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Birmingham: A History in Maps by Paul Leslie Line 9780752460895
RRP: $32.25$23.92From the exceptional town plans and maps contained within this unique volume emerges a social picture of Birmingham; a town quickly developing in size and population in the eighteenth century; along with the changes brought about by urbanisation. Land... -
The Boundless Sea: A Human History of the Oceans by David Abulafia
RRP: $24.50$18.07WINNER OF THE WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZE 2020A SUNDAY TIMES, FINANCIAL TIMES, THE TIMES AND BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE BOOK OF THE YEARFor most of human history, the seas and oceans have been the main means of long-distance trade and communication between peoples -... -
Landscapes and Geomorphology: A Very Short Introduction by Andrew S. Goudie
RRP: $11.60$8.32What were the landscapes of the past like? What will landscapes look like in the future? Landscapes are all around us, but most of us know very little about how they have developed, what goes on in them, and how they react to changing climates,... -
Age of the City: Why our Future will be Won or Lost Together by Ian Goldin
RRP: $25.80$18.95One of the Financial Times' Best Economics Books of 2023 Visionary Oxford professor Ian Goldin and The Economist's Tom Lee-Devlin show why the city is where the battles of inequality, social division, pandemics and climate change must be faced. ... -
The Gate and the Wall: A History of China and Hong Kong by Michael Sheridan
RRP: $32.25$28.63'Impressive ... Fascinating' Sunday Times 'An authoritative history' Financial Times 'Gripping and richly researched' Rana Mitter ... -
White Mountain by Robert Twigger
RRP: $14.18$6.08Home to mythical kingdoms, wars and expeditions, and strange and magical beasts, the Himalayas have always loomed tall in our imagination. Overrun at different times by Buddhism, Taoism, shamanism, Islam and Christianity, they are a grand central station... -
The Cosmography and Geography of Africa by Leo Africanus
RRP: $19.34$14.13The first new translation in over 400 years of one of the great works of the Renaissance: an African diplomat's guide to Africa.In 1518, al-Hasan ibn Muhammad al-Wazzan, a Moroccan diplomat, was seized by pirates while travelling in the Mediterranean... -
The Loom of Time: Between Empire and Anarchy, from the Mediterranean to China by Robert D. Kaplan 9780593242797
RRP: $32.25$21.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593242797Author Robert D. KaplanFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA Inc -
Atlas of Forgotten Places: Journey to Abandoned Destinations from Around the Globe by Travis Elborough
RRP: $25.80$17.74Explore the places that time forgot. Abandoned, mysterious, sleeping monuments around the world have been relegated to the margins of history, pushed off the map and out of sight. From ancient ruins and crumbling castles to more recent relics - an art... -
An Historical Map of Kingston Upon Hull by David Neave 9780993469824
RRP: $14.18$9.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993469824Author David NeaveImprint The Historic Towns TrustPublisher The Historic Towns Trust -
The Sea Chart by John Blake
RRP: $42.56$33.76To sail the oceans needed skill as well as courage and experience, and the sea chart with, where appropriate, the coastal view, was the tool by which ships of trade, transport or conquest navigated their course. This book looks at the history and... -
The Historical Atlas of the Celtic World by John Haywood 9780500288313
RRP: $25.79$17.74In a series of 54 stunning full-colour maps covering 3,000 years and spanning the whole of Europe, this book, newly available in paperback, comprehensively charts the dramatic history of the Celts from their origins in the Bronze Age to their present-day... -
American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America by Colin Woodard
RRP: $23.22$14.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143122029Author Colin WoodardFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 306gDimensions(mm) 210mm * 138mm... -
Sea Monsters on Medieval by Chet van Duzer 9780712357715
RRP: $19.34$13.16The sea monsters on medieval and Renaissance maps, whether swimming vigorously, gambolling amid the waves, attacking ships, or simply displaying themselves for our appreciation, are one of the most visually engaging elements on these maps, and yet they... -
