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Western Civilization: Volume A: To 1500 by Jackson J. Spielvogel 9781285436586
£101.85Best-selling WESTERN CIVILIZATION has helped more than one million users learn about the present by exploring the past. Jackson Spielvogel's engaging, chronological narrative weaves the political, economic, social, religious, intellectual, cultural, and... -
Sources of the Western Tradition Volume I: From Ancient Times to the Enlightenment by Marvin Perry 9781337397605
RRP: £79.99£58.60Take a seat on the front lines of the past, and experience history and the evolution of Western thought from the perspectives of everyday citizens, prominent public figures, celebrated authors and philosophers, and more. This collection of over 400... -
World History: A Concise Thematic Analysis, Volume One by Steven Wallech 9781118532669
RRP: £29.95£28.21World History: A Concise Thematic Analysis presents the highly anticipated second edition of the most affordable and accessible survey of world history designed for use at the college level. * An engaging narrative that contextualizes history and does... -
World History in Documents: A Comparative Reader by Peter N. Stearns 9780814740477
£90.88While world history materials date back to prehistoric times, the field itself is relatively young. Indeed, when the first edition of Peter Stearns's best-selling World History in Documents was published in 1998, world history was poised for explosive... -
Handbook of Geographical Nicknames by Harold S. Sharp 9780810841611
RRP: £46.00£40.02New in Paper! Can you identify the "Bride of the Adriatic"?, the "Home of Bock Beer"?, the "Eye of Greece"?, the "Home of the Great Bed"?, the "Sick Man of Europe"? These nicknames and many... -
Devising Liberty: Preserving and Creating Freedom in the New American Republic by David Thomas Konig 9780804741934
RRP: £27.99£12.79The nine chapters in this book focus on the various constitutional problems surrounding the need to provide simultaneously a sufficient degree of union and public authority to guarantee defense and order, and a sufficient degree of individual liberty to... -
The Most Intriguing Story Ever Told: A Summary of Scientific Studies About How We Got Here by Henry F. Firsching 9780761821915
RRP: £46.00£40.02In The Most Intriguing Story Ever Told, F. Henry Firsching tells the story of how we got here, based on a variety of scientific disciplines. Answering age-old questions with realistic answers, Firsching begins with the formation of the universe and... -
The Dutch Diaspora: The Netherlands and Its Settlements in Africa, Asia, and the Americas by Howard J. Wiarda 9780739121047
RRP: £98.00£85.01The Dutch Diaspora is a comprehensive and personal study of the former colonial empire of the Netherlands. The Netherlands is considered one of the most successful societies and at one point was the world's largest empire-stretching from Japan to the... -
Cultures in Motion by Daniel T. Rodgers 9780691176178
RRP: £28.00£24.96In the wide-ranging and innovative essays of Cultures in Motion, a dozen distinguished historians offer new conceptual vocabularies for understanding how cultures have trespassed across geography and social space. From the transformations of the meanings... -
Women at the Beginning: Origin Myths from the Amazons to the Virgin Mary by Patrick J. Geary 9780691171463
RRP: £25.00£22.43In these four artfully crafted essays, Patrick Geary explores the way ancient and medieval authors wrote about women. Geary describes the often marginal role women played in origin legends from antiquity until the twelfth century. Not confining himself... -
Sources of the Western Tradition, Volume 2 by Marvin Perry 9780495913214
£77.59With a collection of over 350 sources, each accompanied by an introductory essay and review questions, this two-volume primary source reader emphasizes the intellectual history and values of the Western tradition. Sources are grouped around important... -
Ireland's Farthest Shores: Mobility, Migration, and Settlement in the Pacific World by Malcolm Campbell 9780299334208
£80.04Irish people have had a long and complex engagement with the lands and waters encompassing the Pacific world. As the European presence in the Pacific intensified from the late eighteenth century, the Irish entered this oceanic space as beachcombers,... -
Born Translated: The Contemporary Novel in an Age of World Literature by Rebecca L. Walkowitz 9780231165945
£42.45As a growing number of contemporary novelists write for publication in multiple languages, the genre's form and aims are shifting. Born-translated novels include passages that appear to be written in different tongues, narrators who speak to foreign... -
