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Unrivalled Influence: Women and Empire in Byzantium by Judith Herrin 9780691153216
RRP: £50.00£39.52Unrivalled Influence explores the exceptional roles that women played in the vibrant cultural and political life of medieval Byzantium. Written by one of the world's foremost historians of the Byzantine millennium, this landmark book evokes the complex... -
Amnesiopolis: Modernity, Space, and Memory in East Germany by Eli Rubin 9780198732266
£90.34Amnesiopolis explores the construction of Marzahn, the largest prefabricated housing project in East Germany, built on the outskirts of East Berlin in the 1970s and 1980s, and touted by the regime as the future of socialism. It focuses particularly on... -
Skipton & the Dales by David Ellwood 9780752430584
RRP: £16.99£12.94This fascinating collection of over 200 archive images is accompanied by informative text and presents a memorable account of Skipton and its surrounding villages. Many details of this area are examined, including schools, buildings and businesses, as... -
The Road to Iraq: The Making of a Neoconservative War by Muhammad Idrees Ahmad
RRP: £23.99£21.85What were the causes of the Iraq War? Who were the main players? How was the war sold to the decision makers? Despite all that has been written on the Iraq war the myriad scholarly, journalistic and polemical works the answers to these questions remain... -
MacPherson the Historian: History Writing, Empire and Enlightenment in the Works of James MacPherson by Mairi MacPherson 9781474411165
RRP: £90.00£73.28First study of James Macpherson (1736-1796) as an historian Situates Macpherson as a key figure of the Scottish Enlightenment, broadening our understanding of historiography and the relationship between history and fiction Explores Macpherson's... -
Domesday Studies - Papers read at the Novocentenary Conference of the Royal Historical Societry and the Institute of British Geographers, by J.C. Holt
RRP: £30.00£26.68`A scholarly feast... a milestone in the history and historiography of medieval England. Its essays are without exception authoritative and well-written and it indicates not only the progress made in Domesday studies in the last hundred years but also... -
Deterrence through Strength: British Naval Power and Foreign Policy under Pax Britannica by Rebecca Berens Matzke 9780803235144
RRP: £49.00£42.57The notion of a Pax Britannica-a concept implying that Britain's overwhelming strength enforced global peace in the era that began with Napoleon's defeat in 1815-largely ended with the British Empire itself. Although most historians still view this... -
Baroquemania: Italian Visual Culture and the Construction of National Identity, 1898–1945 by Laura Moure Cecchini 9781526176370
RRP: £30.00£21.71Baroquemania explores the intersections of art, architecture and criticism to show how reimagining the Baroque helped craft a distinctively Italian approach to modern art. Offering a bold reassessment of post-unification visual culture, the book examines... -
A German Generation: An Experiential History of the Twentieth Century by Thomas A. Kohut
RRP: £25.00£23.94Germans of the generation born just before the outbreak of World War I lived through a tumultuous and dramatic century. This book tells the story of their lives and, in so doing, offers a new history of twentieth-century Germany, as experienced and made... -
Writing History in the Anglo-Norman World - Manuscripts, Makers and Readers, c.1066-c.1250 by Laura Cleaver 9781903153802
RRP: £80.00£77.01The contexts for the works of eleventh and twelfth-century historians are here brought to the fore. History was a subject popular with authors and readers in the Anglo-Norman world. The volume and richness of historical writing in the lands controlled... -
Writing the Early Crusades: Text, Transmission and Memory Marcus Bull (Customer Opt-In) 9781783272990
RRP: £19.99£16.97A pioneering approach to contemporary historical writing on the First Crusade, looking at the texts as cultural artefacts rather than simply for the evidence they contain. The First Crusade (1095-1101) was the stimulus for a substantial boom in... -
The Strange Case of Ermine de Reims: A Medieval Woman Between Demons and Saints by Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski 9780812247152
RRP: £83.00£72.11In 1384, a poor and illiterate peasant woman named Ermine moved to the city of Reims with her elderly husband. Her era was troubled by war, plague, and schism within the Catholic Church, and Ermine could easily have slipped unobserved through the cracks... -
In the Name of Freedom: the Declaration of Arbroath, 1320 2020 Rhetoric and History: Scottish Historical Review: Volume 101, Issue 3 by Terry Brotherstone 9781399512619