Terra Forma: A Book of Speculative Maps by Frederique Ait-Touati
RRP: $34.83$23.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262046695Author Frederique Ait-TouatiFormat HardbackPage Count 200Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd -
Lotharingia: A Personal History of France, Germany and the Countries In-Between by Simon Winder
RRP: $16.76$11.95A Sunday Times History Book of the YearShortlisted for The Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year Award'No Briton has written better than Winder about Europe' - Sunday TimesIn AD 843, the three surviving grandsons of the great Emperor Charlemagne met at... -
Folklore of Lincolnshire by Susanna O'Neill 9780752459646
RRP: $19.34$14.90The county of Lincolnshire is a beautiful mixture of low-lying marshy fen land, modest hills and the steep valleys of the rolling Wolds; it is also home to a wealth of folklore, legend and intrigue.With one of the most interesting dialects in the... -
How to Be: Life Lessons from the Early Greeks by Adam Nicolson
RRP: $32.25$15.83A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR What is the nature of things? Must I think my own way through the world? What is justice? How can I be me? How should we treat each other? Before the... -
Hooghly: The Global History of a River by Robert Ivermee 9781911723349
RRP: $21.92$19.75The Hooghly, a distributary of the Ganges flowing south to the Bay of Bengal, is now little known outside of India. Yet for centuries it was a river of truly global significance, attracting merchants, missionaries, mercenaries, statesmen, labourers and... -
Finding Endurance: Shackleton, My Father and a World Without End by Darrel Bristow-Bovey
RRP: $24.50$16.55'Engaging, absorbing and crammed with marvellous stories, Finding Endurance is a tale about exploring the cold, told with much warmth.' MICK HERRON'Beautiful, thrilling, heroic and kind, a ripping yarn' CLAIRE ROBERTSON, AUTHOR OF THE SPIRAL... -
Atlas of the Irish Revolution by John Crowley 9781782051176
$74.36The Atlas of the Irish Revolution is a landmark publication that presents scholarship on the revolutionary period in a uniquely accessible manner. Featuring over 200 original maps and 300 images, the Atlas includes 120 contributions by leading scholars... -
Mapping the Heavens by Peter Whitfield 9780712352659
RRP: $19.34$13.93Throughout history people have sought ways in which to map the heavens. From the sources of mathematics and mythology sprang the classic star chart, the finest examples of which are both scientific documents and works of art. In this beautifully... -
In the Shadow of Vesuvius: A Life of Pliny by Daisy Dunn
RRP: $12.89$8.57'Never less than compelling ... She consistently succeeds in bringing what might otherwise seem dusty and remote to vivid life' Tom Holland, Literary Review 'Starts with an erupting volcano - and then... -
Paths to the Past: Encounters with Britain's Hidden Landscapes by Francis Pryor
RRP: $14.18$10.02Discover the hidden corners and forgotten crevices of Britain's landscapes, from lost rural treasures to unseen urban gems.Landscapes reflect and shape our behaviour. They make us who we are and bear witness to the shifting patterns of human life over... -
Cities in Modernity: Representations and Productions of Metropolitan Space, 1840-1930 by Richard Dennis 9780521468411
RRP: $49.01$40.91What made cities 'modern' in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries? Cities in Modernity explores connections between culture, economy and built environment in cities of this period, drawing its evidence principally from London, New York and... -
Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World by Malcolm Harris
RRP: $38.70$26.32The true, unvarnished history of the town at the heart of Silicon Valley.Palo Alto is nice. The weather is temperate, the people are educated, rich, healthy, enterprising. Remnants of a hippie counterculture have synthesized with high technology and big... -
Glasgow: Mapping the City by John Moore
RRP: $38.70$27.48Maps can tell much about a place that traditional histories fail to communicate. This lavishly illustrated book features 70 maps which have been selected for the particular stories they reveal about different political, commercial and social aspects of... -
Empires of the Indus: 10th Anniversary Edition by Alice Albinia
