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Pompey, Cato, and the Governance of the Roman Empire by Kit Morrell
£112.97Provincial governance under the Roman republic has long been notorious for its corrupt officials and greedy tax-farmers, though this is far from being the whole story. This book challenges the traditional picture, contending that leading late republican... -
Humour & Laughter in History: Transcultural Perspectives by Elisabeth Cheaure
RRP: £27.99£22.61Humour can be used as a "weapon" or as a means of coping with problematic historical events, especially in times of war and crisis. The book presents examples from different cultures (Russia, Europe, USA), from different historical epochs (from... -
Lloyd George and the Challenge Labour by Professor Chris Wrigley
RRP: £45.00£44.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912224289Author Professor Chris WrigleyFormat HardbackPage Count 346Imprint Edward Everett RootPublisher Edward Everett RootWeight(grams) 544g -
Missionaries, Indigenous Peoples and Cultural Exchange by Patricia Grimshaw
£101.61This book brings together fresh insights into the relationships between missions and indigenous peoples, and the outcomes of mission activities in the processes of imperial conquest and colonisation. Bringing together the work of leading international... -
From Selma to Moscow: How Human Rights Activists Transformed U.S. Foreign Policy by Sarah B. Snyder
RRP: £28.00£21.80The 1960s marked a transformation of human rights activism in the United States. At a time of increased concern for the rights of their fellow citizens-civil and political rights, as well as the social and economic rights that Great Society programs... -
Superior Women: Medieval Female Authority in Poitiers' Abbey of Sainte-Croix by Jennifer C. Edwards
RRP: £88.00£73.68Superior Women examines the claims of abbesses of the abbey of Sainte-Croix in medieval Poitiers to authority from the abbey's foundation to its 1520 reform. These women claimed to hold authority over their own community, over dependent chapters of male... -
Doing Cultural History: Insights, Innovations, Impulses by Judith Mengler
RRP: £38.99£31.98Doing Cultural History collects papers on a variety of topics. The issues addressed span from the twelfth to the twenty-first century and include the communication of peace in written and pictorial sources, narrative structures in legal texts,... -
On the Account: Piracy & the Americas, 1766-1834 by Joseph Gibbs
RRP: £34.95£31.69In addition to being commercialised and romanticised, piracy's history has also been distorted, with many works straying far from the facts recorded in the Age of Sail. In this book, author Joseph Gibbs goes back to many of the original materials about... -
The Nationalism Reader Omar Dahbour 9781573926232
RRP: £25.00£21.79The proclamation of a "New World Order," hailed at the end of the cold war, coincided with an eruption of nationalism. The withering of the bipolar balance of power has created a vacuum that has been filled by a new tide of ethnic conflict in the former... -
A Cultural History of Color in Antiquity by David Wharton
£88.04A Cultural History of Color in Antiquity covers the period 3000 BCE to 500 CE. Although the smooth, white marbles of Classical sculpture and architecture lull us into thinking that the color world of the ancient Greeks and Romans was restrained and... -
Crimson Papers: Reflections on Struggle, Suffering, and Creativity in Pakistan by Harris Khalique
RRP: £20.99£19.07The book provides insights into the society, polity, and literary ethos of Pakistan within the broader South Asian context. An attempt has been made to place the issues faced by Pakistan and South Asian Muslim societies in the current global human... -
Fugitive Borders - Black Canadian Cross-Border Literature at Mid-Nineteenth Century Nele Sawallisch 9783837645026
RRP: £49.99£40.70Fugitive Borders explores a new archive of 19th-century autobiographical writing by black authors in North America. For that purpose, Nele Sawallisch examines four different texts written by formerly enslaved men in the 1850s that emerged in or around... -
Cultural History in Europe: Institutions - Themes - Perspectives by Joerg Rogge
RRP: £33.99£28.01What is the current state of discussion in Cultural History? Which European institutions engage exclusively in Cultural History and which topics do they address? And how will Cultural History develop in the future? These and other questions are raised... -
Women and Education, 1800-1980 by Jane Martin