RRP: £25.99£21.06Can anything new be said about the Declaration of Arbroath? This volume says there can.In 1977 Grant Simpson published a seminal article in the Scottish Historical Review: which asked if 'anything conceivably new can be said about a document so well... -
The Sublime Invention: Ballooning in Europe, 1783-1820 Michael R Lynn 9781138661219
RRP: £53.99£46.87Ballooning, like the Enlightenment, was a Europe-wide movement and a massive cultural phenomenon. Lynn argues that in order to understand the importance of science during the age of the Enlightenment and Atlantic revolutions, it is crucial to explain how... -
Enlightenment Travel and British Identities: Thomas Pennant's Tours of Scotland and Wales by Mary-Ann Constantine 9781783086535
RRP: £70.00£67.11'Weaving together science, history, antiquarianism and art, this stimulating collection of essays amply demonstrates Thomas Pennant's centrality to a broad range of British Enlightenment debates and discourses, especially those relating to Britain's... -
Wetlands of Ireland: Distribution, Ecology, Uses and Economic Value by Marinus L. Otte 9781900621892
RRP: £25.50£24.22Ireland is famous - or notorious - for its wet and mild climate. Because on average more water precipitates than evaporates, the island is rich in wetlands - marshes, swamps, fens, bogs, lagoons, floodplains and wet meadows, to name but a few. Many place... -
Bishops in the Political Community of England, 1213-1272 by S. T. Ambler 9780198754022
RRP: £95.00£86.04Thirteenth-century England was a special place and time to be a bishop. Like their predecessors, these bishops were key members of the regnal community: anointers of kings, tenants-in-chief, pastors, counsellors, scholars, diplomats, the brothers and... -
Magic, Witchcraft, and Ghosts in the Enlightenment by Michael R. Lynn
RRP: £36.99£32.53Magic, Witchcraft, and Ghosts in the Enlightenment argues for the centrality of magical practices and ideas throughout the long eighteenth century.Although the hunt for witches in Europe declined precipitously after 1650, and the intellectual... -
For Love of the Automobile: Looking Back into the History of Our Desires by Wolfgang Sachs
RRP: £53.00£41.79In his cultural analysis of the motor car in Germany, Wolfgang Sachs starts from the assumption that the automobile is more than a means of transportation and that its history cannot be understood merely as a triumphant march of technological innovation... -
Stolen Song: How the Troubadours Became French by Eliza Zingesser
RRP: £29.99£26.50Stolen Song documents the act of cultural appropriation that created a founding moment for French literary history: the rescripting and domestication of troubadour song, a prestige corpus in the European sphere, as French. This book also documents the... -
War and Government in the Middle Ages - Essays in honour of J.O. Prestwich by John Gillingham
RRP: £80.00£76.61`A valuable group of papers by pupils and associates of John Prestwich, which reflects his own rigorous questioning of the sources to elicit a clear picture of the realities of the wars that so concerned the medieval state.'LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKSBook... -
Germany: The Long Road West: Volume 2: 1933-1990 by Heinrich August Winkler 9780199265985
£67.69Vivid, succinct, and highly accessible, Heinrich Winkler's magisterial history of modern Germany, offers the history of a nation and its people through two turbulent centuries. It is the story of a country that, while always culturally identified with... -
Postcolonial People: The Return from Africa and the Remaking of Portugal by Christoph Kalter
RRP: £90.00£81.43Having built much of their wealth, power, and identities on imperial expansion, how did the Portuguese and, by extension, Europeans deal with the end of empire? Postcolonial People explores the processes and consequences of decolonization through the... -
A Century of Northampton: Events, People and Places Over the 20th Century by Andrew Cook
RRP: £14.99£11.55Presents a selection of photographs, which illustrate the transformation that has taken place in Lowestoft during the 20th century. This book offers an insight into the daily lives and living conditions of local people and gives the reader glimpses and... -
Managing Tudor and Stuart Parliaments: Essays in Memory of Michael Graves Chris R. Kyle (Syracuse University) 9781119081951
RRP: £20.75£18.32Bringing together essays from nine established parliamentary scholars, the volume offers new insights and reflections on the management and importance of Parliaments for the effective and smooth running of the state during the Tudor and early Stuart... -
Weimar and Nazi Germany: Continuities and Discontinuities by Panikos Panayi 9780582327801
£48.84Weimar and Nazi Germany presents the history of the country in these periods in a unique way. Examining the continuities and discontinuities between the Third Reich and the Weimar Republic, it also contextualises these two regimes within modern German... -
