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The Arabs by Maxime Rodinson 9780226723563
RRP: £27.00£26.47Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780226723563Author Maxime RodinsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 204Imprint University of Chicago PressPublisher The University of Chicago PressWeight(grams)... -
Global Muslims in the Age of Steam and Print by James L. Gelvin 9780520275027
RRP: £30.00£23.29The second half of the nineteenth century marks a watershed in human history. Railroads linked remote hinterlands with cities; overland and undersea cables connected distant continents. New and accessible print technologies made the wide dissemination of... -
Handgun Story by John Walter 9781848325005
£32.12The Handgun Story traces the fascinating history of the 'one hand gun' from its crude fourteenth-century origins to the sophisticated products of today. As technology has progressed, handguns have got smaller and deadlier, to be carried in holsters,... -
Mentchu-Hotep and the Spirit of the Medjay by Mfundishi Jhutyms Hassan Salim 9781643670096
RRP: £28.99£24.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781643670096Author Mfundishi Jhutyms Hassan SalimFormat HardbackPage Count 210Imprint Urlink Print & Media, LLCPublisher Urlink Print & Media,... -
Lenin's Government: Sovnarkom 1917-1922 by T. H. Rigby 9780521067560
RRP: £30.99£23.80When Lenin and his fellow Bolsheviks seized power in 1917 they sought to scrap the existing structures of government and substitute new ones based on Marxist principles. This book attempts a detailed account of their efforts to create a socialist... -
States of Imagination: Ethnographic Explorations of the Postcolonial State by Thomas Blom Hansen 9780822327981
RRP: £24.99£22.01The state has recently been rediscovered as an object of inquiry by a broad range of scholars. Reflecting the new vitality of the field of political anthropology, States of Imagination draws together the best of this recent critical thinking to explore... -
Byzantium: The Imperial Centuries AD 610-1070 by Romilly Jenkins 9780802066671 [USED COPY]
RRP: £29.99£7.15Originally published by Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 1966. Focusing on the middle period in Byzantium's eleven-century history as its most imperial era, Jenkins considers a number of events that changed the course of world history: the repulse of the... -
What Ifs of Jewish History: From Abraham to Zionism by Gavriel David Rosenfeld 9781107037625
RRP: £31.00£27.39What if the Exodus had never happened? What if the Jews of Spain had not been expelled in 1492? What if Eastern European Jews had never been confined to the Russian Pale of Settlement? What if Adolf Hitler had been assassinated in 1939? What if a Jewish... -
The Copernican Question: Prognostication, Skepticism, and Celestial Order by Robert S. Westman
RRP: £42.00£34.04In 1543, Nicolaus Copernicus publicly defended his hypothesis that the earth is a planet and the sun a body resting near the center of a finite universe. But why did Copernicus make this bold proposal? And why did it matter? The Copernican Question... -
The Discovery And Conquest Of Mexico by Bernal Diaz del Castillo 9780306813191
£29.76Bernal Diaz del Castillo (14951584) served under Cortes through the entire Mexican campaign, and his narrative is both an invaluable document and a spectacular epic. Del Castillo saw Cortes sink his own ships (to prevent desertion) as soon as they landed... -
We Were Not the Savages: Collision Between European and Native American Civilizations by Daniel L. Paul 9781552662090
£17.98As a person of First Nation ancestry I cannot help but wonder if the failure of Caucasian Americans and Canadians to reveal and teach about the horrors their ancestors carried out against North American First Nation Peoples is a deliberate cover-up, or... -
The Environment and the Classical World by Patrica Jeskins 9781853995477
RRP: £22.99£22.85For the people of antiquity, the dominant force in shaping their life, economy and culture was the natural environment. This is an exploration of the direct influence of the geography, climate and resources of the Mediterranean world upon the Greeks and... -
A Global History of Runaways: Workers, Mobility, and Capitalism, 1600-1850 by Marcus Rediker 9780520304369
RRP: £30.00£27.39During global capitalism's long ascent from 1600-1850, workers of all kinds-slaves, indentured servants, convicts, domestic workers, soldiers, and sailors-repeatedly ran away from their masters and bosses, with profound effects. A Global History of... -
1995: The Year the Future Began by W. Joseph Campbell 9780520273993
