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Legal London: A Pictorial History by Mark D. Herber 9781860775079
RRP: £17.99£13.64London has been home to more lawyers, for more centuries, than any other city on earth. Paris ran it neck-and-neck for a while, after which London romped away as the imperial capital of a legal system with Royal Courts of Justice, Inns of Court, Courts... -
The First World War Diaries of the Rt. Rev. Llewellyn Gwynne, July 1915-July 1916 Rev Dr Peter Howson 9781783273966
RRP: £70.00£67.24The Right Reverend Llewellyn Gwynne's diaries offer a unique insight into a period of change for the army, chaplains and the Church of England during a critical period of the First World War. Few men spent the whole of World War One serving in the... -
The Stroudwater Navigation by Joan Tucker 9780752428062
RRP: £19.99£15.02The Stroud Navigation opened in 1779 from the Severn at Framilode to Stroud, Gloucestershire, a distance of eight miles. It brought increased prosperity to the Stroud Valleys, a centre for early industrialisation. Ten years later the Thames & Severn... -
Surviving Kinsale: Irish Emigration and Identity Formation in Early Modern Spain, 1601-40 by Ciaran O'Scea
RRP: £85.00£60.17In the aftermath of the Battle of Kinsale in 1601 as many as 10,000 Irish emigrated from Ireland to Galicia in the north-west of Spain. Between 1601 and 1608 the brunt of this immigration fell on the city of La Coruna, which became a virtual encampment... -
Sharrow Vale & the Antiques Quarter by Darren O'Brien 9780750989329
RRP: £18.00£13.65Darren O'Brien documents two developing communities of Sheffield as gentrification begins to take place. Both areas are seeing an influx of outsiders and changing community dynamics.About the AuthorDarren O'Brien is a documentary photographer and... -
Social Outsiders in Nazi Germany by Robert Gellately 9780691086842
RRP: £45.00£35.32When Hitler assumed power in 1933, he and other Nazis had firm ideas on what they called a racially pure "community of the people." They quickly took steps against those whom they wanted to isolate, deport, or destroy. In these essays informed by the... -
Kidnapped Souls: National Indifference and the Battle for Children in the Bohemian Lands, 1900–1948 by Tara Zahra 9780801446283
RRP: £39.00£34.52Throughout the nineteenth and into the early decades of the twentieth century, it was common for rural and working-class parents in the Czech-German borderlands to ensure that their children were bilingual by sending them to live with families who spoke... -
The Collaboration: Hollywood's Pact with Hitler by Ben Urwand 9780674088108
RRP: £26.95£21.41To continue doing business in Germany after Hitler's ascent to power, Hollywood studios agreed not to make films that attacked the Nazis or condemned Germany's persecution of Jews. Ben Urwand reveals this bargain for the first time-a "collaboration"... -
Dame Alice Kyteler the Sorceress of Kilkenny A.D. 1324 (Folklore History Series) by John Drelincourt Seymour 9781528770729
RRP: £19.99£17.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781528770729Author John Drelincourt SeymourFormat HardbackPage Count 26Imprint Read BooksPublisher Read BooksWeight(grams) 186gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm... -
A Century of Manchester: Events, People and Places Over the 20th Century by Chris Makepeace
RRP: £14.99£11.55This fascinating selection of photographs illustrates the extraordinary transformation that has taken place in Manchester during the 20th century. The book offers an insight into the daily lives and living conditions of local people and gives the reader... -
Gambling in Britain in the Long Eighteenth Century by Bob Harris
RRP: £75.00£68.14English society in the eighteenth century was allegedly marked by a 'gambling mania', such was the prevalence and intensity of different forms of 'gaming'. Gambling in Britain in the Long Eighteenth Century subjects this notion to systematic scrutiny,... -
Unearthing Franco's Legacy: Mass Graves and the Recovery of Historical Memory in Spain by Carlos Jerez Farran
RRP: £32.00£28.21Unearthing Franco's Legacy: Mass Graves and the Recovery of Historical Memory in Spain addresses the political, cultural, and historical debate that has ensued in Spain as a result of the recent discovery and exhumation of mass graves dating from the... -
The Jews in a Polish Private Town: The Case of Opatow in the Eighteenth Century by Gershon David Hundert
RRP: £39.00£34.68Winner of the Montreal Jewish Public Library's J. I. Segal PrizeOriginally published in 1991. In the eighteenth century, more than half of the world's Jewish population lived in Polish private villages and towns owned by magnate-aristocrats. Furthermore,... -
