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The Oxford Handbook of Genocide Studies by Donald Bloxham 9780199677917
$73.50Genocide has scarred human societies since Antiquity. In the modern era, genocide has been a global phenomenon: from massacres in colonial America, Africa, and Australia to the Holocaust of European Jewry and mass death in Maoist China. In recent years,... -
London Buses by Oliver Green
RRP: $18.88$12.64The bright red double-decker bus has become an icon of London. It is now a unique and instantly recognisable international symbol of Britain's capital city. But its origins go back nearly 200 years to a quite different single-deck vehicle. This was... -
Out of Office: the big problem and bigger promise of working from home by Anne Helen Petersen
RRP: $20.98$14.07A game-changing book about the revolutionary potential of working from home, by two experts who work - and live - together. Out of Office is a book for every office worker - from employees to managers - navigating the return to the office since the... -
A Minority and the State: Travellers in Britain in the Twentieth Century by Becky Taylor 9780719091261
RRP: $41.98$36.98A minority and the state looks at the relationship between Travellers, or 'Gypsies', and the wider settled society in Britain throughout the twentieth century. This detailed study considers the ways in which the state has tried to create and enforce... -
Africa's First Democrats: Somalia's Aden A. Osman and Abdirazak H. Hussen by Abdi Ismail Samatar
RRP: $58.78$50.69Abdi Ismail Samatar provides a clear and foundational history of Somalia at the dawn of the country's independence when Africa's first democrats appeared. While many African countries were dominated by authoritarian rulers when they entered the... -
Decadent Divorce: Scandal and Sensation in Victorian Britain by Ruth Derham 9781398108943
RRP: $48.28$31.88On Thursday 11 January 1883, the new Royal Courts of Justice opened its doors for business. From that day forward a stream of dissatisfied spouses from all over the country passed through with their tales of marital woe. Their desperate attempts to prove... -
Voices From the Other Side: An Oral History of Terrorism Against Cuba by Keith Bolender 9780745330402
$53.45Since the early 1960s, few other countries have endured more acts of terrorism against civilian targets than Cuba, and the US has had its hand in much of it. This book gives a voice to the victims. Keith Bolender reveals the enormous impact of terrorism... -
A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in American Life by Allyson Hobbs 9780674659926
RRP: $37.70$30.66Between the eighteenth and mid-twentieth centuries, countless African Americans passed as white, leaving behind families and friends, roots and community. It was, as Allyson Hobbs writes, a chosen exile, a separation from one racial identity and the leap... -
Enemies in Love: A German POW, a Black Nurse, and an Unlikely Romance by Alexis Clark 9781620971864
RRP: $44.08$36.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781620971864Author Alexis ClarkFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint The New PressPublisher The New Press -
Building Jerusalem: The Rise and Fall of the Victorian City by Tristram Hunt
RRP: $35.68$25.79'History writing at its compulsive best' A. N. WilsonThis is a history of the ideas that shaped not only London, but Manchester, Glasgow, Liverpool, Leeds, Birmingham, Sheffield and other power-houses of 19th-century Britain. It charts the controversies... -
Me, Me, Me: The Search for Community in Post-war England by Jon Lawrence
RRP: $66.13$46.91Many commentators tell us that, in today's world, everyday life has become selfish and atomised--that individuals live only to consume. But are they wrong? In Me, Me, Me, Jon Lawrence re-tells the story of England since the Second World War through... -
Ovid and the Politics of Emotion in Elizabethan England by C. Fox 9780230617049
RRP: $94.48$94.44Elizabethan English culture is saturated with tales and figures from Ovid s Metamorphoses. While most of these narratives interrogate metamorphosis and transformation, many tales - such as those of Philomela, Hecuba, or Orpheus - also highlight... -
Empire of Sin: A Story of Sex, Jazz, Murder and the Battle for New Orleans by Gary Krist
RRP: $20.98$13.94Empire of Sin is a vibrant account of New Orleans in the early 1920s, a time when commercialised vice, jazz culture and endemic crime formed the background for a civil war that lasted for thirty years. At its centre the city's vice lord fought... -
The Making of Asian America: A History by Erika Lee
