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The People of the Abyss by Jack London 9780999428320
RRP: £13.95£10.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999428320Author Jack LondonFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Antipodes PressPublisher Antipodes PressWeight(grams) 277g -
Making the Best of Things: The Autobiography of a Camberwell Lad by Len Williams 9780955577727
£13.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780955577727Author Len WilliamsFormat PaperbackImprint Framecharge PressPublisher Framecharge PressWeight(grams) 626g -
Born in 1959?: What Else Happened? by Ron Williams 9780994601599
RRP: £10.00£7.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780994601599Author Ron WilliamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Boom BooksPublisher Boom Books -
Genteel Women: Empire and Domestic Material Culture, 1840-1910 by Dianne Lawrence 9780719097362
RRP: £25.00£21.79During the latter half of the nineteenth century and the first decades of the twentieth, colonial expansion prompted increasing numbers of genteel women to establish their family homes in far-flung corners of the world. This work explores ways in which... -
British Emigration, 1603-1914 by Alexander Murdoch 9780333764916
RRP: £44.99£44.97The idea of Britain has been understood largely in terms of sectarian conflict and state formation, whereas emigration has most often been explored in terms of economic and social history. This book explores the relationship between two subjects normally... -
Voices in Ruins: West German Radio across the 1945 Divide by Alexander Badenoch 9780230009035
RRP: £44.99£44.97Immediately after the Second World War, the radio was the best-preserved medium of mass communication in Germany. This book explores the implications of this dominance by asking how everyday broadcasting constructed ideas of 'normal' times, people and... -
Colonial Migrants and Racism: Algerians in France, 1900-62 by Neil MacMaster 9780312165017
£90.27The first comprehensive study in English of the earliest and largest 'Third-World' migration into pre-war Europe. Full attention is given to the relationship between the society of emigration, undermined by colonialism, and processes of ethnic... -
Born in 1942? What else happened? by Ron Williams 9780995354982
RRP: £9.00£6.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995354982Author Ron WilliamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 164Imprint Boom BooksPublisher Boom BooksWeight(grams) 204g -
Transnational Lives: Biographies of Global Modernity, 1700-present by Desley Deacon 9780230238701
RRP: £99.99£80.03The transnationalism of ordinary lives threatens the stability of national identity and unsettles the framework of national histories and biography. This book takes mobility, not nation, as its frame, and captures a rich array of lives, from the elite to... -
Faith Under Fire: Anglican Army Chaplains and the Great War by Edward Madigan 9780230237452
RRP: £44.99£44.97After the Great War some texts by British Army veterans portrayed the Anglican chaplains who had served with them in an extremely negative light. This book examines the realities of Anglican chaplains' wartime experiences and presents a compelling... -
The Art Deco Mansion in St Lucia: What drove the man who built it? by Ruth Bonetti 9780987544261
RRP: £12.99£9.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780987544261Author Ruth BonettiFormat PaperbackPage Count 202Imprint Words and Musica BonettiPublisher Words and Musica BonettiWeight(grams) 152g -
Modernism and Phenomenology: Literature, Philosophy, Art by Ariane Mildenberg 9780230289369
RRP: £89.99£89.87Braiding together strands of literary, phenomenological and art historical reflection, Modernism and Phenomenology explores the ways in which modernist writers and artists return us to wonder before the world. Taking such wonder as the motive for... -
Personification of Hope: A Legacy of National African American Political Leadership by Daryl Lamar Andrews 9780983560920
RRP: £16.21£14.47Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780983560920Author Daryl Lamar AndrewsFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Andrews PressPublisher Andrews PressWeight(grams) 200g -
Intersections of Gender, Religion and Ethnicity in the Middle Ages by Cordelia Beattie 9780230579927
RRP: £44.99£44.97This collection of essays focuses attention on how medieval gender intersects with other categories of difference, particularly religion and ethnicity. It treats the period c.800-1500, with a particular focus on the era of the Gregorian reform movement,... -
