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Drawing the Global Colour Line: White Men's Countries and the International Challenge of Racial Equality by Marilyn Lake
RRP: $65.08$50.48In 1900 W. E. B. DuBois prophesied that the colour line would be the key problem of the twentieth-century and he later identified one of its key dynamics: the new religion of whiteness that was sweeping the world. Whereas most historians have confined... -
Kathmandu by Tomas Bell
RRP: $27.28$18.88One of the greatest cities of the Himalaya, Kathmandu, Nepal, is a unique blend of thousand-year-old cultural practices and accelerated urban development. In this book, Thomas Bell recounts his experiences from his many years in the city--exploring in... -
Who Are We Now?: Stories of Modern England by Jason Cowley 9781529017786 [USED COPY]
RRP: $42.00$5.57A Daily Telegraph Book of the Year 2022'I can't tell you how refreshing it is in these polarised times to read a book on politics that doesn't have an axe to grind . . . an essential read.' The Sunday Times'Subtle, sophisticated . . . compellingly told ... -
Who Are We Now?: Stories of Modern England Jason Cowley 9781529017786
RRP: $42.00$37.00A Daily Telegraph Book of the Year 2022'I can't tell you how refreshing it is in these polarised times to read a book on politics that doesn't have an axe to grind . . . an essential read.' The Sunday Times'Subtle, sophisticated . . . compellingly told ... -
A Place For Everything: The Curious History of Alphabetical Order by Judith Flanders
RRP: $27.28$19.45'A delightfully quirky sturdy . . . [Flanders] is a meticulour historian with a taste for the offbeat; the story of the alphabet suits her well . . . Fascinating.' Sunday TimesOnce we've learned it as children, few of us think much of the alphabet and... -
1177 B.C.: A Graphic History of the Year Civilization Collapsed by Eric H. Cline 9780691213026
RRP: $42.00$37.32A beautiful, full-color graphic version of Eric Cline's bestselling 1177 B.C., adapted by award-winning author-illustrator Glynnis FawkesEric Cline's 1177 B.C. tells the story of one of history's greatest mysteries: what caused the ancient civilizations... -
How to Be a Patriot: Why love of country can end our very British culture war by Sunder Katwala
RRP: $35.68$24.09How do we define patriotism in a diverse society? What divides us and what brings us together? Why do we feel uncomfortable celebrating our country's history? How to be a Patriot offers a new way of understanding our... -
The Once and Future Sex: Going Medieval on Women?s Roles in Society by Eleanor Janega
RRP: $50.38$42.23What makes for the ideal woman? How should she look, love and be? In this vibrant, high-spirited history, medievalist Eleanor Janega turns to the Middle Ages, the era that bridged the ancient world and modern society, to unfurl its suppositions about... -
Grimoires: A History of Magic Books by Owen Davies
RRP: $47.23$33.47What is a grimoire? The word has a familiar ring to many people, particularly as a consequence of such popular television dramas as Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Charmed. But few people are sure exactly what it means. Put simply, grimoires are books... -
The Highland Clearances by Eric Richards
RRP: $31.48$21.42The Highland Clearances stands out as one of the most emotive chapters in the history of Scotland. This book traces the origins of the Clearances from the eighteenth century to their culmination in the crofting legislation of the 1880s. In considering... -
Old Age in English History: Past Experiences, Present Issues by Pat Thane 9780198203827
$154.20At the end of the twentieth century more people are living into their seventies, eighties, nineties and beyond, a process expected to continue well into the next millennium. The twentieth century has achieved what people in other centuries only dreamed... -
Secrets and Lies: The Trials of Christine Keeler by Christine Keeler
RRP: $18.88$13.06In her own words, the life of the beautiful young model and dancer who helped to bring down the Tory government of Harold Macmillan - the 'Profumo Affair' remains the greatest political sex scandal in recent British history.Following Christine Keeler's... -
Revolutionary Berlin: A Walking Guide by Nathaniel Flakin
RRP: $31.48$20.58'Inspirational - with a deliciously bone-dry Berlinische humour' - Owen Hatherley Few European cities can boast a history as storied and tumultuous as that of Berlin. For more than 150 years it has been at the centre of revolutionary politics; of... -
Hawkers, Beggars and Quacks: Portraits from The Cries of London by Sean Shesgreen
