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Bad Queen Bess?: Libels, Secret Histories, and the Politics of Publicity in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth I by Peter Lake 9780198753995
RRP: €70.21€69.72Bad Queen Bess? analyses the back and forth between the Elizabethan regime and various Catholic critics, who, from the early 1570s to the early 1590s, sought to characterise that regime as a conspiracy of evil counsel. Through a genre novel - the... -
Around Plaistow by George Taylor 9780752406145
RRP: €15.46€11.75This book is part of the Archive Photographs series, which uses old photographs and archived images to show the history of various local areas in Great Britain.Book InformationISBN 9780752406145Author George TaylorFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint... -
The Transmission of Culture in Early Modern Europe by Anthony Grafton
RRP: €33.31€29.18The Transmission of Culture in Early Modern Europe focuses on the ways in which culture is moved from one generation or group to another, not by exact replication but by accretion or revision. The contributors to the volume each consider how the passing... -
Statelessness: A Modern History by Mira L Siegelberg
RRP: €36.83€30.00The story of how a much-contested legal category-statelessness-transformed the international legal order and redefined the relationship between states and their citizens.Two world wars left millions stranded in Europe. The collapse of empires and the... -
Swansong 1945: A Collective Diary from Hitler's Last Birthday to VE Day by Walter Kempowski 9781847086419
RRP: €15.46€10.47Swansong 1945 chronicles four significant days in the last three weeks of WWII: 20 April, Hitler's last birthday; 25 April, when American and Soviet troops first met at the Elbe; 30 April, the day Hitler committed suicide; and 8 May, the day of the... -
A History of Eastern Europe 1918 to the Present: Modernisation, Ideology and Nationality by Ian D. Armour
€42.30Why is Eastern Europe still different from Western Europe, more than a quarter-century after the collapse of Communism? A History of Eastern Europe 1918 to the Present shows how the roots of this difference are based in Eastern Europe's tortured 20th... -
From Judgment to Passion: Devotion to Christ and the Virgin Mary, 800-1200 by Rachel Fulton Brown 9780231125512
RRP: €41.65€34.20Devotion to the crucified Christ is one of the most familiar, yet most disconcerting artifacts of medieval European civilization. How and why did the images of the dying God-man and his grieving mother achieve such prominence, inspiring unparalleled... -
The Red Ripper: Inside the Mind of Russia's Most Brutal Serial Killer by Peter Conradi 9781504040167
RRP: €21.41€16.68The shocking true story of the Russian serial killer who brutally murdered more than fifty victims-and evaded capture for over a decade. By the time he was brought to trial in 1992, Soviet serial killer Andrei Chikatilo had killed more than fifty women... -
Saint Francis and the Sultan: The Curious History of a Christian-Muslim Encounter by John Victor Tolan 9780199239726
RRP: €94.01€79.34In September, 1219, as the armies of the Fifth Crusade besieged the Egyptian city of Damietta, Francis of Assisi went to Egypt to preach to Sultan al-Malik al-Kamil. Although we in fact know very little about this event, this has not prevented... -
Organizing the Revolution: Selections from Augustin Cochin by Augustin Cochin 9780972061674
RRP: €23.74€15.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780972061674Author Augustin CochinFormat PaperbackPage Count 233Imprint Chronicles Press/The Rockford InstitutePublisher Chronicles Press/The Rockford... -
How Russia Lost Bulgaria, 1878-1886: Empire Unguided by Mikhail S. Rekun 9781498559638
RRP: €101.15€89.14How Russia Lost Bulgaria looks at the rapid breakdown in Russo-Bulgarian relations in the years following the Russian liberation of Bulgaria in the Russo-Turkish War of 1877-1878. Initially, the Russian Empire and the Principality of Bulgaria were close... -
Wealth and the Demand for Art in Italy, 1300-1600 by Richard A. Goldthwaite
RRP: €30.35€27.12Wealth and the Demand for Art in Italy represents a departure from previous studies, both in its focus on demand and in its emphasis on the history of the material culture of the West. By demonstrating that the roots of modern consumer society can be... -
Europe and the People Without History by Eric R. Wolf 9780520268180
RRP: €35.70€28.19Offering insight and equal consideration into the societies of the "civilized" and "uncivilized" world, "Europe and the People Without History" deftly explores the historical trajectory of so-called modern globalization. In this foundational text about... -