RRP: £24.00£19.23A hinge moment in recent American history, 1995 was an exceptional year. Drawing on interviews, oral histories, memoirs, archival collections, and news reports, W. Joseph Campbell presents a vivid, detail-rich portrait of those memorable twelve months... -
Empires and Bureaucracy in World History: From Late Antiquity to the Twentieth Century by Peter Crooks
RRP: £97.99£88.30How did empires rule different peoples across vast expanses of space and time? And how did small numbers of imperial bureaucrats govern large numbers of subordinated peoples? Empires and Bureaucracy in World History seeks answers to these fundamental... -
Atlantic in World History, 1490-1830 by Trevor Burnard
£32.55The Atlantic in World History, 1490-1830 looks at the historical connections between four continents - Africa, Europe, North America and South America - through the lens of Atlantic history. It shows how the Atlantic has been more than just an ocean: it... -
Sudan's Painful Road To Peace: A Full Story of the Founding and Development of SPLM/SPLA by Arop Madut-Arop 9781419611537
RRP: £23.99£22.16Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781419611537Author Arop Madut-AropFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint Booksurge PublishingPublisher Booksurge PublishingWeight(grams) 676gDimensions(mm)... -
Mirrors: Stories Of Almost Everyone by Eduardo Galeano
RRP: £12.99£8.80In Mirrors, Galeano smashes aside the narrative of conventional history and arranges the shards into a new pattern, to reveal the past in radically altered form. From the Garden of Eden to twenty-first-century cityscapes, we glimpse fragments in the... -
The New Worlds of Thomas Robert Malthus: Rereading the Principle of Population by Alison Bashford 9780691177915
RRP: £30.00£27.60The New Worlds of Thomas Robert Malthus is a sweeping global and intellectual history that radically recasts our understanding of Malthus's Essay on the Principle of Population, the most famous book on population ever written or ever likely to be... -
Beyond Marx and Tito: Theory and Practice in Yugoslav Socialism by Sharon Zukin 9780521084024
RRP: £30.99£23.80In this study Dr Zukin combines the approaches of a political scientist and a sociologist to examine the distance between theory and practice in the lives of ordinary Yugoslavs living under socialist self-management. Going beyond previous work on... -
Destroying to Replace: Settler Genocides of Indigenous Peoples by Mohamed Adhikari
RRP: £18.99£15.91"This book explores settler colonial genocides in a global perspective and over the long duree. It does so systematically and compellingly, as it investigates how settler colonial expansion at times created conditions for genocidal violence, and the ways... -
Refusal to Eat: A Century of Prison Hunger Strikes by Nayan Shah
RRP: £25.00£19.99The first global history of hunger strikes as a tactic in prisons, conflicts, and protest movements. The power of the hunger strike lies in its utter simplicity. The ability to choose to forego eating is universally accessible, even to those living... -
From Eden to Golgotha by R W L Moberly 9781532663314
RRP: £19.00£14.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781532663314Author Walter MoberlyFormat PaperbackPage Count 172Imprint Wipf & Stock PublishersPublisher Wipf & Stock PublishersWeight(grams)... -
Civilization and Its Contents by Bruce Mazlish 9780804750837
RRP: £18.99£16.98"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 colonial... -
Explaining Long-Term Economic Change by J. L. Anderson 9780521557849
RRP: £23.99£18.09This book provides an introduction to, and critical review of, the competing models that have been developed to explain long-term and large-scale economic change. The global pattern of production and distribution has its origins in the historical... -
Roving Revolutionaries: Armenians and the Connected Revolutions in the Russian, Iranian, and Ottoman Worlds by Houri Berberian 9780520278943
RRP: £30.00£23.29Three of the formative revolutions that shook the early twentieth-century world occurred almost simultaneously in regions bordering each other. Though the Russian, Iranian, and Young Turk Revolutions all exploded between 1904 and 1911, they have never... -
Archives of Empire: Volume I. From The East India Company to the Suez Canal by Barbara Harlow
RRP: £33.00£30.28A rich collection of primary materials, the multivolume Archives of Empire provides a documentary history of nineteenth-century British imperialism from the Indian subcontinent to the Suez Canal to southernmost Africa. Barbara Harlow and Mia Carter have... -
