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State and Society in Pre-colonial Asante by T. C. McCaskie 9780521894326
RRP: £37.99£34.83Scholarship on the West African kingdom of Asante is at the leading edge of Africanist research. In this book, T. C. McCaskie gives a detailed and richly nuanced historical portrait of pre-colonial Asante. His delineation of state and society in the... -
The Growth of Big Business in the United States and Western Europe, 1850-1939 by Christopher J. Schmitz 9780521557719
RRP: £25.99£21.99This book provides the first introductory, comparative account of the rise of giant business corporations in America and Europe in the century before the Second World War. It discusses the evolution of firms like Ford, Exxon, Unilever and Siemens, as... -
Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition by Frances A. Yates 9780226950075
RRP: £30.00£29.65Placing Bruno-both advanced philosopher and magician burned at the stake-in the Hermetic tradition, Yates's acclaimed study gives an overview not only of Renaissance humanism but of its interplay-and conflict-with magic and occult practices. "Among those... -
The African Poor: A History by John Iliffe 9780521348775
RRP: £30.99£26.83This history of the poor of Sub-Saharan Africa begins in the monasteries of thirteenth-century Ethiopia and ends in the South African resettlement sites of the 1980s. Its thesis, derived from histories of poverty in Europe, is that most very poor... -
The Emergence of Meiji Japan by Marius B. Jansen 9780521484053
RRP: £36.99£30.33This paperback edition brings together chapters from volume 5 of The Cambridge History of Japan. Japan underwent momentous changes during the middle decades of the nineteenth century. This book chronicles the hardships of the Tempo era in the 1830s, the... -
The Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895: Perceptions, Power, and Primacy by S. C. M. Paine 9780521617451
RRP: £44.99£38.54The Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895 is a seminal event in world history, yet it has been virtually ignored in Western literature. In the East, the focus of Chinese foreign policy has been to undo its results whereas the focus of Japanese foreign policy... -
Young Queens: Three Renaissance Women and the Price of Power by Leah Redmond Chang 9781526613448
RRP: £16.99£13.68LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION WATERSTONES' BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: HISTORY The boldly original, dramatic intertwined story of Catherine de' Medici, Elisabeth de Valois and Mary, Queen of Scots - three queens exercising power in a... -
Ethnic Pride and Racial Prejudice in Victorian Cape Town by Vivian Bickford-Smith 9780521526395
RRP: £30.99£23.80Nineteenth-century Cape Town, the capital of the British Cape Colony, was conventionally regarded as a liberal oasis in an otherwise racist South Africa. Longstanding British influence was thought to mitigate the racism of the Dutch settlers and foster... -
The Fortunes of the Courtier: The European Reception of Castiglione's Cortegiano by Peter Burke 9780745611518
RRP: £17.99£17.40This book aims to understand the different readings of Castiglione's Cortegiano or Book of the Courtier from the Renaissance to the twentieth century.About the AuthorPeter Burke is Reader in Cultural History at Emmanuel College, Cambridge. He is the... -
The Return of Lucretius to Renaissance Florence by Alison Brown 9780674050327
RRP: £40.95£32.83In this first comprehensive study of the effect of Lucretius's De rerum natura on Florentine thought in the Renaissance, Alison Brown demonstrates how Lucretius was used by Florentine thinkers-earlier and more widely than has been supposed-to provide a... -
Catholic Spectacle and Rome's Jews: Early Modern Conversion and Resistance by Dr Emily Michelson
RRP: £35.00£31.73A new investigation that shows how conversionary preaching to Jews was essential to the early modern Catholic Church and the Roman religious landscapeStarting in the sixteenth century, Jews in Rome were forced, every Saturday, to attend a hostile sermon... -
Portraits of Learned Men by Paolo Giovio
RRP: £29.95£23.66The most complete translation available of these brief biographies of great European figures, written by one of the leading historians of the sixteenth century.Portraits of Learned Men provides a fascinating synopsis of the contours, mentality, and... -
Colonial Brazil by Leslie Bethell 9780521349253
RRP: £37.99£32.97Colonial Brazil is a selection of chapters from the Cambridge History of Latin America volumes 1 and 2 brought together to provide a continuous history of the Portuguese Empire in Brazil from the beginning of the sixteenth to the beginning of the... -
