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Grave New World: The End of Globalization, the Return of History by Stephen D. King
RRP: £11.99£10.41A controversial look at the end of globalization and what it means for prosperity, peace, and the global economic order Globalization, long considered the best route to economic prosperity, is not inevitable. An approach built on the principles of free... -
The Routledge Atlas of Jewish History Martin Gilbert 9781032053806
RRP: £25.99£22.98This 9th edition of Martin Gilbert's Atlas of Jewish History spans over four thousand years of history in 196 maps, starting with the worldwide migration of the Jews from ancient Mesopotamia and coming up into the first decades of the twenty-first... -
Bread Winner: An Intimate History of the Victorian Economy by Emma Griffin
RRP: £22.50£19.35The forgotten story of how ordinary families managed financially in the Victorian era-and struggled to survive despite increasing national prosperity"A powerful story of social realities, pressures, and the fracturing of traditional structures."-Ruth... -
The Chosen Few: How Education Shaped Jewish History, 70-1492 by Maristella Botticini
RRP: £20.00£16.13In 70 CE, the Jews were an agrarian and illiterate people living mostly in the Land of Israel and Mesopotamia. By 1492 the Jewish people had become a small group of literate urbanites specializing in crafts, trade, moneylending, and medicine in hundreds... -
The End of the Megamachine: A Brief History of a Failing Civilization Fabian Scheidler 9781789042719
RRP: £19.99£16.82The End of the Megamachine provides a uniquely comprehensive picture of the roots of the destructive forces that are threatening the future of humankind today. Spanning 5000 years of history, the book shows how the three tyrannies of militarized states,... -
The Penguin History of the Twentieth Century: The History of the World, 1901 to the Present by J. M. Roberts
RRP: £16.99£12.68This dazzling overview of a turbulent century explores both dramatic events and underlying trends. Despite a terrible two-stage 'European civil war' and the traumatic rise and fall of communism, wealth has increased dramatically alongside a four-fold... -
A History of Savoy: Gatekeeper of the Alps by John Dormandy 9781781556870
RRP: £30.00£29.59Savoy and its Alps were for seven centuries an independent state at the centre of Europe, separating France from the patchwork of principalities that made up Italy. Merchants, clerics, pilgrims, diplomats as well as privileged young Englishmen on the... -
Pirates: A New History, from Vikings to Somali Raiders by Peter Lehr 9780300273335
RRP: £11.99£10.41A global account of pirates and their modus operandi, from the Middle Ages to the present day In the twenty-first century piracy has regained a central place in Western culture, thanks to a surprising combination of Johnny Depp and the Pirates of the... -
Two Planks and a Passion: The Dramatic History of Skiing by Roland Huntford 9781847252364
£55.38Predating the wheel, the ski has played an important role in our history. This is brilliantly brought to life in this engaging book. Roland Huntford's brilliant history begins 20,000 years ago in the last ice age on the icy tundra of an unformed earth... -
Modern France: A Very Short Introduction by Vanessa R. Schwartz
RRP: £8.99£6.65In this Very Short Introduction, Vanessa Schwartz argues that modern France, as both a world stage and a global crossroads, is an essential actor in the development of contemporary culture. Indeed, French is the only language other than English spoken on... -
Perfect Red by Amy Butler Greenfield
RRP: £13.99£11.97Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060522766Author Amy Butler GreenfieldFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc -
The Crusades Dr David Nicolle 9781841761794
RRP: £14.99£12.75Born 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... -
War Is a Force that Gives Us Meaning by Chris Hedges
RRP: £12.99£11.81As a veteran war correspondent, Chris Hedges has survived ambushes in Central America, imprisonment in Sudan, and a beating by Saudi military police. He has seen children murdered for sport in Gaza and petty thugs elevated into war heroes in the Balkans... -
The Cartoon History of the Modern World Part 2: From the Bastille to Baghdad by Larry Gonick
