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Lineages of Modernity: A History of Humanity from the Stone Age to Homo Americanus Emmanuel Todd 9781509534470
RRP: £30.00£27.25In most developed countries there is a palpable sense of confusion about the contemporary state of the world. Much that was taken for granted a decade or two ago is being questioned, and there is a widespread urge to try and understand how we reached our... -
Days That Changed the World: The 50 Defining Events of World History by Hywel Williams 9780857383396 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99£2.65The currents of History run deep and often unseen beneath the everyday ripple of events. But now and again the current rises to the surface, and the events of a single day shed an exceptional light on the meaning of the past. Such events are the subject... -
Days That Changed the World: The 50 Defining Events of World History by Hywel Williams
RRP: £12.99£8.83The currents of History run deep and often unseen beneath the everyday ripple of events. But now and again the current rises to the surface, and the events of a single day shed an exceptional light on the meaning of the past. Such events are the subject... -
Sacred Causes by Michael Burleigh 9780060580964
RRP: £12.99£11.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060580964Author Michael BurleighFormat PaperbackPage Count 557Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 481g -
The Venture of Islam: Conscience and History in a World Civilization: v. 3: The Gunpowder Empires and Modern Times by Marshall G. S. Hodgson 9780226346854
RRP: £37.00£36.17The Venture of Islam has been honored as a magisterial work of the mind since its publication in early 1975. In this three-volume study, illustrated with charts and maps, Hodgson traces and interprets the historical development of Islamic civilization... -
Selected Poems and Songs by Robert Burns
RRP: £8.99£6.65'The Poetic Genius of my Country...bade me sing the loves, the joys, the rural scenes and rural pleasures of my natal Soil, in my native tongue.' Many of the poems and songs of Robert Burns (1759-96) are familiar to readers the world over: lyrical,... -
Asia after Europe: Imagining a Continent in the Long Twentieth Century by Sugata Bose 9780674423497
RRP: £29.95£24.43A concise new history of a century of struggles to define Asian identity and express alternatives to European forms of universalism.The balance of global power changed profoundly over the course of the twentieth century, above all with the economic and... -
Dilemmas of the Desert War: The Libyan Campaign 1940-1942 by Field Marshal Lord Carver 9781862271531 [USED COPY]
RRP: £14.99£2.26In this text, Field Marshal Lord Carver has used newly available first-hand historical resources to reassess the story of the British campaign in the North African desert. History shows that several key figures in these battles were wrongly criticised... -
The Jew in the Medieval World: A Sourcebook, 315-1791 by Jacob R. Marcus
£25.42To gain an accurate view of medieval Judaism, one must look through the eyes of Jews and their contemporaries. First published in 1938, Jacob Rader Marcus's classic source book on medieval Judaism provides the documents and historical narratives which... -
The Naked Shore: Of the North Sea Tom Blass 9781408834039
RRP: £12.99£9.34Saturnine and quick-tempered, the formidable North Sea is often overlooked - even by those living within a stone's throw of its steel-grey waters. But as playground, theatre of war and cultural crossing-point, it has shaped the world in myriad ways,... -
Memories of Middlesbrough by Tosh Warwick 9781913375157
£17.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913375157Author Tosh WarwickFormat PaperbackPage Count 102Imprint Heritage UnlockedPublisher Print My Book -
The Landmark Thucydides: A Comprehensive Guide to the Peloponnesian War by Robert B. Strassler 9780684827902
£22.72Thucydides called his account of two decades of war between Athens and Sparta "a possession for all time," and indeed it is the first and still the most famous work in the Western historical tradition.Considered essential reading for generals, statesmen,... -
The Art of Innovation: From Enlightenment to Dark Matter, as featured on Radio 4 by Ian Blatchford
