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Japan Rising: The Iwakura Embassy to the USA and Europe by Kume Kunitake
RRP: £99.00£70.22In 1871 Japan sent a high-ranking delegation to the USA and Europe, to negotiate treaties and trading agreements and to investigate how it might modernise its political and economic institutions. Led by the Foreign Minister Prince Tomomi Iwakura, the... -
Yellow: Race in America Beyond Black and White by Frank Wu
RRP: £15.99£14.12Writing in the tradition of W. E. B. Du Bois, Cornel West, and others who confronted the "colour line" of the twentieth century, journalist, scholar, and activist Frank H. Wu offers a unique perspective on how changing ideas of racial identity will... -
The Routledge History of Western Empires by Robert Aldrich
RRP: £47.99£41.81The Routledge History of Western Empires is an all new volume focusing on the history of Western Empires in a comparative and thematic perspective. Comprising of thirty-three original chapters arranged in eight thematic sections, the book explores... -
Old Age from Antiquity to Post-Modernity by Paul Johnson
RRP: £135.00£117.28Based on themes such as status and welfare, Old Age from Antiquity to Post-Modernity examines the role of the elderly in history. This empirical study represents a substantial contribution to both the historical understanding of old age in past societies... -
Edges of Transatlantic Commerce in the Long Eighteenth Century by Seohyon Jung
RRP: £135.00£117.28Edges 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... -
Nation, Empire, Colony: Historicizing Gender and Race by Ruth Roach Pierson
RRP: £18.99£16.72" . . . a lively and interesting book . . . " -American Historical ReviewThese writers reveal the power relations of gender, class, race, and sexuality at the heart of the imperialisms, colonialisms, and nationalisms that have shaped our modern world... -
Camera Historica: The Century in Cinema by Antoine de Baecque
RRP: £109.00£88.61Antoine de Baecque proposes a new historiography of cinema, exploring film as a visual archive of the twentieth century, as well as history's imprint on the cinematic image. Whether portraying events that occurred in the past or stories unfolding before... -
Globalization: Education Research, Change and Reform by Zygmunt Bauman
RRP: £28.00£21.80From the streets of Seattle to corporate boardrooms to new factories in third-world nations, globalization is subject to very different and often explosively divergent interpretations. Where some see globalization as driving poor countries into further... -
The Limits of Westernization: A Cultural History of America in Turkey by Perin E. Gurel
RRP: £55.00£42.91In 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... -
Dragons, Tigers, and Dogs: Qing Crisis Management and the Boundaries of State Power in Late Imperial China by Robert J. Antony
RRP: £108.00£93.40Dragons, Tigers, and Dogs is a tightly-focused collection of studies that explores how Qing governing institutions and strategies worked in actual practice to address the practical problems and needs of a regionally diverse and culturally complex empire... -
How Rich Countries Got Rich ... and Why Poor Countries Stay Poor by Erik S Reinert
RRP: £19.99£12.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781541762893Author Erik S ReinertFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint PublicAffairsPublisher PublicAffairsWeight(grams) 386gDimensions(mm) 218mm * 137mm *... -
The Cold War through Documents: A Global History by Edward H. Judge
RRP: £45.00£39.18This comprehensive collection of carefully edited documents-speeches, treaties, statements, and articles-traces the rise and fall of the Cold War. The sources follow the Cold War from its roots in East-West tensions at the end of World War II to the... -
Charity in Jewish, Christian, and Islamic Traditions by Julia R. Lieberman
RRP: £39.00£34.37This collection of essays by a team of international scholars addresses the topic of Charity through the lenses of the three Abrahamic religions: Judaism, Christianity and Islam. The contributors look for common paradigms in the ways the three faiths... -
Cultural Change in Modern World History by Professor Peter N. Stearns
£29.07In this innovative textbook, leading world historian Peter Stearns analyses key examples of culture change from around the world, highlighting what culture change involves and how it can be explained and assessed, both historically and in the... -
Imperial Co-operation and Transfer, 1870-1930 by Volker Barth
