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The Politics of Decolonial Investigations by Walter D. Mignolo
RRP: £31.00£27.97In The Politics of Decolonial Investigations Walter D. Mignolo provides a sweeping examination of how coloniality has operated around the world in its myriad forms from the sixteenth century to the twenty-first. Decolonial border thinking allows Mignolo... -
A Short History of Nearly Everything: Special Illustrated Edition by Bill Bryson 9780307885159
RRP: £35.00£28.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307885159Author Bill BrysonFormat PaperbackPage Count 624Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 1894gDimensions(mm) 254mm *... -
Seapower States: Maritime Culture, Continental Empires and the Conflict That Made the Modern World by Andrew Lambert
RRP: £12.99£11.46One of the most eminent historians of our age investigates the extraordinary success of five small maritime states "A superb survey of the perennial opportunities and risks in what Herman Melville called 'the watery part of the world.'"-William Anthony... -
How the Catholic Church Built Western Civilization by Thomas E. Woods 9781596983281
RRP: £14.99£9.61Ask someone today where Western Civilization originated, and he or she might say Greece or Rome. But what is the ultimate source of Western Civilization? Bestselling author and professor Thomas E. Woods, Jr. provides the long neglected answer: the... -
Global Crisis: War, Climate Change and Catastrophe in the Seventeenth Century by Geoffrey Parker 9780300219364
RRP: £15.99£13.82An accessible synthesis of the prescient best seller exploring seventeenth-century catastrophe and the impact of climate change First published in 2013, Geoffrey Parker's prize-winning best seller Global Crisis analyzes the unprecedented... -
Salmon: A Fish, the Earth, and the History of a Common Fate by Mark Kurlansky
RRP: £18.99£12.88WINNER OF THE JOHN AVERY AWARD AT THE ANDRE SIMON AWARDS If we can save the salmon, we can save the world Over the centuries, salmon have been a vital resource, a dietary staple and an irresistible catch. But there is so much more to this... -
Mapping an Empire: Geographical Construction of British India, 1765-1843 by Matthew Edney
RRP: £33.00£32.45In this history of the British surveys of India, focusing especially on the Great Trigonometrical Survey (GTS) undertaken by the British East India Company, the author relates how imperial Britain employed modern scientific survey techniques not only to... -
The Weaker Vessel Lady Antonia Fraser 9781842126356
RRP: £16.99£12.87Antonia Fraser's bestselling account of the lives of women in seventeenth-century England.Just how weak were the women of the Civil War era? What could they expect beyond marriage and childbirth in an age where infant and maternal mortality was frequent... -
Testament Of Youth: An Autobiographical Study of the Years 1900-1925 by Vera Brittain
RRP: £14.99£10.05NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE With an introduction by her biographer, Mark Bostridge'Remains one of the most powerful and widely read war memoirs of all time' GUARDIAN 'Vera Brittain's heart-rending account of the way her generation's lives changed is still... -
World War I: The Definitive Visual History by DK 9780241605417
RRP: £30.00£20.95Now revised and updated, World War I: The Definitive Visual Guide takes you from the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand to the Treaty of Versailles. Experience some of the most prominent battles, such as the Somme and Verdun, through compelling... -
The Great Book of Mexico: Interesting Stories, Mexican History & Random Facts About Mexico by Bill O'Neill 9781648450006
RRP: £9.95£7.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781648450006Author Bill O'NeillFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Lak PublishingPublisher Lak PublishingWeight(grams) 195g -
A Future in Ruins: UNESCO, World Heritage, and the Dream of Peace by Lynn Meskell
RRP: £37.99£23.72Best known for its World Heritage program committed to "the identification, protection and preservation of cultural and natural heritage around the world considered to be of outstanding value to humanity," the United Nations Educational, Scientific and... -
The Silk Road: A New History by Valerie Hansen
RRP: £18.49£13.68The Silk Road is as iconic in world history as the Colossus of Rhodes or the Suez Canal. But what was it, exactly? It conjures up a hazy image of a caravan of camels laden with silk on a dusty desert track, reaching from China to Rome. The reality was... -
