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Man on His Past by Herbert Butterfield 9780521095679 [USED COPY]
RRP: £32.99£2.72This book is an extended version of the Wiles lectures given at the Queen's University, Belfast, in 1954. It illustrates the rise, scope, methods and objectives of the history of historiography. The topics selected for discussion give a general outline... -
Man on His Past by Herbert Butterfield 9780521095679
RRP: £32.99£27.40This book is an extended version of the Wiles lectures given at the Queen's University, Belfast, in 1954. It illustrates the rise, scope, methods and objectives of the history of historiography. The topics selected for discussion give a general outline... -
Hanover and the British Empire, 1700-1837 by Nick Harding
RRP: £95.00£91.08A reappraisal of the links between Hanover and Great Britain, highlighting their previously un-explored importance. The dynastic union which existed between Great Britain and Hanover between 1714 and 1837 is often seen as simply a subject for... -
Speeches That Changed Our Time: From 1945 to the Present Carlo Bata 9788854416321
RRP: £25.00£17.63The great speeches since post-World War II to the present have marked eras and interpreted feelings, in a continuously evolving world, when faced with the eternal problems, like life and freedom, and also new challenges. Moving speeches with a great... -
The Oxford Handbook of Public History by Adjunct Professor of History Paula Hamilton
RRP: £44.49£40.82The Oxford Handbook of Public History introduces the major debates within public history; the methods and sources that comprise a public historian's tool kit; and exemplary examples of practice. It views public history as a dynamic process combining... -
The New World History: A Field Guide for Teachers and Researchers by Ross E. Dunn 9780520289895
RRP: £38.00£31.01The New World History is a comprehensive volume of essays selected to enrich world history teaching and scholarship in this rapidly expanding field. The forty-four articles in this book take stock of the history, evolving literature, and current... -
Fruit from the Sands: The Silk Road Origins of the Foods We Eat by Robert N. Spengler
RRP: £23.00£22.30"A comprehensive and entertaining historical and botanical review, providing an enjoyable and cognitive read.”—Nature The foods we eat have a deep and often surprising past. From almonds and apples to tea and rice, many foods that we consume today have... -
The Literature of Destruction: Jewish Responses to Catastrophe by David G. Roskies 9780827604148
RRP: £27.99£25.52David Roskies, in one hundred powerful selections, presents the two-thousand year history of Jewish responses to catastrophe. The cyclical nature of violent regimes and their overthrow is delineated in these recurring images of sin, martyrdom, and... -
Portuguese Oceanic Expansion, 1400-1800 by Francisco Bethencourt
RRP: £37.99£28.78A unique overview of Portuguese oceanic expansion between 1400 and 1800, the essays in this volume treat a wide range of subjects - economy and society, politics and institutions, cultural configurations and comparative dimensions - and radically update... -
The Holy Grail: The Legend, the History, the Evidence by Justin E. Griffin 9780786409990
RRP: £14.99£12.55The existence of the Holy Grail has long been debated, and many of these debates focus on the intellectualized or psychological aspects of it. This work explores the events that gave rise to the legend of the Holy Grail and pays special attention to... -
Wings Of Morning: The Story Of The Last American Bomber Shot Down Over Germany In World War II by Thomas Childers 9780201407228
£16.02On April 21, 1945, the twelve-member crew of the Black Cat set off on one of the last air missions in the European theatre of World War II. Ten never came back. This is the story of that crew,where they came from, how they trained, what it was like to... -
Eurasian Musical Journeys: Five Tales by Gabriela Currie
RRP: £17.00£14.72This Element explores the circulation of musical instruments, practices, and thought in premodern Eurasia at the crossroads of empires and nomadic cultures. It takes into consideration mechanisms of transmission, appropriation, adaptation, and... -
Politics of Memory: Making Slavery Visible in the Public Space by Ana Lucia Araujo
RRP: £43.99£38.74The public memory of slavery and the Atlantic slave trade, which some years ago could be observed especially in North America, has slowly emerged into a transnational phenomenon now encompassing Europe, Africa, and Latin America, and even Asia - allowing... -
