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Weathered by Miracles: A History of Palestine from Bonaparte and Muhammad Ali to Ben-Gurion and the Mufti by Thomas A. Idinopulos
RRP: £14.99£13.55Canaan, Land of Israel, the Holy Land, Bibleland—Palestine. Many names for a small speck of earth, no bigger than Wales or Massachusetts. This land has suffered most of the world’s conquerors, from the Babylonians to the British, only to brighten its... -
Primary Sources in World History: Wealth, Power, and Inequality by James Farr
RRP: £92.00£80.53This 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... -
Dawn Over Suez: The Rise of American Power in the Middle East, 1953-1957 by Steven Z. Freiberger
£26.72No event in post World War II diplomacy has been more written about than the Suez crisis of 1956—and for good reason: it signaled the fall of British power and influence in the Middle East. But most accounts, based on limited information, have focused on... -
Chronic Disparities: Public Health in Historical Perspective by Sean Andrew Wempe
£28.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780190696252Author Sean Andrew WempeFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Oxford University Press, USAPublisher Oxford University Press, USAWeight(grams)... -
Don't Forward That Text!: Separating Myths from History on Social Media by Amit Schandillia
RRP: £15.99£13.33Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789356290808Author Amit SchandilliaFormat PaperbackPage Count 328Imprint HarperCollins IndiaPublisher HarperCollins IndiaDimensions(mm) 220mm * 140mm * 20mm -
From Sodomy Laws to Same-Sex Marriage by Sean Brady
RRP: £110.00£109.96Inspired by recent adoptions of same-sex marriage, From Sodomy Laws to Same-Sex Marriage provides international perspectives on the legal and social history of same-sex relationships from the early 19th century to the present. Its emphasis is on areas... -
The Maritime Silk Road: Global Connectivities, Regional Nodes, Localities by Franck Bille
RRP: £113.00£107.55The Maritime Silk Road foregrounds the numerous networks that have been woven across oceanic geographies, tying world regions together often far more extensively than land-based routes. On the strength of the new data which has emerged in the last two... -
The Pretender of Pitcairn Island: Joshua W. Hill - The Man Who Would Be King Among the Bounty Mutineers by Tillman W. Nechtman
RRP: £26.99£23.20Pitcairn, a tiny Pacific island that was refuge to the mutineers of HMAV Bounty and home to their descendants, later became the stage on which one imposter played out his influential vision for British control over the nineteenth-century Pacific Ocean... -
The March of Folly: From Tro to Vietnam by Barbara W. Tuchman
RRP: £22.00£13.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345308238Author Barbara W. TuchmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint Ballantine Books Inc.Publisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)... -
Global Photographies: Memory History Archives by Sissy Helff
RRP: £38.99£32.38How is photography connected to global practices? This is a first edited collection to trace the relationship between history, photography and memory in a global perspective on three interrelated levels: firstly, in the artistic and cultural production... -
Refusenik!: Israel's Soldiers of Conscience by Peretz Kidron
£38.75Hundreds of Israeli soldiers, called up to take part in controversial campaigns like the 1982 invasion of Lebanon or policing duties in the Palestinian territories today, have refused orders. Many of these 'refuseniks' have faced prison sentences rather... -
A History of the World in 100 Animals by Simon Barnes
RRP: £39.95£26.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781643139159Author Simon BarnesFormat HardbackPage Count 496Imprint Pegasus BooksPublisher Pegasus BooksWeight(grams) 152g -
Archaic State Interaction: The Eastern Mediterranean in the Bronze Age by William A. Parkinson
RRP: £31.95£23.19In current archaeological research the failure to find common ground between world-systems theory believers and their counterparts has resulted in a stagnation of theoretical development in regards to modeling how early state societies interacted with... -
The Structure of World History: From Modes of Production to Modes of Exchange by Kojin Karatani
