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A Splendid Exchange: How Trade Shaped the World by William L. Bernstein
RRP: £20.00£13.67A Splendid Exchange tells the epic story of global commerce, from its prehistoric origins to the myriad crises confronting it today. It travels from the sugar rush that brought the British to Jamaica in the seventeenth century to our current debates over... -
The Grand Tour in the Eighteenth Century: The British Abroad by Professor Jeremy Black
RRP: £14.99£11.72Travel for pleasure developed greatly in the 18th century, and here Jeremy Black examines travel on the Continent, the so-called "Grand Tour". He considers not only the standard destinations of France and Italy, but also the Low Countries, Germany,... -
Global Crisis: War, Climate Change and Catastrophe in the Seventeenth Century by Geoffrey Parker
RRP: £19.99£17.97How to account for decades of worldwide war, revolution, and human suffering in the seventeenth century? A master historian uncovers the disturbing answer. Revolutions, droughts, famines, invasions, wars, regicides - the calamities of the... -
The Golden Rhinoceros: Histories of the African Middle Ages by Francois-Xavier Fauvelle
RRP: £16.99£12.70An unforgettable journey into the forgotten history of medieval AfricaFrom the birth of Islam in the seventh century to the voyages of European exploration in the fifteenth, Africa was at the center of a vibrant exchange of goods and ideas. It was an... -
Tibetan Civilization by R. A. Stein
RRP: £24.99£21.67A Stanford University Press classic.Book InformationISBN 9780804709019Author R. A. SteinFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Stanford University PressPublisher Stanford University PressWeight(grams) 408g -
Minoans: Life in Bronze Age Crete by Rodney Castleden
RRP: £37.99£33.38Thoroughly researched, Rodney Castleden's Minoans: Life in Bronze Age Crete here sues the results of recent research to produce a comprehensive new vision of the peoples of Minoan Crete.Since Sir Arthur Evans rediscovered the Minoans in the early 1900s,... -
What on Earth Happened?: The Complete Story of the Planet, Life and People from the Big Bang to the Present Day Christopher Lloyd 9781408834831
RRP: £25.00£18.90In What on Earth Happened?, Christopher Lloyd tells our story from the very beginning of time to the present day, taking giant narrative leaps across millennia and continents. Along the way, he explains exactly how Muslim conquest gave Spain its paella,... -
A Social History of Dying by Allan Kellehear
RRP: £23.99£19.59Our experiences of dying have been shaped by ancient ideas about death and social responsibility at the end of life. From Stone Age ideas about dying as otherworld journey to the contemporary Cosmopolitan Age of dying in nursing homes, Allan Kellehear... -
The Creation of Feminist Consciousness: From the Middle Ages to Eighteen-Seventy by Gerda Lerner 9780195090604
£27.75Lerner 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... -
A 1950s Housewife: Marriage and Homemaking in the 1950s by Sheila Hardy 9780750964142
RRP: £12.99£9.87Being a housewife in the 1950s was quite a different experience to today. After the independence of the wartime years, women had to leave their jobs when they married and support their husband by creating a spotless home, delicious meals and an inviting... -
Progress: Ten Reasons to Look Forward to the Future by Johan Norberg
RRP: £10.99£7.99A Book of the Year for The Economist and the Observer Our world seems to be collapsing. The daily news cycle reports the deterioration: divisive politics across the Western world, racism, poverty, war, inequality, hunger. While politicians,... -
Scotland: A Very Short Introduction by Rab Houston
RRP: £8.99£6.65Since Devolution in 1999 Scotland has become a focus of intense interest both within Britain and throughout the wider world. In this Very Short Introduction, Rab Houston explores how an independent Scottish nation emerged in the Middle Ages, how it was... -
Why We Love Pirates: The Hunt for Captain Kidd and How He Changed Piracy Forever by Rebecca Simon 9781642503371
RRP: £13.99£10.95For 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... -
A History of Ideas: The most intriguing, relevant and helpful concepts from the story of humanity by The School of Life
RRP: £22.00£15.75A collection of humanity's most inspiring ideas throughout time, bringing perspective to the challenges and wonders of being alive. This is an unusual sort of history book: a history of ideas - and not just any old ideas, ideas from across time and... -
Football in the Land of the Soviets Carles Vinas 9780745347448
RRP: £14.99£10.05Mistrusted and derided, instrumentalised and adored - the story of football in Tsarist and early Soviet Russia is as wild and intriguing as that of the country itself. In many ways it is the same story... Football in the Land of the Soviets offers a... -
Amritsar 1919: An Empire of Fear and the Making of a Massacre by Kim Wagner
RRP: £12.99£11.46A powerful reassessment of a seminal moment in the history of India and the British Empire: the Amritsar Massacre"Amritsar 1919 chronicles the run up to Jallianwala Bagh with spellbinding, almost minute-by-minute focus. . . . Mr. Wagner's achievement is... -
The Last Honest Man: The CIA, the FBI, the Mafia, and the Kennedys—and One Senator's Fight to Save Democracy by James Risen
RRP: £25.00£18.02For decades now, America's national security state has grown ever bigger, ever more secretive and powerful, and ever more abusive. Only once did someone manage to put a stop to any of it.Senator Frank Church of Idaho was an unlikely hero. He led... -
