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Coffeeland: A History by Augustine Sedgewick
RRP: $14.18$10.02*Winner of the 2022 Cherasco International Prize*'Thoroughly engrossing' Michael Pollan, The Atlantic'Wonderful, energising' Kathryn Hughes, The GuardianCoffee is one of the most valuable commodities in the history of the global economy and the world's... -
The Creation of Feminist Consciousness: From the Middle Ages to Eighteen-Seventy by Gerda Lerner 9780195090604
$35.80Lerner documents the twelve-hundred year struggle of women to free their minds from patriarchal thought, to create Women's History, and to achieve a feminist conciousness. Lerner argues that the millenia-old educational disadvantaging of women and their... -
The Utopians: Six Attempts to Build the Perfect Society by Anna Neima
RRP: $32.25$28.11'Neima's book, impeccably researched and beautifully written, will be an inspiration for anyone looking to an alternative future today.' - Stella Tillyard, author of Aristocrats and The Great Level'Deeply interesting and a pleasure to read, The Utopians... -
The Ruble: A Political History by Ekaterina Pravilova
RRP: $39.98$34.53A groundbreaking history of Russia, from empire to the Soviet era, viewed through the lens of its money. Money seems passive, a silent witness to the deeds and misdeeds of its holders, but through its history intimate dramas and grand historical... -
Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism by Anne Applebaum 9781984899507
RRP: $21.93$10.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781984899507Author Anne ApplebaumFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 221gDimensions(mm) 202mm *... -
The Memoirs of Field-Marshal Wilhelm Keitel: Chief of the German High Command, 1938-1945 by Walter Gorlitz 9780815410720
RRP: $19.34$14.87These extraordinary memoirs-written by German Field-Marshal Wilhelm keitel (1882-1946) in the six weeks before he was hung in Nuremberg for war crimes-offers readers an unparalleled insider's view of the blitzkrieg against Poland, the conquest of... -
Why We Love Pirates: The Hunt for Captain Kidd and How He Changed Piracy Forever by Rebecca Simon 9781642503371
RRP: $18.05$14.13For Fans of True-Life Pirate Stories"Only someone who has lived in the shadows chasing faded pirates for an age, and is blessed with creativity, can pull off a book of this high caliber." -Wreck Watch MagazineMaritime Media Mountbatten Literary Award... -
Ten Cities that Made an Empire by Tristram Hunt
RRP: $19.34$14.13From Tristram Hunt, award-winning author of The Frock-Coated Communist and leading UK politician, Ten Cities that Made an Empire presents a new approach to Britain's imperial past through the cities that epitomised itSince the return of Hong Kong to... -
London's Truly Strangest Tales by Tom Quinn
RRP: $10.31$6.98More 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... -
Histories by Herodotus
$23.53David Grene, one of the best known translators of the Greek classics, splendidly captures the peculiar quality of Herodotus, the father of history.Here is the historian, investigating and judging what he has seen, heard, and read, and seeking out the... -
Timelines of World History by DK 9780744056273
RRP: $51.60$33.50An illustrated record covering all the major events and achievements in human history. Designed for history aficionados, trivia buffs, or anyone with a curious mind, Timelines of World History takes an innovative approach to the traditional, text-driven... -
The Shortest History of Democracy by John Keane
RRP: $11.60$8.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913083380Author John KeaneFormat PaperbackImprint Old Street PublishingPublisher Old Street Publishing -
World History: 50 Events You Really Need to Know by Ian Crofton 9780857380753 [USED COPY]
RRP: $16.76$2.95People often complain that in history lessons at school they were taught just a few topics - the Romans, the Tudors, the Nazis - and how they have no idea at all about what happened in between. To remedy this, World History: 50 Key Milestones You Really... -
World History: 50 Events You Really Need to Know by Ian Crofton
RRP: $16.76$11.09People often complain that in history lessons at school they were taught just a few topics - the Romans, the Tudors, the Nazis - and how they have no idea at all about what happened in between. To remedy this, World History: 50 Key Milestones You Really... -
Islamic Gunpowder Empires: Ottomans, Safavids, and Mughals by Douglas E. Streusand 9780813313597