No Empty Chairs: The Short and Heroic Lives of the Young Aviators Who Fought and Died in the First World War Ian Mackersey 9780753828137
RRP: €11.89€7.32The 1914-18 conflict narrated through the voices of the men whose combat was in the air.'This moving book uses letters and diaries to evoke the terrible cost of such warfare...Sleepless nights, separated lovers and grieving parents are recalled with... -
The Wandering Vine: Wine, the Romans and Me by Nina Caplan 9781472938459
RRP: €15.46€11.11WINNER OF THE FORTNUM & MASON FOOD AND DRINK AWARDS DEBUT DRINK BOOK OF THE YEAR 2019 WINNER OF THE LOUIS ROEDERER INTERNATIONAL WINE BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2018 'Wine is alive, ageing and changing, but it's also a triumph over death. These grapes... -
Charles X's Wars Volume 1: The Swedish Deluge, 1655-1660 by Michael Fredholm von Essen
RRP: €35.64€25.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914059759Author Michael Fredholm von EssenFormat PaperbackPage Count 282Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Witchcraft in Europe, 400-1700: A Documentary History by Alan Charles Kors
RRP: €36.89€33.03Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Book for 2001 The highly-acclaimed first edition of this book chronicled the rise and fall of witchcraft in Europe between the twelfth and the end of the seventeenth centuries. Now greatly expanded,... -
First in Last out: The Post-War Organisation, Employment and Training of Royal Marines Commandos by Paul Winter
€26.48The official document Amphibious Warfare Handbook No. 10a: The Organisation, Employment and Training of Commandos is a unique piece of post-war Royal Marines Commando doctrine, never before published, or quoted at length.Prepared in 1951 at the height of... -
The End of Ancient Christianity by R. A. Markus 9780521339490
RRP: €27.36€23.28This book is concerned with one central historical problem: the nature of the changes that transformed the intellectual and spiritual horizons of the Christian world from its establishment in the fourth century to the end of the sixth. The End of Ancient... -
Vitruvius: 'Ten Books on Architecture' by Vitruvius 9780521002929
RRP: €36.88€30.68The only full treatise on architecture and its related arts to survive from classical antiquity, the De Architectura libri decem (Ten Books on Architecture) is the single most important work of architectural history in the Western world, having shaped... -
Supreme Leadership in Modern War: Civil-Military Relations During Competition and War by James Lacey 9781032451534
RRP: €46.40€41.20This edited volume focuses on civil-military relations before and during great power conflicts, and comprises historical case studies of modern supreme leadership.It aims to provide a guide for the future by shining a light on what worked and what failed... -
Heinemann Advanced History: Russia 1848-1917 by Jonathan Bromley
€31.98A study of Russia from 1848 to 1914. It is designed to fulfil the AS and A Level specifications in place from September 2000. The AS section deals with narrative and explanation of the topic. There are extra notes, biography boxes and definitions in the... -
The Oxford Handbook of Later Medieval Archaeology in Britain by Christopher Gerrard
€51.73Echoes of the Middle Ages are all around us in Britain. Sites like the Tower of London, Hampton Court, and the castles of Scotland and Wales are mainstays of cultural tourism, Medieval institutions like the monarchy, monasteries, and universities are... -
Book 1: Text in Greek, Commentary in English by Herodotus
RRP: €19.03€15.90Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780929524139Author HerodotusFormat PaperbackPage Count 292Imprint Bryn Mawr CommentariesPublisher Bryn Mawr CommentariesWeight(grams) 290g -
Religion and Superstition in Reformation Europe by Dr. Helen Parish 9780719061585
RRP: €23.79€20.96What, in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, was 'superstition'? Where might it be found, and how might it be countered? How was the term used, and how effective a weapon was it in the assault on traditional religion?. The ease with which... -
AD 410: The Year That Shook Rome by Sam Moorhead
RRP: €11.89€5.05The Goths' sack of Rome in AD 410 was an event which shook the Roman world to its core. This gripping book uncovers the key factors that contributed to Alaric the Goth's capture of Rome: mass migrations, military incompetence, civil war, court intrigue,... -
Field of Fire: Diary of a Gunner Officer by Jack Swaab
RRP: €19.03€14.79Jack Swaab joined the veteran 51st (Highland) Infantry Division on 3 January 1943. He kept a series of diaries over the following two and a half years, recording the combination of boredom and fear that characterises active service. In mid-March 1943 he... -
God's Wolf: The Life of the Most Notorious of All Crusaders: Reynald de Chatillon by Jeffrey Lee 9781782399285
RRP: €11.89€8.21In 2010, a parcel bomb was sent from Yemen by an al-Qaeda operative with the intention of blowing up a plane over America. The device was intercepted before the plan could be put into action, but what puzzled investigators was the name of the person to... -
Controlling Desires: Sexuality in Ancient Greece and Rome by Kirk Ormand 9780275988807
€67.07Historians of ancient Greece and Rome are sometimes hesitant to engage with the well-documented fact that Greek and Roman men regularly engaged in same-sex sexual relations with younger men. In a similar vein, scholars have constructed elaborate social... -
Zionism and Anti-Semitism in Nazi Germany by Francis R. Nicosia 9780521172981
RRP: €47.59€39.58This book is a study of the ideological and political relationship between Zionism and anti-Semitism in modern Germany, from the nineteenth century through the Third Reich, focusing on the years between 1933 and 1942. It considers three contentious... -
Bad Faith: A History of Family and Fatherland by Carmen Callil 9780099498285
RRP: €21.41€15.41Bad Faith tells the story of one of history's most despicable villains and conmen - Louis Darquier, Nazi collaborator and 'Commissioner for Jewish Affairs', who dissembled his way to power in the Vichy government and was responsible for sending thousands... -
Antigonus The One-Eyed: Greatest of the Successors by Jeff Champion 9781526774897
RRP: €15.46€11.11Plutarch described Antigonus the One Eyed (382-301 BC) 'as 'the oldest and greatest of Alexander's successors.' Antigonus loyally served both Philip II and Alexander the Great as they converted his native Macedonia into an empire stretching from India to... -
Enlightenment Contested: Philosophy, Modernity, and the Emancipation of Man 1670-1752 by Jonathan I. Israel 9780199541522
RRP: €79.73€71.11Jonathan Israel presents the first major reassessment of the Western Enlightenment for a generation. Continuing the story he began in the best-selling Radical Enlightenment , and now focusing his attention on the first half of the eighteenth century, he... -
The British Empire by Jane Samson 9780192892935
RRP: €48.78€44.72The phenomenon of imperialism has never been under such intense scrutiny, by such a wide range of academic disciplines, as it is today. From cultural studies to the history of science, academics are engaged in a series of debates about empire which move... -
Nestor Makhno: Anarchy's Cossack: The Struggle for Free Soviets in the Ukraine 1917-1921 by Alexandre Skirda 9781902593685
€21.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781902593685Author Alexandre SkirdaFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint AK PressPublisher AK PressWeight(grams) 569g -
Hannah More: The First Victorian by Anne Stott 9780199274888
€63.89Hannah More (1745-1833), the daughter of an obscure schoolmaster, began her working life as a teacher at her sisters' school in Bristol. In her thirtieth year she came to London to persuade the actor-manager David Garrick to put on one of her plays. Her... -
Red Storm Over the Balkans: The Failed Soviet Invasion of Romania, Spring 1944 by Colonel David M. Glantz
RRP: €70.21€59.21Germany's Eastern Front in World War II saw many campaigns and battles that have been ""forgotten"" by a Soviet Union that tried to hide its military failures. The Red Army's invasion of Romania in April and May 1944 was one such campaign, which produced... -
The Terrible Year: The Paris Commune 1871 Sir Alistair Horne, CBE 9781842127599
RRP: €10.70€6.69A bestselling historian on a crucial episode in French history.Beneath the glittering facade of Louis-Napoleon's Second Empire there were forces of seething social and political unrest. When France succumbed to the Prussian invaders these forces came to... -
Making Sense of the Troubles: The Story of the Conflict in Northern Ireland by David McKittrick 9781561310708
€25.73Compellingly written and even-handed in its judgments, this is by far the clearest account of what has happened through the years in the Northern Ireland conflict, and why. After a chapter of background on the period from 1921 to 1963, it covers the... -
Rena's Promise by Rena Kornreich Gelissen
RRP: €21.41€15.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807093139Author Rena Kornreich GelissenFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 346gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...