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Conversion and Narrative: Reading and Religious Authority in Medieval Polemic by Ryan Szpiech
RRP: $120.90$104.44In 1322, a Jewish doctor named Abner entered a synagogue in the Castilian city of Burgos and began to weep in prayer. Falling asleep, he dreamed of a "great man" who urged him to awaken from his slumber. Shortly thereafter, he converted to Christianity... -
Transport and the Industrial City: Manchester and the Canal Age, 1750-1850 by Peter Maw
RRP: $165.75$118.11This book presents the first scholarly study of the contribution of canals to Britain's industrial revolution. Although the achievements of canal engineers remain central to popular understandings of industrialisation, historians have been surprisingly... -
Printing a Mediterranean World: Florence, Constantinople, and the Renaissance of Geography by Sean Roberts 9780674066489
RRP: $105.20$84.38In 1482, the Florentine humanist and statesman Francesco Berlinghieri produced the Geographia, a book of over one hundred folio leaves describing the world in Italian verse, inspired by the ancient Greek geography of Ptolemy. The poem, divided into seven... -
Swedish Mentality by Ake Daun 9780271015026
RRP: $68.15$60.82Is there a distinctly Swedish national character? Are Swedes truly shy, unemotional, conflict-avoiding, melancholy, and dour? Swedish Mentality, the English translation of the hugely successful book published in Sweden in 1989, considers the reality... -
Charters of Peterborough Abbey by S.E. Kelly 9780197264386
$137.20This is the first critical edition of the Anglo-Saxon archive of the Benedictine monastery at Peterborough, established by Bishop AEthelwold around AD 970 on the site of an earlier house known as Medeshamstede. The archive comprises 31 documents ranging... -
Succession to the Throne in Early Modern Russia: The Transfer of Power 1450-1725 by Paul Bushkovitch
RRP: $243.75$176.05This revisionist history of succession to the throne in early modern Russia, from the Moscow princes of the fifteenth century to Peter the Great, argues that legal primogeniture never existed: the monarch designated an heir that was usually the eldest... -
The Young Victims of the Nazi Regime: Migration, the Holocaust and Postwar Displacement by Simone Gigliotti
$69.26During the Nazi regime many children and young people in Europe found their lives uprooted by Nazi policies, resulting in their relocation around the globe. The Young Victims of the Nazi Regime represents the diversity of their experiences, covering a... -
Operation Kinetic: Stabilizing Kosovo by Sean M Maloney 9781612349640
RRP: $60.45$55.30In the late 1990s, NATO led the Kosovo Force (KFOR), charged with stabilizing Kosovo and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia after genocide and other atrocities were carried out in the Balkan region. Operation Kinetic is not only a history of the... -
English Convents in Catholic Europe, c.1600-1800 by James E. Kelly 9781108479967
RRP: $175.50$158.01In 1598, the first English convent to be founded since the dissolution of the monasteries was established in Brussels, followed by a further twenty-one foundations, which all self-identified as English institutions in Catholic Europe. Around four... -
British Imperialism and Globalization, c. 1650-1 - Essays in Honour of Patrick O`Brien by Joseph E. Inikori
RRP: $185.25$154.46Examining the domestic politics of imperial expansion these essays question the role of the Industrial Revolution and British imperial leadership beyond the issue of hierarchy and The Great Divergence. This volume brings together leading global... -
A History of Modern Europe by John Merriman 9780393689525
$190.53Students and instructors alike praise A History of Modern Europe for its authoritative coverage from the Renaissance to the present day. Written in Merriman's signature narrative style, the Fourth High School Edition reflects the latest scholarship on... -
The Jew, the Cathedral and the Medieval City: Synagoga and Ecclesia in the Thirteenth Century by Nina Rowe 9781107649989
RRP: $74.08$67.92In the thirteenth century, sculptures of Synagoga and Ecclesia - paired female personifications of the Synagogue defeated and the Church triumphant - became a favoured motif on cathedral facades in France and Germany. Throughout the preceding centuries,... -
Metropolis Berlin: 1880-1940 by Iain Boyd Whyte 9780520270374
RRP: $138.45$109.30"Metropolis Berlin: 1880-1940" reconstitutes the built environment of Berlin during the period of its classical modernity using over two hundred contemporary texts, virtually all of which are published in English translation for the first time. They are... -
Baronial Reform and Revolution in England, 1258-1267 by Adrian Jobson