RRP: $64.49$56.12Islamic Gunpowder Empires provides readers with a history of Islamic civilization in the early modern world through a comparative examination of Islam's three greatest empires: the Ottomans (centered in what is now Turkey), the Safavids (in modern Iran),... -
Histories by Herodotus 9781857152340
RRP: $25.80$18.95Traditionally known as the Father of History, the Greek writer Herodotus(c. 484-420 BC), was the first man to tell a story in prose on the scale of the ILIAD and the ODYSSEY. His subject is the war between the Persians and the Greeks but, in order to... -
Heroes of History: A Brief History of Civilization from Ancient Times to the Dawn of the Modern Age by Will Durant 9780743235945
RRP: $24.50$15.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780743235945Author Will DurantFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 408gDimensions(mm) 231mm * 152mm... -
The Atlantic World: Europeans, Africans, Indians and their Shared History, 1400-1900 by Thomas Benjamin 9780521616492
RRP: $52.88$46.71From 1400 to 1900 the Atlantic Ocean served as a major highway, allowing people and goods to move easily between Europe, Africa, and the Americas. These interactions and exchanges transformed European, African, and American societies and led to the... -
Inside Terrorism by Bruce Hoffman
RRP: $28.38$23.32Bruce Hoffman's Inside Terrorism has remained the seminal work for understanding the historical evolution of terrorism and the terrorist mind-set. In this revised third edition of his classic text, Hoffman analyzes the latest developments in global... -
Histories of the Unexpected: The Fascinating Stories Behind Everyday Things by Dr Sam Willis 9781786494146
RRP: $14.18$9.44'History as you've never seen it before.' Dan SnowDid you know that the history of the beard is connected to the Crimean War; that the history of paperclips is all about the Stasi; and that the history of bubbles is all about the French Revolution? And... -
Histories of the Unexpected: The Fascinating Stories Behind Everyday Things by Dr Sam Willis 9781786494146 [USED COPY]
RRP: $14.18$5.55'History as you've never seen it before.' Dan SnowDid you know that the history of the beard is connected to the Crimean War; that the history of paperclips is all about the Stasi; and that the history of bubbles is all about the French Revolution? And... -
A History of Civilizations by Fernand Braudel
RRP: $14.18$10.02Written from a consciously anti-enthnocentric approach, this fascinating work is a survey of the civilizations of the modern world in terms of the broad sweep and continuities of history, rather than the "event-based" technique of most other texts.About... -
The Ocean Reader: History, Culture, Politics by Eric Paul Roorda
RRP: $30.95$27.40From prehistoric times to the present, the Ocean has been used as a highway for trade, a source of food and resources, and a space for recreation and military conquest, as well as an inspiration for religion, culture, and the arts. The Ocean Reader... -
The Road to War: The Origins of World War II by Richard Overy
RRP: $19.34$14.13Hailed on publication as a thought-provoking, authoritative analysis of the true beginnings of the Second World War, this revised edition of The Road to War is essential reading for anyone interested in this momentous period of history. Taking each major... -
One World Divisible: A Global History Since 1945 by David Reynolds 9780140295108 [USED COPY]
RRP: $24.50$3.42The second half of the twentieth century was dominated by the unfolding drama of the Cold War, from the Berlin blockade to the fall of the Berlin Wall. A booming global economy has had its sinister shadow in the apparently insoluble crises that havebeset... -
The Great Arab Conquests: How the Spread of Islam Changed the World We Live In by Hugh Kennedy 9780753823897
RRP: $19.34$14.13A popular history of the Arab invasions that carved out an empire from Spain to ChinaToday's Arab world was created at breathtaking speed. Whereas the Roman Empire took over 200 years to reach its fullest extent, the Arab armies overran the whole Middle... -
The Triumph of the Dark: European International History 1933-1939 by Zara Steiner
RRP: $27.08$25.21In this magisterial narrative, Zara Steiner traces the twisted road to war that began with Hitler's assumption of power in Germany. Covering a wide geographical canvas, from America to the Far East, Steiner provides an indispensable reassessment of the... -
