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Migrations and Belongings: 1870-1945 by Dirk Hoerder 9780674281318
RRP: £26.95£21.41Toward 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: £30.00£23.29Studies 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: £80.00£62.29Studies 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: £80.00£62.29During 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: £80.00£62.29Big 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: £30.00£23.69Sex 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: £21.00£16.63Picture 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: £28.00£21.80In 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: £80.00£61.89The 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: £80.00£62.29What 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: £46.00£36.48Humans 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: £80.00£61.89Surfing 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: £80.00£62.29Three 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: £63.00£48.98This 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: £30.00£23.69Big 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: £77.00£76.49Used 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
£99.74Used 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: £50.00£39.52Drawing 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: £28.00£21.80How 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... -
Boundaries of Toleration by Alfred Stepan 9780231165662
RRP: £92.00£71.81How 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: £44.99£44.97This 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: £68.00£52.77Laura 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: £109.00£84.81The 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
£109.57Apologies 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
£84.97The 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: £22.50£17.92This 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: £41.99£34.64Apologies 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 -
American Option: And, Yes, I Almost Became an American by Philip Morgan Cheek 9781883283407
RRP: £8.95£5.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781883283407Author Philip Morgan CheekFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Brick Tower PressPublisher Brick Tower PressWeight(grams) 323g -
Limits of Civilization by Andrew Targowski 9781634634236
RRP: £141.99£93.66This book has been inspired by Dennis Meadows's (et al) The Limits to Growth, published 41 years ago. It forewarned the general public about the exhaustion of strategic resources of the planet as known at that time, unless economic and population... -
Sanctified Violence: Holy War in World History by Alfred J Andrea 9781624669606
RRP: £18.99£15.67"This rich and engaging book looks at instances of sanctified violence, the holy wars related to religion. It covers it all, from ancient to present day, including examples of warfare among Sikhs, Hindus and Buddhists, as well as Christians, Jews and... -
The Devil's Milk: A Social History of Rubber by John Tully 9781583672327
RRP: £60.00£48.82Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781583672327Author John TullyFormat HardbackPage Count 480Imprint Monthly Review Press,U.S.Publisher Monthly Review Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 794g -
The Reawakening of the Arab World: Challenge and Change in the Aftermath of the Arab Spring by Samir Amin 9781583675977
RRP: £18.99£15.65According to renowned Marxist economist Samir Amin, the recent Arab Spring uprisings comprise an integral part of a massive "second awakening" of the Global South. From the self-immolation in December 2010 of a Tunisian street vendor, to the... -
A Social History of the Scotch-Irish by Carlton Jackson 9781568331423
RRP: £16.99£12.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781568331423Author Carlton JacksonFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Madison BooksPublisher Madison BooksWeight(grams) 454g -
Dismantling Utopia: How Information Ended the Soviet Union by Scott Shane 9781566630993
RRP: £11.99£9.02By the 1980s the Soviet Union had matched the United States in military might and far surpassed it in the production of steel, timber, concrete, and oil. But the electronic whirlwind that was transforming the global economy had been locked out by... -
Western Civilization in the 21st Century by Andrew Targowski 9781536107579
RRP: £101.99£82.41This book took the task of conceptualising Western civilisation in the 21st century. It examines Western Civilisation and its encounters from a viewpoint of the impact of rising Global civilisations in the 21st century. This political and technological... -
Limits of Civilization by Andrew Targowski 9781536107562
RRP: £84.99£68.91This book has been inspired by Dennis Meadows's (et al) The Limits to Growth, published 41 years ago. It forewarned the general public about the exhaustion of strategic resources of the planet as known at that time, unless economic and population... -
The Cultural History of Money and Credit: A Global Perspective by Chia Yin Hsu 9781498505925
RRP: £88.00£77.49In the wake of the financial crisis in 2008, historians have turned with renewed urgency to understanding the economic dimension of historical change. In this collection, nine scholars present original research into the historical development of money... -
Crossing Empires: Taking U.S. History into Transimperial Terrain by Kristin L. Hoganson 9781478006039
RRP: £89.00£77.62Weaving U.S. history into the larger fabric of world history, the contributors to Crossing Empires de-exceptionalize the American empire, placing it in a global transimperial context. They draw attention to the breadth of U.S. entanglements with other... -
The Ocean Reader: History, Culture, Politics by Eric Paul Roorda 9781478006008
RRP: £103.00£89.54From prehistoric times to the present, the Ocean has been used as a highway for trade, a source of food and resources, and a space for recreation and military conquest, as well as an inspiration for religion, culture, and the arts. The Ocean Reader... -
Making the World Modern: An Interpretation by Diana Jane Cordileone 9781465265159
RRP: £112.00£94.45Making the World Modern: an interpretation is a survey of world history that emphasizes the "rise of Europe" since 1500 in the contexts of globalization and modernization. The recently-releasedMaking the World Modern by Diana Reynolds...