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The Seizure of Power: Fascism in Italy, 1919-1929 by Professor Adrian Lyttelton 9780415553940
RRP: €64.25€56.25This volume is a study of Fascism in its country of origin, Italy. It describes the impact of a new type of political movement on Italian government and society. The Fascist seizure of power did not begin or end with Mussolini's famous March on Rome in... -
Cornwall's Historic Buildings by Joan Rendell
RRP: €15.46€11.45Cornwall's Historic Buildings is a guide to the county's most remarkable structures. Well-known local author Joan Rendell describes here curious and unusual buildings, quirky edifices and architectural features that have survived the centuries. Some will... -
The Derby Philosophers: Science and Culture in British Urban Society, 1700-1850 by Paul Elliot
RRP: €101.15€72.08The Derby Philosophers focuses upon the activities of a group of Midland intellectuals that included the evolutionist and physician Erasmus Darwin, Rev. Thomas Gisborne the evangelical philosopher and poet, Robert Bage the novelist, Charles Sylvester the... -
Wargaming Nineteenth Century Europe 1815-1878 by Neil Thomas
€22.85A set of simple, fast-playing rules for wargaming the conflicts that re-shaped Europe in the period 1815-78/. This important, yet often-neglected period includes the Crimean War, the Italian Risorgimento, the wars of Bismarck's Prussia against Denmark,... -
Mapping Black Europe – Monuments, Markers, Memories by Natasha A. Kelly
RRP: €39.26€32.39Black communities have been making major contributions to Europe's social and cultural life and landscapes for centuries. However, their achievements largely remain unrecognized by the dominant societies, as their perspectives are excluded from... -
Hitler's Chariots Vol Three: Volkswagen - From Nazi Peles Car to New Beetle by Blaine Taylor
RRP: €48.78€32.21This is the exciting, fascinating saga of the creation of the world's most popular car, the famed Volkswagen Beetle, under the Nazi regime ofGerman dictator Adolf Hitler, who played a pivotal role in its design, construction, and marketing during 1933-38... -
The Expansion of Europe, 1250-1500 by Michael North 9780719080210
RRP: €29.75€21.80Later medieval Europe saw a great deal of change and expansion of different kinds. This geographically broad textbook explores these events in a series of core chapters on the different countries, covering the Holy Roman Empire, East-Central Europe,... -
German Women for Empire, 1884-1945 by Lora Wildenthal
RRP: €28.55€24.80When Germany annexed colonies in Africa and the Pacific beginning in the 1880s, many German women were enthusiastic. At the same time, however, they found themselves excluded from what they saw as a great nationalistic endeavor. In German Women for... -
Hitler's Prophecy: The Key to the Holocaust by Simon Burgess
RRP: €23.74€18.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912676972Author Simon BurgessFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdPublisher Vallentine Mitchell & Co Ltd -
Nature, Empire, and Nation: Explorations of the History of Science in the Iberian World by Jorge Canizares-Esguerra
RRP: €29.74€25.79This collection of essays explores two traditions of interpreting and manipulating nature in the early-modern and nineteenth-century Iberian world: one instrumental and imperial, the other patriotic and national. Imperial representations laid the ground... -
The First World Empire: Portugal, War and Military Revolution by Helder Carvalhal 9780367365486
RRP: €45.21€39.72This book offers a comprehensive overview of the early modern military history of Portugal and its possessions in Africa, the Americas, and Asia from the perspective of the military revolution historiographical debate. The existence of a military... -
A Century of Derby: Events, People and Places Over the 20th Century by Maxwell Craven
RRP: €17.84€13.74This fascinating selection of photographs illustrates the extraordinary transformation that has taken place in Derby during the 20th century. The book offers an insight into the daily lives and living conditions of local people and gives the reader... -
Survivors: Warsaw under Nazi Occupation by Jadwiga Biskupska
RRP: €89.25€81.09Survivors tells the harrowing story of life in Warsaw under Nazi occupation. As the epicenter of Polish resistance, Warsaw was subjected to violent persecution, the ghettoization of the city's Jewish community, the suppression of multiple uprisings, and... -
The Margins of City Life: Explorations of the French Urban Frontier, 1815-1851 by John M. Merriman 9780195064384
