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The Gwent County History, Volume 3: The Making of Monmouthshire, 1536-1780 by Ralph A. Griffiths
RRP: £45.00£37.75A study of the early modern period, from the creation of Monmouthshire by the Act of Union in 1536 to the beginnings of industrialization in the later eighteenth century. It explores the social concerns of this period, including the growth of urbanity... -
A History of the Late Medieval Siege, 1200-1500 by Peter Purton
RRP: £125.00£107.49Detailed survey of the continued development of the siege in the later middle ages, showing the effects of new technology and armaments. The siege dominated warfare during the medieval period. Contemporary evidence - from both accounts of sieges, and... -
The Pilgrims Society and Public Diplomacy, 1895 1945 by Stephen Bowman 9781474452151
RRP: £23.99£19.51Drawing on rich archival research, this book explores how the elite network of the Pilgrims Society whose members included J. P. Morgan and Andrew Carnegie attempted to influence the Anglo-American relationship in the days before it became 'special'... -
The Bastille of Ireland: Kilmainham Gaol - From Ruin to Restoration by Rory O'Dwyer 9781845889470
RRP: £14.99£11.55Kilmainham Gaol is a building with a remarkable history. From 1796, when the first prisoners were received within its portals, to 1924, when the last prisoners were removed, it held over 100,000 people. In the traditional nationalist linear narrative of... -
Forever England: Reflections on Race, Masculinity and Empire by Jonathan Rutherford 9780853158288
RRP: £16.00£15.59This volume is a series of reflections about the effects on English white masculinity of Britain's history of empire, from Victorian times to the present day. The author analyzes the pathological middle-class family of Victorian times: where absent but... -
Hatfield Voices from '50s and '60s by Ann Burke 9780752416892
RRP: £12.99£9.62This collection of reminiscences and acompanying photographs records the development of Hatfield New Town during the 1950s and '60s, the 'pioneering years'. The stories are told in the contributors' own words, which have been tape-recorded and... -
The East End at War by Rosemary Taylor
RRP: £14.99£11.55In this fascinating and evocative book, Rosemary Taylor and Christopher Lloyd recall the extraordinary effect of wartime on the lives of the inhabitants of the East End. The Boer War and the First World War form the early part of the story but it is the... -
Towns and Commerce in Viking-Age Scandinavia by Sven Kalmring 9781009298056
RRP: £70.00£63.31The Viking Age, from c.750 to 1050 CE, was an era of major social change in Scandinavia. By the end of this period of sweeping transformation, Scandinavia, once a pagan periphery, had been firmly integrated into occidental Europe. Archaeological remains... -
All Power To The Councils!: A Documentary History of the German Revolution of 1918-1919 by Gabriel Kuhn
RRP: £25.99£17.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781604861112Author Gabriel KuhnFormat PaperbackPage Count 344Imprint PM PressPublisher PM Press -
Identifying the English: A History of Personal Identification 1500 - 2010 by Edward Higgs
RRP: £60.00£45.39Personal identification is very much a live political issue in Britain and this book looks at why this is the case, and why, paradoxically, the theft of identity has become ever more common as the means of identification have multiplied. Identifying the... -
Barrow & Low Furness: Past & Present: The Changing Face of the Area & its People by John Garbutt
RRP: £12.99£9.62Barrow & Low Furness gives a fascinating insight into the dramatic changes that have taken place in the town and surrounding area during the 20th century. The book recalls houses and public buildings, shops, factories and pubs that have vanished or... -
Marriage and the Family in the Middle Ages by Frances Gies 9780062966810
£11.19From bestselling historians Frances and Joseph Gies, authors of the classic "Medieval Life" series, comes this compelling, lucid, and highly readable account of the family unit as it evolved throughout the Medieval period-reissued for the first... -
Dreyfus: Politics, Emotion, and the Scandal of the Century by Ruth Harris 9780312572983
RRP: £31.00£21.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312572983Author Ruth HarrisFormat PaperbackPage Count 572Imprint St. Martins Press-3PLPublisher St. Martins Press-3PLWeight(grams) 717gDimensions(mm)... -
Education and Social Mobility in the Soviet Union 1921-1934 by Sheila Fitzpatrick
RRP: £26.99£22.80This is a history of Soviet education policy 1921-34 that places special emphasis upon the theme of social mobility through education. One of the hitherto untold stories of Soviet history is the making of the 'Brezhnev generation', a cohort of young... -
