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The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon 9780140433951
RRP: £22.00£16.62Edward 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 Oxford Handbook of the History of Medicine by Mark Jackson
RRP: £37.49£36.59The Oxford Handbook of the History of Medicine celebrates the richness and variety of medical history around the world. In recent decades, the history of medicine has emerged as a rich and mature sub-discipline within history, but the strength of the... -
Researching and Writing History: A Guide for Local Historians by David Dymond
RRP: £12.99£9.09Interest 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... -
Rethinking History by Keith Jenkins
RRP: £12.99£11.94History 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... -
Time and Narrative: v. 1 by D. Pellauer
RRP: £20.00£16.98Time and Narrative builds on Paul Ricoeur's earlier analysis, in The Rule of Metaphor, of semantic innovation at the level of the sentence. Ricoeur here examines the creation of meaning at the textual level, with narrative rather than metaphor as the... -
Appian's Roman History: Empire and Civil War by Kathryn Welch 9781910589007
RRP: £75.00£72.20Appian of Alexandria lived in the early-to-mid second century AD, a time when the pax Romana flourished. His Roman History traced, through a series of ethnographic histories, the growth of Roman power throughout Italy and the Mediterranean World. But... -
The Practice of History by Geoffrey R. Elton
RRP: £31.95£28.29The new edition of G. R. Elton's classic work is a wide-ranging, succinct and practical introduction for all students and general readers of history. It makes a major contribution to the question "what is history?".About the Author G. R. Elton was... -
Style and Necessity in Thucydides by Tobias Joho 9780198812043
RRP: £117.50£106.11Ancient literary critics were struck by what they described as Thucydides' "nominal style," a term that refers to Thucydides' fondness for abstract nominal phrases. As this book shows, Thucydides frequently uses these phrases instead of approximately... -
Big History and the Future of Humanity by Fred Spier
RRP: £24.95£21.78big history and the future of humanity "This remains the best single attempt to theorize big history as a discipline that can link core concepts and paradigms across all historical disciplines, from cosmology to geology, from biology to human history... -
Hidden History of the Korean War: New Edition by I F Stone
RRP: £25.00£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)... -
Identities: Time, Difference and Boundaries by Heidrun Friese 9781571815071
RRP: £27.95£22.58"Identity" has become a core concept of the social and cultural sciences. Bringing together perspectives from sociology, anthropology, psychology, history, and literary criticism, this book offers a comprehensive and critical overview on how... -
A Study of History: Volume II: Abridgement of Volumes VII-X by Arnold Joseph Toynbee
RRP: £23.49£18.49Acknowledged 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... -
History Through Material Culture by Dr. Leonie Hannan
RRP: £12.99£9.24History 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... -
Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong by James W. Loewen 9781620973929
RRP: £12.99£9.03Since its first publication in 1995, Lies My Teacher Told Me has become one of the most important - and successful - history books of our time. Having sold over two million copies, the book also won an American Book Award and the Oliver Cromwell Cox... -
Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest: Updated Edition by Edwin Erle Sparks Professor Matthew Restall
RRP: £15.99£13.90An update of a popular work that takes on the myths of the Spanish Conquest of the Americas, featuring a new afterword. Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest reveals how the Spanish invasions in the Americas have been conceived and presented,... -
Histories of the Unexpected: The Fascinating Stories Behind Everyday Things by Dr Sam Willis 9781786494146
RRP: £10.99£7.32'History as you've never seen it before.' Dan SnowDid you know that the history of the beard is connected to the Crimean War; that the history of paperclips is all about the Stasi; and that the history of bubbles is all about the French Revolution? And... -
Decoding the Past: The Psychohistorical Approach by Peter Loewenberg
RRP: £45.99£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... -
Darkness Falling: The Strange Death of the Weimar Republic, 1930-33 by Peter Walther
RRP: £10.99£7.77'Gripping and all too timely' James Hawes 'A brilliant mix of detailed research and vivid storytelling' Julia Boyd 'History at its very best - and a fabulous translation, too' Graham Hurley In March 1930, after the collapse of the coalition that... -
The Memory of the Modern by Matt K. Matsuda 9780195093650
RRP: £74.00£54.74A multidisciplinary work, Memory of the Modern examines stock markets, tango dancers, vagabond murderers, neurology, monument destruction, and colonial policies to document how individuals and institutions shaped memory in the late nineteenth and early... -
Crisis of the House Divided: An Interpretation of the Issues in the Lincoln-Douglas Debates by Harry V. Jaffa
RRP: £23.00£19.74"Crisis of the House Divided" is the standard historiography of the Lincoln-Douglas debates. Harry V. Jaffa provides the definitive analysis of the political principles that guided Lincoln from his reentry into politics in 1854 through his Senate... -
History in Practice by Ludmilla Jordanova
RRP: £22.99£20.65Exploring the breadth and complexities of history as a field of study, History in Practice demystifies what historians actually do and the tasks they take on. This study, written by one of the most acute practitioners in the field, examines not only the... -
