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Aspects of International Socialism, 1871-1914: Essays by Georges Haupt by Georges Haupt 9780521180672
RRP: $39.98$27.01Prior to his death in 1978 Georges Haupt enjoyed a considerable reputation as a scholar of European socialism, but much of his best work was scattered in small periodicals. This 1986 volume brings together in translation a selection of some of his most... -
On Burnley Road: Class, Race and Politics in a Northern English Town by Mike Makin-Waite 9781913546021
RRP: $21.93$21.14What was happening in Burnley Town Hall when the British National Party was winning and holding seats there? What lay behind the far right's advance, and what effect did it have on local government and wider policy trends? How did mainstream parties... -
The Black Death: Natural and Human Disaster in Medieval Europe by Robert Steven Gottfried 9780029123706
RRP: $16.76$15.96A fascinating work of detective history, "The Black Death" traces the causes and far-reaching consequences of this infamous outbreak of plague that spread across the continent of Europe from 1347 to 1351. Drawing on sources as diverse as... -
A History of Savoy: Gatekeeper of the Alps by John Dormandy 9781781556870
RRP: $38.70$38.17Savoy and its Alps were for seven centuries an independent state at the centre of Europe, separating France from the patchwork of principalities that made up Italy. Merchants, clerics, pilgrims, diplomats as well as privileged young Englishmen on the... -
Few Eggs and No Oranges: Vere Hodgson's Diary, 1940-45 by Vere Hodgson 9780953478088
RRP: $21.93$20.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780953478088Author Vere HodgsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 624Imprint Persephone Books LtdPublisher Persephone Books LtdDimensions(mm) 190mm * 141mm * 47mm -
The Great British Speeches Simon Heffer 9780857383273
RRP: $16.76$11.3950 speeches from every period of British history from the medieval era to the present and a fascinating dip-in history title that will both inspire readers and give them a greater understanding of British history. The speechmakers are: King Henry V;... -
All Against All: The long Winter of 1933 and the Origins of the Second World War by Paul Jankowski 9781781256978 [USED COPY]
RRP: $32.25$6.02During a single winter, between November 1932 and April 1933, so much went wrong: Hitler came to power; Japan invaded Jehol and left the league of Nations; Mussolini looked towards Africa; Roosevelt was elected; France changed governments three times;... -
The Roman Empire: A Beginner's Guide by Philip Matyszak 9781780744247
RRP: $12.89$9.44No other political entity has shaped the modern world like the Roman Empire. Encompassing close to a quarter of the world's population and 3 million km2 of land, it represented a diverse and dynamic collection of nations, states and tribes, all bound to... -
At the End of the Line: Colonial Policing and the Imperial Endgame 1945-80 by Dr Georgina Sinclair 9780719071393
RRP: $25.79$22.72Colonial policing and the imperial endgame is the first comprehensive study of the colonial police and their complex role within Britain's long and turbulent process of decolonisation, a time characterised by political upheaval and colonial conflict. The... -
Nineteenth-Century Art: A Beginner's Guide by Laurie Schneider Adams
RRP: $12.89$10.02Munch's The Scream. Van Gogh's Starry Night. Rodin's The Thinker. Monet's water lilies. Constable's landscapes. The nineteenth-century gave us a wealth of artistic riches so memorable in their genius that we can picture many of them at an instant. ... -
Around Tamworth by Paul Gibson
RRP: $16.76$12.73This book is part of the Images of England 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 9780752418735Author Chris... -
Ireland's Pirate Trail: A Quest to Uncover Our Swashbuckling Past by Des Ekin
RRP: $18.05$14.33Bloodthirsty buccaneers and buried treasure, fierce sea battles and cold-blooded murders, Barbary ducats and silver pieces of eight. Des Ekin embarks on a roadtrip around the entire coast of Ireland, in search of our piratical heritage, uncovering an... -
The Sign of the Cross: Travels in Catholic Europe by Colm Toibin 9780330373579
RRP: $14.18$10.51Between 1990 and 1994, Colm Toibin made a series of trips through Catholic Europe. His journey led him into close contact with people from all walks of life, from priests to politicians, from the intellectually open to the spiritually bigoted. He then... -