Byzantine Legal Culture and the Roman Legal Tradition, 867-1056 by Zachary Chitwood
RRP: £30.99£22.85This social history of Byzantine law offers an introduction to one of the world's richest yet hitherto understudied legal traditions. In the first study of its kind, Chitwood explores and reinterprets the seminal legal-historical events of the Byzantine... -
The Secret Voyage of Sir Francis Drake: 1577-1580 by Samuel Bawlf 9780142004593
RRP: £24.00£17.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780142004593Author Samuel BawlfFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 386gDimensions(mm) 214mm * 140mm *... -
Napoleon in Italy: 1805 - 1815 by Juan Carlos Camignani 9782352503231
RRP: £34.95£26.65The links between Napoleon and Italy are too often reduced to its dazzling campaigns of 1796 and 1800. This love story, consisting of moments of happiness, but also resentment, continued well beyond the Battle of Marengo. The story of Napoleon and Italy... -
Fire Under the Ashes: An Atlantic History of the English Revolution by John Donoghue 9780226157658
RRP: £42.00£40.81Located in the crowded center of seventeenth-century London, the rough community of Coleman Street Ward was a hotbed of political and religious unrest. There among diverse and contentious groups of puritans a seething republican underground developed as... -
England's Northern Frontier: Conflict and Local Society in the Fifteenth-Century Scottish Marches by Jackson W. Armstrong
RRP: £125.00£90.88The three counties of England's northern borderlands have long had a reputation as an exceptional and peripheral region within the medieval kingdom, preoccupied with local turbulence as a result of the proximity of a hostile frontier with Scotland. Yet,... -
Women Defying Hitler: Rescue and Resistance under the Nazis by Professor Nathan Stoltzfus
RRP: £23.99£20.94This timely volume brings together an international team of leading scholars to explore the ways that women responded to situations of immense deprivation, need, and victimization under Hitler's dictatorship. Paying acute attention to the differences... -
The Kindness of Strangers: Abandonment of Children in Western Europe from Late Antiquity to the Renaissance by John Boswell
RRP: £30.00£29.25In this work, John Boswell argues that child abandonment was a common and morally acceptable practice from antiquity until the Renaissance. Using a variety of sources, including drama and mythological-literary texts as well as demographics, Boswell... -
Unruly Women of Paris: Images of the Commune by Gay L. Gullickson
RRP: £31.00£27.36In this vividly written and amply illustrated book, Gay L. Gullickson analyzes the representations of women who were part of the insurrection known as the Paris Commune. The uprising and its bloody suppression by the French army is still one of the most... -
Refashioning Medieval and Early Modern Dress: A Tribute to Robin Netherton Professor Gale R. Owen-Crocker 9781783274741
RRP: £90.00£86.39Essays on costume, fabric and clothing in the Middle Ages and beyond. All those who work with historical dress and textiles must in some way re-fashion them. This fundamental concept is developed and addressed by the articles collected here, ranging... -
The Hussites Stephen E. Lahey (Department of Classics and Religious Studies, University of Nebraska, Lincoln) 9781641891622
RRP: £15.95£15.72Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781641891622Author Stephen E. LaheyFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Arc Humanities PressPublisher Arc Humanities Press -
Society and Economy in Germany, 1300-1600 by E. Kouri
£44.11Society and Economy in Germany, 1300-1600 surveys the social and economic development of the German-speaking lands from the age of the Black Death to the eve of the Thirty Years War. It examines the political geography and social structure of the Holy... -
London: A History by Francis Sheppard 9780198229223
£55.96London has for most of 2,000 years been the hub of the political, economic, and cultural life of Britain. No other world city has held such a dominant national position for so long. This new study, by the doyen of London historians, describes London's... -
Dorset Pioneers: Dorset's Link with the Formation of USA and Canada by Jack Dwyer 9780752453460
RRP: £14.99£11.55Reveals the link between a rural English county and the founders of seven US states, four Canadian provinces, a society doyen, an ambassador of the United States, and a US Presidential candidate fundraiser. This book traces the North American connection... -
Almost the Richest City: Bristol in the Middle Ages by Lawrence Keen
