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Folly and Fortune in Early British History: From Caesar to the Normans by K. Henshall 9780230555204
$68.65Focusing on pivotal points in Early British History, this book examines the role of folly and fortune in major events in Britain from Caesar's expeditions to the Norman Conquest. By examining the foolishness in a bygone age, Henshall draws attention to... -
Overcoming Katrina: African American Voices from the Crescent City and Beyond by D'Ann R. Penner 9780230608702
RRP: $94.48$94.44Overcoming Katrina tells the stories of 27 New Orleanians as they fought to survive Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath. Their oral histories offer first-hand experiences: three days on a roof with Navy veteran Leonard Smith; at the convention center... -
Creating an American Identity: New England, 1789-1825 by Stephanie Kermes 9780230605268
RRP: $209.98$188.73Creating an American Identity examines the relationship between regionalism and nationalism in New England. Focusing on the years 1789-1825, it analyzes the process by which New Englanders used trans-Atlantic symbols as well as regional landscapes,... -
Soldiers, Shahs and Subalterns in Iran: Opposition, Protest and Revolt, 1921-1941 by Stephanie Cronin 9780230537941
RRP: $188.98$188.73Against conventional views of the unchallenged hegemony of a modernizing monarchy, this book argues that power was continuously contested in Riza Shah's Iran. Cronin excavates the successive challenges to Riza Shah's regime posed by a range of subaltern... -
The Invention of International Crime: A Global Issue in the Making, 1881-1914 by Paul Knepper 9780230238183
RRP: $94.48$94.44We live in the age of international crime but when did it begin? This book examines the period when crime became an international issue (1881-1914), exploring issues such as 'world-shrinking' changes in transportation, communication and commerce, and... -
The History of Reading: International Perspectives, c. 1500-1990 by Shafquat Towheed 9780230247512
RRP: $94.48$94.44Bringing together research from a variety of countries and periods, this volume introduces readers to the diverse approaches used to recover the evidence of reading through history in different societies, and asks whether reading practices are always... -
Memory and the Future: Transnational Politics, Ethics and Society by Yifat Gutman 9780230247406
RRP: $94.48$94.44For those who study memory, there is a nagging concern that memory studies are inherently backward-looking, and that memory itself hinders efforts to move forward. Unhinging memory from the past, this book brings together an interdisciplinary group of... -
Romantic Cosmopolitanism by Esther Wohlgemut 9780230232044
RRP: $94.48$94.44Romantic Cosmopolitanism shows how cosmopolitanism in the early nineteenth century offers a non-unified formulation of the nation that stands in contrast to more unified models such as Edmund Burke's which found nationality in, among other things,... -
Monism: Science, Philosophy, Religion, and the History of a Worldview by T. Weir 9780230113732
RRP: $94.48$94.44The first survey in the English language of the history of naturalistic monism in the works of Haeckel, Spinoza, and others. Contributors demonstrate that, to a greater extent than previously shown, monism provided an essential epistemological framework... -
Knowledge Production, Pedagogy, and Institutions in Colonial India by Indra Sengupta 9780230113374
RRP: $94.48$94.44This volume seeks to revise the Saidian analytical framework which dominated research on the subject of colonial knowledge for almost two decades, which emphasized colonial knowledge as a series of representations of colonial hegemony. It seeks to... -
Black Power in Bermuda: The Struggle for Decolonization by Quito Swan 9780230109582
RRP: $146.98$137.07This book examines the impact of Black Power on the British colony of Bermuda, where the 1972-73 assassinations of its British Police Commissioner and Governor reflected the Movement's denouncement of British imperialism and the island's racist and... -
Writing the Stalin Era: Sheila Fitzpatrick and Soviet Historiography by Golfo Alexopoulos 9780230109308
RRP: $94.48$94.44Covering topics such as the Soviet monopoly over information and communication, violence in the gulags, and gender relations after World War II, this festschrift volume highlights the work and legacy of Sheila Fitzpatrick offers a cross-section of some... -
Murder and Media in the New Rome: The Fadda Affair by T. Simpson 9780230108363
