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Potted History: How Houseplants Took Over Our Homes Catherine Horwood 9781910258941
RRP: $20.98$14.28There is no shortage of books on how to look after houseplants but no one has shown us how and when and why these plants came to be in our homes. Catherine Horwood's combination of social history, plant history and the history of interior design explains... -
East End 1888 by William J. Fishman 9780907123859
$27.26Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780907123859Author William J. FishmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 343Imprint Five Leaves PublicationsPublisher Five Leaves Publications -
Letters of Note: War by Shaun Usher
RRP: $14.68$10.16In Letters of Note: War, Shaun Usher brings together some of the most remarkable letters that encapsulate the human experience of war, from unimaginable feats of courage and compassion, to unthinkable episodes of violence and horror.Includes letters... -
Fashionable Folkestone: The Golden Age of a Kent Seaside Resort by Martin Easdown 9781445682495
RRP: $33.58$22.79Over the course of the nineteenth century Folkestone was transformed from a little fishing village into a popular seaside resort, complete with large hotels to accommodate its many wealthy visitors, a theatre, bathing establishment and pleasure pier... -
The Origins of Sex: A History of the First Sexual Revolution by Faramerz Dabhoiwala
RRP: $31.48$23.00For most of western history, all sex outside marriage was illegal, with the church and state punishing any dissent. Between 1600 and 1800, this entire world-view was shattered by revolutionary new ideas - that consenting adults have the freedom to do... -
The Gypsies Angus Fraser 9780631196051
RRP: $77.60$68.27Since their unexplained appearance in Europe over nine centuries ago, the Gypsies have refused to fall in with conventional settled life. They remain a people whose culture and customs are beset with misunderstanding, and who cling to their distinct... -
Ten Tomatoes That Changed the World: A History by William Alexander
RRP: $46.20$34.21The tomato gets no respect. Never has. Lost in the dustbin of history for centuries, accused of being vile and poisonous, subjected to being picked hard-green and gassed, even used as a projectile, the poor tomato has become the avatar for our... -
Oral History Theory Lynn Abrams 9781138905399
RRP: $83.98$73.63Oral history is increasingly acknowledged as a key tool for anyone studying the history of the recent past, and Oral History Theory provides a comprehensive, systematic and accessible overview of this important field. Combining the study of theories... -
Medieval Schools: Roman Britain to Renaissance England by Nicholas Orme 9780300111026
RRP: $73.50$73.31A sequel to Nicholas Orme's widely praised study, Medieval Children Children have gone to school in England since Roman times. By the end of the middle ages there were hundreds of schools, supporting a highly literate society. This book traces their... -
To Fight Alongside Friends: The First World War Diary of Charlie May by Gerry Harrison 9780007558551
RRP: $23.08$17.41The First World War Diaries of Manchester Pals Captain Charlie May - written and kept in secret and published now for the first time. A born storyteller, Charlie May's vivid eye for detail and warm good humour brings his experience in the trenches (and... -
The Extraordinary Life of A A Milne by Nadia Cohen 9781526704467
RRP: $41.98$29.99VERY few authors can ever dream of coming close to the legacy left by AA Milne. He remains a household name in almost every corner of the globe thanks to a phenomenally popular collection of whimsical children s stories about a boy named Christopher... -
Destiny and Power: The American Odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush Jon Meacham 9780812979473
RRP: $35.68$26.33Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812979473Author Jon MeachamFormat PaperbackPage Count 880Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 1125gDimensions(mm) 231mm *... -
Betrumped: The Surprising History of 3000 Long-Lost, Exotic and Endangered Words by Edward Allhusen 9781445678672
$33.18If you think that the English language stays still, carved in tablets of stone, think again. English is constantly on the move, enhancing its scope by gratefully accepting words from other languages. It tolerates changes to meanings, often with hilarious... -
Black Handsworth: Race in 1980s Britain by Kieran Connell 9780520300682
RRP: $63.00$48.91In 1980s Britain, while the country failed to reckon with the legacies of its empire, a black, transnational sensibility was emerging in its urban areas. In Handsworth, an inner-city neighborhood of Birmingham, black residents looked across the Atlantic... -
Edward III and the Triumph of England: The Battle of Crecy and the Company of the Garter by Richard Barber
RRP: $39.88$28.58The destruction of the French army at Crecy in 1346 and the subsequent siege and capture of Calais marked a new era in European history. The most powerful, glamorous and respected of all western monarchies had been completely humiliated by England, a... -
A Cultural History of Law in the Age of Reform by Ian Ward
$61.05The Age of Reform – the hundred years from 1820 to 1920 - has become synonymous with innovation and change but this period was also in many ways a deeply conservative and cautious one. With reform came reaction and revolution and this was as true of the... -
Blood and Circuses: Football and the Fight for Europe's Rebel Republics by Rob O'Connor
RRP: $42.00$30.01In the last decade of the twentieth century, Eastern Europe was plunged into chaos following the disintegration of the Soviet and Yugoslav regimes. Politicians who had once jostled for power on the periphery of the Communist world suddenly became engaged... -
Life in a Medieval City by Frances Gies
RRP: $23.08$15.23"Some particular books I found useful for A Game of Thrones and its sequels deserve mention...Life in a Medieval Castle and Life in a Medieval City, both by Joseph and Frances Gies." -George R.R. Martin, author of the series A Song of Ice and... -
Popular Magic: Cunning-folk in English History by Owen Davies 9781847250360
RRP: $90.28$88.20Cunning-folk were local practitioners of magic, providing small-scale but valued service to the community. They were far more representative of magical practice than the arcane delvings of astrologers and necromancers. Mostly unsensational in their... -
Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President by Candice Millard
RRP: $37.80$23.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Choice Magazine Outstanding Academic Title 2012.Book InformationISBN 9780767929714Author Candice MillardFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Random House... -
The Secret Order of Assassins: The Struggle of the Early Nizari Ismai'lis Against the Islamic World by Marshall G. S. Hodgson
RRP: $52.48$47.90The sect known as "the Assassins," a corruption of an Arabic word that means hashish smoker, is familiar to the West as a mystical cult of killers led by the "Man in the Mountain" encountered by the Crusaders. But it was not defeat at the hands of... -
Dolce Vita Confidential: Fellini, Loren, Pucci, Paparazzi and the Swinging High Life of 1950s Rome by Shawn Levy
RRP: $27.28$18.06SUNDAY TIMES FILM BOOK OF THE YEAR'Uproariously readable ... Levy is a master of the group biography' Sunday Times'Teeming with satisfying gossipy details' Guardian'Exalts the intoxicating, beguiling dreaminess of Rome in its celluloid heyday' TLS1950s... -
Go Listen to the Crofters by A.D. Cameron 9780861520633
RRP: $27.28$23.12Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780861520633Author A.D. CameronFormat PaperbackPage Count 132Imprint AcairPublisher AcairDimensions(mm) 290mm * 220mm * 14mm -
The Last Hunters: The Crab Fishermen of Cromer by Candy Whittome 9780957152809
RRP: $52.50$37.21Short-listed for the 2013 New Angle Prize for Literature.BOOK OF THE YEAR - overall winner of the East Anglian Book Awards 2012"A major piece of work, beautifully presented, on a subject familiar to us all but about which few of us have a deep... -
Travel and Ethnology in the Renaissance: South India through European Eyes, 1250-1625 by Joan-Pau Rubies 9780521526135
RRP: $65.08$60.23This book, first published in 2000, offers a wide-ranging and ambitious analysis of how European travellers in India developed their perceptions of ethnic, political and religious diversity over three hundred years. It analyses the growth of novel... -
Sexual Hegemony: Statecraft, Sodomy, and Capital in the Rise of the World System by Christopher Chitty 9781478009580
RRP: $44.08$38.58In Sexual Hegemony Christopher Chitty traces the five-hundred year history of capitalist sexual relations by excavating the class dynamics of the bourgeoisie's attempts to regulate homosexuality. Tracking the politicization of male homosexuality in... -
The Rise of Modern Philosophy: A New History of Western Philosophy, Volume 3 by Anthony Kenny
RRP: $31.48$24.40Sir Anthony Kenny's engaging new history of Western philosophy now advances into the modern era. The Rise of Modern Philosophy is the fascinating story of the emergence, from the early sixteenth to the early nineteenth century, of great ideas and... -
English Houses 1300-1800: Vernacular Architecture, Social Life by Matthew H. Johnson 9780582772182
RRP: $77.68$75.05Houses are more than a shelter from the elements: they also offer an unparalleled insight into the beliefs, ideas and experiences of the people who built and lived in them. In this engaging book, Matthew Johnson looks at the traditional houses that still... -
The Making of the Modern Philippines: Pieces of a Jigsaw State by Philip Bowring
RRP: $52.50$40.34"Well-researched... a welcome guide." The Spectator "Reliable and lucid." History Today With a fractured geography and complex identity, The Philippines is an eclectic and unique mix of culture, environment, people and politics. Known mostly for... -
The Dawn of Modern Cosmology: From Copernicus to Newton by Nicolaus Copernicus 9780241360637
RRP: $35.68$25.94New to Penguin Classics, the astonishing story of the Copernican Revolution, told through the words of the ground-breaking scientists who brought it aboutIn the late fifteenth century, it was believed that the earth stood motionless at the centre of a... -
Indigenous London: Native Travelers at the Heart of Empire by Coll Thrush
RRP: $63.00$62.27An imaginative retelling of London's history, framed through the experiences of Indigenous travelers who came to the city over the course of more than five centuries"Thrush has certainly offered a powerful corrective to the usual geographies imagined for... -
The World of Sugar: How the Sweet Stuff Transformed Our Politics, Health, and Environment over 2,000 Years by Ulbe Bosma
RRP: $62.90$50.53"[A] tour de force of global history...Bosma has turned the humble sugar crystal into a mighty prism for understanding aspects of global history and the world in which we live."-Los Angeles Review of BooksThe definitive 2,500-year history of sugar and... -
Churchill's War in Words: His Finest Quotes, 1939-1945 by Jonathan Asbury 9781904897361
RRP: $18.88$13.46Churchill's War in Words transports the reader back to the storm-struck days of the Second World War. Focussing only on words used at the time, it reveals the way that Winston Churchill talked about the conflict in public and in private - and the way... -
Littlejohn's Lost World by Richard Littlejohn 9780099569282
RRP: $35.68$25.79'Littlejohn's large-hearted nostalgia and aggression tempered with humour, remain a necessary tonic.' The TimesBorn when wartime rationing was still in force and children ran free and wild, the world in which Richard Littlejohn grew up feels like it... -
The Berbers: The Peoples of Africa Michael Brett (School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London) 9780631207672
RRP: $90.20$78.90The Berbers provides a comprehensive overview of the history of the Berber-speaking peoples.About the AuthorMichael Brett is Lecturer in African History at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London University. Elizabeth Fentress was formerly a... -
The Slave's Cause: A History of Abolition by Manisha Sinha
$46.66Winner of the 2017 Frederick Douglass Prize A groundbreaking history of abolition that recovers the largely forgotten role of African Americans in the long march toward emancipation from the American Revolution through the Civil War Received historical... -
That Neutral Island by Clair Wills
RRP: $31.48$20.58Of the countries that remained neutral during the Second World War, none was more controversial than Ireland, with accusations of betrayal and hypocrisy poisoning the media. Whereas previous histories of Ireland in the war years have focused on high... -
What is Intellectual History? Richard Whatmore (University of St Andrews) 9780745644936
RRP: $31.48$28.52What is intellectual history? Those who practice intellectual history have described themselves as eavesdroppers upon the conversations of the past, explorers of alien ideological worlds, and translators between historic societies and our own, while... -
Dublin Tenement Life by Kevin C. Kearns 9780717140749
RRP: $39.88$28.58This book is totally unique. It is based on the original and wholly authentic testimonies of survivors of the old Dublin tenements. For nearly 150 years, the wretched, squalid tenements of Dublin were widely judged to be the worst slums in all of Europe... -
History and Memory by Geoffrey Cubitt 9780719060786
RRP: $41.98$37.42In recent years, 'memory' has become a central, though also a controversial, concept in historical studies - a term that denotes both a new and distinctive field of study and a fresh way of conceptualizing history as a field of inquiry more generally. ...