£32.28Conflict and competition between imperial powers has long been a feature of global history, but their co-operation has largely been a peripheral concern. Imperial Co-operation and Transfer, 1870-1930 redresses this imbalance, providing a coherent... -
The Religious Culture of Marian England by David Loades
RRP: £47.99£41.81Loades explores England's religious cultures during the reign of Mary Tudor. He investigates how conflicting traditions of conformity and dissent negotiated the new spiritual, political and legal landscape which followed her reintroduction of Catholicism... -
Women in World History: 1450 to the Present Professor Bonnie G. Smith (Rutgers University, USA) 9781474272933
RRP: £25.99£24.16Women in World History brings together the most recent scholarship in women's and world history in a single volume covering the period from 1450 to the present, enabling readers to understand women's relationship to world developments over the past five... -
Living with Hazards, Dealing with Disasters: An Introduction to Emergency Management: An Introduction to Emergency Management by William L. Waugh
RRP: £37.99£33.38This is the first concise introduction to emergency management, the emerging profession that deals with disasters from floods and earthquakes to terrorist attacks. Twenty case studies illustrate the handling of actual disasters including the Northridge... -
Pluralism Comes of Age: American Religious Culture in the Twentieth Century by Charles H. Lippy
RRP: £135.00£117.28This acclaimed work surveys the varied course of religious life in modern America. Beginning with the close of the Victorian Age, it moves through the shifting power of Protestantism and American Catholicism and into the intense period of immigration and... -
Italian Neorealist Cinema by Torunn Haaland
RRP: £28.99£28.59This title charts the birth and development of Italian neorealism. Surveying the major creative contributions to and critical receptions of this trend in Italian postwar cinema, the book begins by tracing the roots of neorealist film and drawing... -
A History of Young People in the West, Volume I: Ancient and Medieval Rites of Passage by Giovanni Levi
RRP: £43.95£35.55However swiftly it passes, youth is always with us, a perpetual passing phase, an apprenticeship to the myriad ways of the world, subject of panegyrics and diatribes, romances and cautionary tales from antiquity to our day. This two-volume history is the... -
Beyond the Secular West by Akeel Bilgrami
RRP: £30.00£23.29What is the character of secularism in countries that were not pervaded by Christianity, such as China, India, and the nations of the Middle East? To what extent is the secular an imposition of colonial rule? How does secularism comport with local... -
War in the Eighteenth-Century World by Professor Jeremy Black
£37.67Placing eighteenth-century warfare in a truly global context, Jeremy Black challenges conventional accounts and offers a reappraisal of debates in Western and Asian history. This concise, up-to-date survey assumes little prior knowledge and provides... -
Photography and Work by Kevin Coleman
RRP: £10.99£9.85What makes photographs different from other kinds of documents that historians use to explain what happened in the past? What can photographic images do that other documents cannot? Can photography accurately depict labor? Contributors to this issue... -
Waves of Prosperity: India, China and the West - How Global Trade Transformed The World Greg Clydesdale 9781472139009
RRP: £14.99£10.45When the Genoese merchant, Marco Polo, first arrived in Dynastic China he was faced with a society far advanced of anything he had encountered in Europe. The ports were filled with commodities from all over the eastern world, while new technology was... -
Remembering Mass Violence: Oral History, New Media and Performance by Steven High
RRP: £32.00£28.21Remembering Mass Violence breaks new ground in oral history, new media, and performance studies by exploring what is at stake when we attempt to represent war, genocide, and other violations of human rights in a variety of creative works. A model of... -
From Arab Spring to Islamic Winter Raphael Israeli 9781412852593
RRP: £135.00£117.68The world is watching with uncertainity as the "Arab Spring" unfolds. Optimistically named by international media sources, the term "Arab Spring" associates the unrest with ideas of renewal, revival, and democratic thought and deed. Many hoped the... -
Empire and the Social Sciences by Jeremy Adelman
