Filter By
- Book
- Qty in Cart
- Quantity
- Price
- Subtotal
-
The Baltic World 1772-1993: Europe's Northern Periphery in an Age of Change by D. Kirby 9780582004092
RRP: £79.99£77.00This eagerly-awaited sequel shares the characteristics of its distinguished predecessor -- wide geographical and chronological span; expert mingling of political, social and economic history; and Dr Kirby's ability to keep the separate national threads... -
Saints` Cults in the Celtic World by Steve Boardman
RRP: £25.00£20.30Saints' cults flourished in the medieval world, and the phenomenon is examined here in a series of studies. The way in which saints' cults operated across and beyond political, ethnic and linguistic boundaries in the medieval British Isles and... -
Louis IX and the Challenge of the Crusade: A Study in Rulership by William Chester Jordan
RRP: £45.00£40.41Louis IX has long been known both as a saintly crusader and as the founder of effective royal administration in France. But, in spite of a vast amount of research, the details of what happened under his rule and why it happened have been little... -
Power in Tudor England by David Loades
£44.11England was the most centralised state in medieval Europe. The Tudors built on this situation to reduce still further the provincial power of the nobility, and to eliminate the remaining jurisdictional franchises. But sixteenth century England was not... -
Eleftherios Venizelos: The Trials of Statesmanship by Paschalis M. Kitromilides
RRP: £31.00£29.09Eleftherios Venizelos, Prime Minister of Greece 1910-1920 and 1928-1932, could be considered from many points of view the creator of contemporary Greece and one of the main actors in European diplomacy in the period 1910-1935. Yet the last book-length... -
Communist Gourmet: The Curious History of Food in the People's Republic of Bulgaria by Albena Shkodrova
RRP: £22.95£20.71Communist Gourmet presents a lively, detailed account of how the communist regime in Bulgaria determined people's everyday food experience between 1944 and 1989. It examines the daily routines of acquiring food, cooking it, and eating out at restaurants... -
The Reigns of Charles II and James VII & II by Lionel K.J. Glassey
£39.11British history in the period from the restoration of 1660 to the revolution of 1688, no less than in other periods, has been subject to 'revisionism'. This volume examines and analyses some of the challenging new theories relating to politics, society,... -
British Politics in an Age of Reform by Michael J. Turner 9780719051869
RRP: £19.99£17.82This work is a detailed examination of principal themes in the political history of late 18th- and early 19th-century Britain. It evaluates much recent research, links the politics of the elite with the politics of the people and seeks to explain... -
The Big House in the North of Ireland: Land, Power and Social Elites, 1878-1960 by Olwen Purdue 9781906359218
RRP: £50.00£48.10"The Big House in the North of Ireland" explores the changing fortunes of the landed elite in the six counties that became Northern Ireland from the land war of the late 1870s to the last days of the Unionist government at Stormont in the 1960s. Purdue... -
Conquerors and Chroniclers of Early Medieval Spain Kenneth Baxter Wolf 9780853235545
£29.99From the perspective of the Hispano-Romans, the Visigoths who invaded Spain in the mid-fifth century were heretical barbarians. But Leovigild's military success and Reccared's conversion to Catholic Christianity led to more positive assessments of the... -
The Rhetoric of Free Speech in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages by Irene van Renswoude
RRP: £30.99£22.85The early Middle Ages is not a period traditionally associated with free speech. It is still widely held that free speech declined towards the end of Antiquity, disappearing completely at the beginning of the Middle Ages, and only re-emerging in the... -
France Under Napoleon by Louis Bergeron
RRP: £42.00£33.04Presented here is an English translation of a study that was part of a distinguished French series on the country's post-Revolution history. Unlike much Napoleonic literature that features the personality and foreign policy of the Emperor, it describes... -
The Rights of the Roma: The Struggle for Citizenship in Postwar Czechoslovakia by Celia Donert
RRP: £30.99£25.45The Rights of the Roma writes Romani struggles for citizenship into the history of human rights in socialist and post-socialist Eastern Europe. If Roma have typically appeared in human rights narratives as victims, Celia Donert here draws on extensive... -
Sweden by Jessica Dean 9781641281737
