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Learning from the Germans: Confronting Race and the Memory of Evil by Susan Neiman
RRP: $23.08$16.32'An ambitious and engrossing investigation of the moral legacies which stubbornly refuse to pass' Brendan Simms As the western world struggles with its legacies of racism and colonialism, what can we learn from the past in order to move forward?Susan... -
Stone on Stone: The Men Who Built The Cathedrals by Imogen Corrigan
RRP: $52.50$43.47Standing in the nave of a cathedral, it is hard not to wonder how ordinary human beings could have created sky-scraping, dizzyingly high buildings on which even the top-most parts were delicately decorated, in an age before even the simplest of power... -
A Short History of the Normans by Leonie V. Hicks
$35.22The Battle of Hastings in 1066 is the one date forever seared on the British national psyche. It enabled the Norman Conquest that marked the end of Anglo-Saxon England. But there was much more to the Normans than the invading army Duke William shipped... -
Love Letters of Great Men and Women by Ursula Doyle
RRP: $20.98$15.27From the private papers of Jane Austen and Mozart to those of Anne Boleyn and Nelson, Love Letters of Great Men and Women collects together some of the most romantic letters in history. For some of these great men, love is a 'delicious poison' (William... -
The Thames Through Time: A Liquid History by Stephen Croad
RRP: $42.00$31.33Drawing on the resources of English Heritage's unrivalled photographic archives, The Thames Through Times is a photographic journey along the length of the tidal river and over almost 150 years. We see the rural Thames as it approaches London, riverside... -
The Merchant of Prato: Daily Life in a Medieval Italian City Iris Origo 9780241293928
RRP: $23.08$16.32This extraordinary re-creation of the life of a medieval Italian merchant, Francesco di Marco Datini, is one of the greatest historical portraits written in the twentieth century.Drawing on an astonishing cache of letters unearthed centuries after... -
The Least of These: The Dark Story of Dublin's Foundling Hospital by Mark Roe
RRP: $42.00$31.58Lying at the very edge of the eighteenth-century city, behind high walls and forbidding gates, the Dublin Foundling Hospital was long viewed with horror and suspicion. Yet, following its closure, it seemed to have slipped from the city's memory. The... -
You've Done What, My Lord?: Hilarious tales from a country estate by Rory Clark 9781780338972 [USED COPY]
RRP: $20.98$3.93Rumshott is one of the finest landed estates in England. However, when James Aden takes up the position of Deputy Agent he does not realise the full extent of what the job entails.He finds himself spending his days negotiating with royalty, farmers, and... -
You've Done What, My Lord?: Hilarious tales from a country estate by Rory Clark 9781780338972
$24.49Rumshott is one of the finest landed estates in England. However, when James Aden takes up the position of Deputy Agent he does not realise the full extent of what the job entails.He finds himself spending his days negotiating with royalty, farmers, and... -
The Oxford Companion to Scottish History by Michael Lynch
RRP: $36.73$27.32The Oxford Companion to Scottish History interprets history broadly, including archaeology, architecture, climate, culture, folk belief, geology, and the langauages of Scotland. It covers more than 20 centuries of history, including immigrants, migrants,... -
The Oxford Illustrated History of Witchcraft and Magic by Owen Davies 9780199608447
RRP: $60.88$44.52This richly illustrated history provides a readable and fresh approach to the extensive and complex story of witchcraft and magic. Telling the story from the dawn of writing in the ancient world to the globally successful Harry Potter films, the authors... -
We are the Romani People by Ian Hancock 9781902806198
$30.30The author, who is himself a Romani, speaks directly to the gadze (non-Gypsy) reader about his people, their history since leaving India one thousand years ago and their rejection and exclusion from society in the countries where they settled, their... -
Chocolate Wars: From Cadbury to Kraft: 200 years of Sweet Success and Bitter Rivalry by Deborah Cadbury
RRP: $27.28$17.81The delicious true story of the early chocolate pioneers by the award-winning writer, and direct descendant of the famous chocolate dynasty, Deborah Cadbury In 'Chocolate Wars' bestselling historian and award-winning documentary maker Deborah... -
How Books, Reading and Subscription Libraries Defined Colonial Clubland in the British Empire by Sterling Joseph Coleman
