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The European Colonial Empires: 1815-1919 by H. L. Wesseling 9780582095519
RRP: $93.58$89.66The nineteenth century was Europe's colonial century. At the beginning of the period, the only colonial empire that existed was the British Empire. By the end of the century the situation was completely different and Europe's colonial possessions had... -
Yardley Revisited: Images of England by David Green 9780752443676
RRP: $25.33$18.76A collection of more than 200 archive photographs that traces the ways in which the town of Yardley has changed and developed.About the AuthorMargaret Green is an enthusiastic local historian and the author of one other book on the Birmingham area,... -
The Fallen: Gardai Killed in Service 1922-49 by Colm Wallace 9780750983761
RRP: $33.13$25.23In 1922 the fledgling Irish Free State decided to replace the RIC with the Civic Guard (An Garda Siochana). This new Irish police force found itself dealing with an unsettled population, many of whom were suspicions of law and order after centuries of... -
Scottish Life and Society Volume 12: Religion by Kenneth Veitch 9780859766500
RRP: $78.00$57.53Its overall aim is to examine the interlocking strands of history, language and traditional culture within an international context and their contribution to the making of a national identity. Each volume is a detailed examination of a societal topic and... -
Lowestoft People & Places: Britain in Old Photographs by Ian Robb
RRP: $25.33$18.76Lowestoft People & Places is a fresh new look at the town's history, focussing largely on the human aspect. A plethora of photographs of people going about their daily work and at play, as well as stunning images of the town which have not been published... -
From Pompeii: The Afterlife of a Roman Town by Ingrid D. Rowland
RRP: $52.55$41.75When Vesuvius erupted in 79 CE, the force of the explosion blew the top right off the mountain, burying nearby Pompeii in a shower of volcanic ash. Ironically, the calamity that proved so lethal for Pompeii's inhabitants preserved the city for centuries,... -
Political Imprisonment and the Irish, 1912-1921 by William Murphy
$73.59For a revolutionary generation of Irishmen and Irishwomen - including suffragettes, labour activists, and nationalists - imprisonment became a common experience. In the years 1912-1921, thousands were arrested and held in civil prisons or in internment... -
Women, Crime and Punishment in Ireland: Life in the Nineteenth-Century Convict Prison by Elaine Farrell
RRP: $155.98$140.71Focusing on women's relationships, decisions and agency, this is the first study of women's experiences in a nineteenth-century Irish prison for serious offenders. Showcasing the various crimes for which women were incarcerated in the post-Famine period,... -
We Remember D-Day by Frank Shaw
RRP: $33.13$17.73'On leaving the plane I can only say I felt very lonely, except that the sky was full of bullets coming upwards. Fortunately, it wasn't long before my feet hit the ground with a thud. Almost as soon as my feet touched the ground, I was to find that I had... -
Italy Illuminated: v. 1: Books I-IV by Biondo Flavio
RRP: $58.40$46.92Biondo Flavio (1392-1463), humanist and historian, was a pioneering figure in the Renaissance recovery of classical antiquity. While serving a number of the Renaissance popes, he inaugurated an extraordinary program of research into the history,... -
Taking on Technocracy: Nuclear Power in Germany, 1945 to the Present by Dolores L. Augustine 9781800731981
RRP: $54.50$44.03The German abandonment of nuclear power represents one of the most successful popular revolts against technocratic thinking in modern times-the triumph of a dynamic social movement, encompassing a broad swath of West Germans as well as East German... -
The Role of the Scroll: An Illustrated Introduction to Scrolls in the Middle Ages by Thomas Forrest Kelly 9780393285031
RRP: $46.78$37.83The Role of the Scroll answers the question of why scrolls were made when it was possible to produce books. Scrolls were the standard form of book in Western antiquity but from the fourth century onward, the codex began to outnumber scrolls. And yet,... -
The Bible and Crusade Narrative in the Twelfth Century by Katherine Katherine Smith
RRP: $50.68$42.30A new investigation into the twelfth-century accounts of the First Crusade, showing their complex relationship with the Bible. The Bible exerted an enormous influence on the crusading movement: it provided medieval Christians with language to describe... -
Greek to Me by Richard Clogg
