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The Resurrection of Hungary: A Parallel for Ireland by Arthur Griffith 9781900621960
RRP: $33.15$32.19First published in 1904 and twice reprinted, this book strongly influenced nationalist debate between 1904 and 1921. Its central proposal - the withdrawal of Irish elected representatives from Westminster - was inherited from the Hungarian Franz Deak's... -
The Media in Scotland by Neil Blain
RRP: $56.53$53.25This book brings together academics, writers and politicians to explore the range and nature of the media in Scotland. The book includes chapters on the separate histories of the press, broadcasting and cinema, on the representation and construction of... -
Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Stone Sculpture, Volume XIII: Derbyshire and Staffordshire by Jane Hawkes
$199.13This volume in the Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Sculpture surveys the counties of Derbyshire and Staffordshire and provides an analytical catalogue of the Anglo-Saxon stone sculptures of that region. Introductory chapters set the material within historical,... -
Great War Britain Manchester: Remembering 1914-18 by Andrew Simpson 9780750978965
RRP: $25.33$18.76The First World War claimed over 995,000 British lives, and its legacy continues to be remembered today.Great War Britain: Manchester offers an intimate portrayal of the city and its people living in the shadow of the Great War. A beautifully illustrated... -
Working Class Heroes: Rock Music and British Society in the 1960s and 1970s by David Simonelli 9780739170526
RRP: $87.75$77.01In Working Class Heroes, David Simonelli explores the influence of rock and roll on British society in the 1960s and '70s. At a time when social distinctions were becoming harder to measure, rock musicians appeared to embody the mythical qualities of the... -
Kingmakers: How Power in England Was Won and Lost on the Welsh Frontier by Timothy Venning 9781398119499
RRP: $23.38$15.33For a medieval English king, delegation was a necessary evil; and nowhere more necessary - nor more potentially disastrous - than on the Anglo-Welsh borders. The Marcher lords first empowered by William I were relied upon by subsequent Norman and... -
Britain since 1688: A Nation in the World Stephanie Barczewski (Clemson University, USA) 9781032257174
RRP: $74.08$65.09Now in its second edition, Britain since 1688 is an accessible and comprehensive introduction to British History from 1688 to the present day that assumes no prior knowledge of the subject.Chronological in structure yet thematic in approach, the book... -
History Derailed: Central and Eastern Europe in the Long Nineteenth Century by Ivan T. Berend 9780520245259
RRP: $52.65$41.07There is probably no greater authority on the modern history of central and eastern Europe than Ivan Berend, whose previous work, Decades of Crisis, was hailed by critics as "masterful" and "the broadest synthesis of the modern social, economic, and... -
A History of the County of Oxford: XIX: Wychwood Forest and Environs Simon Townley 9781904356516
RRP: $185.25$179.95Authoritative account of villages on the edge of the Cotswolds. Until its partial clearance in the 1850s Wychwood forest, set in an undulating landscape on the edge of the Cotswolds, was one of the great royal forests of England, comparable with... -
World of the Small Farmer: Tenure, Profit and Politics in the Early-Modern Somerset Levels by Patricia Croot
RRP: $37.03$33.11This detailed and original study of early-modern agrarian society in the Somerset Levels examines the small landholders in a group of sixteen contiguous parishes in the area known as Brent Marsh. These were farmers with lifehold tenures and a mixed... -
The South East from 1000 AD by Peter Brandon 9780582492455
$58.97A volume dealing with the regional and local history of South East England, this covers the landcape and society of the modern counties of Surrey, Kent, East and West Sussex and Greater London, south of the Thames from late Anglo-Saxon times to the... -
Material London, ca. 1600 by Lena Cowen Orlin
RRP: $68.25$60.72Between 1500 and 1700, London grew from a minor national capital to the largest city in Europe. The defining period of growth was the period from 1550 to 1650, the midpoint of which coincided with the end of Elizabeth I's reign and the height of... -
The Theatre of Death: The Ritual Management of Royal Funerals in Renaissance England, 1570-1625 Jennifer Woodward 9780851157047
RRP: $156.00$150.17English royal funeral ceremony from Mary, Queen of Scots to James I gives fascinating insight into the relationship between power and ritual at the renaissance court. This book represents the first detailed study into English royal funeral ceremonies... -