RRP: $185.25$165.26New investigations into a pivotal era of the thirteenth century. The years between 1258 and 67 comprise one of the most influential periods in the Middle Ages in England. This turbulent decade witnessed a bitter power struggle between King Henry III... -
People on the Move: Forced Population Movements in Europe in the Second World War and its Aftermath Pertti Ahonen 9781845208240
RRP: $74.08$65.09Europe has a long history of state-led population displacement on ethnic grounds. The nationalist argument of ethnic homogeneity has been a crucial factor in the mapping of the continent. At no time has this been more the case than during and after the... -
Empires and Communities in the Post-Roman and Islamic World, C. 400-1000 Ce by Walter Pohl
RRP: $181.35$165.09This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC 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. This book deals with the... -
Heisenberg and the Nazi Atomic Bomb Project, 1939-1945: A Study in German Culture by Paul Lawrence Rose
RRP: $56.55$44.73No one better represents the plight and the conduct of German intellectuals under Hitler than Werner Heisenberg, whose task it was to build an atomic bomb for Nazi Germany. The controversy surrounding Heisenberg still rages, because of the nature of his... -
Reading the Middle Ages: Sources from Europe, Byzantium, and the Islamic World by Barbara H. Rosenwein 9781442636736
RRP: $109.20$91.53The third edition of Reading the Middle Ages retains the strengths of previous editions-thematic and geographical diversity, clear and informative introductions, and close integration with A Short History of the Middle Ages-and adds significant new... -
The Memoirs of Helene Kottanner (1439-1440) Maya Bijvoet Williamson 9780859914628
RRP: $35.08$30.01Eye-witness account of the theft of the crown of St Stephen in 15c Hungary. Helene Kottanner was servant and confidante of the widowed Queen Elizabeth of Hungary (1409-1442). This is her first-person account of the part she played in the theft of the... -
Popes, Lawyers, and Infidels: The Church and the Non-Christian World, 1250-1550 by Professor James Muldoon
RRP: $97.50$84.65Criticism of the way in which Europeans have treated the inhabitants of the non-European world in the course of European expansion has a long history, Three centuries before Christopher Columbus encountered the American Indians, European intellectuals... -
The Dukes of Ormonde, 1610-1745 by Mr. Toby Barnard
RRP: $185.25$165.26Biographical studies of the two Dukes of Ormonde illuminate aspects of the operation of political power in seventeenth-century Ireland, and, on a wider European stage, the predicaments facing the nobility. A valuable insight into the political and... -
1815: The Roads to Waterloo Gregor Dallas 9780712667852
RRP: $35.08$26.03The seventeen months from April 1814 to August 1815 were an extraordinary period in European history; a period which saw two sieges of Paris, a complete revision of Europe's political frontiers, an international Congress set up in Vienna, civil war in... -
Stukeley and Stamford, Part I: Cakes and Curiosity: the Sociable Antiquarian, 1710-1737 Diana Honeybone 9781910653074
RRP: $78.00$75.17Key texts by the antiquarian William Stukeley offer fascinating insights into rural England at the time. William Stukeley's antiquarian interest in his native Lincolnshire has not been widely noted. He is more often associated with his pioneering work... -
Oscar Wilde Prefigured: Queer Fashioning and British Caricature, 1750-1900 by Dominic Janes
$68.72"I do not say you are it, but you look it, and you pose at it, which is just as bad," Lord Queensbury challenged Oscar Wilde in the courtroom which erupted in laughter accusing Wilde of posing as a sodomite. What was so terrible about posing as... -
Two Accounts of the Battle of Sedan, 1st September 1870 by George W a Fitz-George 9780857066978
$35.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857066978Author George W a Fitz-GeorgeFormat HardbackPage Count 188Imprint Leonaur LtdPublisher Leonaur LtdWeight(grams) 376g -
City Of Pleasure by Alexandre Dupouy
RRP: $46.78$31.53Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912740055Author Alexandre DupouyFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint Korero PressPublisher Korero Press -
Contesting Indochina: French Remembrance between Decolonization and Cold War by M. Kathryn Edwards 9780520288614
RRP: $58.50$45.42How does a nation come to terms with losing a war-especially an overseas war whose purpose is fervently contested? In the years after the war, how does such a nation construct and reconstruct its identity and values? For the French in Indochina, the... -
Behind the Berlin Wall: East Germany and the Frontiers of Power by Patrick Major 9780199605101
