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The County Borough of Merthyr Tydfil by Carolyn Jacob 9780752400129
RRP: £14.99£11.55A history of the county borough of Merthyr TydfilBook InformationISBN 9780752400129Author Carolyn JacobFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint The History Press LtdPublisher The History Press LtdWeight(grams) 300gDimensions(mm) 240mm * 172mm * 10mm -
What You Did Not Tell: A Russian Past and the Journey Home by Mark Mazower
RRP: £9.99£7.77SHORLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2018 NEW STATESMAN AND EVENING STANDARD BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2017'Brilliant ... a staggering story' Robert Fox, Evening Standard, Books of the Year'Fascinating, vast and rich ... a dramatic family memoir' GuardianUncovering... -
A History of Russia, Central Asia and Mongolia, Volume II: Inner Eurasia from the Mongol Empire to Today, 1260 - 2000 by David Christian
RRP: £38.95£35.20Provides an all-encompassing look at the history of Russia, Central Asia, and Mongolia Beginning with the breakup of the Mongol Empire in the mid-thirteenth century, Volume II of this comprehensive work covers the remarkable history of "Inner Eurasia,"... -
The Soviet Counterinsurgency in the Western Borderlands by Alexander Statiev
RRP: £30.99£27.17The Soviet Counterinsurgency in the Western Borderlands investigates the Soviet response to nationalist insurgencies that occurred between 1944 and 1953 in the regions the Soviet Union annexed after the Nazi-Soviet pact: Eastern Poland, Lithuania,... -
Nature's Mutiny: How the Little Ice Age Transformed the West and Shaped the Present by Philipp Blom 9781509890439
RRP: £10.99£7.93Europe where the sun dares scarce appear For freezing meteors and congealed cold.' - Christopher Marlowe In this innovative and compelling work of environmental history, Philipp Blom chronicles the great climate crisis of the 1600s, a crisis that would... -
The Bakers of Paris and the Bread Question, 1700-1775 by Steven Laurence Kaplan 9780822317067
RRP: £79.00£69.71In preindustrial Europe, dependence on grain shaped every phase of life from economic development to spiritual expression, and the problem of subsistence dominated the everyday order of things in a merciless and unremitting way. Steven Laurence Kaplan's... -
Parties and People: England 1914-1951 by Ross McKibbin 9780199605170
RRP: £32.99£25.76The 'sequel' to his best-selling Classes and Cultures, Ross McKibbin's latest book is a powerful reinterpretation of British politics in the first decades of universal suffrage. What did it mean to be a 'democratic society'? To what extent did voters... -
The Turkic Peoples in World History by Joo-Yup Lee 9781032170015
RRP: £37.99£33.38The Turkic Peoples in World History is a thorough and rare introduction to the Turkic world and its role in world history, providing a concise history of the Turkic peoples as well as a critical discussion of their identities and origins.The "Turks"... -
The Seasons: A Celebration of the English Year by Nick Groom
RRP: £14.99£10.95Shortlisted for the Katharine Briggs Folklore Award and runner-up for Countryfile Book of the Year. For millennia, the passing seasons and their rhythms have marked our progress through the year. But what do they mean to us now that we lead increasingly... -
The Revolution of 1905: Authority Restored by Abraham Ascher
RRP: £29.99£26.90A Stanford University Press classic.Reviews"Ascher's scholarship is meticulous, and he excels in the narrative of crises, analyzing the changing correlation of forces at each stage with precision and sureness of judgment."-Times Literary Supplement"This... -
Gloves and Glove-making by Mike Redwood
RRP: £8.99£7.64From workaday marigolds to hand-wear custom crafted for the Queen, gloves perform many functions - insulation from the cold, protection from injury, and even ceremonial roles. Gloves have been used since prehistoric times, but in Britain their use as... -
Reformation Europe: 1517-1559 by Geoffrey R. Elton
RRP: £30.95£27.45This is G.R. Elton's classic account of the Reformation, revealing the issues and preoccupations which seemed central to the age and portraying its leading figures with vigour and realism.About the AuthorG. R. Elton was Regius Professor of Modern History... -
Italy: A Short History by Harry Hearder 9780521000727
RRP: £24.99£20.69Italy: A Short History is a concise but comprehensive account of Italian history from the Ice Age to the present day. It is intended for both students of Italian history and culture and the general reader, whether tourist, business-person or traveller,... -
