Filter By
- Book
- Qty in Cart
- Quantity
- Price
- Subtotal
-
Decolonization and African Society: The Labor Question in French and British Africa by Frederick Cooper 9780521566001
RRP: £37.99£35.43This detailed and authoritative volume changes our conceptions of 'imperial' and 'African' history. Frederick Cooper gathers a vast range of archival sources in French and English to achieve a truly comparative study of colonial policy toward the... -
One Nation Underground: The Fallout Shelter in American Culture by Kenneth D. Rose 9780814775233
RRP: £24.99£22.07Why some Americans built fallout shelters-an exploration America's Cold War experience For the half-century duration of the Cold War, the fallout shelter was a curiously American preoccupation. Triggered in 1961 by a hawkish speech by John F. Kennedy,... -
Engaging the Evil Empire: Washington, Moscow, and the Beginning of the End of the Cold War by Simon Miles 9781501751691
RRP: £27.99£21.04In a narrative-redefining approach, Engaging the Evil Empire dramatically alters how we look at the beginning of the end of the Cold War. Tracking key events in US-Soviet relations across the years between 1980 and 1985, Simon Miles shows that covert... -
Last Mission to Tokyo: The Extraordinary Story of the Doolittle Raiders and Their Final Fight for Justice by Michel Paradis 9781501104732
RRP: £18.00£11.74Michel Paradis's Last Mission to Tokyo, a "superb" (The Wall Street Journal) and "engrossing...richly researched" (The New York Times Book Review) account of a key but underreported moment in World War II: The Doolittle Raids and the international war... -
Into Russian Nature: Tourism, Environmental Protection, and National Parks in the Twentieth Century by Alan D. Roe 9780190914554
RRP: £38.99£35.95Since the early twentieth century, nations around the world have set aside protected areas for tourism, recreation, scenery, wildlife, and habitat conservation. In Russia, biologists and geographers had been intrigued with the idea of establishing... -
The End of Commitment: Intellectuals, Revolutionaries, and Political Morality in the Twentieth Century by Paul Hollander 9781566636889
RRP: £19.99£19.75The seduction of some of the twentieth century's great thinkers by Communist ideology and ideals is one of the most intriguing stories in the history of that ill-fated century. How was it that these distinguished intellectuals, public figures, and... -
Defying the IRA?: Intimidation, coercion, and communities during the Irish Revolution Brian Hughes (Department of History, Mary Immaculate College (Ireland)) 9781789620764
RRP: £27.50£24.55An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library. This book examines the grass-roots relationship between the Irish Republican Army (IRA) and the civilian population during the Irish... -
Securing the World Economy: The Reinvention of the League of Nations, 1920-1946 by Patricia Clavin 9780199577934
RRP: £150.00£103.57Securing the World Economy explains how efforts to support global capitalism became a core objective of the League of Nations. Based on new research drawn together from archives on three continents, it explores how the world's first ever... -
Iron Curtain: From Stage to Cold War by Patrick Wright 9780199239689
£34.01'From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic an iron curtain has descended across the Continent. . .' With these words Winston Churchill famously warned the world in a now legendary speech given in Fulton, Missouri, on March 5, 1946. ... -
Futbol, Jews, and the Making of Argentina by Raanan Rein
RRP: £23.99£20.84If you attend a soccer match in Buenos Aires of the local Atlanta Athletic Club, you will likely hear the rival teams chanting anti-Semitic slogans. This is because the neighborhood of Villa Crespo has long been considered a Jewish district, and its... -
The Spirit of '68: Rebellion in Western Europe and North America, 1956-1976 by Gerd-Rainer Horn 9780199276660
RRP: £98.00£89.88In virtually all corners of the Western world, 1968 witnessed a highly unusual sequence of popular rebellions. In Italy, France, Spain, Vietnam, the United States, West Germany, Czechoslovakia, Mexico, and elsewhere, millions of individuals took matters... -
Gu Hongming's Eccentric Chinese Odyssey by Chunmei Du
RRP: £62.00£53.56Known for his ultraconservatism and eccentricity, Gu Hongming (1857-1928) remains one of the most controversial figures in modern Chinese intellectual history. A former member of the colonial elite from Penang who was educated in Europe, Gu, in his late... -
A Genealogy of Evil: Anti-Semitism from Nazism to Islamic Jihad by David Patterson 9780521132619
RRP: £29.99£25.94Based on extensive scrutiny of primary sources from Nazi and Jihadist ideologues, David Patterson argues that Jihadist anti-Semitism stems from Nazi ideology. This book challenges the idea that Jihadist anti-Semitism has medieval roots, identifying its... -
