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Goods, Power, History: Latin America's Material Culture by Arnold J. Bauer 9780521777025
RRP: $29.66$25.23Why do we acquire the things we do? Behind this apparently ingenuous question are several answers, some straightforward and others more interesting. To feed ourselves, might be the first response, for we can easily see that we expend much energy in the... -
The Decline, Revival and Fall of the British Empire: The Ford Lectures and Other Essays by John Gallagher 9780521891042
RRP: $51.59$42.91Through his teaching in the Universities of Cambridge and Oxford, Jack Gallagher was a major influence on a generation of students of empire. His re-interpretation of the nature of British imperialism, most notably in Africa and the Victorians (written... -
Mexican Phoenix: Our Lady of Guadalupe: Image and Tradition across Five Centuries by D. A. Brading 9780521531603
RRP: $39.98$34.13Juan Diego, to whom the Virgin Mary appeared in 1531 miraculously imprinting her likeness on his cape, was canonised in Mexico in 2002 by Pope John Paul II. In 1999, the revered image of Our Lady of Guadalupe had been proclaimed patron saint of the... -
Matchlocks to Flintlocks: Warfare in Europe and Beyond, 1500-1700 by William Urban
RRP: $19.34$14.13In the early modern world three dominant cultures of war were shaped by a synergy of their internal and external interactions. One was Latin Christian western Europe. Another was Ottoman Islam. The third, no less vital for so often being overlooked, was... -
Patterns of Empire: The British and American Empires, 1688 to the Present by Julian Go 9781107600782
RRP: $29.66$23.30Patterns of Empire comprehensively examines the two most powerful empires in modern history: the United States and Britain. Challenging the popular theory that the American empire is unique, Patterns of Empire shows how the policies, practices, forms and... -
A Renaissance Court: Milan under Galleazzo Maria Sforza by Gregory Lubkin
RRP: $74.82$58.80Ambitious, extravagant, progressive, and sexually notorious, Galeazzo Maria Sforza inherited the ducal throne of Milan in 1466, at the age of twenty-two. Although his reign ended tragically only ten years later, the young prince's court was a dynamic... -
Latin Poetry by Ludovico Ariosto
RRP: $38.64$30.52Ludovico Ariosto (1474-1533), one of Italy's greatest poets, was a leading figure of sixteenth-century Italian humanism. After some years working in the household of Cardinal Ippolito d'Este, to whom he dedicated his dazzling romance epic Orlando Furioso... -
In the Cause of Humanity: A History of Humanitarian Intervention in the Long Nineteenth Century by Fabian Klose
RRP: $45.14$39.33In the Cause of Humanity is a major new history of the emergence of the theory and practice of humanitarian intervention during the nineteenth century when the question of whether, when and how the international community should react to violations of... -
Wa and the Wala: Islam and Polity in Northwestern Ghana by Ivor Wilks 9780521362108
RRP: $135.45$120.27In the late seventeenth century Wala emerged as a small state in what is now northwestern Ghana. Its creation involved on the one hand warrior groups of Mande, Dagomba and Mamprusi origins, and on the other hand scholars from the centres of Muslim... -
The Italian Renaissance: The Essential Readings by Paula Findlen 9780631222835
RRP: $43.80$38.67Thirteen of the most important critical essays on the Italian Renaissance are brought together in this volume. Brings together critical essays on the Italian Renaissance.Provides an ideal starting point for non-specialists studying this period.Includes... -
A History of Tasmania by Henry Reynolds 9780521548373
RRP: $43.86$35.82This captivating work charts the history of Tasmania from the arrival of European maritime expeditions in the late eighteenth century, through to the modern day. By presenting the perspectives of both Indigenous Tasmanians and British settlers, author... -
The Other Renaissance: From Copernicus to Shakespeare: How the Renaissance in Northern Europe Transformed the World by Paul Strathern
RRP: $38.64$24.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781639363933Author Paul StrathernFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint Pegasus BooksPublisher Pegasus BooksWeight(grams) 567gDimensions(mm) 230mm * 150mm *... -
Wa and the Wala: Islam and Polity in Northwestern Ghana by Ivor Wilks 9780521894340
RRP: $58.04$49.20In the late seventeenth century Wala emerged as a small state in what is now northwestern Ghana. Its creation involved on the one hand warrior groups of Mande, Dagomba and Mamprusi origins, and on the other hand scholars from the centres of Muslim... -