RRP: $35.68$30.43A "comprehensive...fascinating" (The New York Times Book Review) history of Asian Americans and their role in American life, by one of the nation's preeminent scholars on the subject, with a new afterword about the recent hate crimes against Asian... -
The British Seaside: Holidays and Resorts in the Twentieth Century by John K. Walton 9780719051708
RRP: $41.98$37.42The annual seaside holiday became a common experience in Britain in the 1950s and 1960s and it has a central place in popular memory. Its recent decline has prompted nostalgia and gloom across the media, with a spate of newspaper features every summer... -
The Evolution of Scotland's Towns: Creation, Growth and Fragmentation by Pat Dennison 9781474432979
RRP: $65.10$54.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474432979Author Patricia DennisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University PressWeight(grams)... -
The Eternal Decline and Fall of Rome: The History of a Dangerous Idea by Edward J. Watts
RRP: $55.63$47.86As this book intriguingly explores, for those who would make Rome great again and their victims, ideas of Roman decline and renewal have had a long and violent history. The decline of Rome has been a constant source of discussion for more than 2200... -
A Bobby's Job: Images of Policing in Cheshire by The Museum of Policing in Cheshire
RRP: $29.38$22.79A Bobby's Job is a beautiful collection of black and white photographs from the extensive archives held at the Museum of Policing in Cheshire. This book delves into the history and development of policing in the Cheshire area; from the formation of the... -
The Vision of a Nation: Making Multiculturalism on British Television, 1960-80 by G. Schaffer 9780230292987
RRP: $94.48$94.44Telling the stories behind television's approaches to race relations, multiculturalism and immigration in the 'Golden Age' of British television, the book focuses on the 1960s and 1970s and argues that the makers of television worked tirelessly to shape... -
Byzantine Christianity by Averil Cameron
RRP: $20.98$14.93'. . . I have sailed the seas and come To the holy city of Byzantium.' W. B. Yeats From the foundation of Constantinople in 330 to its fall in 1453, this brief history explores the key components of Byzantine Christianity, including the development... -
Collieries, Communities and the Miners' Strike in Scotland, 1984-85 by Jim Phillips 9780719096723
RRP: $52.50$45.76This book, available at last in paperback, analyses the 1984-85 miners' strike by focusing on its vital Scottish dimensions, especially the role of workplace politics and community mobilisation. The year-long strike began in Scotland, with workers... -
Nancy Mitford by Selina Hastings
RRP: $33.58$24.38Nancy Mitford was witty, intelligent, often acerbic, a great tease and an acute observer of upper-class English idiosyncrasies. With the publication of her novels, above all The Pursuit of Love, Love in a Cold Climate and The Blessing, she became a huge... -
Jewish Salonica: Between the Ottoman Empire and Modern Greece by Devin E. Naar 9781503600089
RRP: $46.18$40.22Touted as the "Jerusalem of the Balkans," the Mediterranean port city of Salonica (Thessaloniki) was once home to the largest Sephardic Jewish community in the world. The collapse of the Ottoman Empire and the city's incorporation into Greece in 1912... -
The Jew in the Medieval World: A Sourcebook, 315-1791 by Jacob R. Marcus
RRP: $52.50$49.71To gain an accurate view of medieval Judaism, one must look through the eyes of Jews and their contemporaries. First published in 1938, Jacob Rader Marcus's classic source book on medieval Judaism provides the documents and historical narratives which... -
Rebel Women Between the Wars: Fearless Writers and Adventurers by Sarah Lonsdale
RRP: $42.00$31.35What did it mean to be a 'rebel woman' in the interwar years? Taking the form of a multiple biography, this book traces the struggles, passions and achievements of a set of 'fearlessly determined' women who stopped at nothing to make their mark in the... -
The Industrial Revolution by Pat Hudson 9780713165319
$63.69This is an introduction to the Industrial Revolution which offers an integrated account of the economic and social aspects of change during the period. Recent revisionist thinking has implied that fundamental change in economic, social and political life... -
Blood and Fire: William and Catherine Booth and the Salvation Army by Roy Hattersley 9780349112817
RRP: $33.58$33.47An uneducated youth, William Booth left home in 1849 at the age of twenty to preach the gospel for the New Methodist Connexion. Six years later he founded a new religious movement which succeeded to such a degree that the Salvation Army (which it became)... -
Middletown: A Study in American Culture. by Robert Staughton Lynd 9780156595506
RRP: $84.00$60.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156595506Author Robert Staughton LyndFormat PaperbackPage Count 550Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher Mariner BooksWeight(grams) 522gDimensions(mm) 203mm *... -
The Invention of Race: Scientific and Popular Representations by Nicolas Bancel 9780367208646
RRP: $88.18$78.02This edited collection explores the genesis of scientific conceptions of race and their accompanying impact on the taxonomy of human collections internationally as evidenced in ethnographic museums, world fairs, zoological gardens, international colonial... -
The World of the Salons: Sociability and Worldliness in Eighteenth-Century Paris by Antoine Lilti
RRP: $57.73$51.83The world of the eighteenth-century salon has long been lauded as a meritocratic setting where writers, philosophers, and women created the Enlightenment. In The World of the Salons, historian Antoine Lilti proposes a fresh interpretation of salons in... -
Good Time Girls of the Alaska-Yukon Gold Rush: Secret History of the Far North by Lael Morgan 9780945397762
RRP: $41.90$30.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780945397762Author Lael MorganFormat PaperbackPage Count 354Imprint Epicenter Press (WA)Publisher Epicenter Press (WA)Weight(grams) 540gDimensions(mm) 229mm... -
A Perfidious Distortion of History: the Versailles Peace Treaty and the success of the Nazis by Jurgen Tampke 9781911617280
RRP: $20.98$14.07An Irish Independent book of the year. Did the Versailles Peace Treaty cause World War II? The Versailles Peace Treaty - the pact that ended World War I between the German empire and the Allies - has long been regarded as one of the key causes of... -
Death in the Theatre by Chris Wood 9781399009119
RRP: $46.20$32.80* "A richly entertaining account of tragic theatre accidents and murders most foul. If theatre walls could talk, what secrets would they reveal? Chris Wood provides fascinating answers with tales of brawling ushers, murderously jealous husbands,... -
The Idea of Modern Jewish Culture by Eliezer Schweid 9781936235094
RRP: $44.08$37.28The vast majority of intellectual, religious, and national developments in modern Judaism revolve around the central idea of 'Jewish culture'. This book is the first synoptic view of these developments that organises and relates them from this vantage... -
Monuments and Myths: The America of Sculptors Augustus Saint-Gaudends and Daniel Chester French Andrew Eschelbacher 9783777440972
RRP: $88.20$57.52Monuments and Myths is the first publication to examine the intersecting careers of Augustus Saint-Gaudens and Daniel Chester French, the leading American sculptors of the Gilded Age. With rich new thinking and stunning photographs, the catalogue... -
Illustrated Tales of Northumberland by Rob Kirkup
RRP: $33.58$22.79Northumberland is England's most northerly county and one of its most beautiful, with its spectacular countryside and coastline. Its location on the Anglo-Scottish border brings a wealth of history and culture, which, together with the stunning scenery,... -
Bohemians: A Very Short Introduction by David Weir
RRP: $18.88$13.55The Romantic myth of Bohemia originated in the early nineteenth century as a way of describing the new conditions faced by artists and writers when the previous system of aristocratic patronage collapsed in the wake of the Age of Revolution. Without the... -
Aerofilms: A history of Britain from above James Crawford 9781848022485
$79.11Aerofilms Ltd was born on 9 May 1919. An unprecedented business venture, it hoped to marry the still fledgling technology of powered flight to the discipline of photography. Its founders were Claude Grahame-White, an internationally-famous English... -
Midwife's Tale: An Oral History From Handywoman to Professional Midwife by Nicky Leap 9781781593745
RRP: $31.48$23.00Billie Hunter and Nicky Leap spent several years interviewing dozens of mothers and retired midwives about their experiences of childbirth before the NHS. The result was The Midwife's Tale, an oral history of midwifery from the 1910s to the 1950s. The... -
Boatlines: Scottish Craft of Sea, Coast and Canal by Ian Stephen
RRP: $35.68$24.32People are drawn to the harbours and boats of Scotland whether they have a seafaring background or not. Why do boats take on different shapes as you follow the complex shorelines of islands and mainland? And why do the sails they carry appear to be so...