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Access to History for the IB Diploma: The move to global war by Andy Dailey
RRP: £28.00£26.47A new book for Paper 1, Prescribed Subject 3: The Move to Global WarThe renowned IB Diploma History series, combining compelling narratives with academic rigor.An authoritative and engaging narrative, with the widest variety of sources at this level,... -
Spitfire on My Tail: A View from the Other Side by Ulrich Steinhilper 9781872836003
RRP: £19.95£14.88Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781872836003Author Ulrich SteinhilperFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Independent BooksPublisher Independent Books -
The Gothic History of Jordanes by Jordanes 9780999140185
£15.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999140185Author JordanesFormat PaperbackPage Count 290Imprint Sophron EditorPublisher Sophron EditorWeight(grams) 336g -
The Execution of the Hangman of Riga: The Only Execution of a Nazi War Criminal by the Mossad by Anton Kuenzle
RRP: £16.95£16.72Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853035251Author Anton KuenzleFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdPublisher Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdWeight(grams)... -
Modern Politics CLR James 9781604863116
RRP: £15.99£11.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781604863116Author CLR JamesFormat PaperbackPage Count 172Imprint PM PressPublisher PM PressWeight(grams) 177g -
The New Book of Snobs: A Definitive Guide to Modern Snobbery D.J. Taylor 9781472123930
RRP: £9.99£6.15'Hugely enjoyable' AN Wilson, Sunday Times'Thoughtful, entertaining and enjoyable' Michael Gove, Book of the Week, The TimesInspired by William Makepeace Thackeray, the first great analyst of snobbery, and his trail-blazing The Book of Snobs (1848), D. J... -
Unfabling the East: The Enlightenment's Encounter with Asia by Jurgen Osterhammel 9780691172729
RRP: £30.00£24.66How Enlightenment Europe rediscovered its identity by measuring itself against the great civilizations of AsiaDuring the long eighteenth century, Europe's travelers, scholars, and intellectuals looked to Asia in a spirit of puzzlement, irony, and... -
The Book: A Global History by Michael F. Suarez
RRP: £44.99£33.62A concise edition of the highly acclaimed Oxford Companion to the Book, this book features the 51 articles from the Companion plus 3 brand new chapters in one affordable volume. The 54 chapters introduce readers to the fascinating world of book history... -
Arabs in History by Bernard Lewis
RRP: £14.99£11.22`Whoever lives in our country, speaks our language, is brought up in our culture and takes pride in our glory is one of us.' Thus ran a declaration of modern leaders of Arab states. But what exactly is an Arab, and what has been their place in the course... -
Access to History for the IB Diploma: The Cold War: Superpower tensions and rivalries Second Edition by David Williamson
RRP: £28.00£27.53A new book for Paper 2, World History Topic 12: The Cold War: Superpower Tensions and Rivalries (20th Century)Readable and rigorous coverage that gives you the depth of knowledge and skills development required for the Diploma. Provides:- Reliable,... -
Brain Games - Amazing History Word Search: Find Hundreds of Unbelievable Facts and Incredible Events by Publications International Ltd
RRP: £12.98£11.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781645585602Author Publications International LtdPage Count 192Imprint Publications International, Ltd.Publisher Publications International, Ltd... -
Before Borders: A Legal and Literary History of Naturalization by Stephanie DeGooyer
RRP: £29.00£26.29An ambitious revisionist history of naturalization as a creative mechanism for national expansion.Before borders determined who belonged in a country and who did not, lawyers and judges devised a legal fiction called naturalization to bypass the idea of... -
Why Did Europe Conquer the World? by Philip T. Hoffman
RRP: £17.99£14.60Between 1492 and 1914, Europeans conquered 84 percent of the globe. But why did Europe establish global dominance, when for centuries the Chinese, Japanese, Ottomans, and South Asians were far more advanced? In Why Did Europe Conquer the World?, Philip... -
366: More Great Stories from History for Every Day of the Year by W.B. Marsh 9781848310056 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99£2.29This is the unputdownable sequel to 365 - highly addictive, with bite-size chunks of history. Jan 16, 1920: Prohibition is born. Feb 14, 270: St Valentine's martyrdom gives birth to a romantic tradition. Jul 5, 1946: The bikini swimsuit makes its debut... -