Representing the Male: Masculinity, Genre and Social Context in Six South Wales Novels by John Perrott Jenkins 9781786837783
RRP: $48.73$36.66The book subjects male characters in six south Wales novels written between 1936 and 2014 to detailed, gendered reading. It argues that the novels critique the form of masculine hegemony propagated by structural patriarchy serving the material demands of... -
Origins of the Second World War: The Instant Guide by Instant Guides
RRP: $4.88$4.02Instant Guides are packed with essential information and useful facts covering a wide variety of subjects from survival skills to stargazing. Portable, easy to use and durable they contain all the basics whether you're studying the subject or just... -
St Stephen`s College, Westminster - A Royal Chapel and English Kingship, 1348-1548 by Elizabeth Biggs
RRP: $156.00$143.68First full-length account of St Stephen's Chapel, bringing out its full importance and influence throughout the Middle Ages. In St Stephen's College, the royally-favoured religious institution at the heart of the busy administrative world of the... -
Civilised by Beasts: Animals and Urban Change in Nineteenth-Century Dublin by Juliana Adelman 9781526160706
RRP: $38.98$34.34Civilised by beasts tells the story of nineteenth-century Dublin through human-animal relationships. It offers a unique perspective on ordinary life in the Irish metropolis during a century of significant change and reform. At its heart is the argument... -
The Irish Question and British Politics, 1868-1996 by George Boyce
$66.75The problems of modern Ireland have attracted the attention of many British political leaders from Gladstone to Major. Attempts to formulate a 'solution' have been governed by the British perception of what the problem is, and by the structures, as well... -
Dislocating the Orient: British Maps and the Making of the Middle East, 1854-1921 Daniel Foliard 9780226451336
RRP: $101.40$97.71While the twentieth century's conflicting visions and exploitation of the Middle East are well documented, the origins of the concept of the Middle East itself have been largely ignored. With Dislocating the Orient, Daniel Foliard tells the story of how... -
Victorian Print Media: A Reader by John Plunkett 9780199270385
$84.01Victorian culture was dominated by an ever expanding world of print. A tremendous increase in the volume of books, newspapers, and periodicals, was matched by the corresponding development of the first mass reading public. It has long been acknowledged... -
I Saw Democracy Murdered: The Memoir of Sam Russell, Journalist Colin Chambers (Kingston University, UK) 9781032128566
RRP: $72.13$63.43I Saw Democracy Murdered is the memoir of Sam Russell (1915-2010), a communist journalist and a British volunteer with the anti-fascist Republican forces in the Spanish Civil War.The book covers his experiences during the Spanish Civil War, his time as a... -
Suburban London Cinemas by Gary Wharton
RRP: $31.18$25.25Among the 50 historic cinemas featured are the Finsbury Park Astoria, the Maida Vale Picture House, the Shepherds Bush Pavilion, the West Ealing Kinema, the Woolwich Granada and Kilburn's Gaumont State. Illustrated with 100 images, this well-researched... -
From Tartan to Tartanry: Scottish Culture, History and Myth by Ian Brown
RRP: $56.53$55.75This book considers the significance of tartan in Scottish history and culture, and the rise of tartanry in the representation of Scottishness. This is an historically and critically sound - and contemporary - evaluation of tartan and tartanry based on... -
The Axe and the Oath: Ordinary Life in the Middle Ages by Robert Fossier 9780691143125
RRP: $58.50$46.20In "The Axe and the Oath", one of the world's leading medieval historians presents a compelling picture of daily life in the Middle Ages as it was experienced by ordinary people. Writing for general readers, Robert Fossier vividly describes how these... -
Protest, Politics and Work in Rural England, 1700-1850 by Carl J. Griffin
$66.75Rural workers in eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century England were not passive victims in the face of rapid social change. Carl J. Griffin shows that they deployed an extensive range of resistances to defend their livelihoods and communities... -
Risorgimento in Exile: Italian Emigres and the Liberal International in the Post-Napoleonic Era by Maurizio Isabella 9780198749066
$92.16The experience of exiles was fundamental for shaping Italian national identity. Risorgimento in Exile investigates the contribution to Italian nationalism made by the numerous patriots who were forced to live in exile following failed revolutions in the... -