€81.53Unlike most historians of France, who draw a sharp contrast between cities and the countryside, John Merriman focuses on the spatial and social margins of urban life, the faubourgs, or suburbs, where rural migrants and the labouring poor of the cities... -
William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse: Astronomy and the Castle in Nineteenth-Century Ireland by R.Charles Mollan 9780719091445
RRP: €107.10€94.26This is a revealing account of the family life and achievements of the Third Earl of Rosse, a hereditary peer and resident landlord at Birr Castle, County Offaly, in nineteenth-century Ireland, before, during and after the devastating famine of the 1840s... -
David Lloyd George by Emyr Price
RRP: €5.94€4.81The majority of historians have viewed Lloyd George's early career to 1896 as superficial and merely the precursor to his successes at Westminster. Emyr Price provides an altogether different view. Based on original research he asserts that Lloyd George... -
A Political Biography of Daniel Defoe P N Furbank 9781138663367
RRP: €57.11€49.75Furbank and Owens attempt to disentangle the story of Daniel Defoe's political career, as journalist, polemicist, political theorist and secret agent. They argue that this remarkable career calls for a good deal of rethinking, not least because biography... -
The Third Reich's Intelligence Services: The Career of Walter Schellenberg by Katrin Paehler 9781107157194
RRP: €127.33€114.81This is the first-ever analytical study of Nazi Germany's political foreign intelligence service, Office VI of the Reichssicherheitshauptamt and its head, Walter Schellenberg. Katrin Paehler tells the story of Schellenberg's career in policing and... -
Comrades: Tales of a Brigadista in the Spanish Civil War by Harry Fisher
€18.74The Spanish Civil War served as an ideological and physical battleground for visionary Americans wishing to combat the spread of fascism. Harry Fisher was one such idealist who became a solider in the famed Abraham Lincoln Brigade, the American... -
Folkestone by Alan F. Taylor 9780752411804
RRP: €15.46€11.45This fascinating compilation of over 220 pictures of bygone Folkestone has been drawn entirely from the author's own extensive collection. It encompasses nearly a century and a half of the town's history, starting with a chapter dedicated to watercolours... -
Recovering Scotland's Slavery Past: The Caribbean Connection by Tom M. Devine 9780748698080
RRP: €101.15€92.70The real story of Scotland's connections to transatlantic slavery has been lost to history and shrouded in myth. There was even denial that the Scots unlike the English had any significant involvement in slavery. Scotland saw itself as a pioneering... -
Beastly Bath by Gideon Kibblewhite
RRP: €11.89€8.98They came, they saw, they hated it ... Bath is one of the most beautiful cities in the world. However, go back in time and it was a very different place. In this entertaining, illustrated compendium of caustic quotes, famous visitors of the past -... -
Luftwaffe Profile Series: Number 7: Heinkel He 60 by Gerhard Lang
RRP: €14.27€9.03Number 7 in the Luftwaffe Profile Series describes the design and use of the Heinkel He 60.Book InformationISBN 9780887409226Author Gerhard LangFormat PaperbackPage Count 40Imprint Schiffer Publishing LtdPublisher Schiffer Publishing LtdWeight(grams) 318g -
Ethnic Minorities in 19th and 20th Century Germany: Jews, Gypsies, Poles, Turks and Others by Panikos Panayi 9780582267602
RRP: €82.10€78.87This is the first book to trace the history of all ethnic minorities in Germany during the nineteenth and twentieth-centuries. It argues that all of the different types of states in Germany since 1800 have displayed some level of hostility towards ethnic... -
The Rise and Fall of the People's Parties: A History of Democracy in Western Europe since 1918 by Dr Pepijn Corduwener 9780192843418
RRP: €107.10€97.08This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read on Oxford Academic and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. Across Europe, people are deeply... -
A Short History of Renaissance Italy Lisa Kaborycha 9781032218694
RRP: €42.83€38.19From Giotto's artistic revolution at the dawn of the fourteenth century to the scientific discoveries of Galileo in the early seventeenth, this book explores the cultural developments of one of the most remarkable and vibrant periods of history-the... -
Brighton College 1845-1995 by Martin D. W. Jones 9780850339789
RRP: €24.99€19.92Brighton College is important in the story of English education. It pioneered the use of separate classrooms, set up the first purpose-built science laboratory, the first gymnasium and invented the school magazine. Later, it fought the legal battle to... -