RRP: £89.00£77.62In this major, paradigm-shifting work, Kojin Karatani systematically re-reads Marx's version of world history, shifting the focus of critique from modes of production to modes of exchange. Karatani seeks to understand both Capital-Nation-State, the... -
Across the Ussuri Kray: Travels in the Sikhote-Alin Mountains by Vladimir K. Arsenyev
RRP: £70.00£60.71In Russia's Far East sits the wild Ussuri Kray, a region known for its remote highlands and rugged mountain passes where tigers and bears roam the cliffs, and salmon and lenok navigate the rivers. In this collection of travel writing by famed Russian... -
Transforming the World: Global Political History since World War II by Keith Robbins
RRP: £110.00£109.56An ambitious and engaging narrative survey that charts the history of the world from a political perspective, from 1937 to the post-9/11 era. Providing a wide-ranging assessment of global interactions in peace and war since World War II, Robbins connects... -
Imperial Emotions: The Politics of Empathy across the British Empire by Jane Lydon
RRP: £90.00£81.03Emotions are not universal, but are experienced and expressed in diverse ways within different cultures and times. This overview of the history of emotions within nineteenth-century British imperialism focuses on the role of the compassionate emotions,... -
Civilization and Its Contents by Bruce Mazlish
£84.83"Civilization" is a constantly invoked term. It is used by both politicians and scholars. How useful, in fact, is this term? Civilization and Its Contents traces the origins of the concept in the eighteenth century. It shows its use as a... -
The Tropical Turn: Agricultural Innovation in the Ancient Middle East and the Mediterranean by Sureshkumar Muthukumaran
RRP: £80.00£61.89This book chronicles the earliest histories of familiar tropical Asian crops in the ancient Middle East and the Mediterranean, from rice and cotton to citruses and cucumbers. Drawing on archaeological materials and textual sources in over seven ancient... -
Complete Flags of the World by DK
RRP: £22.00£18.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780744045628Author DKFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley)Publisher DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley)Weight(grams) 125g -
Aerial Aftermaths: Wartime from Above by Caren Kaplan
RRP: £89.00£77.62From the first vistas provided by flight in balloons in the eighteenth century to the most recent sensing operations performed by military drones, the history of aerial imagery has marked the transformation of how people perceived their world, better... -
The Unreasonable Virtue of Fly Fishing by Mark Kurlansky
RRP: £18.00£10.33Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781635578751Author Mark KurlanskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing USAPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing USAWeight(grams) 316g -
Internationalisms: A Twentieth-Century History by Glenda Sluga
RRP: £26.99£20.94This is a pioneering survey of the rise of internationalism as a mainstream political idea mobilised in support of the ambitions of indigenous populations, feminists and anti-colonialists, as well as politicians, economists and central bankers. Leading... -
Suharto's Cold War: Indonesia, Southeast Asia, and the World by Mattias Fibiger 9780197667224
RRP: £29.99£27.99After the murder of senior generals in the Indonesian army by elements of the country's communist party in 1965, General Suharto orchestrated the mass killing of some half a million leftists and fellow travelers. But his ambitions spanned far beyond... -
Map: Exploring The World, midi format by John Hessler
RRP: £24.95£20.38A compelling exploration of the ways that humans have mapped the world throughout history Map, Exploring the World brings together more than 250 fascinating examples of maps from the birth of cartography to today's cutting-edge digital maps and reflects... -
Introducing Anthropology: A Graphic Guide by Merryl Wyn-Davis
RRP: £8.99£3.39Anthropology originated as the study of 'primitive' cultures. But the notion of 'primitive' exposes presumptions of 'civilized' superiority and the right of the West to speak for 'less evolved' others. With the fall of Empire, anthropology became suspect... -
Empty Without You: The Intimate Letters Of Eleanor Roosevelt And Lorena Hickok by Rodger Streitmatter 9780306809989
RRP: £13.99£10.01In 1978, more than 3,500 letters written over a thirty-year friendship between Eleanor Roosevelt and Lorena Hickok were discovered by archivists. Although the most explicit letters had been burned (Lorena told Eleanor's daughter, "Your mother wasn't... -