RRP: £110.00£109.56Women and Education, 1800-1980 examines and celebrates the lives, aims, and achievements of six British women educational activists within nineteenth- and twentieth-century history: Elizabeth Hamilton, Sarah Austin, Jane Chessar, Mary Dendy, Shena Simon... -
Learning to Smoke: Tobacco Use in the West Jason Hughes 9780226359106
RRP: £33.00£32.05Why do people smoke? Taking a unique approach to this question, Jason Hughes moves beyond the usual focus on biological addiction to demonstrate how sociocultural and personal understandings of smoking crucially affect the way people experience it... -
Belonging and Narrative: A Theory of the American Novel by Laura Bieger
RRP: £38.99£31.98Why did the novel become so popular in the past three centuries, and how did the American novel contribute to this trend? As a key provider of the narrative frames and formulas needed by modern individuals to give meaning and mooring to their lives... -
Popular Cinemas in East Central Europe by Dorota Ostrowska
RRP: £120.00£85.45The continued interest in the social and cultural life of the former Warsaw pact countries - looking at but also beyond their socialist pasts - encompasses a desire to know more about their national cinemas. Yet, despite the increasing consumption of... -
The Making of the American Creative Class: New York's Culture Workers and Twentieth-Century Consumer Capitalism by Shannan Clark
RRP: £32.49£27.80During the middle decades of the twentieth century, the production of America's consumer culture was centralized in midtown Manhattan to an extent unparalleled in the history of the modern United States. Within a few square miles of skyscrapers were the... -
A SHADOW OF THE PAST: : A SHORT BIOGRAPHY OF LUCKNOW by Mehru Jaffer
RRP: £10.00£7.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789390652488Author Mehru JafferFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint Rupa Publications India Pvt Ltd.Publisher Rupa Publications India Pvt Ltd. -
Peace Corps Fantasies: How Development Shaped the Global Sixties by Molly Geidel
RRP: £23.99£21.57To tens of thousands of volunteers in its first decade, the Peace Corps was "the toughest job you'll ever love." In the United States' popular imagination to this day, it is a symbol of selfless altruism and the most successful program of John F... -
Durham People: Britain in Old Photographs by Michael Richardson
RRP: £12.99£9.62A history of Durham peopleBook InformationISBN 9780750907088Author Michael RichardsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint The History Press LtdPublisher The History Press LtdWeight(grams) 310g -
Abortion in England 1900-1967 Barbara Brookes (University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand) 9780415752466
RRP: £43.99£38.44Over the decades from 1900 to 1967 abortion was transformed from an important female-centred form of fertility control into a medical event, closely monitored by the State. This transition, the author argues here, took place against a background of... -
The Virtues of Violence: Democracy Against Disintegration in Modern France by Kevin Duong
RRP: £49.49£42.12If democracy liberates individuals from their inherited bonds, what can reunite them into a sovereign people? In The Virtues of Violence, Kevin Duong argues that one particular answer captivated modern French thinkers: popular violence as social... -
Sustainability and the American Naturalist Tradition: Revisiting Henry David Thoreau, Aldo Leopold, Rachel Carson, and Edward O. Wilson by Craig Thomas
RRP: £111.99£90.85Humanity is failing at solving complex socioecological problems like global climate change, biodiversity loss, and population growth. The existing sustainable development paradigm and its reliance on tradeoffs between the three pillars of environment,... -
Cinemas and Cinemagoing in Wartime Britain, 1939-45: The Utility Dream Palace by Richard Farmer
RRP: £85.00£74.91During the Second World War, the popularity and importance of the cinema in Britain was at its peak. In this groundbreaking book, Richard Farmer provides a social and cultural history of cinemas and cinemagoing in Britain between 1939 and 1945, and... -
FashionQuake: The Most Disruptive Moments in Fashion by Caroline Young
RRP: £12.99£9.47Discover fashion that dared to be different, risked reputations and put careers in jeopardy. This is what happens when people take tradition and rip it up.FashionQuake introduces 50 pivotal moments that shook the world and changed mainstream fashion... -
The Smile Revolution: In Eighteenth-Century Paris by Colin A. Jones 9780198715818
