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Power in the Blood: Popular Culture and Village Discourse in Early Modern Germany by David Warren Sabean
RRP: $44.83$38.14This book offers a substantial reassessment of peasant society and popular culture in early modern Europe. The book is based on a series of episodes from village or small town life of the duchy of Wurttemberg in southwest Germany from 1580 and 1800, in... -
The HavenerAEs Accounts of the Earldom and Duchy of Cornwall, 1287-1356 Maryanne Kowaleski (Customer) 9780901853448
RRP: $48.75$47.46From at least the mid-thirteenth century, the Earl of Cornwall, the wealthiest and most politically powerful lord in the county, employed a special official - called the havener - to supervise the administration of his maritime profits in the county... -
Fighting for the Cross: Crusading to the Holy Land by Norman Housley 9780300118889
RRP: $63.38$62.36In a series of massive military undertakings that stretched from 1095 to 1291, Christendom's armies won, defended, and lost the sacred sites of the Holy Land. Many books have been written about the Crusades, but until now none has described in detail... -
The Chronology of Revolution: Communism, Culture, and Civil Society in Twentieth-Century Britain by Ben Harker
RRP: $120.90$98.61Based on a decade of research in over twenty archives, The Chronology of Revolution is an accessible and richly detailed work of historical and cultural analysis that fixes its gaze on the legacy of the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB). Communists... -
Prison Notebooks: Volume 1 by Antonio Gramsci
RRP: $58.50$46.20Antonio Gramsci (1891-1937) is widely celebrated as the most original political thinker in Western Marxism and an all-around outstanding intellectual figure. Arrested and imprisoned by the Italian Fascist regime in 1926, Gramsci died before fully... -
In Defense of Christian Hungary: Religion, Nationalism, and Antisemitism, 1890-1944 by Paul A. Hanebrink 9780801475306
RRP: $58.48$51.68In this important historical account of the role that religion played in defining the political life of a modern national society, Paul A. Hanebrink shows how Hungarian nationalists redefined Hungary-a liberal society in the nineteenth century-as a... -
On Glasgow and Edinburgh by Robert Crawford 9780674088030
RRP: $52.55$41.75Edinburgh and Glasgow enjoy a famously scratchy relationship. Resembling other intercity rivalries throughout the world, from Madrid and Barcelona, to Moscow and St. Petersburg, to Beijing and Shanghai, Scotland's sparring metropolises just happen to be... -
Europe in the Seventeenth Century by Donald Pennington 9780582493889
RRP: $115.03$112.71As before, the second edition of this widely-used survey is in two main parts. The first analyses the major themes of seventeenth-century European history on a continent-wide basis. The second part moves on to outline political, diplomatic and military... -
By Sword and Plow: France and the Conquest of Algeria by Jennifer E. Sessions
RRP: $66.30$58.29In 1830, with France's colonial empire in ruins, Charles X ordered his army to invade Ottoman Algiers. Victory did not salvage his regime from revolution, but it began the French conquest of Algeria, which was continued and consolidated by the succeeding... -
Victorians Undone: Tales of the Flesh in the Age of Decorum by Kathryn Hughes 9781421425702
RRP: $58.40$39.57A fascinating account of what it was like to live in a Victorian body from best-selling historian and critic Kathryn Hughes.In Victorians Undone, renowned British historian Kathryn Hughes follows five iconic figures of the nineteenth century as they... -
The Invention of Altruism: Making Moral Meanings in Victorian Britain by Thomas Dixon 9780197264263
$206.23Altruism' was coined by the French sociologist Auguste Comte in the early 1850s as a theoretical term in his 'cerebral theory' and as the central ideal of his atheistic 'Religion of Humanity'. In The Invention of Altruism, Thomas Dixon traces this new... -
Histories, Volume II: Books 3-4 by Richer of Saint-Remi
RRP: $58.40$46.14The Historia of Richer of Saint-Remi (ca. 950-ca. 1000), an invaluable source for understanding tenth-century West Francia (present-day France), provides a rare contemporary account of the waning Carolingian dynasty, accession of Hugh Capet, and failed... -
The Political Writings of EVA Gore-Booth by Sonja Tiernan
RRP: $38.98$28.31The political writings of Eva Gore-Booth brings together a fascinating array of material from this important Irish author and political activist. The volume includes a selection of letters, political pamphlets, newspaper articles and poetry relating to... -
A Companion to Russian History Abbott Gleason (Brown University, USA) 9781118730003
