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The Magpie by Gary Toward 9781786930088
€10.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781786930088Author Gary TowardFormat PaperbackPage Count 169Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers -
Nature's Economy: A History of Ecological Ideas by Donald Worster 9780521468343
RRP: €36.88€29.38Nature's Economy is a wide-ranging investigation of ecology's past, first published in 1994. It traces the origins of the concept, discusses the thinkers who have shaped it, and shows how it in turn has shaped the modern perception of our place in nature... -
Dust Bowls of Empire: Imperialism, Environmental Politics, and the Injustice of "Green" Capitalism by Hannah Holleman 9780300230208
RRP: €32.73€32.05A profound reinterpretation of the Dust Bowl on the U.S. southern plains and its relevance for today The 1930s witnessed a harrowing social and ecological disaster, defined by the severe nexus of drought, erosion, and economic depression that ravaged the... -
Veblen: The Making of an Economist Who Unmade Economics by Charles Camic 9780674659728
RRP: €42.78€34.46A bold new biography of the thinker who demolished accepted economic theories in order to expose how people of economic and social privilege plunder their wealth from society's productive men and women.Thorstein Veblen was one of America's most... -
Warrior Queens & Quiet Revolutionaries: How Women (Also) Built the World by Kate Mosse 9781529092202
RRP: €20.22€15.70Warrior Queens & Quiet Revolutionaries is a celebration of unheard and under-heard women's history.'Excellent . . . bursting with extraordinary women' - Anita Anand'Brilliant' - Daisy Buchanan"My hope is that this book will inspire as I have been... -
Perfect Red by Amy Butler Greenfield
RRP: €16.65€13.97Apologies 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 Portuguese of Trinidad and Tobago: Portrait of an Ethnic Minority by Jo-Anne S. Ferreira 9789766406608
RRP: €39.21€33.53Traditionally a navigating and migratory people, Portuguese settlers came to the Caribbean as early as the seventeenth century. The ancestors of the modern Portuguese community in Trinidad and Tobago hailed from the archipelago of Madeira, fleeing their... -
The New Medievalism by Marina Scordilis Brownlee
RRP: €29.75€26.22"This is a substantial and readable volume, and it is supplied with a rich array of documentation in the notes and bibliography. It deals with a question of critical importance for current research on medieval `literature': namely, the relationship... -
World War One: A Short History by Norman Stone
RRP: €13.08€9.25'Do we need another history of the First World War? The answer in the case of Norman Stone's short book is, yes - because of its opinionated freshness and the unusual, sharp facts that fly about like shrapnel' Literary ReviewIn 1914 a new kind of war,... -
Story of the World, Vol. 3 Activity Book: History for the Classical Child: Early Modern Times (Revised Edition) by Susan Wise Bauer 9781945841477
RRP: €38.07€33.17A Complete History Curriculum for One Year Don't just read about history--experience it! Color a picture of Captain Cook in Botany Bay, design a Persian rug, play the Battle of Bunker Hill board game, and pan for gold. Designed to turn the accompanying... -
Modern France: A Very Short Introduction by Vanessa R. Schwartz
RRP: €10.70€7.68In 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... -
Answers to Questions You've Never Asked: Explaining the What If in Science, Geography and the Absurd by Joseph Pisenti
RRP: €17.84€11.76Trivia 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,... -
How the Catholic Church Built Western Civilization by Thomas E. Woods 9781596983281
RRP: €17.84€11.14Ask 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... -
Size: How It Explains the World by Vaclav Smil
RRP: €23.80€17.01'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,... -
China: A New History, Second Enlarged Edition by John King Fairbank 9780674018280
RRP: €33.26€26.83John King Fairbank was the West's doyen on China, and this book is the full and final expression of his lifelong engagement with this vast ancient civilization. It remains a masterwork without parallel. The distinguished historian Merle Goldman brings... -
Decolonization: Unsung Heroes of the Resistance by Pierre Singaravelou
RRP: €27.36€18.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781635421033Author Pierre SingaravelouFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Other Press LLCPublisher Other Press LLC -
Speeches That Changed Our Times: From 1945 to the Present by Carlo Batà 9788854420403
RRP: €29.75€21.40The history of humankind has always been marked by natural catastrophes, migrations, discoveries, revolutions, and wars. But there have also been speeches that marked an era; instilling hope in crucial moments, reawakening the collective conscience of a... -
The Fall of the Western Roman Empire: Archaeology, History and the Decline of Rome by Neil Christie 9780340759660
€39.58The decline of the Roman Empire has been a subject of fascination and debate for centuries. In this original new work, Neil Christie draws on numerous sources, interweaving the latest archaeological evidence, to reconstruct the period's landscape and... -
Prisoners of History: What Monuments to the Second World War Tell Us About Our History and Ourselves by Keith Lowe
RRP: €23.80€15.87A 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: €33.26€31.69One 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: €23.79€14.80The 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... -
