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Tales From A Country Practice by Arthur Jackson 9780751547924
£12.73When the phone rings in the middle of the night, Dr Arthur Jackson leaves the warmth of his bed without hesitation. Tending to his peculiar flock of patients - including the blind cobbler with a surprising taste for hard liquor, the accident-prone... -
A Cultural History of Comedy in the Early Modern Age by Professor Andrew McConnell Stott 9781350440760
£30.84Drawing together scholars with a wide range of expertise across the early modern period, this volume explores the rich field of early modern comedy in all its variety. It argues that early modern comedy was shaped by a series of cultural transformations... -
Execution Culture in Nineteenth Century Britain: From Public Spectacle to Hidden Ritual by Patrick Low
RRP: £39.99£35.06This edited collection offers multi-disciplinary reflections and analysis on a variety of themes centred on nineteenth century executions in the UK, many specifically related to the fundamental change in capital punishment culture as the execution moved... -
Improper Names: Collective Pseudonyms from the Luddites to Anonymous by Marco Deseriis
RRP: £20.99£18.37Improper Names offers a genealogy and theory of the "improper name," which author Marco Deseriis defines as the adoption of the same pseudonym by organized collectives, affinity groups, and individual authors. Although such names are often invented to... -
Celebrities, Heroes and Champions: Popular Politicians in the Age of Reform, 1810-67 by Simon James Morgan
RRP: £90.00£64.82Celebrities, heroes and champions explores the role of the popular politician in British and Irish society from the Napoleonic Wars to the Second Reform Act of 1867. Covering movements for parliamentary reform up to and including Chartism, Catholic... -
You'll Do: A History of Marrying for Reasons Other Than Love by Marcia A. Zug 9781586423742
RRP: £26.99£17.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781586423742Author Marcia A. ZugFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint Steerforth PressPublisher Steerforth Press -
A History of Violence: From the End of the Middle Ages to the Present Robert Muchembled (University of Paris) 9780745647470
RRP: £24.99£22.21Violence is so much in the news today that we may find it hard to believe that it is less prevalent than it was in the past. But this is exactly what the distinguished historian Robert Muchembled argues in this major new work on the history of violence... -
Irish Country Life by Olive Sharkey 9781788491846
£12.27In a fast-paced, modern Ireland it can be difficult to imagine how different our lives are to those that went before. In this book Olive Sharkey lovingly describes the lives, activities and material possessions of irish people living between 1800 and the... -
Space Oddities: Our Strange Attempts to Explain the Universe by S. D. Tucker
RRP: £14.99£9.70'Twinkle, twinkle, little star, how I wonder what you are ...' Are you a giant Nazi iceberg? On 4 October 1957, the Soviet Union's famous satellite Sputnik was launched into orbit, and the Space Age began. Or did it? Sputnik may have marked the... -
Rewriting History: Changing Perceptions of the Past by Dennis Harding
RRP: £107.50£84.75In Rewriting History, Dennis Harding addresses contemporary concerns about information and its interpretation. His focus is on the archaeology of prehistoric and early historic Britain, and the transformation over two centuries and more in the... -
Both Eastern and Western: An Intellectual History of Iranian Modernity by Afshin Matin-Asgari 9781108428538
RRP: £84.99£76.99Since the Iranian Revolution of 1979, many Western observers of Iran have seen the country caught between Eastern history and 'Western' modernity, between religion and secularity. As a result, analysis of political philosophy preceding the Revolution has... -
British Civic Society at the End of Empire: Decolonisation, Globalisation, and International Responsibility by Anna Bocking-Welch 9781526151674
RRP: £30.00£26.68This book is about the impact of decolonisation on British civic society in the 1960s. It shows how participants in middle class associational life developed optimistic visions for a post-imperial global role. Through the pursuit of international... -
Insulting the Public?: The British Press and the European Union Peter J. Anderson 9780582317406
RRP: £56.99£54.74Insulting the Public? examines the way in which the European Union and issues relating to it are represented to the public. Combining theoretical and empirical research, the text explores and provides an assessment of the performance of the British Press... -