Settler Garrison: Debt Imperialism, Militarism, and Transpacific Imaginaries by Jodi Kim
RRP: £21.99£19.19In Settler Garrison Jodi Kim theorizes how the United States extends its sovereignty across Asia and the Pacific in the post-World War II era through a militarist settler imperialism that is leveraged on debt as a manifold economic and cultural relation... -
Secret Societies by Nick Harding 9780857301260
RRP: £8.99£3.05Secret Societies in one form or another have existed throughout the history of human culture. But what is their appeal? What is it that makes so-called respectable people indulge in peculiar ceremonies, dressed in fanciful costumes uttering... -
Red Hamlet: The Life and Ideas of Alexander Bogdanov James D. White 9781642590487
RRP: £40.00£27.54In the first full-length biography of Alexander Bogdanov, James D. White traces the intellectual development of this key socialist thinker, situating his ideas in the context of the Russian revolutionary movement. This sweeping and informative volume... -
Hollow Earth: The Long and Curious History of Imagining Strange Lands, Fantastical Creatures, Advanced Civilizations, and Marvelous Machines Below the Earth's Surface by David Standish
RRP: £15.99£13.33Beliefs in mysterious underworlds are as old as humanity. But the idea that the earth has a hollow interior was first proposed as a scientific theory in 1691 by Sir Edmond Halley (of comet fame), who suggested that there might be life down there as well... -
Access to History for the IB Diploma: Causes and effects of 20th-century wars Second Edition Kenneth A Dailey 9781471841347
£32.99A new edition for Paper 2, World History Topic 11: Causes and effects of 20th century warsThe renowned IB Diploma History series, combining compelling narratives with academic rigor.An authoritative and engaging narrative, with the widest variety of... -
The Family: A World History by Mary Jo Maynes 9780195304763
RRP: £100.00£82.13This book addresses the question of what world history looks like when the family is at the center of the story. People have always lived in families, but what that means has varied dramatically over time and across cultures. The family is not a... -
The Making of the Modern Refugee by Peter Gatrell
RRP: £34.49£31.57The Making of the Modern Refugee is a comprehensive history of global population displacement in the twentieth century. It takes a new approach to the subject, exploring its causes, consequences, and meanings. History, the author shows, provides... -
The Gunpowder Age: China, Military Innovation, and the Rise of the West in World History by Tonio Andrade 9780691178141
RRP: £22.00£18.03The Chinese invented gunpowder and began exploring its military uses as early as the 900s, four centuries before the technology passed to the West. But by the early 1800s, China had fallen so far behind the West in gunpowder warfare that it was easily... -
Empires of Ancient Eurasia: The First Silk Roads Era, 100 BCE - 250 CE by Craig Benjamin
RRP: £24.99£19.99The Silk Roads are the symbol of the interconnectedness of ancient Eurasian civilizations. Using challenging land and maritime routes, merchants and adventurers, diplomats and missionaries, sailors and soldiers, and camels, horses and ships, carried... -
My Rise And Fall by Benito Mussolini 9780306808647
RRP: £28.99£21.45Here, for the first time in one volume, are two rare autobiographical works by Benito Mussolini (1883-1945), founder of Fascism and Italian dictator for twenty-one years. The first volume (published in English in 1928 as My Autobiography ) describes... -
The Timetables of History: A Horizontal Linkage of People and Events by Bernard Grun
RRP: £40.00£32.52Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780743270038Author Bernard GrunFormat PaperbackPage Count 848Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 1973gDimensions(mm) 277mm *... -
Brazil by Joel Wolfe 9781509547760
RRP: £12.99£12.11Brazil has long been an enigma to outsiders. Over the last two decades alone, Latin America's largest and most populous country has been celebrated as a vibrant new democracy with a powerful economy, and derided as a nation in complete disarray heading... -
Ukraine: Birth of a Modern Nation by Serhy Yekelchyk 9780195305463
