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Outrages: Sex, Censorship and the Criminalisation of Love by Naomi Wolf 9780349004082
RRP: $10.48$8.21The bestselling author of The Beauty Myth, Vagina and The End of America chronicles the struggles and eventual triumph of John Addington Symonds, a Victorian-era poet, biographer, and critic who penned what became a foundational text on our modern... -
Border Mills: Lives of Peeblesshire Textile Workers by Ian MacDougall 9781910682517
RRP: $39.88$33.71The book explores the rich material contained within a collection of oral history recordings with Peeblesshire textile mill workers, made by Ian MacDougall between 1996 and 2004. Their testimonies chart a period of immense change across all aspects... -
Printer's Error: Irreverent Stories from Book History by Rebecca Romney 9780062412324
$31.23A funny and entertaining history of printed books as told through absurd moments in the lives of authors and printers, collected by television's favorite rare-book expert from HISTORY's hit series Pawn Stars.Since the Gutenberg Bible first went on sale... -
Beacon in the West: A Hundred Years of the Stornoway Trust by Roger Hutchinson 9781839830501
RRP: $33.58$23.98In 1918 Lord Leverhulme bought the island of Lewis with ambitious plans to massively expand its fishing industry and increase its population. In 1923, when his plans had failed, he offered it free of charge to the islanders in two parts. One part,... -
The Women of NOW: How Feminists Built an Organization That Transformed America Katherine Turk 9781250338372
RRP: $39.88$26.78In the summer of 1966, crammed into a D.C. hotel suite and passing paper cups of liquor, twenty-eight women hatched a revolutionary plan. Betty Friedan, the well-known author of The Feminine Mystique, and Pauli Murray, a lawyer at the front lines of the... -
Indentured Servitude: Unfree Labour and Citizenship in the British Colonies by Anna Suranyi
RRP: $62.98$54.10Hundreds of thousands of British and Irish men, women, and children crossed the Atlantic during the seventeenth century as indentured servants. Many had agreed to serve for four years, but large numbers had been trafficked or "spirited away" or were sent... -
Punks on Scooters: The Bristol Mod Revival 1979-1985 by Michael Salter 9781910089446 [USED COPY]
$25.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910089446Author Michael SalterFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Tangent BooksPublisher Tangent BooksWeight(grams) 200gDimensions(mm) 196mm * 130mm *... -
1969: The Year Everything Changed by Rob Kirkpatrick 9781510743076
RRP: $27.28$24.00With a new introduction, and published on the 50th Anniversary of the year that defined a generation, this is the seminal and classic book on the subject. Lively and concise, here is the book that captures 1969, the year in which man landed on... -
The Nostalgic Imagination: History in English Criticism by Stefan Collini
RRP: $45.13$40.95This unusual book explores the historical assumptions at work in the style of literary criticism that came to dominate English studies in the twentieth century. Stefan Collini shows how the work of critics renowned for their close attention to 'the words... -
After Such Knowledge: A Meditation on the Aftermath of the Holocaust by Eva Hoffman 9780099464723 [USED COPY]
RRP: $33.58$4.73As the Holocaust recedes from us in time, the guardianship of its legacy is being passed on from its survivors and witnesses to the generation after. How should we, in turn, convey its knowledge to others? What are the effects of a traumatic past on its... -
After Such Knowledge: A Meditation on the Aftermath of the Holocaust by Eva Hoffman
RRP: $33.58$24.38As the Holocaust recedes from us in time, the guardianship of its legacy is being passed on from its survivors and witnesses to the generation after. How should we, in turn, convey its knowledge to others? What are the effects of a traumatic past on its... -
British West Indies The Postcard Collection by Nigel Sadler
RRP: $31.48$20.37The British West Indies cover a distinct geographical area. However, the countries within it have their own histories, sometimes overlapping, sometimes very different. British West Indies: The Postcard Collection brings together over 100 postcards... -
What's Tha Up To Nah? by Martyn Johnson 9780751549645
$24.49'Many times I heard people say that you'll have no friends if you're a policeman. How wrong they were. If you were right with them, they were right with you.' PC Martyn Johnson is back on the beat with more hilarious and heart-warming stories from the... -
What's Tha Up To Nah? by Martyn Johnson 9780751549645 [USED COPY]
