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Rivers of Power: How a Natural Force Raised Kingdoms, Destroyed Civilizations, and Shapes Our World by Laurence C. Smith
RRP: £12.99£9.34'As fascinating as it is beautifully written' JARED DIAMOND, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Guns, Germs and SteelRivers, more than any road, technology or political event, have shaped the course of civilization. Rivers have opened frontiers, defined... -
Connecting History: Higher Migration and Empire, 1830-1939 Euan M. Duncan 9781398345355
£22.27Exam board: SQALevel: HigherSubject: HistoryFirst teaching: September 2018First exam: Summer 2019Fresh stories, fresh scholarship and a fresh structure. Connecting History informs and empowers tomorrow's citizens, today.Bringing together lesser-told... -
Forgotten Voices Of The Great War by Max Arthur
RRP: £15.99£11.61This unique landmark oral history uses first-hand accounts from ordinary men and women who were there. Gripping, poignant, surprising and even humorous, the personal experiences of these soldiers, civilians, marines and medics from both sides tell us... -
On This Day in History Sh!t Went Down by James Fell 9780593724088
RRP: £18.99£13.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593724088Author James FellFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Bantam Dell Publishing Group, Div of Random House, IncPublisher Random House USA... -
International History of the Twentieth Century and Beyond by Anthony Best 9780415656429
RRP: £47.99£43.41This hugely successful global history of the twentieth century is written by four prominent international historians for first-year undergraduate level and upward.Using their thematic and regional expertise, the authors have produced an authoritative yet... -
A Concise History of the Caribbean by B. W. Higman
RRP: £22.99£20.83A Concise History of the Caribbean offers a comprehensive interpretation of the history of the Caribbean islands from the beginning of human settlement to the present. It narrates processes of early human migration, the disastrous consequences of... -
Berlin: The Story of a City by Barney White-Spunner 9781471181566
RRP: £10.99£7.21'My only complaint is that it was so fascinating I wish it had been longer. What a story!' Philip Mansel BERLIN is Europe's most fascinating and exciting city. The great movements that have shaken Europe, from the Reformation to Marxism, have their... -
Extreme North: A Cultural History by Bernd Brunner
RRP: £21.99£18.55People have perennially projected their fantasies onto the North as a frozen no-man's-land full of marauding Vikings or as the unspoiled landscape of a purer, more elemental form of life. Bernd Brunner recovers the encounters of adventurers with its... -
The Perfect Kill: A Personal History of Modern Assassination Robert Baer 9781780228396
RRP: £10.99£7.61What is the definition of assassination? Robert Baer's boss at the CIA once told him, 'It's a bullet with a man's name on it.' Sometimes assassination is the senseless act of a psychotic, a bloodletting without social value. Other times, it can be the... -
Invisible Lines: Boundaries and Belts That Define the World by Maxim Samson 9781800814998
RRP: £22.00£14.71'An illuminating glimpse of the chain reactions of human and physical geography.' Financial Times 'A truly original adventure into new ways of exploring what we mean by a sense of place.' Simon Jenkins 'A fascinating exploration of the lesser-known... -
The Invention of China by Bill Hayton
RRP: £11.99£10.41Bill Hayton tells the story of how "China" came to think of itself as China-and what it means for our world today "[A] smart take on modern Chinese nationalism."-Foreign Policy In this compelling and highly-readable account, Hayton shows how China's... -
The Great Transformation: The World in the Time of Buddha, Socrates, Confucius and Jeremiah by Karen Armstrong
RRP: £14.99£10.06The centuries between 800 and 300 BC saw an explosion of new religious concepts. Their emergence is second only to man's harnessing of fire in fundamentally transforming our understanding of what it is to be human. But why did Socrates, Buddha,... -
The Renaissance of the Twelfth Century by Charles Homer Haskins 9780674760752
RRP: £34.95£28.19The Italian Renaissance was preceded, structured, and, to a significant extent, determined by the Renaissance of the twelfth century which saw the culmination of Romanesque art and the beginnings of the Gothic; the emergence of vernacular languages; the... -
A Political History of the World: Three Thousand Years of War and Peace by Jonathan Holslag
