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Two Cheers for Democracy: How Emotions Drive Leadership Style by Dan Hill 9780999741627
RRP: £19.64£14.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999741627Author Dan HillFormat PaperbackPage Count 202Imprint Sensory Logic. IncPublisher Sensory Logic. IncWeight(grams) 216g -
An Outline of Occult Science: (cw 13) by Rudolf Steiner 9780880103688
RRP: £14.99£13.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780880103688Author Rudolf SteinerFormat PaperbackPage Count 388Imprint SteinerBooks, IncPublisher Anthroposophic Press IncWeight(grams) 513g -
A Cultural History of the Atlantic World, 1250-1820 by John K. Thornton 9780521898751
RRP: £68.00£60.01A Cultural History of the Atlantic World, 1250-1820 explores the idea that strong links exist in the histories of Africa, Europe and North and South America. John K. Thornton provides a comprehensive overview of the history of the Atlantic Basin before... -
Prayer in Islamic Thought and Practice by Marion Holmes Katz 9780521887885
RRP: £75.00£66.25The five daily prayers (Salat) that constitute the second pillar of Islam deeply pervade the everyday life of observant Muslims. Until now, however, no general study has analyzed the rules governing Salat, the historical dimensions of its practice and... -
Slavery in the Development of the Americas by David Eltis 9780521832779
RRP: £75.00£67.65Slavery in the Development of the Americas brings together work from leading historians and economic historians of slavery. The essays cover various aspects of slavery and the role of slavery in the development of the southern United States, Brazil,... -
The Cambridge World History of Slavery: Volume 4, AD 1804-AD 2016 by Keith Bradley 9780521840699
£120.00Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Second Metropolis: Pragmatic Pluralism in Gilded Age Chicago, Silver Age Moscow, and Meiji Osaka by Blair A. Ruble 9780521801799
RRP: £46.99£41.47By exploring and comparing North America's, Russia's, and Japan's 'second cities' - Chicago, Moscow, and Osaka - Second Metropolis discloses the extent to which social fragmentation, frequently viewed as an obstacle to democratic development, actually... -
The History of the People's Republic of China, 1949-1976 Julia Strauss (School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London) 9780521696968
RRP: £31.99£31.31The volume looks back to the revolutionary People's Republic of China between 1949 and 1976 from an explicitly historical perspective, using historical materials such as memoirs and archives. While there was a great deal published on the revolutionary... -
The Paths of History by Igor M. Diakonoff 9780521643986
RRP: £32.99£27.40This is a broad and ambitious study of the entire history of humanity which takes as its point of departure Marx's theory of social evolution. However, Professor Diakonoff's theory of world history differs from Marx's in a number of ways. Firstly he has... -
The Cambridge History of Southeast Asia by Nicholas Tarling 9780521663700
RRP: £38.99£38.14In these four volumes, 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 the relationships with the... -
Contagion and the State in Europe, 1830-1930 by Peter Baldwin 9780521642880
RRP: £125.00£98.75This book is a groundbreaking study of the historical reasons for the divergence in public health policies adopted in Britain, France, Germany and Sweden, and the spectrum of responses to the threat of contagious diseases such as cholera, smallpox and... -
Identity and Intolerance: Nationalism, Racism, and Xenophobia in Germany and the United States by Norbert Finzsch 9780521591584
RRP: £120.00£98.15In a world of increasingly heterogeneous societies, matters of identity politics and the links between collective identities and national, racial, or ethnic intolerance have assumed dramatic significance - and have stimulated an enormous body of research... -
The Rise and Fall of the Plantation Complex: Essays in Atlantic History by Philip D. Curtin 9780521620765
RRP: £75.00£61.57Over a period of several centuries, Europeans developed an intricate system of plantation agriculture overseas which was quite different from the agricultural system used at home. Though the plantation complex centered on the American tropics, its... -
The Endurance of Nationalism: Ancient Roots and Modern Dilemmas by Aviel Roshwald 9780521603645