£27.75In 2004 and 2005, striking images from the Ukraine made their way around the world, among them boisterous, orange-clad crowds protesting electoral fraud and the hideously scarred face of a poisoned opposition candidate. Europe's second-largest country... -
A Brief History of the Age of Steam by Thomas Crump
RRP: £12.99£3.05In 1710 an obscure Devon ironmonger Thomas Newcomen invented a machine with a pump driven by coal, used to extract water from mines. Over the next two hundred years the steam engine would be at the heart of the industrial revolution that changed the... -
The Berbers: The Peoples of Africa Michael Brett (School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London) 9780631207672
RRP: £42.95£37.86The Berbers provides a comprehensive overview of the history of the Berber-speaking peoples.About the AuthorMichael Brett is Lecturer in African History at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London University. Elizabeth Fentress was formerly a... -
The Voice of War: The Second World War Told by Those Who Fought It by Guy Walters 9780141012674 [USED COPY]
RRP: £17.99£2.29The Second World War was the first truly global conflict and sixty years on its consequences continue to shape the modern world. Season by season The Voice of War charts the course of the central event of the twentieth century using the diaries, letters... -
Wanderers, Kings, Merchants: The Story of India through Its Languages by Ms Peggy Mohan 9780670093687
RRP: £19.99£13.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780670093687Author Peggy MohanFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint PenguinPublisher Penguin Random House IndiaDimensions(mm) 220mm * 140mm * 30mm -
A History of the Twentieth Century: The Concise Edition of the Acclaimed World History by Sir Martin Gilbert 9780060505943
RRP: £25.99£19.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060505943Author Fellow Martin GilbertFormat PaperbackPage Count 832Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 880gDimensions(mm)... -
A Marxist History of the World: From Neanderthals to Neoliberals by Neil Faulkner
RRP: £26.99£17.86This magisterial analysis of human history - from 'Lucy', the first hominid, to the current Great Recession - combines the insights of earlier generations of Marxist historians with radical new ideas about the historical process. Reading history... -
Illuminati3: Satanic Possession -- There is Only One Conspiracy by Henry Makow
£17.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780991821129Author Henry MakowFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Silas GreenPublisher Silas GreenWeight(grams) 500g -
Climate Change and International History: Negotiating Science, Global Change, and Environmental Justice by Ruth A. Morgan 9781350240124
£24.49Exploring how climate change has configured the international arena since the 1950s, this book reveals the ways that climate change emerged and evolved as an international problem, and how states, scientists and non-governmental organizations have... -
The Freemasons: A History of the World's Most Powerful Secret Society by Jasper Ridley 9781611450101
RRP: £16.99£12.47Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781611450101Author Jasper RidleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Arcade PublishingPublisher Skyhorse PublishingWeight(grams) 425gDimensions(mm) 229mm *... -
The European Miracle: Environments, Economies and Geopolitics in the History of Europe and Asia by Eric Jones
RRP: £26.99£22.80Why did modern states and economies develop first in the peripheral and late-coming culture of Europe? This historical puzzle looms behind every study of industrialization and economic development. In this analytical and comparative work Eric Jones sees... -
Queer City: Gay London from the Romans to the Present Day by Peter Ackroyd 9781419730993
RRP: £26.00£16.11In Queer City, the acclaimed Peter Ackroyd looks at London in a whole new way-through the complete history and experiences of its gay and lesbian population. In Roman Londinium, the city was dotted with lupanaria ("wolf dens" or public pleasure houses),... -
Missions and Empire by Norman Etherington 9780199253487
RRP: £55.00£44.42The explosive expansion of Christianity in Africa and Asia during the last two centuries constitutes one of the most remarkable cultural transformations in the history of mankind. Because it coincided with the spread of European economic and political... -
Atlantic History: A Critical Appraisal by Jack D. Greene 9780195320343
RRP: £30.49£19.99Sorry no description is available for this book at this time.