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The Cambridge Companion to the Age of Nero by Shadi Bartsch 9781107052208
RRP: $178.50$161.70The age of Nero has appealed to the popular imagination more than any other period of Roman history. This volume provides a lively and accessible guide to the various representations and interpretations of the Emperor Nero as well as to the rich... -
An Analysis of Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs & Steel: The Fate of Human Societies Riley Quinn 9781912302024
RRP: $41.98$37.15In his 1997 work Guns, Germs and Steel, Jared Diamond marshals evidence from five continents and across 13,000 years of human history in an attempt to answer the question of why that history unfolded so differently in various parts of the globe. His... -
World History for International Studies by Isabelle Duyvesteyn 9789087284008
RRP: $58.70$57.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789087284008Author Isabelle DuyvesteynFormat PaperbackPage Count 324Imprint Leiden University PressPublisher Leiden University Press -
Seven Heroes of 1971:: Stories of Courage and Sacrifice by Man Aman Singh Chhina 9789391165062
$26.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789391165062Author Man Aman Singh ChhinaFormat PaperbackPage Count 328Imprint Juggernaut PublicationPublisher Juggernaut Publication -
Early Records of British India: A History of the English Settlements in India by J. Talboys Wheeler 9781032424767
$244.84Early Records of British India (1972) is an important collection of source material deriving from official documents which now form part of the India Office Records. It throws light upon the beginnings of British power through the rise of the East India... -
The Yoruba-Speaking Peoples of the Slave Coast of West Africa: Their Religion, Manners, Customs, Laws, Language, Etc by A.B. Ellis 9781032436791
$244.84The Yoruba-Speaking Peoples of the Slave Coast of West Africa (1894) is an important work of in-depth research into one of the principal indigenous communities of West Africa. The territory of the Yoruba peoples extends over the southern parts of western... -
The Second World War and North East India: Shadows of Yesteryears by Sima Saigal 9780815392590
RRP: $283.50$246.29This book discusses the untold story of North East India's role during the Second World War and its resultant socio-economic and political impact. It goes beyond standard campaign histories and the epicentre of the Kohima-Imphal battlefields to the... -
Parnell in Perspective by D. George Boyce 9780367772390
$244.84First published in 1991, Parnell in Perspective is a collection of essays exploring the ideas and political style of Charles Stewart Parnell. Divided into two parts, the book explores Parnell's career in detail and investigates the parliamentary and... -
Old Kimberley by David Ottewell 9781840331554
RRP: $14.68$13.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781840331554Author David OttewellFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Stenlake PublishingPublisher Stenlake Publishing -
Old Blackwood and Kirkmuirhill by James Hamilton 9781840331332
RRP: $14.68$13.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781840331332Author James HamiltonFormat PaperbackPage Count 52Imprint Stenlake PublishingPublisher Stenlake Publishing -
Old Balmedie and Belhelvie Parish Rosie Nicol 9781840339512
RRP: $25.10$23.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781840339512Author Rosie NicolFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Stenlake PublishingPublisher Stenlake Publishing -
Democracy Burning?: Urban Fire Departments and the Limits of Civil Society in Late Imperial Russia, 1850-1914 by Nigel Raab 9780773537798
RRP: $216.30$96.33Nineteenth-century commentators often claimed that Russia burned to the ground every thirty years. In an empire whose cities were built of wood, firefighters had a visible presence throughout Russia's urban centres and became politically active across... -
Miss Anne in Harlem: The White Women of the Black Renaissance by Carla Kaplan 9780060882372
RRP: $35.68$26.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060882372Author Carla KaplanFormat PaperbackPage Count 544Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 675gDimensions(mm)... -
The Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey: Africa for the Africans Amy Jacques Garvey 9780714611433
RRP: $283.50$247.13Marcus Garvey founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association in 1914. He was one of the first black leaders to encourage black people to discover their cultural traditions and history, and to seek common cause in the struggle for true liberty and... -
The Ugaritic Texts and the Origins of West-Semitic Literary Composition by Dennis Pardee 9780197264928
RRP: $94.50$94.46The discovery and decryption of Ugaritic cuneiform tablets in the 1920s has given scholars an insight into the development of alphabetic writing and the origins of biblical poetry. In this book, based on his Schweich Lectures given in 2007, Professor... -
Charles Cooper: The Last Emigrant Ship Michael Stammers 9781902700229
$17.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781902700229Author Michael StammersFormat PaperbackPage Count 54Imprint National Museums LiverpoolPublisher National Museums LiverpoolWeight(grams) 214g -
Star Trek and History by Nancy R. Reagin 9781118167632
$26.82Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781118167632Author Nancy R. ReaginFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint John Wiley & Sons IncPublisher Turner Publishing CompanyWeight(grams)... -
A Secret Society History of the Civil War by Mark A. Lause 9780252080500
RRP: $46.18$40.30This unique history of the Civil War considers the impact of nineteenth-century American secret societies on the path to as well as the course of the war. Beginning with the European secret societies that laid the groundwork for freemasonry in the United... -
A Century of the North Wales Coast: Events, People and Places Over the 20th Century by Cliff Hayes
RRP: $27.28$20.73This fascinating selection of photographs illustrates the extraordinary transformation that has taken place on the North Wales coast over the last hundred years. The book offers an insight into the daily lives and living conditions of local people and... -
The Slave Ship: A Human History by Marcus Rediker
RRP: $42.00$31.90Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143114253Author Marcus RedikerFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 386gDimensions(mm) 215mm * 141mm... -
Challenges to Consensual Politics: Democracy, Identity, and Populist Protest in the Alpine Region by Daniele Caramani
