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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... -
Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare ? by James Shapiro
RRP: $25.33$16.69For 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... -
Hugh Trevor-Roper: The Historian by Blair Worden
RRP: $42.88$40.15Hugh Trevor-Roper was one of the most gifted historians of the 20th century. His scholarly interests ranged widely - from the Puritan Revolution to the Scottish Enlightenment. Yet he was also fascinated by the events of his own lifetime and wrote widely... -
The Historian'S Craft by Marc Bloch 9780719032929 [USED COPY]
RRP: $29.23$8.01This 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... -
The Historian'S Craft by Marc Bloch 9780719032929
RRP: $29.23$18.70This 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... -
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 Scientific Revolution: An Historiographical Inquiry by H. Floris Cohen 9780226112800
RRP: $101.40$97.71In this historiographical study of the Scientific Revolution, the author examines the body of work on the intellectual, social and cultural origins of early modern science. Cohen critically surveys a wide range of scholarship since the 19th century,... -
Knowing What We Know: The Transmission of Knowledge: From Ancient Wisdom to Modern Magic by Simon Winchester 9780008484385 [USED COPY]
RRP: $48.75$14.02'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... -
Knowing What We Know: The Transmission of Knowledge: From Ancient Wisdom to Modern Magic by Simon Winchester
RRP: $48.75$32.82'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... -
Outlandish Knight: The Byzantine Life of Steven Runciman by Minoo Dinshaw
RRP: $37.03$26.54'An extraordinary book ... exceptionally fascinating, always readable and penetratingly intelligent' David Abulafia'As rich, funny and teemingly peopled as Anthony Powell's A Dance to the Music of Time ... Dinshaw writes with wit and elegance, and the... -
Blaming the Victims: Spurious Scholarship and the Palestinian Question by Edward W. Said
RRP: $40.93$40.74Since 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$17.73Thanks 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... -
Connecting History: Higher Migration and Empire, 1830-1939 by Euan M. Duncan
$42.76Exam 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... -
Another Philosophy of History and Selected Political Writings by Johann Gottfried Herder
RRP: $38.98$32.06Historians of ideas, and students of nationalism in particular, have traced the origins of much of our current vocabulary and ways of thinking about the nation back to Johann Gottfried Herder. This volume provides a clear, readable, and reliable... -
A History of Art History by Christopher Wood
RRP: $58.50$46.20An authoritative history of art history from its medieval origins to its modern predicamentsIn this wide-ranging and authoritative book, the first of its kind in English, Christopher Wood tracks the evolution of the historical study of art from the late... -
The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy by Jacob Burckhardt 9780140445343
RRP: $25.33$17.73For 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,... -
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... -
Remarkable Minds: A Celebration of the Reith Lectures by BBC Radio 4
RRP: $25.33$16.77IDEAS THAT HAVE THE POWER TO CHANGE THE WORLDThe best of an extraordinary 70 year archive, gathered in one volume for the first time. The prestigious BBC Reith Lectures have been enriching the world with new ideas since 1948. Every year, a world-leading... -
Connecting History: Higher Wars of Independence, 1249 - 1328 by Michele Sine Duck
$42.76Exam 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... -
Silencing The Past (20th Anniversary Edition) by Michel-Rolph Trouillot
$40.72Apologies 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 *... -
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... -
Of Law and the World: Critical Conversations on Power, History, and Political Economy by David Kennedy 9780674290785
RRP: $81.80$65.52A searching dialogue between two leading legal scholars exploring the place of law in global affairs.The modern world is legalized: legal language, institutions, and professionals are everywhere. But what is law's power in global life? What does all this... -
Pattern Under the Plough: Aspects of the Folk Life of East Anglia by George Ewart Evans 9781908213099
RRP: $29.25$21.37In 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... -
A Study of History: Volume I: Abridgement of Volumes I-VI by Arnold Joseph Toynbee
RRP: $45.81$32.39Arnold 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 Allure of the Archives by Arlette Farge
RRP: $33.13$31.34An 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... -
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... -
Punk Rock: An Oral History by John Robb
RRP: $42.90$31.24'To see The Clash on the White Riot tour was like discovering how to be a rock star: you just did it yourself. You didn't wait for someone to come and discover you. That was the most important thing that came out of punk... We came home and we cut our... -
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... -
African History: A Very Short Introduction by John Parker
RRP: $17.53$12.58Essential 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... -
Reading Primary Sources: The Interpretation of Texts from Nineteenth and Twentieth Century History by Miriam Dobson
RRP: $72.13$63.43Now in its second edition, Reading Primary Sources explores the varied traditions in source criticism and, through specific examples, illustrates how primary sources can be read and used in historical research.Part I of this two-part volume begins by... -
Oral History: Understanding Qualitative Research by Patricia Leavy 9780195395099
RRP: $89.68$55.34Oral History is part of the Understanding Qualitative Research series, which is designed to provide researchers with authoritative guides to understanding, presenting, and critiquing analyses and associated inferences. There are three subareas in this... -
The History of White People by Nell Irvin Painter 9780393339741
RRP: $29.23$22.50Telling perhaps the most important forgotten story in American history, eminent historian Nell Irvin Painter guides us through more than two thousand years of Western civilization, illuminating not only the invention of race but also the frequent praise... -
The Greek Way by Edith Hamilton 9780393354447
RRP: $25.33$19.54A perennial favourite, Edith Hamilton's best-selling The Greek Way captures with "Homeric power and simplicity" (The New York Times) the spirit of the golden age of Greece in the fifth century BC, the time of its highest achievements. She explores the... -
History in Financial Times by Amin Samman
RRP: $46.78$40.64Critical theorists of economy tend to understand the history of market society as a succession of distinct stages. This vision of history rests on a chronological conception of time whereby each present slips into the past so that a future might take its... -
Writing History in the Global Era by Lynn Hunt 9780393351170
RRP: $25.33$20.22George Orwell wrote that "history is written by the winners". Even if that seems a bit too cut-and-dried, we can say that history is always written from a viewpoint but that viewpoints change, sometimes radically. The history of workers, women and... -
Voice of the Past: Oral History by Paul Thompson 9780192893178 [USED COPY]
RRP: $63.36$5.25In 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... -
Voice of the Past: Oral History by Paul Thompson 9780192893178
RRP: $63.36$52.36In 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... -
Seven Myths of Military History by John D. Hosler
RRP: $38.98$32.06"This brief, provocative, and accessible book offers snapshots of seven pernicious myths in military history that have been perpetrated on unsuspecting students, readers, moviegoers, game players, and politicians. It promotes awareness of how myths are... -
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon 9780140433944
RRP: $42.90$31.24Edward 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... -
Prisoners of History: What Monuments to the Second World War Tell Us About Our History and Ourselves by Keith Lowe 9780008339586
RRP: $19.48$12.95A Spectator Book of the Year 2020 A Times and Sunday Times Best Book of 2020 A Mail on Sunday Book of the Year 2020 'Inspired ... Lowe's sensitive, disturbing book should be...