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Dismantling Utopia: How Information Ended the Soviet Union by Scott Shane 9781566630481
£24.24A brilliant and original account of how Gorbachev's easing of information controls destroyed the illusions of communism and drove the Soviet system to ruin. Shane writes with such bracing authority, such startling insight, that Dismantling Utopia must be... -
Human Rights in Translation: Intercultural Pathways by Michal Jan Rozbicki 9781498581431
RRP: £37.00£32.66This volume reflects on what happens when the idea and practice of universal human rights cross the cultural borders between different communities of knowledge. Although such rights are usually presumed to be founded on certain globally shared beliefs,... -
Scientism and Technocracy in the Twentieth Century: The Legacy of Scientific Management by Richard G. Olson 9781498525701
RRP: £93.00£81.40Scientism, or the application of methods, attitudes, and concepts drawn from the natural sciences to human activities and social policy formation, is a pervasive feature of modern life, and it is one which has immense impact upon virtually all aspects of... -
Is the West in Decline?: Historical, Military, and Economic Perspectives by Benjamin M. Rowland 9781498518543
RRP: £45.00£39.49Is the West in Decline? is a collection of ten essays by prominent scholars of international relations and current history, many of them associated with the European Studies program of the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. The... -
Settler Garrison: Debt Imperialism, Militarism, and Transpacific Imaginaries by Jodi Kim 9781478015680
RRP: £85.00£73.81In Settler Garrison Jodi Kim theorizes how the United States extends its sovereignty across Asia and the Pacific in the post-World War II era through a militarist settler imperialism that is leveraged on debt as a manifold economic and cultural relation... -
Paradoxes of Nostalgia: Cold War Triumphalism and Global Disorder since 1989 by Penny M. Von Eschen 9781478015604
RRP: £95.00£82.73In Paradoxes of Nostalgia Penny M. Von Eschen offers a sweeping examination of the cold war's afterlife and the lingering shadows it casts over geopolitics, journalism, and popular culture. She shows how myriad forms of nostalgia across the globe-from... -
Eastward of Good Hope: Early America in a Dangerous World by Dane A. Morrison 9781421442365
RRP: £47.50£42.37How did news from the East-carried in ship logs and mariners' reports, journals, and correspondence-shape early Americans' understanding of the world as a map of dangerous and incoherent sites? Freed from restrictions of British mercantilism in the... -
Spartacus and the Slave Wars: A Brief History with Documents by Brent D. Shaw 9781319094829
RRP: £32.00£25.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781319094829Author Brent ShawFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Bedford BooksPublisher Bedford BooksWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 206mm * 137mm * 8mm -
Western Civilization: Ideas, Politics, and Society by Marvin Perry 9781305091399
£100.01WESTERN CIVILIZATION: IDEAS, POLITICS, AND SOCIETY, Eleventh Edition, offers an in-depth introduction to political, cultural, and intellectual history. Readers appreciate the book's accessible writing style as well as its brevity, clarity, and careful... -
Looseleaf for Big History by David Christian 9781259137969
RRP: £111.79£101.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781259137969Author David ChristianPage Count 352Imprint McGraw-Hill EducationPublisher McGraw-Hill EducationWeight(grams) 680g -
Barbados Heritage in Pictures by Henry Frazer 9780957461550
RRP: £35.00£28.72Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780957461550Author Henry FrazerFormat HardbackPage Count 270Imprint Phoenix Carib LimitedPublisher Phoenix Carib Limited -
Cast Out: Vagrancy and Homelessness in Global and Historical Perspective by A. L. Beier 9780896802629
RRP: £35.00£30.74Throughout history, those arrested for vagrancy have generally been poor men and women, often young, able-bodied, unemployed, and homeless. Most histories of vagrancy have focused on the European and American experiences. Cast Out: Vagrancy and... -
Obama and Kenya: Contested Histories and the Politics of Belonging by Matthew Carotenuto 9780896802995
RRP: £72.00£56.93Barack Obama's political ascendancy has focused considerable global attention on the history of Kenya generally and the history of the Luo community particularly. From politicos populating the blogosphere and bookshelves in the U.S and Kenya, to tourists... -
