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History Day by Day: 366 Voices from the Past by Peter Furtado 9780500294963 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99£2.65'What a wonderful, eclectic daily diet of historical speech! Each entry - one for each day of the year - transports us back to hear the voices of the past, and gives us an empathic, learned, and fascinating insight into the thoughts and feelings of the... -
History and Identity: How Historical Theory Shapes Historical Practice by Stefan Berger
RRP: £27.99£24.67This introduction to contemporary historical theory and practice shows how issues of identity have shaped how we write history. Stefan Berger charts how a new self-reflexivity about what is involved in the process of writing history entered the... -
Rif War: Insurgency in Northern Morocco, 1920-1927 by Javier Garcia de Gabiola
RRP: £16.95£14.48Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914377013Author Javier Garcia de GabiolaFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
The Oxford Illustrated History of Prehistoric Europe by Barry Cunliffe
RRP: £33.99£24.61Edited by Barry Cunliffe, one of the world's leading archaeologists, this book provides a comprehensive account of prehistoric Europe from the coming of the Stone Age to the fall of the Roman Empire. Unique in its approach, it is a history of both... -
Human Race: 10 Centuries of Change on Earth by Ian Mortimer
RRP: £14.99£10.95We are an astonishing species. Over the past millennium of plagues and exploration, revolution and scientific discovery, woman's rights and technological advances, human society has changed beyond recognition.Sweeping through the last thousand years of... -
Resorts and Ports: European Seaside Towns since 1700 by Peter Borsay 9781845411978
RRP: £29.95£27.12Histories of seaports and coastal resorts have usually been kept in separate compartments. This book brings them together and looks at how resort development affected historic ports during the rise and development of the seaside holiday in Europe from... -
Patriots and Liberators by Simon Schama 9780006861560
RRP: £18.99£13.11A reissue of Simon Schama's landmark study of the Netherlands from 1780-1813, this is a tale of a once-powerful nation's desparate struggle to survive the treacheries and brutality of European war and politics. Between 1780 and 1813 the Dutch... -
The Toxic Ship: The Voyage of the Khian Sea and the Global Waste Trade by Simone M. Müller
RRP: £23.99£20.84In 1986 the Khian Sea, carrying thousands of tons of incinerator ash from Philadelphia, began a two-year journey, roaming the world's oceans in search of a dumping ground. Its initial destination and then country after country refused to accept the waste... -
The Collapse of Complex Societies by Joseph A. Tainter
RRP: £50.99£36.29Any explanation of political collapse carries lessons not just for the study of ancient societies, but for the members of all complex societies in both the present and future. Dr Tainter describes nearly two dozen cases of collapse and reviews more than... -
War in Human Civilization by Azar Gat
RRP: £36.49£32.33Why do people go to war? Is it rooted in human nature or is it a late cultural invention? How does war relate to the other fundamental developments in the history of human civilization? And what of war today - is it a declining phenomenon or simply... -
The Great Divide: History and Human Nature in the Old World and the New Peter Watson 9780753828458
RRP: £16.99£12.11How the division of the Americas from the rest of the world affected human history.In 15,000 B.C. early humankind, who had evolved in Africa tens of thousands of years before and spread out to populate the Earth, arrived in Siberia, during the Ice Age... -
Access to History: Revolution and dictatorship: Russia, 1917-1953 for AQA Michael Lynch 9781510459342
£25.21Exam board: AQALevel: 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 knowledge and better... -
Secret Leviathan: Secrecy and State Capacity under Soviet Communism by Mark Harrison
RRP: £54.00£47.15The Soviet Union was one of the most secretive states that ever existed. Defended by a complex apparatus of rules and checks administered by the secret police, the Soviet state had seemingly unprecedented capabilities based on its near monopoly of... -
Last Minute Rooms in Bethlehem: And Other Great Internet Search Histories of the Past by Dale Shaw
