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American Indian Stories by Zitkala-Sa 9781513137513
RRP: $24.50$16.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781513137513Author Zitkala-SaFormat PaperbackPage Count 228Imprint West Margin PressPublisher West Margin PressWeight(grams) 152g -
Socialism From Below by Hal Draper 9781608467969
RRP: $54.18$36.40As a new generation discovers socialism, this important text by American Marxist Hal Draper makes the case that genuine liberation can only come from the self-activity of workers. Draper outlines the important distinction in the socialist movement... -
Who Gets In: An Immigration Story by Norman Ravvin 9780889779228
RRP: $30.90$28.81One man's immigration to the Canadian Prairies in the early 1930s reveals the character of Canada today as sharply as it did long ago. In 1930, a young Jewish man, Yehuda Eisenstein, arrived in Canada from Poland to escape persecution and in the hopes... -
World Politics since 1989 by Jonathan Holslag 9781509546732
RRP: $23.21$17.221989 ushered in a new age of freedom and prosperity. Thirty years later, the golden era is over. What went wrong? How did the age of globalization – of growing connectivity, affluence, and growth – give way? Jonathan Holslag navigates through the calm... -
A Students' History Of The United States by Edward Channing 9781446077160
RRP: $36.11$28.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781446077160Author Edward ChanningFormat PaperbackPage Count 692Imprint Read BooksPublisher Read BooksWeight(grams) 866g -
The Webs of Humankind: A World History by J. R. McNeill 9780393417425
$139.14A leader in the field presents a cohesive narrative of world history that effectively addresses the main challenge of the introductory survey: how to navigate beginning students through the vast detail of the subject. McNeill uses connective webs—along... -
5 Steps to a 5: AP World History: Modern 2024 Elite Student Edition by Beth Bartolini-Salimbeni 9781265317423
RRP: $34.82$24.95AP Teachers’ #1 Choice!Ready to succeed in your AP course and ace your exam? Our 5 Steps to a 5 guides explain the tough stuff, offer tons of practice and explanations, and help you make the most efficient use of your study time. 5 Steps to a 5: AP World... -
Embodiment, Identity, and Gender in the Early Modern Age by Amy Leonard 9780367507336
RRP: $49.01$43.06Embracing a multiconfessional and transnational approach that stretches from central Europe, to Scotland and England, from Iberia to Africa and Asia, this volume explores the lives, work, and experiences of women and men during the tumultuous fifteenth... -
The Agamemnon of Aeschylus; Translated into English Rhyming Verse with Explanatory Notes by Aeschylus 9789354846083
RRP: $10.18$6.06Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789354846083Author AeschylusFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Alpha EditionPublisher Alpha EditionWeight(grams) 150g -
What is Early Modern History? by ME Wiesner–Hanks 9781509540563
RRP: $64.50$56.13What is Early Modern History? offers a concise guide to investigations of the era from the fifteenth to eighteenth centuries and an entry-point to larger questions about how we divide and organize the past and how the discipline of history has evolved... -
Voices in the Legal Archives in the French Colonial World: “The King is Listening” by Nancy Christie 9780367508067
RRP: $174.15$151.81Voices in the Legal Archives in the French Colonial World: "The King is Listening" offers, through the contribution of thirteen original chapters, a sustained analysis of judicial practices and litigation during the first era of French overseas expansion... -
Oh, Socrates!: Tracking the life and death of Socrates by Jill Dudley 9780995578135
RRP: $11.60$8.32Farmers wife travels in footsteps of Socrates.Book InformationISBN 9780995578135Author Jill DudleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 210Imprint Orpington PublishersPublisher Orpington Publishers -
The League of Nations and the Development of International Law: A New Intellectual History of the Advisory Committee of Jurists by P. Sean Morris 9781032065007
RRP: $51.59$45.23This volume examines the contributions to International Law of individual members of the Advisory Committee of Jurists in the League of Nations, and the broader national and discursive legal traditions of which they were representative. It adopts a... -
How the West Lost the Peace: The Great Transformation Since the Cold War by Philipp Ther 9781509550593
RRP: $77.40$67.02When the Berlin Wall was stormed and the Soviet Union fell apart, the West and above all the United States looked like the sole victors of history. Three decades later, the spirit of triumph rings hollow. What went wrong? In this sequel to his... -