$107.78The 1960s was a tumultuous period in the history of Greece, as its democracy fell under the forced establishment of a military dictatorship. The regime of the colonels was the culmination of national division and hostility between communist forces and... -
Utopia or Auschwitz: Germany's 1968 Generation and the Holocaust by Hans Kundnani 9781849040242
RRP: $43.88$38.84One thing above all separated the radical students who demonstrated on the streets of West Berlin and Frankfurt in 1968 from their counterparts in Berkeley or New York. In the US, the baby boomers grew up in the shadow of what Tom Brokaw called the... -
The History of the Knights Templars by Charles G. Addison
$22.00The history of the Knights Templars is a remarkable story of triumphs and defeats, marked with controversies and tragedy. From their rise to their demise, Charles G. Addison captivatingly chronicles the various characters that played a role in shaping... -
The Man in the Red Coat by Julian Barnes 9780525658771
RRP: $68.25$38.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525658771Author Julian BarnesFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Alfred A. KnopfPublisher Alfred A. KnopfWeight(grams) 782gDimensions(mm) 215mm * 160mm... -
The Dissolution of the Monasteries in England and Wales by Hugh Willmott 9781781799543
RRP: $165.75$165.67This book provides a timely and original overview of the Dissolution of the Monasteries and its longer term affects on the social and physical landscape of England and Wales during the decades that followed. Combining for the first time the full wealth... -
Farming and Society in North Lincolnshire: The Dixons of Holton-le-Moor, 1741-1906 Richard Olney (Author) 9781910653050
RRP: $78.00$75.95Engaging account of the fortunes of a farming family during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Proputty, proputty, proputty: Tennyson's "Northern Farmer, New Style" could hear the word in the rhythm of his horse's hooves as he cantered between... -
Night of the Assassins: The Untold Story of Hitler's Plot to Kill FDR, Churchill, and Stalin by Howard Blum
$27.44The New York Times bestselling author returns with a tale as riveting and suspenseful as any thriller: the true story of the Nazi plot to kill the leaders of the United States, Great Britain, and the U.S.S.R. during World War II. The mission: to kill... -
Partisan Ruptures: Self-Management, Market Reform and the Spectre of Socialist Yugoslavia Gal Kirn 9780745338941
RRP: $54.58$42.06Yugoslavia's twentieth-century bore witness to civil war, sharp ideological struggles and a series of 'partisan ruptures'; revolutionary events that changed the face of Yugoslavian society, politics and culture, which were felt on a global level. This... -
Catherine Howard: The Adulterous Wife of Henry VIII by David Loades 9781445607689
RRP: $39.00$26.79Henry's fifth Queen is best known to history as the stupid adolescent who got herself fatally entangled with lovers, and ended up on the block. However there was more to her than that. She was a symptom of the power struggle which was going on in the... -
Econocide: British Slavery in the Era of Abolition by Seymour Drescher
RRP: $74.00$68.02In this classic analysis and refutation of Eric Williams's 1944 thesis, Seymour Drescher argues that Britain's abolition of the slave trade in 1807 resulted not from the diminishing value of slavery for Great Britain but instead from the British public's... -
The Archaeology of the East Anglian Conversion by Richard Hoggett
RRP: $156.00$150.17The huge changes in the landscape as a result of the Christian conversion of East Anglia are examined in this multi-disciplinary study. The conversion to Christianity of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of East Anglia left huge marks on the area, both... -
Napoleon: Conquest, Reform and Reorganisation by Clive Emsley
RRP: $81.88$78.78Napoleon had a profound impact on the development of both France and Europe, and his career had repercussions across the wider world. His career had all the elements of a classical tragedy: having begun with spectacular military and civil achievements,... -
The Fall: A Comparative Study of the End of Communism in Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary and Poland by Steven Saxonberg
RRP: $105.28$92.18With a foreword by Seymour Lipset, Hoover Institution and George Mason University, USAThe Fall examines one of the twentieth century's great historical puzzles: why did the communist-led regimes in Eastern Europe collapse so quickly and why was the... -
The Friaries of Medieval London: From Foundation to Dissolution Nick Holder 9781783272242
