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Being Elizabethan: Understanding Shakespeare's Neighbors Norman Jones (Utah State University) 9781119168249
RRP: $50.60$44.85Captures the worldviews, concerns, joys, and experiences of people living through the cultural changes in the second half of the sixteenth century and the early seventeenth century, Shakespeare's age. Elizabethans lived through a time of cultural... -
Nuns Behaving Badly: Tales of Music, Magic, Art, and Arson in the Convents of Italy by Craig A. Monson 9780226534619
RRP: $79.95$77.01Witchcraft. Arson. Going AWOL. Some nuns in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Italy strayed far from the paradigms of monastic life. Cloistered in convents, subjected to stifling hierarchy, repressed, and occasionally persecuted by their male superiors,... -
Vienna and the Fall of the Habsburg Empire: Total War and Everyday Life in World War I by Maureen Healy
RRP: $87.73$79.13Maureen Healy examines the collapse of the Habsburg Empire from the perspective of everyday life in the capital city. She argues that a striking feature of 'total war' on the home front was the spread of a war mentality to the mundane sites of everyday... -
In Quest of History: On Czech Statehood and Identity by Jiri Priban
RRP: $29.25$25.45In honor of the 2018 centennial of Czech independence, philosopher of law Jir Prib n and award-winning Czech journalist Karel Hv zdala took the opportunity to examine key moments in Czech history from the ninth century to the twenty-first. Covering such... -
Unionists, Loyalists, and Conflict Transformation in Northern Ireland by Lee Smithey 9780195395877
RRP: $179.40$158.01Northern Ireland provides a valuable case study of a seemingly intractable conflict undergoing transformation. Lee Smithey offers a grassroots view of that transformation, through interviews and field research in the region, and provides essential models... -
Medicine and Charity in Ireland 1718-1851 by Laurence M. Geary 9781904558187
RRP: $46.80$44.60In this illuminating social history of medicine and charity in Ireland over almost 150 years from 1718 until just after the Great Famine, Laurence M. Geary shows how illness and poverty reacted upon each other. The poverty resulting from great population... -
The Law of Kinship: Anthropology, Psychoanalysis, and the Family in France by Camille Robcis
RRP: $58.48$51.68In France as elsewhere in recent years, legislative debates over single-parent households, same-sex unions, new reproductive technologies, transsexuality, and other challenges to long-held assumptions about the structure of family and kinship relations... -
Death and Disease in the Medieval and Early Modern World: Perspectives from across the Mediterranean and Beyond by Dr. Lori Jones
RRP: $185.25$176.83This collection highlights and nuances some of the recent critical advances in scholarship on death and disease, across and beyond the pre-modern Mediterranean world, Christian, Islamic and Jewish healing traditions. Across and beyond the pre-modern... -
Global Ireland: Same Difference by Tom Inglis
RRP: $74.08$65.09Global Ireland offers a concise synthesis of globalization's dramatic impact on Ireland. In the past fifteen years, Ireland has transformed from a sleepy and depressed European backwater to the 'emerald tiger', a country with a booming economy based on... -
A History of Modern France Jeremy D. Popkin (University of Kentucky, USA) 9781138557192
RRP: $189.13$164.68A History of Modern France offers a framework to understand modern French history through a survey of the dramatic events that have punctuated its history from the eighteenth century to the present day.Covering events such as the French Revolution, the... -
Malachy McCourt's History of Ireland by Malachy McCourt 9780762431816
$28.24New York Times best-selling author Malachy McCourt offers an authoritative and engrossing one-volume chronicle of Ireland from pre-Christian times to the present, told with Irish flair by the gifted storyteller. The pages are populated with figures from... -
The Many Lives of Corruption: The Reform of Public Life in Modern Britain, c. 1750-1950 by Ian Cawood 9781526150035
RRP: $175.50$142.90How has corruption shaped - and undermined - the history of public life in modern Britain? This collection begins the task of piecing together this history over the past two and a half centuries, from the first assaults on Old Corruption and aristocratic... -
The Remarkable Lushington Family: Reformers, Pre-Raphaelites, Positivists, and the Bloomsbury Group by David Taylor
RRP: $202.80$177.98Drawing on previously unpublished archival materials, this study spans three generations of the Lushington family. It investigates their personal histories through the themes of social, artistic, and cultural history. The author analyzes the Lushington... -
Translating Nature: Cross-Cultural Histories of Early Modern Science by Jaime Marroquin Arredondo