The Just: how six unlikely heroes saved thousands of Jews from the Holocaust by Jan Brokken
RRP: $32.25$23.61The remarkable story of how a consul and his allies helped save thousands of Jews from the Holocaust in one of the greatest rescue operations of the twentieth century. In May 1940, desperate Jewish refugees in Kaunas, the capital of Lithuania, faced... -
Villers-Bocage Through the Lens by Daniel Taylor
RRP: $23.16$21.27Villers-Bocage has, for years, been the battle that confirmed the reputation of Germany's greatest tank ace, Michael Wittmann. In this book the battle is analysed in depth for the first time through detailed examination of the images taken by war... -
The Book of Legendary Lands Umberto Eco 9780857052964
RRP: $38.70$25.93In the tradition of his books On Beauty and On Ugliness and The Infinity of Lists, Umberto Eco presents an enthralling illustrated tour of the fabled places that have awed and eluded us through the ages."Eco is one of the most influential thinkers of our... -
The Armenians by A. E. Redgate 9780631220374
RRP: $48.96$44.45This is a 3000 year history of one of Europe's most fascinating and important peoples.About the AuthorAnne Elizabeth Redgate was born in Lancashire and educated at Bolton School Girls' Division and St. Anne's College, Oxford. She is Lecturer in History... -
Bourgeois Dignity: Why Economics Can't Explain the Modern World by Deirdre McCloskey 9780226556741
RRP: $27.09$21.32The big economic story of our times is not the Great Recession. It is how China and India began to embrace neoliberal ideas of economics and attributed a sense of dignity and liberty to the bourgeoisie they had denied for so long. The result was an... -
The Man Who Created the Middle East: A Story of Empire, Conflict and the Sykes-Picot Agreement by Christopher Sykes
RRP: $19.34$12.85At the age of only 36, Sir Mark Sykes was signatory to the Sykes-Picot agreement, one of the most reviled treaties of modern times. A century later, Christopher Sykes' lively biography of his grandfather reassesses his life and work, and... -
D-Day Then and Now: v. 1 by Winston G. Ramsey 9780900913846
RRP: $38.64$32.04'People of Western Europe. A landing was made this morning on the coast of France...' With these simple - yet memorable - words, General Eisenhower, the Supreme Commander, Allied Expeditionary Force, announced to the world on June 6, 1944 that the... -
A Short History of Lyme Regis by John Fowles 9780946159932
RRP: $7.68$7.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780946159932Author John FowlesFormat PaperbackPage Count 52Imprint The Dovecote PressPublisher The Dovecote PressDimensions(mm) 180mm * 157mm * 5mm -
Chartist Revolution by Rob Sewell 9781913026189
$20.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913026189Author Rob SewellFormat PaperbackPage Count 482Imprint Wellred BooksPublisher Wellred BooksWeight(grams) 576gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 30mm -
Revolution: How the Bicycle Reinvented Modern Britain by William Manners
RRP: $12.89$8.98It is easy to see bicycles as commonplace machines, but at the end of the nineteenth-century there was no other piece of technology which attracted the same level of excitement, discussion or controversy. Significant societal shifts followed the... -
The Borgias by Christopher Hibbert 9781849019941 [USED COPY]
RRP: $14.18$2.95The name Borgia is synonymous with the corruption, nepotism, and greed that were rife in Renaissance Italy. The powerful, voracious Rodrigo Borgia, better known to history as Pope Alexander VI, was the central figure of the dynasty. Two of his seven... -
The Borgias Christopher Hibbert 9781849019941
RRP: $14.18$10.31The name Borgia is synonymous with the corruption, nepotism, and greed that were rife in Renaissance Italy. The powerful, voracious Rodrigo Borgia, better known to history as Pope Alexander VI, was the central figure of the dynasty. Two of his seven... -
Being Protestant in Reformation Britain by Professor Alec Ryrie 9780199565726
RRP: $135.45$82.19The Reformation was about ideas and power, but it was also about real human lives. Alec Ryrie provides the first comprehensive account of what it actually meant to live a Protestant life in England and Scotland between c. 1530-1640, drawing on a rich... -
