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The Transition from Feudalism to Capitalism by R. H. Hilton
£17.16The debate on the transition from feudalism to capitalism, originally published in Science and Society in the early 1950s, is one of the most famous episodes in the development of Marxist historiography since the war. It ranged such distinguished... -
The Collapse of Globalism by John Ralston Saul
RRP: £10.99£7.32Globalization is dead. Nation states are resurgent, international trade has enriched the few rather than the promised many, and democratic values are on the retreat. The shining-eyed optimism of more open, more equal societies has given way to... -
Voices of Early Modern Japan: Contemporary Accounts of Daily Life During the Age of the Shoguns by Constantine Vaporis
RRP: £36.99£32.93In this newly revised and updated 2nd edition of Voices of Early Modern Japan, Constantine Nomikos Vaporis offers an accessible collection of annotated historical documents of an extraordinary period in Japanese history, ranging from the unification of... -
A History of Japan, 1615-1867 by George Sansom 9780804705271
RRP: £24.99£21.67This is the concluding volume of a three-volume work that culminates the life study of the West's most distinguished scholar of Japanese history. A straightforward narrative of the development of Japanese civilization to 1867, the three volumes... -
Courting India: England, Mughal India and the Origins of Empire by Nandini Das 9781526615657
RRP: £16.99£13.60WINNER OF THE BRITISH ACADEMY BOOK PRIZE A SPECTATOR, WATERSTONES, BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE, PROSPECT AND HISTORY TODAY BOOK OF THE YEAR A profound and ground-breaking new history of one of the most important encounters in the history of colonialism: the... -
Past Mistakes: How We Misinterpret History and Why it Matters by David Mountain 9781785786624 [USED COPY]
RRP: £16.99£4.46'A welcome ally in the fight against fake history' Eleanor Janega, author of The Middle AgesFrom the fall of Rome to the rise of the Wild West, David Mountain brings colour and perspective to historical mythmaking.The stories we tell about our past... -
Past Mistakes: How We Misinterpret History and Why it Matters by David Mountain
RRP: £16.99£11.58'A welcome ally in the fight against fake history' Eleanor Janega, author of The Middle AgesFrom the fall of Rome to the rise of the Wild West, David Mountain brings colour and perspective to historical mythmaking.The stories we tell about our past... -
Punishment in World History by Peter N. Stearns 9781032546766
RRP: £35.99£31.69This book focuses on major changes in punishment patterns during the principal phases of world history, tracing continuities, reforms, and regional differences.Punishment in World History studies the official penalties enacted by governments throughout... -
Empires by Michael W. Doyle
RRP: £29.99£26.90Although empires have shaped the political development of virtually all the states of the modern world, "imperialism" has not figured largely in the mainstream of scholarly literature. This book seeks to account for the imperial phenomenon and to... -
Auschwitz And The Allies by Martin Gilbert 9780712668064
RRP: £25.00£17.62When Hitler announced that the result of the war in Europe would be 'the complete annihilation of the Jews', he did so in 1942, not only in public, but before an enormous crowd in Berlin. The Allies heard, but, astonishingly, they did not listen. In... -
Ideology of Death: Why the Holocaust Happened in Germany by John Weiss 9781566631747
RRP: £12.99£10.01Despite all the thousands of studies of the Holocaust and the rise of Nazi Germany, we still have no satisfactory explanation of why this tragedy occurred in one of the most "civilized" of Western nations. John Weiss's Ideology of Death is the first book... -
Evita: The Real Life of Eva Peron by Nicholas Fraser
RRP: £12.99£10.05The story begins in a dusty village lost in the Argentine pampas, where a girl, born out of wedlock, scrambles her way to the capital city by the time she is fifteen. It ends with the embalmed corpse of Eva Peron being hidden away by nervous politicians... -
The Return of the Guilds: Volume 16 by Tine de Moor 9780521737654
RRP: £31.99£29.16New approaches in economic, social, labour and institutional history have re-examined guilds - not least within the framework of a re-appraisal of the classic distinction between the 'capitalist' and 'pre-capitalist' modes of production. These fresh... -