RRP: $75.95$67.47This companion comprises 28 essays by international scholars offering an analytical overview of the development of Russian history from the earliest Slavs through to the present day. * Includes essays by both prominent and emerging scholars from Russia,... -
French Renaissance Monarchy: Francis I & Henry II by R. J. Knecht
$71.53First published in 1984, Professor Knecht's study quickly established itself as the best short account of the period. The reigns of Francis I and Henry II, spanning the first half of the sixteenth century, are one of the most colourful and formative... -
The Victory of Sinn Fein by Patrick Sarsfield O'Hegarty 9781906359997
$21.57The Centenary Classics series examines the fascinating time of change and evolution in the Ireland of 100 years ago during the 1916-23 revolutionary period. Each volume is introduced by Fearghal McGarry who sets the scene of this important period in... -
A History of the Cotton Industry: A Story in Three Continents by Anthony Burton 9781399057318
RRP: $48.75$34.36This book is about technology and how it has changed the lives of people on three continents over the last three hundred years. The development of the cotton industry was the starting point for one of the great turning points in history – the industrial... -
The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte by Karl Marx 9780717800568
RRP: $31.18$26.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780717800568Author Karl MarxFormat PaperbackPage Count 161Imprint International Publishers Co Inc.,U.S.Publisher International Publishers Co Inc.,U.S... -
Hitler's Geographies: The Spatialities of the Third Reich by Paolo Giaccaria
RRP: $93.60$90.46Lebensraum: the entitlement of "legitimate" Germans to living space. Entfernung: the expulsion of "undesirables" to create empty space for German resettlement. During his thirteen years leading Germany, Hitler developed and made use of a number of... -
The Blasphemies of Thomas Aikenhead: Boundaries of Belief on the Eve of the Enlightenment by Michael F. Graham
RRP: $46.78$42.61Thomas Aikenhead, a sometime University of Edinburgh student, was in 1697 the last person executed for blasphemy in Britain. Michael Graham uses the case to open a window into the world of late seventeenth-century Edinburgh and Scotland, exploring the... -
Private Life and Privacy in Nazi Germany by Elizabeth Harvey
RRP: $72.13$50.41Was it possible to have a private life under the Nazi dictatorship? It has often been assumed that private life and the notion of privacy had no place under Nazi rule. Meanwhile, in recent years historians of Nazism have been emphasising the degree to... -
The Lombard Laws by Katherine Fischer Drew
RRP: $54.58$47.07Here presented for the first time in English are the law codes of the Lombard kings who ruled Italy from the sixth to the eighth centuries. The documents afford unparalleled insight into the structure and values of Germanic society.About the... -
The Age of the Gas Mask: How British Civilians Faced the Terrors of Total War by Susan R. Grayzel
RRP: $48.75$39.59The First World War introduced the widespread use of lethal chemical weapons. In its aftermath, the British government, like that of many states, had to prepare civilians to confront such weapons in a future war. Over the course of the interwar period,... -
Art and Identity in Scotland: A Cultural History from the Jacobite Rising of 1745 to Walter Scott by Viccy Coltman 9781108417686
RRP: $175.50$158.79This lively and erudite cultural history of Scotland, from the Jacobite defeat of 1745 to the death of an icon, Sir Walter Scott, in 1832, examines how Scottish identity was experienced and represented in novel ways. Weaving together previously... -
Boudicca - Her Place in History and the Fortunes of Her Tribe by Mark Cochrane
RRP: $25.33$17.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398407770Author Mark CochraneFormat PaperbackPage Count 434Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers -
Polydore Vergil on Discovery by Polydore Vergil
RRP: $58.40$46.92The Italian humanist Polydore Vergil (1470-1555) was born in Urbino but spent most of his life in early Tudor England. His most popular work, On Discovery (De inventoribus rerum, 1499), was the first comprehensive account of discoveries and inventions... -
Fascist Modernities: Italy, 1922-1945 by Ruth Ben-Ghiat
RRP: $95.55$86.37Ruth Ben-Ghiat's innovative cultural history of Mussolini's dictatorship is a provocative discussion of the meanings of modernity in interwar Italy. Eloquent, pathbreaking, and deft in its use of a broad range of materials, this work argues that fascism... -
Communities in Contrast: Doncaster and its rural hinterland, c.1830-1870 by Sarah Holland