Leitrim Observed: A Biography of John McGahern by Aubrey Malone
$27.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781899750603Author Aubrey MaloneFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Aureus PublishingPublisher Aureus Publishing -
The Polish Underground and the Jews, 1939-1945 by Joshua D. Zimmerman
RRP: $34.82$28.75The Polish Underground and the Jews, 1939-1945 examines one of the central problems in the history of Polish-Jewish relations: the attitude and the behavior of the Polish Underground - the resistance organization loyal to the Polish government-in-exile -... -
Hadrian's Wall: Everyday Life on a Roman Frontier by Patricia Southern
RRP: $16.76$11.24Hadrian's Wall is a major World Heritage site, set in stunning countryside in Cumbria and Northumberland, where the Wall and its forts are the most visited Roman remains in Britain. It runs through the narrow gap across the Pennines between the Solway... -
Firepower: How Weapons Shaped Warfare by Paul Lockhart
RRP: $38.70$25.93The history of warfare cannot be fully understood without considering the technology of killing. In Firepower, acclaimed historian Paul Lockhart tells the story of military technology from the Renaissance to the dawn of the atomic era --... -
Wings Over Water: The Story of the World's Greatest Air Race and the Birth of the Spitfire by Jonathan Glancey
RRP: $12.89$8.90Announced in 1912, the Schneider Trophy was a series of glamorous air contests, popularly known as races, that captivated both sides of the Atlantic. While there were many other aviation competitions, the Schneider proved to be, after a rocky start, by... -
The Enlightenment by Dorinda Outram
RRP: $30.95$27.01What is the Enlightenment? A period rich with debates on the nature of man, truth and the place of God, with the international circulation of ideas, people and gold. But did the Enlightenment mean the same for men and women, for rich and poor, for... -
The British Phonebox by Nigel Linge
RRP: $20.63$14.00It has achieved iconic status; it symbolises Britain; but it is now seldom used! The British phonebox or, more correctly, kiosk began life as the silence cabinet in the late 1800s, but started to establish itself firmly as part of the landscape in the... -
Old Regime France 1648-1788 by Professor William Doyle 9780198731290
RRP: $48.36$40.31The kingdom of France, a byword for upheaval and instability for a century before 1660, was transformed over the subsequent generation into the greatest power in Europe and an institutional model admired and imitated almost everywhere. A further century... -
The Tribes of Britain David Miles 9780753817995
RRP: $19.34$13.48Who are we? The story of the peoples of Britain and Ireland, drawing on new genetic discoveries, language, buildings and landscape.The diverse peoples of Britain and Ireland are revealed not only by physical characteristics but also through structures... -
The Enlightenment by Norman Hampson 9780140137453 [USED COPY]
RRP: $19.34$2.70Armed with the insights of the scientific revolution, the men of the Enlightenment set out to free mankind from its age-old cocoon of pessimism and superstition and establish a more reasonable world of experiment and progress. Yet by the 1760s, this... -
The Enlightenment by Norman Hampson
RRP: $19.34$14.13Armed with the insights of the scientific revolution, the men of the Enlightenment set out to free mankind from its age-old cocoon of pessimism and superstition and establish a more reasonable world of experiment and progress. Yet by the 1760s, this... -
Brutus of Troy by Anthony Adolph 9781473849174
RRP: $25.79$8.63Just who did the British think they were? For much of the last 1,500 years, when the British looked back to their origins they saw the looming mythological figure of Brutus of Troy. A great-great-grandson of the love goddess Aphrodite through her Trojan... -
Freely I Served: The Memoir of the Commander, 1st Polish Independent Parachute Brigade, 1941-1944 by Stanislaw Sosabowski 9781526781703
RRP: $19.34$14.33Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Iceland's 1100 Years: History of a Marginal Society by Gunnar Karlsson
RRP: $32.25$29.39'Iceland's 1100 Years' recounts the history of a society on the margin of Europe as well as on the margin of reaching the size and wealth of a proper state. Iceland is unique among the European societies in being founded as late as the Viking Age, and in...