A Cultural History of Gardens in the Medieval Age by Dr Michael Leslie 9780857850300
£100.12The Middle Ages was a time of great upheaval - the period between the seventh and fourteenth centuries saw great social, political and economic change. The radically distinct cultures of the Christian West, Byzantium, Persian-influenced Islam, and... -
Soldiers, Citizens and Civilians: Experiences and Perceptions of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, 1790-1820 by Alan I. Forrest 9780230545342
RRP: £89.99£89.87The Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars affected millions of people's lives across Europe and beyond. Yet the extent to which the constant warfare of the period 1792-1815 shaped everyday experience has been little studied. This volume of essays discusses... -
Accommodating Poverty: The Housing and Living Arrangements of the English Poor, c. 1600-1850 by Joanne McEwan 9780230542426
RRP: £44.99£44.97This book offers a detailed examination of the living arrangements and material circumstances of the poor betweeen 1650 and 1850. Chapters investigate poor households in urban, rural and metropolitan contexts, and contribute to wider investigations into... -
Power and State Formation in West Africa: Appolonia from the Sixteenth to the Eighteenth Century by Pierluigi Valsecchi 9780230117761
RRP: £44.99£44.97Looks at the political and social history of the Gold Coast in West Africa from the early 16th century to the second half of the 18th. The book examines how political entities in Nzema were structured territorially, as well as the formation of ruling... -
Intellectuals and the People by Angie Sandhu 9780230549234
RRP: £89.99£89.87Angie Sandhu examines the relation between intellectuals and society through political theory and a consideration of contemporary debates in both Britain and the US. She sets out a new argument that calls for intellectuals to address their own elite... -
Renaissance Impostors and Proofs of Identity by Miriam Eliav-Feldon 9780230547063
£101.39Early Modern Europe was teeming with impostors. Identity theft was only one form of misrepresentation: royal pretenders, envoys from imaginary lands, religious dissimulators, cross-dressers, false Gypsies - all these caused deep anxiety, leading... -
Oral History, Community, and Displacement: Imagining Memories in Post-Apartheid South Africa by S. Field 9780230108905
RRP: £44.99£44.97This book uses oral history methodology to record stories of people who experienced the brunt of racist forced removals in the city of Cape Town, South Africa. Through life stories and community case studies, it traces the human impact of this... -
Fantasy Film Post 9/11 by Frances Pheasant-Kelly 9780230392120
RRP: £44.99£44.97Examining a range of fantasy films released in the past decade, Pheasant-Kelly looks at why these films are meaningful to current audiences. The imagery and themes reflecting 9/11, millennial anxieties, and environmental disasters have furthered... -
The 'Black Horror on the Rhine': Intersections of Race, Nation, Gender and Class in 1920s Germany by Iris Wigger 9781349594856
£101.58This book explores the 'Black Horror' campaign as an important chapter in the popularisation of racialised discourse in European history. Originating in early 1920s Germany, this international racist campaign was promoted through modern media, targeting... -
Presidents in the Movies: American History and Politics on Screen by Iwan W. Morgan 9780230113282
RRP: £99.99£89.87Cinematic depictions of real U.S. presidents from Abraham Lincoln to George W. Bush explore how Hollywood movies represent American history and politics on screen. Morgan and his contributors show how films blend myth and reality to present a positive... -
A Cultural History of Gardens in the Renaissance by Michael Leslie 9780857850317
RRP: £100.00£99.72A Cultural History of Gardens presents an authoritative survey from ancient times to the present. This set of six volumes covers over 2500 years of gardens as physical, social and artistic spaces. 1. A Cultural History of Gardens in Antiquity (600 BCE -... -
The Big Show: British Cinema Culture in the Great War (1914-1918) by Michael Hammond 9780859897587
RRP: £75.00£60.94The Big Show looks at the role played by cinema in British cultural life during World War One. In writing the definitive account of film exhibition and reception in Britain in the years 1914 to 1918, Michael Hammond shows how the British film industry... -
Public Goods Provision in the Early Modern Economy by R Bin Wong 9781013292354
