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Miners, Unions and Politics, 1910-1947 Alan Campbell 9781859282694
RRP: $283.50$247.13The near destruction of the coal industry and the NUM offers a timely vantage point from which to appraise their history. This book presents a collection of specially commissioned essays by leading authorities on miners' history, which challenge the... -
The Emergence of Stability in the Industrial City: Manchester, 1832-67 Martin Hewitt 9781859282762
RRP: $79.78$70.94The rapid eclipse of Chartism, and the relative tranquility of the period 1848-67 has been one of the most enduring puzzles of nineteenth-century British history. This book takes a fresh look at this conundrum, treating the period between the Reform Acts... -
Rogues, Thieves And the Rule of Law: The Problem Of Law Enforcement In North-East England, 1718-1820 Gwenda Morgan 9781857281163
RRP: $283.50$247.13Rogues, Thieves and the Rule of Law" is a large-scale study of crime, disorder and law enforcement in northern England in the early modern period. London was not the only city where female criminals were common and gangs were feared, nor was it the sole... -
Strangers and Neighbours: Rural Migration in Eighteenth-Century Northern Burgundy by Jeremy Hayhoe
RRP: $98.70$85.85Though historians have come to acknowledge the mobility of rural populations in early modern Europe, few books demonstrate the intensity and importance of short-distance migrations as definitively as Strangers and Neighbours. Marshalling an incredible... -
Swedes in Canada: Invisible Immigrants by Elinor Barr
RRP: $69.30$61.85Since 1776, more than 100,000 Swedish-speaking immigrants have arrived in Canada from Sweden, Finland, Estonia, Ukraine, and the United States. Elinor Barr's Swedes in Canada is the definitive history of that immigrant experience. Active in almost every... -
Japanese Women and the Transnational Feminist Movement before World War II by Taeko Shibahara
RRP: $113.40$98.26This book traces the development of feminist consciousness in Japan from 1871 to 1941. Taeko Shibahara uncovers some fascinating histories as she examines how middle-class women navigated between domestic and international influences to form ideologies... -
Labor's End: How the Promise of Automation Degraded Work by Jason Resnikoff
RRP: $41.98$36.83Labor's End traces the discourse around automation from its origins in the factory to its wide-ranging implications in political and social life. As Jason Resnikoff shows, the term automation expressed the conviction that industrial progress meant the... -
Cancer, Radiation Therapy, and the Market by Barbara Bridgman Perkins
RRP: $283.50$247.13Appraising cancer as a major medical market in the 2010s, Wall Street investors placed their bets on single-technology treatment facilities costing $100-$300 million each. Critics inside medicine called the widely-publicized proton-center boom... -
Bearing Arms for His Majesty: The Free-Colored Militia in Colonial Mexico by Ben Vinson
RRP: $50.38$43.76This study uses the participation of free colored men, whether mulatos, pardos, or morenos (i.e., Afro-Spaniards, Afro-Indians, or "pure blacks"), in New Spain's militias as a prism for examining race relations, racial identity, racial... -
Kit Carson Days, 1809-1868, Vol 2: Adventures in the Path of Empire, Volume 2 by Edwin L. Sabin
RRP: $50.38$44.16Volume 1 of Kit Carson Days shows Carson running away from his Missouri home at age fifteen in 1826. He joins a caravan headed toward Santa Fe and in the coming years shuttles between poverty and prosperity as a wrangler, teamster, and trapper. He lives... -
Popular Autocracy in Greece, 1936-1941: A Political Biography of General Ioannis Metaxas P.J. Vatikiotis 9780714644455
RRP: $151.18$130.31The first major political biography of General Ioannis Metaxas, who assumed dictatorial power in Greece in 1936 and oversaw the resistance to the Italian invasion in the Second World War. As a political portrait of the man, the book puts much emphasis on... -
Caribbean Spaces: Escapes from Twilight Zone by Carole Boyce-Davies
RRP: $50.38$43.76Drawing on both personal experience and critical theory, Carole Boyce Davies illuminates the dynamic complexity of Caribbean culture and traces its migratory patterns throughout the Americas. Both a memoir and a scholarly study, Caribbean Spaces: Escapes... -
The Fallacy Of The Silver Age by Omry Ronen
RRP: $252.00$246.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789057025495Author Omry RonenFormat HardbackPage Count 114Imprint Harwood Academic (Performing Arts)Publisher Gordon and BreachWeight(grams) 363g -
Photographs of Environmental Phenomena: Scientific Images in the Wake of Environmental Awareness, USA 1860s-1970s by Gisela Parak
