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A Global History of Gold Rushes by Benjamin Mountford 9780520294554
RRP: £25.00£19.59Nothing set the world in motion like gold. Between the discovery of California placer gold in 1848 and the rush to Alaska fifty years later, the search for the precious yellow metal accelerated worldwide circulations of people, goods, capital, and... -
Shooting Up: A History of Drugs in Warfare by Lukasz Kamienski
RRP: £15.99£15.09From hallucinogenic mushrooms and LSD, to coca and cocaine; from Homeric warriors and the Assassins to the first Gulf War and today's global insurgents - drugs have sustained warriors in the field and have been used as weapons of warfare, either as... -
Primary History - Aztecs by Tony D. Triggs
RRP: £10.99£10.77Primary History: Aztecs encourages the study of archaeological evidence, artefacts, written sources and maps to understand how the Aztecs have influenced today's society. Stimulating activities cover everyday life, architecture and buildings,... -
Empire of Tea: The Asian Leaf that Conquered the World by Markman Ellis 9781780238982
£19.70Tea has a rich and well-documented past. The beverage originated in Asia long before making its way to seventeenth-century London, where it became an exotic, highly sought-after commodity. Over the subsequent two centuries, tea's powerful psychoactive... -
The Sea and Civilization: A Maritime History of the World by Lincoln P. Paine
RRP: £30.00£21.02A monumental, wholly accessible work of scholarship that retells human history through the story of mankind's relationship with the sea. An accomplishment of both great sweep and illuminating detail, The Sea and Civilization is a stunning work of... -
Legacy of Violence: A History of the British Empire by Caroline Elkins
RRP: £30.00£28.49**Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize 2022**A searing, landmark study of the British Empire that lays bare its pervasive use of violence throughout the twentieth century.'This book is dynamite' ROBERT GILDEA, author of Empires of the MindSprawling... -
National Geographic Ultimate Visual History of the World: The Story of Humankind from Prehistory to Modern Times Jean-Pierre Isbouts 9781426221897
RRP: £41.99£29.64Follow the fascinating threads of human history in this monumental volume, amply illustrated with maps, archival imagery, and revealing photographs. History comes to life in this comprehensive overview of humankind, from earliest times to the present day... -
The Royal Navy Officer's Pocket-Book by Brian Lavery
RRP: £9.99£7.32""The art of command is...to be the complete master, and yet the complete friend of every man on board; the temporal lord and yet the spiritual brother of every rating; to be detached and yet not dissociated.' A Seaman's Pocket-Book, 1943', has found... -
Pearson Edexcel International GCSE (9-1) History: Paper 2 Investigation and Breadth Studies Rob Bircher 9781398322332
£33.25Exam board: Pearson EdexcelLevel: International GCSE (9-1)Subject: HistoryFirst teaching: September 2017First exams: Summer 2019Endorsed for Pearson Edexcel qualificationsFollow the tried-and-tested methods of bestselling author Ben Walsh. This book... -
Belief and Unbelief in Medieval Europe by John H. Arnold 9780340807866
£33.66Religion in medieval Europe was hugely important, and impinged upon the most mundane transactions and everyday experiences. But was the period a uniform 'Age of Faith'? By focussing on the ordinary laity, this fascinating account unlocks the multiple... -
Warsaw 1920: Lenin's Failed Conquest of Europe by Adam Zamoyski
RRP: £10.99£7.46The dramatic and little-known story of how, in the summer of 1920, Lenin came within a hair's breadth of shattering the painstakingly constructed Versailles peace settlement and spreading Bolshevism to western Europe. In 1920 the new Soviet... -
The Atlas of Unusual Languages: Discover intriguing linguistic oddities and language islands by Zoran Nikolic
RRP: £14.99£10.36The ideal gift for anyone interested in language, geography and people. We communicate through the spoken and written word and language has evolved over the centuries. Many languages have survived although only in small pockets throughout the... -
In Harm's Way by Doug Stanton
RRP: £10.99£7.99On 30 July 1945 the USS Indianapolis was steaming through the South Pacific, on her way home having delivered the bomb that was to decimate Hiroshima seven days later, when she was torpedoed by a Japanese submarine. Of a crew of 1196 men an estimated 300... -
