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The German Democratic Republic by Peter Grieder 9780230579378
$36.61A clear, concise and thought-provoking introduction to the history of East Germany which engages critically with key debates and advances new interpretations of the origins, development and demise of the GDR. Peter Grieder also offers an original... -
A Short History of European Law: The Last Two and a Half Millennia by Tamar Herzog
$25.27A Short History of European Law brings to life 2,500 years of legal history, tying current norms to the circumstances of their conception. Tamar Herzog describes how successive legal systems built upon one another, from ancient times through the European... -
Germany in the High Middle Ages: c.1050-1200 by Horst Fuhrmann 9780521319805
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Germany in the High Middle Ages: c.1050-1200 by Horst Fuhrmann 9780521319805 [USED COPY]
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Round Our Way: Sam Hanna's Visual Legacy by Heather Nicholson 9781838369361
RRP: $32.25$23.99Sam Hanna (1903-96), a pioneering filmmaker from Burnley, Lancashire, was dubbed the ‘Lowry of filmmaking’ by BBC broadcaster Brian Redhead in the 1980s. The well-meant label stuck, even though it misses the variety of Hanna’s remarkable output.Hanna’s... -
The Republic of Arabic Letters: Islam and the European Enlightenment by Alexander Bevilacqua
RRP: $27.03$22.11Winner of the Herbert Baxter Adams PrizeA Longman-History Today Book Prize FinalistA Sheik Zayed Book Award FinalistWinner of the Thomas J. Wilson Memorial PrizeA Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year"Deeply thoughtful...A delight."-The... -
The County Borough of Merthyr Tydfil by Carolyn Jacob 9780752400129
RRP: $19.34$15.12A 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 -
A Time to Risk All: The incredible untold story of Mary Elmes, the Irish woman who saved children from Nazi Concentration Camps Clodagh Finn 9780717175611
RRP: $24.50$17.56'I am truly grateful to Mary Elmes for the life I might not have had, had it not been for her brave actions to save us and many others. She was truly a heroine.' Michael Freund Mary Elmes was an extraordinary woman. Sometimes known as the 'Irish... -
The Few: July-October 1940 by Alex Kershaw
RRP: $11.60$8.58In the summer of 1940 a handful of volunteer pilots defied their country to fight when we needed them most. This is the story of their Battle of Britain.In the early days of World War Two when Britain stood alone against the terror of Hitler's... -
The State in Early Modern France by James B. Collins 9780521130257
RRP: $39.98$33.35A new edition of James Collins's acclaimed synthesis that challenged longstanding views of the origins of modern states and absolute monarchy through an analysis of early modern Europe's most important continental state. Incorporating recent scholarship... -
The Illyrians by John Wilkes
RRP: $47.67$42.78For more than a thousand years before the arrival of the Slavs in the sixth century AD, the lands between the Adriatic and the river Danube, now Yugoslavia and Albania, were the home of the peoples known to the ancient world as Illyrians. This book, now... -
New Light on the Neolithic of Northern England by Gill Hey 9781789252668
RRP: $49.02$45.38These papers highlight recent archaeological work in Northern England, in the commercial, academic and community archaeology sectors, which have fundamentally changed our perspective on the Neolithic of the area. Much of this was new work (and much is... -
The Measure of Reality: Quantification in Western Europe, 1250-1600 by Alfred W. Crosby 9780521639903
RRP: $29.66$23.36Western Europeans were among the first, if not the first, to invent mechanical clocks, geometrically precise maps, double-entry bookkeeping, precise algebraic and musical notations, and perspective painting. By the sixteenth century more people were... -
Houses and Society in the Later Roman Empire by Kim Bowes 9780715638828
$34.09Houses are often assumed to be reliable mirrors of society, fossils of family structures, social hierarchies and mental maps of worlds now vanished. This is particularly true of the elite houses of the third to sixth centuries AD, which have been read as... -
Fragments of the Histories. Letters to Caesar by Sallust
RRP: $32.19$30.65Sallust, Gaius Sallustius Crispus (86-35 BCE), a Sabine from Amiternum, acted as tribune against Cicero and Milo in 52, joined Caesar after being expelled from the Senate in 50, was restored to the Senate by Caesar and took part in his African campaign... -
