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Renaissance and Reformation France: 1500-1648 by Professor Mack P. Holt 9780198731658
RRP: €44.02€33.93This volume makes accessible some of the most recent research of the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries in France. Using a topical approach to provide broad thematic coverage of the period from 1500 to 1648, each chapter focuses on a specific area... -
On Tyranny (Graphic Edition) by Nora Krug
RRP: €20.22€15.32A captivating graphic edition of Timothy Snyder's bestselling book of lessons for surviving and resisting the arc toward authoritarianism. Timothy Snyder's On Tyranny is one of the essential books of recent years, using the darkest moments in... -
The Norse Myths that Shape the Way We Think by Carolyne Larrington
RRP: €23.80€16.36A fresh look at the stories at the heart of Norse mythology, exploring their cultural impact right up to the present day. The heroes and villains of Norse mythology have endured for centuries, infiltrating art, opera, film, television and books,... -
Türkiye: Cycling Through a Country’s First Century by Julian Sayarer 9781529429954
RRP: €29.75€19.97"A deeply thoughtful, gripping and scrupulous book told in Sayarer's trademark style from the saddle and the roadside" CAROLINE EDENBy a winner of the Stanford Dolman Award for Travel Writing"The best travelogues should make you question your... -
An Elephant in Rome: The Pope and the Making of the Eternal City Loyd Grossman 9781843681939
RRP: €29.74€20.27"A total delight, a brilliant vignette of 17th-century Rome, the Baroque and the Catholic church - warts and all - rolled into an erudite narrative.... with an ease of writing that is rare in art history." - Simon Jenkins By 1650, the spiritual and... -
Kevin Barry: An Irish Rebel in Life and Death by Eunan O'Halpin
RRP: €17.84€15.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781785373497Author Eunan O'HalpinFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint Merrion PressPublisher Merrion Press -
The Picture of Yarmouth: 200 Years of Built Heritage by Paul Davies 9780957609211
RRP: €11.90€10.72Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780957609211Author Paul DaviesFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint Great Yarmouth Local History & Archaeological SocietyPublisher Great Yarmouth Local... -
Europe: The First 100 Million Years by Tim Flannery
RRP: €13.08€9.51'Vivid, thrilling, a delight ... Tim Flannery is a palaeontologist and ecologist of global standing, and this is a compelling and authoritative narrative of the evolution of Europe's flora and fauna, from the formation of the continent to its near... -
Emperors of Rome David Potter 9781780877501
RRP: €15.46€10.51The Emperors of Rome charts the rise and fall of the Roman Empire through profiles of the greatest and most notorious of the emperors, from the autocratic Augustus to the feeble Claudius, the vicious Nero to the beneficent Marcus Aurelius, through to the... -
Prince William: Born to be King: An intimate portrait Penny Junor 9781444720419
RRP: €15.46€10.51As the nation celebrates the birth of William and Kate's son Prince George, Penny Junor brings us the definitive biography of the man who will be King before him. His face is recognized the world over, he is unmistakably Diana's eldest son. But what is... -
A History In Fragments: Europe in the Twentieth Century by Richard Vinen
RRP: €20.22€11.69The problem with the history of twentieth-century Europe is that everyone thinks they know it. The great stories of the century - the two world wars, the rise and fall of Nazism and communism, female emancipation - seem self-evidently important. But... -
The Rise and Fall of Christian Ireland by Crawford Gribben 9780198868262
RRP: €20.22€17.50The Rise and Fall of Christian Ireland describes the emergence, long dominance, sudden division, and recent decline of Ireland's most important religion, as a way of telling the history of the island and its peoples. Throughout its long history,... -
Borderland by Rod Edmond 9781803136783
RRP: €19.03€13.82"Rod Edmond brings an expert scholarly eye and poetic insight to a complex and fascinating project, drawing history, literature and contemporary social realities into his account." ABDULRAZAK GURNAH, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, 2021 "A... -
Time's Witness: History in the Age of Romanticism by Rosemary Hill