Economic Change in China, c.1800-1950 by Philip Richardson 9780521635714
RRP: $30.95$26.28This 1999 book provides a concise introduction to the economic history of one of the major world powers. China is probably the only major economy for which it is still not certain whether modern economic growth at the aggregate level had taken hold by... -
A Widow's Vengeance after the Wars of Religion: Gender and Justice in Renaissance France by Tom Hamilton 9780192870179
RRP: $98.04$89.14Paris, 1599. At the end of the French Wars of Religion, the widow Renée Chevalier instigated the prosecution of the military captain Mathurin Delacanche, who had committed multiple acts of rape, homicide, and theft against the villagers who lived around... -
Commerce and Economic Change in West Africa: The Palm Oil Trade in the Nineteenth Century by Martin Lynn 9780521893268
RRP: $56.75$47.94A key theme in the West African trading system of the nineteenth century is the transition from the slave trade to 'legitimate' commerce, and its significance for the African societies of the region. In this period of transition, trade in palm oil was at... -
A Modern History of Tanganyika by John Iliffe 9780521296113
RRP: $49.01$44.93This is the first comprehensive and fully documented history of modern Tanganyika (mainland Tanzania). After introductory chapters on the nineteenth century, Dr Iliffe concentrates on the colonial period, and especially on economic, social and... -
Printing a Mediterranean World: Florence, Constantinople, and the Renaissance of Geography by Sean Roberts 9780674066489
RRP: $69.60$55.82In 1482, the Florentine humanist and statesman Francesco Berlinghieri produced the Geographia, a book of over one hundred folio leaves describing the world in Italian verse, inspired by the ancient Greek geography of Ptolemy. The poem, divided into seven... -
Chile since Independence by Leslie Bethell 9780521439879
RRP: $55.46$46.69Chile Since Independence brings together four chapters from Volumes III, V and VIII of The Cambridge History of Latin America to provide in a single volume an economic, social, and political history of Chile since independence. Each chapter is... -
Reading Lucretius in the Renaissance by Ada Palmer 9780674725577
RRP: $47.67$38.87After its rediscovery in 1417, Lucretius's Epicurean didactic poem De Rerum Natura threatened to supply radicals and atheists with the one weapon unbelief had lacked in the Middle Ages: good answers. Scholars could now challenge Christian patterns of... -
The Social History of Language by Peter Burke 9780521317634
RRP: $45.14$37.86In the last few years, social historians have discovered what might be called the 'linguistic dimension' of their discipline, just as sociolinguists have been discovering the 'historical dimension' and historians of language the 'social dimension'. They... -
Contesting the Renaissance by William Caferro 9781405123709
RRP: $39.93$35.41In this book, William Caferro asks if the Renaissance was really a period of progress, reason, the emergence of the individual, and the beginning of modernity. An influential investigation into the nature of the European RenaissanceSummarizes scholarly... -
Reforming the Tsar's Army: Military Innovation in Imperial Russia from Peter the Great to the Revolution by David Schimmelpenninck van der Oye 9780521174435
RRP: $51.59$43.42This volume examines how Imperial Russia's armed forces sought to adapt to the challenges of modern warfare. Russian rulers always understood the need to maintain an army and navy capable of preserving the empire's great power status. Yet they inevitably... -
Trials of Nation Making: Liberalism, Race, and Ethnicity in the Andes, 1810-1910 by Brooke Larson 9780521567305
RRP: $34.82$28.30This book offers the first interpretive synthesis of the history of Andean peasants and the challenges of nation-making in the four republics of Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia during the turbulent nineteenth century. Nowhere in Latin America were... -
The Six Wives of Henry VIII by Professor David Loades 9781445600499 [USED COPY]
$22.06The marital ups and downs of England's most infamous king. The story of Henry VIII and his six wives has passed from history into legend - taught in the cradle as a cautionary tale and remembered in adulthood as an object lesson in the dangers of... -
Beyond the Palio: Urbanism and Ritual in Renaissance Siena by Philippa Jackson 9781405155724
RRP: $26.77$23.63Beyond the Palio is an interdisciplinary collection of essays examining the components and importance of ritual events and ceremonies in Renaissance Siena. Brings together studies based upon diverse disciplinary and methodological approaches to a common... -