A Cultural History of Race in Antiquity by Denise Eileen McCoskey 9781350067424
£83.62The era generally referred to as antiquity lasted for thousands of years and was characterized by a diverse range of peoples and cultural systems. This volume explores some of the specific ways race was defined and mobilized by different groups-including... -
Social Being and Time Christopher Gosden (La Trobe University) 9780631190233
RRP: £40.95£35.89The nature of time is one of the continuing mysteries of human life. This is of particular relevance to archaeology with its unique focus on the social development of the human species from its origins to the present. Christopher Gosden probes the way in... -
A Cultural History of Money in the Age of Enlightenment by Professor Christine Desan 9781350365674
£29.07The Enlightenment was a time of monetary turmoil and transformation in Europe. Change began with a riot of experimentation, including novel ideas about human agency and capacity to promote economic progress, efforts to reframe divinity in terms (like the... -
Fashionability: Abraham Moon and the Creation of British Cloth for the Global Market by Regina Lee Blaszczyk
RRP: £30.00£22.71Fashion studies is a burgeoning field that often highlights the contributions of genius designers and high-profile brands with little reference to what goes on behind the scenes in the supply chain. This book pulls back the curtain on the global fashion... -
Murder Capital: Suspicious Deaths in London, 1933-53 by Amy Bell 9780719091971
RRP: £85.00£60.17Murder Capital is a historical study of unexpected deaths whose circumstances required official investigation in mid-twentieth-century London. Suspicious deaths - murders in the family and by strangers, infanticides and deaths from illegal abortions -... -
A Fascist Century: Essays by Roger Griffin by Matthew Feldman 9780230220898
RRP: £89.99£89.87Ten essays on the nature of fascism by a leading scholar in the field, focusing on how to understand and apply fascist ideology to various movements since the twentieth century, Mussolini's prophesied 'fascist century'. Includes studies of fascism's... -
The Peasant in Nineteenth-Century Russia by Wayne S. Vucinich 9780804706384
RRP: £24.99£23.24A Stanford University Press classic.Book InformationISBN 9780804706384Author Wayne S. VucinichFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Stanford University PressPublisher Stanford University Press -
Refugees and Forced Displacement in Northern Ireland's Troubles: Untold Journeys Niall Gilmartin 9781802075298
RRP: £24.99£22.41Though forced displacement constituted a central and pervasive feature of the Northern Ireland 'Troubles' effecting tens of thousands of citizens, remarkably it has been afforded little more than a footnote or fleeting reference in most accounts of the... -
Marx After Marx: History and Time in the Expansion of Capitalism by Harry Harootunian 9780231174800
RRP: £30.00£23.29In Marx After Marx, Harry Harootunian questions the claims of Western Marxism and its presumption of the final completion of capitalism. If this shift in Marxism reflected the recognition that the expected revolutions were not forthcoming in the years... -
The Economy of Roman Religion by Andrew Wilson
RRP: £83.00£75.34This interdisciplinary edited volume presents twelve papers by Roman historians and archaeologists, discussing the interconnected relationship between religion and the Roman economy over the period c. 500 BC to AD 350. The connection between Roman... -
Michael Jordan and the New Global Capitalism by Walter LaFeber 9780393323696
RRP: £18.50£14.67With Michael Jordan and the New Global Capitalism, Walter LaFeber has written a biography, a social history, and a far-ranging economic critique. From basketball prodigy to international phenomenon to seductive commercial ideal, Michael Jordan is the... -
Women and the Material Culture of Death Maureen Daly Goggin 9781138269521
RRP: £49.99£43.90Examining the compelling and often poignant connection between women and the material culture of death, this collection focuses on the objects women make, the images they keep, the practices they use or are responsible for, and the places they inhabit... -
Gold, Violet, Black, Crimson, White by David Hewitt
RRP: £11.99£8.43The early days of cinema certainly weren't black and white, and if the films were silent, the audiences were anything but. This spellbinding book reveals just what was seen - and heard, and said - in the picture houses of Britain at that time. It is a... -
Scurvy: The Disease of Discovery by Jonathan Lamb 9780691147826