RRP: £28.99£24.20Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Banking, Trade and Industry: Europe, America and Asia from the Thirteenth to the Twentieth Century by Alice Teichova 9780521573610
RRP: £105.00£88.31Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The State and Social Investigation in Britain and the United States by Michael James Lacey 9780521528535
RRP: £51.99£44.39The 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... -
Transition to Global Rivalry: Alliance Diplomacy and the Quadruple Entente, 1895-1907 by John Albert White 9780521526654
RRP: £42.99£36.19During the years before the First World War, the realignment of world powers resulted in agreements concluded in 1904 and 1907 between Britain, France, Russia and Japan. John Albert White terms this a Quadruple Entente, a more accurate and complete... -
Identity and Intolerance: Nationalism, Racism, and Xenophobia in Germany and the United States by Norbert Finzsch 9780521525992
RRP: £47.99£40.49In a world of increasingly heterogeneous societies, matters of identity politics and the links between collective identities and national, racial, or ethnic intolerance have assumed dramatic significance - and have stimulated an enormous body of research... -
Global Ramifications of the French Revolution by Joseph Klaits 9780521524476
RRP: £37.99£31.31This collection of essays is the first to examine the impact of the French Revolution. The legacy of the French Revolution extends far beyond the borders of France or even Europe-the ramifications of the Revolution of 1789 are truly global and continue... -
World of Possibilities: Flexibility and Mass Production in Western Industrialization by Charles F. Sabel 9780521495554
RRP: £127.00£113.82This 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... -
The Ends of the Earth: Perspectives on Modern Environmental History by Donald Worster 9780521343657
RRP: £85.00£67.65Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Population and Economy: Population and History from the Traditional to the Modern World by Robert I. Rotberg 9780521310550
RRP: £30.99£25.45With the publication of The Population History of England in 1981 it has become possible for the first time to trace in detail the demographic changes that occurred in a major European country throughout the early modern period and during the industrial... -
Mao Tse-Tung in the Scales of History: A Preliminary Assessment Organized by the China Quarterly by Dick Wilson 9780521291903
RRP: £30.99£26.43Mao Tse-tung was one of the most influential leaders of the twentieth century. In this 1977 book, eleven scholars renowned for their penetrating and lively analysis of Mao during his life, here make their assessments of his career and influence, after... -
Slavery in the Development of the Americas by David Eltis 9780521172677
RRP: £30.99£26.43Slavery in the Development of the Americas brings together work from leading historians and economic historians of slavery. The essays cover various aspects of slavery and the role of slavery in the development of the southern United States, Brazil,... -
Studies in the Social History of China and South-East Asia: Essays in Memory of Victor Purcell by Jerome Ch'en 9780521133746
RRP: £36.99£30.33Victor Purcell died in 1965 shortly after retiring from his teaching post in Cambridge. This 1970 memorial volume is a tribute to the wide range of his interests by friends, colleagues and former pupils. It aims primarily to acknowledge his work as a... -
The Pattern of Imperialism: The United States, Great Britian and the Late-Industrializing World Since 1815 by Tony Smith 9780521280761
RRP: £37.99£31.31The principal ambition of this book is to provide an avowedly eclectic, although largely political, explanation of American and British imperialism, as comprehensive and ultimately as unified as that offered by Marxist interpretations. Geopolitical... -
Europe, America, and the Wider World: Volume 2, America and the Wider World: Essays on the Economic History of Western Capitalism by William Nelson Parker 9780521254663
RRP: £105.00£94.22This volume collects Professor Parker's major writings on American agricultural and industrial history, including some previously unpublished essays. Taken as a whole, these essays give an account of why and how the United States grew rich in the... -
Banking, Trade and Industry: Europe, America and Asia from the Thirteenth to the Twentieth Century by Alice Teichova 9780521188876
