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The Lands of Partitioned Poland, 1795-1918 by Piotr Stefan Wandycz
RRP: £32.00£28.61The Lands of Partitioned Poland, 1795-1918 comprehensively covers an important, complex, and controversial period in the history of Poland and East Central Europe, beginning in 1795 when the remnanst of the Polish Commonwealth were distributed among... -
Munich 1972: Tragedy, Terror, and Triumph at the Olympic Games by David Clay Large 9780742567399
RRP: £25.00£19.96Set against the backdrop of the turbulent late 1960s and early 1970s, this compelling book provides the first comprehensive history of the 1972 Munich Olympic Games, notorious for the abduction of Israeli Olympians by Palestinian terrorists and the... -
Louis XIV by G.R.R. Treasure 9780582279582
RRP: £47.99£46.98Louis IV represents the apogee of French royal power and the Ancien Regime. Having restored the nation's finances and rebuilt the army, he embarked on a series of wars of conquest which made France universally feared and respected as the central power of... -
Common Sense: A Political History by Sophia Rosenfeld
RRP: £26.95£23.76Common sense has always been a cornerstone of American politics. In 1776, Tom Paine's vital pamphlet with that title sparked the American Revolution. And today, common sense-the wisdom of ordinary people, knowledge so self-evident that it is beyond... -
Labour's Crisis: Plaid Cymru, the Conservatives, and the Decline of the Labour Party in North-West Wales, 1960-74 by Andrew Edwards 9780708324257
RRP: £18.99£15.65Many books have focused on the rise of, and success of, the Labour party in Wales, but this one focuses on its decline in an understudied part of Wales.About the AuthorAndrew Edwards is Dean of Arts and Humanities and Senior Lecturer in modern Welsh and... -
Maritime Quarantine: The British Experience, c.1650-1900 John Booker 9781138274129
RRP: £49.99£44.50As a maritime trading nation, the issue of quarantine was one of constant concern to Britain. Whilst naturally keen to promote international trade, there was a constant fear of importing potentially devastating diseases into British territories. In this... -
Women in Purple: Rulers of Medieval Byzantium by Judith Herrin
£32.60In the eighth and ninth centuries, three Byzantine empresses--Irene, Euphrosyne, and Theodora--changed history. Their combined efforts restored the veneration of icons, saving Byzantium from a purely symbolic and decorative art and ensuring its influence... -
The Balkan Wars: 1912-1913 by Leon Trotsky 9780873489072
RRP: £25.00£18.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780873489072Author Leon TrotskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 714Imprint Pathfinder Books LtdPublisher Pathfinder Books LtdWeight(grams) 685g -
Policing Public Opinion in the French Revolution: The Culture of Calumny and the Problem of Free Speech by Charles Walton 9780195367751
£61.70In the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen of 1789, French revolutionaries proclaimed the freedom of speech, religion, and opinion. Censorship was abolished, and much like the early American Republic, France appeared to be on a path... -
The Ulster Question since 1945 by John Loughlin
£38.75This major work of synthesis presents an up-to-date assessment of the issues at the very root of the troubles in Northern Ireland. Framed against the background of Ulster history since the early seventeenth century, the major factors in the development... -
Into Russian Nature: Tourism, Environmental Protection, and National Parks in the Twentieth Century by Alan D. Roe 9780190914554
RRP: £38.99£35.95Since the early twentieth century, nations around the world have set aside protected areas for tourism, recreation, scenery, wildlife, and habitat conservation. In Russia, biologists and geographers had been intrigued with the idea of establishing... -
The Jews of France: A History from Antiquity to the Present by Esther Benbassa
RRP: £35.00£27.74In the first English-language edition of a general, synthetic history of French Jewry from antiquity to the present, Esther Benbassa tells the intriguing tale of the social, economic, and cultural vicissitudes of a people in diaspora. With verve and... -
Women's Travel Writings in India 1777-1854: Volume I: Jemima Kindersley, Letters from the Island of Teneriffe, Brazil, the Cape of Good Hope and the East Indies (1777); and Maria Graham, Journal of a Residence in India (1812) by Carl Thompson
£117.53The 'memsahibs' of the British Raj in India are well-known figures today, frequently depicted in fiction, TV and film. In recent years, they have also become the focus of extensive scholarship. Less familiar to both academics and the general public,... -
The Catholic Church and the Secondary School Curriculum in Ireland, 1922-1962 by Tom A. O'Donoghue 9780820444246