From China With Love: A Long Road to Motherhood Emily Buchanan (BBC, UK) 9780470093436
RRP: £14.99£10.05Although Emily Buchanan had a highly successful career in broadcasting and a loving husband there was something missing from her life: she desperately wanted children. After the trauma of three miscarriages, Emily and her husband Gerald were forced to... -
Papal Genealogy: The Families and Descendants of the Popes George L. Williams 9780786420711
RRP: £39.99£33.84The papacy has often resembled a secular European monarchy more than a divinely inspired institution. Roman pontiffs bestowed great wealth on their families and forged strategic alliances with other powerful families to increase their power. Pope... -
Nihongi: Volume II - Chronicles of Japan from the Earliest Times to A.D. 697 by W G Aston 9781605201474
RRP: £36.99£35.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781605201474Author W G AstonFormat HardbackPage Count 452Imprint Cosimo ClassicsPublisher Cosimo ClassicsWeight(grams) 708g -
Many Black Women of this Fortress: Graca, Monica and Adwoa, Three Enslaved Women of Portugal's African Empire by Kwasi Konadu
RRP: £16.99£15.54This book presents rare evidence about the lives of three African women in the sixteenth century--the very period from which we can trace the origins of global empires, slavery, capitalism, modern religious dogma and anti-Black violence. These features... -
Worlds Together, Worlds Apart: A History of the World from the Beginnings of Humankind to the Present by Jeremy Adelman 9780393532067
£104.28Worlds Together, Worlds Apart provides a compelling chronological foundation for world history. A global story frames each chapter, making thousands of years of history less daunting for students and instructors. New lead authors and master teachers,... -
Capitalism: A Short History by Jurgen Kocka 9780691165226
RRP: £22.00£17.63In this authoritative and accessible book, one of the world's most renowned historians provides a concise and comprehensive history of capitalism within a global perspective from its medieval origins to the 2008 financial crisis and beyond. From early... -
The Mapmaker's Wife: A True Tale Of Love, Murder, And Survival In The Amazon by Robert Whitaker
£16.07In the early years of the 18th century, a band of French scientists set off on a daring, decade-long expedition to South America in a race to measure the precise shape of the earth. Like Lewis and Clark's exploration of the American West, their... -
The Contest of the Century: The New Era of Competition with China by Geoff Dyer
RRP: £15.99£11.79By sea and on the airwaves, by dollar and yuan, a contest has begun that will shape the next century. China's rise has now entered a critical new phase, as it seeks to translate its considerable economic heft into a larger role on the world stage,... -
Wiring Prometheus: Globalisation, History & Technology by Peter Lyth 9788772889474
RRP: £22.95£17.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788772889474Author Peter LythFormat PaperbackPage Count 255Imprint Aarhus University PressPublisher Aarhus University Press -
Conversion to Islam in the Medieval Period by Professor Richard W Bulliet 9780674732803
RRP: £54.95£54.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674732803Author Professor Richard W BullietFormat HardbackPage Count 158Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams)... -
Readings in Western Civilization: v.7: The Old Regime and the French Revolution by Keith Michael Baker 9780226069500 [USED COPY]
RRP: £25.00£6.43The University of Chicago Readings in Western Civilization (nine volumes) makes available to students and teachers a unique selection of primary documents, many in new translations. These readings, prepared for the highly praised Western civilization... -
Readings in Western Civilization: v.7: The Old Regime and the French Revolution by Keith Michael Baker 9780226069500
RRP: £25.00£24.34The University of Chicago Readings in Western Civilization (nine volumes) makes available to students and teachers a unique selection of primary documents, many in new translations. These readings, prepared for the highly praised Western civilization... -
The Imperial Nation: Citizens and Subjects in the British, French, Spanish, and American Empires by Josep Fradera 9780691167459
RRP: £45.00£35.60How the legacy of monarchical empires shaped Britain, France, Spain, and the United States as they became liberal entitiesHistorians view the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries as a turning point when imperial monarchies collapsed and modern... -
