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It's All a Bit Heath Robinson: Re-inventing the First World War by Gosling In Association With Mary Evans Picture Library, Lucinda
RRP: £9.99£7.77William Heath Robinson remains one of Britain's best-loved illustrators and has embedded himself into English vernacular, inspiring the phrase 'it's all a bit Heath Robinson' to describe any precarious or unnecessarily complex contraption. Born in... -
Behemoth: A History of the Factory and the Making of the Modern World by Joshua B. Freeman 9780393246315
RRP: £21.99£18.95Factories, with their ingenious machinery and miraculous productivity, are celebrated as modern wonders of the world. Yet from William Blake's "dark Satanic mills" they have also fuelled our fears of the future. Telling the story of the factory, Joshua B... -
Earthopolis: A Biography of Our Urban Planet by Carl H. Nightingale
RRP: £25.00£21.62This is a biography of Earthopolis, the only Urban Planet we know of. It is a history of how cities gave humans immense power over Earth, for good and for ill. Carl Nightingale takes readers on a sweeping six-continent, six-millennia tour of the world's... -
The Cambridge Illustrated History of the Roman World by Greg Woolf 9780521827751
RRP: £49.00£43.31From its mythical foundation in 753 BC to its sack in the fifth century AD, the city of Rome had an impact on the world that it would be hard to overestimate. At its height the empire which it built up stretched from northern Britain to the deserts of... -
The Oxford Handbook of World History by Jerry H. Bentley 9780199686063
£35.00The Oxford Handbook of World History presents thirty-two essays by leading historians in their respective fields. The chapters address the most important issues explored by contemporary world historians. These broadly fall into four categories:... -
Life along the Silk Road: Second Edition by Susan Whitfield 9780520280595
RRP: £25.00£19.59In this long-awaited second edition, Susan Whitfield broadens her exploration of the Silk Road and expands her rich and varied portrait of life along the great pre-modern trade routes of Eurasia. This new edition is comprehensively updated to support... -
A Concise History of Canada by Margaret Conrad
RRP: £22.99£19.44Margaret Conrad's history of Canada explains what makes up this diverse, complex, and often contested nation-state. Beginning in Canada's deep past with the arrival of its Indigenous peoples, she traces its history through the conquest by Europeans, the... -
Women Warriors: An Unexpected History by Pamela D. Toler
RRP: £15.99£11.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807028339Author Pamela D. TolerFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon Press -
The Swerve: How the World Became Modern by Stephen J. Greenblatt
RRP: £23.99£19.85One of the world's most celebrated scholars, Stephen Greenblatt has crafted both an innovative work of history and a thrilling story of discovery, in which one manuscript, plucked from a thousand years of neglect, changed the course of human thought and... -
Faroe-Islander Saga: A New English Translation by Robert K. Painter 9781476663661
RRP: £21.99£17.97This new English translation of the Faroe-Islander Saga (Faereyinga saga)--a great medieval Icelandic saga--tells the story of the first settlers on these wind-swept islands at the edge of the Scandinavian world. Written by an anonymous 13th-century... -
Story of the World, Vol. 3 Revised Edition: History for the Classical Child: Early Modern Times Susan Wise Bauer 9781945841453
RRP: £23.99£20.82Now 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... -
A Concise History of South Africa by Robert Ross 9780521720267
RRP: £22.99£18.03Lays emphasis on the continuing influence of the country's African heritage whilst also chronicling the processes of colonial conquest and of economic development stemming from the industrial revolution. This is followed by an analysis of the fundamental... -
The Non-Aligned Movement and the Cold War: Delhi - Bandung - Belgrade Natasa Miskovic (University of Basel, Switzerland) 9780815373674
RRP: £43.99£38.74The idea of non-alignment and peaceful coexistence was not new when Yugoslavia hosted the Belgrade Summit of the Non-Aligned in September 1961. Freedom activists from the colonies in Asia, Africa, and South America had been discussing such issues for... -
Muslim Sources of the Crusader Period: An Anthology by James E. Lindsay