RRP: $73.50$57.50'Buy my Dish of great Eeles, Any Old Iron take money for, Twelve Pence a Peck Oysters, Buy my fat Chickens, Fair Lemons & Oranges' Marcellus Laroon's 'The Cryes of the City of London drawne after the Life' presents, in seventy-four striking... -
The Last Days of Detroit: Motor Cars, Motown and the Collapse of an Industrial Giant by Mark Binelli
RRP: $23.08$16.32Once America's capitalist dream town, the Silicon Valley of the Jazz Age, Detroit became the country's greatest urban failure, having fallen the longest and the furthest. The city of Henry Ford, modernity, and Motown found itself blighted by riots,... -
The Mountains Are High: a year of escape and discovery in rural China by Alec Ash 9781914484377
RRP: $35.68$24.32What is it like to radically change your life? Writer Alec Ash meets the Chinese who are doing just this, 'reverse migrating' from the cities to the remote countryside of southwest China - and joins them himself, in an extraordinary and inspiring journey... -
The Sixties Railway by Greg Morse
RRP: $18.88$12.64This is a portrait of a railway network that became beloved of the last generations lucky enough to experience mainline steam. The 1960s saw great change in British society, which was moving ever further from the deference that had been ebbing since the... -
Blitz Spirit: 'Fascinating' -Tom Hanks Becky Brown 9781529347050
RRP: $35.68$24.23'Fascinating ' Elizabeth Day'Finally, a book that is proving very therapeutic in these difficult times... Full of doubt, fear, anger and rueful comedy, they give the lie to the idea that the Brits maintained a stiff upper lip, but it's immensely... -
The Other One Percent: Indians in America by Sanjoy Chakravorty 9780190050771
RRP: $54.58$46.18One of the most remarkable stories of immigration in the last half century is that of Indians to the United States. People of Indian origin make up a little over one percent of the American population now, up from barely half a percent at the turn of the... -
The Jacquerie of 1358: A French Peasants' Revolt by Justine Firnhaber-Baker
RRP: $73.48$67.22The Jacquerie of 1358 is one of the most famous and mysterious peasant uprisings of the Middle Ages. Beginning in a small village but eventually overrunning most of northern France, the Jacquerie rebels destroyed noble castles and killed dozens of... -
The Little Book of Floriography: The Secret Language of Flowers by Orange Hippo! 9781800695399
RRP: $14.68$10.50Revealing a world of secret messages contained within a single petal.Floriography – the language of flowers – is the ancient art of encoding hidden messages in the type, colour and arrangement of plants, allowing individuals to express emotions and... -
Blood Legacy: Reckoning With a Family's Enslaving Past by Alex Renton
RRP: $35.68$24.32LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE'Alex Renton has done Britain a favour and written a brutally honest book about his family's involvement with slavery. Blood Legacy could change our frequently defensive national conversation about slavery/race'... -
Blood Legacy: Reckoning With a Family's Story of Slavery by Alex Renton
RRP: $23.08$15.37LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE'An incredible work of scholarship' Sathnam SangheraThrough the story of his own family's history as slave and plantation owners, Alex Renton looks at how we owe it to the present to understand the legacy of the... -
Fetish: Fashion, Sex, and Power by Valerie Steele 9780195115796
RRP: $56.68$42.00Kinky boots, corsets, underwear as outerwear, second-skin garments of rubber and leather, uniforms, body piercing. Today everything from a fetishist's dream appears on the fashion runways. Although some people regard fetish fashion as exploitative and... -
A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them by Timothy Egan
RRP: $56.68$37.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780735225268Author Timothy EganFormat HardbackPage Count 432Imprint Prentice Hall PressPublisher Prentice Hall Press -
The Presidents' Letters: An Unexpected History of the Irish State by Flor MacCarthy
RRP: $48.28$35.03Shortlisted for the An Post Irish Book Awards Irish-Published Book of the Year A TREASURE TROVE OF LETTERS TO AND FROM OUR NINE PRESIDENTS FROM 1938 TO THE PRESENT DAY With over 400 letters, memos, cards, telegrams, drawings, notes and photographs,... -
Lev's Violin: An Italian Adventure by Helena Attlee 9780241402559 [USED COPY]
RRP: $42.00$5.57*A RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK*'Utterly enthralling - a beautifully-written voyage of discovery that takes us deep into the heart of music-making' Deborah MoggachFrom the moment she hears Lev's violin for the first time, Helena Attlee is captivated. She is... -