RRP: £44.99£38.54The theme of this volume, first published in 1997, is challenging both in its scale and in its scope. Its purpose is to take account of the state of research and writing on the symbiotic relationship between banking, trade and industry, and the state... -
Region and Nation: The Kwangsi Clique in Chinese Politics 1925-1937 by Diana Lary 9780521104883
RRP: £34.99£29.35A study of the tensions between region and nation in Republican China. Diana Lary gives a detailed examination of Kwangsi province in south-west China, the home base of a major warlord clique that was important both for its interesting internal politics... -
Taxation and Governmental Finance in Sixteenth-Century Ming China by Ray Huang 9780521104876
RRP: £42.99£36.59Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Yeh Ming-Ch'en: Viceroy of Liang Kuang 1852-8 by J. Y. Wong 9780521103749
RRP: £34.99£29.35The western reader is here presented with a biography of a major figure on the Chinese side in the crucial period of China's political contact with the western world, which describes a man of his own time and country, with his own background of... -
They Built for the Future: A Chronicle of Makerere University College 1922-1962 by Margaret MacPherson 9780521106702
RRP: £30.99£25.45This is the story of Makerere College from its inception in 1922 when fourteen day boys began to study carpentry, building and mechanics. In 1949 the greatly developed college entered into a special relationship with the University of London and began to... -
Artigas and the Emancipation of Uruguay by John Street 9780521086936
RRP: £38.99£32.28Jose Artigas, the national hero of Uruguay, fought in the years 1811-1820 for the creation and maintenance of an independent state on the banks of the River Plate. Dr Street's study takes Artigas as the principal figure and Uruguay as the chief state... -
Soviet Economists of the Twenties: Names to be Remembered by Naum Jasny 9780521085854
RRP: £32.99£27.40Stalin's abrupt resolution of the crucial Soviet economic debate of the twenties - on the pace and method of industrialization - forced upon many the alternative of imprisonment or flight. Among them were not only political opponents and... -
Reform Rule in Czechoslovakia: The Dubcek Era 1968-1969 by Galia Golan 9780521085724
RRP: £36.99£30.33This book studies in detail the reform regime of Alexander Dubcek from the assumption of power in the Party by reform-minded communists in January 1968 until Gustav Husik replaced Dubcek as First Secretary. The reform regime survived only eight months of... -
Mexican Agriculture 1521-1630: Transformation of the Mode of Production by Andre Gunder Frank 9780521085687
RRP: £28.99£23.80`The conquerors wanted Indian labour, the crown Indian subjects, the friars Indian souls.' Thus the importance of the natives of Mexico to their Spanish conquerors has been described. In this book Andre Gunder Frank examines the dramatic impact of... -
The Politics of South India 1920-1937 by Christopher John Baker 9780521052764
RRP: £37.99£31.31The interwar years witnessed great changes in the political life of India, with the establishment of new governmental institutions, the emergence of political movements based on class, caste and ideology, and the rapid expansion of the nationalist... -
The Crisis of Russian Populism by Richard Wortman 9780521089708
RRP: £30.99£25.45The Russian populists were intellectuals who saw the hope for transformation of Russian society in an alliance between peasantry and intelligentsia. They endowed the peasant with their own socialist ideas and in his institutions, especially the rural... -
The United Front: The TUC and the Russians 1923-1928 by Daniel F. Calhoun 9780521089692
RRP: £46.99£41.47The book concerns the Soviet effort during the 1920s to make contact with - and if possible revolutionize - the European labour movement, by first establishing a special relationship with the British Trades Union Congress. The ultimate failure of that... -
The Politics of the Soviet Cinema 1917-1929 by Professor Richard Taylor 9780521088558
RRP: £32.99£27.40Much has been written about Soviet literature and its political significance in the years following the October Revolution, but little has been written about the cinema in the same context. And yet in 1922 Lenin said, 'Of all the arts, for us the cinema...