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Genocide and Propaganda: A Primary Source Collection Professor Paul R. Bartrop 9781440876899
RRP: £95.00£80.75Perpetrators of genocidal violence have regularly orchestrated propaganda campaigns using newspapers, radio, televisions, the internet, and other means to justify mass killings. Through 50 primary sources, readers will learn about 11 genocides, spanning... -
Inland from Mombasa: East Africa and the Making of the Indian Ocean World David P. Bresnahan 9780520400481
RRP: £30.00£25.50A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Over the past few decades, scholars have traced how Indian Ocean merchants forged... -
The Invention of Good and Evil: A World History of Morality Hanno Sauer 9781800818293
RRP: £25.00£18.30For almost five million years, humans have been locked in a relationship with morality, inventing and reinventing the concepts of 'Good' and 'Evil', and weaving them into our cities, laws and customs. Morality is a concept that can feel joyless and... -
Book of Famous Speeches Carlo Bata 9781684814114
RRP: £23.99£20.39The Speeches That Defined Our EraWhat were the most important and influential speeches of our time? Discover the answers in this book of speeches that changed our world.Famous historical speeches. This remarkable collection of 38 historic speeches,... -
The Webs of Humankind: A World History J. R. McNeill 9781324061281
£105.21Give your students a bird’s-eye view of world history -
Hellenistic Monarchies in the Mediterranean World: Building a New World Order? Mark Munn 9783658450892
RRP: £99.99£84.99The contributions to this volume represent a range of case studies that provide perspectives on the question of how deeply Hellenic influence penetrated into the lives of the subjects of the Hellenistic monarchies. Greek became the language of...Qty in Cart: 0Quantity:Price:RRP: £99.99£84.99Subtotal: -
Victorian and Early 20th Century Baby Farming: The Darkest Business Eve Bacon 9781036110567
RRP: £25.00£21.25Mrs. Amelia Dyer was probably the most notorious baby farmer, but she was not working in isolation. The wider story of the myriad of others also classed as baby farmers is told here. Detailing the stories of over 100 baby farmers, the good, the bad and...Qty in Cart: 0Quantity:Price:RRP: £25.00£21.25Subtotal: -
Mahommah Gardo Baquaqua: An Enslaved Muslim of the Black Atlantic Paul E. Lovejoy 9781469682440
RRP: £98.00£83.30A literate Muslim born between 1820 and 1830 in present-day Benin, Mahommah Gardo Baquaqua was enslaved in the interior of West Africa and forcibly moved to Brazil in 1845. He escaped from slavery when his master took him to New York City in 1847... -
Oxford AQA GCSE History (9-1): America 1840-1895: Expansion and Consolidation Revision Guide Aaron Wilkes 9781382044059
£7.99This America 1840-1895: Expansion and Consolidation Revision Guide is part of the popular Oxford AQA GCSE History (9-1) series. It covers the history of Indigenous North America, conflicts including the American Civil War, and resistance. Written to... -
Documenting Warfare: Records of the Hundred Years War, Edited and Translated in Honour of Anne Curry Dr Rémy Ambühl 9781837650248
RRP: £110.00£104.74Insights from English and French writers on one of the most significant armed conflicts of the Middle Ages Documentary sources for the Hundred Years War are many and varied, yet given the number that exist, comparatively few have been published, and even... -
The Webs of Humankind: A World History J. R. McNeill 9781324061519
£58.39McNeill’s The Webs of Humankind offers a refreshingly clear view of world history through the lens of connective “webs” of interaction—along which trade, religious beliefs, technologies, pathogens, and much else traveled. Instructors have hailed... -
Radical Ideas and the Crisis of Christianity in England, 1640-1740: The Politics of Religion Alex W. Barber 9781837651825
RRP: £95.00£90.68Examines the evolving relationship between Church and State, the character of radical thought in Enlightenment England, and the nature of that Enlightenment itself. A tribute to the work of the late Justin Champion, this volume explores the radical... -
Water in World History Ellen F. Arnold 9780367650124
RRP: £135.00£114.75This book takes a thematic approach to the global history of water, covering a wide range of human interactions with water and the ways in which it carries both life and death.Water is one of the most common and valuable natural resources for the...Qty in Cart: 0Quantity:Price:RRP: £135.00£114.75Subtotal: -
The Rebel Romanov Helen Rappaport 9781398525962
RRP: £25.00£21.25To Queen Victoria she was Aunt Julie; to Catherine the Great she was Grand Duchess Anna Feodorovna, granddaughter-in-law. This is the story of Princess Juliane-Henriette-Ulrike of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, the Rebel Romanov. Born in 1781 in a small... -
Four Points of the Compass: The Unexpected History of Direction Jerry Brotton 9780241556870
RRP: £20.00£14.29North, south, east and west: almost all societies use the four cardinal directions to orientate themselves, to understand who they are by projecting where they are. For millennia, these four directions have been foundational to our travel, navigation and... -
The Most Interesting Book in the World Edward Brooke-Hitching 9781398532373
RRP: £14.99£9.61Drawn from a lifetime’s search for the weird and the wonderful, The Most Interesting Book in The World is a miscellany of things too strange to be true, yet somehow are. Written by a former BBC QI Elf turned bestselling author, this remarkable treasury... -
Disasters in World History Benjamin Reilly 9781032566221
RRP: £34.99£30.85Disasters in World History surveys the development of disaster studies as a discipline as well as the historical case studies and theories used by historians to understand disasters.Disasters, here defined as the complex interaction between natural... -
Mahommah Gardo Baquaqua: An Enslaved Muslim of the Black Atlantic Paul E. Lovejoy 9781469682457
RRP: £29.95£25.46A literate Muslim born between 1820 and 1830 in present-day Benin, Mahommah Gardo Baquaqua was enslaved in the interior of West Africa and forcibly moved to Brazil in 1845. He escaped from slavery when his master took him to New York City in 1847... -