Tumult in the Clouds: The Centenary Collection by James Goodson
RRP: £9.99£7.32In 1918, the RAF was established as the world's first independent air force. To mark the 100th anniversary of its creation, Penguin are publishing the Centenary Collection, a series of six classic books highlighting the skill, heroism esprit de corps... -
A Natural History of Beer by Rob DeSalle
RRP: £10.99£9.61A celebration of beer-its science, its history, and its impact on human culture "Curatorial eminences Rob DeSalle and Ian Tattersall serve up a potent scientific brew. . . . A marvellous paean to the pint, and to the researchers probing its depths... -
The Times Reference Atlas of the World by Times Atlases
RRP: £30.00£28.28Discover new places with authoritative atlases, beautifully designed and packaged. Ninth edition of this popular atlas from the prestigious and authoritative Times Atlas range. Includes city plans and fascinating historical maps. This world... -
The Ruble: A Political History by Ekaterina Pravilova
RRP: £30.99£26.77A groundbreaking history of Russia, from empire to the Soviet era, viewed through the lens of its money. Money seems passive, a silent witness to the deeds and misdeeds of its holders, but through its history intimate dramas and grand historical... -
Love; A Curious History by Edward Brooke-Hitching 9781398522718
RRP: £30.00£18.81'Edward Brooke-Hitching's delightful book is a collection of curiosities. From a 19th-century lonely hearts ad to a nuptial blessing of the bride's buttocks, an entertaining history of love over the millennia that proves when it comes to the heart,... -
Why Empires Fall: Rome, America and the Future of the West by John Rapley
RRP: £20.00£14.29'Fascinating, informative and deeply thoughtful' Financial Times'This essay has changed my view both of the past and the present' Carlo Rovelli, The Observer*What can the fall of Rome teach us about the decline of the West today? A historian and a... -
Truth: A Brief History of Total Bullsh*t Tom Phillips 9781472263209
RRP: £10.99£7.61'TOM PHILLIPS IS A VERY CLEVER, VERY FUNNY MAN' Greg JennerThis is a book about TRUTH - and all the ingenious ways, throughout history, that we've managed to avoid it.We live in a 'post-truth' age, we're told. The US has a president who openly lies on a... -
The Ancient Guide to Modern Life by Natalie Haynes
RRP: £10.99£7.99It's time for us to re-examine the past. Our lives are infinitely richer if we take the time to look at what the Greeks and Romans have given us in politics and law, religion and philosophy and education, and to learn how people really lived in Athens,... -
The Bible Code Michael Drosnin 9780752809328
RRP: £8.99£6.39The original THE BIBLE CODE - a phenomenal bestseller across the worldFor 3000 years a code in the Bible has remained hidden. Now it has been unlocked by computer - and it may reveal our future.The code, broken by an Israeli mathematician, foretells... -
The History of Magic: From Alchemy to Witchcraft, from the Ice Age to the Present by Chris Gosden
RRP: £12.99£8.56A Telegraph Book of the Year A remarkable, unprecedented account of the role of magic in cultures both ancient and modern -- from the first known horoscope to the power of tattoos.'Fascinating, original, excellent' Simon Sebag... -
Age of Anger: A History of the Present by Pankaj Mishra
RRP: £10.99£7.99LONGLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2018 NEW STATESMAN BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2017'The kind of vision the world needs right now...Pankaj Mishra shouldn't stop thinking' Christopher de Bellaigue, Financial Times'This is the most astonishing, convincing, and... -
Cultural Treasures of the World by DK
RRP: £30.00£18.71Take a guided tour through history and discover the most precious, iconic, and celebrated objects ever created.Revered, admired, and protected - every country and culture has certain artefacts that are prized above all others. Cultural Treasures of the... -
Ataturk: An Intellectual Biography by M. Sukru Hanioglu
RRP: £20.00£16.13When Mustafa Kemal Ataturk became the first president of Turkey in 1923, he set about transforming his country into a secular republic where nationalism sanctified by science--and by the personality cult Ataturk created around himself--would reign... -
Diplomatic History: A Very Short Introduction by Joseph M. Siracusa 9780192893918
RRP: £8.99£6.65Diplomatic history explores the management of relations between nation-states by the process of negotiations. From the diplomacy of the American Revolution, the diplomatic origins of the Great War and its aftermath, Versailles, and the personal summitry... -
