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The Story of Mankind by Hendrik Willem Van Loon
RRP: £37.99£29.77Originally written in 1921 for the author's grandchildren, Hendrik Willem van Loon's The Story of Mankind has charmed generations with its warmth, simplicity and wisdom. Van Loon's witty, amiable tone animates the story of human history as a grand... -
The Age of Trade: The Manila Galleons and the Dawn of the Global Economy by Professor Arturo Giraldez 9780742556638
RRP: £42.00£34.37This groundbreaking book presents the first full history of the Manila galleons, which marked the true beginning of a global economy. Arturo Giraldez, the world's leading scholar of the galleons, traces the rise of the maritime route, which began with... -
The Sum of the People: How the Census Has Shaped Nations, from the Ancient World to the Modern Age by Andrew Whitby
RRP: £25.00£18.70In April 2020, the United States will embark on what has been called "the largest peacetime mobilization in American history": the decennial population census. It is part of a long, if uneven, tradition of counting people that extends back at least three... -
Work, Sex and Power: The Forces that Shaped Our History Willie Thompson 9780745333403
RRP: £22.99£15.40This is the history of the world, from the origins of the Cosmos to the present day, seen through three major narratives: work, sex and power - the forces that have done more than any other to shape the world as we see it now. It expertly explores... -
The Family: A World History by Mary Jo Maynes 9780195338140
RRP: £27.99£16.66This 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... -
World Revolution, 1917-1936: The Rise and Fall of the Communist International by C. L. R. James
RRP: £27.99£24.92Originally published in 1937, C. L. R. James's World Revolution is a pioneering Marxist analysis of the history of revolutions during the interwar period and of the fundamental conflict between Trotsky and Stalin. James, who was a leading Trotskyist... -
King and Emperor: A New Life of Charlemagne by Janet L Nelson
RRP: £27.00£25.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780520314207Author Janet L NelsonFormat HardbackPage Count 704Imprint University of California PressPublisher University of California PressWeight(grams)... -
Myths of Empire: Domestic Politics and International Ambition by Jack Snyder
RRP: £25.99£22.84Overextension is the common pitfall of empires. Why does it occur? What are the forces that cause the great powers of the industrial era to pursue aggressive foreign policies? Jack Snyder identifies recurrent myths of empire, describes the varieties of... -
The Advancement of Learning in Stuart Scotland, 1679-89 by Hugh Ouston 9781837652006
RRP: £100.00£96.11A study of Scottish thinkers and writers in their political and cultural context. The "advancement of learning" was the term used by late seventeenth-century Scots for intellectual enquiry of all kinds. Encouraged by Stuart patronage, and echoing a... -
The Sociologist and the Historian by Pierre Bourdieu 9780745679594
RRP: £12.99£12.11In 1988, the renowned sociologist Pierre Bourdieu and the leading historian Roger Chartier met for a series of lively discussions that were broadcast on French public radio. Published here for the first time, these conversations are an accessible and... -
Citizenship, Inequality, and Difference: Historical Perspectives by Frederick Cooper
RRP: £22.00£17.63A succinct and comprehensive history of the development of citizenship from the Roman Empire to the present dayCitizenship, Inequality, and Difference offers a concise and sweeping overview of citizenship's complex evolution, from ancient Rome to the... -
Racism: A Short History by George M. Fredrickson 9780691167053
RRP: £17.99£11.12Are antisemitism and white supremacy manifestations of a general phenomenon? Why didn't racism appear in Europe before the fourteenth century, and why did it flourish as never before in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries? Why did the twentieth... -
The Sephardic Jews of Spain and Portugal: Survival of an Imperiled Culture in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries Dolores Sloan 9780786438174
RRP: £21.99£18.25Prior to the late fifteenth century, Jews had flourished on the Iberian Peninsula for hundreds of years. Marked by harmonic and cooperative coexistence alongside Christians and Muslims, this remarkable period was a golden age for Iberian Jews, with... -