Planet Palm: How Palm Oil Ended Up in Everything-and Endangered the World by Jocelyn C. Zuckerman 9781787383784
RRP: £20.00£18.24It's in our instant noodles and chocolate bars, our lipsticks and fuel tanks. But what even is palm oil, and how has it come to dominate our lives so completely? Jocelyn C. Zuckerman travels across four continents and back two centuries to find answers... -
History in Progress: Pupil Book 2 (1603-1901) by Nichola Boughey 9780435318949
£26.87Exciting and engaging material supports key themes from the new Programme of Study. Differentiated, colour-coded tasks offer well-structured progression to motivate every pupil. A clear focus on chronology and a greater balance of British, European and... -
12 Rounds in Lo's Gym: Boxing and Manhood in Appalachia by Todd D. Snyder 9781946684127
RRP: £26.95£18.69Questions of class and gender in Appalachia have, in the wake of the 2016 presidential election and the runaway success of Hillbilly Elegy, moved to the forefront of national conversations about politics and culture. From Todd Snyder, a first generation... -
Penicillin: Triumph and Tragedy by Robert Bud 9780199541614
RRP: £45.49£35.64Penicillin is the drug of the twentieth century. It was the first of the antibiotics that, for decades after the Second World War, underpinned a popular belief that infectious disease had at last met its match. With the emergence of 'superbugs' in recent... -
Human Capital: A History of Putting Refugees to Work by Laura Robson 9781804290217
RRP: £25.00£20.30Historian Laura Robson unveils the dark heart of our purportedly humanitarian international regime. Tracing the century-long history of attempts to remake refugees into disposable migrant labor, Robson elucidates global humanitarianism's deep-seated... -
Over the Edge of the World, Updated Edition: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe by Laurence Bergreen 9780062890481
RRP: £19.99£12.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062890481Author Laurence BergreenFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)... -
Britannia: 100 Documents that Shaped a Nation by Graham Stewart 9781843549987
RRP: £25.00£17.59In Britannia Graham Stewart traces two thousand years of an island's story - from Roman province to twenty-first century European nation-state - through one hundred historic documents. From the eighth-century Lindisfarne Gospels to the great testament of... -
James Connolly: Socialist, Nationalist and Internationalist by Liam McNulty
RRP: £25.00£22.03Is the voice of James Connolly, silenced by a British bullet in 1916, coming back? This book offers a measured consideration of Connolly, alive to his continuing political relevance. It seeks to explain Connolly's political development in dialogue... -
Palestine and the Arab-Israeli Conflict: A History with Documents by Charles D. Smith
£40.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781319115746Author Charles D. SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 640Imprint Bedford/Saint Martin'sPublisher Macmillan LearningWeight(grams) 735gDimensions(mm)... -
Rebellions and Revolutions: China from the 1880s to 2000 by Jack Gray 9780198700692
RRP: £41.99£38.78Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
366 Days: Compelling Stories from World History by Scott Allsop 9780995680913
RRP: £12.99£11.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995680913Author Scott AllsopFormat PaperbackPage Count 418Imprint L & E BooksPublisher L & E Books -
Crime, Justice and Discretion in England 1740-1820 by Peter King 9780199259076
£77.00The criminal law has often been seen as central to the rule of the eighteenth-century landed elite in England. This book presents a detailed analysis of the judicial processs - of victims' reactions, pretrial practices, policing, magistrates hearings,... -
A Brief History of the Late Ottoman Empire by M. Sukru Hanioglu
RRP: £28.00£24.41At the turn of the nineteenth century, the Ottoman Empire straddled three continents and encompassed extraordinary ethnic and cultural diversity among the estimated thirty million people living within its borders. It was perhaps the most cosmopolitan... -
Empires of the Weak: The Real Story of European Expansion and the Creation of the New World Order by Jason Sharman
RRP: £35.00£27.74How 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,... -
