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Vietnam: Anatomy of a Peace by Gabriel Kolko
RRP: £36.99£32.53Vietnam has experienced huge political and economic development since the war. In Anatomy of a Peace, Gabriel Kolko looks at the main economic phases the Communist Party has embarked upon since 1986 and outlines the transition to nascent capitalism. He... -
Cymru Ddoe Mewn Lliw a Llun Gwyn Jenkins 9781800992993
£20.31Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800992993Author Gwyn JenkinsFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint Y LolfaPublisher Y LolfaDimensions(mm) 210mm * 240mm * 20mm -
The Other Victorians: A Study of Sexuality and Pornography in Mid-nineteenth-century England Steven Marcus 9781412808194
RRP: £43.99£38.14Taking as his point of departure the authors, the audience, and the texts of Victorian writings on sex in general and of Victorian pornography in particular, Steven Marcus offers a startling and revolutionary perspective on the underside of Victorian... -
Europe's Barbarians AD 200-600 by Edward James 9780582772960
RRP: £39.99£38.54'Barbarians' is the name the Romans gave to those who lived beyond the frontiers of the Roman Empire - the peoples they considered 'uncivilised'. Most of the written sources concerning the barbarians come from the Romans too, and as such, need to be... -
Elegies Bk 3 Camps by Sextus Propertius 9780521109482
RRP: £30.99£23.80This edition of Propertius Book III follows the general style and arrangement of Camps' editions of Books I and IV. Camps presents, without concealing difficulties and uncertainties, a fairly conservative but readable and coherent text, together with... -
Popular Cultures in England 1550-1750 by Barry Reay 9780582489547
RRP: £54.99£54.34Explores the important aspects of popular cultures during the period 1550 to 1750. Barry Reay investigates the dominant beliefs and attitudes across all levels of society as well as looking at different age, gender and religious groups. Book... -
The Secret History of the World and How to Get Out Alive by Laura Knight-Jadczyk 9781897244166
£43.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781897244166Author Laura Knight-JadczykFormat PaperbackPage Count 807Imprint Red Pill PressPublisher Red Pill Press -
The History of the Sacred Passion: new edition with enhanced text by Luis De La Palma 9780956452658
RRP: £27.00£19.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956452658Author Luis De La PalmaFormat HardbackPage Count 402Imprint Graffiti MediaPublisher Graffiti MediaWeight(grams) 744g -
Coventry at War by David McGrory 9780752453286
RRP: £14.99£11.72Bestselling local author David McGrory takes a fresh look at Coventry during the war years. With over 200 photographs and informative captions, the author explores various aspects of wartime Coventry including the Auxiliary Fire Service, the Home Guard... -
Quarry Bank Past & Present: Britain In Old Photographs by Ned Williams
RRP: £14.99£11.72Quarry Bank Past & Present is the second book produced by The History Press devoted to the recent history of this Black Country township. Two hundred and fifty pictures bring you a glimpse of the many diverse facets of life in Quarry Bank. It may be a... -
The Toll-houses of South Devon by Tim Jenkinson 9781907154010
RRP: £8.95£7.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907154010Author Tim JenkinsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 124Imprint Polystar PressPublisher Polystar Press -
An Analysis of Chinua Achebe's An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad's Heart of Darkness Clare Clarke 9781912127771
RRP: £6.50£6.29Few 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... -
Voices of Ashton Under Lyne by Derek Southall 9780752421605
RRP: £14.99£11.72Voices of Ashton Under LyneBook InformationISBN 9780752421605Author Derek J SouthallFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint The History Press LtdPublisher The History Press LtdWeight(grams) 300gDimensions(mm) 235mm * 165mm * 10mm -
Brass Roots: A Hundred Years of Brass Bands and Their Music, 1836-1936 by Roy Newsome
RRP: £32.99£29.16This book was originally published in 1998. For most of the nineteenth and the early part of the twentieth century, the brass band was a major feature of musical life in Britain. This book surveys the hundred years from 1836 in which bands flourished,... -
The Literature of Struggle: An Anthology of Chartist Fiction Ian Haywood 9781138643987
RRP: £15.99£14.62First published in 1995. Chartism inspired a prodigious literary output, based on its own newspapers and journals. However, while some Chartist political writings have been reprinted, the aesthetic texts of the movement have largely been neglected. This... -
By Glider to Normandy and Beyond by Laurence Neal 9780244178048
RRP: £15.00£13.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780244178048Author Laurence NealFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.comWeight(grams) 148g -
THE FALL OF SINGAPORE: THE BATTLE FOR MALAYA 1941-1942 by JUSTIN CORFIELD
RRP: £12.50£11.55The Japanese invasion of Malaya in December 1941 is one of the more heavily studied military campaigns in World War II. It has led to much controversy over how the British, Australian and Indian troops, well prepared and numerically superior to their... -
A Trial of Witches: A Seventeenth Century Witchcraft Prosecution by Ivan Bunn
RRP: £47.99£41.81In 1662, Amy Denny and Rose Cullender were accused of witchcraft, and, in one of the most important of such cases in England, stood trial and were hanged in Bury St Edmunds. A Trial of Witches is a complete account of this sensational trial and an... -
The Navy of the 21st Century, 2001-2022 by Paul H. Silverstone 9780367407865
RRP: £41.99£36.75The Navy of the 21st Century, 2001– 2022 presents an all- inclusive listing of the ships that have served in the US Navy since the start of the new century. The newest and sixth volume of the US Navy Warship Series provides insight into the technological... -
The Decline of Industrial Britain: 1870-1980 by Michael Dintenfass
RRP: £45.99£40.13Michael Dintenfass provides a challenging account of Britain's economic performance since 1870. He combines a succinct, clearly-written survey of recent scholarly work in British economic and business history with an original interpretive alternative to... -