The Great Ocean: Pacific Worlds from Captain Cook to the Gold Rush by David Igler 9780199914951
RRP: £42.99£31.79The Great Ocean examines the convergence and fragmentation of Pacific worlds during a period of rapidly expanding trade, indigenous depopulation, and scientific investigations. With a particular focus on the eastern Pacific in the decades between the... -
Ceremonies of Possession in Europe's Conquest of the New World, 1492-1640 by Patricia Seed 9780521497572
RRP: £19.99£16.46This work of comparative history, first published in 1996, explores the array of ceremonies that Europeans performed to mark their taking possession of the New World. Frenchmen reproduced the grandeur of royal processions wherever possible, always ending... -
Sworn in Secret: Freemasonry and the Knights Templar by Sanford Holst 9780983327943
RRP: £22.49£20.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780983327943Author Sanford HolstFormat HardbackPage Count 390Imprint Santorini BooksPublisher Santorini BooksWeight(grams) 726g -
The Rule of Empires: Those Who Built Them, Those Who Endured Them, and Why They Always Fall by Timothy Parsons 9780195304312
RRP: £24.49£18.57In The Rule of Empires, Timothy Parsons gives a sweeping account of the evolution of empire from its origins in ancient Rome to its most recent twentieth-century embodiment. He explains what constitutes an empire and offers suggestions about what empires... -
The Invisible Hand?: How Market Economies have Emerged and Declined Since AD 500 by Bas van Bavel 9780199608133
RRP: £59.00£58.59The Invisible Hand offers a radical departure from the conventional wisdom of economists and economic historians, by showing that 'factor markets' and the economies dominated by them -- the market economies -- are not modern, but have existed at various... -
Julius Caesar: Man, Soldier, And Tyrant by J. Fuller 9780306804229
£19.16Since the Renaissance, Julius Caesar has been idolized as a superman. Classical sources, however, present a far less exalted being. As General Fuller writes, Caesar was "an unscrupulous demagogue whose one aim was power, and a general who could not... -
1001 Days That Shaped the World by Editors of Thunder Bay Press
RRP: £24.99£22.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781645178194Author Editors of Thunder Bay PressFormat PaperbackPage Count 960Imprint Thunder Bay PressPublisher Thunder Bay PressWeight(grams)... -
How Europe Made the Modern World by Jonathan Daly 9781350029460
RRP: £21.99£21.89One thousand years ago, a traveler to Baghdad or the Chinese capital Kaifeng would have discovered a vast and flourishing city of broad streets, spacious gardens, and sophisticated urban amenities; meanwhile, Paris, Rome, and London were cramped and... -
Rituals of Royalty: Power and Ceremonial in Traditional Societies by Mr David Cannadine 9780521428910
RRP: £36.99£33.55Heads of state today mark their rites of passage with splendid ceremonial, from Reagan's inaugural to Andropov's funeral. Such spectacles continue to be a prominent part of modern political systems, of varied ideological hue, but their precise meaning... -
Courtly Encounters: Translating Courtliness and Violence in Early Modern Eurasia by Sanjay Subrahmanyam 9780674067059
RRP: £35.95£29.19Cross-cultural encounters in Europe and Asia in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries brought the potential for bafflement, hostility, and admiration. The court was the crucial site where expanding Eurasian states and empires met and were forced to... -
Communication and Empire: Media, Markets, and Globalization, 1860-1930 by Professor Dwayne Roy Winseck
RRP: £24.99£22.41Filling in a key chapter in communications history, Dwayne R. Winseck and Robert M. Pike offer an in-depth examination of the rise of the "global media" between 1860 and 1930. They analyze the connections between the development of a global communication... -
In Truth: A History of Lies from Ancient Rome to Modern America by Matthew Fraser
RRP: £19.99£15.42From ancient Rome to the current Internet age, this sweeping history of ideas explores how different epochs wrestled with the issue of truth and lies. From the ancient Greeks and Romans to the modern era, how have people determined what is true? How... -
Illustrated Letters to My Children from the Holy Land. Eastern Manners and Customs Depicted in ... Sketches from Life. by Henry Andrew Harper 9781241496593