World War Two: Behind Closed Doors: Stalin, the Nazis and the West by Laurence Rees
RRP: £16.99£12.47When do you think the Second World War ended?If the end of the war was supposed to have brought 'freedom' to countries that suffered under Nazi occupation, then for millions it did not really end until the fall of Communism. In the summer of 1945 many of... -
Shameful Flight: The Last Years of the British Empire in India by Stanley Wolpert 9780195393941
RRP: £21.49£13.33Britain's precipitous and ill-planned disengagement from India in 1947-condemned as a "shameful flight" by Winston Churchill-had a truly catastrophic effect on South Asia, leaving hundreds of thousands of people dead in its wake and creating a... -
Humanity: the Recent Moral History Jonathan Glover 9780712665414
RRP: £24.00£17.36This book is about history and morality in the twentieth century. It is about the psychology which made possible Hiroshima, the Nazi genocide, the Gulag, the Chinese Cultural Revolution, Pol Pot's Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia and many other atrocities. In... -
The War that Ended Peace: How Europe abandoned peace for the First World War by Professor Margaret MacMillan
RRP: £14.99£11.51WINNER of the International Affairs Book of the Year at the Political Book Awards 2014Longlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize 2013 The First World War followed a period of sustained peace in Europe during which people talked with confidence of... -
Scipio Africanus: Greater Than Napoleon by B. Hart 9780306813634
RRP: £13.99£13.67Scipio Africanus (236183 b.c.) was one of the most exciting and dynamic leaders in history. As commander, he never lost a battle. Yet it is his adversary, Hannibal, who has lived on in public memory.As B.H. Liddell Hart writes,"Scipio's battles are... -
The Real Great Escape by Guy Walters
RRP: £12.99£9.34In early 1942 the Germans opened a top-security prisoner-of-war camp in occupied Poland for captured Allied airmen. Called Stalag Luft III, the camp soon came to contain some of the most inventive escapers ever known. They were led by Squadron Leader... -
Restless Empire: China and the World Since 1750 by Odd Arne Westad 9780099569596
RRP: £14.99£11.35Over the past 250 years of momentous change and dramatic upheaval, China has proved itself to be a Restless Empire.Tracing China's course from the eighteenth-century Qing Dynasty to today's People's Republic, Restless Empire shows how the country's... -
Mafia, The: A Cultural History by Roberto M. Dainotto
RRP: £11.99£8.66What makes Tony Soprano so likeable? Why would we rather leave the cannoli and take the gun? Do we truly want Scarface's Tony Montana to succeed? Is Michael Corleone a misunderstood hero or a despicable villain? In The Mafia: A Cultural History, now... -
The Crusades: Islamic Perspectives by Carole Hillenbrand
RRP: £45.00£39.44At the 900th anniversary of the Crusader capture of Jerusalem, it is timely to reflect on how the phenomenon of the Crusades influenced the Muslim world, then and now, militarily, culturally and psychologically. This book discusses a group of themes... -
Histories by Herodotus 9781853264665
RRP: £4.99£3.61Translated with Notes by George Rawlinson. With an Introduction by Tom Griffith.Herodotus (c480-c425) is 'The Father of History' and his Histories are the first piece of Western historical writing. They are also the most entertaining. Why did... -
The Peace That Never Was: A History of the League of Nations by Ruth Henig
RRP: £11.99£8.58Ninety years ago the League of Nations convened for the first time hoping to settle disputes by diplomacy not war. This book looks at how the League was shaped and the multifaceted body that emerged, and how it was used in ensuing years to counter... -
Atlas of Forgotten Places: Journey to Abandoned Destinations from Around the Globe by Travis Elborough
RRP: £20.00£14.91Explore the places that time forgot. Abandoned, mysterious, sleeping monuments around the world have been relegated to the margins of history, pushed off the map and out of sight. From ancient ruins and crumbling castles to more recent relics - an art... -
Civilizations by FERNANDEZ-ARMESTO FELIPE 9780743202497
RRP: £32.99£25.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780743202497Author FERNANDEZ-ARMESTO FELIPEFormat PaperbackPage Count 560Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 1g