The Renaissance in Italy: A Social and Cultural History of the Rinascimento by Guido Ruggiero 9780521719384
RRP: $39.98$34.35This book offers a rich and exciting new way of thinking about the Italian Renaissance as both a historical period and a historical movement. Guido Ruggiero's work is based on archival research and new insights of social and cultural history and literary... -
Fight to the Finish: The First World War - Month by Month Allan Mallinson 9780857503800
RRP: $12.89$9.44'Mallinson . . . combines the authority of a soldier-turned-military historian with the imaginative touch of the historical novelist.' Lawrence James, THE TIMESWe remember months, because months have names, because they are linked to the seasons, and... -
Early Greek Philosophy, Volume VII: Later Ionian and Athenian Thinkers, Part 2 by Andre Laks
RRP: $32.19$30.65A major new edition of the so-called Presocratics.The fragments and testimonia of the early Greek philosophers (often labeled the 'Presocratics') have always been not only a fundamental source for understanding archaic Greek culture and ancient... -
The Popular Front in France: Defending Democracy, 1934-38 by Julian Jackson 9780521312523
RRP: $39.98$33.06This is the first full-length study in English of the Popular Front, the left-wing coalition which emerged in France during the 1930s in response to the threat of fascism and which went on to win the elections of 1936, giving France her first socialist... -
The Age of Coal: A History of Europe, 1750 to the Present by Franz-Josef Brüggemeier 9780192896933
RRP: $45.15$39.35In Europe, coal was by far the most important source of energy from the beginning of industrialisation until well after the Second World War. It was indispensable in shaping the modern world, and in altering our understanding of time and space. Used... -
The Black Death and the Transformation of the West by David Herlihy
RRP: $29.61$24.08In this small book David Herlihy makes subtle and subversive inquiries that challenge historical thinking about the Black Death. Looking beyond the view of the plague as unmitigated catastrophe, Herlihy finds evidence for its role in the advent of new... -
Surviving the Bosnian Genocide: The Women of Srebrenica Speak by Selma Leydesdorff
RRP: $27.08$23.70In July 1995, the Army of the Serbian Republic killed some 8,000 Bosnian men and boys in and around the town of Srebrenica-the largest mass murder in Europe since World War II. Surviving the Bosnian Genocide is based on the testimonies of 60 female... -
Queer Identities and Politics in Germany - A History, 1880-1945 by Clayton J. Whisnant
RRP: $45.15$36.06Germany in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries witnessed key developments in LGBT history, including the growth of the world's first homosexual organizations and gay and lesbian magazines, as well as an influential community of German... -
History of Europe: A Captivating Guide to European History, Classical Antiquity, The Middle Ages, The Renaissance and Early Modern Europe by Captivating History 9781950924714
RRP: $51.59$35.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781950924714Author Captivating HistoryFormat HardbackPage Count 582Imprint Ch PublicationsPublisher Ch PublicationsWeight(grams) 939gDimensions(mm) 229mm *... -
Gregory the Great and his World by R. A. Markus 9780521586085
RRP: $32.24$26.91Markus's new and accessible work is the first full study of Gregory the Great since that of F. H. Dudden (1905) to deal with both Gregory's life and work as well as with his thought and spirituality. With his command of Gregory's works, Markus portrays... -
Sir Robert Seppings of Fakenham: From Rural Messenger Boy to Surveyor of the King's Navy by Peter Elphick 9781909796935
RRP: $16.71$15.33Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909796935Author Peter ElphickFormat PaperbackPage Count 156Imprint Poppyland PublishingPublisher Poppyland Publishing -
British Policy towards Greece during the Second World War 1941-1944 by Procopis Papastratis 9780521089371
RRP: $39.98$27.01This book examines in detail how British policy towards Greece was formulated and implemented from 1941 to 1944. The defeat of Greece and the fall of the dictatorial regime of General Metaxas confronted the British with new problems, the most important... -