No Particular Hurry: British Travellers in Finland 1830-1917 by Tony Lurcock 9780956735997
RRP: £12.00£9.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956735997Author Tony LurcockFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint CB EditionsPublisher CB EditionsDimensions(mm) 210mm * 135mm * 20mm -
Living Through History: Core Book 3 by Nigel Kelly
£33.55"Living Through History" is a complete Key Stage 3 course which brings out the exciting events in history. The course is available in two different editions, Core and Foundation. Every core title in the series has a parallel Foundation edition. Each... -
Captain Rock: The Irish Agrarian Rebellion of 1821a 1824 by James S Donnelly Jr 9780299233143
RRP: £34.95£24.95Named for its mythical leader "Captain Rock," avenger of agrarian wrongs, the Rockite movement of 1821-24 in Ireland was notorious for its extraordinary violence. In Captain Rock, James S. Donnelly, Jr., offers both a fine-grained analysis of the... -
Fleeting Cities: Imperial Expositions in Fin-de-Siecle Europe by Alexander C. T. Geppert 9781137358325
RRP: £89.99£70.17Imperial expositions held in fin-de-siecle London, Paris and Berlin were knots in a world wide web. Conceptualizing expositions as meta-media, Fleeting Cities constitutes a transnational and transdisciplinary investigation into how modernity was created... -
Inhumanities: Nazi Interpretations of Western Culture by David B. Dennis
RRP: £26.99£21.34Inhumanities is an unprecedented account of the ways Nazi Germany manipulated and mobilized European literature, philosophy, painting, sculpture and music in support of its ideological ends. David B. Dennis shows how, based on belief that the Third Reich... -
London Stories: Personal Lives, Public Histories by Hilda Kean 9781854891488
RRP: £14.99£13.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781854891488Author Hilda KeanFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Rivers Oram PressPublisher Rivers Oram Press -
Jewish Politics in Spinoza's Amsterdam by Anne O. Albert
£45.99Finalist for Jordan Schnitzer Book Award for Philosophy and Jewish Thought 2023. This book untangles a web of ideas about politics, religion, exile, and community that emerged at a key moment in Jewish history and left a lasting mark on Jewish ideas. In... -
Anglo-Saxon Chronicle 3 MS A by Janet M. Bately
RRP: £95.00£84.75The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle is the backbone of Anglo-Saxon history, an almost contemporary record of events for about five hundred years, and a vital resource for Anglo-Saxon historians. This collaborative edition will eventually include the seven base... -
Sex, France, and Arab Men, 1962-1979 by Todd Shepard
RRP: £44.00£37.21Did sexual abnormality set the stage for the end of France's presumed "natural" domination of Algeria? The Algerian revolution for independence coincided with the sexual revolution in France, and in this book Todd Shepard argues that these two movements... -
The Many Deaths of Jew Suss: The Notorious Trial and Execution of an Eighteenth-Century Court Jew by Yair Mintzker 9780691192734
RRP: £20.00£15.89New historical insights into one of the most infamous episodes in the history of anti-SemitismJoseph Suss Oppenheimer-"Jew Suss"-is one of the most iconic figures in the history of anti-Semitism. In 1733, Oppenheimer became the "court Jew" of Carl... -
Crown & Sceptre: A New History of the British Monarchy, from William the Conqueror to Elizabeth II by Tracy Borman
RRP: £15.99£14.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802162328Author Tracy BormanFormat PaperbackPage Count 576Imprint Grove PressPublisher Grove PressWeight(grams) 540gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 140mm * 48mm -
Shifting Sentiment: Press Opinion in Ireland's Revolutionary Decade 1914-23: 2023 by Dermot Meleady
RRP: £20.00£16.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913934347Author Dermot MeleadyFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint WordwellPublisher Wordwell -
The Paradox of Ukrainian Lviv: A Borderland City between Stalinists, Nazis, and Nationalists by Tarik Cyril Amar 9780801453915
RRP: £34.00£30.29The Paradox of Ukrainian Lviv reveals the local and transnational forces behind the twentieth-century transformation of Lviv into a Soviet and Ukrainian urban center. Lviv's twentieth-century history was marked by violence, population changes, and... -
Military Society and the Court of Chivalry in the Age of the Hundred Years War by Dr. Philip Caudrey
RRP: £25.00£20.92An investigation into three of the best-known cases tried under the Court of Chivalry reveals much about gentry military society. The highest and most sovereign things a knight ought to guard in defence of his estate are his troth and his arms. So...