£119.46This thought-provoking and original collection looks at how intellectuals and their disciplines have been shaped, halted and advanced by the rise and fall of empires. It illuminates how ideas did not just reflect but also moulded global order and... -
Global Legal History: A Comparative Law Perspective by Andrés Botero-Bernal
RRP: £39.99£35.06This collection brings together a group of international legal historians to further scholarship in different areas of comparative and regional legal history. Authors are drawn from Europe, Asia, and the Americas to produce new insights into the... -
Happiness in World History by Peter N. Stearns
RRP: £35.99£31.69Happiness in World History traces ideas and experiences of happiness from early stages in human history, to the maturation of agricultural societies and their religious and philosophical systems, to the changes and diversities in the approach to... -
Ruler Personality Cults from Empires to Nation-States and Beyond: Symbolic Patterns and Interactional Dynamics by Kirill Postoutenko
RRP: £135.00£117.28Encompassing five continents and twenty centuries, this book puts ruler personality cults on the crossroads of disciplines rarely, if ever, juxtaposed before: among its authors are historians, linguists, media scholars, political scientists and... -
Controversial Histories - Current Views on the Crusades: Engaging the Crusades, Volume Three by Felix Hinz
RRP: £19.99£17.69Engaging the Crusades is a series of volumes which offer windows into a newly-emerging field of historical study: the memory and legacy of the Crusades. Together these volumes examine the reasons behind the enduring resonance of the Crusades and present... -
Informal Empire: Mexico And Central America In Victorian Culture by Robert D. Aguirre
RRP: £20.99£18.37Behind the ancient artifacts exhibited in our museums lies a secret past-of travel, desire, the quest for knowledge, and even theft. Such is the case with the objects of Mesoamerican culture so avidly collected, cataloged, and displayed by the British in... -
Labor Camp Socialism: The Gulag in the Soviet Totalitarian System: The Gulag in the Soviet Totalitarian System by Galina Mikhailovna Ivanova
RRP: £135.00£117.28This is the first historical survey of the Gulag based on newly accessible archival sources as well as memoirs and other studies published since the beginning of glasnost.Over the course of several decades, the Soviet labor camp system drew into its... -
Big Business and the Wealth of Nations by Alfred D. Chandler
RRP: £45.99£41.86Written in non-technical terms, this book explains how the dynamics of big business have influenced national and international economies. A path-breaking study, it provides the first systematic treatment of big business in advanced, emerging, and... -
Izetbegovic of Bosnia and Herzegovina: Notes from Prison, 1983-1988 by Alija Ali Izetbegovic 9780275972875
£83.24As the leading Muslim political spokesman and intellectual, Izetbegovi'c was imprisoned by the Yugoslavian government in 1983 for a 14-year sentence. During the six years he served in prison, Izetbegovi'c wrote notes on life issues, religion and culture,... -
Citizenship, Inequality, and Difference: Historical Perspectives by Frederick Cooper 9780691171845
RRP: £35.00£27.95A succinct and comprehensive history of the development of citizenship from the Roman Empire to the present dayCitizenship, Inequality, and Difference offers a concise and sweeping overview of citizenship's complex evolution, from ancient Rome to the... -
Alcohol in World History by Gina Hames 9780415311526
RRP: £36.99£32.53From the origins of drinking to the use and abuse of alcohol in the present day, this global historical study draws on approaches and research from biology, anthropology, sociology and psychology. Topics covered include: the impact of colonialism ... -
Castles, Battles, and Bombs: How Economics Explains Military History by Jurgen Brauer
RRP: £44.00£42.67"Castles, Battles, and Bombs" reconsiders key episodes of military history from the point of view of economics - with dramatically insightful results. For example, when looked at as a question of sheer cost, the building of castles in the High Middle... -
Travels and Adventures: 1435-1439 Pero Tafur 9781138878105
RRP: £43.99£38.44'A document of unique interest it is a picture of Europe at a most critical moment of its history, when the Continent was overwhelmed by misery, disease and unrest. A cool observer, without prejudice or excitement Tafur noted the symptoms of decay.'...