Seductress: Women Who Ravished the World and Their Lost Art of Love by Elizabeth Prioleau
RRP: $24.52$18.76In this road map to restoring feminine sexual power, Betsy Prioleau introduces and analyzes the stories and stratagems of history's greatest seductresses. These are the women who ravished the world-from such classic figures as Cleopatra and Mae West to... -
A Willingness to Die: Memories from Fighter Command by Brian Kingcome
RRP: $15.47$11.52In 1938 Brian Kingcome joined the RAF with a permanent commission and was posted to No 65 Fighter Squadron at Hornchurch, soon to be equipped with the Spitfire, and so it came about that Brian flew the Spitfire throughout the war. He became acting CO for... -
The Warriors: Reflections on Men in Battle by J. Glenn Gray 9780803270763
RRP: $20.63$18.37"A superb study of modern combat man, and his relationship to death, and his thoughts about it." -Chicago Sunday TribuneSelected for the 2019 Commandant's Professional Reading List J. Glenn Gray entered the army as a private in May 1941, having been... -
Uncommon Grounds (New edition): The History of Coffee and How It Transformed Our World by Mark Pendergrast
RRP: $25.80$24.30First published in 1999, Uncommon Grounds tells the story of coffee from its discovery on a hill in ancient Abyssinia to the advent of Starbucks and the coffee crisis of the 21st century. Mark Pendergrast uses coffee production, trade, and consumption as... -
The Indus: Lost Civilizations by Andrew Robinson
RRP: $16.71$11.70The Indus civilization flourished for half a millennium from about 2600 to 1900 BC, when it mysteriously declined and vanished from view. It remained invisible for almost four thousand years, until its ruins were discovered in the 1920s by British and... -
The House of Wisdom by Jonathan Lyons 9781408801215
RRP: $16.76$11.73For centuries following the fall of Rome, Western Europe was backward and benighted, locked into the Dark Ages and barely able to tell the time of day. Arab culture, however, was thriving, and had become a powerhouse of intellectual exploration and... -
War and Gold: A Five-Hundred-Year History of Empires, Adventures and Debt by Kwasi Kwarteng 9781408831687 [USED COPY]
RRP: $19.34$7.10_______________ 'Enormously entertaining' - Sunday Times 'Exhaustive and convincingly argued' - Observer 'A complicated story well told, from which financial lessons emerge naturally' - Financial Times _______________ A unique look at the... -
The Fated Sky: Astrology in History by Benson Bobrick 9780743268950
$17.04Astrology is the oldest of the occult sciences, and it has had an unshakeable hold on the human mind for centuries. Universities, such as Oxford and the Sorbonne, offer courses on it. In THE FATED SKY Benson Bobrick gives us a fascinating history of the... -
The Military Revolution: Military Innovation and the Rise of the West, 1500-1800 by Geoffrey Parker
RRP: $33.53$27.18This is a new edition of Geoffrey Parker's much-admired illustrated account of how the West, so small and so deficient in natural resources in 1500, had by 1800 come to control over one-third of the world. Parker argues that the rapid development of... -
Backing Hitler: Consent and Coercion in Nazi Germany by Robert Gellately
RRP: $30.95$28.86The Nazis never won a majority in free elections, but soon after Hitler took power most people turned away from democracy and backed the Nazi regime. Hitler won growing support even as he established the secret police (Gestapo) and concentration camps... -
The Third Revolution: Professional Elites in the Modern World by Professor Harold Perkin 9780415143387
RRP: $54.17$47.41This volume examines the leading professional societies since World War II - those in the free market economies of the United States, Britain, France, West Germany and Japan, and those in the collapsed command economies of East Germany and the Soviet... -
What is History Now? by Mr David Cannadine 9781403933362
RRP: $38.69$35.35E. H. Carr's What is History? was originally published by Macmillan in 1961. Since then it has sold hundreds of thousands of copies throughout the world. In this book, ten internationally renowned scholars, writing from a range of historical vantage... -
Stop, Thief!: The Commons, Enclosures, And Resistance by Peter Linebaugh 9781604867473
RRP: $30.95$20.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781604867473Author Peter LinebaughFormat PaperbackPage Count 294Imprint PM PressPublisher PM PressWeight(grams) 332g