RRP: $37.03$33.11This book investigates what a case study of a northern market town and its rural hinterland can tell us about village differentiation, exploring how and why rural communities developed in what was chiefly an industrial region and, notably, how the... -
Eternal Victory: Triumphal Rulership in Late Antiquity, Byzantium and the Early Medieval West by Michael McCormick
RRP: $60.43$55.93As the Roman empire declined and 'fell', contemporary glorification of the emperor's triumphal rulership reached new heights, strewing traces of the empire's perennial victory across the physical and mental landscape of late antiquity. In this, the first... -
Combatants and Civilians in Revolutionary Ireland, 1918-1923 by Thomas Earls FitzGerald
RRP: $77.98$68.37This book is based on original research into intimidation and violence directed at civilians by combatants during the revolutionary period in Ireland, considering this from the perspectives of the British, the Free State and the IRA.The book combines... -
The House of Medici: Its Rise and Fall by Christopher Hibbert 9780688053390
RRP: $29.25$24.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780688053390Author Christopher HibbertFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint HarperPaperbacksPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc -
The Cosmatesque Mosaics of Westminster Abbey: The Pavements and Royal Tombs: History, Archaeology, Architecture and Conservation by Warwick Rodwell 9781789252347
$165.18Westminster Abbey contains the only surviving medieval Cosmatesque mosaics outside Italy. They comprise: the 'Great Pavement' in the sanctuary; the pavement around the shrine of Edward the Confessor; the saint's tomb and shrine; Henry III's tomb; the... -
Lepanto 1571: The Madonna's Victory by Nic Fields
RRP: $31.18$24.73The battle of Lepanto has long been considered one of the decisive naval battles of history. Yet, the savage fighting on Sunday, 7 October 1571 left the strategic map unchanged and the defeated Ottoman Turks were able to replace their losses and launch a... -
Chronicles of the Investiture Contest: Frutolf of Michelsberg and His Continuators by T. J. H. McCarthy
RRP: $38.98$28.31This book is the first English translation of one of the most significant chronicles of the middle ages. Written in Bamberg at the end of the eleventh century, Frutolf of Michelsberg's Chronicle offers a lively and vivid account of the great struggle... -
Where Did That Regiment Go?: The Lineage of British Infantry and Cavalry Regiments at a Glance by Gerry Murphy 9780750968508
RRP: $35.08$26.60Everyone has heard of, say, the Irish Fusliliers, the Glorious Glosters, or Royal Scots Greys. But where are these regiments today? What are they called? And what were they called a hundred years ago? The painful and much-resented rationalisation of the... -
Collected Letters of a Renaissance Feminist Laura Cereta 9780226100135
RRP: $64.35$62.50This is a collection of the letters of Laura Cereta (1469-1499), which present feminist issues in a predominantly male environment. Cereta's works circulated widely in Italy, and in them she explores the history of women's contributions to the... -
The Inner Lives of Medieval Inquisitors by Karen Sullivan
RRP: $54.60$53.41There have been numerous studies in recent decades of the medieval inquisitions, most emphasizing larger social and political circumstances and neglecting the role of the inquisitors themselves. In this volume, Karen Sullivan sheds much-needed light on... -
Making Murder Public: Homicide in Early Modern England, 1480-1680 by K.J. Kesselring 9780198835622
RRP: $181.35$138.57Homicide has a history. In early modern England, that history saw two especially notable developments: one, the emergence in the sixteenth century of a formal distinction between murder and manslaughter, made meaningful through a lighter punishment than... -
Transitional Justice and the 'Disappeared' of Northern Ireland: Silence, Memory, and the Construction of the Past by Lauren Dempster
RRP: $81.88$71.66This book employs a transitional justice lens to address the 'disappearances' that occurred during the Northern Ireland conflict - or 'Troubles' - and the post-conflict response to these 'disappearances.' Despite an extensive literature around 'dealing... -
Company Politics: Commerce, Scandal, and French Visions of Indian Empire in the Revolutionary Era by Elizabeth Cross 9780197653753
RRP: $70.18$64.14In the wake of the Seven Years' War and the consolidation of British power on the subcontinent, the French monarchy chartered a new East India Company. The Nouvelle Compagnie des Indes was an attempt to maintain French diplomatic and financial credit...