RRP: £39.80£35.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780820444246Author Tom A. O'DonoghueFormat HardbackPage Count 183Imprint Peter Lang AGPublisher Peter Lang AGWeight(grams) 390g -
Political Society in Later Medieval England: A Festschrift for Christine Carpenter Benjamin Thompson 9781783270309
RRP: £80.00£76.61Essays on the connections between politics and society in the middle ages, showing their interdependence. Christine Carpenter's influential work on late-medieval English society aspires to encompass a wide spectrum of human experience. Her vision of... -
Violette Noziere: A Story of Murder in 1930s Paris by Sarah Maza 9780520272729
RRP: £25.00£19.59On an August evening in 1933, in a quiet, working-class neighborhood in Paris, eighteen-year-old Violette Noziere gave her mother and father glasses of barbiturate-laced "medication", which she told them had been prescribed by the family doctor; one of... -
Christianity's Quiet Success: The Eusebius Gallicanus Sermon Collection and the Power of the Church in Late Antique Gaul by Lisa Bailey
RRP: £26.99£23.32Lisa Kaaren Bailey's Christianity's Quiet Success: The Eusebius Gallicanus Sermon Collection and the Power of the Church in Late Antique Gaul is the first major study of the Eusebius Gallicanus collection of anonymous, multi-authored sermons from fifth-... -
The Alderley Sandhills Project: An Archaeology of Community Life in (Post-) Industrial England by Eleanor Conlin Casella 9780719081989
RRP: £19.99£14.92How did the rise of consumer society impact the domestic lives of ordinary workers? Funded by English Heritage, this study offers the first book-length archaeology of a 17th through 20th century household site in Great Britain. Adopting a... -
Virtual Subjects, Fugitive Selves: Fernando Pessoa and his philosophy by Jonardon Ganeri 9780198864684
RRP: £77.00£69.25This book is a sustained analytical exploration of the rich philosophy of self of the Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa. Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935) has become many things to many people in the years that have passed since his untimely death. For some... -
The Case for Scottish Independence: A History of Nationalist Political Thought in Modern Scotland by Ben Jackson
RRP: £75.00£59.61Scottish nationalism is a powerful movement in contemporary politics, yet the goal of Scottish independence emerged surprisingly recently into public debate. The origins of Scottish nationalism lie not in the medieval battles for Scottish statehood, the... -
Anglo-Chinese Encounters since 1800: War, Trade, Science and Governance by Gungwu Wang
RRP: £26.99£22.80Chinese encounters with the British were more than merely those between two great powers. There was the larger canvas of the Empire and Commonwealth where the two peoples traded and interacted. In China, officials and merchants had to place the British... -
Social Rights and the Politics of Obligation in History by Steven L. B. Jensen
RRP: £90.00£81.43This pioneering volume explores the long-neglected history of social rights, from the Middle Ages to the present. It debunks the myth that social rights are 'second-generation rights' - rights that appeared after World War II as additions to a rights... -
A Concise History of the Third Reich by Wolfgang Benz 9780520253834
RRP: £25.00£19.59This well-illustrated, highly accessible book at last gives general readers and students a compact, yet comprehensive and authoritative history of the twelve years of the Third Reich - from political takeover of January 30, 1933 to the German... -
The Queen's Embroiderer: A True Story of Paris, Lovers, Swindlers, and the First Stock Market Crisis by Joan DeJean
RRP: £30.00£23.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781632864741Author Joan DeJeanFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing USAPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing USAWeight(grams) 702g -
Languages and Communities in Early Modern Europe by Peter Burke
RRP: £33.99£29.26In this magisterial study, Peter Burke explores the social and cultural history of the languages spoken or written in Europe between the invention of printing and the French Revolution, arguing that, from a linguistic point of view, 1450 to 1789 should... -
WICS: The Early Mediaeval Trading Centres of Northern Europe by David Hill 9781841272863
RRP: £36.00£34.40This book reviews thematically the evidence amassed over the last 150 years for the early medieval trading centres of northern Europe, or 'wics', which played a crucial role in the development of urbanism and international trade in the pre-Viking age... -
Origins of Democratic Culture: Printing, Petitions, and the Public Sphere in Early-Modern England by David Zaret
RRP: £105.00£82.16This innovative work of historical sociology locates the origins of modern democratic discourse in the emergent culture of printing in early modern England. For David Zaret, the key to the rise of a democratic public sphere was the impact of this culture... -
Monarchy: Past, Present...and Future? by Christopher Lee 9781903071588
RRP: £20.00£14.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781903071588Author Christopher LeeFormat HardbackPage Count 204Imprint Bene Factum Publishing LtdPublisher Bene Factum Publishing LtdWeight(grams)... -
Britain'S Lost Revolution?: Jacobite Scotland and French Grand Strategy, 1701-8 by Daniel Szechi 9780719089176
RRP: £85.00£60.17This book is a frontal attack on an entrenched orthodoxy. Our official, public vision of the early eighteenth century demonises Louis XIV and France and marginalises the Scots Jacobites. Louis is seen as an incorrigibly imperialistic monster and the... -
Medieval British Towns by Heather Swanson
£32.28Medieval British Towns sets out to explain the reasons for the explosion of town foundation throughout the British Isles from the twelfth century onwards and charts the subsequent development of towns through to the early sixteenth century. The raison... -
Race, Nation and Empire: Making Histories, 1750 to the Present by Catherine Hall 9780719082665
RRP: £90.00£64.42The essays in this collection show how histories written in the past, in different political times, dealt with, considered, or avoided and disavowed Britain's imperial role and issues of difference.Ranging from enlightenment historians to the present,... -
Saint Jerome in the Renaissance by Eugene F. Rice
RRP: £26.50£23.29Just as they aspired to revive the Greek and Roman past, so the humanist scholars of the Renaissance sought to retrieve the early Christian era. Among the most fully studied figures of Christian antiquity was Saint Jerome. Eugene Rice's award-winning... -
EU Security Strategies: Extending the EU System of Security Governance by Spyros Economides
RRP: £37.99£33.38This volume offers a coherent analysis of the European Union's security strategies within a comparative framework.If the EU is to survive and prosper as an effective security actor, it requires that greater attention be devoted to taking a cohesive and... -
Arabic Administration in Norman Sicily: The Royal Diwan by Jeremy Johns
RRP: £44.99£40.98In the late eleventh century, Sicily - originally part of the Islamic world - was captured by Norman, French and Italian adventurers, led by Roger de Hauteville. For the next 150 years, Roger and his descendants ruled the island and its predominantly... -
Town, City and Nation: England 1850-1914 by P. J. Waller 9780192891631
£65.09By the outbreak of the First World War England had become the world's first mass urban society. In just over sixty years the proportion of town-dwellers had risen from 50 to 80 per cent, and during this period many of the most crucial developments in... -
Empire in Question: Reading, Writing, and Teaching British Imperialism by Antoinette Burton
RRP: £23.99£21.24Featuring essays written by the influential historian Antoinette Burton since the mid-1990s, Empire in Question traces the development of a particular, contentious strand of modern British history, the "new imperial history," through the eyes of a... -
Europe, Small Navies and Maritime Security: Balancing Traditional Roles and Emergent Threats in the 21st Century by Robert McCabe
RRP: £41.99£36.75This book seeks to identify and address gaps in our understanding of maritime security and the role of small navies in Europe. The majority of Europe's navies are small, yet they are often called upon to address a complex array of traditional and... -
Crafting the Witch: Gendering Magic in Medieval and Early Modern England by Heidi Breuer 9780415699570
RRP: £47.99£41.81This book analyzes the gendered transformation of magical figures occurring in Arthurian romance in England from the twelfth to the sixteenth centuries. In the earlier texts, magic is predominantly a masculine pursuit, garnering its user prestige and... -
Epitaph for an Era: Politics and Rhetoric in the Carolingian World by Mayke de Jong
RRP: £30.99£22.85Wala, abbot of Corbie, played a major role in the rebellions against Emperor Louis the Pious, especially in 830, for which he was exiled. Radbert defended his beloved abbot, known to his monks as Arsenius, against accusations of infidelity in an... -
Conquering the Pacific: An Unknown Mariner and the Final Great Voyage of the Age of Discovery by Andres Resendez
RRP: £12.99£10.34The story of an uncovered voyage as colorful and momentous as any on record for the Age of Discovery-and of the Black mariner whose stunning accomplishment has been until now lost to history It began with a secret mission, no expenses spared. Spain,...