RRP: £15.99£11.43Part II of the "Cartoon History of the Modern World" picks up where Part I left off, right after the American Revolution. Gonick illuminates with the Enlightenment, then goes deep into the French Revolution, followed by Napoleon's conquests. He covers... -
Access to History: Henry VII third edition by Caroline S. Rogers
£24.65Ensure your students have access to the authoritative and in-depth content of this popular and trusted A Level History series. For over twenty years Access to History has been providing students with reliable, engaging and accessible content on a wide... -
Burn Out: The Endgame for Fossil Fuels by Dieter Helm
RRP: £13.99£12.25An energy revolution is under way with far-reaching consequences for nations, companies, and the way we address climate change Low oil prices are sending shockwaves through the global economy, and longtime industry observer Dieter Helm explains how this... -
Answers to Questions You've Never Asked: Explaining the What If in Science, Geography and the Absurd by Joseph Pisenti
RRP: £14.99£10.14Trivia Book Filled with Fun Facts and Trivia Questions and Answers#1 Bestseller in GeographyAnswers to Questions You've Never Asked will entertain you for hours.Fun facts for kids of all ages. When you take the most absurd parts of history, science,... -
Size: How It Explains the World by Vaclav Smil
RRP: £20.00£14.29'There is no author whose books I look forward to more' Bill GatesThe New York Times bestselling author returns with a mind-opening exploration of how size defines life on Earth.Explaining the key processes shaping size in nature, society and technology,... -
The Transition from Feudalism to Capitalism by R. H. Hilton
£17.31The debate on the transition from feudalism to capitalism, originally published in Science and Society in the early 1950s, is one of the most famous episodes in the development of Marxist historiography since the war. It ranged such distinguished... -
World War II For Dummies Keith D. Dickson 9781119675532
RRP: £18.99£13.34Looking to ally yourself with World War II knowledge? More than 75 years after its end, World War II remains one of the most devastating and impactful events in human history. It was a global war, and the nations that fought it employed every available... -
The Reigns of Edmund, Eadred and Eadwig, 939-959: New Interpretations by Dr Mary Elizabeth Blanchard 9781783277643
RRP: £80.00£77.21Essays highlighting the importance of three kings - Edmund, Eadred and Eadwig - in understanding England in the tenth century. Much scholarly attention has been devoted to both the expanding kingdom of Alfred the Great, Edward the Elder, and... -
The Oxford History of the British Empire: Volume III: The Nineteenth Century by Andrew Porter
£42.74Volume III of The Oxford History of the British Empire covers the long nineteenth century, from the achievement of American independence in the 1780s to the eve of world war in 1914. This was the period of Britain's greatest expansion as both... -
Prisoners of History: What Monuments to the Second World War Tell Us About Our History and Ourselves by Keith Lowe
RRP: £20.00£13.34A Spectator Book of the Year 2020 A Times and Sunday Times Best Book of 2020 A Mail on Sunday Book of the Year 2020 'Inspired ... Lowe's sensitive, disturbing book should be... -
The Life and Times of Augustine Tataneuck: An Inuk Hero in Rupert's Land, 1800â1834 by Renee Fossett
RRP: £27.95£26.63One of the few biographies of an Inuk man from the 19th Centuryseparated from his family, community, and languagefinding his place in history. Augustine Tataneuck was an Inuk man born near the beginning of the 19th century on the northwestern coast of... -
A Brief History of Commercial Capitalism by Jairus Banaji 9781642591323
RRP: £19.99£12.55The rise of capitalism to global dominance is still largely associated - by both laypeople and Marxist historians - with the industrial capitalism that made its decisive breakthrough in 18th century Britain. Jairus Banaji's new work reaches back... -
The Torture Camp on Paradise Street by Stanislav Aseyev 9780674291089
RRP: £16.95£14.06In The Torture Camp on Paradise Street, Ukrainian journalist and writer Stanislav Aseyev details his experience as a prisoner from 2015 to 2017 in a modern-day concentration camp overseen by the Federal Security Bureau of the Russian Federation (FSB) in... -
Fifty Animals That Changed the Course of History by Eric Chaline (Author) 9781446301432 [USED COPY]