The Shell Money of the Slave Trade by Jan S. Hogendorn 9780521541107
RRP: £38.99£32.28This study examines the role of cowrie-shell money in West African trade, particularly the slave trade. The shells were carried from the Maldives to the Mediterranean by Arab traders for further transport across the Sahara, and to Europe by competing... -
The Sistine Chapel: The History and Legacy of the World's Most Famous Chapel by Charles River Editors 9781548048389
RRP: £11.14£9.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781548048389Author Charles RiverFormat PaperbackPage Count 102Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent... -
Shakespeare's Caliban: A Cultural History by Alden T. Vaughan 9780521458177
RRP: £35.99£33.26Among Shakespeare's numerous stage characters, probably none has been so variously interpreted as the 'savage and deformed slave' Caliban in The Tempest. For nearly four centuries, widely diverse writers and artists from around the world have found the... -
Catherine Howard: The Adulterous Wife of Henry VIII by David Loades 9781445607689
RRP: £20.00£13.74Henry's fifth Queen is best known to history as the stupid adolescent who got herself fatally entangled with lovers, and ended up on the block. However there was more to her than that. She was a symptom of the power struggle which was going on in the... -
The Cambridge World History: Volume 6, The Construction of a Global World, 1400-1800 CE, Part 1, Foundations by Jerry H. Bentley
RRP: £33.99£29.66The era from 1400 to 1800 saw intense biological, commercial, and cultural exchanges, and the creation of global connections on an unprecedented scale. Divided into two books, Volume 6 of the Cambridge World History series considers these critical... -
The Early Renaissance and Vernacular Culture by Charles Dempsey 9780674049529
RRP: £43.95£35.15Why do the paintings and poetry of the Italian Renaissance-a celebration of classical antiquity-also depict the Florentine countryside populated with figures dressed in contemporary silk robes and fleur-de-lys crowns? Upending conventional... -
Lives of the Milanese Tyrants by Pier Candido Decembrio
RRP: £29.95£23.66Lives of the Milanese Tyrants brings together two biographies by the most important Milanese humanist of the early fifteenth century. Pier Candido Decembrio (1399-1477) served as secretary and envoy to the bizarre and powerful Filippo Maria Visconti,... -
The Political Economy of Merchant Empires: State Power and World Trade, 1350-1750 by James D. Tracy 9780521574648
RRP: £37.99£34.83The Political Economy of Merchant Empires focuses on why European concerns eventually achieved dominance in global trade in the period between 1450 and 1750, at the expense, especially in Asia, of well-organised and well-financed rivals. The volume is a... -
The Renaissance by Alison M. Brown
RRP: £35.99£31.69The Renaissance, now in its third edition, engages with earlier and current debates about the Renaissance, especially concerning its 'modernity', its elitism and gender bias and its globalism. This new edition has been revised to include a discussion of... -
The Technological Transformation of Japan: From the Seventeenth to the Twenty-First Century by Tessa Morris-Suzuki 9780521424929
RRP: £33.99£30.92For decades, Japan has been at the cutting edge of much technology, becoming an industrial superpower along the way. However, it is not widely acknowledged that Japan's status as technological leader is the result of historical processes over centuries... -
Occasions of State: Early Modern European Festivals and the Negotiation of Power by J.R. Mulryne
RRP: £39.99£35.06This sixth volume in the European Festival Studies series stems from a joint conference (Venice, 2013) between the Society for European Festivals Research and the European Science Foundation's PALATIUM project. Drawing on up-to-date scholarship, a... -
The Cambridge World History: Volume 7, Production, Destruction and Connection 1750-Present, Part 2, Shared Transformations? by John McNeill
RRP: £33.99£29.66Since 1750, the world has become ever more connected, with processes of production and destruction no longer limited by land- or water-based modes of transport and communication. Volume 7 of the Cambridge World History series, divided into two books,... -
The Earthly Republic: Italian Humanists on Government and Society by Benjamin G. Kohl
RRP: £27.99£24.14The gradual secularization of European society and culture is often said to characterize the development of the modern world, and the early Italian humanists played a pioneering role in this process. Here Benjamin G. Kohl and Ronald G. Witt, with... -
The Grace of the Italian Renaissance by Ita Mac Carthy
