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My Life by Sir Ahmadu Bello 9780521092685
RRP: £39.99£33.26Alhaji Sir Ahmadu Bello, the Premier of the Northern Region of Nigeria, was thought by many to be the most powerful figure in Nigeria. The descendant of the great reformer, Shehu Usuman dan Fodio, the Sardauna grew up in the atmosphere of the Muslim and... -
World Politics since 1989 Jonathan Holslag (Free University of Brussels) 9781509546725
RRP: £25.00£17.031989 ushered in a new age of freedom and prosperity. Thirty years later, the golden era is over. What went wrong? How did the age of globalization - of growing connectivity, affluence, and growth - give way? Jonathan Holslag navigates through the calm... -
Neville Chamberlain: The Passionate Radical by Walter Reid 9781780276748
RRP: £25.00£23.78Neville Chamberlain is remembered today as Hitler's credulous dupe, the man who proclaimed in September 1938 that the Munich agreement guaranteed 'peace in our time'. This is a magisterial reappraisal of Chamberlain and his legacy. It reveals the... -
Madness and Civilization by Michel Foucault 9780679721109
£12.31Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679721109Author Michel FoucaultFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 232gDimensions(mm) 203mm *... -
The Bhutto Dynasty: The Struggle for Power in Pakistan by Owen Bennett-Jones
RRP: £11.99£10.41A major new investigation into the Bhutto family, examining their influence in Pakistan from the colonial era to the present day "Students of geopolitics and South Asia will find this a valuable book."-Kirkus Reviews "Fluently written, impeccably... -
The Fortunes of Francis Barber: The Story of the Enslaved Jamaican Who Became Samuel Johnson's Heir Michael Bundock 9780300260960
RRP: £11.99£10.41The story of the extraordinary relationship between Francis Barber, a former slave, and Samuel Johnson, England's most distinguished man of letters"A remarkable work of detection, a biography of a black Briton from the eighteenth century that brings to... -
Global Intellectual History by Samuel Moyn 9780231160490
RRP: £25.00£19.59Where do ideas fit into historical accounts that take an expansive, global view of human movements and events? Teaching scholars of intellectual history to incorporate transnational perspectives into their work, while also recommending how to confront... -
World History of Warfare by Christon I. Archer 9780803244238
£59.21World History of Warfare is designed as a textbook for introductory college courses in military history. The text covers worldwide military history from ancient times to the present. Its principal theme is an exploration of change and continuity,... -
Sunrise at Abadan: The British and Soviet Invasion of Iran, 1941 by Richard A. Stewart 9780275927936
£65.93Sunrise at Abadan, portraying the dramatic events leading to the United States' deep involvement in Iran, sets the historic stage for the current crisis in the Persian Gulf region. It rapidly traces the ebb ad flow of Anglo-Russian rivalry over Persia... -
Making Global Society: A Study of Humankind Across Three Eras by Barry Buzan 9781009372183
RRP: £26.99£22.80Barry Buzan proposes a new approach to making International Relations a truly global discipline that transcends both Eurocentrism and comparative civilisations. He narrates the story of humankind as a whole across three eras, using its material... -
The Great Escape: Health, Wealth, and the Origins of Inequality by Angus Deaton
RRP: £35.00£28.35The world is a better place than it used to be. People are healthier, wealthier, and live longer. Yet the escapes from destitution by so many has left gaping inequalities between people and nations. In The Great Escape, Angus Deaton--one of the foremost... -
Shattered Sword: The Untold Story of the Battle of Midway by Jon Parshall 9781574889246
RRP: £27.99£22.96Many consider the Battle of Midway to have turned the tide of the Pacific War. It is without question one of the most famous battles in history. Now, for the first time since Gordon W. Prange's bestselling Miracle at Midway, Jonathan Parshall and Anthony... -
Empire of Guns: The Violent Making of the Industrial Revolution by Priya Satia 9780715653050
RRP: £16.99£12.07Winner of the Jerry Bentley Prize in World History (American Historical Association). Award-winning historian Priya Satia presents a new history of the Industrial Revolution that positions war and the gun trade squarely at the heart of the rapid... -
History for the IB Diploma Paper 2 Authoritarian States (20th Century) by Allan Todd 9781107558892
