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Connecting History: Higher Britain, 1851-1951 by Euan M. Duncan
RRP: $37.03$36.39Exam board: SQALevel: HigherSubject: HistoryFirst teaching: September 2018First exam: Summer 2019Fresh stories, fresh scholarship and a fresh structure. Connecting History informs and empowers tomorrow's citizens, today.Bringing together lesser-told... -
Personality and Power: Builders and Destroyers of Modern Europe by Ian Kershaw 9780141998237
RRP: $29.23$21.35One of the great historians of our age asks: how far can a single leader alter the course of history?The modern era saw the emergence of individuals who had command over a terrifying array of instruments of control, persuasion and death. Whole societies... -
The History of Emotions: A Very Short Introduction by Thomas Dixon
RRP: $17.53$12.97Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Emotions are complex mental states that resist reduction. They are visceral reactions but also beliefs about the world. They are spontaneous outbursts but also culturally learned performances... -
A Force Like No Other: The Final Shift by Colin Breen
RRP: $19.48$16.38In this final part to his bestselling A Force Like No Other series, Colin Breen brings together more compelling insider stories from RUC officers who served during the Troubles. 'A most powerful and unique insight into the world's most dangerous job... -
Hitler, the Germans, and the Final Solution by Ian Kershaw 9780300151275 [USED COPY]
$33.35A deeply insightful social history of Hitler's rise to power and the attitudes of the German people during the era of the Third Reich This book is the culmination of more than three decades of meticulous historiographic research on Nazi Germany by one of... -
Hitler, the Germans, and the Final Solution Ian Kershaw 9780300151275
RRP: $33.13$28.49A deeply insightful social history of Hitler's rise to power and the attitudes of the German people during the era of the Third Reich This book is the culmination of more than three decades of meticulous historiographic research on Nazi Germany by one of... -
The Philosophy of History by G. W. F. Hegel 9780486437552
RRP: $24.36$19.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486437552Author Georg Wilhelm Friedrich HegelFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
Buddhist Historiography in China by John Kieschnick
RRP: $58.50$45.42Winner, 2023 Toshihide Numata Book Award, Numata Center for Buddhist Studies at the University of California, BerkeleySince the early days of Buddhism in China, monastics and laity alike have expressed a profound concern with the past. In voluminous... -
When Geologists Were Historians, 1665-1750 by Rhoda Rappaport
RRP: $154.05$135.82"An essential perspective for those seeking a serious introduction to early geological science and a fundamental point of departure for future research.... No other book has this scope and conceptual focus."-Kenneth L. Taylor, University of Oklahoma In... -
The Modern Historiography Reader: Western Sources by Dr Adam Budd
RRP: $93.58$83.48In The Modern Historiography Reader, Adam Budd guides readers through European and North American developments in history-writing since the eighteenth century. Starting with Enlightenment history and moving through subjects such as moral history,... -
Connecting History: National 4 & 5 Hitler and Nazi Germany, 1919-1939 Ella Richardson 9781398345423
$41.26Exam board: SQALevel: National 4 & 5Subject: HistoryFirst teaching: September 2017First assessment: Summer 2018Fresh stories, fresh scholarship and a fresh structure. Connecting History informs and empowers tomorrow's citizens, today.Bringing together... -
The Interpretation of Cultures by Clifford Geertz 9780465093557
$43.86In The Interpretation of Cultures, the most original anthropologist of his generation moved far beyond the traditional confines of his discipline to develop an important new concept of culture. This groundbreaking book, winner of the 1974 Sorokin Award... -
A Force Like No Other: The Next Shift: More Real Stories from the Ruc Men and Women Who Policed the Troubles by Colin Breen
RRP: $19.48$16.38In this follow-up to his bestselling A Force Like No Other, Colin Breen brings together more compelling insider stories from RUC officers who served during the Troubles. Includes stories about the IRA border campaign (1958-62), the Shankill Butchers... -
One Hundred Letters From Hugh Trevor-Roper by Richard Davenport-Hines 9780198703112
