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Wellington in the 1940s and 50s by Allan Frost 9780752437675
RRP: €16.65€12.91Containing a collection of archive photographs, this work documents life in the historic Shropshire market town of Wellington during and after the Second World War. It reveals how the people of Wellington coped with severe rationing and how they found... -
A Social History of Disability in the Middle Ages: Cultural Considerations of Physical Impairment Irina Metzler 9781138952386
RRP: €52.35€45.74What was it like to be disabled in the Middle Ages? How did people become disabled? Did welfare support exist? This book discusses social and cultural factors affecting the lives of medieval crippled, deaf, mute and blind people, those nowadays... -
The New Romanian Cinema Dana Duma 9781474477734
RRP: €33.31€26.91Covering more than forty films made since 2001 including The Death of Mr. Lazarescu, The Paper will be Blue, Police, Adjective and Beyond the Hills this pioneering collection of essays on New Romanian Cinema is the first to contextualise it... -
The Culture of Controversy - Religious Arguments in Scotland, 1660-1714 by Alasdair Raffe
RRP: €113.05€100.85Illuminating the development and character of Scottish Protestantism, The Culture of Controversy proposes new ways of understanding religion and politics in early modern Scotland. The Culture of Controversy investigates arguments about religion in... -
The Gages of Hengrave and Suffolk Catholicism, 1640-1767 Francis Young 9780902832299
RRP: €59.50€57.42Account of an important Catholic family in early modern East Anglia, demonstrating their influence upon their wider community. For almost 250 years the Gages of Hengrave Hall, near Bury St Edmunds, were the leading Roman Catholic family in Suffolk,... -
Political Conflict in East Ulster, 1920-22 - Revolution and Reprisal by Christopher Magill
RRP: €95.20€91.17Reassesses the context in which the state of Northern Ireland was created. Most studies of the Irish Revolution focus on republican violence and on the establishment of the Irish Free State in 1922. This book, on the other hand, based on extensive... -
Memory and Myths of the Norman Conquest by Siobhan Brownlie
RRP: €95.20€91.64In an innovative approach drawn from Memory Studies, this book seeks to uncover how the Norman Conquest is popularly "remembered". The Norman Conquest is one of the most significant events in British history - but how is it actually remembered and... -
England's Great Transformation: Law, Labor, and the Industrial Revolution Marc W. Steinberg 9780226329956
RRP: €36.89€35.93With England's Great Transformation, Marc W. Steinberg throws a wrench into our understanding of the English Industrial Revolution, largely revising the thesis at heart of Karl Polanyi's landmark The Great Transformation. The conventional wisdom has been... -
Slavery, Diplomacy and Empire: Britain and the Supression of the Slave Trade, 1807-1975 by Keith Hamilton
RRP: €35.70€32.59Throughout the nineteenth century British governments engaged in a global campaign against the slave trade. They sought through coercion and diplomacy to suppress the trade on the high seas and in Africa and Asia. But, despite the Royal Navy's success in... -
Women, Dance and Parish Religion in England, 1300-1640: Negotiating the Steps of Faith by Dr. Lynneth Miller Renberg
RRP: €95.20€91.17A lively exploration of the medieval and early modern attitudes towards dance, as the perception of dancers changed from saints dancing after Christ into cows dancing after the devil. WINNER: 2022 Guittard Book Award The devil's cows, impudent... -
Pioneer Mustang Group: the 354th Fighter Group in World War Ii Firm by Steve Blake
RRP: €76.15€50.58As the first unit to fly the Merlin-engined P-51B in combat, the 354th Fighter Group adopted the nickname "Pioneer Mustang Group." Until D-Day, it escorted 8th AF heavy bombers to targets on the European Continent. The group then moved to France and... -
Our Island Story H.E. Marshall 9781780228921
RRP: €15.46€10.23Just over a century ago, Our Island Story entranced a nation's children by telling their history in stories. Short, simply written chapters, packed with living characters and thrilling action - and illustrated with vivid colour pictures - illuminate all... -
The Goths by Peter Heather 9780631165361
RRP: €116.92€104.51The volume is divided into three parts, corresponding to the three main phases in Gothic history: their early history down to the fourth century, the revolution in Gothic society set in motion by the arrival of the Huns, and the history of the Gothic... -
Italian Fascism's Empire Cinema by Ruth Ben-Ghiat
RRP: €33.31€28.73Ruth Ben-Ghiat provides the first in-depth study of feature and documentary films produced under the auspices of Mussolini's government that took as their subjects or settings Italy's African and Balkan colonies. These "empire films" were Italy's entry... -
Rubble Music: Occupying the Ruins of Postwar Berlin, 1945-1950 by Abby Anderton