Camera Historica: The Century in Cinema Antoine de Baecque 9780231156516
RRP: £35.00£33.43Antoine de Baecque proposes a new historiography of cinema, exploring film as a visual archive of the twentieth century, as well as history's imprint on the cinematic image. Whether portraying events that occurred in the past or stories unfolding before... -
The Value of Money by Prabhat Patnaik 9780231146760
RRP: £55.00£42.91Why is money more valuable than the paper on which it is printed? Monetarists link the value of money to its supply and demand, believing the latter depends on the total value of the commodities it circulates. According to Prabhat Patnaik, this logic is... -
The Cold War in the Third World by Robert J. McMahon 9780199768684
£118.55THE COLD WAR IN THE THIRD WORLD explores the complex interrelationships between the Soviet-American struggle for global preeminence and the rise of the Third World. Those two distinct but overlapping phenomena placed a powerful stamp on world history... -
Genocide: A World History by Norman M. Naimark 9780199765270
RRP: £95.00£77.71Genocide occurs in every time period and on every continent. Using the 1948 U.N. definition of genocide as its departure point, this book examines the main episodes in the history of genocide from the beginning of human history to the present. Norman M... -
Crosscurrents: Atlantic and Pacific Migration in the Making of a Global America by Professor Reed Ueda 9780199757442
£60.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780199757442Author Professor Reed UedaFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint Oxford University Press, USAPublisher Oxford University Press, USAWeight(grams)... -
Assimilation and Empire: Uniformity in French and British Colonies, 1541-1954 by Saliha Belmessous 9780199579167
£77.21Assimilation was an ideology central to European expansion and colonisation, an ideology which legitimised colonisation for centuries. Assimilation and Empire shows that the aspiration for assimilation was not only driven by materialistic reasons, but... -
Modern France: 1880-2002 by James McMillan 9780198700586
£53.28The concluding volume in the "Short Oxford History of France" series captures the essence of the huge transformations that have taken place in France since the late 19th century. In a set of thematic chapters drawing on recent research, a... -
The Indian Ocean in World History by Edward A. Alpers 9780195165937
RRP: £100.00£82.13The Indian Ocean remains the least studied of the world's geographic regions. Yet there have been major cultural exchanges across its waters and around its shores from the third millennium B.C.E. to the present day. Historian Edward A. Alpers explores... -
The Atlantic in World History by Karen Ordahl Kupperman 9780195160741
RRP: £100.00£82.13As the Atlantic Ocean was transformed from a terrifying barrier into a highway uniting four continents, the lives of people all around the ocean were transformed. After 1492 merchants and political leaders around the Atlantic refocused their attention... -
The History of the World: From the Earliest Times to the Present Day by Frank Welsh 9780857384768
RRP: £40.00£28.5510000 - 500 BC: The river civilizations; Danube; Mesopotamia; Indus; Early empires; China to the Zhou; Egypt; Mycenae and Knossos. 500 BC - 1000 AD: An Axial Age?; Plato; Ezra; Buddha; Confucius; The glory that was Greece; Alexander and his successors;... -
Primary Sources in World History: Wealth, Power, and Inequality Prehistory to 1500 by James Farr 9781538174357
RRP: £18.99£16.78This 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... -
Andre Du Ryer and Oriental Studies in Seventeenth-Century France by Alastair Hamilton 9780197144022
£66.88Andre Du Ryer was French vice-consul in Egypt from 1623 to 1626, and both as adviser and interpreter to the French ambassador in Istanbul and ambassador extraordinary of the sultan to France in the early 1630s, he assembled a fine collection of Turkish,... -
Culture and Values: A Survey of the Humanities, International Edition by John Reich 9781133951223
£88.69CULTURE AND VALUES: A SURVEY OF THE HUMANITIES, International Edition takes you on a fascinating tour of some of the world's most significant examples of art, music, philosophy, and literature, from the beginnings of civilization to today. New features... -
Western Civilization, Brief Complete, International Edition by Marvin Perry 9781111837228
£71.54WESTERN CIVILIZATION: A BRIEF HISTORY, International Edition, maintains a firm grounding in political history, while covering intellectual history (particularly the significance of ideas and contributions) to a greater and deeper extent than any other... -
