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A History of Histories: Epics, Chronicles, Romances and Inquiries from Herodotus and Thucydides to the Twentieth Century by John Burrow
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.95This 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... -
Migrants: The Story of Us All by Sam Miller 9780349144443
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.82Migrants cuts through the toxic debates to tell the rich and collective stories of humankind's urge to move'Fascinating... Miller's perspective may be just what we need' Daily Telegraph'Enjoyable, provocative and timely' Spectator'Timely and empathetic:... -
King Arthur: Man or Myth? by Tony Sullivan 9781526763679
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £14.58The book is an investigation of the evidence for King Arthur based on the earliest written sources rather than later myths and legends. The evidence is laid out in a chronological order starting from Roman Britain and shows how the legend evolved and at... -
The Pursuit of History: Aims, Methods and New Directions in the Study of History by John Tosh
RRP: £35.99Booksplease Price: £31.50Well-written and engaging, this book deals with complex and wide-ranging material in a clear and accessible way and is up-to-date with current historiographical trends, such as digital history which students need to know about. It also includes a... -
Connecting History: Higher USA, 1918-1968 Alec Jessop 9781398345379
Booksplease Price: £23.21Exam 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... -
The Houses of History: A Critical Reader in History and Theory, by Anna Green 9780719096211
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £19.25The houses of history is a clear, jargon-free introduction to the major theoretical approaches employed by historians. This innovative critical reader provides accessible introductions to fourteen schools of thought, from the empiricist to the... -
Voice of the Past: Oral History by Paul Thompson 9780192893178
RRP: £32.49Booksplease Price: £26.85In this revised edition of Paul Thompson's successful book, he traces oral history through its own past and weighs up the recent achievements of this international movement. He challenges myths of historical scholarship and looks at the use of oral... -
Forgotten Voices of The Holocaust: A new history in the words of the men and women who survived by Lyn Smith
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.95Following 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 Emotions by Rob Boddice 9781526171177
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £13.16This book introduces students and professional historians to the main areas of concern in the history of emotions and its intersection with emotion research in other disciplines. It discusses how the emotions intersect with other lines of historical... -
Herodotus: A Very Short Introduction by Jennifer Tolbert Roberts
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.33Herodotus has come to be respected by most scholars as a responsible and important historian. Herodotus was both a critical thinker and a lively storyteller, a traveller who was both tourist and anthropologist. Like Homer, he set out to memorialize great... -
Interpreting Early Modern Europe C. Scott Dixon 9781138799011
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £34.82Interpreting 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,... -
The Historian'S Craft by Marc Bloch 9780719032929
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £9.81This 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... -
What is History Now? by Mr David Cannadine 9780333986462
RRP: £89.99Booksplease Price: £88.73E. H. Carr's What is History? was originally published by Macmillan in 1961. Since then it has sold hundreds of thousands of copies throughout the world. In this book, ten internationally renowned scholars, writing from a range of historical vantage... -
Researching and Writing History: A Guide for Local Historians David Dymond 9781859362303
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.31Interest in local history just continues to grow. For the professional and amateur alike, in the context of the local experience the past becomes real and immediate, as the stories of individuals, families and communities emerge from our research. And... -
Black Athena: The Afroasiatic Roots of Classical Civilization Volume One:The Fabrication of Ancient Greece 1785-1985 by Martin Bernal
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.95Classical civilisation, Martin Bernal argues, has deep roots in Afro-Asiatic cultures. But these Afro-Asiatic influences have been systematically ignored, denied, or suppressed since the eighteenth century - chiefly for racist reasons. The popular view... -
Knowing What We Know: The Transmission of Knowledge: From Ancient Wisdom to Modern Magic by Simon Winchester
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £16.86'A delightful compendium of the kind of facts you immediately want to share with anyone you encounter' New York Times 'An ebullient, irrepressible spirit invests this book. It is erudite and... -
Proving History: Bayes's Theorem and the Quest for the Historical Jesus by Richard C. Carrier 9781616145590
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £15.44This in-depth discussion of New Testament scholarship and the challenges of history as a whole proposes Bayes's Theorem, which deals with probabilities under conditions of uncertainty, as a solution to the problem of establishing reliable historical... -
Knowing What We Know: The Transmission of Knowledge: From Ancient Wisdom to Modern Magic by Simon Winchester 9780008484422
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.47‘A delightful compendium of the kind of facts you immediately want to share with anyone you encounter’ New York Times ‘An ebullient, irrepressible spirit invests this book. It is erudite and sprightly’Sunday Times From the creation of the first... -
Bobby Sands: Nothing But an Unfinished Song Denis O'Hearn 9780745336336
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £12.75This is the best-selling biography of the IRA resistance fighter and hunger-striker, Bobby Sands. In this updated, new edition, Denis O'Hearn draws from a wealth of interviews with friends, comrades, fellow prisoners and prison wardens, to provide a... -
We Are At War: The Diaries of Five Ordinary People in Extraordinary Times by Simon Garfield
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £14.28Of all the accounts written about the Second World War, none are more compelling than the personal diaries of those who lived through it. We Are At War is the story of five everyday folk, who, living on the brink of chaos, recorded privately on paper... -
Doing Oral History: A Practical Guide by Donald A. Ritchie 9780199329335