Song: A History in 12 Parts by John Potter 9780300263534
RRP: £20.00£16.98From one of our most innovative singers, a vibrant history of song stretching from Hildegard von Bingen and Benjamin Britten to Bjoerk "Songs can be intensely personal (whether you hear them or sing them) and none of us would choose the same twelve... -
Scarcity: A History from the Origins of Capitalism to the Climate Crisis by Fredrik Albritton Jonsson
RRP: £29.95£23.66A sweeping intellectual history of the concept of economic scarcity-its development across five hundred years of European thought and its decisive role in fostering the climate crisis.Modern economics presumes a particular view of scarcity, in which... -
The Practice of Conceptual History: Timing History, Spacing Concepts by Reinhart Koselleck
RRP: £27.99£24.18Reinhart Koselleck is one of the most important theorists of history and historiography of the last half century. His work has implications for contemporary cultural studies that extend far beyond discussions of the practical problems of historical... -
The Rise and Fall of the The Soviet Economy: An Economic History of the USSR 1945 - 1991 by Philip Hanson
RRP: £49.99£47.84Why did the Soviet economic system fall apart? Did the economy simply overreach itself through military spending? Was it the centrally-planned character of Soviet socialism that was at fault? Or did a potentially viable mechanism come apart in... -
The Women Who Lived For Danger by Marcus Binney 9780340818404 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99£2.29In World War II, 37 women were dropped in occupied France to work as Special Operations Executive agents and 'set Europe ablaze'. 13 never returned. They were executed in Hitler's concentration camps.This is the fascinating story of eight of those female... -
The Archaeology of Athens by John M. Camp 9780300101515
RRP: £35.00£34.31The definitive work on the monuments of ancient Athens and Attica In this book, a leading authority on the archaeology of ancient Greece presents a survey of the monuments-first chronologically and then site by site. John M. Camp begins with a... -
Big Questions In History by Harriet Swain
RRP: £9.99£7.11Drawing on examples ranging from ancient Greece to Tony Blair's Britain, leading historical thinkers address 20 of the really big questions that have been asked over the centuries about the course of human events.Each essay is put into context by a more... -
Fishbourne Roman Palace by Barry Cunliffe 9780752414089
RRP: £22.50£20.28The discovery, during the early 1960s, of the site of a Roman Palace and its garden at Fishbourne, near Chichester, remains the most important and exciting event in Romano-British archaeology over the last half-century. Since his original excavation,... -
The Invention of Improvement: Information and Material Progress in Seventeenth-Century England by Paul Slack 9780199645916
RRP: £63.00£39.89Improvement was a new concept in seventeenth-century England; only then did it become usual for people to think that the most effective way to change things for the better was not a revolution or a return to the past, but the persistent application of... -
Wilhelm II: Into the Abyss of War and Exile, 1900-1941 by John C. G. Rohl 9781107544192
RRP: £54.99£51.76This final volume of John Roehl's acclaimed biography of Kaiser Wilhelm II reveals the Kaiser's central role in the origins of the First World War. The book examines the Kaiser's part in the Boer War, the Russo-Japanese War, the naval arms race with... -
France 1814 - 1914 by Robert Tombs 9780582493148
£46.38Here is an incomparably rich portrait of France in the years when the disparate elements that made up the fragmented kingdom of the ancien regime were forged into the modern nation. The survey begins with an exploration of national obsessions and... -
Hunnic Warrior vs Late Roman Cavalryman: Attila's Wars, AD 440-53 by Dr Murray Dahm
RRP: £14.99£10.95Roman and Hunnic fighting men are assessed and compared in this fully illustrated study of Attila's bid to conquer Europe in the 5th century AD. The Huns burst on to the page of western European history in the 4th century AD. Fighting mostly on... -
A Socialist History of the French Revolution by Jean Jaures
RRP: £19.99£13.35'Tantalizing prose' - TLS Jean Jaures was the celebrated French Socialist Party leader, assassinated in 1914 for trying to use diplomacy and industrial action to prevent the outbreak of war. Published just a few years before his death, his magisterial... -
