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The Making of Ireland: From Ancient Times to the Present by James Lydon 9780415013482
RRP: £43.99£38.84The Making of Ireland by James Lydon provides an accessible history of Ireland from the earliest times. James Lydon recounts, in colourful detail, the waves of settlers, missionaries and invaders which have come to Ireland since pre-history and offers a... -
Obstetrics and Gynaecology in Tudor and Stuart England by Audrey Eccles
RRP: £32.99£29.16Originally published in 1982 Obstetrics and Gynaecology in Tudor and Stuart England traces the development of obstetrics and gynaecology over the past two centuries. Between the 16th and 18th century midwifery passed from a female mystery, employing... -
Imagining Home: Gender, Race and National Identity, 1945-1964 Wendy Webster (University of Huddersfield, UK) 9781032345208
RRP: £17.99£16.29A vital work for its exploration of the way the very idea of home became white in Britain in the postwar periodAhead of its time when first published and reviewed in the Guardian Highly relevant in light of the Windrush scandal and recent debates... -
The Madness of Labour Governments 1945 - 2010 by Peter Hargreaves 9780244791285
RRP: £11.43£10.48It's an unfortunate fact that many do not remember the calamitous years of previous Labour governments and the incompetence of the main players in the Party that eventually `Broke the Party', and probably lost the Party control of government for decades... -
When Russia Did Democracy: From St Vladimir to Tsar Putin by Kenneth MacInnes
RRP: £22.99£15.18When Lenin and the Bolsheviks shut down the Constituent Assembly after only one session, it was said to mark the end of Russia's one-day experiment with democracy. However, with the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, a true period of democracy was ushered... -
Film and the Nuclear Age: Representing Cultural Anxiety Toni A. Perrine 9781138969766
RRP: £36.99£33.18Just as we generally pay scant attention to the potential dangers of nuclear power and nuclear war, until quite recently, scholars have made limited critical attempts to understand the cultural manifestations of the nuclear status quo. Films that feature... -
Unpacking Culture: Art and Commodity in Colonial and Postcolonial Worlds by Ruth B. Phillips
RRP: £31.00£24.43Tourist art production is a global phenomenon and is increasingly recognized as an important and authentic expression of indigenous visual traditions. These thoughtful, engaging essays provide a comparative perspective on the history, character, and... -
Suleyman the Magnificent and His Age: The Ottoman Empire in the Early Modern World by Metin Kunt 9780582038271
RRP: £47.99£46.38Sultan Suleyman the Magnificent (r.1520-1566) dominated the eastern Mediterranean and Ottoman worlds - and the imagination of his contemporaries - very much as his fellow sovereigns Charles V, Francis I and Henry VIII in the west. He greatly expanded the... -
Medieval England: A Social History and Archaeology from the Conquest to 1600 AD by Colin Platt
RRP: £135.00£117.68By drawing equally on the work of historians and archaeologists, Colin Platt puts forward a view of English medieval society in which there is much that is new and unexpected. Medieval England brings together a wide range of themes, from castle and... -
The Pope's Last Crusade: How an American Jesuit Helped Pope Pius XI's Campaign to Stop Hitler by Peter Eisner 9780062049155
RRP: £15.99£10.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062049155Author Peter EisnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint HarperOnePublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 238gDimensions(mm) 202mm *... -
The Medieval World by Peter Linehan 9781138848696
RRP: £59.99£53.94Ranging from Connacht to Constantinople and from Tynemouth to Timbuktu, the forty-four contributors to The Medieval World seek to bring the Middle Ages to life, offering definitive appraisals of the distinctive features of the period. This second edition... -
Pirates of the Carraig n by David Kelly 9780244101459
RRP: £10.71£9.61The inspiration behind Robert Louis Stevenson's classic pirate tale Treasure Island, this is the long lost and almost forgotten true story of how two murderous pirates ended their days swinging in a gibbet on a small island off the coast of Dublin. From... -
Disguised as the Devil by M.M. Drymon }{ 9780615200613
RRP: £20.00£17.62Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
James II by W. A. Speck 9780582287129