RRP: $94.48$77.15Since well before the debates about global warming and climate change, images have played an important part in bringing changes in nature and the environment to the attention of the general public. Moreover, most of these images have historic precursors... -
The Historiography of Contemporary Science and Technology Thomas Soederquist 9783718659067
RRP: $283.50$247.13More than ninety percent of all scientific history has been made during the last half century. So far, however, only a fraction of historical scholarship has dealt with this period. Merely a decade ago, most scientific historians considered recent... -
Race, State, and Armed Forces in Independence-Era Brazil: Bahia, 1790s-1840s by Hendrik Kraay
RRP: $58.78$58.32Focusing on the military institutions (army, militia, and National Guard) of Bahia, Brazil, this book analyzes the region's transition from Portuguese colony to province of the Brazilian Empire. It examines the social, racial, and cultural dimensions of... -
World Order: Reflections on the Character of Nations and the Course of History Bryan Gibson 9781912303342
RRP: $41.98$37.15Henry Kissinger's 2014 book World Order: Reflections on the Character of Nations and the Course of History not only offers a summary of thinking developed throughout a long and highly influential career-it is also an intervention in international... -
Global Crisis: War, Climate Change and Catastrophe in the Seventeenth Century by Ian Jackson
RRP: $41.98$37.15Few historians can claim to have undertaken historical analysis on as grand a scale as Geoffrey Parker in his 2013 work Global Crisis: War, Climate Change and Catastrophe in the Seventeenth Century. It is a doorstop of a book that surveys the 'general... -
The World Turned Upside Down: Radical Ideas During the English Revolution by Harman Bhogal
RRP: $41.98$37.15Few works of history have succeeded so completely in forcing their readers to take a fresh look at the evidence as Christopher Hill's The World Turned Upside Down - and that achievement is rooted firmly in Hill's exceptional problem-solving skills. ... -
The Return of Martin Guerre by Joseph Tendler
RRP: $41.98$37.15Few stories are more captivating than the one told by Natalie Zemon Davis in The Return of Martin Guerre. Basing her research on records of a bizarre court case that occurred in 16th-century France, she uses the tale of a missing soldier - whose... -
A Bibliography of Museum Studies by Simon J. Knell
RRP: $273.00$235.43A comprehensive bibliographic reference for students and others wishing to investigate the contemporary literature on museums and collections. The references are systematically arranged into sections including collections management, communication and... -
The Twilight Of A Military Tradition: Italian Aristocrats And European Conflicts, 1560-1800 Gregory Hanlon 9781857287042
RRP: $79.78$70.10First published in 2002. This work of military history integrates the Italian dimension into the wider political and military history of early modern Europe.Reviews'Both in providing accessible information and in offering a far more nuanced and... -
Warfare, State And Society In The Byzantine World 565-1204 John Haldon (University of Birmingham, UK) 9781857284942
RRP: $283.50$247.13Warfare, State and Society in the Byznatine World is the first comprehensive study of the warfare and the Byzantine World from the sixth to the twelfth century.The book examines Byzantine attitudes to warfare, the effects of war on society and culture,... -
Sovereignty: The Biography of a Claim by Peter Russell
$58.15To be effective, sovereignty must be secured through force or consent by those living in a territory, and accepted externally by other sovereign states. To be legitimate, the sovereignty claim must have the consent of its people and accord with... -
Gathering a Heritage: Ukrainian, Slavonic, and Ethnic Canada and the USA by Thomas M. Prymak
RRP: $58.78$51.53Since the 1970s and 1980s, the study of immigration and ethnicity has grown to become an essential aspect of North American history. In Gathering a Heritage, Thomas M. Prymak uses the essays and articles he has written over the past thirty years as a... -
INDIA AT 75: A Journey through 75 Objects by Kalyani Mookherji
$26.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789355203403Author Kalyani MookherjiFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Rupa Publications India Pvt Ltd.Publisher Rupa Publications India Pvt Ltd. -
Humanism and Religion in Early Modern Spain: John of the Cross, Francisco de Aldana, Luis de Leon by Terence O'Reilly
