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Indochina's Refugees: Oral Histories from Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam by Joanna Catherine Scott 9780786467402
RRP: £21.99£17.97This poignant collection of oral histories tells the stories of nine Laotians, four Cambodians and nine Vietnamese: what their lives were like before 1975, what happened after the Communist takeover that made them decide to flee their native countries,... -
Hmong and American: Stories of Transition to a Strange Land by Sue Murphy Mote 9780786418329
RRP: £21.99£18.55The Hmong were driven out of Laos by the turmoil of the Vietnam War and settled in America in such large numbers that they are now the second largest Southeast Asian population in the United States. Twelve Hmong immigrants, including a female shaman, an... -
Democracy: A World History by Temma Kaplan 9780195338089
RRP: £27.99£20.76At a moment when the term "Democracy " is evoked to express inchoate aspirations for peace and social change or particular governmental systems that may or may not benefit more than a select minority of the population, this book examines... -
The Origins of the Modern World: A Global and Environmental Narrative from the Fifteenth to the Twenty-First Century by Robert B. Marks 9781538182765
RRP: £76.00£66.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781538182765Author Robert B. MarksFormat HardbackPage Count 277Imprint Rowman & LittlefieldPublisher Rowman & Littlefield -
The Dreyfus Affair and the Rise of the French Public Intellectual by Tom Conner 9780786478620
RRP: £39.99£32.77By now the basic facts of the Dreyfus Affair are known and beyond dispute. This book condenses a century or more of scholarship but adds significant new knowledge about some of the main figures in the Affair, as well as Dreyfus's heroic struggle for... -
A Medieval Administrative and Fiscal Treatise from the Yemen: The Rasulid Mulakhkhas al-Fitan of al-Hasan B. Ali al-Husayni by Professor G. Rex Smith 9780199219483
RRP: £20.00£18.81The importance of the text which is used as the basis of this book was first recognized in the 1950s by both Claude Cahen and R.B. Serjeant. By good fortune, their individual research efforts were brought together by a mutual friend and colleague and... -
Transactions of the Royal Historical Society: Volume 19: Sixth Series by Ian W. Archer 9780521194020
RRP: £44.99£40.58The Transactions of the Royal Historical Society publish an annual collection of major articles representing some of the best historical research by some of the world's most distinguished historians. Volume 19 includes the following articles:... -
The Gun, the Ship, and the Pen: Warfare, Constitutions, and the Making of the Modern World by Linda Colley 9780871403162
RRP: £28.00£23.56Filling a crucial void in our understanding of world history, Linda Colley reconfigures the rise of the modern world over three centuries through the advent of written constitutions. Her absorbing work challenges accepted narratives, focusing on rulers... -
The Human Journey: A Concise Introduction to World History by Kevin Reilly 9781442213852
RRP: £32.95£29.21The Human Journey offers a truly concise yet satisfyingly full history of the world from ancient times to the present. Its themes include not only the great questions of the humanities-nature versus nurture, the history and meaning of human variation,... -
The Human Journey: A Concise Introduction to World History by Kevin Reilly 9781442213531
RRP: £47.95£42.42The Human Journey offers a truly concise yet satisfyingly full history of the world from ancient times to the present. Its themes include not only the great questions of the humanities-nature versus nurture, the history and meaning of human variation,... -
Historical Dictionary of the Cold War by Joseph Smith 9780810837096
RRP: £75.00£65.90Joseph Smith and Simon Davis have captured the essence and madness of the "balance of terror" of the Cold War in the Historical Dictionary of the Cold War. Covering an extensive period and much of the globe, this dictionary presents a... -
Transactions of the Royal Historical Society: Volume 9: Sixth Series by Royal Historical Society 9780521772860
RRP: £44.99£40.98The Transactions of the Royal Historical Society offers readers an annual collection of major articles representing some of the best historical research by some of the world's most distinguished historians. Also available as a journal, volume nine of the... -
The Labour of Loss: Mourning, Memory and Wartime Bereavement in Australia by Joy Damousi 9780521660044
RRP: £86.00£70.08The Labour of Loss, first published in 1999, explores how mothers, fathers, widows, relatives and friends dealt with their experiences of grief and loss during and after the First and Second World Wars. Based on an examination of private loss through... -