RRP: £35.00£28.14Scurvy, a disease often associated with long stretches of maritime travel, generated sensations exceeding the standard of what was normal. Eyes dazzled, skin was morbidly sensitive, emotions veered between disgust and delight. In this book, Jonathan Lamb... -
Hothouse Flower: Nurturing Women in the Victorian Conservatory Margaret Flanders Darby 9781915115003
RRP: £39.99£37.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915115003Author Margaret Flanders DarbyFormat PaperbackPage Count 220Imprint Edward Everett Root Publishers Co. Ltd.Publisher Edward Everett Root... -
Order and Disorder in Modern Britain: Essays on Riot, Crime, Policing and Punishment by Victor Bailey 9780957000551
RRP: £15.00£13.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780957000551Author Victor BaileyFormat PaperbackPage Count 214Imprint Breviary Stuff PublicationsPublisher Breviary Stuff PublicationsWeight(grams) 377g -
Liberty's: A Biography of a Shop by Alison Adburgham
RRP: £86.99£75.54First published in 1975, Liberty’s is the biography of a shop and its various owners in London. Responding to the social pressures, class patterns, and governmental policies, the developments in the shop mimic the social changes taking place in London... -
Elites Wealthy Modern British History by Wiliam D Rubinstein 9781911204961
RRP: £34.99£33.48Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911204961Author Wiliam D RubinsteinFormat PaperbackPage Count 410Imprint Edward Everett RootPublisher Edward Everett Root -
Heroes and Happy Endings: Class, Gender, and Nation in Popular Film and Fiction in Interwar Britain by Christine Grandy
RRP: £19.99£14.28This is a highly anticipated examination of the popular film and fiction consumed by Britons in the 1920s and 1930s. Departing from a prevailing emphasis on popular culture as escapist, Christine Grandy offers a fresh perspective by noting the enduring... -
Body Trade: Captivity, Cannibalism and Colonialism in the Pacific by Barbara Creed
RRP: £36.99£32.53Body Trade exposes myths surrounding the trade in heads, cannibalism, captive white women, the display of indigenous people in fairs and circuses, the stolen generations, the 'comfort' women and the making of the exotic/erotic body. This is a lively and... -
The Painted Closet of Lady Anne Bacon Drury by H.L. Meakin
RRP: £43.99£38.84Lady Anne Bacon Drury (1572-1624) was the granddaughter and niece of two of England's Lord Keepers of the Great Seal, Sir Nicholas Bacon and Sir Francis Bacon. Lady Anne was also the friend and patroness of John Donne and Joseph Hall; however, she... -
Secrets et surveillance epistolaires dans l'Europe du dix-huitieme siecle Sebastien Drouin 9781802078770
£85.99En un siecle marque par d'incessantes querelles theologiques et d'innombrables conflits armes, auxquels s'ajoutent des tensions entre l'Eglise, l'Etat et le parti des " Philosophes ", les correspondances constituent un lieu privilegie pour observer les... -
Left for the Rising Sun, Right for Swan Hunter: The Plebs League in the North East of England 1908/1926 by Robert Turnbull 9781910170076
RRP: £6.99£5.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910170076Author Robert TurnbullFormat PaperbackPage Count 84Imprint Five Leaves PublicationsPublisher Five Leaves Publications -
The 1857 Indian Uprising and the Politics of Commemoration by Sebastian Raj Pender 9781316511336
RRP: £75.00£67.74The Cawnpore Well, Lucknow Residency, and Delhi Ridge were sacred places within the British imagination of India. Sanctified by the colonial administration in commemoration of victory over the 'Sepoy Mutiny' of 1857, they were read as emblems of empire... -
How to Read a Protest: The Art of Organizing and Resistance by L.A. Kauffman 9780520301528
RRP: £14.99£12.15"Explores protesting as an act of faith . . . How to Read a Protest argues that the women's marches of 2017 didn't just help shape and fuel a moment-they actually created one."-Masha Gessen, The New Yorker O, the Oprah Magazine's "14 Best Political... -
Living with Jim Crow: African American Women and Memories of the Segregated South by Leslie Brown 9780230621527
£38.60Using first-person narratives collected through oral history interviews, this groundbreaking book collects black women's memories of their public and private lives during the period of legal segregation in the American South.About the AuthorANNE VALK is... -
Charles Booth's Policemen: Crime, Police and Community in Jack-the-Ripper's London by Victor Bailey 9780957000568
RRP: £17.00£15.12Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780957000568Author Victor BaileyFormat PaperbackPage Count 164Imprint Breviary Stuff PublicationsPublisher Breviary Stuff PublicationsWeight(grams) 199g