£34.00Comprehensive second editions of History for the IB Diploma Paper 2, revised for first teaching in 2015. This coursebook covers Paper 2, World History Topic 10: Authoritarian States (20th century) of the History for the IB Diploma syllabus for first... -
From Plato to NATO: The Idea of the West and Its Opponents by David Gress 9780743264884
RRP: £24.99£23.48An in-depth intellectual history of the Western idea and a passionate defense of its importance to America's future, "From Plato to NATO" is the first book to make sense of the legacy of the West at a time when it is facing its greatest... -
Isis in the Ancient World by Reginald Eldred Witt 9780801856426
RRP: £27.50£24.12Worship of the Egyptian goddess Isis dates as far back as 2500 B.C. and extended at least until the fifth century A.D. throughout the Roman world. The importance of her cult is attested to in Apuleius's Golden Ass, and evidence of its influence has been... -
Britain's Declining Empire: The Road to Decolonisation, 1918-1968 by Ronald Hyam
RRP: £30.99£26.83An authoritative political history of one of the world's most important empires on the road to decolonisation. Ronald Hyam's 2007 book offers a major reassessment of the end of empire which combines a study of British policymaking with case studies on... -
Archery in Medieval England: Who Were the Bowmen of Crecy? by Richard Wadge
RRP: £18.99£14.32How was it that ordinary men in medieval England and Wales became such skilled archers that they defeated noble knights in battle after battle? The archer in medieval England became a forerunner of John Bull as a symbol of the spirit of the ordinary... -
The Cold War's Killing Fields: Rethinking the Long Peace by Paul Thomas Chamberlin
RRP: £13.99£9.19A brilliant young historian offers a vital, comprehensive international military history of the Cold War in which he views the decade-long superpower struggles as one of the three great conflicts of the twentieth century alongside the two World Wars, and... -
Can Art History be Made Global?: Meditations from the Periphery Monica Juneja 9783110716290
RRP: £44.50£40.28The book responds to the challenge of the global turn in the humanities from the perspective of art history. A global art history, it argues, need not follow the logic of economic globalization nor seek to bring the entire world into its fold. Instead,... -
A World History of Political Thought J. Babb 9781786435545
RRP: £30.95£28.83A World History of Political Thought is an outstanding and innovative work with profound significance for the study of the history of political thought, providing a wide-ranging, detailed and global overview of political thought from 600 BC to the 21st... -
Empires of the Weak: The Real Story of European Expansion and the Creation of the New World Order by Jason Sharman
RRP: £35.00£27.95How the rise of the West was a temporary exception to the predominant world orderWhat accounts for the rise of the state, the creation of the first global system, and the dominance of the West? The conventional answer asserts that superior technology,... -
The Creators by Daniel J. Boorstin 9780679743750
RRP: £21.00£16.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679743750Author Daniel J. BoorstinFormat PaperbackPage Count 832Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 675gDimensions(mm) 203mm... -
The Evolution of Useful Things: How Everyday Artefacts - from Forks and Pins to Paperclips and Zippers - Came to be as They are by Henry Petroski 9780679740391
£10.33Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679740391Author Henry PetroskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 266gDimensions(mm) 202mm *... -
Palaces of Pleasure: From Music Halls to the Seaside to Football, How the Victorians Invented Mass Entertainment by Lee Jackson
RRP: £22.50£19.35An energetic and exhilarating account of the Victorian entertainment industry, its extraordinary success and enduring impact The Victorians invented mass entertainment. As the nineteenth century's growing industrialized class acquired the funds and the... -
Terrorist's Creed: Fanatical Violence and the Human Need for Meaning by Roger Griffin 9780230241299
£35.61Terrorist's Creed casts a penetrating beam of empathetic understanding into the disturbing and murky psychological world of fanatical violence, explaining how the fanaticism it demands stems from the profoundly human need to imbue existence with meaning... -
Dangerous Ideas: A Brief History of Censorship in the West, from the Ancients to Fake News by Eric Berkowitz 9781908906427
RRP: £20.00£13.95The urge to censor is as old as the urge to speak. From the first Chinese emperor's wholesale elimination of books to the Vatican's suppression of pornography from its own collection, and on to the attack on Charlie Hebdo and the advent of Internet troll... -