Vasco da Gama and his Successors, 1460–1580 by K.G. Jayne 9781032436906
$143.98Vasco da Gama and His Successors (1970) looks at a range of Portuguese explorers of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, the most important being Vasco da Gama, whose first voyage to India ushered in a period of European conquest and empire, and... -
Cosmopolitan Cultures and Oceanic Thought by Dilip M Menon 9781032292977
RRP: $49.01$43.06This book imagines the ocean as central to understanding the world and its connections in history, literature and the social sciences. Introducing the central conceptual category of ocean as method, it analyzes the histories of movement and traversing... -
The Afrikaners – An Historical Interpretation by Le May 9780631182047
RRP: $87.66$76.17This is a history of the Afrikaner peoples from their arrival in southern Africa in 1652, up to the present day. The account covers the establishment of the Dutch East India trading post in the Cape, the Greak Trek of the 1830s, the discovery of gold and... -
American Sport in International History: The United States and the World since 1865 by Daniel M. DuBois 9781350134713
RRP: $83.85$78.10This book explores how American sports, especially basketball, baseball and American football, have projected the US into the world, and brought the world into America. Taking a chronological approach it traces the development of American sports from the... -
The Rise and Fall of Modern Empires, Volume I: Social Organization by Owen White 9781032402659
RRP: $38.69$34.37This collection brings together twenty-one articles that explore the diverse impact of modern empires on societies around the world since 1800. Colonial expansion changed the lives of colonised peoples in multiple ways relating to work, the environment,... -
A Companion to World History by Douglas Northrop 9781118977514
RRP: $47.67$42.45A COMPANION TOWORLD HISTORY "This new volume offers insightful reflections by both leading and emerging world historians on approaches, methodologies, arguments, and pedagogies of a sub-discipline that has continued to be in flux as well as in need of... -
The Moche by G Bawden 9781557865205
RRP: $126.36$112.19The Moche civilization was created by the people who lived in the arid coastal regions of Northern Peru from around AD 100 to AD 700. This civilization had long been known for the great mud-brick pyramids that tower over the river valleys, for the... -
The Rise and Fall of Modern Empires, Volume IV: Reactions to Colonialism by Martin Shipway 9781032402673
RRP: $38.69$34.37The collection of essays in this volume offers an overview of scholarly approaches to the ways in which diverse actors, representing the colonised or the colonising nations, or indeed the international community, reacted to colonialism during the... -
Race, Nation, and Capital in the Modern World: The Nexus of Inequality by Philip Y. Nicholson 9781032056258
RRP: $46.43$40.88Race, Nation, and Capital in the Modern World is a comprehensive yet concise survey that traces the history of racism, nationalism and capitalism from their combined origins at the end of the 15th century to the present. This book describes the... -
Human Rights in World History by Peter N. Stearns 9781032332109
RRP: $43.85$38.70This book takes a global historical perspective to trace the rise of human rights and their global impact from the 18th century to the present. This fully updated volume examines the complex relationships between Western concepts of human rights and... -
Dressed in Time: A World View by Margaret Maynard 9781350032743
$102.35Through object-based case studies of garments from the ancient past through to the 21st century, Margaret Maynard reveals the countless ways the temporal is woven into our attire. From the physical effects of age on garments to their changing cultural... -
Edges of Transatlantic Commerce in the Long Eighteenth Century by Seohyon Jung 9780367767808
RRP: $49.01$43.06Edges of Transatlantic Commerce in the Long Eighteenth Century examines and challenges the boundaries of the Atlantic in the eighteenth century, with a particular focus on commerce. Commerce as a keyword encompasses a wide range of documented and... -
Contact, Conquest and Colonization: How Practices of Comparing Shaped Empires and Colonialism Around the World by Eleonora Rohland 9780367766931
RRP: $49.01$43.06Contact, Conquest and Colonization brings together international historians and literary studies scholars in order to explore the force of practices of comparing in shaping empires and colonial relations at different points in time and around the globe. ... -
Empire and Imperialism: The Debate of the 1870s by Peter Cain 9781890318246
