Filter By
- Book
- Qty in Cart
- Quantity
- Price
- Subtotal
-
The Last Pagan: Julian the Apostate and the Death of the Ancient World by Adrian Murdoch 9780750940481 [USED COPY]
RRP: $11.60$8.93Since his death on a Persian battlefield in AD 363, the violent end of the Emperor Julian (Flavius Claudius Julianus, 332-363) has become synonymous with the death of paganism. Vilified throughout history as the 'Apostate', the young philosopher-warrior... -
Eat, Drink and be Merry: Food and Drink in the Greek and Roman World by Audrey Briers 9780907849933 [USED COPY]
$7.77EAT -- the foods available and enjoyed by the ancient Greeks and Romans. DRINK -- water and wine and the traditions which grew up around them. BE MERRY -- how people enjoyed themselves and the changing fashions of entertainment and manners in Greek and... -
Decline and Fall of Roman Britain by Neil Faulkner 9780752414584 [USED COPY]
RRP: $32.25$3.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780752414584Author Neil FaulknerFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint NPI Media GroupPublisher The History Press LtdWeight(grams) 658g -
Power and the People: A Social History of Central European Politics, 1945-56 by Eleonore Breuning 9780719070693 [USED COPY]
RRP: $25.79$3.28Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Rethinking the Russian Revolution by Professor Edward Acton 9780713165302 [USED COPY]
RRP: $54.17$2.48For its admirers, the Russian Revolution is a milestone in human progress; for its critics, it is a catastrophe of monstrous proportions. Edward Acton's stimulating study combines an introduction to the momentous events of 1917 with an analysis of this... -
Imperial Culture in Germany, 1871-1918 by Matthew Jefferies 9781403904218 [USED COPY]
RRP: $43.85$16.45It has often ben suggested that artists and writers in Germany's imperial era shunned social engagement, preferring instead apolitical introspection. However, as Matthew Jefferies reveals, whether one looks at the painters, poets and architects who... -
The Pope and Mussolini: The Secret History of Pius XI and the Rise of Fascism in Europe by David I. Kertzer 9780198716167 [USED COPY]
RRP: $25.80$6.72This is the compelling story of Pope Pius XI's secret relations with Benito Mussolini. A ground-breaking work, based on seven years of research in the Vatican and Fascist archives by US National Book Award-finalist David Kertzer, it will forever change... -
The Twelve Caesars by Michael Grant 9781857999747 [USED COPY]
RRP: $16.76$3.74The personalities of the 12 Caesars of Ancient Rome (Julius Caesar and the 11 emperors who followed after him) have profoundly impressed themselves upon the world, largely because of Suetonius' biographies of them. Using contemporary documents, this book... -
Alexander the Great by E E Rice 9780750937641 [USED COPY]
RRP: $9.02$3.52King Alexander III 'the Great' of Macedon was one of the greatest military commanders the world has ever known. This book seeks to dispel some of the myths which have grown up around him and to provide an up-to-date account of his life.Book... -
Evesham: A Pictorial History by Arthur H. Fryer 9780850339352 [USED COPY]
RRP: $18.05$2.71From the foundation of its great abbey in the early eighth century, Evesham developed as the abbey grew in splendour. Though the Dissolution brought the abbey's ruin, its Bell Tower still survives and its Almonry now houses a museum. The town's place in... -
Dynasty and Diplomacy in the Court of Savoy: Political Culture and the Thirty Years' War by Toby Osborne 9780521037914
RRP: $64.49$54.23This book is a major study in English of the duchy of Savoy during the period of the Thirty Years War. Rather than examining Savoy purely in terms of its military or geo-strategic role, Dynasty and Diplomacy in the Court of Savoy comprises three... -
Cave Monasteries of Byzantine Cappadocia by Lyn Rodley 9780521154772
RRP: $51.59$43.42This is a fully illustrated account, first published in 1985, of the rock-cut monasteries, hermitages and other complexes in Cappadocia (central Anatolia, in Turkey). These were cut into soft volcanic rock, mostly during the ninth to eleventh centuries,... -
Sorrowful Shores: Violence, Ethnicity, and the End of the Ottoman Empire 1912-1923 by Ryan Gingeras 9780199561520
RRP: $190.28$152.87The Turkish Republic was formed out of immense bloodshed and carnage. During the decade leading up to the end of the Ottoman Empire and the ascendancy of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, virtually every town and village throughout Anatolia was wracked by... -
The Great War and Urban Life in Germany: Freiburg, 1914-1918 by Roger Chickering 9780521852562