RRP: $56.53$41.34The one hundred letters brought together for this book illustrate the range of Hugh Trevor-Roper's life and preoccupations: as an historian, a controversialist, a public intellectual, an adept in academic intrigues, a lover of literature, a traveller, a... -
Historical Dynamics: Why States Rise and Fall by Peter Turchin
RRP: $62.40$49.06Many historical processes are dynamic. Populations grow and decline. Empires expand and collapse. Religions spread and wither. Natural scientists have made great strides in understanding dynamical processes in the physical and biological worlds using a... -
Time's Monster: History, Conscience and Britain's Empire by Priya Satia
RRP: $21.43$15.58CHOSEN AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR BY NEW STATESMAN AND BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE'In this searing book, Priya Satia demonstrates, yet again, that she is one of our most brilliant and original historians' Sunil Amrith, author of Unruly WatersFor generations, the... -
Connecting History: Higher Migration and Empire, 1830-1939 Euan M. Duncan 9781398345355
$43.43Exam board: SQALevel: HigherSubject: HistoryFirst teaching: September 2018First exam: Summer 2019Fresh stories, fresh scholarship and a fresh structure. Connecting History informs and empowers tomorrow's citizens, today.Bringing together lesser-told... -
Forgotten Voices Of The Great War by Max Arthur
RRP: $31.18$22.64This unique landmark oral history uses first-hand accounts from ordinary men and women who were there. Gripping, poignant, surprising and even humorous, the personal experiences of these soldiers, civilians, marines and medics from both sides tell us... -
Life after Gravity: Isaac Newton's London Career by Patricia Fara
RRP: $61.41$42.78The story of Isaac Newton's decades in London - as ambitious cosmopolitan gentleman, President of London's Royal Society, Master of the Mint, and investor in the slave trade. Isaac Newton is celebrated throughout the world as a great scientific genius... -
Editing Early Modern Texts: An Introduction to Principles and Practice by Michael Hunter 9780230574762
RRP: $175.48$175.25This book provides an approachable exposition of the rationale of textual editing with special reference to texts from between 1550-1800. The volume explains how manuscript and printed texts were produced, indicating the implications of this for their... -
A House in the Mountains: The Women Who Liberated Italy from Fascism by Caroline Moorehead
RRP: $19.48$14.27'Moorehead paints a wonderfully vivid and moving portrait of the women of the Italian Resistance' MAX HASTINGS, SUNDAY TIMESThe extraordinary story of the courageous women who spearheaded the Italian Resistance during the Second World WarIn the late... -
Inventing the Victorians by Matthew Sweet
RRP: $21.43$14.70Suppose that everything we think we know about 'The Victorians' is wrong? That we have persistently misrepresented the culture of the Victorian era, perhaps to make ourselves feel more satisfyingly liberal and sophisticated? What if they were much more... -
The Historian'S Craft by Marc Bloch 9780719032929
RRP: $29.23$19.19This work, by the co-founder of the "Annales School" deals with the uses and methods of history. It is useful for students of history, teachers of historiography and all those interested in the writings of the Annales school.Book InformationISBN... -
Rethinking Military History by Professor Jeremy Black 9780415275347
RRP: $56.53$48.93Rethinking Military History is a bold new 'thought book' that reconsiders military history at the beginning of the twenty-first century. The chapters provide a valuable and concise survey of the main themes in the study of military history from 1500 to... -
African History: A Very Short Introduction by John Parker
RRP: $17.53$12.97Essential reading for anyone interested in the African continent and the diversity of human history, this Very Short Introduction looks at Africa's past and reflects on the changing ways it has been imagined and represented. Key themes in current... -
An Irish Folklore Treasury: A selection of old stories, ways and wisdom from The Schools' Collection by John Creedon
RRP: $46.78$34.34In this people's history of Ireland, John Creedon introduces a fascinating collection of stories from the Schools' Collection. This treasure trove of old stories, ways and wisdom, which could have been lost for ever, was collected by schoolchildren as... -
Memory Makers: The Politics of the Past in Putin's Russia by Jade McGlynn
RRP: $39.00$30.34Why aren't ordinary Russians more outraged by Putin's invasion of Ukraine? Inside the Kremlin's own historical propaganda narratives, Russia's invasion of Ukraine makes complete sense. From its World War II cult to anti-Western conspiracy theories, the... -