The Story of Swahili by John M. Mugane 9780896802926
RRP: £62.00£53.96Swahili was once an obscure dialect of an East African Bantu language. Today more than one hundred million people use it: Swahili is to eastern and central Africa what English is to the world. From its embrace in the 1960s by the black freedom movement... -
Inventing Western Civilization by Thomas C. Patterson 9780853459613
RRP: £12.99£11.05What is civilization? The term, commonly identified with "uplift" and "order," has come to take on another meaning: the "civilized" versus the "primitive." This book is about the idea of civilization and how, at... -
Feeding Globalization: Madagascar and the Provisioning Trade, 1600-1800 by Jane Hooper 9780821422540
RRP: £28.99£24.96Between 1600 and 1800, the promise of fresh food attracted more than seven hundred English, French, and Dutch vessels to Madagascar. Throughout this period, European ships spent months at sea in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans, but until now scholars have... -
The Making of the Middle Class: Toward a Transnational History by A. Ricardo Lopez 9780822351290
RRP: £25.99£22.89In this important and timely collection of essays, historians reflect on the middle class: what it is, why its struggles figure so prominently in discussions of the current economic crisis, and how it has shaped, and been shaped by, modernity. The... -
The Indian Ocean Tsunami: The Global Response to a Natural Disaster by Pradyumna P. Karan 9780813126524
£37.38On December 26, 2004, a massive tsunami triggered by an underwater earthquake pummeled the coasts of Thailand, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, and other countries along the Indian Ocean. With casualties as far away as Africa, the aftermath was overwhelming: ships... -
The Nation without Art: Examining Modern Discourses on Jewish Art by Margaret Olin 9780803222335
RRP: £19.99£17.54Looking through the history of art, a reader might conclude that Jews could not create art-and such an assumption, historically incorrect, would be no accident. As we see with disturbing clarity in this book, the discipline of art history-even the first... -
Global History: A Short Overview by Noel Cowen 9780745628059
£46.72This short book offers a clear and engaging introduction to the history of humankind, from the earliest movements of people to the contemporary epoch of globalization. Cowen traces this complex history in a manner which offers both a compelling narrative... -
Culture's Vanities: The Paradox of Cultural Diversity in a Globalized World by David Steigerwald 9780742511972
RRP: £46.00£40.02Americans want it both ways. They are committed to cultural diversity, yet demand an endless variety of cheap consumer goods from a global system that destroys distinct ways of life. Americans have papered over this paradox by embracing the rhetoric of... -
The Rise and Fall of World Orders by Torbjorn L. Knutsen 9780719040580
RRP: £19.99£17.82Drawing in lessons from 400 years of Great-Power politics, this volume challenges both the "declinist" arguments and the overstretched hypothesis of Paul Kennedy to develop an alternative approach to the debate on the rise and fall of the Great Powers... -
Freedom and Domination: A Historical Critique of Civilization by Dankwart A. Rustow 9780691615530
RRP: £105.00£82.76Presented here is a condensed translation of Alexander Rustow's three-volume Ortsbestimmung der Gegenwart. This monumental work was widely acclaimed by critics throughout Europe as a major contribution to both historical and sociological scholarship... -
I Am You: The Hermeneutics of Empathy in Western Literature, Theology and Art by Karl F. Morrison 9780691608730
RRP: £52.00£41.03Important trends in contemporary intellectual life celebrate difference, divisiveness, and distinction. Speculative writing increasingly highlights "hermeneutic gaps" between human beings, their histories, and their hopes. In this book Karl... -
The Global Bourgeoisie: The Rise of the Middle Classes in the Age of Empire by David Motadel 9780691195834
RRP: £92.00£82.51The first global history of the middle class While the nineteenth century has been described as the golden age of the European bourgeoisie, the emergence of the middle class and bourgeois culture was by no means exclusive to Europe. The Global... -
Women at the Beginning: Origin Myths from the Amazons to the Virgin Mary by Patrick J. Geary 9780691124094
