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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... -
The Thirty-Year Genocide: Turkey's Destruction of Its Christian Minorities, 1894-1924 Benny Morris 9780674916456
£32.90A reappraisal of the giant massacres perpetrated by the Ottoman Empire, and then the Turkish Republic, against their Christian minorities.Between 1894 and 1924, three waves of violence swept across Anatolia, targeting the region's Christian minorities,... -
The Debate on the Crusades, 1099-2010 by Christopher Tyerman 9780719073212
RRP: £19.99£14.52David Hume, the eighteenth century philosopher, famously declared that 'the crusades engrossed the attention of Europe and have ever since engaged the curiosity of man kind'. This is the first book length study of how succeeding generations from the... -
Dream Spaces: Memory and the Museum by Gaynor Kavanagh 9780718502287
RRP: £90.00£89.88The dream space, writes Sheldon Annis, is the reflective experience of encountering yourself within a museum. In Memory and the Museum, Gaynor Kavanaugh argues that dream spaces are the point at which our inner and outer experiences meld. During the... -
Histories of the Unexpected: The Fascinating Stories Behind Everyday Things by Dr Sam Willis 9781786494146
RRP: £10.99£7.54'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... -
On the Origin of Evolution: Tracing 'Darwin's Dangerous Idea' from Aristotle to DNA by John Gribbin
RRP: £20.00£17.62A Waterstones Best Book of 2020 The theory of evolution by natural selection did not spring fully formed and unprecedented from the brain of Charles Darwin. Rather it has been examined and debated by philosophers the world over for thousands... -
The Northern Question: A History of a Divided Country by Thomas Hazeldine 9781786634092
£12.48Britain 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... -
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... -
Darkness Falling: The Strange Death of the Weimar Republic, 1930-33 by Peter Walther
RRP: £10.99£7.99'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 Allure of the Archives by Arlette Farge
RRP: £16.99£16.40An 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... -
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... -
The Culmination: Heidegger, German Idealism, and the Fate of Philosophy by Robert B. Pippin 9780226830001
RRP: £32.00£27.15A 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... -
Herodotus: A Very Short Introduction by Jennifer Tolbert Roberts
RRP: £8.99£6.65Herodotus 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... -
Connecting History: Higher USA, 1918-1968 Alec Jessop 9781398345379
£22.27Exam 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... -
Time and Narrative: v. 1 by D. Pellauer
RRP: £20.00£19.40Time 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... -
Connecting History: Higher The Wars of Independence, 1249-1328 Michele Sine Duck 9781398345386
£22.27Exam 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... -
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... -
Postmodernism and History by W. Thompson
£31.23In this clear, jargon-free guide, Willie Thompson provides a concise introduction to postmodernist theory and its significant impact on the study of history. Although this is a hotly-debated topic, with much of the current literature being both... -
Sabbatai Sevi: The Mystical Messiah, 1626-1676 by Gershom Gerhard Scholem 9780691172095
RRP: £35.00£28.35Gershom Scholem stands out among modern thinkers for the richness and power of his historical imagination. A work widely esteemed as his magnum opus, Sabbatai ?evi offers a vividly detailed account of the only messianic movement ever to engulf the entire... -
Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory by David W. Blight
RRP: £18.95£16.00Winner of the Bancroft PrizeWinner of the Gilder Lehrman Lincoln PrizeWinner of the Merle Curti awardWinner of the Frederick Douglass PrizeNo historical event has left as deep an imprint on America's collective memory as the Civil War. In the war's... -
The Practice of History Geoffrey R. Elton (Late of the University of Cambridge) 9780631229803
RRP: £31.95£28.51The 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... -
On the Origin of Evolution: Tracing 'Darwin's Dangerous Idea' from Aristotle to DNA by John Gribbin 9780008333409
RRP: £10.99£7.46A Waterstones Best Book of 2020 The theory of evolution by natural selection did not spring fully formed and unprecedented from the brain of Charles Darwin. Rather it has been examined and debated by philosophers the world over for thousands... -
King Arthur: Man or Myth? by Tony Sullivan 9781526763679
RRP: £19.99£14.90The 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 Greek Way by Edith Hamilton 9780393354447
RRP: £12.99£10.32A 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 Made Conscious: Politics of Knowledge, Politics of the Past by Geoff Eley 9781839768132
RRP: £22.99£19.04During the last fifty years, the writing of history underwent two massive transformations. First, powered by Marxism and other materialist sociologies, the great social history wave instated the value of social explanation. Then, responding to new... -
Reappraisals: Reflections on the Forgotten Twentieth Century by Tony Judt 9780099532330
RRP: £16.99£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... -
The 2020 Commission Report on the North Korean Nuclear Attacks Against The United States by Dr Jeffrey Lewis
RRP: £12.99£9.99'A book with a ferocious pace and more black humour than one could imagine'- Evening Standard**As heard on BBC Radio 4 The World Tonight**America lost 1.4 million citizens in the North Korean attacks of 2020. This is the final, authorised report of the... -
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... -
Approaching Pipe Rolls: The Thirteenth Century 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... -
Archaeology from Space: How the Future Shapes Our Past by Sarah Parcak 9781250231345
RRP: £18.99£12.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250231345Author Sarah ParcakFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Holt McDougalPublisher Holt McDougal -
The Transition from Feudalism to Capitalism by R. H. Hilton
£17.31The debate on the transition from feudalism to capitalism, originally published in Science and Society in the early 1950s, is one of the most famous episodes in the development of Marxist historiography since the war. It ranged such distinguished... -
The Specter of the Archive: Political Practice and the Information State in Early Modern Britain by Nicholas Popper 9780226825977
RRP: £26.00£24.85An exploration of the proliferation of paper in early modern Britain and its far-reaching effects on politics and society. We are used to thinking of ourselves as living in a time when more information is more available than ever before. In The Specter... -
Prisoners of History: What Monuments to the Second World War Tell Us About Our History and Ourselves by Keith Lowe
RRP: £20.00£13.34A 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... -
Histories of the Holocaust by Dan Stone 9780199566808
RRP: £20.99£20.87The Holocaust is one of the most intensively studied phenomena in modern history. The volume of writing that fuels the numerous debates about it is overwhelming in quantity and diversity. Even those who have dedicated their professional lives to... -
English Local History: An Introduction Kate Tiller 9781783275243
RRP: £26.99£23.22The classic guide to exploring English local history, brought up to date and expanded. This is a book for anyone wanting to explore local history in England. It summarises, in an accessible and authoritative way, current knowledge and approaches,... -
97,196 Words: Essays by Emmanuel Carrère
RRP: £9.99£7.32Read 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... -
Prisoners of History: What Monuments to the Second World War Tell Us About Our History and Ourselves by Keith Lowe 9780008339586
RRP: £9.99£6.84A 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... -
Last Voices of the Irish Revolution by Tom Hurley 9780717199785
RRP: £26.99£18.94The Irish Civil War ended in 1923. Eighty years on, documentary-maker Tom Hurley wondered if there were many people left from across Ireland who experienced the years 1919 to 1923, their prelude and aftermath. In early 2003, he recorded the experiences... -
Migrants: The Story of Us All Sam Miller 9781408713549
RRP: £25.00£14.88Migrants 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:... -
Voices from the 'Jungle': Stories from the Calais Refugee Camp Calais Writers 9780745399683
RRP: £19.99£13.35Often called the 'Jungle', the refugee camp near Calais in Northern France epitomises for many the suffering, uncertainty and violence which characterises the situation of refugees in Europe today. But the media soundbites we hear ignore the voices of...