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Secrecy and Deceit: The Religion of the Crypto-Jews by David M. Gitlitz
€64.66This book documents the religious customs of the crypto-Jewish culture in Spain, Portugal, and their American colonies, principally Mexico, Peru, and Brazil. In coping with clandestineness, crypto-Jews rapidly evolved their own idiosyncratic religion... -
Hertfordshire Garden History Volume 2: Gardens Pleasant, Groves Delicious by Deborah Spring
RRP: €20.22€18.22This second volume of Hertfordshire Garden History considers how Hertfordshire's historic parks and gardens have been influenced by, and reflect, the social and economic history of their time. Beginning with the hunting parks and Renaissance gardens of... -
Creating the Other: Ethnic Conflict and Nationalism in Habsburg Central Europe: Volume 1 by Nancy M. Wingfield 9781571813855
RRP: €33.26€26.87The historic myths of a people/nation usually play an important role in the creation and consolidation of the basic concepts from which the self-image of that nation derives. These concepts include not only images of the nation itself, but also images of... -
Swansea in 100 Dates by Geoff Brookes 9780752499093
RRP: €9.51€7.32Experience 100 key dates that shaped Swansea's history, highlighted its people's genius (or silliness) and embraced the unexpected. Featuring an amazing mix of social, criminal and sporting events, this book reveals a past that will fascinate, delight... -
After the Gulag – A History of Memory in Russia`s Far North by Tyler C. Kirk 9780253067500
RRP: €28.55€25.28From 1929 to 1958, hundreds of thousands of prisoners and exiles from across the Soviet Union were sent to the harsh yet resource-rich Komi Republic in Russia's Far North. When the Soviet Union collapsed, former prisoners sent their autobiographies to... -
Histories of the Irish Future by Professor Bryan Fanning
€35.89Histories of the Irish Future is an intellectual history of Ireland and a history of Irish crises viewed through the eyes of twelve key writers: William Petty, William Molyneux, Edmund Burke, Thomas Malthus, Richard Whately, Friedrich Engels, John... -
Italy's Jews from Emancipation to Fascism by Shira Klein
RRP: €44.02€32.61How did Italy treat Jews during World War II? Historians have shown beyond doubt that many Italians were complicit in the Holocaust, yet Italy is still known as the Axis state that helped Jews. Shira Klein uncovers how Italian Jews, though victims of... -
Ireland 1828 - 1923: From Ascendancy to Democracy George Boyce (University of Wales, Swansea) 9780631172833
RRP: €46.35€40.70This book traces the history of Ireland from the Catholic Emancipation of 1829 to the establishment of the Irish Free State and Northern Ireland in 1922. The book argues that partition was the only way of limiting civil war in a country where democracy... -
Law and the Imagination in Medieval Wales by Robin Chapman Stacey
RRP: €94.01€82.24In Law and the Imagination in Medieval Wales, Robin Chapman Stacey explores the idea of law as a form of political fiction: a body of literature that blurs the lines generally drawn between the legal and literary genres. She argues that for jurists of... -
Women and Ageing in British Society since 1500 Lynn Botelho 9780582329027
RRP: €59.49€56.93Women have always made up the majority of older people: this examination of the lives of elderly women in Britain in the period 1500 to the present reveals attitudes towards the ageing process. It sheds light on household structures as well as wider... -
Disease, War, and the Imperial State: The Welfare of the British Armed Forces During the Seven Years' War by Erica Charters 9780226180007
RRP: €52.36€50.30The Seven Years' War, often called the first global war, spanned North America, the West Indies, Europe, and India. In these locations diseases such as scurvy, smallpox, and yellow fever killed far more than combat did, stretching the resources of... -
Early Medieval Monetary History: Studies in Memory of Mark Blackburn by Martin Allen
RRP: €47.59€42.91Mark Blackburn was one of the leading scholars of the numismatics and monetary history of the British Isles and Scandinavia during the early medieval period. He published more than 200 books and articles on the subject, and was instrumental in building... -
Republic of Images: A History of French Filmmaking by Alan Williams
RRP: €52.30€44.66Chronicling one of the greatest and most popular national cinemas, Republic of Images traces the evolution of French filmmaking from 1895-the year of the debut of the Cinematographe in Paris-to the present day. Alan Williams offers a unique synthesis of... -
