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Storied Places: Pilgrim Shrines, Nature, and History in Early Modern France by Virginia Reinburg
RRP: £30.99£22.85Pilgrim shrines were places of healing, holiness, and truth in early modern France. By analyzing the creation of these pilgrim shrines as natural, legendary, and historic places whose authority provided a new foundation for post-Reformation Catholic... -
Encountering the Pacific in the Age of the Enlightenment by John Gascoigne 9780521879590
RRP: £100.00£85.96The Pacific Ocean was the setting for the last great chapter in the convergence of humankind from across the globe. Driven by Enlightenment ideals, Europeans sought to extend control to all quarters of the earth through the spread of beliefs, the... -
Lemnos in History: GREEK ISLAND BASE FOR GALLIPOLI by Henrietta Megarry
£15.72Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913675172Author Henrietta MegarryFormat PaperbackImprint Honeybee BooksPublisher Honeybee Books -
The Business of Alchemy: Science and Culture in the Holy Roman Empire by Pamela H. Smith 9780691173238
RRP: £25.00£19.59In The Business of Alchemy, Pamela Smith explores the relationships among alchemy, the court, and commerce in order to illuminate the cultural history of the Holy Roman Empire in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. In showing how an overriding... -
Lay Confraternities and Civic Religion in Renaissance Bologna by Nicholas Terpstra 9780521522618
RRP: £40.99£34.23Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Urban Protest in Seventeenth-Century France: The Culture of Retribution by William Beik 9780521575850
RRP: £32.99£27.40This lucid and wide-ranging survey is the first study in English to identify a distinctive urban phase in the history of the early modern crowd. Through close analysis of the behaviour of protesters and authorities in more than fifteen... -
The Minsk Ghetto 1941-1943: Jewish Resistance and Soviet Internationalism by Barbara Epstein 9780520242425
RRP: £71.00£55.45Drawing from engrossing survivors' accounts, many never before published, "The Minsk Ghetto 1941-1943" recounts a heroic yet little-known chapter in Holocaust history. In vivid and moving detail, Barbara Epstein chronicles the history of a Communist-led... -
On the Highways of the Skies: The 8th Air Force in World War II by Martin W. Bowman
RRP: £63.99£41.70The story in words and pictures, many of them never before seen, of the U.S. 8th Air Force fighter and bomber groups of the 1st, 2nd and Third Air Divisions 1942-45. Many first person stories tell what comnbat was like in the skies in the ETO against the... -
State and Nobility in Early Modern Germany: The Knightly Feud in Franconia, 1440-1567 by Hillay Zmora 9780521561792
RRP: £96.99£82.01One of the most striking features of late medieval and early modern German was the countless feuds carried out by nobles. A constant threat to law and order, these feuds have commonly been regarded as a manifestation of the decline - economic and... -
The Guest Worker Question in Postwar Germany by Rita Chin
RRP: £22.99£19.56This book provides the first English-language history of the postwar labor migration to West Germany. Drawing on government bulletins, statements by political leaders, parliamentary arguments, industry newsletters, social welfare studies, press coverage,... -
Searches for an Imaginary Kingdom: The Legend of the Kingdom of Prester John by Lev Nikolaevich Gumilev 9780521108799
RRP: £44.99£38.14The so called 'Kingdom of Prester John' was a Christian power thought to exist in Central Asia at the time of the twelfth-century crusades. At a deeper level, for the steppe peoples it constitutes a distant dynamic which led to the world-shattering rise... -
Anti-Jewish Riots in the Crown of Aragon and the Royal Response, 1391-1392 by Benjamin R. Gampel
RRP: £36.99£23.25The most devastating attacks against the Jews of medieval Christian Europe took place during the riots that erupted, in 1391 and 1392, in the lands of Castile and Aragon. For ten horrific months, hundreds if not thousands of Jews were killed, numerous... -
Voracious Idols and Violent Hands: Iconoclasm in Reformation Zurich, Strasbourg, and Basel by Lee Palmer Wandel 9780521663434
RRP: £22.99£19.56This 1995 book is an effort to recover the participation of ordinary Christians in the enterprise of Reformation through an exploration of the meaning of acts of iconoclasm: what they tell us about the role of images in Christianity and about ordinary... -