RRP: $16.76$11.7310th anniversary edition with new PrefaceOne of the largest rivers in the world, the Indus rises in the Tibetan mountains, flows west across northern India and south through Pakistan. For millennia it has been worshipped as a god; for centuries used as a... -
Oxford: Mapping the City by Daniel MacCannell
RRP: $38.70$27.48Over the past four and a half centuries, the magnificent city of Oxford has been mapped for many reasons, few of which have involved the mere finding of one's way through the streets. Maps were produced as part of schemes to defend Oxford from rampaging... -
Making a New Land: Enviromental Histories of New Zealand by Eric Pawson 9781877578526
RRP: $45.09$21.67Making a New Land presents an interdisciplinary perspective on one of the most rapid and extensive transformations in human history: that which followed Maori and then European colonization of New Zealand's temperate islands. This is a new edition of... -
A New History of Ireland Volume VII: Ireland, 1921-84 by J.R. Hill 9780199592821
$74.64A New History of Ireland is the largest scholarly project in modern Irish history. In 9 volumes, it provides a comprehensive new synthesis of modern scholarship on every aspect of Irish history and prehistory, from the earliest geological and... -
A History of Water: Being an Account of a Murder, an Epic and Two Visions of Global History by Edward Wilson-Lee
RRP: $32.25$21.71A Times History Book of the Year 2022 A TLS Book of the Year 2022 'Exhilarating and whip-smart' THE SUNDAY TIMES From award-winning writer Edward Wilson-Lee, this is a thrilling true historical detective... -
Time Song: Searching for Doggerland by Julia Blackburn
RRP: $19.34$14.64SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE AND THE HESSELL-TILTMAN PRIZE A journey told through stories and songs into Doggerland, the ancient region that once joined the east coast of England to HollandTime Song tells of the creation, the existence and the... -
The Book of English Place Names: How Our Towns and Villages Got Their Names by Caroline Taggart
RRP: $19.34$14.13Take a journey down winding lanes and Roman roads in this witty and informative guide to the meanings behind the names of England's towns and villages. From Celtic farmers to Norman conquerors, right up to the Industrial Revolution, deciphering our place... -
The Oxford Handbook of Archaeology by Barry Cunliffe
$53.01Archaeology is a vast subject - it is the study of human society everywhere in the world, from distant human origins 3-4 million years ago up to the present day. The Oxford Handbook of Archaeology brings together 35 authors - all specialists in their own... -
The Book of Unconformities: Speculations on Lost Time by Hugh Raffles
RRP: $28.37$18.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781891241734Author Hugh RafflesFormat PaperbackPage Count 392Imprint Verse Chorus Press,U.S.Publisher Puncture Publications -
Rivers of Power: How a Natural Force Raised Kingdoms, Destroyed Civilizations, and Shapes Our World by Laurence C. Smith
RRP: $16.76$11.73'As fascinating as it is beautifully written' JARED DIAMOND, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Guns, Germs and SteelRivers, more than any road, technology or political event, have shaped the course of civilization. Rivers have opened frontiers, defined... -
The Napoleonic Mediterranean: Enlightenment, Revolution and Empire by Michael Broers
$71.30The Mediterranean was one of Napoleon's greatest spheres of influence. With territory in Spain, Italy and, of course, France, Napoleon's regime dominated the Great Sea for much of the early nineteenth century. The 'Napoleonic Mediterranean' was composed... -
Unruly Waters: How Mountain Rivers and Monsoons Have Shaped South Asia's History by Sunil Amrith
RRP: $14.18$10.02'An enthralling, elegantly written and, ultimately, profoundly alarming history' EconomistA bold new perspective on the history of South Asia, telling its story through its climate, and the long quest to tame its watersSouth Asia's history has been... -
A Very Dangerous Locality: The Landscape of the Suffolk Sandlings in the Second World War by Robert Liddiard
RRP: $25.80$23.53This book examines the landscape archaeology of the Second World War on the section of the east coast of England known as the Suffolk Sandlings (the coastal strip from Lowestoft to Felixstowe), an area unusually rich in military archaeology. It was in...