Rough Hills: An East End Story by Derek Mills 9781861518750
RRP: £14.00£13.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781861518750Author Derek MillsFormat PaperbackPage Count 310Imprint Mereo BooksPublisher Memoirs Publishing -
Charles I: A Life of Religion, War and Treason by Christopher Hibbert 9781403983787
RRP: £16.99£13.86Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781403983787Author Christopher HibbertFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 284gDimensions(mm)... -
Reformation: A world in turmoil by Andrew Atherstone
RRP: £10.99£7.77In The Reformation: Faith and Flames, Andrew Atherstone traces the dramatically compelling story from the Renaissance to the seventeenth-century wars of religion. Focusing on the key personalities and events, he explains the often complex ideas that were... -
Ireland: Social, Political, and Religious by Gustave de Beaumont 9780674025394
£29.68Paralleling his friend Alexis de Tocqueville's visit to America, Gustave de Beaumont traveled through Ireland in the mid-1830s to observe its people and society. In Ireland, he chronicles the history of the Irish and offers up a national portrait on the... -
Endurance and Endeavour: Russian History 1812-2001 by J. N. Westwood 9780199246175
RRP: £41.99£38.78In Russia, both rulers and ruled long endeavoured to transform their country, each in their own forcible way. Their efforts never quite seemed to bring the results hoped for, and despite reform and revolution some things changed very little. This book... -
Rome and the Invention of the Papacy: The Liber Pontificalis by Rosamond McKitterick 9781108819237
RRP: £16.99£14.71The remarkable, and permanently influential, papal history known as the Liber pontificalis shaped perceptions and the memory of Rome, the popes, and the many-layered past of both city and papacy within western Europe. Rosamond McKitterick offers a new... -
They Called It Peace: Worlds of Imperial Violence by Lauren Benton 9780691248479
RRP: £35.00£23.78A sweeping account of how small wars shaped global order in the age of empiresImperial conquest and colonization depended on pervasive raiding, slaving, and plunder. European empires amassed global power by asserting a right to use unilateral force at... -
Waterloo: The 1815 Campaign: Volume II: From Waterloo to the Restoration of Peace in Europe by John Hussey 9781784382001
RRP: £30.00£20.95The concluding volume of this work provides a fresh description of the climatic battle of Waterloo placed in the context of the whole campaign. It discusses several vexed questions: Bl cher s intentions for the battle, Wellington s choice of site, his... -
The Just: how six unlikely heroes saved thousands of Jews from the Holocaust by Jan Brokken
RRP: £25.00£18.02The 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... -
Age of Emergency: Living with Violence at the End of the British Empire by Erik Linstrum
RRP: £26.99£23.20An eye-opening account of how violence was experienced not just on the frontlines of colonial terror but at home in imperial Britain. When uprisings against colonial rule broke out across the world after 1945, Britain responded with overwhelming and... -
Mad Blood Stirring: Vendetta and Factions in Friuli during the Renaissance by Edward Muir
RRP: £25.50£22.44Nobles were slaughtered and their castles looted or destroyed, bodies were dismembered and corpses fed to animals-the Udine carnival massacre of 1511 was the most extensive and damaging popular revolt in Renaissance Italy (and the basis for the story of ... -
Shakespeare Without a Life by Margreta de Grazia
RRP: £25.00£21.19A fascinating account of how Shakespeare's works were understood and valued by readers and writers from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century, before Shakespeare's biography came to dominate readings of his plays and poetry. For almost two... -
Spitfire: The Biography by Jonathan Glancey
RRP: £9.99£4.71Updated edition to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the Battle of Britain.It is difficult to overestimate the excitement that accompanied the birth of the Spitfire. An aircraft imbued with balletic grace and extraordinary versatility, it was powered... -
The Concise History of the Crusades by Thomas F. Madden 9781442215757
RRP: £40.00£35.22What is the relationship between the medieval crusades and the problems of the modern Middle East? Were the crusades the Christian equivalent of Muslim jihad? In this sweeping yet crisp history, Thomas F. Madden offers a brilliant and compelling...