RRP: £14.99£10.95A three-thousand year history of the world that examines the causes of war and the search for peaceIn three thousand years of history, China has spent at least eleven centuries at war. The Roman Empire was in conflict during at least 50 per cent of its... -
The Oxford Companion to Irish History S.J. Connolly (Professor of Irish History, School of History and Anthropology, Queen's University, Belfast) 9780199691869
RRP: £17.49£12.61'A companion to be cherished', 'judicious and authoritative', 'informative and entertaining', an 'invaluable work of reference' - these are just some of the phrases used by reviewers to describe the Oxford Companion to Irish History. The history of... -
Cotton: The Biography of a Revolutionary Fiber by Stephen Yafa 9780143037224
RRP: £19.01£14.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143037224Author Stephen YafaFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint The Penguin PressPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 340g -
The First Day on the Somme: 1 July 1916 by Martin Middlebrook
RRP: £12.99£9.34The soldiers receive the best service a historian can provide: their story is told in their own words - Guardian'For some reason nothing seemed to happen to us at first; we strolled along as though walking in a park. Then, suddenly, we were in the midst... -
A Little History of the World: Illustrated Edition by E. H. Gombrich
RRP: £18.99£16.58A glorious illustrated edition of the international bestseller E. H. Gombrich's Little History of the World, though written in 1935, has become one of the treasures of historical writing since its first publication in English in 2005. The Yale edition... -
When Paris Sizzled: The 1920s Paris of Hemingway, Chanel, Cocteau, Cole Porter, Josephine Baker, and Their Friends by Mary McAuliffe 9781538121801
RRP: £14.99£11.51When Paris Sizzled vividly portrays the City of Light during the fabulous 1920s, les Annees folles, when Parisians emerged from the horrors of war to find that a new world greeted them-one that reverberated with the hard metallic clang of the assembly... -
The Boundless Sea: A Human History of the Oceans by David Abulafia
RRP: £18.99£14.01WINNER OF THE WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZE 2020A SUNDAY TIMES, FINANCIAL TIMES, THE TIMES AND BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE BOOK OF THE YEARFor most of human history, the seas and oceans have been the main means of long-distance trade and communication between peoples -... -
France in the World: A New Global History by Patrick Boucheron
RRP: £19.99£14.56A fresh, provocative history that renews our understanding of France in the world through short, incisive essays ranging from prehistoric frescoes to Coco Chanel to the terrorist attacks of 2015. Bringing together an impressive group... -
1913: The Year before the Storm by Florian Illies
RRP: £10.99£7.99A witty yet moving narrative worked up from sketched biographical fragments, 1913 is an intimate vision of a world that is about to change forever. The stuffy conventions of the nineteenth century are receding into the past, and 1913 heralds a new age... -
A Train of Powder by Rebecca West 9781566633192
RRP: £12.99£9.71Like most all of Rebecca West's reportage, A Train of Powder approaches great literature. Written between 1946 and 1954, these accounts of four controversial trials explore the nature of crime and punishment, innocence and guilt, retribution and... -
Living with the Gods: On Beliefs and Peoples by Neil MacGregor
RRP: £14.99£11.11Following the award-winning BBC Radio 4 series, a panoramic exploration of peoples, objects and beliefs from the celebrated author of A History of the World in 100 Objects and Germany'Riveting, extraordinary ... tells the sweeping story of religious ... -
A Bitter Revolution: China's Struggle with the Modern World by Rana Mitter
RRP: £16.99£12.87China is now poised to take a key role on the world stage, but in the early twentieth century the situation could not have been more different. Rana Mitter goes back to this pivotal moment in Chinese history to uncover the origins of the painful... -
A Million Years in a Day: A Curious History of Daily Life Greg Jenner 9781780225654
RRP: £10.99£7.61'A wonderful idea, gloriously put into practice. Greg Jenner is as witty as he is knowledgeable' - Tom Holland'You will love Greg Jenner's jolly account of how we have more in common with our ancestors than we might think ... all human life is here, ... -
The Second World War by John Keegan
RRP: £30.00£21.69In this comprehensive history, John Keegan explores both the technical and the human impact of the greatest war of all time. He focuses on five crucial battles and offers new insights into the distinctive methods and motivations of modern warfare. In... -