RRP: £24.99£23.92Forced out of power in the"Glorious Revolution" of 1688, and defeated in the subsequent battle of the Boyne by William of Orange, the short reign of James II has an importance that reaches far beyond his three years in power. An ardent Roman Catholic,... -
Medieval Memories: Men, Women and the Past, 700-1300 by Professor Elisabeth M. C. van Houts 9780582369023
£52.48Who, exactly, was responsible for the preservation of knowledge about the past? How did people preserve their recollections and pass them on to the next generation? Did they write them down or did they hand then on orally? The book is concerned with the... -
The Nazi Movement by Theodore Abel
RRP: £45.99£39.82This book identifies the main factors by which the Nazi movement rose to power and measures their relative importance. It discusses Hitler's leadership, the strategy of party tacticians, and the favorable circumstances of popular economic and social... -
Rigoberta Menchu Controversy by Arturo Arias
RRP: £20.99£18.67Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816636266Author Arturo AriasFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint University of Minnesota PressPublisher University of Minnesota PressDimensions(mm)... -
Europe and the Jews: The Pressure of Christendom on the People of Israel for 1900 Years by Malcolm Hay 9780897333597
RRP: £22.95£15.09A detailed and moving account of the indignities and cruelties Jews have undergone at the hands of Christians and others in the West, from St John Chrysostom in the 4th century to Hitler in the 20th. Using Hitler's concentration camps as a point of... -
Tangled Diagnoses: Prenatal Testing, Women, and Risk by Ilana Lowy
RRP: £32.00£31.11Since the late nineteenth century, medicine has sought to foster the birth of healthy children by attending to the bodies of pregnant women, through what we have come to call prenatal care. Women, and not their unborn children, were the initial focus of... -
The Hardships of the English Laws in Relation to Wives by Sarah Chapone by Susan Paterson Glover
RRP: £39.99£35.06Susan Paterson Glover here presents, in modern type, a critical edition of the first printed work by an English woman writer, Sarah Chapone, on the inequity of the common law regime for married women. Glover's extended, original introduction provides an... -
Muirkirk - Then and Now David Pettigrew 9781840335637
RRP: £9.00£8.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781840335637Author David PettigrewFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Stenlake PublishingPublisher Stenlake Publishing -
Reconstructing Modernity: Space, Power and Governance in Mid-Twentieth Century British Cities by James Greenhalgh 9781526114143
RRP: £85.00£48.11Reconstructing modernity assesses the character of approaches to rebuilding British cities during the decades after the Second World War. It explores the strategies of spatial governance that sought to restructure society and looks at the cast of... -
Behind the Masks: In the footsteps of the early Greek dramatists Jill Dudley 9780995578128
RRP: £7.99£5.98Jill Dudley travels to the early Greek dramatists of fifth century B.C. Athens lived and worked. She introduces the reader to their world and brings their tragedies and comedies to life as she journeys from Athens to the Peloponnese, Thebes and... -
Adam of Bremen’s Gesta Hammaburgensis Ecclesiae Pontificum: Origins, Reception and Significance by Grzegorz Bartusik 9781032121055
RRP: £39.99£35.33Adam of Bremen's Gesta Hammaburgensis Ecclesiae Pontificum is one of the most important accounts documenting the history, geography and ethnology of Northern and Central-Eastern Europe in the period between the ninth and eleventh centuries. Its author, a... -
Barbot on Guinea: Volume II Adam Jones 9781032320946
RRP: £39.99£33.03Jean Barbot, who served as a commercial agent on French slave-trading voyages to West Africa in 1678-9 and 1681-2, in 1683 began an account of the Guinea coast, based partly on his voyage journals (only one of which is extant) and partly on previous... -
From a Borough to a City - A History of Chelmsford 1888 - 2012 by Stephen Norris 9780755216697
£25.71In 125 years Chelmsford has changed from a small county town dependent on the local agricultural economy into, firstly, a renowned centre for industry and now a rapidly expanding industrialised city. At their peak during the second war Chelmsford's big... -
Visions from San Francisco Bay by Richard Lourie 9780374517632