Surfaces: A History by Joseph A. Amato 9780520272774
£23.29Human beings are surrounded by surfaces: from our skin to faces, to the walls and streets of our homes and cities, to the images, books, and screens of our cultures and civilizations, to the natural world and what we imagine beyond. In this... -
An Afterlife for the Khan: Muslims, Buddhists, and Sacred Kingship in Mongol Iran and Eurasia by Dr. Jonathan Z. Brack
RRP: £80.00£61.89In the Mongol Empire, the interfaith court provided a contested arena for a performance of the Mongol ruler's sacred kingship, and the debate was fiercely ideological and religious. At the court of the newly established Ilkhanate, Muslim administrators,... -
Make It a Green Peace!: The Rise of a Countercultural Environmentalism by Frank Zelko 9780199947089
£49.67The emergence of Greenpeace in the late 1960s from a loose-knit group of anti-nuclear and anti-whaling activists fundamentally changed the nature of environmentalism--its purpose, philosophy, and tactics--around the world. And yet there has been no... -
The Story of Swahili by John M. Mugane
RRP: £23.99£20.84Swahili was once an obscure dialect of an East African Bantu language. Today more than one hundred million people use it: Swahili is to eastern and central Africa what English is to the world. From its embrace in the 1960s by the black freedom movement... -
My Life In The Irish Brigade: The Civil War Memoirs Of Private William McCarter, 116th Pennsylvania Infantry by William McCarter 9780306813238
£20.23The first full-length memoir published by an enlisted man in the Irish Brigade, from the Seven Day's Battles to the charge up Marye's Heights at Fredericksburg-a no-holds-barred firsthand account.Book InformationISBN 9780306813238Author William... -
The Human Footprint: A Global Environmental History Anthony N. Penna (Northeastern University, USA) 9781118912461
RRP: £40.95£35.89The Human Footprint: A Global Environmental History, Second Edition, presents a multidisciplinary global history of Earth from its origins to the present day. Provides a comprehensive, global, multidisciplinary history of the planet from its earliest... -
Nehru's Bandung: Non-Alignment and Regional Order in Indian Cold War Strategy by Andrea Benvenuti 9781911723189
RRP: £40.00£35.81This book sheds light on a neglected aspect of India’s Cold War diplomacy, starting with the role of Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and his Congress government in organising the first Asian-African Conference in Bandung in April 1955. Andrea... -
Lame Captains and Left-Handed Admirals: Amputee Officers in Nelson's Navy by Teresa Michals 9780813946733
RRP: £33.95£32.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780813946733Author Teresa MichalsFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint University of Virginia PressPublisher University of Virginia PressWeight(grams) 152g -
Tojo by Courtney Browne 9780306808449
£20.23General, minister of war, prime minister, and unrepentant ultranationalist, Hideki Tojo (1884-1948) was the most powerful leader in the Japanese government during World War II. From October 1941 to July 1944 he held unquestioned control, advocating and... -
The Jewish State: The Struggle for Israel's Soul by Yoram Hazony 9780465029020
RRP: £18.99£18.21In what may be the most controversial book on Zionism and Israel published in the last twenty years, Yoram Hazony graphically portrays the cultural and political revolt against Israel's status as the Jewish state. Examining ideological trends in... -
The Worlds of Christopher Columbus by William D. Phillips, Jr. 9780521446525
RRP: £30.99£24.93When Columbus was born in the mid-fifteenth century, Europe was largely isolated from the rest of the Old World - Africa and Asia - and ignorant of the existence of the world of the Western Hemisphere. The voyages of Christopher Columbus opened a period... -
The Atlantic Slave Trade in World History Jeremy Black 9781032599847
RRP: £35.99£31.69Now in its second edition, The Atlantic Slave Trade in World History has been updated to include recent scholarship, and an analysis of how debates have changed in light of recent key events such as the Black Lives Matter movement.Primarily focused on... -
Goering's Man in Paris: The Story of a Nazi Art Plunderer and His World by Jonathan Petropoulos 9780300274264
RRP: £12.99£11.46A charged biography of a notorious Nazi art plunderer and his career in the postwar art world "[Petropoulos] brings Lohse into sharper focus, as a personality and axis point from which to explore a network of art dealers, collectors and museum curators...