RRP: $105.30$92.02Translating Nature recasts the era of early modern science as an age not of discovery but of translation. As Iberian and Protestant empires expanded across the Americas, colonial travelers encountered, translated, and reinterpreted Amerindian traditions... -
The Visitation of Hereford Diocese in 1397 Professor Ian Forrest 9780907239871
RRP: $48.73$46.64Text with facing English translation provides fascinating insights into medieval religious life. JOINT WINNER: 2023 BRITISH RECORD ASSOCIATION HARLEY PRIZE In 1397 the bishop of Hereford toured his diocese asking questions about its churches... -
Rum, Sodomy, Prayers, and the Lash Revisited: Winston Churchill and Social Reform in the Royal Navy, 1900-1915 by Matthew S. Seligmann 9780198759973
$172.22'Naval tradition? Naval tradition? Monstrous. Nothing but rum, sodomy, prayers and the lash.' This quotation, from Winston Churchill, is frequently dismissed as apocryphal or a jest, but, interestingly, all four of the areas of naval life singled out in... -
Transparency in Postwar France: A Critical History of the Present by Stefanos Geroulanos
RRP: $54.58$47.07This book returns to a time and place when the concept of transparency was met with deep suspicion. It offers a panorama of postwar French thought where attempts to show the perils of transparency in politics, ethics, and knowledge led to major... -
The Making of a Scottish Landscape: Moray's Regular Revolution 1760-1840 by John R. Barrett 9781781553985
RRP: $36.95$27.89A Regular Revolution explores the making of the Moray countryside - and offers an intimate portrait of people in the landscape on the distant shoulder of northeast Scotland. A Regular Revolution traces the progress through Moray of the craze for... -
The Traction Engine in Scotland by Alexander Hayward 9781905267583
RRP: $19.48$15.93Steam traction engines were most widespread in Scotland from the 1880s until the 1940s - mainly for road haulage, powering threshing mills, ploughing and,in steam roller form, in road making. The book describes the use of steam power on Scotland road and... -
A History of the County of Stafford: XII: Tamworth and Drayton Bassett Nigel J. Tringham 9781904356523
RRP: $185.25$176.83Authoritative and comprehensive history of the town of Tamworth and its environs. In the centre of a parish with several townships, Tamworth was important for the rulers of pre-Viking Mercia and became a burh in 913 under AEthelflaed, "lady of the... -
The Fear of Invasion: Strategy, Politics, and British War Planning, 1880-1914 by David G. Morgan-Owen 9780198805199
$210.44The Fear of Invasion presents a new interpretation of British preparation for War before 1914. It argues that protecting the British Isles from invasion was the foundation upon which all other plans for the defence of the Empire were built up. Home... -
Aristocratic Women in Medieval France by Theodore Evergates
RRP: $54.58$47.07Were aristocratic women in medieval France little more than appendages to patrilineal families, valued as objects of exchange and necessary only for the production of male heirs? Such was the view proposed by the great French historian Georges Duby more... -
Headline Britons 1921-1925 by Peter Pugh
RRP: $25.33$16.69Headline Britons paints a unique picture of British life in the 20th and 21st centuries by re-examining some of the country's most notable characters. Each book covers a five-year span, telling the stories of a number of people who, in that time, stood... -
Manure Matters: Historical, Archaeological and Ethnographic Perspectives Richard Jones 9781138107625
RRP: $85.78$74.96In pre-industrial societies, in which the majority of the population lived directly off the land, few issues were more important than the maintenance of soil fertility. Without access to biodegradable wastes from production processes or to synthetic... -
Foxrock Miscellany by Foxrock Local History Club 9781845887346
RRP: $29.23$22.52From a detailed account of a German Spy in South County Dublin, to the great engineer William Dargan whose legacy was the railway system that still traverses the country, this wonderful book by the Foxrock local history society explores the achievements,... -
Light in Germany: Scenes from an Unknown Enlightenment T. J. Reed 9780226205106
RRP: $156.00$149.39Germany's political and cultural past, from ancient times through World War II, has dimmed the legacy of its Enlightenment, which these days is far outshone by those of France and Scotland. In this book, T. J. Reed clears the dust away from... -
The Silk Industries of Medieval Paris: Artisanal Migration, Technological Innovation, and Gendered Experience by Sharon Farmer 9780812248487
RRP: $136.50$118.38For more than one hundred years, from the last decade of the thirteenth century to the late fourteenth, Paris was the only western European town north of the Mediterranean basin to produce luxury silk cloth. What was the nature of the Parisian silk... -