Nicholas Mesarites: His life and works (in translation) Michael Angold 9781786942043
RRP: £32.95£29.96The aim of this book is to make accessible to a wider audience the works of Nicholas Mesarites, who deserves to be better known than he is. He was an ecclesiastic, who from the turn of the twelfth century provides a vivid record from personal experience... -
Germany and the Modern World, 1880-1914 by Mark Hewitson
RRP: £30.99£27.17The German Empire before 1914 had the fastest growing economy in Europe and was the strongest military power in the world. Yet it appeared, from a reading of many contemporaries' accounts, to be lagging behind other nation-states and to be losing the... -
The United Irishmen: Popular Politics in Ulster and Dublin, 1791-1798 by Nancy J. Curtin 9780198207368
£61.30The United Irish Movement of the 1790s launched a tradition of revolutionary republicanism in Ireland which continues to this day. This book examines the origin, context, nature and practices of the republican nationalist movement from its inception in... -
A Renaissance Marriage: The Political and Personal Alliance of Isabella d'Este and Francesco Gonzaga, 1490-1519 by Carolyn James 9780199681211
RRP: £85.00£67.74The marriage of Isabella d'Este, one of the most famous figures of the Italian Renaissance, and Francesco Gonzaga, ruler of the small northern Italian principality of Mantua (r.1484-1519) offers a fascinating portrait of political marriage in the early... -
The Last Revolutionaries: German Communists and Their Century by Catherine Epstein 9780674010451
RRP: £34.95£28.59The Last Revolutionaries tells a story of unwavering political devotion: it follows the lives of German communists across the tumultuous twentieth century. Before 1945, German communists were political outcasts in the Weimar Republic and courageous... -
Marxism and Modernism: An Historical Study of Lukacs, Brecht, Benjamin, and Adorno by Eugene Lunn 9780520053304
RRP: £29.00£22.54"At a time when modernism and Marxism are both under attack as outmoded, Eugene Lunn's rich and detailed study of the years of their most creative interaction reminds us of the still potent energies unleashed by each. We could ask for no more reliable... -
Disorderly Families: Infamous Letters from the Bastille Archives by Arlette Farge
RRP: £20.99£18.37The first English translation of letters of arrest from eighteenth century France held in the archives of the Bastille Drunken and debauched husbands; libertine wives; vagabonding children. These and many more are the subjects of requests for confinement... -
The Age of Urban Democracy: England 1868 - 1914 by Donald Read 9780582089211
RRP: £54.99£54.08This ambitious survey covers all aspects of the period in which English society acquired its modern shape -- industrial rather than agricultural, urban rather than rural, democratic in its institutions, and middle class rather than aristocratic in the... -
A Peer among Princes: The Life of Thomas Graham, Victor of Barrosa, Hero of the Peninsular War by Philip Grant 9781526745415
£30.33Sir Thomas Graham, Lord Lynedoch, is best known for his exceptional military career. He was one of the Duke of Wellington's ablest lieutenants during the Peninsular War - he won a great victory against the French at the Battle of Barrosa, conducted the... -
The Life and World of Francis Rodd, Lord Rennell (1895-1978): Geography, Money and War by Philip Boobbyer 9781839985621
RRP: £25.00£23.78This book is a biographical study of the geographer/explorer and banker Francis Rodd, the second Lord Rennell of Rodd (1895-1978). Rodd's life is interesting for the way it connected the worlds of geography, international finance, politics, espionage,... -
Why So Easily . . . Some Family Reasons for the Velvet Revolution: A Sociological Essay Ivo Mozny 9788024653150
RRP: £16.00£13.84A famed essay examines the Velvet Revolution from a sociological perspective. Thirty-two years after its initial publication, this respected sociological essay, written in the history-making years of 1989 and 1990, is available for the first time in... -
Around Porth: The Story Behind the Picture by Aldo Bacchetta 9780752424965
RRP: £12.99£9.62This fascinating collection of archive images captures the essence of community life in Porth during the last century and the town's intrinsic role in the industrial and commercial history of the Rhondda.The rural character of this part of South Wales is... -
The Renaissance by Alison M. Brown
RRP: £35.99£31.69The Renaissance, now in its third edition, engages with earlier and current debates about the Renaissance, especially concerning its 'modernity', its elitism and gender bias and its globalism. This new edition has been revised to include a discussion of... -