Seeking Sanctuary: Crime, Mercy, and Politics in English Courts, 1400-1550 by Shannon McSheffrey 9780198798149
€111.11Seeking Sanctuary explores a curious aspect of premodern English law: the right of felons to shelter in a church or ecclesiastical precinct, remaining safe from arrest and trial in the king's courts. This is the first volume in more than a century to... -
Frontiers of Possession: Spain and Portugal in Europe and the Americas by Tamar Herzog
€43.44Frontiers of Possession asks how territorial borders were established in Europe and the Americas during the early modern period and challenges the standard view that national boundaries are largely determined by military conflicts and treaties. Focusing... -
'This Rash Act': Suicide Across the Life Cycle in the Victorian City by Victor Bailey 9780804731249
RRP: €29.74€25.79What made some 700 men and women in the Yorkshire town of Kingston-upon-Hull, in the years 1837 to 1900, decide to suffer no longer "the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune" and take their own lives? In this study, the author seeks to uncover the... -
Rulership and Rebellion in the Anglo-Norman World, c.1066-c.1216: Essays in Honour of Professor Edmund King Paul Dalton 9781472413734
RRP: €160.65€140.04The importance of the themes of rulership and rebellion in the history of the Anglo-Norman world between 1066 and the early thirteenth century is incontrovertible. The power, government, and influence of kings, queens and other lords pervaded and... -
The Emergence of Humanitarian Intervention: Ideas and Practice from the Nineteenth Century to the Present by Fabian Klose
RRP: €44.02€27.19How should the international community react when a government transgresses humanitarian norms and violates the human rights of its own nationals? And where does the responsibility lie to protect people from such acts of violation? In this profound... -
Scotland and the Caribbean, c.1740-1833: Atlantic Archipelagos Michael Morris, OP 9781138325326
RRP: €52.35€45.74This book participates in the modern recovery of the memory of the long-forgotten relationship between Scotland and the Caribbean. Drawing on theoretical paradigms of world literature and transnationalism, it argues that Caribbean slavery profoundly... -
The Baiuvarii and Thuringi - An Ethnographic Perspective by Janine Fries-Knoblach
RRP: €130.90€125.83A study of two Germanic tribes, the Baiuvarii and Thuringi, looking at their origins, development, and customs between the fifth and the eighth centuries. The large neighbouring tribes of the Baiuvarii and Thuringi, who lived between the Alps and the... -
Matchlocks to Flintlocks: Warfare in Europe and Beyond, 1500-1700 by William Urban
RRP: €17.84€13.03In the early modern world three dominant cultures of war were shaped by a synergy of their internal and external interactions. One was Latin Christian western Europe. Another was Ottoman Islam. The third, no less vital for so often being overlooked, was... -
Derby: Picture the Past by Darren Holden 9780752435800
RRP: €17.84€13.74This collection of over 200 old photographs of Derby is a sample of the many thousands of images which are now available to view on the award-winning website www picturethepast.org.uk, a joint project set up by Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire, with Derby... -
The Queen: The Life and Family of Queen Elizabeth II by A. N. Wilson
RRP: €10.70€7.24'Entertaining... Wilson is affectionate without being reverential.' Daisy Goodwin, The TimesIn this original and vibrant examination of the life and times of Queen Elizabeth II, biographer and novelist A.N. Wilson paints a vivid portrait of 'Lilibet' the... -
Wild Socialism: Workers Councils in Revolutionary Berlin, 1918-21 by Martin Comack 9780761859031
RRP: €41.65€36.83Wild Socialism examines the rise, development, and decline of revolutionary councils of industrial workers in Berlin at the end of the First World War. This popular movement spread throughout Germany, and was without precedent in either the theory or... -
The Anti-Semitic Moment: A Tour of France in 1898 by Pierre Birnbaum
RRP: €30.94€29.57In 1898, the Dreyfus Affair plunged French society into a yearlong frenzy. In Paris and provincial villages throughout the country, angry crowds paraded through the streets, attacking Jews and destroying Jewish-owned businesses. Anger about the imagined... -
Inventing Pollution: Coal, Smoke, and Culture in Britain since 1800 by Peter Thorsheim 9780821423110
RRP: €27.36€23.81Going as far back as the thirteenth century, Britons mined and burned coal. Britain's supremacy in the nineteenth century depended in large part on its vast deposits of coal, which powered industry, warmed homes, and cooked food. As coal consumption... -