The Market in Poetry in the Persian World by Shahzad Bashir
RRP: £17.00£14.72'Poetic speech is a pearl, connected to the king's ear.' This statement gestures to words as objects of material value sought by those with power and resources. The author provides a sense for the texture of the Persian world by discussing what made... -
The End of Empires and a World Remade: A Global History of Decolonization by Professor Martin Thomas 9780691190921
RRP: £35.00£30.34A capacious history of decolonization, from the decline of empires to the era of globalizationEmpires, until recently, were everywhere. They shaped borders, stirred conflicts, and set the terms of international politics. With the collapse of empire came... -
Curse Tablets and Binding Spells from the Ancient World by John G. Gager 9780195134827
RRP: £53.00£41.13In the ancient Graeco-Roman world, it was a common practice to curse an enemy or rival by writing an incantation on a tablet and dedicating it to a god or spirit. More than a thousand such texts, written between the fifth century BC and the fifth century... -
The Measure of All Things: The Seven-Year Odyssey and Hidden Error That Transformed the World by Ken Alder 9780743216760
£19.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780743216760Author Ken AlderFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 608gDimensions(mm) 217mm * 141mm *... -
The World: A Brief Introduction by Richard Haass
RRP: £15.99£10.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780399562419Author Richard HaassFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint The Penguin PressPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc -
The Plant-Hunter's Atlas: A World Tour of Botanical Adventures, Chance Discoveries and Strange Specimens Ambra Edwards 9781529410112
RRP: £30.00£20.70RHS Staff Pick of the Year 2021 Spectator Gardening Book of the year 2021 'A refreshingly insightful history of plant introductions.' - Roy Lancaster Travel the world with extraordinary tales of the botanical discoveries that have shaped empires,... -
Gender and Jim Crow: Women and the Politics of White Supremacy in North Carolina, 1896-1920 by Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore 9781469651880
RRP: £32.95£30.34This classic work helps recover the central role of black women in the political history of the Jim Crow era. Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore explores the pivotal and interconnected roles played by gender and race in North Carolina politics from the period... -
Connecting History: National 4 & 5 The Era of the Great War, 1900-1928 Alec Jessop 9781398345409
£21.16Exam board: SQALevel: National 4 & 5Subject: HistoryFirst teaching: September 2017First assessment: Summer 2018Fresh stories, fresh scholarship and a fresh structure. Connecting History informs and empowers tomorrow's citizens, today.Bringing together... -
Royalists and Royalism During the Interregnum by Jason McElligott 9780719081613
RRP: £90.00£74.26What was it like to live under the English Republic and, later, Cromwell's Protectorate, if one supported the defeated Stuarts and yearned for the day when Charles II would once again set foot in England? This book tells the story of the traumatic decade... -
Lessons From History: Hidden heroes, villains and places from the past, and what we can learn from them by Alex Deane 9781785907104
RRP: £12.99£9.50History is full to the brim with untold tales of heroics and villainy, gruesome battles, hilarious happenings and downright bizarre coincidences. Meet the war veteran who lost an eye and amputated his own fingers. Discover the original Die Hards, whose... -
The Eastern Front 1914-1917 by Norman Stone
RRP: £12.99£9.34A groundbreaking historical study, Norman Stone's The Eastern Front 1914-1917 was the very first authoritative account of the Russian Front in the First World War to be published in the West. In this now-classic history he dispels the myths surrounding... -
Access to History for the IB Diploma: Authoritarian states Second Edition by Michael Lynch
RRP: £28.00£27.53The renowned IB Diploma History series, combining compelling narratives with academic rigor.A new edition for World History Topic 10: Authoritarian states (20th Century)An authoritative and engaging narrative, with the widest variety of sources at this... -
The Shortest History of War by Gwynne Dyer 9781913083236
RRP: £8.99£6.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913083236Author Gwynne DyerFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Old Street PublishingPublisher Old Street PublishingWeight(grams) 129g