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Gender in World History by Peter N. Stearns
RRP: £36.99£32.53Gender in World History integrates gender history and world history by dealing with significant global changes over time, regional patterns of gender relations, and the results of interregional contact on gender roles and concepts.Now in its 4th edition,... -
A Global History of the Cold War, 1945-1991 Philip Jenkins 9783030813659
RRP: £24.99£22.37This textbook provides a dynamic and concise overview of the Cold War. Offering balanced coverage of the whole era, it takes a firmly global approach, showing how at various times the focus of East-West rivalry shifted to new and surprising venues, from... -
The Beloved Community: How Faith Shapes Social Justice from the Civil Rights Movement to Today by Charles Marsh
RRP: £13.99£11.66Speaking to his supporters at the end of the Montgomery bus boycott in 1956, Martin Luther King, Jr., declared that their common goal was not simply the end of segregation as an institution. Rather, "the end is reconciliation, the end is redemption, the... -
A Cultural History of Disability in the Middle Ages by Jonathan Hsy
£82.62The Middle Ages was an era of dynamic social transformation, and notions of disability in medieval culture reflected how norms and forms of embodiment interacted with gender, class, and race, among other dimensions of human difference. Ideas of... -
New Civil-Military Relations: The Agonies of Adjustment to Post-Vietnam Realities by John P. Lovell
RRP: £43.99£38.44This book provides a conceptual understanding of civil-military relations, a revised framework which accommodates complex and dynamic features of modern political life, focusing on successful adjustments to post-Vietnam realities on the part of the... -
The Global South Atlantic by Kerry Bystrom
RRP: £31.00£27.36Not only were more African slaves transported to South America than to North, but overlapping imperialisms and shared resistance to them have linked Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean for over five centuries. Yet despite the rise in transatlantic,... -
The Making of the Middle Class: Toward a Transnational History by A. Ricardo Lopez
RRP: £99.00£86.14In 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... -
Left Transnationalism: The Communist International and the National, Colonial, and Racial Questions: Volume 4 by Oleksa Drachewych
RRP: £35.00£28.90In 1919, Bolshevik Russia and its followers formed the Communist International, also known as the Comintern, to oversee the global communist movement. From the very beginning, the Comintern committed itself to ending world imperialism, supporting... -
The Travelers' World: Europe to the Pacific by Harry Liebersohn
RRP: £30.95£24.42In a beautifully crafted narrative that transports the reader from the salons of Europe to the shores of Tahiti, Harry Liebersohn examines the transformation of global knowledge during the great age of scientific exploration. He moves beyond the... -
The Making of Peace: Rulers, States, and the Aftermath of War by Williamson Murray
RRP: £26.99£21.89The Making of Peace represents a fascinating contribution to the study of war: namely, the difficulties that statesmen have confronted in attempting to put back together the pieces after a major conflict. These essays examine how Western belligerents... -
The Indian Ocean in World History Milo Kearney 9780415312783
RRP: £36.99£32.53Throughout history, dominance of the Indian Ocean has been a critical factor in defining a nation's supremacy and power. It is well known that it played a major part in the success of the Portugese nation at the start of the sixteenth century. In this... -
Reimagining Indian Ocean Worlds by Smriti Srinivas
RRP: £135.00£117.28This book breaks new ground by bringing together multidisciplinary approaches to examine contemporary Indian Ocean worlds. It reconfigures the Indian Ocean as a space for conceptual and theoretical relationality based on social science and humanities... -
Indigenous Networks: Mobility, Connections and Exchange by Jane Carey
RRP: £41.99£37.15This edited collection argues for the importance of recovering Indigenous participation within global networks of imperial power and wider histories of "transnational" connections. It takes up a crucial challenge for new imperial and transnational... -
The Islamic World by William H. McNeill
RRP: £28.00£27.39The Islamic World is a collection of important and representative documents from all periods of Islamic history. From the formative years in Arabia to the confrontations with and responses to modernity, these translations indicate the continuity and... -
World History - A Genealogy: Private Conversations with World Historians, 1996-2016 by Alicia Schrikker
£49.90Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789087282769Author Alicia SchrikkerFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Leiden University PressPublisher Leiden University PressWeight(grams) 590g -
Predicting the Unthinkable, Anticipating the Impossible: From the Fall of the Berlin Wall to America in the New Century by Georgie Anne Geyer
RRP: £135.00£117.68In the 1980s, most Americans scoffed at the idea that the Communist empire could collapse - but Georgie Anne Geyer was already outlining that probability. In the 1990s, the world was stunned by wars that raged across post-Yugoslavia and their viciousness... -
Global Medievalism in Popular Culture: An Introduction by Helen Young
RRP: £17.00£14.72The typical vision of the Middle Ages western popular culture represents to its global audience is deeply Eurocentric. The Lord of the Rings and Game of Thrones imagined entire medievalist worlds, but we see only a fraction of them through the stories... -
Commentaries of Ruy Freyre de Andrada C. R. Boxer 9781138867642
RRP: £43.99£38.44First published in 1930. 'The Broadway Travellers consolidates its already high reputation by issuing this volume...' SpectatorThis is the first translation of the Commentarios since original publication in 1647. Copies of the original are very rare yet... -
Fiscal Crises, Liberty, and Representative Government 1450-1789 by Philip T. Hoffman
RRP: £24.99£22.07This volume, one of the books in the "Making of Modern Freedom" series, is a collection of essays by eminent historians who explore the relationship between state finance and political development in fifteenth and sixteenth century Europe. They... -
The Forensic Historian: Using Science to Reexamine the Past by Robert C. Williams