RRP: $83.98$73.63How Books, Reading and Subscription Libraries Defined Colonial Clubland in the British Empire argues that within an entangled web of imperial, colonial and book trade networks books, reading and subscription libraries contributed to a core and peripheral... -
Growing Up: Sex in the Sixties by Peter Doggett
RRP: $52.50$34.71'An excellent book' David Aaronovitch, The TimesWas the 1960s really that great time of liberation, joyful experimentation and celebration of youth? Growing Up takes an unflinching look at the dark underbelly of the sexual revolution.No era in recent... -
The Creation of Anne Boleyn: In Search of the Tudors' Most Notorious Queen by Susan Bordo 9781780745251
RRP: $27.28$19.09Part biography, part cultural history, The Creation of Anne Boleyn is a fascinating reconstruction of Anne's life and an illuminating look at her afterlife in the popular imagination. Why is Anne so compelling? Why does she inspire such extreme... -
Social Reproduction Theory: Remapping Class, Recentering Oppression by Tithi Bhattacharya
RRP: $41.98$33.10This groundbreaking collection explores the profound power of Social Reproduction Theory to deepen our understanding of everyday life under capitalism. While many Marxists tend to focus on the productive economy, this book focuses on issues such as child... -
The Urge: our history of addiction by Carl Erik Fisher 9781912854059
RRP: $35.68$24.32As a psychiatrist-in-training fresh from medical school, Carl Erik Fisher came face to face with his own addiction crisis, one that nearly cost him everything. Here, he investigates the history of this age-old condition. Humans have struggled to define,... -
Antisemitism: A World History of Prejudice by Dan Cohn-Sherbok
RRP: $37.78$29.48Anti-Semitism has featured in the history of Western civilization since the Greeks. What the twentieth century has seen through the lens of the holocaust has been happening for over 3000 years. Dan Cohn-Sherbok traces the origins of anti-Semitism and its... -
On Burnley Road: Class, Race and Politics in a Northern English Town by Mike Makin-Waite 9781913546021
RRP: $35.70$33.87What was happening in Burnley Town Hall when the British National Party was winning and holding seats there? What lay behind the far right's advance, and what effect did it have on local government and wider policy trends? How did mainstream parties... -
WRNS: The Women's Royal Naval Service by Neil R. Storey
RRP: $18.88$13.55From cooks and clerks to weapons analysts and air mechanics, generations of women have served in the Wrens (Women's Royal Naval Service or WRNS). The Royal Navy was the first of the UK armed services to admit women during the First World War with the... -
Aquinas's Ontology of the Material World: Change, Hylomorphism, and Material Objects by Jeffrey E. Brower 9780198714293
$205.40What is the nature of the material world? And how are its fundamental constituents to be described? These questions are of central concern to contemporary philosophers, and in their attempt to answer them, they have begun reconsidering traditional views... -
The Hellfire Clubs: Sex, Satanism and Secret Societies by Evelyn Lord
RRP: $35.68$30.68The first authoritative account of the Hell-Fire Clubs, who joined them, and which notorious legends about them are true The Hell-Fire Clubs scandalized eighteenth-century English society. Rumors of their orgies, recruitment of prostitutes, extensive... -
Solitary Sex: A Cultural History of Masturbation by Thomas W. Laqueur 9781890951337
RRP: $58.80$45.91Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781890951337Author Thomas W LaqueurFormat PaperbackPage Count 504Imprint Zone BooksPublisher Zone BooksWeight(grams) 771gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 46mm -
The Utopians: Six Attempts to Build the Perfect Society by Anna Neima 9781529023107
RRP: $23.08$15.77'Fascinating and richly documented . . . Few books manage to be so informative and so entertaining.' - Sunday TimesSantiniketan-Sriniketan in India, Dartington Hall in England, Atarashiki Mura in Japan, the Institute for the Harmonious Development of Man... -
The Address Book: What Street Addresses Reveal about Identity, Race, Wealth and Power by Deirdre Mask
RRP: $23.08$16.32Longlisted for the Jhalak Prize 2021 A TIME Magazine Must-Read Book of 2020 Shortlisted for the Katharine Briggs Award 2020 'Deirdre Mask's book was just up my Strasse, alley, avenue and boulevard.' -Simon Garfield, author of Just My Type ... -
Iconicon: A Journey Around the Landmark Buildings of Contemporary Britain by John Grindrod 9780571348145
