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Pacific Asia – in the Global System by PW Preston
RRP: $233.00$202.27The rise of Pacific Asia within the tripolar global industrial-capitalist system is of extraordinary interest. Few doubt that the dynamics of Asia will shape the global political economy of the twenty-first century. It is clear that the Pacific Asian... -
A Cultural History of Disability in the Modern Age by David T Mitchell
$173.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781350029293Author David T MitchellFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Bloomsbury AcademicPublisher Bloomsbury AcademicWeight(grams) 174g -
The Shaping of 'Abbasid Rule by Jacob Lassner
RRP: $94.50$74.17In order to understand the transition between the revolutionary movement that propelled the Abbasids to power and the imperial government that later took root, Jacob Lassner studies those elements that served to shape the political attitudes and... -
To Make America: European Emigration in the Early Modern Period by Ida Altman
RRP: $168.00$129.97This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices... -
The Disappearance of Percy Fawcett and Other Famous Vanishings by Jane Clapp
$13.86There is nothing more disconcerting than someone vanishing into thin air. Unanswered questions abound and the mysteries only tend to grow. The Disappearance of Percy Fawcett and Other Famous Vanishings attempts to provide clarity and background on... -
European Integration in Social and Historical Perspective: 1850 to the Present by Jytte Klausen
$100.42Exploring the social dimensions of state formation and European integration, a respected interdisciplinary group of European and North American scholars takes a novel approach to the historical processes of integration. Rather than being led by EU... -
World Civilization: A Brief History by Robin W. Winks
$221.13Robin W. Winks placed particular emphasis on those developments that most directly explain the nature of the modern world: social diffusion, group and national consciousness, technological change, religious identities-those aspects of intellectual... -
The Rise and Fall of Modern Empires, Volume III: Economics and Politics by Sarah Stockwell
RRP: $62.98$55.94Few aspects of the history of modern empires are of such significance as their economics and politics. These factors are inextricably linked in many analyses, have generated extensive historiographical debate and are currently the subject of some of the... -
Patterns of World History, Volume Two: From 1400 by Peter Von Sivers
$159.12Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780197517048Author Peter Von SiversFormat PaperbackPage Count 544Imprint Oxford University Press, USAPublisher Oxford University Press, USAWeight(grams) 251g -
The Soviets' Greatest Gambit: The Cuban Missile Crisis by Alan J. Levine
RRP: $189.00$173.50Adam J. Levine analyzes the origins of the Cuban Missile Crisis, with a particular focus on Nikita Khrushchev's motives and the response of the Kennedy administration. Levine's account presents a different portrayal of the events than popularly told,... -
Memoirs of 1984 by Yuri Tarnopolsky
$189.46A former Soviet scientist and political prisoner now living in America, Yuri Tarnopolsky tells the story of his quest to understand Russia. In 1983 he was tried on charges of defaming the Soviet system: he had become a refusenik activist who defended... -
Hardcore History: History At The Extremes by Dan Carlin
RRP: $73.50$42.42A journey back in time that explores what happened-and what could have happened-from creator of the wildly-popular podcast Hardcore History and 2019 winner of the iHeartRadio Best History Podcast Award.Dan Carlin has created a new way to think about the... -
American Sport in International History: The United States and the World since 1865 by Daniel M. DuBois
RRP: $46.18$40.49This 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... -
1974 - A World in Flux by Joe Brydon
RRP: $25.20$20.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781999851064Author Joe BrydonFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Gretton BooksPublisher Gretton Books -
Agua. Una Biografia by Giulio Boccaletti
$54.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788418217555Author Giulio BoccalettiFormat HardbackPage Count 512Imprint Atico de Los LibrosPublisher Atico de Los Libros -
An Introduction to World Politics by Herbert Adams Gibbons
RRP: $115.48$100.21Originally published in 1922, An Introduction to World Politics, was published at a particularly interesting time in international relations, just a few short years after the first world war. With this in mind, Gibbons has approached this text as a... -
The Pacific Basin since 1945: An International History by Roger C. Thompson
RRP: $283.50$247.13The nations of the Pacific Basin - in East and Southeast Asia, Australasia, the Pacific islands and the Americas - make up the world's largest economic zone, and its most culturally diverse region. In recent years its Asian 'Tiger Economies' have... -
Revolutions in the Western World 1775-1825 by Professor Jeremy Black
RRP: $182.68$160.73Considering what has been described as an Age of Revolutions, Black assesses a formative period in world history by examining the North American, European, Haitian and Latin American Revolutions. Causes, courses and consequences are all clarified in the... -
Disarming the Allies of Imperialism: The State, Agitation, and Manipulation during China's Nationalist Revolution, 1922-1929 by Murdock
RRP: $226.80$196.14This study provides a striking new explanation of how China's Nationalist Party (GMD) defeated its rivals in the revolution of 1922-1929 and helped bring some degree of unification to a country torn by class, regional, and ideological interests... -
Capitalism with a Human Face: The Quest for a Middle Road in Russian Politics by William Gay
$90.83Combining the theoretical perspectives of a leading Russian political scientist and an American political philosopher who have collaborated for years, Capitalism with a Human Face analyzes the relation between economics and politics in Russia as it moves... -
