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Why Did the Heavens Not Darken?: The "Final Solution" in History by Arno J. Mayer
$82.07Was the extermination of the Jews part of the Nazi plan from the very start? Arno Mayer offers astartling and compelling answer to this question, which is much debated among historians today.In doing so, he provides one of the most thorough and... -
The Two Princes of Calabar: An Eighteenth-Century Atlantic Odyssey by Randy J. Sparks
RRP: $44.00$35.45In 1767, two "princes" of a ruling family in the port of Old Calabar, on the slave coast of Africa, were ambushed and captured by English slavers. The princes, Little Ephraim Robin John and Ancona Robin Robin John, were themselves slave traders who were... -
Why Europe Will Run the 21st Century by Mark Leonard 9781586484248
$28.48Those who believe Europe is weak, ineffectual and sclerotic are wrong. Europe might look frail and feeble against American military might, but that expression of power is shallow and narrow. Or so says Mark Leonard, one of Europe's brightest new policy... -
Unconscious Dominions: Psychoanalysis, Colonial Trauma, and Global Sovereignties by Warwick Anderson
RRP: $48.28$42.02By the 1920s, psychoanalysis was a technology of both the late-colonial state and anti-imperialism. Insights from psychoanalysis shaped European and North American ideas about the colonial world and the character and potential of native cultures... -
D-Day Overlord: The Great Invasion and the Battle for Normandy by Dan Sharp
RRP: $16.78$13.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911276883Author Dan SharpFormat PaperbackPage Count 132Imprint Mortons Media GroupPublisher Mortons Media GroupWeight(grams) 220gDimensions(mm) 210mm *... -
Speaking as we Find: Women's Experience of Tyneside Industry 1930s - 1980s by Caroline Barker Bennett 9781739223328
RRP: $21.00$20.96This book takes us back to the beginning of the 1980s against the background of the impending miners’ strike and the strained relationship between the unions and the Thatcher government. Caroline Barker Bennett recorded the experiences of twenty women... -
The Industrial Turn in World History by Peter Stearns
RRP: $79.78$70.10In The Industrial Turn in World History, Peter N. Stearns presents a concise yet far reaching overview of the worldwide shift from agricultural societies to industrial societies over the past two centuries. Putting the implications for individuals and... -
Global Connections: Volume 2: Since 1500 by John Coatsworth 9780521145190
RRP: $83.98$77.30The first textbook to present world history via social history, drawing on social science methods and research. This interdisciplinary, comprehensive, and comparative textbook is authored by distinguished scholars and experienced teachers, and offers... -
Real Estate and Global Urban History by Alexia Yates
RRP: $35.70$30.91Capitalist private property in land and buildings - real estate - is the ground of modern cities, materially, politically, and economically. It is foundational to their development and core to much theoretical work on the urban environment. It is also a... -
Imperialism and the Developing World: How Britain and the United States Shaped the Global Periphery by Atul Kohli
$75.10How did Western imperialism shape the developing world? Atul Kohli tackles that question by analyzing British and American influence on Asia, Africa, the Middle East and Latin America from the age of the British East India Company to the most recent U.S... -
The Year 1000: When Explorers Connected the World--And Globalization Began by Valerie Hansen 9781501194108
RRP: $63.00$37.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501194108Author Valerie HansenFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Scribner Book CompanyPublisher Scribner Book CompanyWeight(grams) 499gDimensions(mm)... -
Citizens without Nations: Urban Citizenship in Europe and the World, c.1000-1789 by Maarten Prak
RRP: $56.68$48.72Citizenship is at the heart of our contemporary world but it is a particular vision of national citizenship forged in the French Revolution. In Citizens without Nations, Maarten Prak recovers the much longer tradition of urban citizenship across the... -
Global Gifts: The Material Culture of Diplomacy in Early Modern Eurasia by Zoltan Biedermann
RRP: $65.08$47.99This anthology explores the role that art and material goods played in diplomatic relations and political exchanges between Asia, Africa, and Europe in the early modern world. The authors challenge the idea that there was a European primacy in the... -