The Origins of the First World War William Mulligan (University College Dublin) 9781316612354
RRP: £25.99£22.85A second edition of this leading introduction to the origins of the First World War and the pre-war international system. William Mulligan shows how the war was a far from inevitable outcome of international politics in the early twentieth century and... -
The Causes of the First World War: The Long Blame Game Annika Mombauer 9780815347941
RRP: £35.99£31.69More than a hundred years after it began, the question of the origins of World War I remains contested. Based on Mombauer's The Origins of the First World War (2002), this thoroughly revised and expanded volume surveys the long debate, taking the... -
The Modern World-System I: Capitalist Agriculture and the Origins of the European World-Economy in the Sixteenth Century by Immanuel Wallerstein 9780520267572
RRP: £31.00£24.43Immanuel Wallerstein's highly influential, multi-volume opus, "The Modern World-System", is one of this century's greatest works of social science. An innovative, panoramic reinterpretation of global history, it traces the emergence and development of... -
Out of Our Minds: What We Think and How We Came to Think It by Felipe Fernandez-Armesto 9781786077851
RRP: £12.99£8.41'Immensely learned and ambitious...seam-bursting eclecticism and polymathic brio... This is by any standards a significant book and its author deserves high praise.' Literary Review To imagine - to see that which is not there - is the... -
Guru to the World: The Life and Legacy of Vivekananda by Ruth Harris
RRP: £33.95£27.62From the Wolfson History Prize-winning author of The Man on Devil's Island, the definitive biography of Vivekananda, the Indian monk who shaped the intellectual and spiritual history of both East and West.Few thinkers have had so enduring an impact on... -
The Gladiator: The Secret History Of Rome's Warrior Slaves by Alan Baker 9780306811852
£14.50Condemned and yet feared by emperors, almost certain to be slaughtered and yet adored by the masses, the gladiator was the superstar of his day. His existence was invariably short and violent, improved only faintly by the prospect of honor, wealth, and... -
World War II Battle by Battle by Nikolai Bogdanovic
RRP: £7.99£5.98This compact gift book takes thirty of World War II's most significant clashes, both the famous and the lesser known, and presents their stories in a concise, easy to digest format, accompanied by beautiful Osprey artwork plates in full colour that... -
Dressed in Time: A World View by Margaret Maynard
RRP: £21.99£19.58Through object-based case studies of garments from the ancient past through to the 21st century, Margaret Maynard reveals the countless ways the temporal is woven into our attire. From the physical effects of age on garments to their changing cultural... -
A Bittersweet Heritage: Slavery, Architecture and the British Landscape by Victoria Perry
RRP: £25.00£22.38The 2020 toppling of slave-trader Edward Colston's statue by Black Lives Matter protesters in Bristol was a dramatic reminder of Britain's role in trans-Atlantic slavery, too often overlooked. Yet the legacy of that predatory economy reaches far beyond... -
A World Safe for Democracy: Liberal Internationalism and the Crises of Global Order by G. John Ikenberry 9780300271010
RRP: £16.99£14.61A sweeping account of the rise and evolution of liberal internationalism in the modern era, selected as a Best Book of 2021 by Foreign Affairs "A thoughtful and profound defence of liberal internationalism-both as a political philosophy and as a guide... -
Ghosts: A Haunted History by Lisa Morton
£13.03In the history of the numinous there are few things more common than the belief in ghosts. From the earliest writings such as the Epic of Gilgamesh to today's ghost-hunting reality TV shows, ghosts have chilled the air of nearly every era and every... -
Fools are Everywhere: The Court Jester Around the World by Beatrice K. Otto 9780226640921
£32.80In this lively work, Beatrice K. Otto takes us around the world in search of one of the most colorful characters in history - the court jester. These quick-witted, quirky characters crop up everywhere, from the courts of ancient China and Mughal India to... -
Henry Dunant: The Man of the Red Cross by Michelle Bailat-Jones
RRP: £25.00£19.18"Timely and significant." Church Times A pioneer of humanitarianism and founder of the International Red Cross, Henry Dunant was many things over his lifetime. A devout Christian and social activist, an ambitious but failed businessman, a humanitarian...