Internment Refugee Camps: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives by Linda Erker
RRP: $94.48$77.15How did and does the fate of refugees unfold in internment camps? The contributors facilitate an extensive engagement with the organized, state led, and forced placement of refugees in the past and present. They show the parallels and differences between... -
A Cultural History of Disability in the Long Nineteenth Century by Joyce L Huff
$174.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781350029071Author Joyce L HuffFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Bloomsbury AcademicPublisher Bloomsbury AcademicWeight(grams) 175g -
A Cultural History of Disability in the Long Eighteenth Century by D Christopher Gabbard
$173.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781350028913Author D Christopher GabbardFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Bloomsbury AcademicPublisher Bloomsbury AcademicWeight(grams) 175g -
Patterns of World History, Volume One: To 1600 by Peter Von Sivers
$158.32Presented in two volumes for maximum flexibility, Patterns of World History, Brief Fourth Edition, offers a distinct framework for understanding the global past through the study of origins, interactions, and adaptations. The authors examine the full... -
Historical Introduction to the World: Earliest Times to the Present Day by B.D. Yadav
$26.86Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788171582785Author B.D. YadavFormat HardbackPage Count 5500Imprint Akashdeep Publishing HousePublisher Akashdeep Publishing House -
Embodiment, Identity, and Gender in the Early Modern Age by Amy Leonard
RRP: $283.50$247.13Embracing 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... -
Human Rights in World History by Peter N. Stearns
RRP: $262.50$226.51Provides a broader, more global perspective compared to other volumes which focus more narrowly on a Western-centric viewpoint and examined in post-war isolation. Fully updated volume featuring new material on recent historical and interdisciplinary... -
A History of the World in Seven Themes: Volume Two: Since 1400 by Stewart Gordon
RRP: $102.88$102.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780190642457Author Stewart GordonFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Oxford University Press, USAPublisher Oxford University Press, USA -
A History of the World in Seven Themes: Volume One: To 1600 by Stewart Gordon
RRP: $102.88$102.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780190642440Author Stewart GordonFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Oxford University Press, USAPublisher Oxford University Press, USA -
War: How Conflict Shaped Us by Margaret MacMillan
RRP: $42.00$25.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593132371Author Margaret MacMillanFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Random House TradePublisher Random House TradeWeight(grams) 132g -
Politics of the Lesser Evil by Anton Pelinka
RRP: $92.38$80.72In his pathbreaking book, Leadership, James MacGregor Burns defines a kind of leadership with an indistinguishable personal impact on society. He calls this "transformal" leadership, and sees it as more than routine and calculable responses to... -
Japan and Imperialism, 1853-1945 by James L Huffman
$32.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780924304828Author James L HuffmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint Association for Asian StudiesPublisher Association for Asian StudiesWeight(grams)... -
The Development of European Society, 1770-1870 by John R. Gillis
RRP: $107.10$87.17Originally published by Houghton Mifflin in 1977, this provocative study is based on the idea that current Third World problems of modernization may be able to shed light on the period of European history from roughly 1770 to 1870. Includes extensive... -
Brazil by Joel Wolfe
RRP: $105.00$91.37Brazil has long been an enigma to outsiders. Over the last two decades alone, Latin America’s largest and most populous country has been celebrated as a vibrant new democracy with a powerful economy, and derided as a nation in complete disarray heading... -
History's Assassins: Motives for Murder by Don Mann
RRP: $42.00$27.85A fact-based book that highlights political assassins in history. The book includes the stories of the assassins rather than just their famous victims. The book dissects selected political assassinations and and why the assassins acted; detail stheir... -
The Rise and Fall of Modern Empires, Volume II: Colonial Knowledges by Saul Dubow
RRP: $62.98$55.94This volume reproduces key historical texts concerning `colonial knowledges'. The use of the adjective 'colonial' indicates that knowledge is shaped by power relationships, while the use of the plural form, 'knowledges' indicates the emphasis in this... -
The Library: A Fragile History by Andrew Pettegree
RRP: $73.50$45.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781541600775Author Andrew PettegreeFormat HardbackPage Count 528Imprint Basic BooksPublisher Basic Books -
The Industrial Age: Economy and Society in Britain since 1750 by Charles More
RRP: $283.50$247.13A new edition of this popular single volume survey of the British economy from industrialisation to the present day. This key text has been updated to cover a further decade of Britain's economic and social fortunes. In particular the chapters on the... -
The Sugar Trade: Brazil, Portugal, and the Netherlands, 1595-1630 by Daniel Strum
RRP: $216.30$193.28This book provides a thoroughly researched and richly illustrated account of a key element of the early modern Atlantic world: the sugar trade linking Brazil, Portugal, and the Netherlands. The study seeks to illuminate the economic, social, political,... -
Western Civilizations by Joshua Cole
RRP: $161.70$157.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781324042747Author Joshua ColeImprint W. W. Norton & CompanyPublisher W. W. Norton & CompanyWeight(grams) 2195g