Capitalisms: Towards a Global History by Dr Kaveh Yazdani 9780199499717
RRP: £56.00£50.59This book tries to decenter work on the history of capitalism by looking at the longue duree from the tenth century; at regions as diverse as Song China, South and South East Asia, Latin America and the Ottoman and Safavid Empires; and exploring the... -
Secret War Jews by John Loftus 9780312156480
RRP: £28.99£16.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312156480Author John LoftusFormat PaperbackPage Count 658Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 934g -
A Shocking History Of Bristol: Swindles, Scandals And Skulduggery by Derek Robinson 9781914345203
RRP: £12.00£8.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914345203Author Derek RobinsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint Tangent BooksPublisher Tangent BooksWeight(grams) 250gDimensions(mm) 215mm * 140mm *... -
The Third Wave: Democratization in the Late Twentieth Century by Samuel P. Huntington
£34.78Between 1974 and 1990 more than thirty countries in southern Europe, Latin America, East Asia, and Eastern Europe shifted from authoritarian to democratic systems of government. This global democratic revolution is probably the most important political... -
Inside the Kremlin's Cold War: From Stalin to Krushchev by Vladislav Zubok 9780674455320
RRP: £29.95£24.06Covering the volatile period from 1945 to 1962, Vladislav Zubok and Constantine Pleshakov explore the personalities and motivations of the key people who directed Soviet political life and shaped Soviet foreign policy. They begin with the fearsome figure... -
The Bretton Woods Agreements: Together with Scholarly Commentaries and Essential Historical Documents by Naomi Lamoreaux
RRP: £22.50£22.08Commentaries by top scholars alongside the most important documents and speeches concerning the Bretton Woods Conference of 1944 The two world wars brought an end to a long-standing system of international commerce based on the gold standard. After the... -
The Victoria History of the County of Huntingdon - Volume III by William Page 9780712906159
RRP: £75.00£74.33Boydell & Brewer are pleased to announce that as from 1 December 2001 they will be distributing the Victoria County History, which has an international reputation as a work of reference for English local history. Begun in 1899, the publication of about... -
Memories of the 'Sixties' Then and Now by Winston Ramsey 9781870067140
RRP: £14.95£12.48What is it that typifies the decade of the 1960s? Looking back, those of us who are old enough to have experienced those years will have their own special memories as to how that era changed our lives. The 'Sixties was a revolution of sorts; on the one... -
Make It Modern: A History of Art in the 20th Century by Brandon Taylor
RRP: £35.00£29.57A fascinating journey through Western art from the 1910s to the 1960s, charting how artists wrestled with the headlong changes of a turbulent and conflict-ridden world From the chaos of the First World War to the ravages of the Second, from the Great... -
History, Memory and Public Life: The Past in the Present by Anna Maerker 9781138905849
RRP: £36.99£32.53History, Memory and Public Life introduces readers to key themes in the study of historical memory and its significance by considering the role of historical expertise and understanding in contemporary public reflection on the past.Divided into two... -
Fake Heritage: Why We Rebuild Monuments by John Darlington
RRP: £27.50£22.89The first survey of the many redesigned and imitation historical landmarks and objects that dot the globe"John Darlington shows . . . it is not just written history that is malleable; it is also history on the ground, heritage in brick and stone, wood... -
An Afterlife for the Khan: Muslims, Buddhists, and Sacred Kingship in Mongol Iran and Eurasia by Dr. Jonathan Z. Brack
RRP: £80.00£61.89In the Mongol Empire, the interfaith court provided a contested arena for a performance of the Mongol ruler's sacred kingship, and the debate was fiercely ideological and religious. At the court of the newly established Ilkhanate, Muslim administrators,... -
A History of the English-Speaking Peoples since 1900 by Andrew Roberts
RRP: £16.99£11.94'Roberts boldly dons Churchill's own mantle, setting out to continue where Churchill's four volumes left off, which was in 1901. The mantle fits ... an advocate of Churchillian eloquence' Mail on Sunday Andrew Roberts, Wolfson History prize-winner,...