labour Party changed with it. Using a wealth of new material, Niamh Puirseil traces the party's fortunes through its first fifty years in the Dail, from its perceived role... -
The Footpath Way in North Gloucestershire by Algernon Gissing 9780752449036
RRP: £15.99£12.25'All this morning I spent on Saintbury Hill...' Originally published in 1924, this is a delightful exploration of north Gloucestershire by way of its many footpaths. The author, the wonderfully named Algernon Gissing, passes through towns and villages,... -
Animal Companions: Pets and Social Change in Eighteenth-Century Britain by Ingrid H. Tague
RRP: £28.95£26.04Animal Companions explores how eighteenth-century British society perceived pets and the ways in which conversation about them reflected and shaped broader cultural debates.While Europeans kept pets long before the eighteenth century, many believed that... -
Illness and Authority: Disability in the Life and Lives of Francis of Assisi by Donna Trembinski
RRP: £49.00£40.88Illness and Authority examines the lived experience and early stories about St. Francis of Assisi through the lens of disability studies. This new approach recentres Francis' illnesses and infirmities and highlights how they became barriers to wielding... -
Princes in the Tower, the by Alison Weir 9780345391780
RRP: £20.00£14.16Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345391780Author Alison WeirFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint FawcettPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 301gDimensions(mm) 209mm * 140mm *... -
The Crusades: Holy War, Piety and Politics in Christendom from the First Crusade to the Reconquista Chris McNab 9781838861445
RRP: £19.99£14.68Crusading fervour gripped Europe for more than 200 years and yet, almost a millennium later, we continue to question the crusaders' motivation: was it purely spiritual reward or did greed play a part? What did knights from Western Europe have to gain... -
A Mission to Civilize: The Republican Idea of Empire in France and West Africa, 1895-1930 by Alice L. Conklin
RRP: £29.99£26.50This book addresses a central but often ignored question in the history of modern France and modern colonialism: How did the Third Republic, highly regarded for its professed democratic values, allow itself to be seduced by the insidious and persistent... -
International Adventures: German Popular Cinema and European Co-Productions in the 1960s by Tim Bergfelder 9781571815385
RRP: £99.00£83.39West German cinema of the 1960s is frequently associated with the emergence of a new generation of filmmakers, collectively known by the 1970s as the "New German Cinema." Yet for domestic and international audiences at the time, German cinema... -
Officers and Accountability in Medieval England 1170-1300 by John Sabapathy 9780198847984
£40.25The later twelfth and thirteenth centuries were a pivotal period for the development of European government and governance. A mentality emerged that trusted to procedures of accountability as a means of controlling officers' conduct. The mentality was... -
The Illusion of the Burgundian State by Elodie Lecuppre-Desjardin 9781526144331
RRP: £90.00£79.38On 25 January 1474, Charles the Bold, duke of Burgundy, appeared before his subjects in Dijon. Robed in silk, gold and precious jewels and wearing a headpiece that gave the illusion of a crown, he made a speech in which he cryptically expressed his... -
A Quiet Life by Martha Robertson 9781870325714
RRP: £16.99£14.10From their inception and through the early years of the 20th century, long before automation, lighthouses were manned by keepers, often with their families in residence. In the case of the Petrie family, in 1922, their number included a new arrival,... -
The Life-Cycle in Western Europe, C.1300-C.1500 by Deborah Youngs 9780719059162
RRP: £19.99£17.82This is the first study to examine the entire life cycle in the Middle Ages. Drawing on a wide range of secondary and primary material, the book explores the timing and experiences of infancy, childhood, adolescence and youth, adulthood, old age and,... -
Fear of Freedom: With the Essay "Fear of Painting" by Carlo Levi
RRP: £25.00£19.59Carlo Levi was a painter, writer, and antifascist Italian from a Jewish family, and his political activism forced him into exile for most of the Second World War. While in exile, he wrote Christ Stopped at Eboli, a memoir, and Fear of Freedom, a...