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The British Empire by Jane Samson 9780192892935
RRP: $52.88$48.09The phenomenon of imperialism has never been under such intense scrutiny, by such a wide range of academic disciplines, as it is today. From cultural studies to the history of science, academics are engaged in a series of debates about empire which move... -
The Crusades by Dr David Nicolle
RRP: $19.34$16.19Born amid immense suffering and bloodshed, the Kingdom of Jerusalem remained a battlefield for almost 200 years. The Crusades gave rise to the Military Orders of the Templars and Hospitallers, and were a backdrop to the careers of some of history's most... -
The Case for Auschwitz: Evidence from the Irving Trial by Robert Jan Van Pelt
RRP: $64.50$57.29From January to April 2000 historian David Irving brought a high-profile libel case against Penguin Books and Deborah Lipstadt in the British High Court, charging that Lipstadt's book, Denying the Holocaust (1993), falsely labeled him a Holocaust denier... -
Decolonization: A Very Short Introduction by Professor Dane Kennedy
RRP: $13.53$10.45Millions of Africans, Asians, and other peoples were the subjects of colonial rule by overseas empires through the mid-twentieth century. By the end of the century, however, nearly all of these peoples had become citizens of independent nation-states... -
Dark Persuasion: A History of Brainwashing from Pavlov to Social Media by Joel E. Dimsdale 9780300271034
RRP: $19.34$16.81A "highly readable and compelling" account (Science) of brainwashing's pervasive role in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries"Riveting. . . . Dimsdale . . . shows how the art of dark persuasion a generation ago led almost inevitably to today's... -
Bhutan: The Unremembered Nation - Vols.1&2 by Dr Karma Ura 9780198887362
RRP: $154.80$141.04The process of modernization has brought discontinuities in collective memory. The books provide an act of collective remembrance, knitting together many voices and stories. They show the readers a world of the past before modernization began in the... -
Warriors, Rebels and Saints: The Art of Leadership from Machiavelli to Malcolm X by Moshik Temkin 9781805221104
RRP: $24.50$17.56'Incredibly well-researched and lively' - Financial Times 'Very readable and thought-provoking' - Irish Times A deep-dive into the art, science and practice of leadership around the world and across the ages by a Harvard professor and historian -... -
When God Was a Black Woman: And Why She Isn't Now by Joseph R Gibson 9780976468387
RRP: $25.79$21.47Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780976468387Author Joseph R GibsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Kitabu PublishingPublisher Kitabu PublishingWeight(grams) 381gDimensions(mm) 229mm *... -
History of the Soviet Union by Geoffrey Hosking 9780006862871
RRP: $21.92$17.40The author traces the evolution of the Soviet political system from its origins in 1917 to the present day. He shows how power has rarely been devolved outside a particularly tightly-knit ruling elite. Special emphasis is placed on the experience of the... -
Rabid: A Cultural History of the World's Most Diabolical Virus by Bill Murphy
RRP: $14.18$10.02The most fatal virus known to science, rabies-a disease that spreads avidly from animals to humans-kills nearly one hundred percent of its victims once the infection takes root in the brain. In this critically acclaimed exploration, journalist Bill Wasik... -
The Dark Valley by Dr. Piers Brendon
RRP: $32.25$24.02Piers Brendon's magisterial overview of the 1930s is the story of the dark, dishonest decade - child of one world war and parent of the next - that determined the course of the twentieth century. Dealing individually with each of the period's great... -
Civil War - Us Edition by G & Burns Ward 9780394562858
RRP: $96.75$69.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Lincoln Prize 1991.Book InformationISBN 9780394562858Author Geoffrey C. WardFormat HardbackPage Count 448Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA... -
Britain's Empire: Resistance, Repression and Revolt by Richard Gott
$19.48As the call for a new understanding of our national history gets louder, this book turns the received imperial story of Britain on its head. Britain's Empire recounts the long overlooked narrative of the resisters, revolutionaries and revolters who stood... -