Georgian Harlots and Whores: Fame, Fashion & Fortune by Rendell, Mike 9781526791023
RRP: $42.00$30.01This book will look at the phenomenon of celebrity hookers in the eighteenth century -all of them the subject of extraordinary press scrutiny and comment. They were the fashion icons of the age, and what they wore was copied and put on sale in the high... -
The Salt Roads: How Fish Made a Culture by John Goodlad 9781780278285
RRP: $20.98$14.07This is the extraordinary story of how salt fish from Shetland became one of the staple foods of Europe, powered an economic boom and inspired artists, writers and musicians. It ranges from the wild waters of the North Atlantic, the ice-filled fjords... -
The Square and the Tower: Networks, Hierarchies and the Struggle for Global Power by Niall Ferguson
RRP: $35.68$25.79THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'Silicon Valley needed a history lesson and Ferguson has provided it' Eric SchmidtMost history is about the people at the top of the towers of power. But what if the real action is in the social networks down below, in the... -
Two Girls, One on Each Knee: The Puzzling, Playful World of the Crossword by Alan Connor
RRP: $27.28$19.09In the century since its birth, the crossword has evolved into the world's most popular intellectual pastime: a unique form of wordplay, the codes and conventions of which are open to anyone masochistic enough to get addicted. In Two Girls, One on Each... -
Road Rollers by Anthony Coulls
RRP: $18.88$12.64In the nineteenth century, it became obvious that the UK's road system needed to be improved. Smoother roads were required to allow people to travel faster and more safely, and the engineers went to work to make this possible. In this book, author... -
Nine Pints: A Journey Through the Mysterious, Miraculous World of Blood by Rose George 9781846276149
RRP: $20.98$14.18Most humans contain between nine and twelve pints of blood. Here Rose George, who probably contains nine pints, tells nine different stories about the liquid that sustains us, discovering what it reveals about who we are. In Nepal, she meets girls... -
Spinoza, Life and Legacy by Prof Jonathan I. Israel 9780198857488
RRP: $83.98$75.24A biography of the boldest and most unsettling of the early modern philosophers, Spinoza, which examines the man's life, relationships, writings, and career, while also forcing us to rethink how we previously understood Spinoza's reception in his own... -
The Dream of Europe: Travels in a Troubled Continent by Geert Mak
RRP: $27.28$19.03'Mak is the history teacher everyone should have had' Financial TimesFrom the author of the internationally acclaimed In Europe, a stunning history of our present, examining the first two decades of this most fragile and fraught new millennium.How did... -
Spare Parts: An Unexpected History of Transplants by Paul Craddock
RRP: $23.08$16.32'Compelling' Christopher Hart, The Sunday Times'A fascinating book' Daily Mail_______________________________________________________________We think of transplant surgery as one of the medical wonders of the modern world -- but it's a lot older than you... -
Snakes and Ladders: The great British social mobility myth Professor Selina Todd 9781784740818
RRP: $52.50$20.81Politicians claim social mobility is real - a just reward for ambition and hard work. This book proves otherwise.From servants' children who became clerks in Victorian Britain, to managers made redundant by the 2008 financial crash, travelling up or down... -
The Eastern Front, 1941-45, German Troops and the Barbarisation of Warfare by Omer Bartov 9780333949443
RRP: $115.48$104.69Based largely upon unpublished sources, Omer Bartov's study looks closely at the background of the German army on the Eastern Front during the Second World War. He describes the physical hardship, the discipline and morale at the front, and analyses the... -
The Shoulders We Stand On: How Black and Brown people fought for change in the United Kingdom by Preeti Dhillon 9780349702827
RRP: $42.00$25.31The UK is grappling with big questions about belonging, equality, and the legacies of Empire and Colonialism. We've been here before. Embracing a broader history that encompasses all British people, The Shoulders We Stand On is fundamental to a better... -
Radical Politics: On the Causes of Contemporary Emancipation by Peter D. Thomas 9780197528075
RRP: $54.58$46.18The last twenty years have witnessed a proliferation of radical social and political movements around the world, in wave after wave of struggles against intersecting forms of exploitation, domination, and subalternization. From the International Women's...