RRP: $126.75$122.48A lavishly illustrated account of the buildings of the friars in the middle ages, bringing them vividly to life. with contributions from Ian M. Betts, Jens Roehrkasten, Mark Samuel, and Christian Steer. Nominated for the Current Archaeology Book... -
British Fascism: A Discourse-Historical Analysis by John E. Richardson 9783838204918
RRP: $58.50$47.13Fascism is inherently duplicitous, claiming one thing whilst being committed to something else. In examining this dishonesty, it is essential to distinguish between the surface arguments in fascist discourse and the underlying ideological commitments. ... -
The Vale of Taunton Past by Tom Mayberry 9781860770449
RRP: $29.23$22.52The Vale of Taunton Deane was described by John Norden, in 1610, as the 'paradise of England'. Others praised its beauty and its fertile soil, while the Victorians called it the 'golden vale'. The book tells the story of the entire Vale, including the... -
After the Berlin Wall: Memory and the Making of the New Germany, 1989 to the Present by Hope M. Harrison
RRP: $68.23$59.46The history and meaning of the Berlin Wall remain controversial, even three decades after its fall. Drawing on an extensive range of archival sources and interviews, this book profiles key memory activists who have fought to commemorate the history of... -
Voices of Hornchurch by Patricia Pound 9780752460369
RRP: $25.33$18.76Hornchurch was once a rural village, though it has now been swallowed up by Greater London. This nostalgic, moving and deeply personal set of recollections discusses this change - which may be seen in the archive photographs which complement the text -... -
The Grace of the Italian Renaissance by Ita Mac Carthy
RRP: $68.25$54.87How grace shaped the Renaissance in Italy"Grace" emerges as a keyword in the culture and society of sixteenth-century Italy. The Grace of the Italian Renaissance explores how it conveys and connects the most pressing ethical, social and aesthetic... -
Historia de Antiquitate Regum Norwagiensium: An Account of the Ancient History of the Norwegian Kings by Theodoricus Monachus 9780903521406
RRP: $19.50$16.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780903521406Author Anthony FaulkesFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Viking Society for Northern ResearchPublisher Viking Society for Northern... -
The Normans by Brian and Brenda Williams
RRP: $11.70$8.66An illustrated guide to the Normans - the invaders of 1066 who changed English life forever The 1066 Norman conquest of England, led by William, Duke of Normandy ("the Conqueror"), was the single greatest political change England has ever seen. The... -
The Columbia History of Twentieth-Century French Thought by Brian Reilly 9780231107907
RRP: $68.25$57.21With more than two hundred entries by leading intellectuals in the French- and English-speaking world, this new volume presents the authoritative guide to twentieth-century French thought. Unrivaled in its scope and depth, The Columbia History of... -
A Devon Village: Life in Victorian Christow: 2021 by Graham Thompson
$34.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781838179809Author Graham ThompsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint Teign Valley Museum & Archive TrustPublisher Teign Valley Museum & Archive... -
Blackrock: Ireland in Old Photographs by Joe Curtis 9781845888558
RRP: $33.13$25.23Blackrock is well known as an affluent and well-loved suburb of Dublin, situated on the picturesque east coast of the city. It was once an independent township, complete with Town Hall, and boasted a thriving hosiery industry, teacher training college,... -
Friars' Tales: Sermon Exempla from the British Isles by David Jones 9780719084256
RRP: $38.98$34.75Exempla are illustrative stories used by preachers to seize the attention of their congregations and to drive home a moral lesson. This book presents annotated translations from two collections of exempla, one Franciscan and one Dominican, put together... -
The Miracle Years: A Cultural History of West Germany, 1949-1968 by Hanna Schissler 9780691058207
RRP: $87.75$69.65Stereotypical descriptions showcase West Germany as an "economic miracle" or cast it in the narrow terms of Cold War politics. Such depictions neglect how material hardship preceded success and how a fascist past and communist sibling complicated the... -
Heresy and Authority in Medieval Europe by Edward Peters
RRP: $54.58$47.07Throughout the Middle Ages and early modern Europe theological uniformity was synonymous with social cohesion in societies that regarded themselves as bound together at their most fundamental levels by a religion. To maintain a belief in opposition to...