RRP: £8.99£6.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781641281737Author Jessica DeanFormat HardbackPage Count 24Imprint Pogo BooksPublisher Pogo BooksWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 231mm * 196mm * 8mm -
Snapshot Stories: Visuality, Photography, and the Social History of Ireland, 1922-2000 by Erika Hanna
RRP: £97.00£67.74During the twentieth century, men and women across Ireland picked up cameras, photographing days out at the beach, composing views of Ireland's cities and countryside, and recording political events as they witnessed them. Indeed, while foreign... -
Rebel Daughters: Women and the French Revolution by Sara E. Melzer 9780195070163
RRP: £35.99£35.94This interdisciplinary collection of essays examines the important and paradoxical relation between women and the French Revolution. Although the male leaders of the Revolution depended on the women's active militant participation, they denied to women... -
The Paradoxes of Ignorance in Early Modern England and France by Sandrine Parageau
RRP: £23.99£20.84In the early modern period, ignorance was commonly perceived as a sin, a flaw, a defect, and even a threat to religion and the social order. Yet praises of ignorance were also expressed in the same context. Reclaiming the long-lasting legacy of medieval... -
All Souls and the Wider World: Statesmen, Scholars, and Adventurers, c. 1850-1950 by S. J. D. Green
£81.43All Souls College, Oxford, has been both widely praised and roundly abused for its fellows' non-academic pursuits. How was it that members of the college so often held dual citizenship in the worlds of learning and public affairs? Why, instead of... -
Revisiting Prussia's Wars against Napoleon: History, Culture, and Memory by Karen Hagemann 9780521152303
RRP: £30.99£27.17In 2013, Germany celebrated the bicentennial of the so-called Wars of Liberation (1813-15). These wars were the culmination of the Prussian struggle against Napoleon between 1806 and 1815, which occupied a key position in German national historiography... -
Surmounting the Barricades: Women in the Paris Commune by Carolyn J. Eichner
RRP: £20.99£18.37This book vividly evokes radical women's integral roles within France's revolutionary civil war known as the Paris Commune. It demonstrates the breadth, depth, and impact of communard feminist socialisms far beyond the 1871 insurrection. Examining the... -
Another Bloody Chapter in an Endless Civil War Volume 1: Northern Ireland and the Troubles 1984-87 by Ken Wharton
RRP: £45.00£18.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804510469Author Ken WhartonFormat PaperbackPage Count 420Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Early Modernity and Mobility: Port Cities and Printers across the Armenian Diaspora, 1512-1800 by Sebouh David Aslanian 9780300247534
RRP: £60.00£57.15A history of the continent-spanning Armenian print tradition in the early modern period Early Modernity and Mobility explores the disparate yet connected histories of Armenian printing establishments in early modern Europe and Asia. From 1512, when the... -
The Invention of Power: Popes, Kings, and the Birth of the West by Bruce Bueno de Mesquita
RRP: £25.00£18.78Western exceptionalism-the idea that European civilizations are freer, wealthier, and less violent-is a widespread and powerful political idea. It has been a source of peace and prosperity in some societies, and of ethnic cleansing and havoc in others... -
Scandinavia since 1500: Second Edition by Byron J. Nordstrom
RRP: £23.99£20.84An updated edition of the definitive history of Scandinavia over the past five centuries Despite certain distinctions and differences, the lands of Scandinavia, or Norden-Sweden, Norway, Finland, Iceland, Denmark, and the Faroe Islands-are united by... -
Labour and the Poor Volume X: Liverpool by Charles Mackay 9781913515102
RRP: £22.99£22.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913515102Author Charles MackayFormat HardbackPage Count 448Imprint Ditto BooksPublisher Ditto BooksDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 26mm -
Eastern Customs: The Customs Service in British Malaya and the Hunt for Opium by Derek Mackay
£54.87Generations of young Britons made their careers in Malaya. Some scaled the heights of the administrative service and are well recorded in the formal histories. Others served in less high profile but equally challenging departments, carrying out the work... -
The Wise King: A Christian Prince, Muslim Spain, and the Birth of the Renaissance by Simon R. Doubleday
RRP: £25.00£18.02If I had been present at the Creation," the thirteenth-century Spanish philosopher-king Alfonso X is said to have stated, Many faults in the universe would have been avoided." Known as El Sabio , the Wise," Alfonso was renowned by friends and enemies... -