RRP: £13.99£12.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781241496593Author Henry Andrew HarperFormat PaperbackPage Count 92Imprint British Library, Historical Print EditionsPublisher British Library, Historical... -
Writing Transnational History by Fiona Paisley
£28.21Over the past two decades, transnational history has become an established term describing approaches to the writing of world or global history that emphasise movement, dynamism and diversity. This book investigates the emergence of the 'transnational'... -
The Last of the Celts by Marcus Tanner 9780300115352
RRP: £22.50£21.68A search for authentic Celtic culture and its scattered, endangered survivors Travelling throughout the remote Celtic world, award-winning author Marcus Tanner describes the relentless pressure on Celtic communities to assimilate and warns that a... -
The Social History of Agriculture: From the Origins to the Current Crisis by Christopher M. Isett 9781442209671
RRP: £48.00£42.05This innovative text provides a compelling narrative world history through the lens of food and farmers. Tracing the history of agriculture from earliest times to the present, Christopher Isett and Stephen Miller argue that people, rather than markets,... -
The Red Sea: In Search of Lost Space by Alexis Wick 9780520285927
RRP: £30.00£23.29The Red Sea has, from time immemorial, been one of the world's most navigated spaces, in the pursuit of trade, pilgrimage and conquest. Yet this multidimensional history remains largely unrevealed by its successive protagonists. Intrigued by the absence... -
12th SS Panzer Division by Herbert Walther
RRP: £27.99£19.57A photo chronicle of the HJ in over 230 b/w and 30 color photos including its late war formation and campaigns throughout Normandy and Austria.Book InformationISBN 9780887401664Author Herbert WaltherFormat HardbackPage Count 120Imprint Schiffer... -
Lightning Man: The Accursed Life Of Samuel F.B. Morse by Kenneth Silverman 9780306813948
£20.07This brilliantly conceived biography is the very American tale of a quiet man, raised by religious zealots, who became a gifted and prolific painter (more than three hundred portraits and historical canvases), became the first Professor of Fine Arts at... -
Elites and Decolonization in the Twentieth Century by Jost Dulffer 9780230243699
RRP: £44.99£44.97Decolonization changed the spatial order of the globe, the imagination of men and women around the world and established images of the globe. Both individuals and social groups shaped decolonization itself: this volume puts agency squarely at the centre... -
The Decline of the West by Oswald Spengler
RRP: £17.95£11.31Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400097005Author Oswald SpenglerFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 386gDimensions(mm) 202mm... -
Martyrdom in Islam by David Cook 9780521615518
RRP: £22.99£19.56In recent times Islamic martyrdom has become associated with suicide missions conducted by extremists. However, as David Cook demonstrates, this type of martyrdom is very different from the classical definition which condemned suicide and stipulated that... -
Paradise and Hell in Islamic Traditions by Christian Lange 9780521738156
RRP: £21.99£18.75Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Fighting in Hell: The German Ordeal on the Eastern Front by Peter G. Tsouras 9780804116985 [USED COPY]
RRP: £7.99£4.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780804116985Author Peter G. TsourasFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Ivy Books,U.S.Publisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 198gDimensions(mm) 172mm... -
Fighting in Hell: The German Ordeal on the Eastern Front by Peter G. Tsouras 9780804116985
RRP: £7.99£6.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780804116985Author Peter G. TsourasFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Ivy Books,U.S.Publisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 198gDimensions(mm) 172mm... -
Mentchu-Hotep and the Spirit of the Medjay by Mfundishi Jhutyms Hassan Salim 9781643679006
RRP: £19.99£17.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781643679006Author Mfundishi Jhutyms Hassan SalimFormat PaperbackPage Count 210Imprint Urlink Print & Media, LLCPublisher Urlink Print & Media,... -
The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies? by Professor of Geography Jared Diamond
RRP: £23.00£9.31Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143124405Author Jared DiamondFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 459gDimensions(mm) 193mm * 119mm...