RRP: $83.83$83.32Few historical changes occur literally overnight, but on 13 August 1961 eighteen million East Germans awoke to find themselves walled in by an edifice which was to become synonymous with the Cold War: the Berlin Wall. This new history rejects... -
Medieval Iceland: Society, Sagas, and Power by Jesse L. Byock
RRP: $48.75$38.20The history of medieval Europe is incomplete if it does not take Iceland into account. Jesse Byock's reassessment of medieval Iceland uses all the available sources--the medieval Icelanders' historical writings, extensive saga literature, and intricate... -
Stalinism for All Seasons: A Political History of Romanian Communism by Vladimir Tismaneanu
RRP: $138.45$123.57"Stalinism for All Seasons" is the first comprehensive history of the Romanian Communist Party (RCP). It traces the origins of the once-tiny, clandestine revolutionary organization in the 1920s through the years of national power from 1944 to 1989 to the... -
The Routledge History Handbook of Central and Eastern Europe in the Twentieth Century: Volume 1: Challenges of Modernity by Wlodzimierz Borodziej 9780367510862
RRP: $85.78$74.96Challenges of Modernity offers a broad account of the social and economic history of Central and Eastern Europe in the twentieth century and asks critical questions about the structure and experience of modernity in different contexts and periods.This... -
Heirs of the Vikings - History and Identity in Normandy and England, c.950-c.1015 by Katherine Cross
RRP: $156.00$143.68Examination of texts concerning the vikings reveals much about their origin myth and legend. Viking settlers and their descendants inhabited both England and Normandy in the tenth century, but narratives discussing their origins diverged significantly... -
Power, Politics, and Tradition in the Mongol Empire and the Īlkhānate of Iran by Michael Hope 9780198768593
$197.85This study provides a new interpretation of how political authority was conceived and transmitted in the Early Mongol Empire (1227-1259) and its successor state in the Middle East, the Ilkhanate (1258-1335). Authority within the Mongol Empire was... -
'Miserable Conflict and Confusion': The Irish Question and the British National Press, 1916-1922 Erin Kate Scheopner 9781800856493
$217.44This book investigates the way the British national press covered Ireland and the 'Irish question' from the aftermath of the Easter Rising in 1916 to the ratification of the Anglo-Irish Treaty in 1922. Bridging the fields of history and media studies, it... -
Sugarland: The Transformation of the Countryside in Communist Albania by Artan R. Hoxha
RRP: $150.15$138.22In this historical monograph on non-urban communist Albania, Artan Hoxha discusses the ambitious development project that turned a swampland into a site of sugar production after 1945. The author seeks to free the history of Albanian communism from the... -
Contested Objects: Material Memories of the Great War Nicholas J. Saunders (University of Bristol, UK) 9780415852937
RRP: $105.28$91.40Contested Objects breaks new ground in the interdisciplinary study of material culture. Its focus is on the rich and varied legacy of objects from the First World War as the global conflict that defined the twentieth century. From the iconic German steel... -
Arguing it Out: Discussion in Twelfth-Century Byzantium by Averil Cameron
RRP: $44.75$41.15In this book the author contends-and this is not a very widely held view-that Byzantium deserves to be considered an influential part of the broader development of Europe, even though its borders also reached out to the vast territories of Anatolia and... -
Reading Lucretius in the Renaissance by Ada Palmer 9780674725577
RRP: $72.05$58.75After its rediscovery in 1417, Lucretius's Epicurean didactic poem De Rerum Natura threatened to supply radicals and atheists with the one weapon unbelief had lacked in the Middle Ages: good answers. Scholars could now challenge Christian patterns of... -
Norse Mythology: Explore The Timeless Tales Of Norse Folklore, The Myths, History, Sagas & Legends of The Gods, Immortals, Magical Creatures, Vikings & More by Sofia Visconti
RRP: $38.98$24.53Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913397975Author Sofia ViscontiFormat PaperbackPage Count 138Imprint Fortune PublishingPublisher Fortune PublishingWeight(grams) 195gDimensions(mm) 229mm... -
Religious Tolerance from Renaissance to Enlightenment: Atheist's Progress by Eric MacPhail
RRP: $77.98$68.37This new study examines the relationship of atheism to religious tolerance from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment in a broad array of literary texts and political and religious controversies written in Latin and the vernacular primarily in France, the...