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Crusade and Jihad: The Thousand-Year War Between the Muslim World and the Global North by William R. Polk 9780300222906
RRP: €53.55€45.97What really happened in the centuries of conflict between Europe, Russia, China, America, and the peoples of the Muslim world Crusade and Jihad is the first book to encompass, in one volume, the entire history of the catastrophic encounter between the... -
A Thirst for Empire: How Tea Shaped the Modern World by Erika Rappaport 9780691192703
RRP: €26.18€20.66How the global tea industry influenced the international economy and the rise of mass consumerismTea has been one of the most popular commodities in the world. For centuries, profits from its growth and sales funded wars and fueled colonization, and its... -
Invasion!: Operation Sea Lion, 1940 by Martin Marix Evans 9780582772946
RRP: €44.02€43.01This terrifying alternative reality is actually based on historical facts. The book follows the real course of events up to1 September, including the planning in Britain and Germany, and the aerial war. The fictional story then supposes that the Germans... -
Three New Deals by Wolfgang Schivelbusch 9780312427436
RRP: €16.65€13.03FDR's New Deal is today regarded as the democratic ideal, the positive American response to a crisis that forced Germany and Italy toward National Socialism and Fascism.Yet in the 1930s, these regimes were not considered entirely antithetical. In this... -
The Cambridge History of the First World War 3 Volume Paperback Set by Dr Jay Winter 9781316600665
€127.97The Cambridge History of the First World War is a comprehensive, three-volume work which provides an authoritative account of the military, political, social, economic and cultural history of the Great War. Reflecting the very latest research in the... -
Colonizing Kashmir: State-building under Indian Occupation by Hafsa Kanjwal 9781503636033
RRP: €33.31€25.79The Indian government, touted as the world's largest democracy, often repeats that Jammu and Kashmir-its only Muslim-majority state-is "an integral part of India." The region, which is disputed between India and Pakistan, and is considered the world's... -
Abolition: A History of Slavery and Antislavery by Seymour Drescher
RRP: €32.12€27.22In one form or another, slavery has existed throughout the world for millennia. It helped to change the world, and the world transformed the institution. In the 1450s, when Europeans from the small corner of the globe least enmeshed in the institution... -
Caligula: The Mad Emperor of Rome by Stephen Dando-Collins 9781684422869
RRP: €26.17€17.65Explore 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... -
6 Modern Myths About Christianity & Western Civilization by Philip J Sampson 9780830822812
RRP: €32.12€19.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780830822812Author Philip J. SampsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 197Imprint Inter-Varsity Press,USPublisher InterVarsity PressWeight(grams) 249g -
Battles of Coronel and the Falklands, 1914 by Geoffrey Bennett 9781783462797
RRP: €15.46€10.82The defeat that Rear-Admiral Sir Christopher Cradock suffered at Coronel in 1914 at the hands of Maximilian Graf von Spee, one of Germany's most brilliant naval commanders, was the most humiliating blow to British naval prestige since the eighteenth... -
Book of Idols by Ibn Al-Kalbi
RRP: €35.70€27.72Here, in the translation and edition of Nabih A. Faris of the American University at Beirut, is the text of the unique Arabic source on the idols and worship of pagan Arabia. The influence of pagan Arabia on the development of Islam is increasingly... -
England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales: The Christian Church 1900-2000 by Keith Robbins 9780199570317
€55.35Keith Robbins, building on his previous writing on the modern history of the interlocking but distinctive territories of the British Isles, takes a wide-ranging, innovative and challenging look at the twentieth-century history of the main bodies, at once... -
Moving Crops and the Scales of History by Francesca Bray
RRP: €41.65€35.19A bold redefinition of historical inquiry based on the "cropscape"-the people, creatures, technologies, ideas, and places that surround a crop Human efforts to move crops from one place to another have been a key driving force in history. Crops have... -
The Global Infrastructure of the Special Operations Executive by Derwin Gregory 9781032168074
