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A Traveller's History of Greece by Timothy Boatswain
€2.37In "A Traveller's History of Greece", the reader is provided with an authoritative general history of Greece from its earliest beginnings down to the present day. It covers in a clear and comprehensive manner the classical past, the conflict with Persia,... -
Death and Memory in Medieval Exeter David N Lepine 9780901853462
RRP: €29.75€28.96Death, burial, and the commemoration of the dead have been much studied by historians in recent years, but far less has been done to make available the sources on which these studies are based. This book sets out to fill the gap with an anthology of the... -
Old Irish Country Life Hugh Oram 9781840333688
RRP: €14.22€12.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781840333688Author Hugh OramFormat PaperbackPage Count 56Imprint Stenlake PublishingPublisher Stenlake PublishingWeight(grams) 176gDimensions(mm) 174mm *... -
Cold War Cultures: Perspectives on Eastern and Western European Societies by Annette Vowinckel 9781782383888
RRP: €33.26€26.87The Cold War was not only about the imperial ambitions of the super powers, their military strategies, and antagonistic ideologies. It was also about conflicting worldviews and their correlates in the daily life of the societies involved. The term... -
Canadian Spy Story: Irish Revolutionaries and the Secret Police by David A. Wilson
RRP: €36.89€28.88In the mid-nineteenth century a group of Irish revolutionaries, known as the Fenians, set out to destroy Britain's North American empire. Between 1866 and 1871 they launched a series of armed raids into Canadian territory.In Canadian Spy Story David... -
The Early Ottoman Peloponnese - A Study in the Light of an Annotated Editio Princeps of the TT10-1/4662 Ottoman Taxation Cadastre by Georgios C Liakopoulos 9781909942325
€48.55The volume `The Early Ottoman Peloponnese: A study in the Light of an Annotated editio princeps of the TT10-1/14662 Ottoman Taxation Cadastre (ca. 1460-1463)' is a revised version of the author's PhD thesis, conducted at Royal Holloway, University of... -
Landscapes of the Learned: Placing Gaelic Literati in Irish Lordships 1300-1600 by Prof Elizabeth FitzPatrick
RRP: €98.77€89.65Gaelic literati were an elite and influential group in the social hierarchy of Irish lordships between c. 1300 and 1600. From their estates, they served Gaelic and Old English ruling families in the arts of history, law, medicine, and poetry. They... -
England and the Crusades, 1095-1588 by Christopher Tyerman 9780226820132
RRP: €42.84€41.92A potent mix of salvation and adventure, the Crusades were one of the most prominent features of medieval Europe, reflecting and directing religious and secular movements in Western society for half a millennium. Christopher Tyerman offers this... -
Aristocracy and its Enemies in the Age of Revolution by William Doyle 9780199559855
€50.15Since time immemorial Europe had been dominated by nobles and nobilities. In the eighteenth century their power seemed better entrenched than ever. But in 1790 the French revolutionaries made a determined attempt to abolish nobility entirely... -
Jewish Ireland in the Age of Joyce: A Socioeconomic History by Cormac O Grada 9780691127194
RRP: €77.35€69.22James Joyce's Leopold Bloom--the atheistic Everyman of Ulysses, son of a Hungarian Jewish father and an Irish Protestant mother--may have turned the world's literary eyes on Dublin, but those who look to him for history should think again. He could... -
Derry City: Memory and Political Struggle in Northern Ireland by Margo Shea
RRP: €53.55€47.10Derry is the second largest city in Northern Ireland and has had a Catholic majority since 1850. It was witness to some of the most important events of the civil rights movement and the Troubles. Derry City examines Catholic Derry from the turn of the... -
The Rise and Fall of the Scottish Cotton Industry, 1778-1914: 'The Secret Spring' by Anthony Cooke 9780719080821
RRP: €101.15€82.44This is the first full-length history of the Scottish cotton industry, from its beginnings in the late eighteenth century to its premature decline in the years leading up to the First World War.The book examines the industry chronologically and through... -
British Cultural Identities Mike Storry 9781032124056
RRP: €42.83€37.71The sixth edition of British Cultural Identities assesses the degree to which being British impinges on the identity of the many people who belong to contemporary Britain. Twenty-first-century British identity is analysed through the various and changing... -
The Court as a Stage: England and the Low Countries in the Later Middle Ages by Steven Gunn