RRP: £25.00£18.30Based on the landmark Radio 4 series, this beautifully illustrated modern history of the connections between science and art offers a new perspective on what that relationship has contributed to the world around us. __________ ... -
Star Stories: Constellations and People by Anthony Aveni
RRP: £25.00£20.92Follow an epic animal race, a quest for a disembodied hand, and an emu egg hunt in constellation stories from diverse cultures "Aveni skillfully guides us around the awesome night sky through the imagination of different peoples around the world, past... -
The Great Ocean: Pacific Worlds from Captain Cook to the Gold Rush by David Igler
RRP: £31.99£22.91The Pacific of the early eighteenth century was not a single ocean but a vast and varied waterscape, a place of baffling complexity, with 25,000 islands and seemingly endless continental shorelines. But with the voyages of Captain James Cook, global... -
The Darker Nations: A People's History of the Third World by Vijay Prashad
RRP: £14.99£13.44The landmark alternative history of the Cold War from the perspective of the Global South, reissued in paperback with a new introduction by the authorIn this award-winning investigation into the overlooked history of the Third World-with a new preface by... -
Crucible: The Long End of the Great War and the Birth of a New World, 1917-1924 Charles Emmerson 9781847923967
RRP: £25.00£23.14'A REMARKABLE BOOK... AN AMAZINGLY AUDACIOUS AND COMPLETELY INNOVATIVE WAY OF WRITING HISTORY... IMMEDIATE AND GRIPPING' - WILLIAM BOYD In Petrograd a fire is lit. The Tsar is packed off to the Urals. A rancorous Russian exile crosses war-torn Europe to... -
Religions of Rome: Volume 2: A Sourcebook by Mary Beard 9780521456463
RRP: £34.99£31.34Volume two reveals the extraordinary diversity of ancient Roman religion. A comprehensive sourcebook, it presents a wide range of documents illustrating religious life in the Roman world - from the foundations of the city in the eighth century BC to the... -
The Psychopathic God: Adolph Hitler by Robert Waite 9780306805141
£27.84The Psychopathic God is the definitive psychological portrait of Adolph Hitler. By documenting accounts of his behaviour, beliefs, tastes, fears, and compulsions, Robert Waite sheds new light on this complex figure. But Waite's ultimate aim is to... -
Frozen Hell by William Trotter 9781565122499
RRP: £16.99£11.22Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781565122499Author William R TrotterFormat PaperbackPage Count 285Imprint Workman PublishingPublisher Workman Publishing -
The Second World War David Horner 9781472833938
RRP: £30.00£22.89Bringing together the work of nine leading historians, and superbly illustrated with contemporary photography and colour maps, The Second World War gives readers a comprehensive understanding of all aspects of history's greatest conflict. The period... -
Battles of Coronel and the Falklands, 1914 by Geoffrey Bennett 9781783462797
RRP: £12.99£9.34The 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... -
Invisible Armies: An Epic History of Guerrilla Warfare from Ancient Times to the Present Max Boot 9780871406880
RRP: £17.99£16.02Invisible Armies presents an entirely original narrative of warfare, which demonstrates that, far from the exception, loosely organized partisan or guerrilla warfare has been the dominant form of military conflict throughout history. New York Times... -
Islamic Civilization in Thirty Lives: The First 1000 Years by Chase F. Robinson
RRP: £12.99£8.83The religious thinkers, political leaders, law-makers, writers and philosophers of the early Muslim world helped to shape the 1,400-year-long development of today's secondlargest world religion. But who were these people? What do we know of their lives,... -
Bhishma Nirvana: An Astronomy Poison Pill by Nilesh Nilkanth Oak 9780983034414
RRP: £13.86£12.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780983034414Author Nilesh Nilkanth OakFormat PaperbackPage Count 226Imprint Bhima, LLCPublisher Bhima, LLCWeight(grams) 308g -
Power and Greed: A Short History of the World by Philippe Gigantes 9781841196893 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99£1.78This lively and fascinating book by a professor of history deals with human greed and power and how these determine world events. Gigantes takes the reader on a hair-raising journey through time, introducing on the one hand the great rule makers for just... -