RRP: $20.98$4.03'Many times I heard people say that you'll have no friends if you're a policeman. How wrong they were. If you were right with them, they were right with you.' PC Martyn Johnson is back on the beat with more hilarious and heart-warming stories from the... -
Live Working or Die Fighting: How The Working Class Went Global by Paul Mason
RRP: $35.68$25.79Globalisation has created a whole new working class - and they are reliving stories that were first played out a century ago. In Live Working or Die Fighting, Paul Mason tells the story of this new working class alongside the epic history of the global... -
Dress Codes: How the Laws of Fashion Made History by Richard Thompson Ford
RRP: $41.98$25.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501180088Author Richard 9hompson FordFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & Schuster -
The Spectral Arctic: A History of Dreams and Ghosts in Polar Exploration by Shane McCorristine 9781787352469
RRP: $48.28$42.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781787352469Author Shane McCorristineFormat PaperbackPage Count 276Imprint UCL PressPublisher UCL PressWeight(grams) 555g -
She the People: A Graphic History of Uprisings, Breakdowns, Setbacks, Revolts, and Enduring Hope on the Unfinished Road to Women's Equality by Jen Deaderick
RRP: $29.38$23.90In March 2017, Nevada surprised the rest of the country by suddenly ratifying the Equal Rights Amendment, thirty-five years after the deadline had passed. The ERA is now just two states short of total ratification. Two states and a legacy of shame are... -
This Sporting Life: Sport and Liberty in England, 1760-1960 by Robert Colls
RRP: $47.23$40.24Why did killing a fox mean liberty? What did parish revels have to do with the Peterloo Massacre? What did animal cruelty have to do with the English constitution? What did the Factory Acts mean for modern football? In This Sporting Life, Robert Colls... -
The Jews of Wales: A History by Cai Parry-Jones
RRP: $52.48$39.48This study considers Welsh Jewry as a geographical whole and is the first to draw extensively on oral history sources, giving a voice back to the history of Welsh Jewry, which has long been a formal history of synagogue functionaries and institutions... -
Out of Love for My Kin: Aristocratic Family Life in the Lands of the Loire, 1000-1200 by Amy Livingstone 9780801448416
RRP: $113.40$99.10In Out of Love for My Kin, Amy Livingstone examines the personal dimensions of the lives of aristocrats in the Loire region of France during the eleventh and twelfth centuries. She argues for a new conceptualization of aristocratic family life based on... -
Mountain Tales: Love and Loss in the Municipality of Castaway Belongings by Saumya Roy
RRP: $20.98$14.93'If you read one book about India, read this one.' Geeta Anand, Pulitzer Prize-winner and author of The Cure 'Mountain Tales is a remarkable feat of immersive reporting and story-telling, a deeply-felt exploration of ideas, and a gripping chronicle of... -
A Walk in the Park: The Life and Times of a People's Institution by Travis Elborough 9780224099820
RRP: $39.88$27.05Parks are such a familiar part of everyday life. You might be forgiven for thinking they have always been there - and that they always will. In fact, the roots of even the most humble neighbourhood park lie in age-old battles over land and liberty... -
A History of the Tajiks: Iranians of the East Richard Foltz (Concordia University, Canada) 9780755649655
RRP: $54.58$44.56In this comprehensive and up to date history, from prehistoric proto-Indo-Iranian times to the post-Soviet period, Richard Foltz traces the complex linguistic, cultural and political history of the Tajiks, a Persian-speaking Iranian ethnic group from the... -
An Era of Value Change: The Long 1970s in Europe Fiammetta Balestracci 9780198928997
$168.08The long 1970s have recently emerged as the start of a new epoch in which we still live. This volume asks whether the accelerated value change of these years can be explained with the rise of a new kind of post-rationalism, and presents case studies from... -
The Midnight Kingdom: A History of Power, Paranoia, and the Coming Crisis by Jared Yates Sexton
RRP: $56.68$37.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593185230Author Jared Yates SextonFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint Dutton / SignetPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc -
Life in Medieval England by Rupert Willoughby 9780853728405
RRP: $12.60$9.32Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Life in Medieval England by Rupert Willoughby 9780853728405 [USED COPY]
