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Russia's Empires: Their Rise and Fall from Prehistory to Putin by Philip Longworth 9780719562044 [USED COPY]
RRP: £25.00£2.65Through the centuries, Russia has swung between successful expansionism, catastrophic collapse and spectacular recovery. This illuminating and accessible history traces these cycles from the late Neolithic age to Ivan the Terrible, and from the height of... -
Ghosts: The Complete Guide to the Supernatural by Zachary Graves 9781907795060 [USED COPY]
RRP: £16.99£2.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907795060Author Zachary GravesFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Canary PressPublisher Omnipress -
The World History Factfinder by Colin McEvedy 9780712634595 [USED COPY]
£2.80This is a survey of vast landscape of events, achievements and experiences that we call history. Its aim is to help readers in their exploration of the past to understand the cross-fertilization of events and, with the aid of the articles, maps, diagrams... -
Reading Inscriptions and Writing Ancient History: Historical Scholarship in the Late Renaissance (BICS Supplement 86) by William Stenhouse 9780900587986
£61.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780900587986Author William StenhouseFormat PaperbackPage Count 214Imprint Institute of Classical StudiesPublisher Institute of Classical Studies -
War in the World: A Comparative History, 1450-1600 by Professor Jeremy Black 9780230298583
RRP: £110.00£109.56War was a central theme in the world history of the late fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, with military capability and activity central to its states, societies, economies and cultures. War in the World 1450-1600 provides an account of warfare in the... -
Intercultural Transfers and the Making of the Modern World, 1800-2000: Sources and Contexts by Thomas Adam 9780230243538
RRP: £95.00£94.80For far too long, the history of the modern era has been written as a history of isolated nation states. This book which presents both interpretation and primary source documents challenges a nation-centred account, exploring the interconnected and... -
War in the Eighteenth-Century World by Professor Jeremy Black 9780230370029
RRP: £110.00£109.56Placing eighteenth-century warfare in a truly global context, Jeremy Black challenges conventional accounts and offers a reappraisal of debates in Western and Asian history. This concise, up-to-date survey assumes little prior knowledge and provides... -
World of Possibilities: Flexibility and Mass Production in Western Industrialization by Charles F. Sabel 9780521894432
RRP: £44.99£38.54This book retells the history of Western industrialization, revealing possibilities unexplored in the nineteenth century, variants of which have come to transform present day economies. It shows that economic actors have historically been more aware of... -
Transactions of the Royal Historical Society: Volume 12: Sixth Series by Royal Historical Society 9780521815611
RRP: £44.99£40.98The Transactions offers readers an annual collection of major articles representing some of the best historical research by some of the world's most distinguished historians. Volume 12 of the sixth series takes the theme 'English politeness: conduct,... -
Portuguese Oceanic Expansion, 1400-1800 by Francisco Bethencourt 9780521846448
RRP: £66.00£58.07A 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 Escape from Hunger and Premature Death, 1700-2100: Europe, America, and the Third World by Robert William Fogel 9780521808781
RRP: £72.00£65.09Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Transactions of the Royal Historical Society: Volume 13: Sixth Series by Royal Historical Society 9780521830768
RRP: £48.99£44.49The Transactions of the Royal Historical Society publish an annual collection of major articles representing some of the best historical research by some of the world's most distinguished historians. Volume thirteen of the sixth series includes the... -
Tolerance and Coercion in Islam: Interfaith Relations in the Muslim Tradition by Yohanan Friedmann 9780521827034
RRP: £96.99£82.01Since the beginning of its history, Islam has encountered other religious communities both in Arabia and in the territories conquered during its expansion. Muslims faced other religions from the position of a ruling power and were therefore able to... -
The History of Family Business, 1850-2000 by Andrea Colli 9780521804721
RRP: £23.99£20.37In this 2002 textbook, Andrea Colli gives a historical and comparative perspective on family business, examining through time the different relationships within family businesses and among family enterprises, inside different political and institutional... -
Renaissances: The One or the Many? by Jack Goody 9780521768016
RRP: £50.00£44.39One of the most distinguished social scientists in the world addresses one of the central historical questions of the past millennium: does the European Renaissance deserve its unique status at the very heart of our notions of modernity? Jack Goody... -
Humour and Social Protest by Dennis Bos 9780521722148
RRP: £28.99£26.52Combining developments in the field of social movement theory regarding framing, collective identity, and emotions with insights from humourology, the seventeen essays in this book show the power of humour in framing social and political protest across a... -
The Labour of Loss: Mourning, Memory and Wartime Bereavement in Australia by Joy Damousi 9780521669740
RRP: £30.00£25.95The Labour of Loss, first published in 1999, explores how mothers, fathers, widows, relatives and friends dealt with their experiences of grief and loss during and after the First and Second World Wars. Based on an examination of private loss through... -
The Rise of African Slavery in the Americas by David Eltis 9780521652315
RRP: £75.00£67.65Why were the countries with the most developed institutions of individual freedom also the leaders in establishing the most exploitative system of slavery that the world has ever seen? In seeking to provide new answers to this question, The Rise of... -
A History of Laos by Martin Stuart-Fox 9780521592352
RRP: £74.00£67.26This 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... -
Explaining Long-Term Economic Change by J. L. Anderson 9780521552691
RRP: £50.00£44.98This 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... -
A History of Islamic Societies by Ira M. Lapidus 9780521514309