Leeds in the Eighties and Nineties by Yorkshire Evening Post 9781859839928
£5.16Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781859839928Author Yorkshire Evening PostFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint DB PublishingPublisher DB PublishingDimensions(mm) 276mm * 195mm * 16mm -
The Politics of Planning: The Debate on Economic Planning in Britain in the 1930s by Daniel Ritschel 9780198206477
RRP: £56.00£51.96The idea of `economic planning' was a central theme of the radical economic policy debate in the 1930s. Born of the inter-war economic crisis, the call for the reconstruction of the economy according to a `plan' of one kind or another spanned practically... -
The Gothic Screen: Space, Sculpture, and Community in the Cathedrals of France and Germany, ca.1200-1400 by Jacqueline E. Jung 9781107022959
RRP: £94.99£86.44At the heart of Gothic cathedrals, the threshold between nave and sanctuary was marked by the choir screen, a partitioning structure of special complexity, grandeur, and beauty. At once a canopy for altars, a stage for performance, a pedestal for... -
The Church of England and British Politics since 1900 by Thomas Rodger
RRP: £95.00£84.75Bringing together researchers in modern British religious, political, intellectual and social history, this volume considers the persistence of the Church's public significance, despite its falling membership. During the twentieth century, the... -
'An Alien Ideology': Cold War Perceptions of the Irish Republican Left by John Mulqueen 9781789620641
RRP: £109.50£61.18An 'Irish Cuba' - on Britain's doorstep? This book studies perceptions of the Soviet Union's influence over Irish revolutionaries during the Cold War. The Dublin authorities did not allow the Irish state's non-aligned status to prevent them joining the... -
The Earthly Republic: Italian Humanists on Government and Society by Benjamin G. Kohl
RRP: £27.99£24.14The gradual secularization of European society and culture is often said to characterize the development of the modern world, and the early Italian humanists played a pioneering role in this process. Here Benjamin G. Kohl and Ronald G. Witt, with... -
Manuel II Palaiologos (1350-1425): A Byzantine Emperor in a Time of Tumult by Siren Celik
RRP: £125.00£90.28Few Byzantine emperors had a life as rich and as turbulent as Manuel II Palaiologos. A fascinating figure at the crossroads of Byzantine, Western European and Ottoman history, he endured political turmoil, witnessed no less than three sieges by the... -
The Black Prince by Michael Jones 9781643132297
RRP: £19.95£11.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781643132297Author Michael JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 488Imprint Pegasus BooksPublisher Pegasus BooksWeight(grams) 499gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 155mm *... -
Modernity and Bourgeois Life: Society, Politics, and Culture in England, France and Germany since 1750 by Jerrold Seigel 9781107666788
RRP: £30.99£27.77To be modern may mean many different things, but for nineteenth-century Europeans 'modernity' suggested a new form of life in which bourgeois activities, people, attitudes and values all played key roles. Jerrold Seigel's panoramic new history offers a... -
The French Revolution and Napoleon: Crucible of the Modern World by Professor Emeritus Lynn Hunt
RRP: £24.99£21.93In this book Lynn Hunt and Jack R. Censer lucidly trace events from 1789 until the fall of Napoleon, stressing the global dimensions of the French Revolution and offering balanced coverage of both its causes and outcomes. In doing so, Hunt and Censer... -
Being a Jesuit in Renaissance Italy: Biographical Writing in the Early Global Age by Camilla Russell 9780674261129
RRP: £42.95£34.37A new history illuminates the Society of Jesus in its first century from the perspective of those who knew it best: the early Jesuits themselves.The Society of Jesus was established in 1540. In the century that followed, thousands sought to become... -
A History of Wales 1906-2000 by D. Gareth Evans 9780708315941
RRP: £7.99£6.16This text aims to cover four main area of change during the 20th century: the political scene, social changes, economic developments and culture and educational features.About the AuthorD. Gareth Evans was born in Alltwen, Pontardawe. He held the post of... -
Reign of Henry VI by Ralph A. Griffiths 9781781554807
RRP: £30.00£20.95Henry VI is the youngest monarch ever to have ascended the English throne and the only English king to have been acknowledged by the French as rightfully King of France. His reign was the third longest since the Norman conquest and he came close to being...