Providence Was with Us: How a Japanese Doctor Turned the Afghan Desert Green by Tetsu Nakamura
RRP: $39.99$37.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9784866581477Author Tetsu NakamuraFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Japan Publishing Industry Foundation for CulturePublisher Japan Publishing Industry... -
I Have Lived A Thousand Years: Growing up in the Holocaust by Livia Bitton-Jackson 9780689823954
RRP: $9.02$6.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780689823954Author Livia Bitton JacksonFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Simon PulsePublisher Simon & Schuster -
Access to History: The Unification of Germany and the Challenge of Nationalism 1789-1919, Fifth Edition by Vivienne Sanders
$33.04Exam board: Pearson Edexcel; OCRLevel: AS/A-levelSubject: HistoryFirst teaching: September 2015First exams: Summer 2016 (AS); Summer 2017 (A-level)Put your trust in the textbook series that has given thousands of A-level History students deeper knowledge... -
No Milk Today: The Vanishing World of the Milkman by Andrew Ward
RRP: $11.60$3.75Traditionally, in British society, the milkman has been a family friend, a sex symbol and a cheerful chappie. He has been the eyes and ears of the community, and his genetic legacy has supposedly passed into the lineage of housewives.This collection of... -
Connecting History: National 4 & 5 The Era of the Great War, 1900–1928 by Alec Jessop
$26.88Exam 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... -
The French Revolution by Thomas Carlyle 9780198815594
RRP: $18.05$13.09'It is I think the most radical Book that has been written in these late centuries . . . and will give pleasure and displeasure, one may expect, to almost all classes of persons.' Carlyle Thomas Carlyle's history of the French Revolution opens with... -
The Black Death 1346-1353 - The Complete History by Ole J. Benedictow 9781843832140
RRP: $45.14$34.92The best introduction to the terrible international impact of the Black Death. Unique, sensational and shocking, this revelatory book provides the best overview of the Europe-wide history of the Black Death. The author's painstakingly comprehensive... -
Napoleon's Wars: An International History, 1803-1815 by Charles J. Esdaile
RRP: $21.92$15.84No other soldier has provoked as much anger or as much fervour as Napoleon Bonaparte. Was he a monster, driven on by an endless, ruinous quest for military adventure - or was he a social and political visionary, brought down by petty reactionaries... -
Revolutions: A Very Short Introduction by Jack A. Goldstone 9780197666302
RRP: $11.60$8.32In their pursuit of social justice, revolutionaries have taken on the assembled might of monarchies, empires, and dictatorships. They have often, though not always, sparked cataclysmic violence, and have at times won miraculous victories, though at other... -
John of Ibelin and the Kingdom of Jerusalem by Peter W. Edbury 9780851157030
$108.81John of Ibelin, count of Jaffa and Ascalon (d. 1266), was one of the foremost politicians in the kingdom of Jerusalem in the mid-thirteenth century; his family was prominent in the Latin East, and linked by ties of marriage to the royal dynasties of both... -
The Great Journeys in History by Robin Hanbury-Tenison 9780500287033 [USED COPY]
RRP: $16.76$3.42Marco Polo, Ferdinand Magellan, David Livingstone, Amelia Earhart, Neil Armstrong: these are some of the greatest travellers of all time. This book chronicles their stories and many more, describing epic voyages of discovery from the extraordinary... -
The Great Journeys in History by Robin Hanbury-Tenison
RRP: $16.76$10.49Marco Polo, Ferdinand Magellan, David Livingstone, Amelia Earhart, Neil Armstrong: these are some of the greatest travellers of all time. This book chronicles their stories and many more, describing epic voyages of discovery from the extraordinary... -
Living with the Gods: On Beliefs and Peoples by Neil MacGregor 9780241308295
RRP: $38.70$28.32A panoramic exploration of peoples, objects and beliefs over 40,000 years from the celebrated author of A History of the World in 100 Objects and Germany, following the new BBC Radio 4 documentary and British Museum exhibition. One of the central facts... -
Walls: A History of Civilization in Blood and Brick by David Frye 9780571348411