Blaming the Victims: Spurious Scholarship and the Palestinian Question by Edward W. Said
$41.07Since the 1948 war which drove them from their heartland, the Palestinian people have consistently been denied the most basic democratic rights. Blaming the Victims shows how the historical fate of the Palestinians has been justified by spurious academic... -
Historical Research Using British Newspapers by Denise Bates
RRP: $25.33$18.21Thanks to digitisation, newspapers from the seventeenth to the twenty-first century have become an indispensable and accessible source for researchers. Through their pages, historians with a passion for a person or a place or a time or a topic can... -
A History of Histories: Epics, Chronicles, Romances and Inquiries from Herodotus and Thucydides to the Twentieth Century by John Burrow
RRP: $29.23$21.35This unprecedented book, by one of Britain's leading intellectual historians, describes the intellectual impact that the study and consideration of the past has had in the western world over the past 2500 years, treating the practise of history not as an... -
Interpreting Early Modern Europe C. Scott Dixon 9781138799011
RRP: $77.98$69.67Interpreting Early Modern Europe is a comprehensive collection of essays on the historiography of the early modern period (circa 1450-1800).Concerned with the principles, priorities, theories, and narratives behind the writing of early modern history,... -
Personality and Power: Builders and Destroyers of Modern Europe by Ian Kershaw
RRP: $58.50$41.63One of the great historians of our age asks: how far can a single leader alter the course of history?The modern era saw the emergence of individuals who had command over a terrifying array of instruments of control, persuasion and death. Whole societies... -
The Look of the Past: Visual and Material Evidence in Historical Practice by Ludmilla Jordanova 9780521709064
RRP: $70.18$59.92How can we use visual and material culture to shed light on the past? Ludmilla Jordanova offers a fascinating and thoughtful introduction to the role of images, objects and buildings in the study of past times. Through a combination of thematic chapters... -
Dust Carolyn Steedman 9780719060151
RRP: $25.33$18.51In this witty, engaging and challenging book, Carolyn Steedman has produced a highly original and sometimes irreverent investigation into the development of modern history writing. Dust is about the practice and writing of history. Dust considers the... -
Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare ? by James Shapiro
RRP: $25.33$17.16For two hundred years after William Shakespeare's death, no one thought to argue that somebody else had written his plays. Since then dozens of rival candidates - including The Earl of Oxford, Sir Francis Bacon and Christopher Marlowe - have been... -
Forgotten Voices of The Holocaust: A new history in the words of the men and women who survived by Lyn Smith
RRP: $29.23$21.35Following the success of Forgotten Voices of the Great War, Lyn Smith visits the oral accounts preserved in the Imperial War Museum Sound Archive, to reveal the sheer complexity and horror of one of human history's darkest hours. The great majority of... -
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon
RRP: $42.90$32.41Edward Gibbon's six-volume History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (1776-88) is among the most magnificent and ambitious narratives in European literature. Its subject is the fate of one of the world's greatest civilizations over thirteen... -
Evidence, History and the Great War: Historians and the Impact of 1914-18 by Gail Braybon 9781571818010
RRP: $54.50$44.03" ...the student of the Great War and gender is well served, and Braybon's introduction provides an excellent overview of the various historiographical themes, whilst her footnotes provide a useful guide to further reading."? - History... -
Our Hidden Lives: The Remarkable Diaries of Postwar Britain by Simon Garfield
RRP: $37.03$26.54In 1936 anthropologist Tom Harrison, poet and journalist Charles Madge, and documentary filmmaker Humphrey Jennings set up the Mass Observation Project. The idea was simple: ordinary people would record, in diary form, the events of their everyday lives... -
Black Atlantic: Power, People, Resistance by Jake Subryan Richards 9781781301234
RRP: $48.75$37.40An important illustrated history of the relationship between Cambridge and the Black Atlantic. Between 1400 and 1900, European powers, not least Britain, colonised the Americas and transported over 12.5 million people from sub-Saharan Africa as...