RRP: $112.23$100.74In deference to the principle that total war requires total history, Roger Chickering traces the all-embracing impact of the First World War on life in the German city of Freiburg. His book shows how the war took over every facet of life in the city,... -
Medicine in the Crusades: Warfare, Wounds and the Medieval Surgeon by Piers D. Mitchell 9780521844550
RRP: $116.10$93.62This is the first book to be published on any aspect of medicine in the crusades. It will be of interest not only to scholars of the crusades specifically, but also to scholars of medieval Europe, the Byzantine world and the Islamic world. Focusing on... -
Crime and Justice in Late Medieval Italy by Trevor Dean 9780521864480
RRP: $116.10$93.10In this important study, Trevor Dean examines the history of crime and criminal justice in Italy from the mid-thirteenth to the end of the fifteenth century. The book contains studies of the most frequent types of prosecuted crime such as violence, theft... -
Decisions for War, 1914-1917 by Richard F. Hamilton 9780521836791
RRP: $59.34$52.23Decisions for War focuses on the choices made by small coteries in Austria-Hungary, Germany, Russia, France, Britain and elsewhere to address a common yet perplexing question: why did World War I happen? Several of the usual causes for the war are... -
America and the Return of Nazi Contraband: The Recovery of Europe's Cultural Treasures by Michael J. Kurtz 9780521849821
RRP: $116.10$93.10The Nazi war on European culture produced the greatest dislocation of art, archives, and libraries in the history of the world. In the ruins of the Reich, Allied occupiers found millions of paintings, books, manuscripts, and pieces of sculpture, from the... -
The Seventeenth Century: Europe 1598-1715 by Joseph Bergin 9780198731689
RRP: $154.80$149.27The complete Short Oxford History of Europe (series editor: Professor T.C.W. Blanning) will cover the history of Europe from Classical Greece to the present in eleven volumes. In each, experts write to their strengths tackling the key issues - including... -
The Triumph of Wounded Souls: Seven Holocaust Survivors' Lives by Bernice Lerner 9780268042271
RRP: $107.07$100.74The Triumph of Wounded Souls vividly recounts the stories of seven Holocaust survivors who overcame many obstacles to earn advanced degrees and become college and university professors. As Jews trapped in Nazi-occupied Europe from 1939 to 1945, these... -
Exploring History 1400-1900: An Anthology of Primary Sources by Rachel Gibbons 9780719075872
RRP: $103.20$84.73Exploring history 1400-1900: An anthology of primary sources reaches out to the reader across an expanse of 500 years. It offers a broad sweep of history in the light of three key themes: consumers and producers; beliefs and ideologies; and... -
Evening's Empire: A History of the Night in Early Modern Europe by Craig M. Koslofsky 9780521896436
RRP: $109.65$87.27What does it mean to write a history of the night? Evening's Empire is a fascinating study of the myriad ways in which early modern people understood, experienced, and transformed the night. Using diaries, letters, and legal records together with... -
Domestic Strategies: Work and Family in France and Italy, 1600-1800 by Stuart Woolf 9780521892339
RRP: $39.98$35.35Research on historical processes such as commercialisation traditionally concentrated on the motors of change and measurement of their impact, and considered the labouring classes as the passive objects of such changes. Developments in the social... -
Pretenders and Popular Monarchism in Early Modern Russia: The False Tsars of the Time and Troubles by Maureen Perrie 9780521891011
RRP: $50.30$41.64More than a dozen pretenders appeared in Russia in the early seventeenth century, during the period of civil strife and foreign invasion known as the Time of Troubles. The most successful of these was the First False Dimitry, who occupied the throne in... -
The Image of Ivan the Terrible in Russian Folklore by Maureen Perrie 9780521891004
RRP: $43.85$36.61Ivan the Terrible has long been a controversial figure. Some historians regard him as a crazed and evil tyrant; while others (especially Soviet scholars of the Stalin period) have viewed him as a progressive and far-sighted statesman. The folklore about... -
The Politics of Everyday Life in Vichy France: Foreigners, Undesirables, and Strangers by Shannon L. Fogg 9780521899444
RRP: $116.10$93.10In this book, Fogg examines the effects of material distress on attitudes toward the Vichy government and on the treatment of outsiders in France during the Second World War. She contends that the period's severe material shortages and refugee situation... -