The Vital Roots of European Enlightenment: Ibn Tufayl's Influence on Modern Western Thought by Samar Attar 9780739119907
RRP: £45.00£39.49The Vital Roots of European Enlightenment is a collection of essays which deal with the influence of Ibn Tufayl, a 12th-century Arab philosopher from Spain, on major European thinkers. His philosophical novel, Hayy Ibn Yaqzan, could be considered one of... -
The Playboy King: Carol II of Romania by Paul D. Quinlan 9780313295195
£83.64The love story between King Carol II of Romania and his long-time mistress, Magda Lupescu, was a subject of great interest in the first half of the 20th century. For several decades sensation-seeking journalists provided eager readers with juicy morsels... -
Europe Unfolding: 1648-1688 by John Stoye 9780631213871
RRP: £40.95£35.89The revised edition of this classic text covers both the turbulence of war which raged throughout this period, and explores how, alongside such turbulence, it was possible for some countries to both flourish and produce spectacular advances in art,... -
Ecology, Economy and State Formation in Early Modern Germany by Paul Warde 9780521143332
RRP: £39.99£33.66This is an innovative analysis of the agrarian world and growth of government in early modern Germany through the medium of pre-industrial society's most basic material resource, wood. Paul Warde offers a regional study of south-west Germany from the... -
Scholarly Community at the Early University of Paris: Theologians, Education and Society, 1215-1248 by Spencer E. Young
RRP: £30.99£22.85This book explores the ways in which theologians at the early University of Paris promoted the development of this new centre of education into a prominent institution within late medieval society. Drawing upon a range of evidence, including many... -
Stakhanovism and the Politics of Productivity in the USSR, 1935-1941 by Lewis H. Siegelbaum 9780521395564
RRP: £44.99£38.14This is a study in English of a major and instructive episode in the history of the Soviet Union. The Stakhanovite movement commemorated the mining of 102 tons of coal by Aleksei Stakhanov on August 30-1, 1935, and it was an important symbol by which the... -
German Reformation by R.W. Scribner 9780333665282 [USED COPY]
RRP: £25.99£2.98Over the past twenty years, new approaches to the history of the Reformation of the Church have radically altered our understanding of that event within its broadest social and cultural context. In this classic study R. W. Scribner provided a synthesis... -
Twentieth-Century France: Politics and Society 1898-1991 by James F. McMillan 9780340522394 [USED COPY]
RRP: £32.99£1.92Originally published as "Dreyfus to de Gaulle", this authoritative account has been revised and extended, its greater chronological range reflected in the new title.Two substantial additional chapters have been incorporated focussing on the presidencies... -
The Europeans: Three Lives and the Making of a Cosmopolitan Culture by Orlando Figes 9780241004890 [USED COPY]
RRP: £30.00£2.65The Europeans is a richly enthralling, panoramic cultural history of nineteenth-century Europe, told through the intertwined lives of three remarkable people: a great singer, Pauline Viardot, a great writer, Ivan Turgenev, and a great connoisseur,... -
Heart of England Fairs by Vanessa Toulmin 9780752420769 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99£3.87'Heart of England Fairs' is a unique collection of nearly 200 photographs taken by Midlands engineer and fairground enthusiast Jack Leeson. Jack photographed his first images at Rugby Fair in June 1949 and continued taking pictures that covered all... -
European Political Thought 1600-1700 by W. M. Spellman 9780333676042 [USED COPY]
RRP: £34.99£4.30The European seventeenth century saw the seeming resolution of two great conflicts.Through the nightmares of the Thirty Years War and the British civil wars, the murderous religious hatreds that had dominated the previous period finally burnt themselves... -
Battle of Britain by 9781405440080 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99£2.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781405440080Format HardbackPage Count 96Imprint Parragon PlusPublisher Parragon Plus -
The History of Ireland by Daniel Webster Hollis 9780313312816 [USED COPY]
RRP: £50.00£6.06Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The World War II Collection by Tim Coates 9780117024632 [USED COPY]
RRP: £14.99£2.80Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Andreas Vesalius and his 'Fabrica', 1537-1564: Changing the World of Anatomy Vivian Nutton 9783031695643