Recasting Bourgeois Europe: Stabilization in France, Germany, and Italy in the Decade after World War I by Charles S. Maier 9780691169798
RRP: $38.70$35.02Charles Maier, one of the most prominent contemporary scholars of European history, published Recasting Bourgeois Europe as his first book in 1975. Based on extensive archival research, the book examines how European societies progressed from a moment of... -
Changing Times: Economics, Policies, and Resource Allocation in Britain since 1951 by Martin Chick
RRP: $52.88$44.36This is a study of how, and why, the British economy has changed since 1951. It covers the Golden Age of 1945-1973 when unemployment was below one million; when governments built millions of council houses and flats; when electricity, telephones, and gas... -
The Young Leonardo: Art and Life in Fifteenth-Century Florence by Larry J. Feinberg 9781107688223
RRP: $54.17$48.94Leonardo da Vinci is often presented as the 'transcendent genius', removed from or ahead of his time. This book, however, attempts to understand him in the context of Renaissance Florence. Larry J. Feinberg explores Leonardo's origins and the beginning... -
The Outbreak of the First World War by Sir Hew Strachan
$34.53To Arms is Hew Strachan's most complete and definitive study of the opening of the First World War. Now, key sections from this magisterial work are published as individual paperbacks, each complete in itself, and with a new introduction by the author. ... -
Venice Incognito: Masks in the Serene Republic by James H. Johnson 9780520294653
RRP: $38.70$30.04"The entire town is disguised," declared a French tourist of eighteenth-century Venice. And, indeed, maskers of all ranks--nobles, clergy, imposters, seducers, con men--could be found mixing at every level of Venetian society. Even a pious nun... -
Iliad - Imperium Press by Homer 9780648690504
RRP: $29.61$21.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780648690504Author HomerFormat PaperbackPage Count 626Imprint Imperium PressPublisher Imperium PressWeight(grams) 785gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 35mm -
The Italian Empire and the Great War by Vanda Wilcox 9780198822943
RRP: $51.59$44.67The Italian Empire and the Great War brings an imperial and colonial perspective to the Italian experience of the First World War. Italy's decision for war in 1915 built directly on Italian imperial ambitions from the late nineteenth century onwards, and... -
The Crusades: The Authoritative History of the War for the Holy Land by Thomas Asbridge
RRP: $25.79$19.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060787295Author Thomas AsbridgeFormat PaperbackPage Count 784Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)... -
Dartmoor's Alluring Uplands: Transhumance and Pastoral Management in the Middle Ages by Harold Fox 9780859898652
RRP: $45.15$40.44A striking and famous feature of the English landscape, Dartmoor is a beautiful place, with a sense of wildness and mystery. This book provides a new perspective on an important aspect of Dartmoor's past. Its focus is transhumance: the seasonal transfer... -
Belfast Aurora: A Falls Childhood, 1971-73 by Seamus Kelters
$28.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781785374142Author Seamus KeltersFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Merrion PressPublisher Merrion Press -
Revolutionary France 1770 - 1880 Francois Furet (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris) 9780631198086
RRP: $47.67$43.55Revolutionary France is a vivid narrative history. It is also a radical reinterpretation of the period, and testimony to the power both of ideas and of personality in movements of the past. Francois Furet is France's leading historian of the periodA work... -
Stepping-Stones: A Journey through the Ice Age Caves of the Dordogne by Christine Desdemaines-Hugon
RRP: $32.25$26.99An awe-inspiring study of the enduring power of Paleolithic art The cave art of France's Dordogne region is world-famous for the mythology and beauty of its remarkable drawings and paintings. These ancient images of lively bison, horses, and mammoths, as... -
American Expeditionary Forces in the Great War: The Meuse Argonne 1918: Breaking the Line by Maarten Otte 9781526714459
RRP: $19.34$14.33Although the Meuse-Argonne Offensive, which began in late September 1918 and continued through to the Armistice, was not the first major action fought by the AEF, it was the greatest in which it engaged in the Great War. Indeed, the casualty count in the...