RRP: €95.20€87.20European and English courtly culture and history reappraised through the prism of the court as theatre. In the past half-century, court history has lost the air of frivolity that once relegated it to the margins of serious historical study and has... -
John Devoy's Catalpa Expedition by Philip Fennell
RRP: €24.98€21.86The story of John Devoy's 1876 Catalpa rescue is a tale of heroism, creativity, and the triumph of independent spirit in pursuit of freedom. The daily log on board the whaling ship Catalpa begins with the typical recount of a crew intact and a spirit... -
The Sword of Scotland: 'Our Fighting Jocks' by Anthony Leask
RRP: €17.84€13.03The Sword of Scotland is the story of Scotlands military heritage. Scotlands fighting men have played a part in shaping the history of our world, and many of the individual countries in it. Its contribution and its sacrifices have been out of all... -
The Early Renaissance and Vernacular Culture by Charles Dempsey 9780674049529
RRP: €52.30€41.83Why do the paintings and poetry of the Italian Renaissance-a celebration of classical antiquity-also depict the Florentine countryside populated with figures dressed in contemporary silk robes and fleur-de-lys crowns? Upending conventional... -
Northern Europe in the Early Modern Period: The Baltic World 1492-1772 by D.G. Kirby 9780582004115
€63.64This is the first in a sequence of books which explores the history of The Baltic World and Northern Europe. In this period, Sweden was a major European power, occupying a central position in international politics. Her rise and decline, and the passing... -
Marital Violence in Post-Independence Ireland, 1922-96: 'A Living Tomb for Women' by Cara Diver
RRP: €101.15€71.60Marital violence in post-independence Ireland, 1922-96 represents the first comprehensive history of marital violence in modern Ireland, from the founding of the Irish Free State in 1922 to the passage of the Domestic Violence Act and the legalisation of... -
The Making of London: The People and Events That Made it Famous by Alan Brooke
RRP: €26.18€20.97The Making of London explores the rich history of the Metropolis from the Roman settlement established 2,000 years ago in the area that came to be known as the 'Square Mile' and traces the process whereby it eventually emerged as the world's greatest... -
Gustavas Adolphus by M. Roberts 9780582090002
RRP: €52.35€50.77Gustavus Adolphus (1594--1632) dominated his age: he made Sweden the leading power of Northern Europe, was the principal upholder of the Protestant cause in the Thirty Years War, and was a great administrator as well as a brilliant soldier. His... -
On the Spirit of Rights by Dan Edelstein
RRP: €30.94€29.57By the end of the eighteenth century, politicians in America and France were invoking the natural rights of man to wrest sovereignty away from kings and lay down universal basic entitlements. Exactly how and when did "rights" come to justify such... -
Syon Abbey and its Books: Reading, Writing and Religion, c.1400-1700 E A Jones 9781843835479
RRP: €95.20€91.64Essays on the turbulent history of Syon Abbey, focussing on the role played by reading and writing in constructing its identity and experience. Founded in 1415, the double monastery of Syon Abbey was the only English example of the order established... -
Europe in the Sixteenth Century by David Maland
€52.82This highly successful text book is ideal for a wide range of A-level syllabuses.Book InformationISBN 9780333327128Author David MalandFormat PaperbackPage Count 443Imprint Red Globe PressPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLCWeight(grams) 586g -
Capitalism and Slavery by Eric Williams 9781469663678
€125.40Slavery helped finance the Industrial Revolution in England. Plantation owners, shipbuilders, and merchants connected with the slave trade accumulated vast fortunes that established banks and heavy industry in Europe and expanded the reach of capitalism... -
Augsburg During the Reformation Era: An Anthology of Sources by Ms. B. Ann Tlusty 9781603848411
RRP: €19.03€15.90Sixteenth-century Augsburg comes to life in this beautifully chosen and elegantly translated selection of original documents. Ranging across the whole panoply of social activity from the legislative reformation to work, recreation, and family life, these... -
The People of the Parish: Community Life in a Late Medieval English Diocese by Katherine L. French
RRP: €83.30€72.24The parish, the lowest level of hierarchy in the medieval church, was the shared responsibility of the laity and the clergy. Most Christians were baptized, went to confession, were married, and were buried in the parish church or churchyard; in addition,... -