RRP: €15.46€11.11From the Wolfson Prize-winning author of God's Architect: Pugin and the Building of Romantic BritainBetween the fall of the Bastille in 1789 and the opening of the Great Exhibition in 1851, history changed. The grand narratives of the Enlightenment,... -
HST: The Train That Saved Britain's Railways by Andrew Royle 9781910809983
RRP: €23.80€18.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910809983Author Andrew RoyleFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint Crecy PublishingPublisher Crecy PublishingWeight(grams) 215g -
Civilising Subjects: Metropole and Colony in the English Imagination 1830 - 1867 by Catherine Hall
€30.76Winner of the Morris D. Forkasch prize for the best book in British history 2002 Civilising Subjects argues that the empire was at the heart of nineteenth-century Englishness. English men and women in the mid-nineteenth century imagined themselves at the... -
Androids in the Enlightenment: Mechanics, Artisans, and Cultures of the Self Adelheid Voskuhl 9780226034027
RRP: €95.20€91.17The eighteenth century saw the creation of a number of remarkable mechanical androids: at least ten prominent automata were built between 1785 and 1810 by clockmakers, court mechanics, and other artisans from France, Switzerland, Austria, and the German... -
Kings, Queens, Bones and Bastards: Who's Who in the English Monarchy From Egbert to Elizabeth II by David Hilliam
RRP: €17.84€13.95Who invented the 'House of Windsor' as a royal name? Who founded Westminster Abbey? Which king had twenty-one illegitimate children? David Halliam answers all these questions and more. Here is a continuous history of the English monarchy, showing how the... -
Divided Kingdom: A History of Britain, 1900 to the Present by Pat Thane
RRP: €30.93€28.10How has the UK evolved into the country it is today? This clear, comprehensive survey of its history since 1900 explores the political, economic, social and cultural changes which have divided the nation and held it together, and how these changes were... -
Beyond the Tower: A History of East London by John Marriott
RRP: €19.03€16.45From Jewish clothing merchants to Bangladeshi curry houses, ancient docks to the 2012 Olympics, the area east of the City has always played a crucial role in London's history. The East End, as it has been known, was the home to Shakespeare's first... -
A Russian Diary: With a Foreword by Jon Snow by Anna Politkovskaya 9780099523451
RRP: €19.03€13.82A Russian Diary is the book that Anna Politkovskaya had recently completed when she was murdered in a contract killing in Moscow. Covering the period from the Russian parliamentary elections of December 2003 to the tragic aftermath of the Beslan school... -
The Hollow Crown: A History of Britain in the Late Middle Ages (TPB) (GRP) by Miri Rubin
RRP: €20.22€14.61There is no more haunting, compelling period in Britain's history than the later middle ages. The extraordinary kings - Edward III and Henry V, the great warriors, Richard II and Henry VI, tragic inadequates killed by their failure to use their power,... -
An Island in Greece: On the Shores of Skopelos by Michael Carroll 9781845118228
RRP: €20.22€15.97Scattered in a crescent in the sparkling waters of the Aegean, the islands of the Sporades are known to Greek fishermen as 'the gates of the wind'. It was to this unspoilt archipelago that Michael Carroll sailed Astarte, a boat of sleek mahogany with... -
Rites of Peace: The Fall of Napoleon and the Congress of Vienna by Adam Zamoyski
RRP: €15.46€10.36Following on from his epic '1812: Napoleon's Fatal March on Moscow', bestselling author Adam Zamoyski has written the dramatic story of the Congress of Vienna. In the wake of his disastrous Russian campaign of 1812, Napoleon's imperious grip... -
Red Fortress: The Secret Heart of Russia's History by Catherine Merridale
RRP: €15.46€11.11WINNER OF THE WOLFSON PRIZE 2013HERALD BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2014The extraordinary story of the Kremlin - from prize-winning author and historian Catherine MerridaleBoth beautiful and profoundly menacing, the Kremlin has dominated Moscow for many centuries... -
Revolutionary France: 1788-1880 by Malcolm Crook 9780198731870
€48.33The French Revolution of 1789 was followed by a century of upheaval, rebellion, and change. Napoleonic dictatorship, monarchical restoration, Second Republic, and Second Empire all rapidly succeeded one another, and it was not until the advent of the... -
A Culture of Growth: The Origins of the Modern Economy by Joel Mokyr 9780691180960