RRP: $79.17$69.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789052012506Author Daniele CaramaniFormat PaperbackPage Count 257Imprint European Interuniversity PressPublisher European Interuniversity PressWeight(grams)... -
U.S. History Maps, Grades 5 - 8 by Don Blattner
RRP: $29.38$18.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781580371094Author BlattnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Mark Twain MediaPublisher Mark Twain MediaWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 272mm * 213mm *... -
History of the Donner Party: A Tragedy of the Sierra by C. F. McGlashan
$207.23Originally published in 1880, McGlashan's History of the Donner Party remains in steady demand as an authoritative account of the tragic episode. The editors have added newly discovered information and photographs to their foreword, which is based on... -
The United States Immigration Policy and Immigrants' Responses: Past and Present by Dorota Praszalowicz
RRP: $108.47$94.88The contributions in this book focus on U.S. migration policies, receiving society, ethnic communities and return migration. The authors analyze various aspects of migratory history ranging from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century. They cover such... -
Merchants of Death: A Study of the International Armament Industry by H. C. Engelbrecht
RRP: $252.00$248.85Merchants of death was an epithet used in the USA in the 1930s to attack industries and banks that supplied and funded the First World War (then called the Great War). The term was popular in anti-war circles of both the left and the right and was used... -
India’s Composite Heritage: A Workbook for Children and Parents [sponsored book] by Nachiket Chanehani
$43.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789393852434Author Nachiket ChanehaniFormat HardbackPage Count 172Imprint Rupa & CoPublisher Rupa & Co -
The World of Worm: Physician, Professor, Antiquarian, and Collector, 1588-1654 by Ole Peter Grell
RRP: $283.50$246.29This monograph offers the first comprehensive treatment of the multi-faceted scholarly interests of Ole Worm, professor of medicine at the University of Copenhagen. Scholarship about Worm has focused mainly on Worm's collecting and the creation of his... -
A Leadership for Peace: How Edwin Ginn Tried to Change the World by Robert I. Rotberg
$132.32For as long as there has been war, there have been those who have opposed such bloodshed. Here Robert Rotberg details the flowering of the great American peace movement in the late nineteenth century and the remarkable life of its foremost proponent,... -
The Power and the Money: The Mexican Financial System, 1876-1932 by Noel Maurer
$152.50After its independence in 1821, Mexico experienced more than fifty years of political chaos until Porfirio Diaz assumed power in 1876. Thirty-five years later, Mexico entered another period of turbulent instability (1910-29), during which the country... -
Mitos Hispanicos: La Edad Antigua by Marco Virgilio Garcia Quintela
$22.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788446012986Author Marco Virgilio Garcia QuintelaFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Akal EdicionesPublisher Akal Ediciones -
Greatest U.S. Army Stories Ever Told: Unforgettable Stories Of Courage, Honor, And Sacrifice by Iain Martin
RRP: $39.88$35.78Since the United States Army's inception by an act of Congress on June 14, 1775, its remarkable service members have engaged in almost every one of the most important turning points in our nation's history. In The Greatest U.S. Army Stories Ever Told,... -
The Politics of Time in China and Japan: Back to the Future Viren Murthy (University of Wisconsin - Madison, USA.) 9780367675448
RRP: $283.50$246.29Drawing on a wide range of texts and using an interdisciplinary approach, this volume shows how Chinese and Japanese intellectuals mobilized the past to create a better future. It is especially significant today given a world where, amidst tensions... -
India's New Middle Class: Democratic Politics in an Era of Economic Reform by Leela Fernandes
RRP: $46.18$40.30Today India's middle class numbers more than 250 million people and is growing rapidly. Public reports have focused mainly on the emerging group's consumer potential, while global views of India's new economy range from excitement about market prospects... -
State, Peasant, and Merchant in Qing Manchuria, 1644-1862 by Christopher M. Isett
RRP: $155.40$136.19This study seeks to lay bare the relationship between the sociopolitical structures that shaped peasant lives in Manchuria (northeast China) during the Qing dynasty and the development of that region's economy. The book is written in three parts. It... -
From Mutual Observation to Propaganda War: Premodern Revolts in Their Transnational Representations by Malte Griesse
RRP: $71.38$58.82The Arab spring, protest movements in the EU, Russia, Turkey or elsewhere, are often labelled as twitter-revolutions. A crucial role is attributed to the new media, coverage of events abroad and ensuing mutual reactions. With the dissemination of print,... -
Obscene Traffic: Prostitution and Global Migrations from the Italian Perspective (1890–1940) by Laura Schettini
RRP: $283.50$246.29This book explores the early globalization of prostitution from the perspective of the Italian case. It is a story of prostitution, migration, and work, built through analyses of primary sources (the Italian archive of International Police) and covering... -
A History of Sanskrit Literature by Arthur A. Macdonell
$35.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788196002084Author Arthur A. MacdonellFormat PaperbackPage Count 406Imprint Motilal Banarsidass,Publisher Motilal Banarsidass, -
Drums and Drum Ensembles Along the Great Silk Road by Xiao Mei
$148.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783832553982Author Xiao MeiFormat PaperbackImprint Logos Verlag BerlinPublisher Logos Verlag BerlinWeight(grams) 170g -
China at War: Regions of China, 1937-45 by Stephen R. MacKinnon
$172.31In response to the leaders of China and Japan attacking each other for the way they deal with history, scholars from Japan, China, and the West held a conference in 2002, under the auspices of the Harvard Asia Center, to examine the Japanese invasion and... -
Politics and Urban Growth in Santiago, Chile, 1891-1941 by Richard J. Walter
$163.00From 1891 to 1941, Santiago-Chile's capital and its largest and most important city-experienced rapid urbanization, industrialization, and administrative expansion along with a massive internal migration that had significant social and economic...