A History of the County of York: East Riding: Volume X: Part 1: Howdenshire: the Townships David Crouch 9781904356509
RRP: $185.25$179.95An authoritative and comprehensive account of an important area centred around the town of Howden. This is the first part to be published of a two-part volume on the East Riding liberty and wapentake of Howdenshire. It deals with the nineteen civil... -
On the Edge: Coastlines of Britain by Robert Duck
RRP: $72.15$66.32This is a first evaluation of the physical impact of railway construction on the British coast. The building of railways has had a profound but largely ignored physical impact on Britain's coasts. This book explores the coming of railways to the edge of... -
Noble Brutes: How Eastern Horses Transformed English Culture by Donna Landry
RRP: $92.63$92.47"His lordship's Arabian," a phrase often heard in eighteenth-century England, described a new kind of horse imported into the British Isles from the Ottoman Empire and the Barbary States of North Africa. Noble Brutes traces how the introduction of these... -
Feeling Memory: Remembering Wartime Childhoods in France by Lindsey Dodd 9780231209199
RRP: $58.50$45.42What did it feel like to be a child in France during World War II? Feeling Memory is an affective exploration of children's lives in wartime France and the ways they are remembered.Lindsey Dodd draws on the recorded oral narratives of a hundred people to... -
The Rome We Have Lost by John Pemble
RRP: $43.86$31.08For a thousand years, Rome was enshrined in myth and legend as the Eternal City. No Grand Tour would be complete without a visit to its ruins. But from 1870 all that changed. A millennium ended as its solitary moonlit ruins became floodlit monuments on... -
War and the British: Gender and National Identity, 1939-91 Revised Edition by Prof. Lucy Noakes
$61.29We know that conflict, and people's memory of it, profoundly shapes both individual selfhoods and social identities. War and the British explores key ideas of British collective nationhood and personal identity, and in particular shines an important... -
Population, Welfare and Economic Change in Britain, 1290-1834 Chris Briggs 9781843839552
RRP: $48.75$40.79Presents the latest research on the causes and consequences of British population change from the medieval period to the eve of the Industrial Revolution, in both town and countryside Population, Welfare and Economic Change presents the latest... -
Proletarian Nights: The Workers' Dream in Nineteenth-century France by Jacques Ranciere
$57.29Proletarian Nights, previously published in English as Nights of Labor and one of Ranciere's most important works, dramatically reinterprets the Revolution of 1830, contending that workers were not rebelling against specific hardships and conditions but... -
The Armenians by A. E. Redgate 9780631220374
RRP: $74.00$66.69This is a 3000 year history of one of Europe's most fascinating and important peoples.About the AuthorAnne Elizabeth Redgate was born in Lancashire and educated at Bolton School Girls' Division and St. Anne's College, Oxford. She is Lecturer in History... -
Greasbrough by Anthony Dodsworth 9780752436760
RRP: $25.33$18.76This beautiful collection of over 200 archive images, many never before published, explores the South Yorkshire village of Greasbrough. The village has changed considerably in the last fifty years; buildings have disappeared and schools, churches and... -
Arguing about Empire: Imperial Rhetoric in Britain and France, 1882-1956 by Martin Thomas
$52.10Arguing about Empire analyses the most divisive arguments about empire between Europe's two leading colonial powers from the age of high imperialism to the post-war era of decolonization. Focusing on the domestic contexts underlying imperial rhetoric,... -
Zweites Buch (Secret Book): Adolf Hitler's Sequel to Mein Kamph by Adolf Hitler 9780995721548
RRP: $97.48$85.33Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995721548Author Adolf HitlerFormat HardbackImprint Black Kite PublishingPublisher Black Kite Publishing -
Gertrude Bell and Iraq: A life and legacy by Charles Tripp 9780197266076
$147.26This is a major re-evaluation of the life and legacy of Gertrude Lowthian Bell (1868-1926), the renowned scholar, explorer, writer, archaeologist, and British civil servant. The book examines Gertrude Bell's role in shaping British policy in the Middle... -
Cyprus and the Balance of Empires: Art and Archaeology from Justinian I to the Coeur de Lion by Thomas W. Davis
$34.30Between 491 and 1191 AD, Cyprus was influenced by various political and cultural centres that vied for dominance in the Eastern Mediterranean. This collection of essays primarily focuses on the island's archaeology when it was governed by the Byzantine...