Power and Greed: A Short History of the World by Philippe Gigantes 9781841196893
£10.47This lively and fascinating book by a professor of history deals with human greed and power and how these determine world events. Gigantes takes the reader on a hair-raising journey through time, introducing on the one hand the great rule makers for just... -
This Mortal Coil: The Human Body in History and Culture by Fay Bound Alberti 9780199599035
RRP: £22.99£17.09To many people the idea that 'the body' has its own history might sound faintly ridiculous. The body and its experiences are usually seen as something that we share with people from the past. Like 'human nature', it represents the unchanging in a... -
In The Devil's Snare by Mary Beth Norton
RRP: £15.99£12.67Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Ambassador Book Award 2003.Book InformationISBN 9780375706905Author Mary Beth NortonFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA... -
Builders of Empire: Freemasons and British Imperialism, 1717-1927 by Jessica Harland-Jacobs
£52.19They built some of the first communal structures on the empire's frontiers. The empire's most powerful proconsuls sought entrance into their lodges. Their public rituals drew dense crowds from Montreal to Madras. The Ancient Free and Accepted Masons were... -
A Little History of Archaeology by Brian Fagan
RRP: £10.99£9.46A "learned and lively" (Wall Street Journal) history of archaeological adventure-with tales of danger, debate, audacious explorers, and astonishing discoveries around the globe-for readers of all ages What is archaeology? The word may bring to mind... -
The Story of Work: A New History of Humankind by Jan Lucassen
RRP: £14.99£13.03The 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... -
Empire's Son, Empire's Orphan: The Fantastical Lives of Ikbal and Idries Shah Nile Green 9781324002413
RRP: £22.00£18.84Claiming to come from Afghanistan, Ikbal and Idries Shah convinced spies, poets, orientalists, diplomats, occultists, hippies and even a prime minister that they held the keys to understanding the Muslim world. Gambling with the currency of cultural... -
Germany in the World: A Global History, 1500-2000 by David Blackbourn
RRP: £40.00£30.88With Germany in the World, award-winning historian David Blackbourn radically revises conventional narratives of German history, demonstrating the existence of a distinctly German presence in the world centuries before its unification-and revealing a... -
The Quest: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World by Daniel Yergin
RRP: £23.00£15.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of 800-CEO-READ Business Book Award.Book InformationISBN 9780143121947Author Daniel YerginFormat PaperbackPage Count 864Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam... -
Ashen Sky - The Letters of Pliny the Younger on the Eruption of Vesuvius . Pliny 9780892369003
RRP: £16.99£14.61Pliny the Younger (C61-112AD) was a Roman official and writer. He has become famous for his two letters to the historian Tacitus, which detail his eye-witness account of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79AD which took the life of his uncle, Pliny the... -
The Accidental President by A. J. Baime
RRP: £12.99£9.34Heroes are often defined as ordinary characters who find themselves facing extraordinary circumstances and, through courage and a dash of luck, cement their place in history. Chosen as President Roosevelt's fourth term Vice President for his admired... -
The Buddha and the Sahibs Charles Allen 9780719554285
RRP: £10.99£7.61Today there are many Buddhists in the West, but for 2000 years the Buddha's teachings were unknown outside Asia. It was not until the late 18th century, when Sir William Oriental Jones, a British judge in India, broke through the Brahmin's prohibition on... -
The Confidence Trap: A History of Democracy in Crisis from World War I to the Present - Revised Edition by David Runciman 9780691178134
RRP: £12.99£10.41Why do democracies keep lurching from success to failure? The current financial crisis is just the latest example of how things continue to go wrong, just when it looked like they were going right. In this wide-ranging, original, and compelling book,... -
Sourdough Culture: A History of Bread Making from Ancient to Modern Bakers by Eric Pallant
RRP: £20.99£14.59Sourdough 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...