The Collector: The Story of Sergei Shchukin and His Lost Masterpieces by Natalya Semenova
RRP: £12.99£11.46A fascinating life of Sergei Shchukin, the great collector who changed the face of Russia's art world Sergei Shchukin was a highly successful textiles merchant in the latter half of the nineteenth century, but he also had a great eye for beauty. He was... -
London's Truly Strangest Tales by Tom Quinn
RRP: £7.99£5.59More extraordinary but true stories from London's history. In this fascinating follow-up to his bestselling London's Strangest Tales, Tom Quinn makes a further foray into the weirder side of the capital, bringing us a... -
A Brief History of the Last 13.8 Billion Years: a journey through life, the universe, and everything by David Baker
RRP: £14.99£10.06How did time begin? What conditions led to humans evolving on Earth? Will we survive the Anthropocene? And is it really true that we're all made from stars? Combining knowledge from chemistry, biology, and physics, with insights from the social... -
Slate Quarrying in Wales: A Gazetteer by Des Marshall 9781845245382
£15.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781845245382Author Des MarshallFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Llygad Gwalch CyfPublisher Llygad Gwalch CyfDimensions(mm) 198mm * 128mm * 15mm -
The Splintered Empires: The Eastern Front 1917-21 by Prit Buttar
RRP: £16.99£12.87At the beginning of 1917, the three empires fighting on the Eastern Front were reaching their breaking points, but none was closer than Russia. After the February Revolution, Russia's ability to wage war faltered and her last desperate gamble, the... -
The Cold War: A New Oral History of Life Between East and West by Bridget Kendall
RRP: £18.99£13.82The Cold War is one of the furthest-reaching and longest-lasting conflicts in modern history. It spanned the globe - from Greece to China, Hungary to Cuba - and lasted for almost half a century. It has shaped political relations to this day, drawing new... -
How The Scots Invented The Modern World by Arthur Herman
RRP: £20.00£12.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780609809990Author Arthur HermanFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Crown PublicationsPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 203mm... -
The Long Night: A True Story Ernst Israel Bornstein 9781592644407
RRP: £12.99£7.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781592644407Author Ernst Israel BornsteinFormat PaperbackPage Count 284Imprint Toby Press LLC, ThePublisher Toby Press LLC, The -
Nomads: The Wanderers Who Shaped Our World Anthony Sattin 9781473677791
RRP: £25.00£17.03A Sunday Times Best History Book of the YearA Spectator Book of the Year'A book of beauty and beguiling rhythm that offers unsettling lessons about our present-day world of borders' The Times'Thoughtful, lyrical yet ambitiously panoramic . . . an... -
A Study of History: Volume II: Abridgement of Volumes VII-X by Arnold Joseph Toynbee
RRP: £23.49£17.87Acknowledged as one of the greatest achievements of modern scholarship, Arnold Toynbee's A Study of History is a ten-volume analysis of the rise and fall of human civilizations. Contained in two volumes, D.C. Somervell's abridgement of this magnificent... -
Unearthly Powers: Religious and Political Change in World History by Alan Strathern
RRP: £26.99£23.20Why was religion so important for rulers in the pre-modern world? And how did the world come to be dominated by just a handful of religious traditions, especially Christianity, Islam, and Buddhism? Drawing on sociology and anthropology, as well as a huge... -
The Long Shadow: The Great War and the Twentieth Century by David 9780857206374
RRP: £10.99£7.21In Britain we have lost touch with the Great War. Our overriding sense now is of a meaningless, futile bloodbath in the mud of Flanders -- of young men whose lives were cut off in their prime for no evident purpose. But by reducing the conflict to... -
The Irish Assassins: Conspiracy, Revenge and the Murders that Stunned an Empire by Julie Kavanagh
RRP: £12.99£8.80ONE OF THE TIMES' BEST HISTORY BOOKS OF 2021'The tale of the Phoenix Park murders is not unfamiliar, but Kavanagh recounts it with a great sense of drama... Kavanagh's account reminds me of the very best of true crime.' The Times (Book of the Week)On a... -