Ancient Mysteries: Discover the latest intriguiging, Scientifically sound explanations to Age-old puzzles by Peter James 9780345434883
RRP: $52.50$41.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345434883Author Peter JamesFormat PaperbackPage Count 672Imprint Ballantine Books Inc.Publisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 873g -
Duel: Alexander Hamilton, Aaron Burr, And The Future Of America by Thomas Fleming
RRP: $33.58$29.25All school children know the story of the fatal duel between Hamilton and Burr - but do they really? In this remarkable retelling, Thomas Fleming takes the reader into the post-revolutionary world of 1804, a chaotic and fragile time in the young country... -
Corsham Now and Then More: 2021 by Giuliano Adriano Carosi 9781399903417
$24.51Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781399903417Author Giuliano Adriano CarosiFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Julian CarosiPublisher Julian CarosiWeight(grams) 496gDimensions(mm) 298mm *... -
Historic Battlefields in 500 Walks by Steve Fallon
RRP: $58.78$42.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781667200491Author Steve FallonFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint Thunder Bay PressPublisher Thunder Bay PressWeight(grams) 1157gDimensions(mm) 216mm *... -
A History of Laos by Martin Stuart-Fox
RRP: $48.28$39.19This authoritative and wide-ranging 1997 history traces events in this little-known country from ancient monarchy, through its establishment as a French colony, to independence in 1953, the People's Democratic Republic, and the present one-party... -
The Indian Ocean in World History by Edward A. Alpers
RRP: $58.78$43.60The 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 Gladiator: The Secret History Of Rome's Warrior Slaves by Alan Baker 9780306811852
$29.84Condemned and yet feared by emperors, almost certain to be slaughtered and yet adored by the masses, the gladiator was the superstar of his day. His existence was invariably short and violent, improved only faintly by the prospect of honor, wealth, and... -
The Black Death Transformed: Disease and Culture in Early Renaissance Europe by Samuel K. Cohn, Jr. 9780340706473
$80.93The Black Death in Europe, from its arrival in 1347-52 through successive waves into the early modern period, has been seriously misunderstood. It is clear from the compelling evidence presented in this revolutionary account that the Black Death was... -
Upheaval: Turning Points for Nations in Crisis by Jared Diamond
RRP: $48.28$31.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316409148Author Jared DiamondFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint Back Bay BooksPublisher Back Bay BooksWeight(grams) 567gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 150mm *... -
Germany and the Second World War: Volume I: The Build-up of German Aggression by Wilhelm Deist 9780198738336
$172.73This is the first of a comprehensive ten-volume history of the Second World War, written from the German perspective and translated for the first time into English. The volumes so far published have achieved international acclaim as a major contribution... -
Foot Soldier: A Combat Infantryman's War In Europe by Roscoe C. Blunt, Jr. 9780306810909 [USED COPY]
RRP: $35.68$10.27Through the prism of ultimate victory, the greatest generation that fought World War II has been seen as triumphant. But the brutal reality of the war as endured by combat infantrymen has remained little documented. In Foot Soldier , Roscoe C. Blunt... -
Foot Soldier: A Combat Infantryman's War In Europe by Roscoe C. Blunt, Jr. 9780306810909
RRP: $35.68$33.26Through the prism of ultimate victory, the greatest generation that fought World War II has been seen as triumphant. But the brutal reality of the war as endured by combat infantrymen has remained little documented. In Foot Soldier , Roscoe C. Blunt... -
Law and Colonial Cultures: Legal Regimes in World History, 1400-1900 by Lauren Benton
RRP: $52.48$42.97Advances an interesting perspective in world history, arguing that institutions and culture - and not just the global economy - serve as important elements of international order. Focusing on colonial legal politics and the interrelation of local and... -
Outside the Walls of the Asylum: On Care in the Community in Modern Britain and Ireland by Peter Bartlett 9780485121476
RRP: $210.00$209.41This historical account of the care of insanity outside formal instruction explores key issues relating to the social history of madness from 1750 to the present day. These include women and the social construciton of madness, the boarding out of... -