RRP: £14.99£2.54Charting the unique relationship between humans and animals and how certain species have been instrumental in the development of our understanding of the evolution of the natural world, this title explores the role animals have played in our culture and... -
Seductress: Women Who Ravished the World and Their Lost Art of Love by Elizabeth Prioleau
RRP: £19.01£14.77In 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... -
The Other Great Game: The Opening of Korea and the Birth of Modern East Asia by Sheila Miyoshi Jager 9780674983397
RRP: £33.95£28.62A dramatic new telling of the dawn of modern East Asia, placing Korea at the center of a transformed world order wrought by imperial greed and devastating wars.In the nineteenth century, Russia participated in two "great games": one, well known, pitted... -
The Slave Trade Debate: Contemporary Writings For and Against John Pinfold 9781851243167
RRP: £12.99£11.63At the height of the debate about the slave trade and its abolition in the 1780s and '90s, each side issued pamphlets in support of its position. This publication reproduces a selection of representative pamphlets encompassing the arguments put forward... -
Handbook to Life in Ancient Rome by Lesley Adkins
RRP: £23.49£17.87This handy reference provides full access to the 1,200 years of Roman rule from the 8th century BC to the 5th century AD, including information that is hard to find and even harder to decipher. Clear, authoritative, and highly organized, Handbook to Life... -
The Algerian War, The Algerian Revolution by Natalya Vince
RRP: £27.99£25.45This book provides a new analysis of the contested history of one of the most violent wars of decolonisation of the twentieth century - the Algerian War/ the Algerian Revolution between 1954 and 1962. It brings together an engaging account of its... -
Central Asia in World History by Peter B. Golden 9780195338195
RRP: £27.99£18.56A vast region stretching roughly from the Volga River to Manchuria and the northern Chinese borderlands, Central Asia has been called the "pivot of history," a land where nomadic invaders and Silk Road traders changed the destinies of states that ringed... -
The Rise and Decline of Nations: Economic Growth, Stagflation, and Social Rigidities by Mancur Olson
RRP: £14.99£13.03A compelling theory on the rationale for the changing fortunes of nationsAbout the AuthorMancur Lloyd Olson Jr. was an American economist and political scientist who taught at the University of Maryland, College Park. Edward L. Glaeser is the Fred and... -
The Dancing Plague: The Strange, True Story of an Extraordinary Illness by John Waller 9781402219436
RRP: £17.99£13.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781402219436Author John WallerFormat PaperbackPage Count 278Imprint Sourcebooks, IncPublisher Sourcebooks, IncWeight(grams) 345gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 140mm... -
The Black Book of Communism: Crimes, Terror, Repression by Stephane Courtois
RRP: £59.95£48.89Already famous throughout Europe, this international bestseller plumbs recently opened archives in the former Soviet bloc to reveal the actual, practical accomplishments of Communism around the world: terror, torture, famine, mass deportations, and... -
Aryans Charles Allen 9789357312684
RRP: £25.00£17.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789357312684Author Charles AllenFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint Hachette IndiaPublisher Hachette Book Publishing India Pvt LtdWeight(grams)... -
The Age of Revolution by Charles Kovacs 9780863153952
RRP: £10.99£7.99An overview of world history from the eighteenth to twentieth centuries, including the French, American and Industrial Revolutions. Kovacs chooses pertinent stories which create a tapestry showing the development of humankind from medieval times, when... -
Rainbow History Class: Your Guide Through Queer and Trans History by Hannah McElhinney
RRP: £16.99£12.34Rainbow History Class is your entry into LGBTQ+ history, sharing queer and trans stories from Ancient civilisations all the way up to the internet. So much of queer and trans history and culture has been erased, but Hannah McElhinney, writer and creator... -
Access to History: Britain 1783-1885 Benjamin Armstrong 9781510459151
£25.21Exam board: AQA; 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...