RRP: $30.96$29.71The 1870s is a key decade in the evolution of British thinking about the nature, purpose, and future of empire. Increasing economic competition began to disturb the complacent assumption about Britain's leadership in technology and in the world economy... -
Education in World History by Mark S. Johnson 9780415318143
RRP: $46.43$40.88This book is a comprehensive, thematic survey of the history of education throughout the world, from ancient times to the present day. Education in World History analyzes patterns of religious and cultural influence in classical societies, as well as the... -
Modern Travel in World History by Tom Taylor 9780367765996
RRP: $46.43$38.18Modern Travel in World History uses three themes - technology, mass movements, and travellers - to examine the history of the modern world from the fifteenth-century transatlantic explorations to the impact of the global COVID pandemic of the 21st... -
Body Trade: Captivity, Cannibalism and Colonialism in the Pacific by Barbara Creed 9780415938846
RRP: $174.15$151.29Body Trade exposes myths surrounding the trade in heads, cannibalism, captive white women, the display of indigenous people in fairs and circuses, the stolen generations, the 'comfort' women and the making of the exotic/erotic body. This is a lively and... -
Private Security and the Modern State: Historical and Comparative Perspectives by David Churchill 9781032173061
RRP: $51.59$45.23Based on extensive research in several international contexts, this volume provides a nuanced assessment of the historical evolution of private security and its fluid, contested and mutually constitutive relationship with state agencies, public policing... -
Great Events that Changed Our Lives: The Most Important Moments from 1950 to the Present by Alfredo Luis Somoza 9788854415324
RRP: $32.25$22.42Some events more than others have changed the pace and determined the direction that history has taken along its rugged path. Inconsistencies that are not always clearly evident occur much more frequently when the events of humanity speed up. Such was... -
Religion and the Medieval and Early Modern Global Marketplace by Scott Oldenburg 9780367536749
RRP: $161.25$139.14Religion and the Medieval and Early Modern Global Marketplace brings together scholars from a variety of disciplines to examine the intersection, conflict, and confluence of religion and the market before 1700. Each chapter analyses the unique... -
Dialogue Of Civilizations: The Self and the Other by Mana Saeed Al-Otaiba 9781569022948
RRP: $38.64$25.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781569022948Author Mana Saeed Al-OtaibaFormat PaperbackPage Count 316Imprint Red Sea Press,U.S.Publisher Red Sea Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 443g -
Threatened Knowledge: Practices of Knowing and Ignoring from the Middle Ages to the Twentieth Century by Renate Durr 9780367523176
RRP: $47.72$41.96Threatened Knowledge discusses the practices of knowing, not-knowing, and not wanting to know from the middle ages to the twentieth century. In times of 'fake news', processes of forgetting and practices of non-knowledge have sparked the interest... -
Immigration and Exile Foreign-Language Press in the UK and in the US: Connected Histories of the 19th and 20th Centuries by Dr. Stéphanie Prévost 9781350107045
$123.09Both Britain and the United States have had a long history of harbouring foreign political exiles, who often set up periodicals which significantly contributed to community-building and political debates. However, this varied and complex journalism has... -
Anti-Fascism, Gender, and International Communism: The Comite Mondial des Femmes contre la Guerre et le Fascisme, 1934 - 1941 by Jasmine Calver 9780367720483
RRP: $161.25$139.14Anti-Fascism, Gender, and International Communism provides a comprehensive history of the Comite mondial des femmes contre la guerre et le fascisme (CMF), an international women's organisation concerned with confronting the impact of fascism on women and... -
Plotting the Globe: Stories of Meridians, Parallels, and the International Date Line by Avraham Ariel 9780275988951
$71.30People use concepts such as time and date to structure their lives on a daily basis. They often measure their travel by marking points arranged along great circles on the globe. Yet most do not understand the origin and history of these terms and the... -
Scribal Practice and the Global Cultures of Colophons, 1400-1800 by Stefan Hanss 9783030901530
RRP: $141.89$127.36"This is a tour de force of sophisticated global erudition." -Filippo de Vivo, University of Oxford, UK"In its wide global range and rich variety of studies, this expertly edited volume provides an unprecedented view into the scribal practices of...