The Balkan Wars: A Captivating Guide to the First and Second Balkan War and Their Impact on World War I by Captivating History
RRP: €28.55€19.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781637164600Author Captivating HistoryFormat HardbackPage Count 138Imprint Captivating HistoryPublisher Captivating HistoryWeight(grams) 354gDimensions(mm)... -
The Creation of the Principality of Antioch, 1098-1130 by Thomas S Asbridge
RRP: €95.20€87.20The first major study of the principality of Antioch, reasserting its significance and challenging the dominance of Jerusalem in modern crusading historiography. The First Crusade wrought many changes across the medieval world, not least in Levant,... -
Monastic Experience in Twelfth-Century Germany: The Chronicle of Petershausen in Translation by Alison I. Beach 9781526166975
RRP: €23.80€21.23Monastic experience in twelfth-century Germany provides a rare window on to monastery life in the tumultuous world of twelfth-century Swabia. From its founding in 992 through the great fire that ravaged it in 1159 and beyond, Petershausen weathered... -
Institutionalizing Gender: Madness, the Family, and Psychiatric Power in Nineteenth-Century France by Jessie Hewitt
RRP: €21.41€18.92Institutionalizing Gender analyzes the relationship between class, gender, and psychiatry in France from 1789 to 1900, an era noteworthy for the creation of the psychiatric profession, the development of a national asylum system, and the spread of... -
The The Complete Diary of a Cotswold Lady: v. 1: The Complete Diary of a Cotswold Lady Lady of Rodborough by Agnes Witts 9781848680104
RRP: €29.75€23.25The Complete Diary of a Cotswold Lady is an extraordinary sequence of daily entries, covering the years 1788 to 1824. During these thirty-seven years Agnes Witts - a remarkable woman with great zest for life - recorded the weather, letters received and... -
The Swedish Imperial Experience 1560-1718 by Michael Roberts
RRP: €34.50€29.06In his Wiles Lectures for 1977 Professor Roberts examines some of the problems raised by Sweden's brief career as a great power, and seeks to answer some of the questions that flow from them. Were the underlying considerations which prompted the... -
The Fascist Party and Popular Opinion in Mussolini's Italy by Paul Corner
RRP: €41.64€38.09The question of how ordinary people related to totalitarian regimes is still far from being answered. The tension between repression and consensus makes analysis difficult; where one ends and the other begins is never easy to determine. In the case of... -
Violence and Justice in Bologna: 1250-1700 by Sarah Rubin Blanshei 9781498546331
RRP: €124.95€109.63This collection of essays offers a unique contribution to the study of violence and justice in a late medieval and early modern Italy by combining a multivocal perspective with a case-study focus on the city-state of Bologna. Drawing on the city's... -
The Life And Times Of Goldsworthy: Gentleman Scientist and Inventor 1793-1875 by Dale Porter 9780934223508
€114.53Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780934223508Author Dale PorterFormat HardbackPage Count 285Imprint Lehigh University PressPublisher Associated University Presses -
Russia: Revolution and Counter-Revolution 1917-1924 by John Daborn 9780521367905
RRP: €24.40€19.22The Revolution of 1917 briefly opened up the possibility of a new world of freedom and equality. It ended, however, in totalitarian dictatorship and the establishment of a new ruling class in Russia.;This selection of documents will allow readers to... -
Watford: The Second Selection by Judith Knight 9780752411361
RRP: €15.46€11.45Watford has witnessed an unprecedented number of changes over the century covered in this volume (around 1870 to 1970). The nineteenth and early twentieth centuries saw a great industrial and residential expansion; then followed the Blitz, the... -
Planters, Paupers, and Pioneers: English Settlers in Atlantic Canada by Lucille H. Campey 9781554887484
RRP: €23.80€16.64The first-ever comprehensive book written on early English immigration to Canada, Planters, Paupers, and Pioneers introduces a series of three titles on The English in Canada. Focusing on factors that brought the English to Atlantic Canada, it traces the... -
Changing Ashford: Britain In Old Photographs by Steve R. Salter
RRP: €15.46€11.45The past fifty years have seen many important changes for Ashford. It was once a quaint and sleepy market town, but for many people recent developments have changed it beyond all recognition. It would be unfair to say that this Kentish town has changed...