RRP: $94.48$94.44An insightful look into the origins of modern Italian media culture by examining a sensational crime and trial that took place in Rome in the late 1870s, when a bloody murder triggered a national spectacle that became the first great media circus in the... -
Writing the Stalin Era: Sheila Fitzpatrick and Soviet Historiography by Golfo Alexopoulos 9780230105492
RRP: $94.48$94.44Covering topics such as the Soviet monopoly over information and communication, violence in the gulags, and gender relations after World War II, this festschrift volume highlights the work and legacy of Sheila Fitzpatrick offers a cross-section of some... -
Women and Economic Activities in Late Medieval Ghent by Shennan Hutton 9780230104952
RRP: $94.48$94.44Contrary to the widespread view that women exercised economic autonomy only in widowhood, Hutton argues that marital status was not the chief determinant of women's economic activities in the mid-fourteenth century and that women managed their own wealth... -
Regulating Passion: Sexuality and Patriarchal Rule in Massachusetts, 1700-1830 by Kelly A. Ryan 9780199928422
RRP: $144.90$115.19Sexuality was a critical factor that influenced the ways individuals experienced, learned and contested their place in early Massachusetts history. Sexual regulation and derisive sexual characterizations were tools in maintaining the wealth, race, and... -
Bowing to Necessities: A History of Manners in America, 1620-1860 by C.Dallett Hemphill 9780195154085
RRP: $132.30$95.47Anglo-Americans wrestled with some profound cultural contradictions as they shifted from the hierarchical and patriarchal society of the seventeenth-century frontier to the modern and fluid class democracy of the mid-nineteenth century. How could... -
Liberty and Conscience: A Documentary History of Conscientious Objectors in America through the Civil War by Peter Brock 9780195151213
RRP: $180.60$149.23Although the act of conscientious objection entered modern consciousness largely as a result of the Vietman War, Americans have, in fact, long struggled to reconcile their politics and pacifist beliefs with compulsory military service. While... -
Liberty and Conscience: A Documentary History of Conscientious Objectors in America through the Civil War by Peter Brock 9780195151220
RRP: $140.70$102.63Although the act of conscientious objection entered modern consciousness largely as a result of the Vietman War, Americans have, in fact, long struggled to reconcile their politics and pacifist beliefs with compulsory military service. While... -
The Screenplay: Authorship, Theory and Criticism by Steven Price 9780230223615
$98.39After decades of neglect, the screenplay is finally being recognized as a form that deserves serious critical analysis. This book for the first time combines detailed study of the theory and practice of screenwriting with new approaches to criticism and... -
Tales From The Millinery Shop by David Charles Hart 9781525552892
RRP: $27.28$19.80Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Interventions: Rethinking the Nineteenth Century by Andrew Smith 9781526108708
RRP: $52.50$37.63This book aims to intervene in current critical contexts for the study of nineteenth-century literature within the academy and beyond. Topics discussed include science and technology, poetry and philosophy, the Gothic, anatomical exhibitions, the global... -
A Half-Century of Greatness: The Creative Imagination of Europe, 1848-1884 by Frederic Ewen 9780814722367
RRP: $155.40$137.45Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Confronting Antisemitism from the Perspectives of Christianity, Islam, and Judaism by Armin Lange 9783110582420
$179.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783110582420Author Armin LangeFormat HardbackPage Count 351Imprint De GruyterPublisher De GruyterWeight(grams) 635g -
Global Dance Cultures in the 1970s and 1980s: Disco Heterotopias by Flora Pitrolo 9783030919948
RRP: $251.98$225.92This book explores some of disco's other lives which thrived between the 1970s and the 1980s, from oil-boom Nigeria to socialist Czechoslovakia, from post-colonial India to war-torn Lebanon. It charts the translation of disco as a cultural form into... -
Cultural Mediation in Europe, 1800-1950 by Reine Meylaerts 9789462701120
RRP: $92.40$88.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789462701120Author Reine MeylaertsFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Leuven University PressPublisher Leuven University PressWeight(grams) 370g -
Women Who Would be Kings by Lisa Hopkins 9780312065959 [USED COPY]