Whiskey Women: The Untold Story of How Women Saved Bourbon, Scotch, and Irish Whiskey by Fred Minnick
RRP: $58.78$46.20Shortly after graduating from the University of Glasgow in 1934, Elizabeth "Bessie" Williamson began working as a temporary secretary at the Laphroaig Distillery on the Scottish island Islay. Williamson quickly found herself joining the boys in the... -
The Devil in History: Communism, Fascism, and Some Lessons of the Twentieth Century by Vladimir Tismaneanu
RRP: $52.50$41.14The Devil in History is a provocative analysis of the relationship between communism and fascism. Reflecting the author's personal experiences within communist totalitarianism, this is a book about political passions, radicalism, utopian ideals, and... -
The Stillborn God: Religion, Politics, and the Modern West by Mark Lilla 9781400079131
$28.81Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400079131Author Mark LillaFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Waterbrook Press (A Division of Random House Inc)Publisher Waterbrook Press (A Division... -
The Global Middle Ages: An Introduction by Geraldine Heng
RRP: $35.70$30.91The Global Middle Ages: An Introduction discusses how, when, and why a 'global Middle Ages' was conceptualized; explains and considers the terms that are deployed in studying, teaching, and researching a Global Middle Ages; and critically reflects on the... -
Social and Cultural Foundations in Global Studies by Eve Walsh Stoddard 9780765641267
RRP: $100.78$87.80From the Foundations in Global Studies series, this text offers students a fresh, comprehensive, multidisciplinary entry point to the study of the social and cultural aspects of global studies. After a brief introduction to global studies, the early... -
The Atlantic Experience: Peoples, Places, Ideas by Catherine Armstrong 9780230272743 [USED COPY]
RRP: $69.28$10.98Providing a succinct yet comprehensive introduction to the history of the Atlantic world in its entirety, The Atlantic Experience traces the first Portuguese journeys to the West coast of Africa in the mid-fifteenth century through to the abolition of... -
The Atlantic Experience: Peoples, Places, Ideas by Catherine Armstrong 9780230272743
$69.85Providing a succinct yet comprehensive introduction to the history of the Atlantic world in its entirety, The Atlantic Experience traces the first Portuguese journeys to the West coast of Africa in the mid-fifteenth century through to the abolition of... -
A History of Communications: Media and Society from the Evolution of Speech to the Internet by Marshall T. Poe 9780521179447
RRP: $56.68$45.32A History of Communications advances a theory of media that explains the origins and impact of different forms of communication - speech, writing, print, electronic devices and the Internet - on human history in the long term. New media are 'pulled' into... -
Potosi: The Silver City That Changed the World by Kris Lane 9780520280847
RRP: $58.80$46.62"For anyone who wants to learn about the rise and decline of Potosi as a city . . . Lane's book is the ideal place to begin."-New York Review of BooksIn 1545, a native Andean prospector hit pay dirt on a desolate red mountain in highland Bolivia. There... -
Making Gay History: The Half-Century Fight for Lesbian and Gay Equal Rights by Associate Professor Eric Marcus 9780060933913
RRP: $39.88$27.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060933913Author Associate Professor Eric MarcusFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)... -
Three Ways to Be Alien by Sanjay Subrahmanyam
$59.62Sanjay Subrahmanyam's Three Ways to Be Alien draws on the lives and writings of a trio of marginal and liminal figures cast adrift from their traditional moorings into an unknown world. The subjects include the aggrieved and lost Meale, a "Persian"... -
The Rise and Decline of the State by Martin van Creveld
RRP: $65.08$56.34The state, which since the middle of the seventeenth century has been the most important and most characteristic of all modern institutions, is in decline. From Western Europe to Africa, many existing states are either combining into larger communities... -
The History of Terrorism: From Antiquity to ISIS by Gerard Chaliand 9780520292505
RRP: $63.00$49.75This authoritative work provides an essential perspective on terrorism by offering a rare opportunity for analysis and reflection at a time of ongoing violence, threats, and reprisals. Some of the best international specialists on the subject examine...