A Concise Companion to History by Ulinka Rublack
RRP: £31.49£22.29What is our relationship with the past? A quiet revolution has transformed the ways in which History provides us with answers. Indeed, not so long ago the very question might have seemed odd. But in recent decades the solid moorings to which History was... -
The History of Emotions by Rob Boddice
RRP: £17.99£13.16This book introduces students and professional historians to the main areas of concern in the history of emotions. It discusses how the emotions intersect with other lines of historical research relating to power, practice, society and morality... -
What is History?: With a new introduction by Richard J. Evans by Edward Hallett Carr 9780333977019 [USED COPY]
RRP: £19.99£2.34Since its first publication in 1961 E.H. Carr's What is History? has established itself as the classic introduction to the subject. Ranging across topics such as historical objectivity, society and the individual, the nature of causation, and the... -
What is History?: With a new introduction by Richard J. Evans by Edward Hallett Carr 9780333977019
RRP: £19.99£18.09Since its first publication in 1961 E.H. Carr's What is History? has established itself as the classic introduction to the subject. Ranging across topics such as historical objectivity, society and the individual, the nature of causation, and the... -
What is History Now? by Mr David Cannadine 9781403933362 [USED COPY]
RRP: £29.99£7.25E. 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... -
What is History Now? by Mr David Cannadine 9781403933362
RRP: £29.99£27.40E. 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... -
Time and Power: Visions of History in German Politics, from the Thirty Years' War to the Third Reich by Christopher Clark 9780691217321
RRP: £17.99£14.38From the bestselling author of The Sleepwalkers, a book about how the exercise of power is shaped by different concepts of timeThis groundbreaking book presents new perspectives on how the exercise of power is shaped by different notions of time... -
Thinking About History by Sarah Maza
RRP: £19.00£16.20What distinguishes history as a discipline from other fields of study? That's the animating question of Sarah Maza's Thinking About History, a general introduction to the field of history that revels in its eclecticism and highlights the inherent... -
Popularizing the Past: Historians, Publishers, and Readers in Postwar America by Nick Witham 9780226826998
RRP: £20.00£19.40Popularizing the Past tells the stories of five postwar historians who changed the way ordinary Americans thought about their nation's history. What's the matter with history? For decades, critics of the discipline have argued that the historical... -
97,196 Words: Essays by Emmanuel Carrère
RRP: £9.99£7.11Read the definitive essay collection from the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Adversary, dubbed 'France's greatest writer of non-fiction' (New York Times)'The most exciting living writer' Karl Ove KnausgaardOver the course of his career, Emmanuel... -
Drawing on Archaeology: Bringing History to Life by Victor Ambrus
RRP: £20.00£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... -
Dispatches from Dystopia: Histories of Places Not Yet Forgotten by Kate Brown
RRP: £22.00£18.56"Why are Kazakhstan and Montana the same place?" asks the opening chapter of Kate Brown's surprising and unusual journey into the histories of places on the margins, overlooked or erased. In turns out that a ruined mining town in Kazakhstan and Butte,... -
Writing the History of Memory by Stefan Berger 9780340991886
£27.40How objective are our history books? This addition to the Writing History series examines the critical role that memory plays in the writing of history. This book includes: - Essays from an international team of historians, bringing together analysis of... -
Studying History by Donald M. MacRaild
RRP: £24.99£20.27This 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... -
The Princeton Guide to Historical Research by Zachary Schrag 9780691198224
RRP: £22.00£17.76The essential handbook for doing historical research in the twenty-first centuryThe Princeton Guide to Historical Research provides students, scholars, and professionals with the skills they need to practice the historian's craft in the digital age,... -
The Landscape of History: How Historians Map the Past by John Lewis Gaddis
RRP: £13.99£9.75What is history and why should we study it? Is there such a thing as historical truth? Is history a science? One of the most accomplished historians at work today, John Lewis Gaddis, answers these and other questions in this short, witty, and humane book... -
Writing History in Renaissance Italy: Leonardo Bruni and the Uses of the Past by Gary Ianziti 9780674061521
£69.59Leonardo Bruni (1370-1444) is widely recognized as the most important humanist historian of the early Renaissance. But why this recognition came about-and what it has meant for the field of historiography-has long been a matter of confusion and... -
Historiography: An Introduction by Roger Spalding 9780719072857
RRP: £14.99£9.59Historiography can be a daunting term for those not familiar with it. This book presents the key ideas behind the term, in a clear and accessible fashion. The opening chapters introduce the reader to the practices that characterise the subject, while the... -
Approaching Pipe Rolls: The Thirteenth Century by Richard Cassidy 9781032313351
RRP: £49.99£43.50This is the first study specifically concerned with thirteenth-century pipe rolls and shows how pipe rolls were compiled, what they contain, and how to read them.These records of English government finance were produced annually. They list debts owed to...