RRP: $33.50$33.12Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312065959Author Lisa HopkinsFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 363g -
Examples of English Handwriting, 1150-1750 by Hilda Grieve 9780900360312 [USED COPY]
$66.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780900360312Author Hilda GrieveFormat PaperbackPage Count 38Imprint Essex Record Office PublicationsPublisher Essex Record Office Publications -
Seville, Codoba and Granada: A Cultural and Literary History by Elizabeth Nash 9781902669960 [USED COPY]
RRP: $31.50$11.87Spain's southern city of Seville basks in romantic myths and legends, evoking the scent of jasmine and orange blossom. But there is an ascetic core to its sybaritic spirit. For all their fame as passionate performers, the poet Unamuno called Sevillanos... -
Reading in Old Photographs: A Second Selection by P.G. Southerton 9780750902786 [USED COPY]
RRP: $16.78$4.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780750902786Author P.G. SouthertonFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Sutton Publishing LtdPublisher The History Press LtdWeight(grams) 320g -
Sharecropper's Troubadour: John L. Handcox, the Southern Tenant Farmers' Union, and the African American Song Tradition by Michael K. Honey 9780230111288
RRP: $104.98$82.38Folk singer and labor organizer John Handcox was born to illiterate sharecroppers, but went on to become one of the most beloved folk singers of the prewar labor movement. This beautifully told oral history gives us Handcox in his own words, recounting a... -
Myth and Memory: Stories of Indigenous-European Contact by John Lutz 9780774812634
RRP: $62.98$55.65The moment of contact between two peoples, two alien societies, marks the opening of an epoch and the joining of histories. What if it had happened differently?The stories that indigenous peoples and Europeans tell about their first encounters with one... -
When I Was a Nipper: The Way We Were in Disappearing Britain by Alan Titchmarsh 9781846072024 [USED COPY]
RRP: $42.00$5.88In "When I Was a Nipper" Alan Titchmarsh goes on a personal and nostalgic journey through post-War Britain in search of treasured values and traditions that were once the soul of society. With characteristic wit, warmth and humour he draws on... -
Salisbury in Old Photographs: A Second Selection by Peter Daniels 9780862995669 [USED COPY]
RRP: $16.78$4.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780862995669Author Peter DanielsFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Sutton Publishing LtdPublisher The History Press LtdWeight(grams) 330g -
The Real Mad Men: The Remarkable True Story of Madison Avenue's Golden Age by Andrew Cracknell 9780857384270 [USED COPY]
RRP: $31.48$4.39In New York City in the late 1950s and the 1960s - the era and location of TV's Mad Men - advertising went through a revolution. In a booming market, a punchy and proud new workforce of younger, multi-ethnic writers and art directors gorged themselves on... -
River of the Golden Ibis by Gloria Jahoda 9780813017891
RRP: $41.90$36.29This work traces the origins of the Hillsborough River, in Florida, to prehistoric times, chronicles the arrivals of the conquistadores, the missionaries, and the marauders greedy for civilizing and for treasure, and points out how contemporary ambitions... -
In These Times: Living in Britain Through Napoleon's Wars, 1793-1815 by Jenny Uglow 9780571269525 [USED COPY]
$5.88"The sharply-observed characters and constant pricks of humour make this book seem almost as if Jane Austen had written a history of her own times." (Lucy Worsley The Times). We know the thrilling, terrible stories of the battles of the... -
Labour People by Kenneth O. Morgan 9780192852700 [USED COPY]
RRP: $18.88$6.49The British Labour movement has always venerated the collective ideal: solidarity, mass endeavour, the common good. Yet paradoxically, it draws constant inspiration from the ideas and achievements of key individuals; it needs and reveres the charismatic... -
How Britain Worked by Guy Martin 9780753540848 [USED COPY]
RRP: $42.00$5.88It is a largely forgotten fact that Britain was the first industrialized country in the world, but Guy Martin - the cult motorcycle racer and mechanic - is about to remind us how the industrial revolution helped make Britain great. Guy shows how the... -
Railways to the Coast: Britain's Seaside Lines Past and Present by Michael Baker 9781852600587 [USED COPY]
$5.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781852600587Author Michael BakerFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Patrick Stephens LtdPublisher Haynes Publishing GroupWeight(grams) 195g