RRP: £21.99£18.26Drawn from greater Syria, northern Mesopotamia, and Egypt, the sources in this anthology-many of which are translated into English for the first time here--provide eyewitness and contemporary historical accounts of what unfolded in the eastern... -
Jungle: How Tropical Forests Shaped World History by Patrick Roberts
RRP: £10.99£7.33'A bold, ambitious and truly wonderful history of the world' Peter Wohlleben, author of The Hidden Life of Trees'A fascinating story and a crucial revision of the momentous importance of tropical forests to human history' Lewis Dartnell, author of... -
Does Religion do More Harm than Good? by Rupert Shortt
RRP: £10.99£7.99Are the world's major spiritual traditions sources of greater discord than harmony? Or are conflicts widely blamed on faith differences fundamentally social and political? In this succinct but richly reflective book, Rupert Shortt offers even-handed... -
The Crusader States and their Neighbours: A Military History, 1099-1187 by Nicholas Morton 9780198824541
RRP: £95.00£81.65The Crusader States and their Neighbours explores the military history of the Medieval Near East, piecing together the fault-lines of conflict which entangled this much-contested region. This was an area where ethnic, religious, dynastic, and commercial... -
Islamic Gunpowder Empires: Ottomans, Safavids, and Mughals Douglas E. Streusand 9780813313597
RRP: £49.99£43.84Islamic Gunpowder Empires provides readers with a history of Islamic civilization in the early modern world through a comparative examination of Islam's three greatest empires: the Ottomans (centered in what is now Turkey), the Safavids (in modern Iran),... -
The Coming Of Post-Industrial Society by Daniel Bell 9780465097135
£22.77In 1976, Daniel Bell's historical work predicted a vastly different society developing,one that will rely on the economics of information" rather than the economics of goods." Bell argued that the new society would not displace the older one... -
Visions of Empire: How Five Imperial Regimes Shaped the World by Krishan Kumar 9780691192802
RRP: £22.00£18.03What the rulers of empire can teach us about navigating today's increasingly interconnected worldThe empires of the past were far-flung experiments in multinationalism and multiculturalism, and they have much to teach us about navigating our own... -
Post-Imperial Possibilities: Eurasia, Eurafrica, Afroasia by Jane Burbank 9780691250373
RRP: £30.00£23.66A history of three transnational political projects designed to overcome the inequities of imperialismAfter the dissolution of empires, was the nation-state the only way to unite people politically, culturally, and economically? In Post-Imperial... -
Conquering the Electron: The Geniuses, Visionaries, Egomaniacs, and Scoundrels Who Built Our Electronic Age by Derek Cheung 9781493049929
RRP: £14.99£12.10Conquering the Electron offers readers a true and engaging history of the world of electronics, beginning with the discoveries of static electricity and magnetism and ending with the creation of the smartphone and the iPad. This book shows the... -
The Industrial Revolution in World History by Peter N. Stearns
RRP: £47.99£41.81Now in its fifth edition, this book explores the ways in which the industrial revolution reshaped world history, covering the international factors that helped launch the industrial revolution, its global spread and its impact from the end of the... -
The Oxford Handbook of the History of Medicine by Mark Jackson
RRP: £37.49£36.59The Oxford Handbook of the History of Medicine celebrates the richness and variety of medical history around the world. In recent decades, the history of medicine has emerged as a rich and mature sub-discipline within history, but the strength of the... -
World Explained in 250 Infographics by Jan Schwochow
RRP: £49.99£37.32We live in a hyper-connected world and are bombarded with news and other information, via our phones, computers, TVs, and radios. People don't have the time or energy to sift through all the data. That's where infographics come in. While the idea of... -
Frantz Fanon: Toward a Revolutionary Humanism by Christopher J. Lee
RRP: £12.99£11.95Psychiatrist, philosopher, and revolutionary, Frantz Fanon is one of the most important intellectuals of the twentieth century. He presented powerful critiques of racism, colonialism, and nationalism in his classic books, Black Skin, White Masks (1952)... -
Desperate Journeys, Abandoned Souls: True Stories of Castaways and Other Survivors by Edward E. Leslie 9780395911501