RRP: $12.60$4.03This Pitkin Guide peeps inside to find out what life was like for all in the Middle Ages, rich and poor alike. Look out for more Pitkin Guides on the very best of British history, heritage and travel, particularly the other books in the 'Life in '... -
The Best Days of Our Lives: School Life in Post-War Britain by Simon Webb 9780752486376
RRP: $31.48$24.26Following the disruption, hardship and challenges of the Second World War, the post-war years brought a sense of optimism and excitement, with families at last enjoying peacetime. This new book follows the lives of the nation's schoolchildren through the... -
When Champagne Became French: Wine and the Making of a National Identity Kolleen M. Guy (Associate Professor, Ricardo Romo Distinguished Professor in the Honors College, University of Texas at San Antonio) 9780801887475
RRP: $57.75$56.55Winner of the Outstanding Manuscript Award from Phi Alpha Theta, this work explains how nationhood emerges by viewing countries as cultural artifacts, a product of "invented traditions." In the case of France, scholars sharply disagree, not only over the... -
The Autumn of the Middle Ages by Johan H. Huizinga
RRP: $168.00$161.72"Herfsttij der Middeluwen", or "The Autumn of the Middle Ages" - the original title - is a portrait of life thought, and art in 14th and 15th century France and the Netherlands. For Huizinga, this period marked not the birth of a... -
Deafness, Community and Culture in Britain: Leisure and Cohesion, 1945-95 by Martin Atherton 9780719099786 [USED COPY]
RRP: $41.98$22.30Setting a case study of deaf people's leisure practices in north-west England within a wider examination of communal deaf leisure across Britain, this book offers new insights into a misunderstood and misrepresented community. Available for the first... -
Deafness, Community and Culture in Britain: Leisure and Cohesion, 1945-95 by Martin Atherton 9780719099786
RRP: $41.98$36.98Setting a case study of deaf people's leisure practices in north-west England within a wider examination of communal deaf leisure across Britain, this book offers new insights into a misunderstood and misrepresented community. Available for the first... -
Country Boy: Growing up in Norforlk 1940-60 by Colin Miller
RRP: $31.50$24.26Colin Miller chronicles developments of the 1940s and '50s through the eyes of a Norfolk schoolboy and teenager.About the AuthorColin Miller was born in Rollesby, a village near Great Yarmouth in the heart of Broadland Norfolk. He spent most of his... -
Grub Street: The Origins of the British Press by Ruth Herman 9781445688848 [USED COPY]
RRP: $42.00$7.83Love it or loathe it, the British press is a remarkable institution. Sometimes referred to as the fourth estate and accused of wielding power without responsibility, it has often been a channel for the dissemination of information that those at the top... -
Grub Street: The Origins of the British Press Ruth Herman 9781445688848
RRP: $42.00$30.01Love it or loathe it, the British press is a remarkable institution. Sometimes referred to as the fourth estate and accused of wielding power without responsibility, it has often been a channel for the dissemination of information that those at the top... -
Ali: The Fight America Didn't Want by Russell Routledge
RRP: $35.68$24.09Has everything been said about Muhammad Ali, once the most famous man in the world? No. There is one special bout that has, over time, been largely overlooked, where both the fight and shenanigans surrounding it have never been fully examined. In... -
Peasants Making History: Living In an English Region 1200-1540 by Christopher Dyer 9780198847212
RRP: $215.25$195.55Peasants have been despised, underrated, or disregarded in the past. Historians and archaeologists are now giving them a more positive assessment, and in Peasants Making History, Christopher Dyer sets a new agenda for this kind of study. Using as his... -
Servants of the Lord: Outdoor Staff at the Great Country Houses by David S. D. Jones 9781846892479
RRP: $52.50$34.10David Jones presents a unique look into the lives, roles and responsibilities of the outdoor staff of the great country houses during the golden age of Queen Victoria's reign to World War 1. Through his meticulous research of estate records,... -
Paper: Paging Through History by Mark Kurlansky 9780393239614
RRP: $46.18$39.80Paper is one of the simplest and most essential pieces of human technology. For the past two millennia, the ability to produce it in ever more efficient ways has supported the proliferation of literacy, media, religion, education, commerce and art. It...