The Artist, the Philosopher, and the Warrior: Da Vinci, Machiavelli, and Borgia and the World They Shaped by Paul Strathern 9780553386141
RRP: $27.09$19.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780553386141Author Paul StrathernFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint Bantam Dell Publishing Group, Div of Random House, IncPublisher Random House USA... -
The Cambridge History of China: Volume 5, The Sung Dynasty and its Precursors, 907-1279, Part 1 by Denis Twitchett 9780521812481
RRP: $171.57$148.38This first of two volumes on the Sung Dynasty (960-1279) and its Five Dynasties and Southern Kingdoms precursors presents the political history of China from the fall of the T'ang Dynasty in 907 to the Mongol conquest of the Southern Sung in 1279. Its... -
Venice's Intimate Empire: Family Life and Scholarship in the Renaissance Mediterranean by Erin Maglaque 9781501721656
RRP: $65.79$57.10Mining private writings and humanist texts, Erin Maglaque explores the lives and careers of two Venetian noblemen, Giovanni Bembo and Pietro Coppo, who were appointed as colonial administrators and governors. In Venice's Intimate Empire, she uses these... -
The French Huguenots and Wars of Religion by Stephen M Davis
RRP: $25.80$19.48Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781532661617Author Stephen M DavisFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint Wipf & Stock PublishersPublisher Wipf & Stock PublishersWeight(grams) 231g -
Criminals and their Scientists: The History of Criminology in International Perspective by Peter Becker 9780521120739
RRP: $58.04$49.72This book presents research on the history of criminology from the late-eighteenth to the mid-twentieth century in Western Europe (Austria, Britain, France, Germany, Italy) and in Argentina, Australia, Japan, and the United States. Approaching the... -
The Republic of Venice: De magistratibus et republica Venetorum by Gasparo Contarini
RRP: $24.50$21.57At a time when social scientists are increasingly focusing on the reasons why nations fail and democracies die, Filippo Sabetti turns to the opposite issue, asking instead why institutions endure. To do so, he presents Gasparo Contarini's... -
Crime and Forgiveness: Christianizing Execution in Medieval Europe by Adriano Prosperi
RRP: $43.80$36.65A provocative analysis of how Christianity helped legitimize the death penalty in early modern Europe, then throughout the Christian world, by turning execution into a great cathartic public ritual and the condemned into a Christ-like figure who accepts... -
A Short History of the Italian Renaissance by Kenneth R. Bartlett 9781442600140
RRP: $69.66$61.65Award-winning lecturer Kenneth R. Bartlett applies his decades of experience teaching the Italian Renaissance to this beautifully illustrated overview. In his introductory Note to the Reader, Bartlett first explains why he chose Jacob Burckhardt's... -
The Independence of Latin America by Leslie Bethell 9780521349277
RRP: $43.85$37.75Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
A History of Queensland by Raymond Evans 9780521545396
RRP: $39.99$33.09A History of Queensland is the first single volume analysis of Queensland's past, stretching from the time of earliest human habitation up to the present. It encompasses pre-contact Aboriginal history, the years of convictism, free settlement and... -
A History of Niger 1850-1960 by Finn Fuglestad 9780521101394
RRP: $49.01$40.39This comprehensive history of Niger during the colonial period is a work based on primary research which attempts an overall appraisal of the colonial past. Dr Fuglestad questions the assumption that the colonial conquest constituted a clear break in... -
A Protestant Lord in James VI's Scotland - George Keith, Fifth Earl Marischal (1554-1623) by Miles Kerr-Peterson
RRP: $103.20$99.34A study of the life and career of one of Scotland's leading magnates during a turbulent period. George Keith, fifth Earl Marischal, is an outstanding example of long-term successful Protestant Lordship in the reign of James VI. The founder of... -
Early Latin America: A History of Colonial Spanish America and Brazil by James Lockhart 9780521299299
RRP: $60.62$53.50This book provides a general history of Latin America in the period between the European conquest and the gaining of independence by the Spanish American countries and Brazil (approximately 1492-1825). It is both an introduction for the student at the... -
Black People and the South African War 1899-1902 by Peter Warwick 9780521272247
RRP: $45.14$37.86The South African War was a costly and bitterly contested struggle. It was fought in a region populated by five million people, four million of whom were black. This is the first history of the war to focus upon the wartime experiences of black people,...