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Reformation Europe: 1517-1559 by Geoffrey R. Elton
RRP: $60.35$53.53This 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: $48.73$40.35Italy: 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: $39.00$33.11From 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: $58.40$46.14A 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: $54.58$47.15Reinhart 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: $97.48$93.29Why 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: $21.43$4.47In 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: $68.25$66.90The 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: $19.48$13.86Drawing 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: $43.88$39.55The 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: $122.85$77.79Improvement 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: $107.23$100.93This 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
$90.44Here 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: $29.23$21.35Roman 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: $38.98$26.03'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: $27.30$26.03Apologies 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: $33.13$27.03Apologies 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: $21.43$15.15In 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
$57.88Paralleling 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: $81.88$75.62In 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: $33.13$28.68The 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: $68.25$46.37A 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: $58.50$40.85The 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: $48.75$35.14The 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: $52.63$45.24An 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: $49.73$43.76Nobles 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: $48.75$41.32A 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: $19.48$9.18Updated 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: $78.00$68.68What 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... -
They Would Never Hurt A Fly: War Criminals on Trial in The Hague by Slavenka Drakulic
RRP: $21.43$14.43Slavenka Drakulic attended the Serbian war crimes trial in the Hague. This important book is about how ordinary people commit terrible crimes in wartime. With extraordinary story-telling skill Drakulic draws us in to this difficult subject. We cannot... -
The University of Oxford: A History by L. W. B. Brockliss 9780199243563
$116.59This fresh and readable account gives a complete history of the University of Oxford, from its beginnings in the eleventh century to the present day. Written by one of the leading authorities on the history of universities internationally, it traces... -
The Bookshop of the World: Making and Trading Books in the Dutch Golden Age by Andrew Pettegree
RRP: $31.18$26.07The untold story of how the Dutch conquered the European book market and became the world's greatest bibliophiles-"an instant classic on Dutch book history" (BMGN - Low Countries Historical Review)"[An] excellent contribution to book history."-Robert... -
The Oxford Handbook of the Protestant Reformations by Ulinka Rublack 9780198845966
$80.13This is the first Handbook of the Reformations to include global Protestantism, and the most comprehensive Handbook on the development of Protestant practices which has been published so far. The volume brings together international scholars in the... -
Napoleon: The Decline and Fall of an Empire: 1811-1821 by Michael Broers 9781639364657
RRP: $33.13$30.77An accomplished Oxford scholar delivers a dynamic new history covering the last chapter of the emperor's life-from his defeat in Russia and the drama of Waterloo to his final exile-as the world Napoleon has created begins to crumble around him. In 1811,... -
Patriots and Liberators by Simon Schama 9780006861560
RRP: $37.03$25.56A reissue of Simon Schama's landmark study of the Netherlands from 1780-1813, this is a tale of a once-powerful nation's desparate struggle to survive the treacheries and brutality of European war and politics. Between 1780 and 1813 the Dutch... -
Empires in the Sun: The Struggle for the Mastery of Africa by Lawrence James
RRP: $29.23$19.11In this compelling history of the men and ideas that radically changed the course of world history, Lawrence James investigates how, within a hundred years, Europeans persuaded and coerced Africa into becoming a subordinate part of the modern world. The... -
Alice's Book: How the Nazis Stole My Grandmother's Cookbook by Karina Urbach 9781529416329
RRP: $21.43$14.43"A remarkable and important story" BBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour"Unputdownable . . . Urbach has also retold the tragic Holocaust story in quite unforgettable lines" A.N. Wilson"In a remarkable new book, Alice's granddaughter Karina, a noted historian, has... -
Cartimandua: Queen of the Brigantes by Nicki Howarth
RRP: $29.23$22.52This is the first major study of Cartimandua, queen of the Brigantes tribe in Northern Britain in the first century AD. Little is known about the tribal ruler, who fought off rebellion and civil war and managed to keep her lands when many other British... -
The Age of Improvement, 1783-1867 by Asa Briggs
RRP: $97.48$95.24The Age of Improvement has long established itself as a classic of modern historical writing. Widely read and quoted it has had a unique influence on teaching and research. This second edition draws on the great volume of new research - produced by Lord... -
Democracy Defined: The Manifesto by Kenn d'Oudney
$41.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781902848280Author Kenn d'OudneyFormat PaperbackPage Count 310Imprint Scorpio Recording Company (Publishing) LtdPublisher Scorpio Recording Company...