Jerusalem: History of a Global City by Juliana Froggatt 9780520299900
RRP: £30.00£22.81An expansive history of Jerusalem as a cultural crossroads, and a fresh look at the urban development of one of the world's most mythologized cities. Jerusalem is often seen as an eternal battlefield in the "clash of civilizations" and in endless,... -
Alamein Stephen Bungay 9781854109293
RRP: £14.99£10.05El Alamein was the World War II land battle Britain had to win. By the summer of 1942 Rommel's German forces were threatening to sweep through the Western Desert and drive on to the Suez Canal, and Britain was in urgent need of military victory. Then, in... -
Dancing in Time: The History of Moving and Shaking Robert Hylton 9780712354615
RRP: £25.00£16.63With a foreword by Oti Mabuse. Dance is at the heart of diverse cultures around the globe, from the increasing popularity of salsa clubs, to break dance battles that gather crowds in the street, to the constant stream of dance routines going viral on... -
Oceans of Grain: How American Wheat Remade the World by Scott Reynolds Nelson
RRP: £25.00£19.11A revelatory global history shows how cheap American grain toppled the world's largest empires To understand the rise and fall of empires, we must follow the paths traveled by grain-along rivers, between ports, and across seas. In Oceans of Grain,... -
The First World War: Volume I: To Arms by Sir Hew Strachan
RRP: £39.49£29.64This is the first truly definitive history of the First World War, the war that has done most to shape the twentieth century. The first generation of its historians had access to only a limited range of sources, and their focus was primarily on military... -
Social Glimpses of Iraq's Modern History- Iraq from 1920-1924 by Ali Al-Wardi 9781922583314
RRP: £26.99£19.67Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781922583314Author Ali Al-WardiFormat PaperbackPage Count 346Imprint Lantern PublicationsPublisher Lantern PublicationsWeight(grams) 463gDimensions(mm)... -
Origins of the Chinese Revolution, 1915-1949 by Lucien Bianco
RRP: £20.99£18.66The 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... -
Sumerian Mythology by Samuel Noah Kramer
RRP: £19.99£17.54Sumerian Mythology Revised Edition Samuel Noah Kramer "A real addition to the body of world mythology."--American Anthropologist "No people has contributed more to the culture of mankind than the Sumerians, and yet it has been only in recent years that... -
Sapphistries: A Global History of Love between Women by Leila J. Rupp 9780814777268
RRP: £23.99£21.16A lyrical and meticulously researched mapping of the ways in which diverse societies have shaped female same-sex sexuality across time and geograhy From the ancient poet Sappho to tombois in contemporary Indonesia, women throughout history and around... -
The Mudd Club by Richard Boch 9781627310512
RRP: £30.99£21.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781627310512Author Richard BochFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Feral House,U.S.Publisher Feral House,U.S. -
Forgotten Voices Of The Second World War: A New History of the Second World War in the Words of the Men and Women Who Were There by Max Arthur
RRP: £14.99£10.95The Imperial War Museum holds a vast archive of interviews with soldiers, sailors, airmen and civilians of most nationalities who saw action during WW2. As in the highly-acclaimed Forgotten Voices of the Great War, Max Arthur and his team of researchers... -
A Musical Offering by Luis Sagasti 9781999368456
RRP: £8.99£6.54A lyrical celebration of storytelling, of childhood, and of the transformative power of music.Tracing a circular course that echoes Bach's Goldberg Variations , Luis Sagasti's second book to appear in English takes the guise of a musical scheherazade,... -
Milk by Mark Kurlansky
RRP: £10.99£7.99Mark Kurlansky's first global food history since the bestselling Cod and Salt; the fascinating cultural, economic and culinary story of milk and all things dairy - with recipes throughout While mother's milk may be the essence of nourishment, it is... -
The Great Imperial Hangover: How Empires Have Shaped the World by Samir Puri
RRP: £10.99£7.54'An exceptional account.' Prospect'Enlightening.' SpectatorFor the first time in millennia we live without formal empires. But that doesn't mean we don't feel their presence rumbling through history. The Great Imperial Hangover examines how the world's...