Inspector Minahan Makes a Stand: The Missing Girls of England by Bridget O'Donnell
RRP: £9.99£7.27In Victorian London, the age of consent was just thirteen. Unwitting girls were regularly enticed, tricked and sold into prostitution. If not marked out for a gentleman in a city brothel, they were legally trafficked to Brussels, Paris and beyond. All... -
Britain and the French Revolution by Clive Emsley 9780582369610
RRP: £39.99£38.54The French Revolution catapulted Europe into a new period of political upheaval, social change, and into the modern era.This book provides a concise introduction to the impact of the French Revolution on Britain and to the ways in which this impact has... -
Fifty Key Figures in Twentieth Century British Politics by Keith Laybourn 9780415226776
RRP: £27.99£24.28This guidebook provides a complete overview of the lives and influence of fifty major figures in modern British political history. Reflecting the changes within British society and politics over the past century, the entries chart the development of key... -
An Elizabethan Assassin: Theodore Paleologus: Seducer, Spy and Killer by John Hall 9780750962612
RRP: £17.99£13.64In this first biography of Theodore Paleologus, new documentary evidence exposes him as a hardened mercenary and killer in the pay of the wicked Earl of Lincoln but also supports his imperial pretensions - long dismissed by historians. Yet despite his... -
Catholics of Consequence: Transnational Education, Social Mobility, and the Irish Catholic Elite 1850-1900 by Ciaran O'Neill
£37.74For as far back as school registers can take us, the most prestigious education available to any Irish child was to be found outside Ireland. Catholics of Consequence traces, for the first time, the transnational education, careers, and lives of more... -
The Cambridge World History: Volume 1, Introducing World History, to 10,000 BCE by David Christian
RRP: £33.99£29.66Volume 1 of the Cambridge World History is an introduction to both the discipline of world history and the earliest phases of world history up to 10,000 BCE. In Part I leading scholars outline the approaches, methods, and themes that have shaped and... -
Commerce before Capitalism in Europe, 1300-1600 by Martha C. Howell
RRP: £26.99£22.80Martha C. Howell challenges dominant interpretations of the relationship between the so-called commercial revolution of late medieval Europe and the capitalist age that followed. She argues that the merchants, shopkeepers, artisans, and consumers in... -
The Dissolution of the Monasteries by Joyce Youings
£33.08Originally published in 1971 this book begins with the assumption that the Dissolution of the Monasteries was neither an integral nor an essential part of the English reformation. This book pursues the story chronologically and thus helps students... -
Revisiting The Polite and Commercial People: Essays in Georgian Politics, Society, and Culture in Honour of Professor Paul Langford by Elaine Chalus 9780198802631
£93.37For some time before his death in July 2015, former colleagues and students of Paul Langford had discussed the possibility of organising a festschrift to celebrate his remarkable contribution to eighteenth-century history. It was planned for 2019 to... -
Facing the Revocation: Huguenot Families, Faith, and the King's Will by Carolyn Chappell Lougee 9780197533543
RRP: £31.99£29.45Winner of the David H. Pinkney Prize of the French Historical Society Winner of the Frances Richardson Keller-Sierra Prize of the Western Association of Women Historians Winner of the Award for Best Scholarly Work of the National Huguenot Society ... -
Women and the Visual Arts in Italy c. 1400-1650: Luxury and Leisure, Duty and Devotion: a Sourcebook by Mary Rogers 9780719080999
RRP: £19.99£17.82The anthology of original sources from c.1400 to 1650, translated form Italian or Latin, and accompanied by introductions and bibliographies, is concerned with women's varied involvement with the visual arts and material culture of their day. The readers... -
A Short History of Ireland by John O'Beirne Ranelagh 9781107401945
RRP: £26.99£19.63This third edition of John O'Beirne Ranelagh's classic history of Ireland incorporates contemporary political and economic events as well as the latest archaeological and DNA discoveries. Comprehensively revised and updated throughout, it considers Irish... -
Culloden and the '45 by Professor Jeremy Black 9780752456362
RRP: £9.99£7.55There is little doubt that the '45 rebellion was the greatest challenge to the eighteenth-century British state. The battle of Culloden in which it culminated was certainly one of the most dramatic of the century. This study, based on extensive archival...