RRP: £89.99£80.40This new edition of one of the most widely used course books on Islamic civilizations around the world has been substantially revised to incorporate the new scholarship and insights of the last twenty-five years. Ira Lapidus' history explores the... -
The State and Social Investigation in Britain and the United States by Michael James Lacey 9780521416382
RRP: £127.00£113.82The State and Social Investigation in Britain and the United States addresses the historical development of the knowledge base upon which the public policies of the democratic state depend. This comparative study stretches from the Enlightenment origins... -
Mammon and the Pursuit of Empire Abridged Edition: The Economics of British Imperialism by Lance Edwin Davis 9780521357234
RRP: £44.99£38.38Historians have so far made few attempts to assess directly the costs and benefits of Britain's investment in empire. This book presents answers to some of the key questions about the economics of imperialism: how large was the flow of finance to the... -
Hunger and History: The Impact of Changing Food Production and Consumption Patterns on Society by Robert I. Rotberg 9780521315050
RRP: £30.99£25.45The essays in this 1985 volume direct attention to important questions on the relationship between food and history. Throughout human history, man has had to adapt and sustain himself by varying or expanding the basic kinds or forms of his nutritional... -
Business History around the World by Franco Amatori 9780521172233
RRP: £38.99£32.68This 2003 book offered the first in-depth international survey of contemporary research and debates in business history. Over the two decades leading to its publication, enormous advances had been made in writing the history of business enterprise and... -
China and the Overseas Chinese: A Study of Peking's Changing Policy: 1949-1970 by Stephen Fitzgerald 9780521298100
RRP: £30.99£26.43Originally published in 1972, this is a detailed examination of the policy of the People's Republic of China towards the overseas Chinese - those people of Chinese origin living outside China, mostly in South-East Asia. The overseas Chinese have often... -
Democracy and Organisation in the Chinese Industrial Enterprise (1948-1953) by William Brugger 9780521134293
RRP: £36.99£29.35Originally published in 1976, this book examines how a new system of factory management was implemented in China after the liberation of 1948-9. At that time, the Chinese Communist Party attempted to integrate a commitment to broad participation in... -
Selections from the Smuts Papers: Volume 2: June 1902-May 1910 by W. K. Hancock 9780521033657
RRP: £45.99£42.46The great collection of letters and papers comprising the Smuts Papers has been assembled at the University of Cape Town by Dr Jean van der Poel, under Sir Keith Hancock's direction, since Smuts's death in 1950. The first four volumes of selections cover... -
Selections from the Smuts Papers: Volume 1: June 1886-May 1902 by W. K. Hancock 9780521033640
RRP: £45.99£42.46The great collection of letters and papers comprising the Smuts Papers has been assembled at the University of Cape Town by Dr Jean van der Poel, under Sir Keith Hancock's direction, since Smuts's death in 1950. The first four volumes of selections cover... -
America and the Armenian Genocide of 1915 by Dr Jay Winter 9780521071239
RRP: £44.99£37.16Before Rwanda and Bosnia, and before the Holocaust, the first genocide of the twentieth century happened in Turkish Armenia in 1915, when approximately one million people were killed. This volume is an account of the American response to this atrocity... -
The Prediction of Communist Economic Performance by P. J. D. Wiles 9780521074070
RRP: £36.99£30.33Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Socialism and Democracy in Czechoslovakia: 1945-1948 by M. R. Myant 9780521067164
RRP: £30.99£26.43This book is about the political, social and economic changes in Czechoslovakia in the years 1945- 1948. In 1945 the 'national revolution' established the Communist Party as the dominant force within a coalition government. The leading Communists then... -
Selections from the Smuts Papers: Volume 6: December 1934-August 1945 by Jean van der Poel 9780521033695
RRP: £45.99£41.86Volumes V, VI and VII complete the series of selections from the Smuts Papers. They cover the period from August 1919, when Smuts succeeded Botha as prime minister of the Union of South Africa, until his death in September 1950. The selection is divided... -
Selections from the Smuts Papers: Volume 5: September 1919-November 1934 by Jean van der Poel 9780521033688
RRP: £45.99£42.46Volumes V, VI and VII complete the series of selections from the Smuts Papers. They cover the period from August 1919, when Smuts succeeded Botha as prime minister of the Union of South Africa, until his death in September 1950. The selection is divided... -
Selections from the Smuts Papers: Volume 4: November 1918-August 1919 by William K. Hancock 9780521033671
RRP: £45.99£41.86The great collection of letters and papers comprising the Smuts Papers has been assembled at the University of Cape Town by Dr Jean van der Poel, under Sir Keith Hancock's direction, since Smuts's death in 1950. The first four volumes of selections cover... -
Selections from the Smuts Papers: Volume 3: June 1910-November 1918 by Sir Keith Hancock 9780521033664
RRP: £45.99£42.46The great collection of letters and papers comprising the Smuts Papers has been assembled at the University of Cape Town by Dr Jean van der Poel, under Sir Keith Hancock's direction, since Smuts's death in 1950. The first four volumes of selections cover... -
Industrialization in an Open Economy: Nigeria 1945-1966 by Peter Kilby 9780521084017
RRP: £38.99£32.68This book provides a detailed study of how manufacturing and processing industries have developed in the largest country of West Africa. Three chapters devoted to import substitution examine the interaction of growing consumer demand and the market... -
Catherine the Great and the Russian Nobilty: A Study Based on the Materials of the Legislative Commission of 1767 by Paul Dukes 9780521084000
RRP: £34.99£29.35Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Eastern Europe 1939-2000: States and Societies by Mark Pittaway 9780340762202
RRP: £110.00£109.56Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
History of Ashanti by Otumfuo, Nana Osei Agyeman, Prempeh II by Tom McCaskie 9780197267028
£110.00Sorry no description is available for this book at this time.