Scandal of Colonial Rule: Power and Subversion in the British Atlantic during the Age of Revolution by James Epstein
RRP: $146.23$131.92In 1806 General Thomas Picton, Britain's first governor of Trinidad, was brought to trial for the torture of a free mulatto named Louisa Calderon and for overseeing a regime of terror over the island's slave population. James Epstein offers a fascinating... -
A Short History of Florence and the Florentine Republic by Brian Jeffrey Maxson 9781788314886
RRP: $87.75$87.71The innovative city culture of Florence was the crucible within which Renaissance ideas first caught fire. With its soaring cathedral dome and its classically-inspired palaces and piazzas, it is perhaps the finest single expression of a society that is... -
Revolution in America: Britain and the Colonies 1763-1776 Peter D. G. Thomas 9780708311288
RRP: $25.33$18.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780708311288Author Peter D. G. ThomasFormat PaperbackPage Count 111Imprint University of Wales PressPublisher University of Wales Press -
The Science of the Swastika by Bernard Mees 9789639776180
RRP: $157.95$146.06This is the first theoretically informed study of the relationship between an academic discipline and what the Nazis termed their Weltanschauung. The first study of Sinnbildforschung, German ideograph or swastika studies, though more broadly it tells the... -
How to Be French: Nationality in the Making since 1789 by Patrick Weil 9780822343318
RRP: $54.58$47.85How to Be French is a magisterial history of French nationality law from 1789 to the present, written by Patrick Weil, one of France's foremost historians. First published in France in 2002, it is filled with captivating human dramas, with legal... -
Nostalgia in the Early Modern World: Memory, Temporality, and Emotion by Dr. Harriet Lyon
RRP: $156.00$149.39How can the concept of nostalgia illuminate the culturally specific ways in which societies understand the contested relationship between the past, present, and future? The word nostalgia was invented in the late seventeenth century to describe the... -
Beyond the Palio: Urbanism and Ritual in Renaissance Siena Philippa Jackson (University of London) 9781405155724
RRP: $40.46$35.72Beyond the Palio is an interdisciplinary collection of essays examining the components and importance of ritual events and ceremonies in Renaissance Siena. Brings together studies based upon diverse disciplinary and methodological approaches to a common... -
The Arthur of the Low Countries: The Arthurian Legend in Dutch and Flemish Literature by Bart Besamusca
RRP: $156.00$128.08In the medieval Low Countries (modern-day Belgium and the Netherlands), Arthurian romance flourished in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. The Middle Dutch poets translated French material (like Chretien's Conte du Graal and the Prose Lancelot),... -
Memorializing the GDR: Monuments and Memory after 1989 by Anna Saunders 9781789208016
RRP: $54.50$44.03Since unification, eastern Germany has witnessed a rapidly changing memorial landscape, as the fate of former socialist monuments has been hotly debated and new commemorative projects have met with fierce controversy. Memorializing the GDR provides the... -
Crime and Forgiveness: Christianizing Execution in Medieval Europe by Adriano Prosperi
RRP: $66.20$55.40A provocative analysis of how Christianity helped legitimize the death penalty in early modern Europe, then throughout the Christian world, by turning execution into a great cathartic public ritual and the condemned into a Christ-like figure who accepts... -
Together and Apart in Brzezany: Poles, Jews, and Ukrainians, 1919-1945 by Shimon Redlich
RRP: $46.78$40.64". . . by reconstructing the history/experience of Brzezany in Jewish, Ukrainian, and Polish memories [Redlich] has produced a beautiful parallel narrative of a world that was lost three times over. . . . a truly wonderful achievement." -Jan T. Gross,... -
The Writings of Theobald Wolfe Tone 1763-98, Volume 3: France, the Rhine, Lough Swilly and Death of Tone (January 1797 to November 1798) by T. W. Moody 9780198208808
RRP: $84.81$81.08This edition of the writings of Theobald Wolfe Tone (1763-98), barrister, United Irishman, agent of the Catholic Committee and later an officer in the French revolutionary army, is intended to comprehend all his writings and largely to supersede the... -
The Life and Death of the Shopping City: Public Planning and Private Redevelopment in Britain since 1945 by Alistair Kefford
RRP: $175.50$158.79How have British cities changed in the years since the Second World War? And what drove this transformation? This innovative new history traces the development of the post-war British city, from the 1940s era of reconstruction, through the rise and fall...