RRP: €47.59€41.72During the Second World War, the British government established the Special Operations Executive (SOE) for the purpose of coordinating 'all action, by way of subversion and sabotage, against the enemy overseas'. Although the overseas operations of this... -
Story of the World, Vol. 3: History for the Classical Child: Early Modern Times (Revised Edition) by Susan Wise Bauer
RRP: €28.55€24.41Now more than ever, our children need to learn about the people who live all around the world. This engaging guide to other lands weaves world history into a storybook format. Designed as a read-aloud project for parents and children to share (or for... -
Wargame: Jacobite '45 by Peter Dennis
RRP: €20.17€17.81Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912174867Author Peter DennisFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
The Global Seven Years War 1754-1763: Britain and France in a Great Power Contest by Daniel Baugh
RRP: €44.02€42.53In this new edition of The Global Seven Years War, Daniel Baugh emphasizes the ways that sea power hindered French military preparations while also furnishing strategic opportunities. Special attention is paid to undertakings - always French - that... -
Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest: Updated Edition by Edwin Erle Sparks Professor Matthew Restall
€26.00An update of a popular work that takes on the myths of the Spanish Conquest of the Americas, featuring a new afterword. Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest reveals how the Spanish invasions in the Americas have been conceived and presented,... -
Imperial Legacies: The British Empire Around the World by Jeremy Black 9781641770385
RRP: €22.60€15.39Britain yesterday; America today. The reality of being top dog is that everybody hates you. In this provocative book, noted historian and commentator Jeremy Black shows how criticisms of the legacy of the British Empire are, in part, criticisms of the... -
The Oxford Illustrated History of Prehistoric Europe by Barry Cunliffe
RRP: €40.45€29.29Edited 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... -
Sourdough Culture: A History of Bread Making from Ancient to Modern Bakers by Eric Pallant
RRP: €24.98€17.36Sourdough bread fueled the labor that built the Egyptian pyramids. The Roman Empire distributed free sourdough loaves to its citizens to maintain political stability. More recently, amidst the Covid-19 pandemic, sourdough bread baking became a global... -
The End of the British Empire: The Historical Debate by John Darwin
RRP: €46.35€40.70Within twenty years of victory in the Second World War Britain had ceased to be a world power and her global empire has dissolved into fragments. With what now seems astonishing rapidity, and empire three centuries old, which had reached its greatest... -
The God That Failed by Richard Crossman
€36.53The God That Failed is a classic work and crucial document of the Cold War that brings together essays by six of the most important writers of the twentieth century on their conversion to and subsequent disillusionment with communism. In describing their... -
Domestic Manners of the Americans by Frances Trollope 9780199676873
RRP: €13.08€9.25'it appeared to me that the greatest and best feelings of the human heart were paralyzed by the relative positions of slave and owner' In Domestic Manners of the Americans, Frances Trollope recounts her travels through America between 1827 and 1830,... -
Alcohol in World History by Gina Hames 9780415311526
RRP: €44.02€38.71From the origins of drinking to the use and abuse of alcohol in the present day, this global historical study draws on approaches and research from biology, anthropology, sociology and psychology. Topics covered include: the impact of colonialism ... -
Voices From the Past: Great quotations for every day of the year and the stories from history that inspired them by W.B. Marsh
RRP: €29.75€20.93366 quotations - one for every day of the (leap) year - each with a fascinating historical storyIn a treasure trove for history buffs, W. B. Marsh fleshes out the context behind famous quotations associated with each day of the year, sending us back and... -
Paper: Paging Through History by Mark Kurlansky 9780393239614
RRP: €26.17€22.55Paper is one of the simplest and most essential pieces of human technology. For the past two millennia, the ability to produce it in ever more efficient ways has supported the proliferation of literacy, media, religion, education, commerce and art. It... -
