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World Revolution, 1917-1936: The Rise and Fall of the Communist International by C. L. R. James 9780822363088
RRP: $224.70$195.20Originally published in 1937, C. L. R. James's World Revolution is a pioneering Marxist analysis of the history of revolutions during the interwar period and of the fundamental conflict between Trotsky and Stalin. James, who was a leading Trotskyist... -
Pearls, People, and Power: Pearling and Indian Ocean Worlds by Pedro Machado 9780821424025
RRP: $155.40$136.19Pearls, People, and Power is the first book to examine the trade, distribution, production, and consumption of pearls and mother-of-pearl in the global Indian Ocean over more than five centuries. While scholars have long recognized the importance of... -
Sex, Power, and Slavery by Gwyn Campbell 9780821420966
RRP: $155.40$136.19Sexual exploitation was and is a critical feature of enslavement. Across many different societies, slaves were considered to own neither their bodies nor their children, even if many struggled to resist. At the same time, paradoxes abound: for example,... -
Environmental Imaginaries of the Middle East and North Africa by Diana K. Davis 9780821419748
RRP: $151.20$119.55The landscapes of the Middle East have captured our imaginations throughout history. Images of endless golden dunes, camel caravans, isolated desert oases, and rivers lined with palm trees have often framed written and visual representations of the... -
Experiencing World History by Paul Vauthier Adams 9780814706909
$189.59Covering early societies, the classical, postclassical, and modern periods, and the 20th century, and blending the great advances in historical research over the past quarter century, Experiencing World History represents an important addition to the... -
Experiencing World History by Paul Vauthier Adams 9780814706916
RRP: $52.48$46.35An intensive introduction to global social history themes, covering early societies to the 20th century Covering early societies, the classical, postclassical, and modern periods, and the 20th century, and blending the great advances in historical... -
The Age of Intoxication: Origins of the Global Drug Trade by Benjamin Breen 9780812224986
RRP: $50.38$43.76Eating the flesh of an Egyptian mummy prevents the plague. Distilled poppies reduce melancholy. A Turkish drink called coffee increases alertness. Tobacco cures cancer. Such beliefs circulated in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, an era when the... -
The Making of the Nations and Cultures of the New World: An Essay in Comparative History: Volume 211 by Gerard Bouchard 9780773532137
RRP: $216.30$96.33A comparative, post-colonial exploration of how the collectivities of the New World became nationsBook InformationISBN 9780773532137Author Gerard BouchardFormat HardbackPage Count 448Imprint McGill-Queen's University PressPublisher McGill-Queen's... -
Empire to Nation: Historical Perspectives on the Making of the Modern World by Joseph W. Esherick 9780742540316
RRP: $123.90$108.05The fall of empires and the rise of nation-states was a defining political transition in the making of the modern world. As United States imperialism becomes a popular focus of debate, we must understand how empire, the nineteenth century's dominant form... -
The Dutch Diaspora: The Netherlands and Its Settlements in Africa, Asia, and the Americas by Howard J. Wiarda 9780739121054
RRP: $88.20$77.55The Dutch Diaspora is a comprehensive and personal study of the former colonial empire of the Netherlands. The Netherlands is considered one of the most successful societies and at one point was the world's largest empire_stretching from Japan to the... -
The New Worlds of Thomas Robert Malthus: Rereading the Principle of Population by Alison Bashford 9780691164199
RRP: $94.50$75.01The New Worlds of Thomas Robert Malthus is a sweeping global and intellectual history that radically recasts our understanding of Malthus's Essay on the Principle of Population, the most famous book on population ever written or ever likely to be... -
Cultures in Motion by Daniel T. Rodgers 9780691159096
RRP: $94.50$75.01In the wide-ranging and innovative essays of Cultures in Motion, a dozen distinguished historians offer new conceptual vocabularies for understanding how cultures have trespassed across geography and social space. From the transformations of the meanings... -
Transnational Currents in a Shrinking World: 1870-1945 by Emily S. Rosenberg 9780674281332
RRP: $56.60$44.96Transnational Currents in a Shrinking World examines the wide variety of social and cultural networks that emerged from the global exchanges of the late-nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Emily Rosenberg shows how transnational connections were being... -