Western Civilization: Ideas, Politics, and Society, Volume II: From 1600 by Marvin Perry 9781111831714
£94.78WESTERN CIVILIZATION, Tenth Edition, maintains a firm grounding in political history, while covering intellectual history (particularly the significance of ideas and contributions) to greater and deeper extent than any other text for the course. Known... -
Words of Intelligence: A Dictionary by Jan Goldman 9780810856417
RRP: £43.00£37.48Words of Intelligence: A Dictionary is intended for the intelligence and national security men and women who are fighting the Global War on Terrorism at all levels: local, state, and federal. The intelligence community has undergone massive changes since... -
Perilous Passage: Mankind and the Global Ascendancy of Capital by Amiya Kumar Bagchi 9780742539211
RRP: £48.00£42.45For the appendixes mentioned in the book, Click Here. In this innovative and ambitious global history, distinguished economic historian Amiya Kumar Bagchi critically analyzes the processes leading to the rise of the West since the sixteenth century to... -
The Dutch Diaspora: The Netherlands and Its Settlements in Africa, Asia, and the Americas by Howard J. Wiarda 9780739121054
RRP: £42.00£36.64The Dutch Diaspora is a comprehensive and personal study of the former colonial empire of the Netherlands. The Netherlands is considered one of the most successful societies and at one point was the world's largest empire_stretching from Japan to the... -
The Rise of Historical Writing Among the Arabs by Professor Lawrence I. Conrad 9780691640877
£82.99This is the first translation of a classic work (Bahth fi nnsh' at 'ilm al ta' rikh 'inda l-'Arab) by the eminent Arab historian A. A. Duri. Published in Beirut in 1960, Duri's book was the first comprehensive effort to trace the origins and early... -
Replenishing the Earth: The Settler Revolution and the Rise of the Angloworld by James Belich 9780199297276
RRP: £100.00£60.75Why does so much of the world speak English? Replenishing the Earth gives a new answer to that question, uncovering a 'settler revolution' that took place from the early nineteenth century that led to the explosive settlement of the American West and its... -
Fifty Years of Prosopography: The Later Roman Empire, Byzantium and Beyond by Averil Cameron 9780197262924
£50.47This book presents the first interdisciplinary discussion by leading international historians of the important methodological tool known as prosopography - the collection of all known information about individuals within a given period. With the advent... -
British Atlantic, American Frontier by Stephen J. Hornsby 9781584654278
£35.45Reflecting the growing scholarly interest in transnational and comparative approaches to studying the past, British Atlantic, American Frontier offers a geographical perspective on the development of British America in the seventeenth and eighteenth... -
Dawn Over Suez: The Rise of American Power in the Middle East, 1953-1957 by Steven Z. Freiberger 9781566636810
RRP: £14.99£11.53The most definitive account of the Suez affair to date, based on newly opened archives. Mr. Freiberger argues that the crisis was only the culmination of long American irritation with British imperialism in the Middle East. Commendable...this book breaks... -
Notions of Neutralities by Pascal Lottaz 9781498582261
RRP: £109.00£95.57Neutrality serves different purposes during times of war and peace. 'Notions of Neutralities' portrays those historical challenges that neutrals faced, and are still facing, to maintain some form of economic stability and political order as chaos and... -
Charity in Jewish, Christian, and Islamic Traditions by Julia R. Lieberman 9781498560856
RRP: £99.00£86.27This collection of essays by a team of international scholars addresses the topic of Charity through the lenses of the three Abrahamic religions: Judaism, Christianity and Islam. The contributors look for common paradigms in the ways the three faiths... -
Sources of the Western Tradition Volume II: From the Renaissance to the Present by Marvin Perry 9781337397612
£80.21Take a seat on the front lines of the past, and experience history and the evolution of Western thought from the perspectives of everyday citizens, prominent public figures, celebrated authors and philosophers, and more. This collection of over 400... -
Sources for World in the Making: Volume 2: Since 1300 by Bonnie G Smith 9780190849344
RRP: £32.99£29.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780190849344Author Bonnie G SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Oxford University Press, USAPublisher Oxford University Press, USAWeight(grams) 458g