RRP: £26.49£19.09You could be forgiven for thinking that the smile has no history; it has always been the same. However, just as different cultures in our own day have different rules about smiling, so did different societies in the past. In fact, amazing as it might... -
Legislators and Interpreters: On Modernity, Post-Modernity and Intellectuals by Zygmunt Bauman 9780745607900
RRP: £16.99£15.22The book discusses the role of intellectuals in the modern world. Bauman connects this with current analyses of modernity and post-modernity. The theme of the book is that the tasks of intellectuals change from being 'legislators' to 'interpreters' with... -
Peace at Last: A Portrait of Armistice Day, 11 November 1918 by Guy Cuthbertson
RRP: £10.99£9.37What happened on the last day of the Great War? Each year since we have marked the end of the war with tributes and remembrance, solemnity and respect. But as Peace at Last reveals, the first Armistice Day in 1918 was entirely unprecedented and... -
King Hui: The Man Who Owned All the Opium in Hong Kong by Jonathan Chamberlain 9789889979980
£12.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789889979980Author Jonathan ChamberlainFormat PaperbackPage Count 348Imprint Blacksmith BooksPublisher Blacksmith BooksWeight(grams) 442g -
The Early Slavs: Eastern Europe from the Initial Settlement to the Kievan Rus by Pavel M. Dolukhanov 9780582236189
£48.24The history of the early Slavs is a subject of renewed interest and one which is highly controversial both politically and historically. This pioneering text reviews the latest archaelogical (and other) evidence concerning the first settlers, their... -
The Real Bridgerton Catherine Curzon 9781399082402
RRP: £20.00£14.29Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Anatomical Dissection in Enlightenment England and Beyond: Autopsy, Pathology and Display Piers Mitchell 9781138246454
RRP: £49.99£43.50Excavations of medical school and workhouse cemeteries undertaken in Britain in the last decade have unearthed fascinating new evidence for the way that bodies were dissected or autopsied in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. This book brings... -
White Tears/Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color by Ruby Hamad
RRP: £12.99£11.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781948226745Author Ruby HamadFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint CatapultPublisher CatapultWeight(grams) 352gDimensions(mm) 209mm * 140mm * 20mm -
Orgasm and the West: A History of Pleasure from the 16th Century to the Present Robert Muchembled (University of Paris) 9780745638768
RRP: £18.99£16.87Can the orgasm be explained in historical terms? An almost incommunicable individual emotion yet also a cultural reality, the orgasm is part of, but also escapes, collective experience. The history of the orgasm is that of the hidden body, of forbidden... -
The Bagpipe: The History of a Musical Instrument Francis Collinson 9781032070933
RRP: £27.99£24.28Originally published in 1975, and written by an authority on Scottish music, this book traces the evolution of the bagpipe whilst also narrating the fortunes of the 'Great Highland Bagpipe' itself. Exploring history and archaeology of civilizations as... -
The Wealth Explosion: The Nature and Origins of Modernity by Stephen Davies
RRP: £29.99£28.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912224593Author Stephen DaviesFormat PaperbackImprint Edward Everett RootPublisher Edward Everett Root -
The Handbook of Great Italian Perfumery: Fifty Years of Exceptional Scents by Marika Vecchiattini
RRP: £35.00£23.43The volume is the first publication dedicated exclusively to the theme of Italian perfumery. A real manual, divided into three parts, offering a summary of the perfumes produced in Italy, reviewing the great brands that have made the olfactory taste... -
History of Childbirth: Fertility, Pregnancy and Birth in Early Modern Europe Jacques Gelis (University of Paris VIII) 9780745618401
RRP: £24.99£21.81Highly detailed and clearly written, this book is the first full-length study of the complex system of practices, beliefs and taboos which surrounded conception and childbirth in early modern Europe. In a rich and scholarly study, Jacques Gelis... -
The Strait Gate: Thresholds and Power in Western History by Daniel Jutte 9780300211085
£63.31A prize-winning scholar offers a sweeping exploration of the role doors have played in history Exploring a chapter not yet probed in the cultural history of the West, The Strait Gate demonstrates how doors, gates, and related technologies such as the...