Migrations and Belongings: 1870-1945 by Dirk Hoerder 9780674281318
RRP: $56.60$44.96Toward the end of the nineteenth century, new railroads, ports, and steamships enabled people to travel faster and in greater numbers than ever before. Migrations and Belongings traces burgeoning population movements across several continents from 1870... -
The Making of the Modern Mediterranean: Views from the South by Judith E. Tucker 9780520304604
RRP: $63.00$48.91Studies of the pivotal historic place of the Mediterranean have long been dominated by specialists of its northern shores, that is, by European historians. The seven leading authors in this groundbreaking volume challenge views of Mediterranean space as... -
The Making of the Modern Mediterranean: Views from the South by Judith E. Tucker 9780520304598
RRP: $168.00$130.81Studies of the pivotal historic place of the Mediterranean have long been dominated by specialists of its northern shores, that is, by European historians. The seven leading authors in this groundbreaking volume challenge views of Mediterranean space as... -
A Global History of Runaways: Workers, Mobility, and Capitalism, 1600-1850 by Marcus Rediker 9780520304352
RRP: $168.00$130.81During global capitalism's long ascent from 1600-1850, workers of all kinds-slaves, indentured servants, convicts, domestic workers, soldiers, and sailors-repeatedly ran away from their masters and bosses, with profound effects. A Global History of... -
Teaching Big History by Thomas Burke 9780520283541
RRP: $168.00$130.81Big History is a new field on a grand scale: it tells the story of the universe over time through a diverse range of disciplines that spans cosmology, physics, chemistry, astronomy, geology, evolutionary biology, anthropology, and archaeology, thereby... -
A Global History of Sexual Science, 1880-1960 by Veronika Fuechtner 9780520293397
RRP: $63.00$49.75Sex has no history, but sexual science does. Starting in the late nineteenth century, people all over the world suddenly began to insist that understandings of sex be based on science. As Japanese and Indian sexologists influenced their German and... -
How the Shopping Cart Explains Global Consumerism by Andrew Warnes 9780520295292
RRP: $44.10$34.92Picture a familiar scene: long lines of shoppers waiting to check out at the grocery store, carts filled to the brim with the week's food. While many might wonder what is in each cart, Andrew Warnes implores us to consider the symbolism of the cart... -
Beyond Hawai'i: Native Labor in the Pacific World by Gregory Rosenthal 9780520295070
RRP: $58.80$45.78In the century from the death of Captain James Cook in 1779 to the rise of the sugar plantations in the 1870s, thousands of Kanaka Maoli (Native Hawaiian) men left Hawai'i to work on ships at sea and in na 'aina 'e (foreign lands)-on the Arctic Ocean and... -
The Red Sea: In Search of Lost Space by Alexis Wick 9780520285910
RRP: $168.00$129.97The Red Sea has, from time immemorial, been one of the world's most navigated spaces, in the pursuit of trade, pilgrimage and conquest. Yet this multidimensional history remains largely unrevealed by its successive protagonists. Intrigued by the absence... -
The World in the Long Twentieth Century: An Interpretive History by Edward Ross Dickinson 9780520285545
RRP: $168.00$130.81What can be called the long twentieth century represents the most miraculous and creative era in human history. It was also the most destructive. Over the past 150 years, modern societies across the globe have passed through an extraordinary and... -
Deep History: The Architecture of Past and Present by Andrew Shryock 9780520270282
RRP: $96.60$76.61Humans have always been interested in their origins, but historians have been reluctant to write about the long stretches of time before the invention of writing. In fact, the deep past was left out of most historical writing almost as soon as it was... -
Empire in Waves: A Political History of Surfing by Scott Laderman 9780520279100
RRP: $168.00$129.97Surfing today evokes many things: thundering waves, warm beaches, bikinis and lifeguards, and carefree pleasure. But is the story of surfing really as simple as popular culture suggests? In this first international political history of the sport, Scott... -
Roving Revolutionaries: Armenians and the Connected Revolutions in the Russian, Iranian, and Ottoman Worlds by Houri Berberian 9780520278936
RRP: $168.00$130.81Three of the formative revolutions that shook the early twentieth-century world occurred almost simultaneously in regions bordering each other. Though the Russian, Iranian, and Young Turk Revolutions all exploded between 1904 and 1911, they have never... -
Domesticating the World: African Consumerism and the Genealogies of Globalization by Jeremy Prestholdt 9780520254244