RRP: £9.99£7.77'Very funny book alert!' Nina Stibbe, author of Love, Nina'Made me chuckle heartily!' Greg Jenner, author of A Million Years Years in a Day'It's such a good idea. Were it not for my excellent bladder control, I would have weed myself' Stuart HeritageFrom... -
Oil Revolution: Anticolonial Elites, Sovereign Rights, and the Economic Culture of Decolonization by Christopher R. W. Dietrich
RRP: £32.99£28.38Through innovative and expansive research, Oil Revolution analyzes the tensions faced and networks created by anti-colonial oil elites during the age of decolonization following World War II. This new community of elites stretched across Iran, Iraq,... -
Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know: The Extraordinary Exploits of the British and European Aristocracy by Karl Shaw
RRP: £9.99£7.00The alarming history of the British, and European, aristocracy - from Argyll to Wellington and from Byron to Tolstoy, stories of madness, murder, misery, greed and profligacy.From Regency playhouses, to which young noblemen would go simply in order to... -
Midnight in Cairo: The Female Stars of Egypt's Roaring '20s by Raphael Cormack
RRP: £10.99£7.611920s Cairo: singers were pressing hit records, dramatic troupes were springing up and cabarets were packed - a counterculture was on the rise. In bars, hash-dens and music halls, people of all backgrounds came together as a passionate group of artists... -
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: £12.99£11.80Apologies 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 -
Branding Terror: The Logotypes and Iconography of Insurgent Groups and Terrorist Organizations Artur Beifuss 9781858946016
RRP: £24.95£19.48Terrorist groups are no different from other organizations in their use of branding to promote their ideas and to distinguish themselves from groups that share similar aims. The branding they employ may contain complex systems of meaning and emotion; it... -
Diplomatic Gifts: A History in Fifty Presents by Paul Brummell
RRP: £25.00£22.38Gifts have been part of international relations since ancient times. They can serve as tokens of friendship, apology or authority; as taunts, bribes, boasts or tricks. They can also go wrong: Mali's 2013 gift of a camel to French President Francois... -
Vikings: The North Atlantic Saga by William W. Fitzhugh
RRP: £27.64£25.72Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781560989950Author William F. FitzhughFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Smithsonian BooksPublisher Smithsonian BooksWeight(grams) 1520gDimensions(mm)... -
Caligula: The Mad Emperor of Rome by Stephen Dando-Collins
RRP: £14.99£11.66Explore all of the murder, madness and mayhem in Ancient Rome during the reign of the mad emperor, Caligula. In this book about Rome's most infamous emperor, expert author, Stephen Dando-Collins' chronicles all the palace intrigues and murders... -
Revolution: An Intellectual History Enzo Traverso 9781839763335
RRP: £25.00£21.02This book reinterprets the history of nineteenth and twentieth-century revolutions by composing a constellation of "dialectical images": Marx's "locomotives of history," Alexandra Kollontai's sexually liberated bodies, Lenin's mummified body, Auguste... -
Pathogenesis: How germs made history by Jonathan Kennedy 9781911709060
RRP: £16.99£13.60A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEKA TIMES SCIENCE BOOK OF THE YEARA SUNDAY TIMES SCIENCE BOOK OF THE YEAR'Powerfully argued... Fascinating and pacy' Sunday Times, Book of the Week'Superbly written... sure to please readers of Yuval Noah Harari or Rutger... -
Ghost Ship by Brian Hicks
RRP: £15.99£11.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345466655Author Brian HicksFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 261gDimensions(mm) 203mm *... -
Chamberlain and the Lost Peace by John Charmley 9781566632478
RRP: £14.99£11.53Most studies of World War II assume that it was, in some way, a triumph for Britain. John Charmley's important new reappraisal of the immediate origins of the war is based on extensive new work in the Chamberlain papers. It starts from Chamberlain's... -
Dark Continents: Psychoanalysis and Colonialism by Ranjana Khanna
RRP: £22.99£20.01Sigmund Freud infamously referred to women's sexuality as a "dark continent" for psychoanalysis, drawing on colonial explorer Henry Morton Stanley's use of the same phrase to refer to Africa. While the problematic universalism of psychoanalysis led... -
In the Shadow of Quetzalcoatl: Zelia Nuttall and the Search for Mexico’s Ancient Civilizations by Merilee Grindle 9780674278332