City and Community in Norman Italy by Paul Oldfield 9780521898041
RRP: $116.10$93.62Thisstudy of urban society in twelfth-century mainland Norman Italy examines the self-governing role of urban communities and explores their social ordering, identities and communal activities. Drawing on charters, chronicles, annals and other sources,... -
Cities and the Making of Modern Europe, 1750-1914 by Andrew Lees 9780521839365
RRP: $87.71$76.78This book is a major survey of urbanization and the making of modern Europe from the mid-eighteenth century to the First World War. During these years Europe experienced startling rates of urbanization, with the populations of numerous cities growing by... -
Literacy in Lombard Italy, c.568-774 by Nicholas Everett 9780521819053
RRP: $135.45$113.92Italy had long experienced literacy under Roman rule, but what happened to literacy in Italy under the rule of a barbarian people? This book examines the evidence for the use of literacy in Lombard Italy c. 568-774, a period usually considered as the... -
Money and the Rise of the Modern Papacy: Financing the Vatican, 1850-1950 by John Francis Pollard 9780521812047
RRP: $116.10$93.62This is a pioneering study of the finances and financiers of the Vatican between 1850 and 1950. Dr Pollard, a leading historian of the modern papacy, shows how until 1929 the papacy was largely funded by 'Peter's Pence' collected from the faithful, and... -
A Social and Cultural History of Early Modern France by William Beik 9780521883092
RRP: $69.66$62.31A magisterial history of French society between the end of the middle ages and the Revolution by one of the world's leading authorities on early modern France. Using colorful examples and incorporating the latest scholarship, William Beik conveys the... -
Why Switzerland? by Jonathan Steinberg 9780521883078
RRP: $109.64$92.33Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Carolingian Economy by Adriaan Verhulst 9780521808699
RRP: $85.13$74.06This book is about the economy of the Carolingian empire (753-877), which extended from the Pyrenees and the northern shores of the Mediterranean to the North Sea, and from the Atlantic coast to the Elbe and Saale rivers. It is the first comprehensive... -
The Making of the Slavs: History and Archaeology of the Lower Danube Region, c.500-700 by Florin Curta 9780521802024
RRP: $171.57$146.83This book offers an alternative approach to the problem of Slavic ethnicity in south-eastern Europe between c. 500 and c. 700, from the perspective of current anthropological theories. The conceptual emphasis here is on the relation between material... -
The Byzantine Economy by Angeliki E. Laiou 9780521849784
RRP: $85.13$74.06This is a concise survey of the economy of the Byzantine Empire from the fourth century AD to the fall of Constantinople in 1453. Organised chronologically, the book addresses key themes such as demography, agriculture, manufacturing and the urban... -
Citizen Soldiers: The Liverpool Territorials in the First World War by Helen B. McCartney 9780521848008
RRP: $116.10$105.04The popular image of the British soldier in the First World War is of a passive victim, caught up in events beyond his control, and isolated from civilian society. This book offers a different vision of the soldier's experience of war. Using letters and... -
The Inquisition: A Global History 1478-1834 by Francisco Bethencourt 9780521847933
RRP: $94.17$85.62Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Carnal Commerce in Counter-Reformation Rome by Tessa Storey 9780521844338
RRP: $117.38$99.96Focusing on the period 1566-1656, this original and lively study sheds light on the daily lives and material culture of ordinary prostitutes and their clients in Rome after the Counter-Reformation. Tessa Storey uses a range of archival sources, including... -
Cultures of Power in Europe during the Long Eighteenth Century by Hamish Scott 9780521842273
RRP: $135.45$106.31This volume seeks to get behind the surface of political events and to identify the forces which shaped politics and culture from 1680 to 1840 in Germany, France and Great Britain. The contributors, all leading specialists in the field, explore... -
The World of Catholic Renewal, 1540-1770 by R. Po-chia Hsia 9780521841542
RRP: $85.13$74.57The second edition of The World of Catholic Renewal offers an updated synthesis of the vast scholarship on the history of Catholicism from the Council of Trent in the middle of the sixteenth century to the suppression of the Society of Jesus in the...