The Next War in the Air: Britain's Fear of the Bomber, 1908-1941 Brett Holman 9781138707269
RRP: £49.99£43.90In the early twentieth century, the new technology of flight changed warfare irrevocably, not only on the battlefield, but also on the home front. As prophesied before 1914, Britain in the First World War was effectively no longer an island, with its... -
The Russian Revolution: The Essential Readings Martin A. Miller (Duke University) 9780631216391
RRP: £40.95£35.89This indispensable volume comprises the work of nine of the most prominent scholars of the Russian Revolution, with introductions by the editor that help students contextualize and understand each piece.About the AuthorMartin Miller is Professor of... -
Inside IG Farben: Hoechst During the Third Reich by Stephan H. Lindner 9780521178389
RRP: £44.99£38.54In 1925, the three leading chemical firms in Germany - BASF, Bayer, and Hoechst - merged, together with some smaller firms, to become IG Farben. IG Farben became, like no other firm, synonymous with the participation of German industry in the most... -
Peace on Our Terms: The Global Battle for Women's Rights After the First World War by Mona L. Siegel 9780231195102
RRP: £30.00£23.69In the watershed year of 1919, world leaders met in Paris, promising to build a new international order rooted in democracy and social justice. Female activists demanded that statesmen live up to their word. Excluded from the negotiating table, women met... -
A Class Society at War: England 1914-18 by Bernard Waites 9780907582656
RRP: £110.00£109.56Research into the impact of the First World War on European societies has recently begun on a major scale and Dr Waites has been one of the pioneers in this field in Britain. His book considers the War's effects on such major issues as popular images of... -
Spymaster: My Life in the CIA by Ted Shackley 9781574889222
RRP: £15.99£13.99The death of CIA operative Theodore G. "Ted" Shackley in December 2002 triggered an avalanche of obituaries from all over the world, some of them condemnatory. Pundits used such expressions as "heroin trafficking," "training... -
Ukrainian Nationalism: Politics, Ideology, and Literature, 1929-1956 by Myroslav Shkandrij 9780300206289
£73.68Both celebrated and condemned, Ukrainian nationalism is one of the most controversial and vibrant topics in contemporary discussions of Eastern Europe. Perhaps today there is no more divisive and heatedly argued topic in Eastern European studies than the... -
Strange Rebels: 1979 and the Birth of the 21st Century by Christian Caryl
£18.89Few moments in history have seen as many seismic transformations as 1979. That single year marked the emergence of revolutionary Islam as a global political force, the beginning of market revolutions in China and Britain that would radically alter the... -
Father of the Poor?: Vargas and his Era by Robert M. Levine 9780521585286
RRP: £22.99£19.56This book examines the life, times, and legacy of Getulio Vargas, Brazil's dictator and president during most of the period from 1930 to 1954. Levine's chief concern is how Vargas' legacy influenced Brazil, and to what extent his social legislation... -
Austrian Reconstruction and the Collapse of Global Finance, 1921 1931 by Nathan Marcus 9780674088924
RRP: £48.95£39.01In 1921 Austria became the first interwar European country to experience hyperinflation. The League of Nations, among other actors, stepped in to help reconstruct the economy, but a decade later Austria's largest bank, Credit-Anstalt, collapsed... -
The Anti-Communist Manifestos: Four Books That Shaped the Cold War by John V. Fleming 9780393069259
RRP: £40.00£32.54The subject of The Anti-Communist Manifestos is four influential books that informed the great political struggle known as the Cold War: Darkness at Noon (1940), by Arthur Koestler, a Hungarian journalist and polymath intellectual; Out of the Night... -
British Food Policy During the First World War (RLE The First World War) Margaret Barnett 9781138965089
RRP: £43.99£38.44Because of the exceptionally high proportion of imports in Britain's food supply and the determined efforts of the enemy to sever the supply lines, efficient management of food resources was an essential element in the British national war effort. This... -
Alabama in Africa: Booker T. Washington, the German Empire, and the Globalization of the New South by Andrew Zimmerman
RRP: £30.00£23.69In 1901, the Tuskegee Institute, founded by Booker T. Washington, sent an expedition to the German colony of Togo in West Africa, with the purpose of transforming the region into a cotton economy similar to that of the post-Reconstruction American South... -