RRP: £34.99Booksplease Price: £28.59Doing Oral History: A Practical Guide is considered the premier guidebook to oral history, used by professional oral historians, public historians, archivists, and genealogists as a core text in college courses and throughout the public history community... -
Libraries and Archives in the Digital Age by Susan L. Mizruchi 9783030333720
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £20.23The role of archives and libraries in our digital age is one of the most pressing concerns of humanists, scholars, and citizens worldwide. This collection brings together specialists from academia, public libraries, governmental agencies, and non-profit... -
Pattern Under the Plough: Aspects of the Folk Life of East Anglia by George Ewart Evans 9781908213099
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £10.96In 1948, shortly after settling with his family in the village of Blaxhall, Suffolk, George Ewart Evans started recording the conversations he had with neighbours, many of whom were born in the nineteenth century and had worked on farms before the... -
Connecting History: Higher Russia, 1881-1921 Euan M. Duncan 9781398345362
Booksplease Price: £23.21Exam 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 Second World War: A New History of the Second World War in the Words of the Men and Women Who Were There by Max Arthur
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.95The Imperial War Museum holds a vast archive of interviews with soldiers, sailors, airmen and civilians of most nationalities who saw action during WW2. As in the highly-acclaimed Forgotten Voices of the Great War, Max Arthur and his team of researchers... -
Hidden History of the Korean War: New Edition by I F Stone
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £20.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781685900083Author I F StoneFormat PaperbackPage Count 408Imprint Monthly Review Press,U.S.Publisher Monthly Review Press,U.S.Weight(grams)... -
History Through Material Culture by Dr. Leonie Hannan
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £11.95History through material culture is a unique, step-by-step guide for students and researchers who wish to use objects as historical sources.Responding to the significant, scholarly interest in historical material culture studies, this book makes clear... -
The Culmination: Heidegger, German Idealism, and the Fate of Philosophy by Robert B. Pippin 9780226830001
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £26.73A provocative reassessment of Heidegger's critique of German Idealism from one of the tradition's foremost interpreters. Heidegger claimed that Western philosophy ended-failed, even-in the German Idealist tradition. In The Culmination, Robert B. Pippin... -
Time's Monster: History, Conscience and Britain's Empire by Priya Satia
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.99CHOSEN 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... -
A Study of History: Volume II: Abridgement of Volumes VII-X by Arnold Joseph Toynbee
RRP: £23.49Booksplease Price: £17.77Acknowledged as one of the greatest achievements of modern scholarship, Arnold Toynbee's A Study of History is a ten-volume analysis of the rise and fall of human civilizations. Contained in two volumes, D.C. Somervell's abridgement of this magnificent... -
Cultures of Law in Urban Northern Europe: Scotland and its Neighbours c.1350–c.1650 by Jackson W. Armstrong
RRP: £37.99Booksplease Price: £32.87Drawing together an international team of historians, lawyers and historical sociolinguists, this volume investigates urban cultures of law in Scotland, with a special focus on Aberdeen and its rich civic archive, the Low Countries, Norway, Germany and... -
You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History by Howard Zinn
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £11.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807043844Author Howard ZinnFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon Press -
The Allure of the Archives by Arlette Farge
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £16.49An exquisite appreciation of the distinctive rewards of historical research and a classic guide to the personal yet disciplined craft of discovery, now in its first English translation. Arlette Farge's Le Gout de l'archive is widely regarded as a... -
Voices of the Nakba: A Living History of Palestine Diana Allan 9780745342917
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £15.17***Winner of an English PEN Award 2021*** During the 1948 war more than 750,000 Palestinian Arabs fled or were violently expelled from their homes by Zionist militias. The legacy of the Nakba - which translates to 'disaster' or 'catastrophe' - lays... -
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon 9780140433951
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £16.42Edward Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire compresses thirteen turbulent centuries into an epic narrative shot through with insight, irony and incisive character analysis. Sceptical about Christianity, sympathetic to the barbarian invaders and... -
The Thirty-Year Genocide: Turkey's Destruction of Its Christian Minorities, 1894-1924 by Benny Morris 9780674251434
RRP: £17.95Booksplease Price: £14.90A Financial Times Book of the YearA Foreign Affairs Book of the YearA Spectator Book of the Year"A landmark contribution to the study of these epochal events."-Times Literary Supplement"Brilliantly researched and written...casts a careful eye upon the... -
Decoding the Past: The Psychohistorical Approach Peter Loewenberg 9781560008460
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £40.13In Decoding the Past, Peter Loewenberg has collected eleven of his brilliant essays on psychohistory, a discipline that has emerged from the synthesis of traditional historical analysis and clinical psychoanalysis. He surveys this relatively new... -
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon 9780140433944
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £15.92Edward 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... -
Drawing on Archaeology: Bringing History to Life by Victor Ambrus
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.04How does excavation enable the archaeologist to reconstruct the past? Victor Ambrus, who has been the Channel 4 Time Team artist since the programme's inception in 1994, has selected some of the key excavations from the many series to show how it has... -
Reappraisals: Reflections on the Forgotten Twentieth Century by Tony Judt 9780099532330
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.28In Reappraisals award-winning historian Tony Judt argues that we have entered an 'age of forgetting', where we have set aside our immediate past before we could even begin to make sense of it. We have lost touch with generations of international policy...