RRP: £39.95£35.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781013292354Author R Bin WongFormat HardbackPage Count 344Imprint Saint Philip Street PressPublisher Saint Philip Street PressWeight(grams) 216g -
Mediation at the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin by Irit Dekel 9780230363304
RRP: £44.99£44.97Analyzing action at the Holocaust memorial in Berlin, this first ethnography of the site offers a fresh approach to studying the memorial and memory work as potential civic engagement of visitors with themselves and others rather than with history itself... -
Media Literacy and Semiotics by Elliot Gaines 9780230108271
RRP: £44.99£44.97Media Literacy and Semiotics provides helpful tools to help readers think critically about the meaning of the media images they are exposed to on a daily basis. In this comprehensive book, a basic model of semiotic logic is applied to a variety of media... -
England in 1815: A Critical Edition of The Journal of Joseph Ballard by A. Rauch 9780230601482
RRP: £44.99£44.97An annotated edition of an American's engaging account of culture and politics in England during a crucial period in British history. This new edition features an extensive introduction, numerous primary-source appendices, and other critical apparatus... -
Reading Memory and Identity in the Texts of Medieval European Holy Women by Margaret Cotter-Lynch 9780230619869
RRP: £44.99£44.97Examines a range of texts commemorating European holy women from the ninth through fifteenth centuries. Explores the relationship between memorial practices and identity formation. Draws upon much of the recent scholarly interest in the nature and uses... -
Drinking Matters: Public Houses and Social Exchange in Early Modern Central Europe by Professor Beat Kumin 9780230554085
RRP: £44.99£44.97Offering the first comparative survey of public houses in pre-industrial Europe and drawing on a vast range of primary sources, this study establishes inns and taverns as principal communication sites in local communities. Contested and continuously... -
May You Live In Interesting Times: Archive of Family Photographs and Documents Circa 1949 to 1960 by Michael Ostrogorsky 9780578919836
£30.33Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578919836Author Michael OstrogorskyFormat HardbackPage Count 164Imprint Blue Parrot BooksPublisher Blue Parrot BooksWeight(grams) 216g -
The 'Black Horror on the Rhine': Intersections of Race, Nation, Gender and Class in 1920s Germany by Iris Wigger 9780230343610
£101.71This book explores the 'Black Horror' campaign as an important chapter in the popularisation of racialised discourse in European history. Originating in early 1920s Germany, this international racist campaign was promoted through modern media, targeting... -
Through the Storm, Through the Night: A History of African American Christianity by Paul Harvey 9780742564732
RRP: £51.00£41.51Paul Harvey illustrates how black Christian traditions provided theological, institutional, and personal strategies for cultural survival during bondage and into an era of partial freedom. At the same time, he covers the ongoing tug-of-war between themes... -
Uninvited Neighbors: African Americans in Silicon Valley, 1769-1990 by Herbert G Ruffin 9780806154176
RRP: £21.95£21.26Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806154176Author Herbert G RuffinFormat PaperbackPage Count 354Imprint University of Oklahoma PressPublisher University of Oklahoma PressWeight(grams) 517g -
Of the Russe Commonwealth, 1591 by Giles Fletcher 9780674334151
£55.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674334151Author Giles FletcherFormat HardbackPage Count 223Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 680g -
Punishment and Control in Historical Perspective by Helen Johnston 9780230549333
RRP: £44.99£44.97Bringing together new research, this book advances current theoretical understandings of punishment and control in society. It provides a critical analysis of institutions, punishment and the law, and explores the delivery of punishment and experience of... -
The Home Front by Brian Braithwaite 9780852236079 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.95£2.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780852236079Author Brian BraithwaiteFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Ebury PressPublisher Ebury PublishingWeight(grams) 1053g -
Hotwells: Spa to Pantomime by Sue Stops 9781909446229 [USED COPY]
£281.81Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909446229Author Sue StopsFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Bristol Books CICPublisher Bristol Books CIC