RRP: £40.00£31.53In these four artfully crafted essays, Patrick Geary explores the way ancient and medieval authors wrote about women. Geary describes the often marginal role women played in origin legends from antiquity until the twelfth century. Not confining himself... -
Selections from the Smuts Papers by Jean van der Poel 9780521033701
RRP: £45.99£41.86Volumes V, VI and VII complete the series of selections from the Smuts Papers. They cover the period from August 1919, when Smuts succeeded Botha as prime minister of the Union of South Africa, until his death in September 1950. The selection is divided... -
Pacific Confluence: Fighting over the Nation in Nineteenth-Century Hawai'i by Christen T. Sasaki 9780520382756
RRP: £71.00£61.89The period between the illegal overthrow of the Hawaiian monarchy and US annexation (1893-98) is often framed as an inevitable step of American expansion-but it was never a forgone conclusion. By pairing the intimate and epic together in critical... -
The Boundless Sea: Self and History by Gary Y. Okihiro 9780520309654
RRP: £30.00£23.29The last book in a trilogy of explorations on space and time from a preeminent scholar, The Boundless Sea is Gary Y. Okihiro's most innovative yet. Whereas Okihiro's previous books, Island World and Pineapple Culture, sought to deconstruct islands and... -
The Fastest Game in the World: Hockey and the Globalization of Sports by Bruce Berglund 9780520303720
RRP: £80.00£62.29Played on frozen ponds in cold northern lands, hockey seemed an especially unlikely game to gain a global following. But from its beginnings in the nineteenth century, the sport has drawn from different cultures and crossed boundaries--between Canada and... -
Revolution in Development: Mexico and the Governance of the Global Economy by Christy Thornton 9780520297159
RRP: £71.00£61.89One of The Chronicle of Higher Education's Best Scholarly Books of 2021Revolution in Development uncovers the surprising influence of postrevolutionary Mexico on the twentieth century's most important international economic institutions. Drawing on... -
A Global History of Gold Rushes by Benjamin Mountford 9780520294547
RRP: £80.00£62.29Nothing 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... -
A Global History of Sexual Science, 1880-1960 by Veronika Fuechtner 9780520293373
RRP: £80.00£62.29Sex 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... -
The World in the Long Twentieth Century: An Interpretive History by Edward Ross Dickinson 9780520285552
RRP: £34.00£27.37What 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... -
Sky Blue Stone: The Turquoise Trade in World History by Arash Khazeni 9780520282551
RRP: £25.00£19.59This book traces the journeys of a stone across the world. From its remote point of origin in the city of Nishapur in eastern Iran, turquoise was traded through India, Central Asia, and the Near East, becoming an object of imperial exchange between the... -
German Voices: Memories of Life during Hitler's Third Reich by Frederic C. Tubach 9780520269644
RRP: £28.00£21.80What was it like to grow up German during Hitler's Third Reich? In this extraordinary book, Frederic C. Tubach returns to the country of his roots to interview average Germans who, like him, came of age between 1933 and 1945. Tubach sets their... -
The Copernican Question: Prognostication, Skepticism, and Celestial Order by Robert S. Westman 9780520254817
RRP: £84.00£66.69In 1543, Nicolaus Copernicus publicly defended his hypothesis that the earth is a planet and the sun a body resting near the center of a finite universe. But why did Copernicus make this bold proposal? And why did it matter? "The Copernican Question"... -
Many Middle Passages: Forced Migration and the Making of the Modern World by Emma Christopher 9780520252073
RRP: £30.00£23.29This groundbreaking book presents a global perspective on the history of forced migration over three centuries and illuminates the centrality of these vast movements of people in the making of the modern world. Highly original essays from renowned... -
Cities of the World: A History in Maps by Peter Whitfield 9780520247253
£77.74Condensing centuries of history into one volume, "Cities of the World" traces the historic form and special character of the world's greatest cities through a breathtaking collection of maps and panoramic views. Peter Whitfield focuses on more than sixty... -
Worlds Together, Worlds Apart: with Sources by Elizabeth Pollard 9780393668605
£91.21The most globally integrated book in the field, Worlds Together, Worlds Apart is unmatched in helping students draw clear comparisons and connections across time and place. A new AP (R) part structure and strong chapter pedagogy supports student...