Pitcairn Island, the Bounty Mutineers and Their Descendants: A History by Robert W. Kirk 9780786493845
RRP: £21.99£17.97The infamous Bounty mutiny of 1790 culminated in nine mutineers taking up residence on the small Pitcairn Island in the South Pacific. Rivalry over Polynesian women soon led to homicidal strife and, by 1808, when American sealing vessel Topaz stopped... -
Amazing History by Publications International Ltd. 9781645583677
RRP: £9.98£7.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781645583677Author Publications International Ltd.Format PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Publications International, Ltd.Publisher Publications... -
Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues by Jonathan Kennedy 9780593240496
RRP: £13.78£12.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593240496Author Jonathan KennedyFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Crown Publishing Group, Division of Random House IncPublisher Random House USA... -
Miraculous Milestones in Science, Medicine & Innovation- And the Faith of Those Who Achieved Them by William J Federer 9780989649193
RRP: £20.00£13.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780989649193Author William J FedererFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint Amerisearch, Inc.Publisher Amerisearch, Inc.Weight(grams) 386gDimensions(mm) 221mm... -
Yearbook of Transnational History: (2024) by Thomas Adam 9781683934110
RRP: £85.00£74.51Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781683934110Author Thomas AdamFormat HardbackPage Count 262Imprint Fairleigh Dickinson University PressPublisher Fairleigh Dickinson University Press -
Not on the Map: The Peculiar Histories of De Facto States by Michael J. Seth 9781793632548
RRP: £30.00£26.47This book analyzes how de facto states—including Nagorno Karabakh, Abkhazia, South Ossetia, Transnistria, Kosovo, the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic, Somaliland, and Taiwan—have developed without recognition of... -
To Explain It All: Everything You Wanted to Know about the Popularity of World History Today by Chris Edwards 9781475855906
RRP: £55.00£47.65World history is not a subject; it is all the subjects. Because of this, world history as a discipline has never fit well with the traditional definition of historical research. H.G. Wells wrote the first true book of world history in 1920 and only a few... -
To Explain It All: Everything You Wanted to Know about the Popularity of World History Today by Chris Edwards 9781475855913
RRP: £30.00£26.47World history is not a subject; it is all the subjects. Because of this, world history as a discipline has never fit well with the traditional definition of historical research. H.G. Wells wrote the first true book of world history in 1920 and only a few... -
Primary Sources in World History: Wealth, Power, and Inequality by James Farr 9781538174333
RRP: £38.00£33.51This two-volume collection of primary documents covers societies across different geographical regions during the last 5,000 years. While chronologically and geographically comprehensive in scope, this reader will focus on a central theme: the unequal... -
Not on the Map: The Peculiar Histories of De Facto States by Michael J. Seth 9781793632524
RRP: £85.00£74.51This book analyzes how de facto states-including Nagorno Karabakh, Abkhazia, South Ossetia, Transnistria, Kosovo, the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic, Somaliland, and Taiwan-have developed without recognition of... -
Turnen around the World by Annette R. Hofmann 9781666950489
RRP: £85.00£74.91Turnen around the World represents an international effort by an assemblage of prominent sport historians to detail and assess the worldwide scope, effects, and residual influences of the German Turnen movement over the course of the nineteenth and... -
Ground Zero Narratives: Islam and Muslims in Post-9/11 American Narratives and Arab American Counter-Narratives by Mubarak Altwaiji 9781666935639
RRP: £73.00£64.18Ground Zero Narratives: Islam and Muslims in Post-9/11 American Narratives and Arab American Counter-Narratives presents a dissection of American narratives to understand how 9/11 stories reflect both geopolitical relations and conflicts of our... -
Extreme Survivors: 60 Incredible True Tales of Shipwrecks, Escapes, Endurance, Adventure, and Survival by Times Books 9781616085216
RRP: £24.95£18.90Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781616085216Author Times BooksFormat HardbackPage Count 264Imprint Skyhorse PublishingPublisher Skyhorse PublishingWeight(grams) 1043g -
Children of Monsters: An Inquiry into the Sons and Daughters of Dictators by Jay Nordlinger 9781594038150