Disasters in World History Benjamin Reilly 9781032566955
RRP: £130.00£112.11Disasters in World History surveys the development of disaster studies as a discipline as well as the historical case studies and theories used by historians to understand disasters.Disasters, here defined as the complex interaction between natural... -
Colonial Internationalism and the Governmentality of Empire, 1893–1982 Florian Wagner 9781009069311
RRP: £29.99£27.40In 1893, a group of colonial officials from thirteen countries abandoned their imperial rivalry and established the International Colonial Institute (ICI), which became the world's most important colonial think tank of the twentieth century. Through the... -
Troublesome Rising: A Thousand-Year Flood in Eastern Kentucky Melissa Helton 9781950564422
£57.55"The flood came at night, forcefully and quickly, destroying so many lives in its wake. Unfortunately, I'm afraid it will happen again and again." — Carter SickelsIn late July 2022, a catastrophic flash flood claimed the lives of more than forty people... -
Troublesome Rising: A Thousand-Year Flood in Eastern Kentucky Melissa Helton 9781950564439
£29.02"The flood came at night, forcefully and quickly, destroying so many lives in its wake. Unfortunately, I'm afraid it will happen again and again." — Carter SickelsIn late July 2022, a catastrophic flash flood claimed the lives of more than forty people... -
The Modernization of the Western World John McGrath 9781032740072
RRP: £34.99£30.85Covering Western history from the ancient world to the current era of globalization, The Modernization of the Western World describes the forces of social change and what they have meant to the lives of the people caught up in them.The volume presents... -
A Livable Future is Possible: Confronting the Threats to Our Survival Noam Chomsky 9798888903063
RRP: £50.00£42.50A sweeping yet penetrating collection of interviews with Noam Chomsky, exploring the most pressing global concerns of our time. In these illuminating interviews conducted by C.J. Polychroniou, Noam Chomsky yet again shares his brilliant insights on an... -
Vasco da Gama and his Successors, 1460–1580 K.G. Jayne 9781032436944
£33.99Vasco 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... -
The Burning Earth: A History Sunil Amrith 9781324007180
RRP: £25.00£21.33Ever since innovations in agriculture, transportation, and medicine brought great freedom to vast numbers of people—the freedom to move, to dream, to create, to discover—our remarkable achievements in reshaping nature have allowed billions of humans to... -
After Eden: A Short History of the World John Charles Chasteen 9781324086475
RRP: £16.99£14.57In After Eden, prominent Latin American historian John Charles Chasteen provided a concise history of the world, in which he explores the origins and persistence of the timeless phenomena of humanity’s inhumanity to itself. Where did it come from? Why... -
The Modernization of the Western World John McGrath 9781032740089
RRP: £130.00£112.11Covering Western history from the ancient world to the current era of globalization, The Modernization of the Western World describes the forces of social change and what they have meant to the lives of the people caught up in them.The volume presents... -
Art and the Arab Spring: Aesthetics of Revolution and Resistance in Tunisia and Beyond Siobhan Shilton 9781108829366
RRP: £29.99£27.40The revolutions that began to sweep across countries in North Africa and the Middle East in December 2010 – like other revolutions in diverse modern historical contexts – have often been articulated, internally and externally, in black and white terms of... -
The Oxford Handbook of the Seven Years' War Trevor Burnard 9780197622605
RRP: £132.50£112.63This handbook contains 38 essays that provide up-to-date scholarship on all aspects of the globally important Seven Years' War (1756-1763). The volume carefully examines the three major areas of conflict in the war -- Europe, South Asia, and the Americas... -
The Webs of Humankind: A World History J. R. McNeill 9781324061632
£58.39McNeill’s The Webs of Humankind offers a refreshingly clear view of world history through the lens of connective “webs” of interaction—along which trade, religious beliefs, technologies, pathogens, and much else traveled. Instructors have hailed... -
Invented History, Fabricated Power: The Narrative Shaping of Civilization and Culture Barry Wood 9781839986130
RRP: £45.00£38.25Invented History, Fabricated Power begins with an examination of prehistoric beliefs (in spirits, souls, mana, orenda) that provided personal explanation and power through ritual and shamanism among tribal peoples. On this foundation, spiritual power... -
History of the World Michael Kerrigan 9781838864507
RRP: £40.00£26.95Beginning in the sixth millennium BCE, in the Indus Valley, Mesopotamia and along the Nile River, human civilization expanded to develop writing systems, farming methods, social organization and modes of government. Today, humans inhabit every part of... -
Water in World History Ellen F. Arnold 9780367650056
RRP: £35.99£35.90This book takes a thematic approach to the global history of water, covering a wide range of human interactions with water and the ways in which it carries both life and death.Water is one of the most common and valuable natural resources for the... -
Worlds Together, Worlds Apart Jeremy Adelman 9781324064213
£87.01Instructors have made Worlds Together, Worlds Apart the #1-selling collegiate survey because its global-by-design narrative builds each chapter around big themes in world history that allow most of the regions to be discussed in each chapter while... -
A Brief History of the End of the F*cking World Tom Phillips 9781035402175
RRP: £20.00£17.00Do you feel like we're living in the end times? Does it seem like everything is on fire, and one disaster follows another? Here's a small comfort: you're not the first to feel that way. If there's one thing that people throughout history have agreed on,... -
Worlds Together, Worlds Apart Jeremy Adelman 9781324064114
£88.86Instructors have made Worlds Together, Worlds Apart the #1-selling collegiate survey because its global-by-design narrative builds each chapter around big themes in world history that allow most of the regions to be discussed in each chapter while...