The Economic History of Colonialism Leigh Gardner (The London School of Economics) 9781529207644
RRP: £24.99£19.69Debates about the origins and effects of European rule in the non-European world have animated the field of economic history since the 1850s. This pioneering text provides a concise and accessible resource that introduces key readings, builds connections... -
Heroes of History: A Brief History of Civilization from Ancient Times to the Dawn of the Modern Age by Will Durant 9780743235945
RRP: £18.99£12.20Apologies 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: £40.99£36.21From 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: £22.00£18.03Bruce 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... -
A History of Civilizations by Fernand Braudel
RRP: £10.99£7.99Written 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... -
More: The 10,000-Year Rise of the World Economy by Philip Coggan
RRP: £10.99£7.99There are 17 ingredients in a typical tube of toothpaste, from titanium dioxide to xanthum gum, and that's not counting the tube. Everything had to come from somewhere and someone had to bring it all together. The humblest household product reveals a web... -
An Elegant Madness: High Society in Regency England by Venetia Murray 9780140282962
RRP: £24.00£16.80The Regency period was one of the most turbulent ages in British history, one that spanned the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars, that witnessed unprecedented industrial progress, artistic accomplishment, and violent social unrest... -
The Silk Road: A Very Short Introduction by James A. Millward
RRP: £8.99£8.32The phrase "silk road" evokes vivid images: of merchants leading camel caravans over deserts and steppes to trade exotic goods in the bazaars of glittering Oriental cities, of pilgrims braving bandits and frozen mountain passes to gather scriptures and... -
One World Divisible: A Global History Since 1945 by David Reynolds 9780140295108 [USED COPY]
RRP: £18.99£2.65The 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... -
Exodus: Immigration and Multiculturalism in the 21st Century by Paul Collier
RRP: £10.99£7.99Exodus is an insightful, expert foray into the explosive issue of immigration, from Paul Collier, award-winning economist and author of The Bottom BillionMass international migration is a response to extreme global inequality, and immigration has a... -
The Little Book of the 1970s by Stuart Hylton
RRP: £9.99£7.77The Little Book of the 1970s is a fast-paced and entertaining account of life in Britain during an extraordinary decade, as we moved from the swinging sixties to the punk-rock seventies. Here are dramas, tragedies, scandals and characters galore, all... -
The Crisis of the Modern World Rene Guenon 9788186569115
£20.31Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788186569115Author Rene GuenonFormat PaperbackPage Count 142Imprint Indica BooksPublisher Indica BooksDimensions(mm) 220mm * 140mm * 10mm -
Abstraction and Empathy: A Contribution to the Psychology of Style by Wilhelm Worringer
RRP: £14.99£11.53Wilhelm Worringer's landmark study in the interpretation of modern art, first published in 1908, has seldom been out of print. Its profound impact not only on art historians and theorists but also for generations of creative writers and intellectuals is... -
1492 by Dr. Felipe Fernandez-Armesto 9781408809501
RRP: £14.99£11.11'Fernandez-Armesto's rich vision of the 1490s is unlike any other world historians have given us. He has performed an amazing feat of portraying the world as one place before it had yet become one place ... This is popular history at its best: grounded... -
Never Forget Your Name: The Children of Auschwitz Alwin Meyer 9781509545506
RRP: £25.00£17.03The children of Auschwitz: this is the darkest spot in the ocean of suffering that was the Holocaust. They were deported to the concentration camp with their families, with most being murdered in the gas chambers upon their arrival, or were born there... -
The Triumph of the Dark: European International History 1933-1939 by Zara Steiner
RRP: £20.99£19.54In 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... -
Space Race: The Battle to Rule the Heavens by Deborah Cadbury
RRP: £12.99£9.34From the author of 'Seven Wonders of the Industrial World', the paperback edition of the TV tie-in charting the shocking but true story behind the space race - and the ruthless, brilliant scientists who fuelled it. With the end of the Cold War... -
The Road to War: The Origins of World War II by Richard Overy
RRP: £14.99£11.11Hailed 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... -
War and Gold: A Five-Hundred-Year History of Empires, Adventures and Debt by Kwasi Kwarteng 9781408831687 [USED COPY]
RRP: £14.99£5.50_______________ '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 Military Revolution: Military Innovation and the Rise of the West, 1500-1800 by Geoffrey Parker
RRP: £25.99£21.54This 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: £23.99£22.37The 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... -
Black Experience and the Empire by Philip D. Morgan 9780199290673
RRP: £47.99£40.98This work explores the lives of people of sub-Saharan Africa and their descendants, how they were shaped by empire, and how they in turn influenced the empire in everything from material goods to cultural style. The black experience varied greatly across... -
The World: A Brief Introduction by Richard Haass 9780399562396
RRP: £22.99£15.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780399562396Author Richard HaassFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint The Penguin PressPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc