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Orientalism by Edward W. Said
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.72The seminal work that has redefined our understanding of colonialism and empire, with a preface by the author'Stimulating, elegant and pugnacious' Observer'Magisterial' Terry EagletonIn this highly-acclaimed work, Edward Said surveys the history and... -
History as Mystery by Michael Parenti 9780872863576
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £15.41In a lively challenge to mainstream history, Michael Parenti does battle with a number of mass-marketed historical myths. He shows how history's victors distort and suppress the documentary record in order to perpetuate their power and privilege. And he... -
A Northern Wind: Britain 1962-65 by David Kynaston 9781526657565
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.81The early sixties in Britain told as only David Kynaston ('the most entertaining historian alive' Spectator) can. Running from 1962 to 1965, A Northern Wind is the anticipated new volume in the landmark 'Tales of a New Jerusalem' series. 'From Daleks... -
What is History? by E. H. Carr
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.06'Not only our most distinguished historian but also one of the most valuable contributors to historical theory' SpectatorIn answering the question, 'what is history?', E. H. Carr's acclaimed and influential bestseller shows that the facts of history are... -
Millennium: The End of the World and the Forging of Christendom by Tom Holland
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £7.85Of all the civilisations existing in the year 1000, that of Western Europe seemed the unlikeliest candidate for future greatness. Compared to the glittering empires of Byzantium or Islam, the splintered kingdoms on the edge of the Atlantic appeared... -
The Mighty Dead: Why Homer Matters by Adam Nicolson
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £6.58Longlisted for the 2014 Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction (now the Bailie Gifford) 'A thrilling and complex book, enlarges our view of Homer ... There's something that hits the mark on every page'... -
Lost Realms: Histories of Britain from the Romans to the Vikings by Thomas Williams
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.68'A beautiful, beautiful book . . . archaeology is changing so much about the way we view the so-called Dark Ages ... [Williams] is just brilliant at bringing them to light' Rory Stewart on The Rest is Politics From the bestselling author of... -
The Histories by Herodotus
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.08'The first example of non-fiction, the text that underlies the entire discipline of history ... it is above all a treasure trove' Tom HollandOne of the masterpieces of classical literature, The Histories describes how a small and quarrelsome band of... -
How to be a Tudor: A Dawn-to-Dusk Guide to Everyday Life by Ruth Goodman
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.08TRAVEL BACK IN TIME WITH THE BBC'S RUTH GOODMANWe know all about the dramas that played out in the Tudor court - most notably those of Henry VIII - but what was life really like for a commoner like you or me?To answer this question, the renowned "method... -
The Road: A Story of Romans and Ways to the Past by Christopher Hadley 9780008356729
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.04A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 'An absolute joy to read and an early contender for every list of History Books of the Year' Sunday Telegraph 'On nearly every page a random... -
The Histories by Herodotus 9780140455397
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.38Tom Holland's 'stirring new translation' (Telegraph) of Herodotus' Histories, one of the great books in Western history - now in paperbackThe Histories of Herodotus, completed in the second half of the 5th century BC, is generally regarded as the first... -
Great Maps: The World's Masterpieces Explored and Explained by Jerry Brotton
RRP: £27.00Booksplease Price: £21.46A superbly illustrated guide to 64 maps from all around the world! From examples of medieval Mappa Mundi and the first atlas to Google Earth and maps of the moon, this captivating maps book is a must-have for all history and geography enthusiasts and... -
The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy by Jacob Burckhardt 9780140445343
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.08For nineteenth-century Swiss historian Jacob Burckhardt, the Italian Renaissance was nothing less than the beginning of the modern world - a world in which flourishing individualism and the competition for fame radically transformed science, the arts,... -
Collaborative Historical Research in the Age of Big Data: Lessons from an Interdisciplinary Project by Ruth Ahnert 9781009175555
RRP: £17.00Booksplease Price: £15.48Living with Machines is the largest digital humanities project ever funded in the UK. The project brought together a team of twenty-three researchers to leverage more than twenty-years' worth of digitisation projects in order to deepen our understanding... -
The Last Earth: A Palestinian Story Ramzy Baroud 9780745337999
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £17.18Spanning decades and encompassing war, mass exodus, epic migrations and the search for individual and collective identity, The Last Earth tells the story of modern Palestine through the memories of those who have lived it. Ordinary Palestinians have... -
Fake Heroes: Ten False Icons and How they Altered the Course of History by Otto English
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.73From the author of Fake History, Otto English, comes a shocking yet hilarious look at ten of the greatest liars from our past, examining these previously unquestioned idols and exposing what they were trying to hide.'A brilliant book.' James O'BrienWas... -
Provincializing Europe: Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference - New Edition by Dipesh Chakrabarty
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £25.85First published in 2000, Dipesh Chakrabarty's influential Provincializing Europe addresses the mythical figure of Europe that is often taken to be the original site of modernity in many histories of capitalist transition in non-Western countries. This... -
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by David Womersley
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.38Spanning thirteen centuries from the age of Trajan to the taking of Constantinople by the Turks, DECLINE & FALL is one of the greatest narratives in European Literature. David Womersley's masterly selection and bridging commentary enables the readerto... -
Sources in the History of Psychiatry, from 1800 to the Present by Chris Millard
RRP: £36.99Booksplease Price: £32.53This book offers a general introduction to historical sources in the history of psychiatry, delving into the range of sources that can be used to investigate this dynamic and exciting field.The chapters in this volume deal with physical sources that... -
The Northern Question: A History of a Divided Country by Thomas Hazeldine 9781786634092
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £10.72Britain has scarcely begun to come to terms with its recent upheavals, from the crisis over Brexit to the collapse of Labour's 'red wall'. What can explain such momentous shifts?In this essential work, Tom Hazeldine excavates the history of a divided... -
Imagining Ireland's Pasts: Early Modern Ireland through the Centuries by Prof Nicholas Canny 9780198911425
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £28.00Imagining Ireland's Pasts describes how various authors addressed the history of early modern Ireland over four centuries and explains why they could not settle on an agreed narrative. It shows how conflicting interpretations broke frequently along... -
The English and their History: Updated with two new chapters by Robert Tombs 9781802064230
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.64The acclaimed account of the English people, now updated with two new chapters'Masterful, an enormously readable narrative of the English people from the Anglo-Saxons to the present' Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times, Books of the YearIn The English and... -
The Most Influential Women of Our Time Chiara Pasqualetti Johnson 9788854413061
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £18.78Meet 50 women, from queens and politicians to explorers and sports figures, who changed the world. These 50 women pursued their ambitions and achieved their dreams - even when the world tried to tell them they shouldn't. They enjoyed successes and... -
The End of History and the Last Man by Francis Fukuyama
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.58A LANDMARK WORK OF POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY. A GLOBAL BESTSELLER. STILL AS RELEVANT TODAY. With the fall of Berlin Wall in 1989 the threat of the Cold War which had dominated the second half of the twentieth century vanished. And with it the West looked to... -
A Force Like No Other: The Real Stories of the Ruc Men and Women Who Policed the Troubles by Colin Breen 9780856409721
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £9.13In 1983, Interpol named Northern Ireland the most dangerous place in the world to be a police officer. In 1968, the RUC was catapulted into the Troubles. Bombs, death threats and murder became a regular part of the day job. Working right at the heart... -
A Study of History: Volume I: Abridgement of Volumes I-VI by Arnold Joseph Toynbee
RRP: £23.49Booksplease Price: £18.96Arnold Toynbee's analysis of the rise and fall of civilizations has been acknowledged as one of the great achievements of twentieth-century scholarship. D.C. Somervell's abridgement of this monumental work is a great achievement in its own right. While... -
The Maths That Made Us: how numbers created civilisation Michael Brooks 9781913348984