RRP: €26.17€22.84As the seat of Hitler's government, Berlin was the most frequently targeted city in Germany for Allied bombing campaigns during World War II. Air raids shelled celebrated monuments, left homes uninhabitable, and reduced much of the city to nothing but... -
Terfinnas and Beormas of Ohthere by Alan S.C. Ross 9780903521147
RRP: €4.76€4.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780903521147Author Alan S C RossFormat PaperbackPage Count 85Imprint Viking Society for Northern ResearchPublisher Viking Society for Northern... -
Henry VII's London in the Great Chronicle by Julia Boffey
RRP: €35.70€28.76This modernized extract from The Great Chronicle of London covers the reign of England's first Tudor king, Henry VII (1485-1509). It gives an eye-witness account of events in London, and of news from elsewhere, from the viewpoint of a well-to- do citizen... -
Russia and Germany: Century of Conflict Walter Laqueur 9780887383496
RRP: €54.73€48.23Despite changes in the international constellation since Russia and Germany initially appeared in 1965, the relationship between these two nations remains the most important single issue in European politics and East-West affairs. This study of what... -
Suspect Saints and Holy Heretics: Disputed Sanctity and Communal Identity in Late Medieval Italy by Janine Larmon Peterson 9781501742347
RRP: €60.69€52.67In Suspect Saints and Holy Heretics Janine Larmon Peterson investigates regional saints whose holiness was contested. She scrutinizes the papacy's toleration of unofficial saints' cults and its response when their devotees challenged church authority... -
The Worlds of the Jeake Family of Rye, 1640-1736 by Anne L. Murphy 9780197266366
€84.01The letters in The Worlds of the Jeake Family of Rye create a narrative across more than a century and through three generations of the Jeake family. With Samuel Jeake junior and his wife Elizabeth at its centre, this collection also touches on the lives... -
The Crusades: A History by Professor Jonathan Riley-Smith
€113.55This fully updated and expanded edition of The Crusades: A History provides an authoritative exploration of one of the most significant topics in medieval and religious history. From the First Crusade right up to the present day, Jonathan Riley-Smith and... -
The Secret Court Martial Records of the Easter Rising by Brian Barton 9780750950633
€28.58Until 1999 official British records of the fifteen trials that followed the Easter Rising of 1916 were kept a close secret. Further material released in 2001 included the trial of Countess Markievicz and important evidence about the 'shoot to kill'... -
Rural Urbanism: London Landscapes in the Early Nineteenth Century by Dana Arnold
RRP: €95.20€84.14This original and innovative book examines a period in with the development of London was perhaps at its most intense, for in the opening decades of the nineteenth century a concerted attempt was made to transform the metropolis into a modern European... -
Religion, landscape and settlement in Ireland, 432-2018 by Kevin Whelan 9781846827563
€74.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781846827563Author Kevin WhelanFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Four Courts Press LtdPublisher Four Courts Press LtdWeight(grams) 700g -
Yr Anymwybod Cymreig: Freud, Dirfodaeth a'r Seice Cenedlaethol by Llion Wigley 9781786834454
RRP: €20.22€15.58Mae'r gyfrol hon yn rhoi cipolwg ar gyfoeth hanes syniadau yng Nghymru dros hanner canrif cynhyrfus rhwng diwedd y Rhyfel Byd Cyntaf a marwolaeth yr athronydd disglair J. R. Jones ym 1970. Bu Jones yn rhan ganolog o'r ymgais a wnaed yn y cyfnod i... -
Thinking about Animals in Thirteenth-Century Paris: Theologians on the Boundary Between Humans and Animals by Ian P. Wei
RRP: €95.19€89.32Exploring what theologians at the University of Paris in the thirteenth century understood about the boundary between humans and animals, this book demonstrates the great variety of ways in which they held similarity and difference in productive tension... -
Being Elizabethan: Understanding Shakespeare's Neighbors Norman Jones (Utah State University) 9781119168249
RRP: €30.88€27.37Captures 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: €48.79€46.99Witchcraft. 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: €53.54€48.29Maureen 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: €17.85€15.53In 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: €109.48€96.43Northern 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: €28.56€27.22In 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: €35.69€31.54In 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: €113.05€107.91This 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: €45.21€39.72Global 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: €115.42€100.50A 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
€17.23New 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: €107.10€87.20How 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: €123.76€108.61Drawing 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: €64.26€56.16Translating 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...