RRP: £35.00£28.14How grace shaped the Renaissance in Italy"Grace" emerges as a keyword in the culture and society of sixteenth-century Italy. The Grace of the Italian Renaissance explores how it conveys and connects the most pressing ethical, social and aesthetic... -
The Culture of Castles in Tudor England and Wales by Audrey M. Thorstad
RRP: £80.00£73.68First multi-disciplinary study of the cultural and social milieu of the post-medieval castle. The castle was an imposing architectural landmark in late medieval and early modern England and Wales. Castles were much more than lordly residences: they... -
Being a Jesuit in Renaissance Italy: Biographical Writing in the Early Global Age by Camilla Russell 9780674261129
RRP: £42.95£34.37A new history illuminates the Society of Jesus in its first century from the perspective of those who knew it best: the early Jesuits themselves.The Society of Jesus was established in 1540. In the century that followed, thousands sought to become... -
How to Do it: Guides to Good Living for Renaissance Italians by Rudolph M. Bell
RRP: £80.00£77.01Hope to conceive a boy? Tie a tourniquet around your husband's left testicle. Pregnant and fear a weak or malformed baby? Frequent hearty laughter should reduce the risk. And if you're a teenager of good repute, avoid dancing at all costs and stay away... -
The House of Medici: Its Rise and Fall by Christopher Hibbert 9780688053390
RRP: £15.00£12.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780688053390Author Christopher HibbertFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint HarperPaperbacksPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc -
The Cambridge History of Africa by John E. Flint 9780521207010
RRP: £82.99£71.19The period covered in this volume is one which begins with the emergence of anti-slave trade attitudes in Europe, and ends on the eve of European colonial conquest. But except for white conquests in Algeria and South Africa, and colonies of free Blacks... -
A Cultural History of Dress and Fashion in the Renaissance by Elizabeth Currie
RRP: £27.99£25.38Spurred by an increasingly international and competitive market, the Renaissance saw the development of many new fabrics and the use of highly prized ingredients imported from the New World. In response to a thirst for the new, fashion's pace of change... -
An Illustrated Introduction to The Tudors by Gareth Russell 9781445641218
RRP: £15.99£10.85The six monarchs of the Tudor dynasty are phenomenally well known. Henry VII succeeded in ending the Wars of the Roses, Henry VIII formed the Church of England and famously married six times: Katherine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn, Jane Seymour, Anne of... -
Magomero: Portrait of an African Village by Landeg White 9780521389099
RRP: £39.99£33.26Magomero is a vivid historical portrait of a Malawian village from 1859 to the present day. It focuses on a region which saw historically important political activity, in the founding of a colony of freed slaves and the rising of an independent church... -
Polydore Vergil on Discovery by Polydore Vergil
RRP: £29.95£24.06The Italian humanist Polydore Vergil (1470-1555) was born in Urbino but spent most of his life in early Tudor England. His most popular work, On Discovery (De inventoribus rerum, 1499), was the first comprehensive account of discoveries and inventions... -
The Cambridge History of Africa by Roland Oliver 9780521228039
RRP: £99.99£86.55Volume VI of The Cambridge History of Africa covers the period 1870-1905, when the European powers (Britain, France, Germany, Portugal and Italy) divided the continent into colonial territories and vied with each other for control over vast tracts of... -
Global Trade and the Transformation of Consumer Cultures: The Material World Remade, c.1500-1820 by Beverly Lemire
RRP: £26.99£23.20The oceanic explorations of the 1490s led to countless material innovations worldwide and caused profound ruptures. Beverly Lemire explores the rise of key commodities across the globe, and charts how cosmopolitan consumption emerged as the most... -
Teaching Race in the European Renaissance: A Cla – A Classroom Guide by Anna Wainwright 9780866988360
RRP: £16.00£15.77A multidisciplinary guide to classroom discussion of race in the European Renaissance. Teaching Race in the European Renaissance: A Classroom Guide provides both educators and students the tools they need to discuss race in the European Renaissance both... -
Impact of Humanism on Western Europe During the Renaissance, The by A. Goodman 9780582503311
£56.60An up-to-date synthesis of the spread and impact of humanism in Europe. A team of Renaissance scholars of international reputation including Peter Burke, Sydney Anglo, George Holmes and Geoffrey Elton, offers the student, academic and general reader an...