Creation Stories: Landscapes and the Human Imagination by Anthony Aveni
RRP: €26.78€22.55An accessible exploration of how diverse cultures have explained humanity's origins through narratives about the natural environment Drawing from a vast array of creation myths-Babylonian, Greek, Aztec, Maya, Inca, Chinese, Hindu, Navajo, Polynesian,... -
Military Strategy: A Global History by Jeremy Black
RRP: €14.27€12.08A global account of military strategy, which examines the practices, rather than the theories, of the most significant military figures of the past 400 years Strategy has existed as long as there has been organised conflict. In this ground-breaking... -
Wordy by Simon Schama 9781471180095
RRP: €23.80€15.78'Wordy is about the intoxication of writing; my sense of playful versatility; different voices for different matters: the polemical voice for political columns; the sharp-eyed descriptive take for profiles; poetic precision in grappling with the hard... -
The British Fiscal-Military States, 1660-c.1783 by Aaron Graham
RRP: €47.59€41.72The concept of the 'fiscal-military state', popularised by John Brewer in 1989, has become familiar, even commonplace, to many historians of eighteenth-century England. Yet even at the time of its publication the book caused controversy, and the essays... -
Nations: The Long History and Deep Roots of Political Ethnicity and Nationalism by Azar Gat
RRP: €32.12€26.20What are the origins of nationalism and why is it capable of arousing such intense emotions? In this major study, Azar Gat counters the prevailing fashionable theories according to which nations and nationalism are modern and contrived or 'invented'. He... -
Atrocities: The 100 Deadliest Episodes in Human History by Matthew White 9780393345230
RRP: €47.59€40.40Evangelists of human progress meet their opposite in Matthew White's epic examination of history's one hundred most violent events, or, in White's piquant phrasing, "the numbers that people want to argue about." Reaching back to the Second Persian War in... -
The Oxford Handbook of Cities in World History by Peter Clark 9780198779377
€48.90In 2008 for the first time the majority of the planet's inhabitants lived in cities and towns. Becoming globally urban has been one of mankind's greatest collective achievements over time, and raises many questions. How did global city systems evolve and... -
Cooperative Rule: Community Development in Britain's Late Empire by Aaron Windel
RRP: €35.70€27.72While many have interpreted the cooperative movement as propagating a radical alternative to capitalism, Cooperative Rule shows that in the late British Empire, cooperation became an important part of the armory of colonialism. The system was rooted in... -
Merchant, Soldier, Sage: A New History of Power by David Priestland
RRP: €11.89€8.46From historian David Priestland, this is remarkable book proposes a radical approach to how we see our world and who runs itWe live in an age ruled by merchants. Competition, flexibility and profit are still the common currency, even at a time when... -
There was an Ol A History of the World in 100 Limericks by Mick Twister
RRP: €8.32€5.81There is a young fellow named Mick Who's adapted the old limerick To cover, with mirth The whole history of Earth And what made its characters tick. These 100 lively and humorous limericks take us back to before beginning of time itself and the Big... -
The Story of Work: A New History of Humankind by Jan Lucassen
RRP: €17.84€15.51The first truly global history of work, an upbeat assessment from the age of the hunter-gatherer to the present day "Beginning in the hunting-and-gathering past, this long view of work shows how little has changed over millennia. Progressing through the... -
A Square of Sky: A Jewish Childhood in Wartime Poland by Janina David 9780907871736
RRP: €16.65€10.95At the age of nine Janina David was leading a sheltered life with her prosperous Jewish family in Poland. One year later they were all facing starvation in the Warsaw ghetto. In her memoirs of a wartime childhood Janina David describes the family's... -
The Gravediggers: 1932, The Last Winter of the Weimar Republic by Hauke Friederichs 9781788160728
RRP: €29.75€26.41November 1932. With the German economy in ruins and street battles raging between political factions, the Weimar Republic is in its death throes. Its elderly president Paul von Hindenburg floats above the fray, inscrutably haunting the halls of the...