RRP: €23.80€18.50Why Enlightenment culture sparked the Industrial RevolutionDuring the late eighteenth century, innovations in Europe triggered the Industrial Revolution and the sustained economic progress that spread across the globe. While much has been made of the... -
Doggerland: Lost World under the North Sea by Luc W.S.W. Amkreutz
€61.51Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789464261134Author Luc W.S.W. AmkreutzFormat PaperbackPage Count 210Imprint Sidestone PressPublisher Sidestone Press -
Iceland - Culture Smart!: The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture by Thorgeir Sveinsson
RRP: €13.08€10.06Don't just see the sights-get to know the people. The volcanic island of Iceland has erupted onto the world travel scene in recent years. With otherworldly landscapes of steaming turquoise geysers set among rugged snowy peaks, miles of icy black sand... -
The Great Turning Points of British History: The 20 Events That Made the Nation by Michael Wood
RRP: €13.08€9.06Twenty of the most crucial moments in Britain's history.BBC History Magazine asked a selection of leading historians to choose and describe the twenty most important turning points in British history from AD 1000 to 2000. Collected together, their... -
The Rise of the Roman Empire by Polybius
RRP: €17.84€13.41The Greek statesman Polybius (c.200-118 BC) wrote his account of the relentless growth of the Roman Empire in order to help his fellow countrymen understand how their world came to be dominated by Rome. Opening with the Punic War in 264 BC, he vividly... -
Wanstead and Woodford by Ian Dowling 9780752401133
RRP: €15.46€11.75This book is part of the Images of London series, which uses old photographs and archived images to show the history of various local areas in England, through their streets, shops, pubs, and people.Book InformationISBN 9780752401133Author Ian... -
The Treaty: The gripping story of the negotiations that brought about Irish independence and led to the Civil War by Gretchen Friemann
RRP: €17.84€15.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781785374203Author Gretchen FriemannFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint Merrion PressPublisher Merrion Press -
Street Food: Hawkers and the History of London by Charlie Taverner 9780192846945
RRP: €41.04€35.78This is the story of the women, men, boys, and girls who hawked oysters, cherries, cabbages, and pies on London's streets, feeding the capital throughout its transformation from medieval city to global metropolis. Street Food reconstructs the working... -
War Stories: Experiences of Women in the Second World War by David Bolton
RRP: €21.41€16.47After listening to his mother-in-law talking about her experiences in the Second World War, David Bolton set out to record the wartime memories of British women before it was too late. Many of those he interviewed were child evacuees, some were single... -
Vienna and Versailles: The Courts of Europe's Dynastic Rivals, 1550-1780 by Jeroen Duindam 9780521714761
RRP: €57.11€51.90Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Search for the Perfect Language Umberto Eco (University of Bologna) 9780631205104
RRP: €36.83€33.39The idea that there once existed a language which perfectly and unambiguously expressed the essence of all possible things and concepts has occupied the minds of philosophers, theologians, mystics and others for at least two millennia. This is an... -
Beyond the Monastery Walls: Lay Men and Women in Early Medieval Legal Formularies by Warren C. Brown
RRP: €35.69€31.34Our understanding of life in the early Middle Ages is dominated by Christian churches and monasteries. It is their records and libraries which have survived the centuries, to tell us how the clerics, monks, and nuns who lived and worked within their... -
Colossus: Bletchley Park's Last Secret by Paul Gannon
RRP: €17.84€12.45This is the last untold story of Bletchley Park. Using recently declassified information, Paul Gannon has written a gripping account of the invention of the world's first true computer, Colossus.Uncover the secrets of Bletchley Park's code-breaking... -
Last Roll Call, the: The 29th Infantry Division Victorious, 1945 by Joseph Balkoski 9780811716215
RRP: €27.31€24.38The story of the last few months of World War II in the European Theater as told from the perspective of a single U.S. Army unit, the 29th Infantry Division. This book describes the humanitarian crisis that erupted in central Europe as Nazi Germany...