RRP: £20.00£12.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374517632Author Richard LourieFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plPublisher Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plWeight(grams)... -
The Great Doctrines of the Bible by William Evans 9788027343362
RRP: £12.70£8.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788027343362Author William EvansFormat PaperbackPage Count 380Imprint E-ArtnowPublisher E-ArtnowWeight(grams) 508gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 20mm -
Hellenomania Katherine Harloe 9780367593278
RRP: £45.99£40.13Hellenomania, the second volume in the MANIA series, presents a wide-ranging, multi-disciplinary exploration of the modern reception of ancient Greek material culture in cultural practices ranging from literature to architecture, stage and costume... -
Worshipping Athena: Panathenaia and Parthenon by Jenifer Neils 9780299151140
RRP: £24.95£24.48The foremost religious festival of ancient Athens-the city dedicated to Athena, goddess of war, fertility, arts, and wisdom-was the Panathenaia. Challenging old assumptions and refuting new theories, Worshipping Athena addresses the many problems of... -
The Origins of the German Principalities, 1100-1350: Essays by German Historians by Graham A. Loud
RRP: £39.99£35.06The history of medieval Germany is still rarely studied in the English-speaking world. This collection of essays by distinguished German historians examines one of most important themes of German medieval history, the development of the local... -
Eros Of The Impossible: The History Of Psychoanalysis In Russia by Alexander Etkind
RRP: £39.99£35.46This book reflects the complex fabric of history of Russian involvement in psychoanalysis. It focuses on the life and work of individuals and presents more general explorations of particular eras in the perception, development, and transformation of... -
Afterlives: Transcendentals, Universals, Others by Peter Osborne
RRP: £10.00£9.72Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781999333782Author Peter OsborneFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Radical Philosophy Archive LtdPublisher Radical Philosophy Archive LtdDimensions(mm)... -
Women in European Culture and Society: Gender, Skill and Identity from 1700 by Deborah Simonton
RRP: £37.99£33.78A new and major contribution to the field, Women in European Culture and Society is a transnational history of women in Europe from the beginning of the eighteenth century that pushes women's history beyond national studies to create an integrated view... -
The British Wars, 1637-1651 by Peter Gaunt
RRP: £35.99£31.69During the 1640s, the kingdoms ruled by Charles I - England and Wales, Scotland and Ireland - were gripped by a series of civil wars and conflicts which were, in part, distinct to each kingdom, but which also overlapped and inter-related, leading some... -
Medieval Architecture, Medieval Learning: Builders and Masters in the Age of Romanesque and Gothic by Charles M. Radding 9780300061307
£23.45The eleventh and twelfth centuries witnessed a thoroughgoing transformation of European culture, as new ways of thinking revitalized every aspect of man's endeavor, from architecture and the visual arts to history, philosophy, theology, and even law. In... -
Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy: Four Women Undercover In The Civil War by Karen Abbott 9780062092908
RRP: £19.99£12.91Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062092908Author Karen AbbottFormat PaperbackPage Count 544Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 395g -
Studies in Fifth Century Thought and Literature by Adam Parry 9780521124805
RRP: £30.99£21.89This volume covers a wide range of topics in Athenian intellectual history, drawing on the methods of various other disciplines to provoke a reconsideration of outstanding problems and controversies in classical studies. The papers have been organised by... -
The Myth of Rescue: Why the Democracies Could Not Have Saved More Jews from the Nazis by W. D. Rubinstein 9780415212496
RRP: £37.99£33.38It has long been argued that the Allies did little or nothing to rescue Europe's Jews. Arguing that this has been consistently misinterpreted, The Myth of Rescue states that few Jews who perished could have been saved by any action of the Allies. In his... -
Artists' Wives (Esprios Classics) by Alphonse Daudet 9781715587598
RRP: £21.12£15.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781715587598Author Alphonse DaudetFormat PaperbackPage Count 142Imprint BlurbPublisher BlurbWeight(grams) 218gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 8mm