RRP: $25.80$22.73For thousands of years, humans have built walls and assaulted them, admired walls and reviled them. Great Walls have appeared on nearly every continent, the handiwork of people from Persia, Rome, China, Central America, and beyond. They have accompanied... -
The Little Book Of Heartbreak: Love Gone Wrong Through the Ages by Meghan Laslocky 9780452298323
$18.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780452298323Author Meghan LaslockyFormat PaperbackPage Count 258Imprint PlumePublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 202g -
The Greatest Minds and Ideas of All Time by Will Durant 9780743235532
RRP: $19.34$12.07In this remarkable little book, Will Durant answers the questions that most people would have wanted to ask him - what are the conclusions he drew from the experience of a long lifetime; what eras, individuals, and achievements stand out as being the... -
How the West Lost the Peace: The Great Transformation Since the Cold War by Philipp Ther
RRP: $23.21$20.69When the Berlin Wall was stormed and the Soviet Union fell apart, the West and above all the United States looked like the sole victors of history. Three decades later, the spirit of triumph rings hollow. What went wrong? In this sequel to his... -
Blood and Soil: A World History of Genocide and Extermination from Sparta to Darfur by Ben Kiernan 9780300144253
RRP: $32.25$31.40A book of surpassing importance that should be required reading for leaders and policymakers throughout the world For thirty years Ben Kiernan has been deeply involved in the study of genocide and crimes against humanity. He has played a key role in... -
The Flight Of The Romanovs: A Family Saga by Constantine Pleshakov 9780465024636
$27.32Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Origins of the Chinese Revolution, 1915-1949 by Lucien Bianco
RRP: $27.08$23.70The original French edition of this book, published in 1967, was widely acclaimed as the best introduction to Chinese Communism ever published. A fresh, bold interpretative survey, it focuses on the dynamic social forces underlying the Chinese... -
Princeton Review AP World History: Modern Premium Prep, 2024: 6 Practice Tests + Complete Content Review + Strategies & Techniques by The Princeton Review 9780593517338
RRP: $29.67$21.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593517338Author The Princeton ReviewFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA Inc -
The Accidental President by A. J. Baime
RRP: $16.76$11.73Heroes are often defined as ordinary characters who find themselves facing extraordinary circumstances and, through courage and a dash of luck, cement their place in history. Chosen as President Roosevelt's fourth term Vice President for his admired... -
The Edifice Complex: The architecture of power by Deyan Sudjic
RRP: $16.76$11.73Deyan Sudjic's The Edifice Complex: The Architecture of Power is a fascinating exploration of the language of architecture as an insight into the psychology of power, from tyrants to billionaires. Why do presidents and prime ministers, tycoons and... -
Knowing What We Know: The Transmission of Knowledge: From Ancient Wisdom to Modern Magic by Simon Winchester
RRP: $32.25$21.71'A delightful compendium of the kind of facts you immediately want to share with anyone you encounter' New York Times 'An ebullient, irrepressible spirit invests this book. It is erudite and... -
Napoleon's Hemorrhoids: And Other Small Events That Changed History by Phil Mason
RRP: $19.34$11.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781510744400Author Phil MasonFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Skyhorse PublishingPublisher Skyhorse PublishingWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 208mm *... -
The Year 1000: When Explorers Connected the World – and Globalization Began by Valerie Hansen
RRP: $12.89$8.41"Typically wide-ranging, informative, and illuminating . . . a lovely book" Peter FrankopanWhen did globalization begin? Most observers have settled on 1492, the year Columbus discovered America. But as celebrated Yale professor Valerie Hansen shows, it... -
The Landmark Thucydides: A Comprehensive Guide to the Peloponnesian War by Robert B. Strassler 9780684827902
RRP: $28.38$19.41Thucydides called his account of two decades of war between Athens and Sparta "a possession for all time," and indeed it is the first and still the most famous work in the Western historical tradition.Considered essential reading for generals, statesmen,...