Filter By
- Book
- Qty in Cart
- Quantity
- Price
- Subtotal
-
The History of Portugal by James M. Anderson 9780313311062
$117.68This informative, concise, and engagingly written work provides the most up-to-date history of Portugal, current through 1999, and gives a full picture of the political, social, cultural, and economic influences that shaped the history of Portugal... -
European Integration: A Political History by Mark Gilbert 9781538106815
RRP: $68.25$63.36Now in a fully revised and updated edition, this book remains the standard for concise histories of the European Union. Mark Gilbert offers a clear and balanced narrative of European integration since its inception to the present, set in the wider... -
Medieval Canon Law by James Brundage
RRP: $72.13$63.43It is impossible to understand how the medieval church functioned and, in turn, influenced the lay world within its care without understanding "canon law". This book examines its development from its beginnings to the end of the Middle Ages, updating its... -
Stonehenge by Rosemary Hill
RRP: $21.43$15.15Stonehenge is woven into the earliest Arthurian legends and has been analysed by everyone from archaeologists, to town planners, to the Druids who have made it their spiritual home. By refusing to adopt one theoretical position, Rosemary Hill provides... -
A Cabinet of Greek Curiosities: Strange Tales and Surprising Facts from the Cradle of Western Civilization by J. C. McKeown 9780199982103
RRP: $31.18$23.85The ancient Greeks were a wonderful people. They gave us democracy, drama, and philosophy, and many forms of art and branches of science would be inconceivable without them. And yet they were capable of the most outlandish behavior, preposterous beliefs,... -
Bad Faith: A History of Family and Fatherland by Carmen Callil 9780099498285
RRP: $35.08$25.25Bad 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... -
War, 1914: Punishing the Serbs by Tim Coates 9780117024106 [USED COPY]
RRP: $13.63$4.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780117024106Author Tim CoatesFormat PaperbackPage Count 223Imprint Tim CoatesPublisher Tim CoatesWeight(grams) 220g -
The Wandering Vine: Wine, the Romans and Me by Nina Caplan 9781472938459
RRP: $25.33$17.73WINNER 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... -
The Vichy Syndrome: History and Memory in France since 1944 by Henry Rousso
RRP: $62.30$49.08From the Liberation purges to the Barbie trial, France has struggled with the memory of the Vichy experience: a memory of defeat, occupation, and repression. In this provocative study, Henry Rousso examines how this proud nation-a nation where reality... -
Germany, 1914-1933: Politics, Society and Culture by Matthew Stibbe 9781405801362
$57.02Germany, 1914-1933: Politics, Society and Culture takes a fresh and critical look at a crucial period in German history. Rather than starting with the traditional date of 1918, the book begins with the outbreak of the First World War in 1914, and argues... -
Whitley Bay by Eric Hollerton 9780752411798
RRP: $25.33$18.76Whitley Bay (Archive Photographs).Book InformationISBN 9780752411798Author Eric HollertonFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint NPI Media GroupPublisher The History Press Ltd -
Chesterton: Images of England by Chesterton Local History Society 9780752418612
RRP: $25.33$18.76Through the medium of an absorbing collection of over 200 old photographs we have the opportunity to catch a glimpse of Chesterton as it was in days gone by. Though seen 'merely' as a suburb of Cambridge, to those who live there, Chesterton is much more... -
Women and Gender in Early Modern Europe by Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks
RRP: $50.68$44.87This fourth edition of Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks's prize-winning survey features significant changes to every chapter, designed to reflect the newest scholarship. Global issues have been threaded throughout the book, while still preserving the clear... -
The Communist Movement at a Crossroads: Plenums of the Communist International's Executive Committee, 1922-1923 by Mike Taber
RRP: $117.00$79.68This volume contains the proceedings and resolutions from three expanded meetings of the Executive Committee of the Communist International (Comintern) held in 1922-1923, while Lenin was still alive. At these 'mini-congresses', Communist leaders from... -