RRP: £37.99£33.38Modern forensic science has significantly affected historical debate over some well-known past crimes or mysteries, utilizing modern DNA, nuclear, and chemical analyses to reexamine the past. This book takes an in-depth look at 20 significant cases where... -
The Isma'ilis: Their History and Doctrines by Farhad Daftary
RRP: £37.99£36.03The Isma'ilis represent the second largest Shii Muslim community after the Twelvers, and are today scattered throughout more than twenty-five countries in Asia, the Middle East, Africa, Europe and North America. This 2007 second edition of this... -
English Colonial Texts on Tangier, 1661-1684: Imperialism and the Politics of Resistance Karim Bejjit 9780367880958
RRP: £39.99£35.06Recent years have seen growing academic interest in England's colonial venture in Tangier in the late seventeenth century, and the crucial role it played not only in influencing contemporary domestic politics in England, but also in shaping new imperial... -
Spice: The History of a Temptation by Jack Turner
RRP: £20.00£12.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375707056Author Jack TurnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 381g -
Daily Life through Trade: Buying and Selling in World History by James M. Anderson
£63.71Trade has long been-and will continue to be-a driving force that shapes our world. This book documents the tremendous importance of trade throughout history and its influence toward peaceful coexistence among nations. From ancient to modern times, trade... -
The Limits of Westernization: A Cultural History of America in Turkey by Perin Gurel
RRP: £22.00£17.36In a 2001 poll, Turks ranked the United States highest when asked: "Which country is Turkey's best friend in international relations?" When the pollsters reversed the question-"Which country is Turkey's number one enemy in international... -
Mediaeval Europe Julius Kirshner 9780226069432
RRP: £27.00£26.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780226069432Author Julius KirshnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 488Imprint University of Chicago PressPublisher The University of Chicago Press -
Great Strategic Rivalries: From The Classical World to the Cold War by James Lacey
RRP: £30.99£26.30From the legendary antagonism between Athens and Sparta during the Peloponnesian War to the Napoleonic Wars and the two World Wars of the twentieth century, the past is littered with long-term strategic rivalries. History tells us that such enduring... -
From Archaeology to Spectacle in Victorian Britain: The Case of Assyria, 1845-1854 by Shawn Malley
RRP: £53.99£46.87In his examination of the excavation of ancient Assyria by Austen Henry Layard, Shawn Malley reveals how, by whom, and for what reasons the stones of Assyria were deployed during a brief but remarkably intense period of archaeological activity in the... -
Sanctified Violence: Holy War in World History by Alfred J Andrea
RRP: £50.00£40.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781624669613Author Alfred J AndreaFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Hackett Publishing CompanyPublisher Hackett Publishing Company -
Senate and General: Individual Decision Making and Roman Foreign Relations, 264-194 B.C. by Arthur M. Eckstein
RRP: £42.00£33.04This 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... -
Refugee Crises, 1945-2000: Political and Societal Responses in International Comparison by Jan C. Jansen
RRP: £79.99£72.56This timely study examines responses to mass refugee movements by a range of actors, from local communities to supranational organizations. Bringing together ten case studies from around the world, encompassing the global North and South alike, Refugee... -
Mapping the World: A Mapping and Coloring Book of World History, Volume Two: Since 1300 by Bonnie G Smith
RRP: £32.99£29.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780190922429Author Bonnie G SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Oxford University Press, USAPublisher Oxford University Press, USAWeight(grams) 272g -
Religion and the Medieval and Early Modern Global Marketplace Scott Oldenburg 9780367536756
RRP: £35.99£31.69Religion 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 analyzes the unique interplay... -
Exchanges: Pearson New International Edition: A Global History Reader, Volume 1 by Trevor R. Getz
RRP: £65.99£59.02For undergraduate or graduate courses in World History This impressive collection of readings illustrates that the history of the world is as much about the relationships among societies as it is about transformations and continuities within... -
Merchants and Profit in the Age of Commerce, 1680-1830 by Dominique Margairaz
RRP: £47.99£41.81Merchant activity across Europe, America and China during the long eighteenth century is explored in this collection of essays. Using a unique data set from accounts and correspondence, contributors are able to show the fragmented nature of merchant... -
Obama and Kenya: Contested Histories and the Politics of Belonging by Matthew Carotenuto
RRP: £20.99£18.37Barack 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... -
Disconnected America: The Future of Mass Media in a Narcissistic Society: The Future of Mass Media in a Narcissistic Society by Ed Shane
RRP: £135.00£117.28Ed Shane here traces a change in the American pervasive mass media that once disseminated information quickly and stimulated mass cultural response, to a de-massified individual media that incubate a new electronic narcissicism, producing an... -
Scandals in History by Ed Rayner
RRP: £12.99£9.87Notions of what is scandalous vary from age to age, but our fascination with all things outrageous remains the same. Whether the sexual disgraces of the Victorian era or the political outrages of modern times, the shocking and the immoral never cease to... -
Who Was Mr Nobody?: Debunking Historical Mysteries by Ed Rayner
RRP: £12.99£9.87Everyone has had the experience of hearing, seeing or reading something they just know can't be right: the man in the pub claiming that someone has 'proved' Napoleon was murdered; the reputable historian who writes that George II died on the toilet, or... -
Uncovering Labour in Information Revolutions, 1750-2000: Volume 11 by Aad Blok
RRP: £30.99£28.28Discussion of the current Information Revolution tends to focus on technological developments in information and communication and overlooks both the human labour involved in the development, maintenance and daily use of information and communication...