RRP: £18.99£17.62What's it like to be the son or daughter of a dictator? A monster on the Stalin level? What's it like to bear a name synonymous with oppression, terror, and evil? Jay Nordlinger set out to answer that question, and does so in this book. He surveys 20... -
The Human Journey: A Concise Introduction to World History, 1450 to the Present by Kevin Reilly 9781538105610
RRP: £47.00£41.20The Human Journey offers a truly concise yet satisfyingly full history of the world from ancient times to the present. The book's scope, as the title implies, is the whole story of humanity, in planetary context. Its themes include not only the great... -
To Have and Have Not: Energy in World History by Brian C. Black 9781538105030
RRP: £30.00£26.87This important book tells the sweeping story of energy, tracing patterns of energy use in human history. Contextualizing global history through the lens of the Anthropocene, Brian Black traces the eras of industrialization, concluding with our current... -
Human Rights in Translation: Intercultural Pathways by Michal Jan Rozbicki 9781498581417
RRP: £95.00£82.85This volume reflects on what happens when the idea and practice of universal human rights cross the cultural borders between different communities of knowledge. Although such rights are usually presumed to be founded on certain globally shared beliefs,... -
The Vienna Summit and Its Importance in International History by Gunter Bischof 9781498524865
RRP: £64.00£55.67At the beginning of June 1961, the tensions of the Cold War were supposed to abate as both sides sought a resolution. The two most important men in the world, John F. Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev, met for a summit in Vienna. Yet the high hopes were... -
Hegemonic War and Grand Strategy: Ludwig Dehio, World History, and the American Future by Aaron M. Zack 9781498523097
RRP: £90.00£78.18Ludwig Dehio advances a theory of the historical dynamic of the modern European state system (1494-1945) and its hegemonic wars. After explaining Dehio's thoughts about why none of the European Powers were successful in their attempts to conquer the... -
Is the West in Decline?: Historical, Military, and Economic Perspectives by Benjamin M. Rowland 9781498518529
RRP: £98.00£85.01Is the West in Decline? is a collection of ten essays by prominent scholars of international relations and current history, many of them associated with the European Studies program of the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. The... -
The World Cup as World History by William D. Bowman 9781442267183
RRP: £80.00£70.20The World Cup as World History uses football's premier event to analyze modern sports and world history. William D. Bowman traces the history of a tournament that has become a global phenomenon that generates intense political, economic, and cultural... -
Western Civilization: A Brief History, Volume I by Marvin Perry 9781305091597
£61.29WESTERN CIVILIZATION: A BRIEF HISTORY, Eleventh Edition, offers a concise introduction to political, cultural, and intellectual history. Easy to read and updated with recent scholarship, the Eleventh Edition retains many popular features, including... -
Western Civilization, A Brief History by Marvin Perry 9781305091467
£67.97WESTERN CIVILIZATION: A BRIEF HISTORY, Eleventh Edition, offers a concise introduction to political, cultural, and intellectual history. Easy to read and updated with recent scholarship, the Eleventh Edition retains many popular features, including... -
Western Civilization: Ideas, Politics, and Society, Volume II: From 1600 by Marvin Perry 9781305091429
£90.73WESTERN CIVILIZATION: IDEAS, POLITICS, AND SOCIETY, Eleventh Edition, offers an in-depth introduction to political, cultural, and intellectual history. Readers appreciate the book's accessible writing style as well as its brevity, clarity, and careful... -
Cengage Advantage Books: World History, Volume II by William J. Duiker 9781305091733
£98.81Developed to meet the demand for a low-cost, high-quality history book, this economically priced version of WORLD HISTORY, 8th Edition offers readers the complete narrative with only the most essential features, photos, and maps. From the dawn of... -
World History, Volume II: Since 1500 by Jackson Spielvogel 9781337401067
£117.51From the dawn of civilization to the modern dilemmas of nation building in Africa and the Middle East, WORLD HISTORY takes a fascinating look at the common challenges and experiences that unite the human past and inform the future. Authors William J... -
The Earth and Its Peoples, Brief Volume II: Since 1500: A Global History by Richard Bulliet 9781285445533
£72.76Readable and concise, this Brief Edition of THE EARTH AND ITS PEOPLES: A GLOBAL HISTORY provides the essential narrative of world history in an abbreviated format. This global world history book employs fundamental themes of "environment and...