£23.12Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780395911501Author Edward E. LeslieFormat PaperbackPage Count 592Imprint Houghton Mifflin (Trade)Publisher Houghton MifflinWeight(grams) 563g -
Prisoner of the Infidels: The Memoir of an Ottoman Muslim in Seventeenth-Century Europe by Osman of Timisoara
RRP: £15.99£12.91Victor Hugo meets Papillon in this effervescent memoir of war, slavery, and self-discovery, told with aplomb and humor in its first English translation. A pioneering work of Ottoman Turkish literature, Prisoner of the Infidels brings the... -
New World Coming: The 1920s And The Making Of Modern America by Nathan Miller 9780306813795
RRP: £15.99£14.91The images of the 1920s have been indelibly imprinted on the American imagination-from jazz, bootleggers, flappers, talkies, the Model T Ford, Babe Ruth, and Charles Lindbergh to the fight for women's right to vote, racial injustice, and the birth of... -
The First Crusade: "The Chronicle of Fulcher of Chartres" and Other Source Materials by Edward Peters
RRP: £27.99£24.52The First Crusade received its name and shape late. To its contemporaries, the event was a journey and the men who took part in it pilgrims. Only later were those participants dubbed Crusaders-"those signed with the Cross." In fact, many developments... -
Known Associate: An Intimate View of Lee Harvey Oswald by Paul R. Gregory
RRP: £26.99£18.27The closest friend of Lee Harvey Oswald and his Soviet wife Marina upon the couple's arrival in Texas breaks a sixty-year silence with a riveting story of his time with JFK's assassin and his candid assessment of the murder that marked a turning point in... -
Socialism Goes Global: The Soviet Union and Eastern Europe in the Age of Decolonisation by James Mark 9780198904113
RRP: £24.99£22.52Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Against the World: Anti-Globalism and Mass Politics Between the World Wars by Tara Zahra
RRP: £27.99£23.26Before the First World War, enthusiasm for a borderless world reached its height. International travel, migration, trade and progressive projects on matters ranging from women's rights to world peace reached a crescendo. Yet in the same breath, an... -
The Medieval Fortress: Castles, Forts, And Walled Cities Of The Middle Ages by H. W. Kaufmann
RRP: £20.00£17.82The great walled castles of the medieval world continue to fascinate the modern world. Today, the remains of medieval forts and walls throughout Europe are popular tourist sites. Unlike many other books on castles, The Medieval Fortress is unique in... -
On the Scale of the World: The Formation of Black Anticolonial Thought by Musab Younis
RRP: £25.00£19.59This expansive history of Black political thought shows us the origins-and the echoes-of anticolonial liberation on a global scale.On the Scale of the World examines the reverberations of anticolonial ideas that spread across the Atlantic between the two... -
Tiny Blunders/Big Disasters: Thirty-Nine Tiny Mistakes That Changed the World Forever (Revised Edition) by Win Blevins 9781735972909
RRP: £17.95£14.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781735972909Author Win BlevinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 458Imprint Jefferson Central PublishingPublisher Jefferson Central PublishingWeight(grams)... -
History and International Relations: From the Ancient World to the 21st Century Howard LeRoy Malchow (Tufts University, USA) 9781350111646
RRP: £29.99£27.06This updated and enhanced second edition of History and International Relations charts the foundations, development and use of International Relations from a historian's perspective. Exploring its engagement with the history of war, peace and foreign... -
The Modern World-System II: Mercantilism and the Consolidation of the European World-Economy, 1600-1750 by Immanuel Wallerstein 9780520267589
RRP: £31.00£24.03Immanuel 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... -
The Hitler Youth: Origins and Development 1922-1945 by H. W. Koch 9780815410843
RRP: £14.99£11.70H. W. Koch, himself a former Hitler Youth brings a unique sensitivity and perspective to the history of one of the most fascinating vehicles for Nazi thought and propaganda. He traces the Hitler Youth movement from its antecedents in nineteenth-century... -
City in History by Lewis Mumford
£19.52Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156180351Author Lewis MumfordFormat HardbackPage Count 784Imprint Harcourt Brace InternationalPublisher Harcourt Brace InternationalWeight(grams)...