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.25Quadratic equations, Pythagoras' theorem, imaginary numbers, and pi - you may remember studying these at school, but did anyone ever explain why? Never fear - bestselling science writer, and your new favourite maths teacher, Michael Brooks is here to... -
Studying History by Donald M. MacRaild
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £24.31This best-selling guide will help you get to grips with the larger themes and issues behind historical study, while also showing you how to formulate your own ideas in a clear, analytical style. Fully updated throughout, further advice on using web-based... -
Lost Realms: A History of Britain from the Romans to the Vikings by Thomas Williams
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £16.83'A beautiful, beautiful book . . . archaeology is changing so much about the way we view the so-called Dark Ages ... [Williams] is just brilliant at bringing them to light' Rory Stewart on The Rest is Politics From the bestselling author of... -
Writing History: Theory and Practice Prof. Stefan Berger (Professor of Modern German and Comparative European History, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany) 9781474255882
Booksplease Price: £27.69The third edition of Writing History provides students and teachers with a comprehensive overview of how the study of history is informed by a broader intellectual and analytical framework, exploring the emergence and development of history as a... -
History: A Very Short Introduction by John Arnold
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.35There are many stories we can tell about the past, and we are not, perhaps, as free as we might imagine in our choice of which stories to tell, or where those stories end. John Arnold's Very Short Introduction is a stimulating essay about how we study... -
The Road: A Story of Romans and Ways to the Past by Christopher Hadley
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.11A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 'An absolute joy to read and an early contender for every list of History Books of the Year' Sunday Telegraph 'On nearly every page a random... -
In Defence Of History by Richard J. Evans 9781783784592
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.02'Should be read by anyone who cares about the past and the way we think and write about it' Independent on Sunday At a time when fact and historical truth are under unprecedented assault, historian Richard Evans shows us why history is necessary... -
A Concise History of History: Global Historiography from Antiquity to the Present by Daniel Woolf
RRP: £25.99Booksplease Price: £23.64This short history of history is an ideal introduction for those studying or teaching the subject as part of courses on the historian's craft, historical theory and method, and historiography. Spanning the earliest known forms of historical writing in... -
Black Athena: The Afroasiatic Roots of Classical Civilation Volume III: The Linguistic Evidence by Martin Bernal 9781978804296
RRP: £43.00Booksplease Price: £38.50Winner of the 1990 American Book Award What is classical about Classical civilization? In one of the most audacious works of scholarship ever written, Martin Bernal challenges the foundation of our thinking about this question. Classical civilization, he... -
Hollow Places: An Unusual History of Land and Legend by Christopher Hadley 9780008319526
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.45'Impossible to summarise and delightfully absorbing, Hadley's book is comfortably the most unexpected history book of the year' Sunday Times A luminous journey through a thousand years of folklore and... -
Rethinking History by Keith Jenkins
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.59History means many things to many people. But finding an answer to the question 'What is history?' is a task few feel equipped to answer. If you want to explore this tantalising subject, where do you start? What are the critical skills you need to begin... -
Future Stories: A user's guide to the future by David Christian
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.04'David Christian's approach to understanding history can help all of us learn to prepare for the future' - Bill GatesA user's guide to the future: from the algorithms in DNA to why time is like a cocktail glass, interstellar migrations, transhumanism,... -
A Northern Wind: Britain 1962-65 by David Kynaston 9781526657572
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £22.73A WATERSTONES, TIMES, TELEGRAPH, NEW STATESMAN, SPECTATOR AND BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE BOOK OF THE YEAR The early sixties in Britain told as only David Kynaston ('the most entertaining historian alive' Spectator) can. Running from 1962 to 1965, A Northern... -
Silencing The Past (20th Anniversary Edition) by Michel-Rolph Trouillot
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.04Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807080535Author Michel-Rolph TrouillotFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 266gDimensions(mm) 205mm *...