My Day: The Best Of Eleanor Roosevelt's Acclaimed Newspaper Columns, 1936-1962 by Eleanor Roosevelt 9780306810107
£14.73Recently named "Woman of the Century" in a survey conducted by the National Women's Hall of Fame, Eleanor Roosevelt wrote her hugely popular syndicated column "My Day" for over a quarter of that century, from 1936 to 1962. This collection brings together... -
Slavery in the Arab World by Murray Gordon 9781561310234
RRP: £14.99£11.53"...A comprehensive portrait of slavery in the Islamic world from earliest times until today..."-Arab Book WorldBook InformationISBN 9781561310234Author Murray GordonFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint New Amsterdam BooksPublisher New Amsterdam... -
Speeches That Changed Our Times: From 1945 to the Present by Carlo Batà 9788854420403
RRP: £25.00£18.23The history of humankind has always been marked by natural catastrophes, migrations, discoveries, revolutions, and wars. But there have also been speeches that marked an era; instilling hope in crucial moments, reawakening the collective conscience of a... -
The Fifties by David Halberstam 9780449909331
RRP: £20.00£15.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780449909331Author David HalberstamFormat PaperbackPage Count 848Imprint FawcettPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 618gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 139mm... -
Death and the Royal Succession in Scotland, c.1214-c.1543: Ritual, Ceremony and Power Lucinda H.S. Dean 9781837651726
RRP: £95.00£91.39Illuminates how the ceremonial dimension of death and the succession reflected both Scottish royal identity and a broader culture of ceremony. To date, scholarly attention to royal ceremony in Scotland from the Middle Ages into the early modern period... -
The Global Transformation of Time: 1870-1950 by Vanessa Ogle 9780674286146
RRP: £40.95£34.81As new networks of railways, steamships, and telegraph communications brought distant places into unprecedented proximity, previously minor discrepancies in local time-telling became a global problem. Vanessa Ogle's chronicle of the struggle to... -
Return to Essentials: Some Reflections on the Present State of Historical Study by Geoffrey Rudolph Elton 9780521524377
RRP: £28.99£23.80This volume contains the text of the three Cook Lectures, delivered by Sir Geoffrey Elton at the University of Michigan in April 1990, which reviewed various current doubts and queries concerning the writing of reasonably unbiased history. The lectures... -
A War on Global Poverty: The Lost Promise of Redistribution and the Rise of Microcredit by Joanne Meyerowitz
RRP: £28.00£22.54A history of US involvement in late twentieth-century campaigns against global poverty and how they came to focus on women A War on Global Poverty provides a fresh account of US involvement in campaigns to end global poverty in the 1970s and 1980s. From... -
Kursk: The German View by Steven H. Newton 9780306811500
RRP: £33.00£32.35Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Access to History for the IB Diploma: Civil Rights and social movements in the Americas post-1945 Second Edition Vivienne Sanders 9781471841316
£32.99A new edition for HL Option 2, History of the Americas, Topic 17: Civil rights and social movements in the Americas post-1945The renowned IB Diploma History series, combining compelling narratives with academic rigor.An authoritative and engaging... -
Reflections of Prague: Journeys Through the 20th Century by Ivan Margolius 9780470022191
RRP: £16.99£11.54Reflections of Prague is the story of how a Czech Jewish family become embroiled in the most tragic and tumultuous episodes of the twentieth century. Through their eyes we see the history of their beloved Prague, a unique European city, and the wider,... -
The Ethiopians: A History Richard Pankhurst (University of Addis Ababa) 9780631224938
RRP: £38.95£34.46The book opens with a review of Ethiopian prehistory, showing how the Ethiopian section of the African Rift Valley has come to be seen as the "cradle of humanity".About the AuthorRichard Pankhurst who has lived in Ethiopia for over thirty years, is... -
Decolonization: Unsung Heroes of the Resistance by Pierre Singaravelou
RRP: £22.99£15.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781635421033Author Pierre SingaravelouFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Other Press LLCPublisher Other Press LLC