Curiosities of Greater Manchester by Robert Nicholls 9780750936613
RRP: £15.99£12.43This book is a guide to over 140 remarkable and curious sights to be found in the Greater Manchester area spanning centuries of history from Roman times right up to the present day. Among the peculiarities featured are a church clock that strikes... -
Landscapes Past and Present: Cheshire and Beyond by Sharon M. Varey 9781908258281
£14.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908258281Author Sharon M. VareyFormat PaperbackPage Count 287Imprint University of Chester PressPublisher University of Chester Press -
The Toll-houses of Cornwall by Patrick John Taylor 9780902660298
RRP: £7.95£6.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780902660298Author Patrick John TaylorFormat PaperbackPage Count 84Imprint Federation of Old Cornwall SocietiesPublisher Federation of Old Cornwall Societies -
Poverty and Vagrancy in Tudor England by John F. Pound 9780582355088
£45.98First published in 1986. The first edition of this work was in 1971. In the intervening years a number of books and articles have appeared which deal directly, or indirectly, with the subject of poverty in the early modern period, and the bibliography,... -
In the Ruins of the Reich by Douglas Botting 9780413777126
RRP: £9.99£8.40First published in Britain in 1985, In the Ruins of the Reich is a classic account of Nazi Germany after her fall to the Allies in May 1945. Douglas Botting concentrates on the defining events that took place in the period between the collapse of the... -
Popular Politics in Nineteenth Century England by Rohan McWilliam 9780415108416
RRP: £32.99£29.16Popular Politics in Nineteenth Century England provides an accessible introduction to the culture of English popular politics between 1815 and 1900, the period from Luddism to the New Liberalism. This is an area that has attracted great historical... -
The Making of Modern Irish History: Revisionism and the Revisionist Controversy by D. George Boyce
RRP: £43.99£38.44This volume brings together distinguished historians of Ireland, each of whom tackles a key question, issue or event in Irish history since the eighteenth century and:* examines its historiography* assesses the context of new interpretations* considers... -
Merseyside at War: A Day-to-Day Diary of the 1940-1941 Bombing by Rodney Whitworth 9780901367303
£3.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780901367303Author Rodney WhitworthFormat PaperbackPage Count 90Imprint Scouse PressPublisher Scouse Press -
Reading-Literature: First Reader by Harriette Taylor Treadwell 9780981809397
£7.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780981809397Author Harriette Taylor TreadwellFormat PaperbackPage Count 150Imprint Living Books PressPublisher Living Books PressWeight(grams) 230g -
Lifted: A Cultural History of the Elevator by Andreas Bernard
RRP: £28.99£25.36Before skyscrapers forever transformed the landscape of the modern metropolis, the conveyance that made them possible had to be created. Invented in New York in the 1850s, the elevator became an urban fact of life on both sides of the Atlantic by the... -
Peelers to Pandas: An Illustrated History of the Leicester City Police by Ben Beazley 9781780910666
£15.72Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781780910666Author Ben BeazleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint DB PublishingPublisher DB Publishing -
The History of Auchinleck: Village and Parish Dane Love 9780956755094
RRP: £20.00£17.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956755094Author Dane LoveFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint Carn Publishing ltdPublisher Carn Publishing ltd -
Knowing, Teaching, and Learning History: National and International Perspectives by Peter N. Stearns 9780814781425
RRP: £24.99£22.41A rethinking of teaching methodology in history classrooms As issues of history and memory collide in our society and in the classroom, the time is ripe to rethink the place of history in our schools. Knowing, Teaching, and Learning History represents a... -
The Routledge Companion to Historical Studies by Alun Munslow
RRP: £35.99£31.69The Routledge Companion to Historical Studies provides a much-needed critical introduction to the major historians and philosophers together with the central issues, ideas and theories which have prompted the rethinking of history that has gathered pace... -
World History of Warfare by Christon I. Archer
RRP: £32.00£29.43World History of Warfare is designed as a textbook for introductory college courses in military history. The text covers worldwide military history from ancient times to the present. Its principal theme is an exploration of change and continuity,... -
Gloucester Murder & Crime by Jill Evans 9780752467504
RRP: £12.99£9.87This chilling collection of cases delves into the villainous deeds that have taken place in Gloucester during its long history. Among those featured are a French sailor stabbed to death outside a Gloucester pub, a boy drowned in the Gloucester and... -
The Way of Herodotus: Travels with the Man Who Invented History by Justin Marozzi 9780306818578
£17.94Intrepid travel historian Justin Marozzi retraces the footsteps of Herodotus through the Mediterranean and Middle East, examining Herodotus's 2,500-year-old observations about the cultures and places he visited and finding echoes of his legacy... -
Nation, State and Empire: Belonging in a Globalised World Philip Bobbit 9789189069831
RRP: £20.00£13.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789189069831Author Philip BobbitFormat HardbackPage Count 381Imprint Stolpe PublishingPublisher Stolpe PublishingWeight(grams) 1140g -
The Welsh Princes: The Native Rulers of Wales 1063-1283 by Roger K. Turvey 9780582308114 [USED COPY]
RRP: £52.99£16.78The Welsh princes were one of the most important ruling elites in medieval western Europe. This volume examines their behaviour, influence and power in a period when the Welsh were struggling to maintain their independence and identity in the face of... -
The Welsh Princes: The Native Rulers of Wales 1063-1283 by Roger K. Turvey
RRP: £52.99£52.48The Welsh princes were one of the most important ruling elites in medieval western Europe. This volume examines their behaviour, influence and power in a period when the Welsh were struggling to maintain their independence and identity in the face of...