£36.75Twelve papers from the 1996 conference of the British Archaeological Association at Bristol University.Book InformationISBN 9780901286796Author Lawrence KeenFormat PaperbackPage Count 117Imprint Maney PublishingPublisher Maney PublishingWeight(grams) 406g -
Britain and the Arab Middle East by Robert H. Lieshout
£53.91The profound effects of the British Empire's actions in the Arab World during the First World War can be seen echoing through the history of the 20th century. The uprising sparked by the Husayn-McMahon correspondence and led by 'Lawrence of Arabia'; the... -
The Pen and the People: English Letter Writers 1660-1800 by Susan Whyman
£37.80Susan Whyman draws on a hidden world of previously unknown letter writers to explore bold new ideas about the history of writing, reading, and the novel. Capturing actual dialogues of people discussing subjects as diverse as marriage, poverty, poetry,... -
The French Republic: History, Values, Debates by Edward Berenson
RRP: £35.00£30.74In this invaluable reference work, the world's foremost authorities on France's political, social, cultural, and intellectual history explore the history and meaning of the French Republic and the challenges it has faced. Founded in 1792, the French... -
Beyond Deviant Damsels: Re-evaluating Female Criminality in the Nineteenth Century by Anne-Marie Kilday
RRP: £98.00£88.71Using detailed case studies, Beyond Deviant Damsels undermines many of the conventional assumptions about how women committed crime in the nineteenth century. Previous historical accounts generally constructed gendered stereotypes of women acting in... -
A History of the County of Somerset: Volume XII: Dunster, Minehead, and Carhampton M.C. Siraut 9781904356486
RRP: £95.00£91.08Authoritative and detailed account of the history of important Somerset parishes, from prehistory to the present day. This volume, the twelfth in the Somerset series, describes the history of the eastern part of Carhampton Hundred. Bounded by the... -
Feminism's Empire by Carolyn J. Eichner
RRP: £27.99£24.14Feminism's Empire investigates the complex relationships between imperialisms and feminisms in the late nineteenth century and demonstrates the challenge of conceptualizing "pro-imperialist" and "anti-imperialist" as binary positions. By intellectually... -
The Revenge of the Past: Nationalism, Revolution, and the Collapse of the Soviet Union by Ronald Grigor Suny 9780804722476
RRP: £23.99£20.84This timely work shows how and why the dramatic collapse of the Soviet Union was caused in large part by nationalism. Unified in their hostility to the Kremlin's authority, the fifteen constituent Union Republics, including the Russian Republic, declared... -
The Neighbors Respond: The Controversy over the Jedwabne Massacre in Poland by Antony Polonsky 9780691113067
RRP: £48.00£38.00Neighbors--Jan Gross's stunning account of the brutal mass murder of the Jews of Jedwabne by their Polish neighbors--was met with international critical acclaim and was a finalist for the National Book Award in the United States. It has also been, from... -
Empire of Sentiment: The Death of Livingstone and the Myth of Victorian Imperialism by Joanna Lewis 9781107198517
RRP: £39.99£36.59This is the first emotional history of the British Empire. Joanna Lewis explores how David Livingstone's death tied together British imperialism and Victorian humanitarianism and inserted it into popular culture. Sacrifice and death; Superman like... -
The Byzantine Lady: Ten Portraits, 1250-1500 by Donald M. Nicol
RRP: £21.99£18.75What kind of lives did women in the Byzantine empire lead? Just how subservient were they in so male-dominated a society? In this collection of biographies Donald M. Nicol uncovers the unexpected fact that in the later years of the empire, at least, some... -
On Civilization's Edge: A Polish Borderland in the Interwar World by Kathryn Ciancia
RRP: £77.00£54.15As a resurgent Poland emerged at the end of World War I, an eclectic group of Polish border guards, state officials, military settlers, teachers, academics, urban planners, and health workers descended upon Volhynia, an eastern borderland province that... -
Uniform Fantasies: Soldiers, Sex, and Queer Emancipation in Imperial Germany by Jeffrey Schneider 9781487548681
RRP: £65.99£59.45Starting in the nineteenth century in Germany, colourful military uniforms became a locus for various queer male fantasies, fostering an underground sexual economy of male prostitution as well as a political project to exploit the army's prestige for... -
The Locksmith Craft in Early Modern Edinburgh by Aaron M. Allen 9780903903448
RRP: £10.00£8.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780903903448Author Aaron M. AllenFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Society of Antiquaries of ScotlandPublisher Society of Antiquaries of Scotland