RRP: $283.50$246.29Humanism and Religion in Early Modern Spain brings together twenty-five essays by renowned historian Terence O'Reilly. The essays examine the interplay of religion and humanism in a series of writings composed in sixteenth-century Spain. It begins by... -
American Gun: A History of the U.S. in Ten Firearms (Large Print) by William Doyle
RRP: $62.98$38.12Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062253682Author William DoyleFormat PaperbackPage Count 386Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 445g -
Bound For Canaan: The Underground Railroad And The War For The Soul Of America by Fergus M Bordewich
RRP: $31.48$21.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060524319Author Fergus M BordewichFormat PaperbackPage Count 592Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)... -
Cupboards of Curiosity: Women, Recollection, and Film History by Amelie Hastie
RRP: $44.08$38.58In Cupboards of Curiosity Amelie Hastie rethinks female authorship within film history by expanding the historical archive to include dollhouses, scrapbooks, memoirs, cookbooks, and ephemera. Focusing on women who worked during the silent-film era,... -
Currents in American History: A Brief History of the United States, Volume II: From 1861: A Brief History of the United States, Volume II: From 1861 by Alan C. Elliott
RRP: $54.58$47.52Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780765618191Author Alan C. ElliottFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor & Francis LtdWeight(grams) 408g -
Israel by Adolphe Lods
RRP: $41.98$37.99Originally published between 1920-70,The History of Civilization was a landmark in early twentieth century publishing. It was published at a formative time within the social sciences, and during a period of decisive historical discovery. The aim of the... -
Women and Political Power: Europe since 1945 Simon Henig 9780415198523
RRP: $77.68$68.31The advance of women through the political system has been one of the most significant developments of the second half of the twentieth century. For the first time we have seen women Prime Ministers and Presidents in Europe. Women and Political Power... -
Toward Spatial Humanities: Historical GIS and Spatial History by Ian N. Gregory
RRP: $147.00$126.65The application of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to issues in history is among the most exciting developments in both digital and spatial humanities. Describing a wide variety of applications, the essays in this volume highlight the methodological... -
Spectres of 1919: Class and Nation in the Making of the New Negro by Barbara Foley
RRP: $46.18$40.30A look at the violent "Red Summer of 1919" and its intersection with the highly politicized New Negro movement and the Harlem Renaissance With the New Negro movement and the Harlem Renaissance, the 1920s was a landmark decade in African American... -
Michael Polanyi and His Generation: Origins of the Social Construction of Science Mary Jo Nye 9780226610634
$184.28In "Michael Polanyi and His Generation", Mary Jo Nye investigates the role that Michael Polanyi and several of his contemporaries played in the emergence of the social turn in the philosophy of science. This turn involved seeing science as a socially... -
Molecularizing Biology and Medicine: New Practices and Alliances, 1920s to 1970s Soraya de Chadarevian 9789057022937
RRP: $283.50$247.13The contributors present a coherent set of case studies of practices, technologies and strategies aimed at the isolation, investigation, manipulation, production, and uses of molecules including vitamins, hormones, blood products, antibiotics, and... -
Histories for the Many: The Victorian Family Magazine and Popular Representations of the Past. The "Leisure Hour", 1852-1870 by Doris Lechner
RRP: $94.48$77.15Histories for the Many examines the contribution of illustrated family magazines to Victorian historical culture. How, by whom, for whom and with which intentions was history used within this popular medium? How were class, gender, age, religion, and... -
An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad's Heart of Darkness by Clare Clarke
RRP: $41.98$37.15Few works of scholarship have so comprehensively recast an existing debate as Chinua Achebe's essay on Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness. Achebe - a highly distinguished Nigerian novelist and university teacher - looked with fresh eyes at a novel that... -
The Latin Church in Cyprus, 1195-1312 by Dr Nicholas S. H. Coureas
RRP: $283.50$247.13This is a study of the first century of the Latin Church on Cyprus, following the island's loss to the Byzantine empire and its conquest by Richard the Lionheart in 1195. It covers both secular and regular clergy, and deals with the complex relations...