RRP: £119.99£101.99This monograph presents a study of the most significant book in the history of anatomy, Fleming Andreas Vesalius’ (1514-1564) De humani corporis fabrica. Vesalius’ Fabrica was immediately recognised as changing the view of the human body when it was... -
Europe in the Long Twentieth Century: A Transnational History Christoph Cornelissen 9780192871428
RRP: £119.00£101.15Thanks to their economic and military strength, the European empires had achieved global supremacy by 1900, with large parts of the world under their dominance in the wake of colonial expansion. This situation fuelled ideas of Europe's permanent, almost... -
Antitrinitarianism and Unitarianism in the Early Modern World Kazimierz Bem 9783031696572
RRP: £119.99£101.99This collection offers an innovative and fresh interpretation of Antitrinitarian and rational dissent in the early modern world. The central themes focus on the fierce debates surrounding Antitrinitarianism and Unitarianism that emerged from the... -
Soldiers and Silver: Mobilizing Resources in the Age of Roman Conquest Michael J. Taylor 9781477330777
RRP: £29.99£25.49By the middle of the second century BCE, after nearly one hundred years of warfare, Rome had exerted its control over the entire Mediterranean world, forcing the other great powers of the region—Carthage, Macedonia, Egypt, and the Seleucid empire—to... -
Embers of the Hands: Hidden Histories of the Viking Age Eleanor Barraclough 9781788166751
RRP: £10.99£9.34Imagine a Viking, and a certain image springs to mind: a nameless, faceless warrior, leaping ashore from a longboat, and ready to terrorise the hapless local population of a northern European country. Yet while such characters define the Viking Age... -
Power and Powerlessness in Union Ireland: Life in a Palliative State Ciaran O'Neill 9780192855428
RRP: £99.00£84.15The history of Union Ireland is typically told through its best-known historical events and leaders - from the 1798 Rising, the Great Famine, and the Irish Revolution, to Parnell and De Valera -- and as moments of sectarian division and high... -
Waging War and Making Peace: European Ways of Inciting and Containing Armed Conflict, 1710–1960 Matthew D'Auria 9783110763911
RRP: £87.50£74.38The history of Europe is as much about violence and divisions as it is about shared cultural, social, and economic accomplishments. War has been a constant feature of Europe’s history, shaping a shared European space. However, efforts to reduce the... -
Transnational and Transatlantic Perspectives on the Balkans, 1850–1918 Eva Asboth 9783031691799
RRP: £119.99£101.99This book considers the position and historiography of the western Balkans in modern Europe. It challenges the linear narrative that the region was 'Europeanised' in the twentieth century - that is, brought into a wider fold of European countries through... -
In the Storms of Transformation: Two Shipyards between Socialism and the EU Ulf Brunnbauer 9781487550349
RRP: £27.99£23.79In the 1990s, states in what would become the eastern edge of the European Union transformed their political systems and economies, leaving state socialism behind for liberal democracies and free markets. In the ensuing decades, two shipyards that were... -
Sir Orme Sargent and British Policy Towards Europe, 1926-1949 Adam Richardson 9781032394923
RRP: £39.99£35.06Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781032394923Author Adam RichardsonImprint Taylor & Francis LtdPublisher Taylor & Francis Ltd -
The Gentleman's Mistress: Illegitimate Relationships and Children, 1450–1640 Tim Thornton 9781526114075
RRP: £25.00£21.25This study explores pre- and extra-marital relationships among the gentry and nobility of the north of England from 1450 to 1640: the keeping of mistresses, the taking of lovers, the birth of illegitimate children and the fate of those children. It... -
The Periodicals of Ferdinand Pelzer (1833-1857): A German Musician in London dr Sarah Clarke 9780900952098
RRP: £70.00£59.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780900952098Author dr Sarah ClarkeFormat HardbackPage Count 200Imprint London Record SocietyPublisher London Record Society -
The Unfinished History of European Integration: Revised Edition Koen van Zon 9789048566143
RRP: £25.99£24.83The Unfinished History of European Integration is a companion to the history of the European Union. From the aftermath of the First World War to the EU of 27 member states and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, it guides the reader past the main events,...