RRP: £27.95£22.15"What a woman! And what a fabulous life to unearth. Zelia Nuttall was incredibly smart, determined, a divorced single mother in a man's world, a great scholar, and an original thinker-yet today she's completely forgotten. Merilee Grindle has dug deep... -
Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World by Margaret MacMillan 9780375760525
RRP: £25.00£17.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Governor General's Literary Award - Nonfiction 2003 and Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction 2002. Nominated for Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction... -
The Center of the World: A Global History of the Persian Gulf from the Stone Age to the Present Allen James Fromherz 9780520398559
RRP: £25.00£18.61This sweeping history reorients our understanding of the Middle East, placing the Gulf at the heart of globalized trade and cross-cultural encounters. World history began in the Persian Gulf. The ancient port cities that dotted its coastlines created... -
Deadly Companions: How microbes shaped our history by Dorothy H. Crawford
RRP: £11.99£8.66Ever 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... -
The Transformation of the World: A Global History of the Nineteenth Century by Jurgen Osterhammel 9780691169804
RRP: £28.00£24.54A monumental history of the nineteenth century, The Transformation of the World offers a panoramic and multifaceted portrait of a world in transition. Jurgen Osterhammel, an eminent scholar who has been called the Braudel of the nineteenth century, moves... -
What is Medieval History? John H. Arnold (Reader in Medieval History, Birkbeck College, University of London) 9781509532568
£16.60Since its first publication in 2007, John H. Arnold's What is Medieval History? has established itself as the leading introduction to the craft of the medieval historian. What is it that medieval historians do? How - and why - do they do it? Arnold... -
Zakhor: Jewish History and Jewish Memory by Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi
RRP: £19.99£17.54"Mr. Yerushalmi's previous writings . . . established him as one of the Jewish community's most important historians. His latest book should establish him as one of its most important critics. Zakhor is historical thinking of a very high order - mature... -
The Other British Isles: A History of Shetland, Orkney, the Hebrides, Isle of Man, Anglesey, Scilly, Isle of Wight and the Channel Islands by David W. Moore 9780786464340
RRP: £21.99£17.97Their names bespeak a rich and varied past, belying their paucity of notice by historians. From the Norse Hjaltland comes the modern Shetland: islands nominally Scottish, steeped in Nordic culture, closer to the Arctic Circle than to London. Important... -
The Decline of the West (Volume 2): Perspectives of World-History by Oswald Spengler 9781628451283
£20.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781628451283Author Oswald SpenglerFormat PaperbackPage Count 554Imprint Windham PressPublisher Windham PressWeight(grams) 975gDimensions(mm) 246mm * 189mm *... -
Money and Promises: Seven Deals that Changed the World by Paolo Zannoni 9781804542804
RRP: £25.00£17.62In the twelfth-century, Pisa was a powerhouse of global trade, a city that stood at the centre of Medieval Europe. But Pisa had a problem. It was running out of coins. In the face of a looming financial crisis, the city's rulers and its moneylenders... -
Technology and War: From 2000 B.C. to the Present by Martin van Creveld 9780029331538
RRP: £15.99£15.23In this impressive work, van Creveld considers man's use of technology over the past 4,000 years and its impact on military organization, weaponary, logistics, intelligence, communications, transportation, and command. This revised paperback edition has... -
1946: The Making of the Modern World by Victor Sebestyen
RRP: £14.99£11.13With the end of the Second World War, a new world was born. The peace agreements that brought the conflict to an end implemented decisions that not only shaped the second half of the twentieth century, but continue to affect our world today and impact on... -
The Living Stream - Holy Wells in Historical Context by James Rattue
RRP: £19.99£17.89A history of holy wells from the pagan cult of water to the Christian wells of the middle ages, and including a full gazetteer. The holy well is the absolute combination of mystery and utility. There are hundreds of them still to be found, some...