The Causes of the Second World War Andrew Crozier (Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London, UK) 9780631186014
RRP: £38.95£34.20This book provides a much needed accessible introduction to this key topic for students of the twentieth century. An ideal introduction to the events and historiography surrounding this key subject Sets the origins of WWII in both its European and... -
Eden Undone: A True Story of Sex, Murder, and Utopia at the Dawn of World War II by Abbott Kahler 9780451498656
RRP: £32.00£19.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780451498656Author Abbott KahlerFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Crown PublicationsPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 527g -
The Twentieth Century: A World History by Professor Emeritus of History Keith Schoppa 9780190497354
£85.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780190497354Author Professor Emeritus of History Keith SchoppaFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Oxford University Press, USAPublisher Oxford University... -
A Coward if I Return, A Hero if I Fall: Stories of Irishmen in World War I by Neil Richardson 9781847171313 [USED COPY]
RRP: £17.99£2.65IRELAND'S FORGOTTEN LEGACY In 1914-1918, two hundred thousand Irishmen from all religions and backgrounds went to war. At least thirty-five thousand never came home. Those that did were scarred for the rest of their lives. Many of these survivors found... -
China and the Great War: China's Pursuit of a New National Identity and Internationalization by Guoqi Xu 9780521283236
RRP: £38.99£32.28China's role in the First World War has been a curiously neglected topic. This 2005 book is a full-length study of China's involvement in the conflict from perspectives of international history, using largely unknown archival materials from China,... -
Poverty and Life Expectancy: The Jamaica Paradox by James C. Riley 9780521850476
RRP: £90.00£72.17Poverty and Life Expectancy is a multidisciplinary study that reconstructs Jamaica's rise from low to high life expectancy and explains how that was achieved. Jamaica is one of the small number of countries that have attained a life expectancy nearly... -
Rocket Man: Robert H. Goddard and the Birth of the Space Age by David A. Clary 9780786868179
£33.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780786868179Author David A. ClaryFormat HardbackPage Count 368Imprint HyperionPublisher HyperionWeight(grams) 634g -
China in the Twentieth Century by Paul Bailey 9780631230304
RRP: £109.95£109.51China exerts increasing influence on the global economy, and the country's fascinating and turbulent recent history demands our understanding. This clear and convincing overview tells the story of a century that saw three political revolutions and... -
China and the Great War: China's Pursuit of a New National Identity and Internationalization by Guoqi Xu 9780521842129
RRP: £90.99£77.49Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Antitrust and Global Capitalism, 1930-2004 by Tony Allan Freyer 9780521817882
RRP: £68.00£61.19The international spread of antitrust suggested the historical process shaping global capitalism. By the 1930s, Americans feared that big business exceeded the government's capacity to impose accountability, engendering the most aggressive antitrust... -
Social Engineering and the Social Sciences in China, 1919-1949 by Yung-chen Chiang 9780521770149
RRP: £90.00£81.43In this 2001 book Yung-chen Chiang tells the story of the origins, hopes, visions and achievements of the social sciences movement in China during the first half of the twentieth century. He focuses on the efforts of social scientists at three... -
Suharto: A Political Biography by R. E. Elson 9780521616577
RRP: £31.00£27.18Suharto is synonymous with modern Indonesia. He came to the leadership of Indonesia amidst extreme social upheaval and mass violence in 1966 and established an enduring regime known as the 'New Order'. He remained in command of the world's fourth most... -
Science, Technology and Society in Contemporary Japan by Morris Low 9780521654258
RRP: £24.99£22.37This book explores the dynamic relationship between science, technology and Japanese society, examining how it has contributed to economic growth and national well-being. It presents a synthesis of recent debates by juxtaposing competing views about the... -
Latin America between the Second World War and the Cold War: Crisis and Containment, 1944-1948 by Leslie Bethell 9780521574259
RRP: £44.99£38.14This volume aims to establish that the period between the end of the Second World War II and the beginning of the Cold War (1944-5 to 1947-8) hitherto neglected, represents an important conjuncture in the political and social history of twentieth-century...