RRP: $132.30$102.86This book boldly unsettles the idea of globalization as a recent phenomenon - and one driven solely by Western interests - by offering a compelling new perspective on global interconnectivity in the nineteenth century. Jeremy Prestholdt examines East... -
Teaching Big History by Thomas Burke 9780520283558
RRP: $63.00$49.75Big History is a new field on a grand scale: it tells the story of the universe over time through a diverse range of disciplines that spans cosmology, physics, chemistry, astronomy, geology, evolutionary biology, anthropology, and archaeology, thereby... -
Western Civilizations by Joshua Cole 9780393418927
RRP: $161.70$160.63Used by more than a million students since its original publication, Western Civilizations became the leading text for the course by combining historical scholarship with classroom innovation. Master scholars/teachers Joshua Cole and Carol Symes enhance... -
Western Civilizations by Joshua Cole 9780393418835
$204.39Used by more than a million students since its original publication, Western Civilizations became the leading text for the course by combining historical scholarship with classroom innovation. Master scholars/teachers Joshua Cole and Carol Symes enhance... -
Planetary Modernisms: Provocations on Modernity Across Time by Susan Stanford Friedman 9780231170901
RRP: $105.00$82.99Drawing on a vast archive of world history, anthropology, geography, cultural theory, postcolonial studies, gender studies, literature, and art, Susan Stanford Friedman recasts modernity as a networked, circulating, and recurrent phenomenon producing... -
Boundaries of Toleration by Alfred Stepan 9780231165679
RRP: $58.80$45.78How can people of diverse religious, ethnic, and linguistic allegiances and identities live together without committing violence, inflicting suffering, or oppressing each other? In this volume, contributors explore the limits of toleration and suggest we... -
Boundaries of Toleration by Alfred Stepan 9780231165662
RRP: $193.20$150.80How can people of diverse religious, ethnic, and linguistic allegiances and identities live together without committing violence, inflicting suffering, or oppressing each other? In this volume, contributors explore the limits of toleration and suggest we... -
The Establishment Responds: Power, Politics, and Protest since 1945 by Kathrin Fahlenbrach 9780230114999
RRP: $94.48$94.44This volume fills this gap by examining the many ways in which political parties, the business world, foreign policymakers, and the intelligence community experienced, confronted, and even actively contributed to domestic and transnational forms of... -
Belongings: Property, Family, and Identity in Colonial South Africa, An Exploration of Frontiers, 1725- c. 1830 by Laura J. Mitchell 9780231142526
RRP: $142.80$110.82Laura J. Mitchell concentrates on the contested dynamics of land tenure in the Cedarberg region of the Western Cape, from the first settler land claim of 1725 to the entrenchment of colonial administration in the 1830s. Based on a decade of research,... -
The Primacy of the Political: A History of Political Thought from the Greeks to the French and American Revolutions by Dick Howard 9780231135948
RRP: $228.90$178.10The conflict between politics and antipolitics has replayed throughout Western history and philosophical thought. From the beginning, Plato's quest for absolute certainty led him to denounce democracy, an anti-political position challenged by Aristotle... -
Patterns of World History, Volume One: To 1600, with Sources by Peter Von Sivers 9780197517017
RRP: $224.68$217.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780197517017Author Peter Von SiversFormat PaperbackPage Count 704Imprint OUP IndiaPublisher OUP IndiaWeight(grams) 1134gDimensions(mm) 251mm * 191mm * 23mm -
Atlantic History: A Critical Appraisal by Jack D. Greene 9780195320336
$178.44The second volume in the OUP/National History Center series, Reinterpreting History, this book offers an incisive look at how interpretations of the Atlantic world have changed over time and from a variety of national perspectives. Atlantic history,... -
Corona and Work around the Globe by Andreas Eckert 9783110716894
RRP: $47.25$36.48This book provides a global perspective on the transformations in the world of work caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. The collection of essays will break down the general statistics and trends into glimpses of concrete experiences of workers during... -
Persian Gulf: Bandar Abbas, the Natural Trade Gateway of Southeast Iran by Willem Floor 9781933823430
RRP: $88.18$72.74Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781933823430Author Dr Willem FloorFormat PaperbackPage Count 356Imprint Mage PublishersPublisher Mage PublishersWeight(grams) 854g