Auschwitz, the Allies and Censorship of the Holocaust by Michael Fleming
RRP: €44.02€33.08What was the extent of allied knowledge regarding the mass murder of Jews at Auschwitz during the Second World War? The question is one which continues to prompt heated historical debate, and Michael Fleming's important new book offers a definitive... -
Milan Undone: Contested Sovereignties in the Italian Wars by John Gagné 9780674248724
RRP: €53.49€42.74A new history of how one of the Renaissance's preeminent cities lost its independence in the Italian Wars.In 1499, the duchy of Milan had known independence for one hundred years. But the turn of the sixteenth century saw the city battered by the Italian... -
King Arthur: The Truth Behind the Legend by Rodney Castleden
RRP: €160.65€140.04King Arthur is often written off as a medieval fantasy, the dream of those yearning for an age of strong, just rulers and a contented kingdom. Those who accept his existence at all generally discard the stories that surround him. This exciting new... -
The Silent Dictatorship: The Politics of the German High Command under Hindenburg and Ludendorff, 1916-1918 by Martin Kitchen
RRP: €38.07€33.71Originally published in 1976 and based upon the extensive use of original archival material, this book provides a detailed account of the 2 years in which the German army enjoyed unprecedented power and influence. The rise of Hindenburg and Ludendorff is... -
Barnet Voices by Percy Reboul 9780752415628
RRP: €11.89€8.98Barnet VoicesBook InformationISBN 9780752415628Author Percy ReboulFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint The History Press LtdPublisher The History Press LtdWeight(grams) 230gDimensions(mm) 240mm * 172mm * 10mm -
The Power of Persuasion - Becoming a Merchant in the Eighteenth Century by Lucas Haasis
RRP: €79.72€64.47Lucas Haasis found a time capsule: A complete mercantile letter archive of the merchant Nicolaus Gottlieb Luetkens who lived in 18th century Hamburg. Luetkens travelled France between 1743-1745 in order to become a successful wholesale merchant. He... -
The World in Dress: Costume Books across Italy, Europe and the East by Guilia Calvi
RRP: €20.23€17.52In the early modern period costume books and albums participated in the shaping of a new visual culture that displayed the diversity of the people of the known world on a variety of media including maps, atlases, screens, and scrolls. At the crossroads... -
Germany'S Other Modernity: Munich and the Making of Metropolis, 1895-1930 by Leif Jerram 9780719095382
RRP: €23.79€17.28This book is about what it meant to build a city in Germany at the turn of the twentieth century. It explores the physical spaces and mental attitudes that shaped lives, restructured society and conditioned beliefs about the past and expectations for the... -
Against All England: Regional Identity and Cheshire Writing, 1195-1656 by Robert W. Barrett
RRP: €33.31€29.69Against All England examines a diverse set of poems, plays, and chronicles produced in Cheshire and its vicinity from the 1190s to the 1650s that collectively argue for the localization of British literary history. These works, including very early... -
Massacre at Oradour, France, 1944: Coming to Grips with Terror by Jean-Jacques Fouche 9780875806013
RRP: €28.55€24.80Near the end of World War II, four days after Allied armies landed at Normandy, a unit of Waffen SS troops en route to that front surrounded the French village of Oradour-sur-Glane and, without warning, systematically massacred its citizens. The Nazi... -
Ghetto: The History of a Word by Daniel B. Schwartz
RRP: €38.02€38.01Just as European Jews were being emancipated and ghettos in their original form-compulsory, enclosed spaces designed to segregate-were being dismantled, use of the word ghetto surged in Europe and spread around the globe. Tracing the curious path of this... -
A History of Prussia by H.W. Koch 9780582481909
RRP: €85.67€82.71In little more than two centuries Prussia rose from medieval obscurity and the devastation of the Thirty Years War to become the dominant power of continental Europe. Her rulers rose from Electors to Kings, and from Kings to Emperors. It is a dramatic... -
Famine and Scarcity in Late Medieval and Early Modern England: The Regulation of Grain Marketing, 1256-1631 by Buchanan Sharp 9781107121829
RRP: €107.10€96.90Surveying government and crowd responses ranging from the late Middle Ages through to the early modern era, Buchanan Sharp's illuminating study examines how the English government responded to one of the most intractable problems of the period: famine...