The Parliamentary Survey of the Duchy of Cornwall, Part I Norman J. G. Pounds 9780901853257
RRP: €29.75€28.49This volume presents the second half of the survey conducted of manors in the Duchy of Cornwall in 1650, covering thirty-seven manors across the Duchy. It gives much information about the spread of population and the Duchy's tenants, and is of particular... -
The History of Meopham by Cuthbert Hilton Golding-Bird 9781781551240
RRP: €20.22€15.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorCuthbert Hilton Golding-Bird, (1848-1939 was a consulting surgeon, who spent his later life at Meopham, near Rochester, in Kent as a country gentleman interested... -
Blood, Bodies and Families in Early Modern England by Patricia Crawford 9780582405134
€54.72This collection of essays contains a wealth of information on the nature of the family in the early modern period. This is a core topic within economic and social history courses which is taught at most universities. This text gives readers an overview... -
Liberty, Property and Popular Politics: England and Scotland, 1688-1815. Essays in Honour of H. T. Dickinson by Gordon Pentland
RRP: €28.55€26.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474429290Author Gordon PentlandFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University PressWeight(grams)... -
Subjects and Sovereign: Bonds of Belonging in the Eighteenth-Century British Empire by Hannah Weiss Muller 9780190465810
RRP: €98.77€79.78In the aftermath of the Seven Years' War, when a variety of conquered and ceded territories became part of an expanding British Empire, crucial struggles emerged about what it meant to be a "British subject." In Grenada, Quebec, Minorca, Gibraltar, and... -
Enrico Dandolo and the Rise of Venice by Thomas F. Madden 9780801885396
RRP: €33.32€29.20Between the eleventh and thirteenth centuries, Venice transformed itself from a struggling merchant commune to a powerful maritime empire that would shape events in the Mediterranean for the next four hundred years. In this magisterial new book on... -
Misery to Mirth: Recovery from Illness in Early Modern England by Hannah Newton 9780198779025
€109.18This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. The history of early... -
Albuera 1811: the Bloodiest Battle of the Peninsular War by Guy C. Dempsey
€37.46On 16 May 1811, the small town of Albuera was the setting for one of the Peninsular War's most bloody and desperate battles. A combined Spanish, British and Portuguese force of more than 30,000 men, under the command of Lord Beresford, stubbornly... -
Dance, Diversity and Difference by Rosemary Martin
€124.57The countries surrounding the Baltic Sea - Denmark, Estonia, Latvia, Finland, Germany, Lithuania, Poland, Russia, and Sweden - have experienced immense social and political change, from the territorial maneuverings of Sweden, Russia, and Denmark, the... -
Defining Boundaries in al-Andalus: Muslims, Christians, and Jews in Islamic Iberia by Janina M. Safran
RRP: €33.31€28.73Al-Andalus, the Arabic name for the medieval Islamic state in Iberia, endured for over 750 years following the Arab and Berber conquest of Hispania in 711. While the popular perception of al-Andalus is that of a land of religious tolerance and cultural... -
The Dinner Book of the London Drapers' Company, 1564-1602 Sarah A. Milne (Author) 9780900952609
RRP: €71.40€68.48Accounts of ceremonial dinners given by the Drapers' Company shed extraordinary light on the menus served, the numbers of guests, and the employees. The Dinner Book is a rare account of a series of 36 dinners hosted by the London Drapers' Company... -
The History of British Diplomacy in Pakistan by Ian Talbot 9780367542610
RRP: €47.59€41.72This book is the first account of the British diplomatic mission in Pakistan from its foundation at the end of the Raj in 1947 to the 'War on Terror'.Drawing on original documents and interviews with participants, this book highlights key events and... -
The Longman Companion to the Conservative Party: Since 1830 by Nick Crowson 9780582312920
RRP: €59.49€58.12This Longman Companion provides a wide-ranging compendium of essential facts and figures on the Conservative Party - from its origins in the 1830s to the dawn of the 21st Century. Central to the book are the detailed chronologies on the Conservative... -
The Evolution of Norman Identity, 911-1154 by Nick Webber
RRP: €95.20€91.17A close examination, through original sources, of the Norman self-image. During the period 911-1154, a newly-constituted people came to control not only a Frankish duchy, but also the kingdoms of England and Sicily. This people, composed of...