RRP: $23.08$15.37A captivating exploration of Britain's most iconic contemporary buildings, from the Barratt home to the Millennium Dome.***TIMES BOOK OF THE WEEK*** 'A punchy polemic ... Highly readable.''A love letter to contemporary buildings and a fantastic account... -
The Making of Modern British Politics: 1867 - 1945 Martin Pugh (Liverpool John Moores University, UK) 9780631225904
RRP: $69.20$61.19The third edition of this successful text has been revised to include a new chapter on the politics of the Second World War, and to reflect recent developments in research into the period. Third edition of this insightful survey of changes in British... -
By Permission Of Heaven: The Story of the Great Fire of London Adrian Tinniswood 9780712668477
RRP: $27.28$19.09There had, of course, been other fires, Four Hundred and fifty years before, the city had almost burned to the ground. Yet the signs from the heavens in 1666 were ominous: comets, pyramids of flame, monsters born in city slums. Then, in the early hours... -
Shakespeare's First Folio: Four Centuries of an Iconic Book by Emma Smith
RRP: $42.00$27.01Celebrating the 400th Anniversary of the publication of Shakespeare's First Folio This is the biography of a book: the first collected edition of Shakespeare's plays printed in 1623 and known as the First Folio. It begins with the story of its first... -
Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan: Two Volumes in One Lafcadio Hearn 9780804847551
RRP: $35.68$24.23Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan is a complete, two-volume set of one of the most outstanding books on 19th century Japanese history and culture.Though Lafcadio Hearn went on to write a dozen more books on Japan, this collection of first impressions remains... -
Lost Country Houses of the North East by Ian Greaves 9781398106871
RRP: $33.58$22.79England’s country houses have for centuries been where the rich and grand families have displayed their wealth and status. Today, England is still well endowed with these houses, although many of them are now popular visitor attractions instead of... -
Who Was Responsible for the Troubles?: The Northern Ireland Conflict by Liam Kennedy 9780228003687
RRP: $67.20$60.08The Troubles claimed the lives of almost four thousand people in Northern Ireland, most of them civilians; forty-five thousand were injured in bombings and shootings. Relative to population size this was the most intense conflict experienced in Western... -
A War for the Soul of America, Second Edition: A History of the Culture Wars by Andrew Hartman
$42.65When Patrick Buchanan took the stage at the Republican National Convention in 1992 and proclaimed, "There is a religious war going on for the soul of our country," his audience knew what he was talking about: the culture wars, which had raged throughout... -
Days In The Life by Jonathon Green
RRP: $35.68$26.63Jonothan Green offers a time trip from lat-fifties CND, beatniks and bop to the threshold of our own decade's designer revolutionaries and style warriors. . . His chosen form is the oral history pioneered by Studs Terkel in which cross-cut voices recount... -
Defiance: Greece and Europe by Roger Silverman 9781785353987
RRP: $33.58$29.02This socialist history of modern Greece tells the story of its rebirth in struggle, the heroic resistance to Nazi occupation, the civil war and its aftermath, the colonels' dictatorship and its overthrow, the rise and fall of PASOK, the debt crisis, the... -
Rorke's Drift and Isandlwana: Great Battles by Ian F. W. Beckett
RRP: $27.28$19.09This volume recounts the battles of Isandlwana and Rorke's Drift, exploring how they were fought, how they have been remembered, and what they mean for us today. The battle of Isandlwana on 22 January 1879, the first major battle in the Anglo-Zulu... -
Soul on Ice by Eldridge Cleaver
$29.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385333795Author Eldridge CleaverFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Delta (imprint of Dell Publishing)Publisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)... -
Our Boys: The Story of a Paratrooper by Helen Parr
RRP: $23.08$16.32WINNER OF THE LONGMAN-HISTORY TODAY BOOK PRIZE 2019 WINNER OF THE TEMPLER MEDAL BOOK PRIZE 2019 WINNER OF THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON MEDAL FOR MILITARY HISTORY 2019LONGLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING 2019 A SPECTATOR BOOK THE YEAR... -
Escape from Rome: The Failure of Empire and the Road to Prosperity by Walter Scheidel
RRP: $39.88$31.75The gripping story of how the end of the Roman Empire was the beginning of the modern worldThe fall of the Roman Empire has long been considered one of the greatest disasters in history. But in this groundbreaking book, Walter Scheidel argues that Rome's...