Deadly Companions: How microbes shaped our history by Dorothy H. Crawford 9780198815440 [USED COPY]
RRP: €14.27€3.14Ever since we started huddling together in communities, the story of human history has been inextricably entwined with the story of microbes. They have evolved and spread amongst us, shaping our culture through infection, disease, and pandemic. At the... -
Deadly Companions: How microbes shaped our history by Dorothy H. Crawford
RRP: €14.27€10.03Ever since we started huddling together in communities, the story of human history has been inextricably entwined with the story of microbes. They have evolved and spread amongst us, shaping our culture through infection, disease, and pandemic. At the... -
In Search of Madness: A psychiatrist's travels through the history of mental illness by Brendan Kelly 9780717193783
RRP: €22.60€16.20A psychiatrist's travels through the history of mental illness - Who is 'mad'? Who is not? And who decides? In this fascinating new exploration of mental illness, Professor Brendan Kelly examines 'madness' in history and how we have responded to it... -
What Might Have Been?: Leading Historians on Twelve 'What Ifs' of History by Dr. Andrew Roberts
RRP: €11.89€8.09A dozen star historians on what might have happened at history's turning points if the dice had fallen differently.'Stimulating, provocative and playful' Literary ReviewThroughout history, great and terrible events have often hinged upon luck. Andrew... -
The Splintered Empires: The Eastern Front 1917-21 by Prit Buttar
RRP: €20.22€15.09At 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... -
Grave New World: The End of Globalization, the Return of History by Stephen D. King
RRP: €14.27€12.08A 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... -
Fighting for the Bucks: The History of the Royal Bucks Hussars 1914-18 by E. J. Hounslow
RRP: €17.84€13.74From the hell of Gallipoli to the deserts of the Holy Land, torpedoed in the Mediterranean before finally posted to the mud and trenches of the Western Front, the experiences of the Royal Bucks Hussars were as fascinating and bloody as any during the... -
Fifty Animals That Changed the Course of History by Eric Chaline (Author) 9781446301432 [USED COPY]
RRP: €17.84€3.02Charting 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... -
The Industrial Revolution: A Captivating Guide to a Period of Major Industrialization and the Introduction of the Spinning Jenny, the Cotton Gin, Electricity, and Other Inventions by Captivating History 9781647488505
RRP: €19.00€13.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781647488505Author Captivating HistoryFormat PaperbackPage Count 126Imprint Captivating HistoryPublisher Captivating HistoryWeight(grams) 195gDimensions(mm)... -
The Scent of Empire: Chanel No. 5 and Red Moscow by Karl Schlogel 9781509546596
RRP: €23.80€15.89Can a drop of perfume tell the story of the twentieth century? Can a smell bear the traces of history? What can we learn about the history of the twentieth century by examining the fate of perfumes? In this remarkable book, Karl Schloegel unravels the... -
Pandemic 1918: The Story of the Deadliest Influenza in History by Catharine Arnold
RRP: €13.08€8.89In the dying months of the First World War, Spanish Flu suddenly overwhelmed the globe, killing up to 100 million people. it was one of the most devastating natural disasters in world history ...___________'Offers us a coherent, well-researched and... -
What Is Global History? by Sebastian Conrad
RRP: €26.18€21.13Until very recently, historians have looked at the past with the tools of the nineteenth century. But globalization has fundamentally altered our ways of knowing, and it is no longer possible to study nations in isolation or to understand world history... -
Merchants: The Community That Shaped England's Trade and Empire, 1550-1650 by Edmond Smith
RRP: €32.73€27.24WINNER OF THE 2023 RALPH GOMORY BOOK PRIZE "A superb book."-Jerry Brotton "Wonderfully wide-ranging and deeply-researched."-William Dalrymple "Sharply observed, innovatively analysed, and always accessible."-Nandini Das A new history of English... -
Handbook to Life in Ancient Rome by Lesley Adkins
RRP: €27.95€21.27This 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 Lost Ark of the Covenant: The Remarkable Quest for the Legendary Ark by Tudor Parfitt 9780007262687 [USED COPY]
RRP: €15.46€2.73Professor Tudor Parfitt, a real-life British Indiana Jones, has made the biggest discovery of the last 3,000 years - what became of the fabled Ark of the Covenant. This is the amazing story of his quest. This is the real-life account of... -
Central Asia in World History by Peter B. Golden 9780195338195
RRP: €33.31€22.09A 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... -
Eight Eurocentric Historians by J.M. Blaut
€40.56This volume examines and critiques the work of a diverse group of Eurocentric historians who have strongly shaped our understanding of world history. Building upon the foundations laid in his previous book, The Colonizer's Model of the World, which... -
Wilmington's Lie (Winner of the 2021 Pulitzer Prize): The Murderous Coup of 1898 and the Rise of White Supremacy by David Zucchino 9780802148650
RRP: €15.46€14.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802148650Author David ZucchinoFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Black CatPublisher Black Cat -
Access to History: Britain 1783-1885 by Benjamin Armstrong
€30.00Exam 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...