Blackburn: Images of England by Ray B. Smith 9780752418582
RRP: $29.23$22.52Old photographs allow us to relive the past a little and this excellent collection of more than 200 photographs of Blackburn will bring back memories for many. The author has chosen the earliest images of the town for the book from his own extensive... -
Thucydides: The Reinvention of History by Donald M. Kagan
RRP: $42.88$28.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143118299Author Donald KaganFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 258g -
Truro: The Second Selection by Christine Christine Parnell 9780752416434
RRP: $25.33$4.50Beautiful Georgian Truro has always been a bustling market town although since 1877 it has been graced with the title of 'City'. This second selection of photographs in the Archive Photographs Series gives fascinating insights into the changes that have... -
Reconstructing Lenin: An Intellectual Biography by Tamas Krausz 9781583674499
RRP: $48.75$40.33Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781583674499Author Tamas KrauszFormat PaperbackPage Count 544Imprint Monthly Review Press,U.S.Publisher Monthly Review Press,U.S. -
The Roman Market Economy by Peter Temin 9780691177946
RRP: $54.60$42.51The quality of life for ordinary Roman citizens at the height of the Roman Empire probably was better than that of any other large group of people living before the Industrial Revolution. The Roman Market Economy uses the tools of modern economics to... -
Shakespeare and the Resistance: The Earl of Southampton, the Essex Rebellion, and the Poems that Challenged Tudor Tyranny by Clare Asquith
RRP: $42.88$30.44The 1590s were black years for England. The queen was old, the succession unclear, and the treasury empty after decades of war. Amid the rising tension, William Shakespeare published a pair of poems dedicated to the young Earl of Southampton: Venus and... -
U-boat Tactics in World War II by Gordon Williamson 9781849081733
RRP: $29.23$24.47At the start of the war, German U-boat technology vastly out performed that possessed by the Allies, and under the pressure of the war continual development helped keep pace with wartime needs and improvements in anti-submarine weaponry. But it was not... -
Lost Tramways of England: London North East by Peter Waller 9781914079801
RRP: $17.53$12.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914079801Author Peter WallerFormat HardbackPage Count 64Imprint Graffeg LimitedPublisher Graffeg LimitedDimensions(mm) 150mm * 200mm * 15mm -
We Saw Spain Die: Foreign Correspondents in the Spanish Civil War by Paul Preston
RRP: $29.23$19.11The war in Spain and those who wrote at first hand of its horrors.From 1936 to 1939 the eyes of the world were fixed on the devastating Spanish conflict that drew both professional war correspondents and great writers. Ernest Hemingway, John Dos Passos,... -
The Lost Gutenberg: The Astounding Story of One Book's Five-Hundred-Year Odyssey by Margaret Leslie Davis 9781786497635
RRP: $33.13$23.36'An entertaining and insightful human story of obsession about books.' Daily Telegraph'A lively tale of historical innovation, the thrill of the bibliophile's hunt, greed and betrayal.' New York TimesThe never-before-told story of one extremely rare copy... -
Old Harborne by Roy Clarke 9780752400549
RRP: $25.33$18.76Old HarborneBook InformationISBN 9780752400549Author Roy ClarkeFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint The History Press LtdPublisher The History Press LtdWeight(grams) 300gDimensions(mm) 240mm * 172mm * 10mm -
A Short History of England: From the Roman Times to the World War I by G K Chesterton 9788027306367
RRP: $9.95$8.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788027306367Author G K ChestertonFormat PaperbackPage Count 94Imprint e-artnowPublisher e-artnowWeight(grams) 136gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 5mm -
The Ottoman Centuries: The Rise and Fall of the Turkish Empire by Patrick Balfour Kinross 9780688080938
RRP: $38.98$27.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780688080938Author Patrick Balfour KinrossFormat PaperbackPage Count 638Imprint William MorrowPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc -
Villa Air-Bel by Rosemary Sullivan
RRP: $25.33$16.77The Franco-German armistice, signed in June 1940 following the German invasion of France, called on the Vichy government to surrender on demand all refugees considered enemies of the Third Reich. Suddenly, thousands of artists, scientists and other... -
Europe in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries by Denys Hay 9780582491793
RRP: $97.48$95.24The second edition of this highly successful textbook analyses the structure of later medieval society in Europe, identifies its main groups and their political programmes, and examines their impact on the political, economic and social history of the... -
A Brief History of the Mediterranean by Jeremy Black
RRP: $21.43$6.84A wonderfully concise and readable, yet comprehensive, history of the Mediterranean Sea, the perfect companion for any visitor -- or indeed, anyone compelled to stay at home.'The grand object of travelling is to see the shores of the Mediterranean... -
The Dynastic State and the Army under Louis XIV: Royal Service and Private Interest 1661-1701 by Guy Rowlands 9780521144742
RRP: $87.73$73.24The 'personal rule' of Louis XIV witnessed a massive increase in the size of the French army and an apparent improvement in the quality of its officers, its men and the War Ministry. However, this is the first book to treat the French army under Louis... -
Silk, Slaves, and Stupas: Material Culture of the Silk Road by Susan Whitfield 9780520281783
RRP: $48.75$38.98Following her bestselling Life Along the Silk Road, Susan Whitfield widens her exploration of the great cultural highway with a new captivating portrait focusing on material things. Silk, Slaves, and Stupas tells the stories of ten very different... -
The Habsburgs: The History of a Dynasty by Benjamin Curtis
RRP: $52.63$52.03The Habsburgs rank among the most celebrated ruling dynasties in history. At one point, their territories stretched not only across Europe but across the globe, into Asia, Africa and the Americas. By virtue of their long pre-eminence, the family made an... -
Black Africans in Renaissance Europe by T. F. Earle 9780521176606
RRP: $58.48$47.89This book, first published in 2005, opens up the much neglected area of the black African presence in Western Europe during the Renaissance. Covering history, literature, art history and anthropology, it investigates a whole range of black African... -
The Last Queen: Elizabeth II's Seventy-Year Battle to Save the House of Windsor by Clive Irving 9781785907302
RRP: $19.48$14.18'The Firm', as the royal family styles itself, judged by real corporate standards, is a mess. Any consultants called in from outside to scrutinise its inner workings would find all the familiar flaws of a family business that has outgrown its original... -
The End of Two Illusions: Islam after the West by Hamid Dabashi
RRP: $48.75$38.20Dismantling the myths that divide Islam and the West, this cutting-edge work of critical thinking proposes new ways to reread Islamic and world histories. Extending from the front-page news coverage of our daily lives back into the deepest and most... -
Two Lenins, and a Gift of Modernity - A Brief Anthropology of Time by Nikolai Ssorin-Chaikov 9780997367539
RRP: $37.05$36.08Highly innovative and theoretically incisive, Two Lenins is the first book-length anthropological examination of how social reality can be organized around different yet concurrent ideas of time. Nikolai Ssorin-Chaikov grounds his theoretical exploration... -
How to Ruin a Queen: Marie Antoinette, the Stolen Diamonds and the Scandal that Shook the French Throne by Jonathan Beckman
RRP: $25.33$16.77'A hell of a tale and Jonathan Beckman gives it all the verve and swagger it deserves . . . I read it with fascination, delight and frequent snorts of incredulity' The Spectator On 5 September 1785, a trial began in Paris that would divide the country,... -
Slave Portraiture in the Atlantic World by Agnes I. Lugo-Ortiz
RRP: $74.08$69.09Slave Portraiture in the Atlantic World is the first book to focus on the individualized portrayal of enslaved people from the time of Europe's full engagement with plantation slavery in the late sixteenth century to its final official abolition in... -
Roman Forts in Britain by Paul Bidwell 9780752441078
RRP: $48.75$36.15More than a tenth of the Roman army's total strength was stationed in Britain. Focusing on the auxiliary forts that were occupied from the second century onwards, this work looks at: the plans and functions of forts; the everyday life of officers and...