Warfare in the Sokoto Caliphate: Historical and Sociological Perspectives by Joseph P. Smaldone 9780521101424
RRP: £30.99£25.45The successful jihad of 1804 in Hausaland - perhaps the most important Islamic revolution in West African history, with consequences still apparent in Nigeria today - resulted in the establishment of the Sokoto Caliphate, the largest and most enduring... -
The Making of the Modern Refugee by Peter Gatrell 9780199674169
RRP: £82.00£50.86The Making of the Modern Refugee is a comprehensive history of global population displacement in the twentieth century. It takes a new approach to the subject, exploring its causes, consequences, and meanings. History, the author shows, provides... -
The Origins of the Modern World: A Global and Environmental Narrative from the Fifteenth to the Twenty-First Century by Robert B. Marks 9781538182772
RRP: £30.00£26.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781538182772Author Robert B. MarksFormat PaperbackPage Count 277Imprint Rowman & LittlefieldPublisher Rowman & Littlefield -
Conquering Jerusalem by Stephen Dando-Collins 9781684425488
RRP: £25.99£17.35AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR AND HISTORIAN STEPHEN DANDO-COLLINS PROVIDES UNPARALLELED NEW INSIGHT INTO THE FIRST JEWISH REVOLT Dando-Collins details the conflict from both sides of the 7-year campaign. His examination of the revolt draws upon numerous... -
Battlefields Past and Present by Peter Darman 9781667205151
RRP: £21.99£16.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781667205151Author Peter DarmanFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint Thunder Bay PressPublisher Thunder Bay PressWeight(grams) 794gDimensions(mm) 221mm *... -
Warriors of God: Richard the Lionheart and Saladin in the Third Crusade by James Reston 9780385495622
RRP: £20.00£15.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385495622Author James RestonFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Bantam Doubleday DellPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group IncWeight(grams)... -
Walls: A History of Civilization in Blood and Brick by David Frye 9781501172717
RRP: £18.99£11.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501172717Author David FryeFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 137mm... -
The Death of Character: Moral Education in an Age Without Good or Evil by James Hunter 9780465031771
£18.49The Death of Character is a broad historical, sociological, and cultural inquiry into the moral life and moral education of young Americans based upon a huge empirical study of the children themselves. The children's thoughts and concerns-expressed here... -
Lectures on the History of Southwark. by James Merchant Robertson 9781241061913
RRP: £13.99£12.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781241061913Author James Merchant RobertsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 92Imprint British Library, Historical Print EditionsPublisher British Library,... -
Dorothea Lieven: A Russian Princess in London and Paris, 1785-1857 Judith Lissauer Cromwell 9780786426515
RRP: £21.99£18.25Dorothea de Benckendorff was born December 28, 1785. Bright, vivacious and personable, she was destined to become an influential player in international diplomacy. Spending three of her most formative years in exile with her mother, Dorothea was not... -
The Cambridge History of Southeast Asia by Nicholas Tarling 9780521663717
RRP: £32.99£32.28In these four volumes, first published in 2000 and now published in paperback, twenty-two scholars of international reputation consider the whole of mainland and island Southeast Asia from Burma to Indonesia. Each volume has a new preface which points to... -
Protest and Survival: The Historical Experience by John Rule 9780850364354
RRP: £15.95£14.44Few historians in this century have had as lasting and marked an impact as E. P. Thompson. His rewriting of English history, beginning with The Making of the English Working Class, has affected a whole generation of historians. At the same time, his role... -
Just War Against Terror: The Burden Of American Power In A Violent World by Jean Bethke Elshtain 9780465019113
£20.23Jean Bethke Elshtain advocates "just war" in times of crisis and mounts a reasoned attack against the anti-war contingent in American intellectual life. Advocating an ethic of responsibility, Elshtain forces us to ask tough questions not only... -
The Rise of Historical Writing Among the Arabs by Professor Lawrence I. Conrad 9780691612973
RRP: £30.00£23.66This 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...