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Popular Intellectuals and Social Movements: Framing Protest in Asia, Africa, and Latin America by Michiel Baud 9780521613484
RRP: £22.99£20.66All forms of popular protest include a specific category of 'popular intellectuals', who reflect on social reality, speak in the name of popular classes and who articulate ideas that inspire collective action. This volume focuses on these individuals... -
The State, the Financial System and Economic Modernization by Richard Sylla 9780521591232
RRP: £98.99£88.31Through an examination of a wide variety of financial systems in Europe, and North and South America over approximately 150 years of change, this book demonstrates the key role that finance has played in economic change, and in the development of diverse... -
A New Australia: Citizenship, Radicalism and the First Republic by Bruce Scates 9780521575966
RRP: £31.99£29.16The 1890s were a watershed in Australian history, a time of mass unemployment, industrial confrontation and sweeping social change. They also nurtured a flourishing radical culture: anarchists, socialists, single taxers, feminists and republicans. This... -
From the Ruins of Colonialism: History as Social Memory by Chris Healy 9780521565769
RRP: £29.00£24.43From the Ruins of Colonialism throws fresh light on the history of memory, forgetting and colonialism. Focusing on Australia, the book charts how film, public commemorations, history textbooks and museums have, in a strange ensemble, become something... -
Epidemics and Ideas: Essays on the Historical Perception of Pestilence by Terence Ranger 9780521558310
RRP: £39.99£32.28From plague to AIDS, epidemics have been the most spectacular diseases to afflict human societies. This volume examines the way in which these great crises have influenced ideas, how they have helped to shape theological, political and social thought,... -
Nation, State and the Economy in History by Alice Teichova 9780521283137
RRP: £48.99£41.47Originally published in 2003, this book addresses the rarely explored subject of the reciprocal relationships between nationalism, nation and state-building, and economic change. Analysis of the economic element in the building of nations and states... -
Power, Profit and Politics: Volume 15: Part 3 by Christopher Baker 9780521133869
RRP: £27.99£23.61The essays in this book were originally published together as a special issue of the Journal of Modern Asian Studies, released in July 1981. They are reprinted here in their entirety. The essays are concerned with the ways in which Britain's imperial... -
Global Electrification: Multinational Enterprise and International Finance in the History of Light and Power, 1878-2007 by William J. Hausman 9780521299008
RRP: £41.99£33.66This book examines how multinational enterprises and international finance influenced the course of electrification around the world. Multinational enterprises played a crucial role in the spread of electric light and power from the 1870s through the... -
The Lions of Dagbon: Political Change in Northern Ghana by Martin Staniland 9780521101431
RRP: £30.99£26.43The political conflict that has taken the most violent form and proved costliest in human lives in Ghana in the last half century has been a chieftaincy dispute in the northern kingdom of Dagomba, known as the Yendi skin dispute. The major loss of life... -
Politics of Decolonization: Kenya Europeans and the Land Issue 1960-1965 by Gary Wasserman 9780521100236
RRP: £30.99£25.45Decolonization in the Third World has most often been approached by tracing the ties of nationalist movements to the attainment of independence. This book attempts to revise the perspective. It presents a model of decolonization centring on the idea that... -
Britain, Southeast Asia and the Onset of the Cold War, 1945-1950 by Nicholas Tarling 9780521033367
RRP: £61.00£52.07This detailed study throws light on the evolution of British policy in South-east Asia in the turbulent post-war period. Through extensive archival research and insightful analysis of the British mindset and official policy, Tarling demonstrates that... -
A Search for Sovereignty: Law and Geography in European Empires, 1400-1900 by Lauren Benton 9780521881050
RRP: £85.00£68.62A Search for Sovereignty approaches world history by examining the relation of law and geography in European empires between 1400 and 1900. Lauren Benton argues that Europeans imagined imperial space as networks of corridors and enclaves, and that they... -
The Comparative Histories of Slavery in Brazil, Cuba, and the United States by Laird Bergad 9780521872355
RRP: £75.00£67.65This 2007 book is an introductory history of racial slavery in the Americas. Brazil and Cuba were among the first colonial societies to establish slavery in the early sixteenth century. Approximately a century later British colonial Virginia was founded,... -
Kingship and Conversion in Sixteenth-Century Sri Lanka: Portuguese Imperialism in a Buddhist Land by Alan Strathern 9780521860093
RRP: £90.00£77.49When the Portuguese arrived on the shores of Sri Lanka in 1506, they opened an era in which religious identity became central to struggles for power on the island. During the reign of King Bhuvanekabahu VII (1521-51), they became the first European... -
Nature and Power: A Global History of the Environment by Joachim Radkau 9780521851299
RRP: £70.00£61.97This book aims to demonstrate that the changing relationship between humanity and nature is key to understanding world history. Humans have been grappling with environmental problems since prehistoric times, and the environmental unsustainability of... -
Global Russian Cultures by Kevin M.F. Platt 9780299319700
RRP: £80.00£76.01Is there an essential Russian identity? What happens when ""Russian"" literature is written in English, by such authors as Gary Shteyngart or Lara Vapnyar? What is the geographic ""home"" of Russian culture created... -
Allies For Freedom & Blacks On John Brown by Benjamin Quarles 9780306809613
£21.30John Brown is an endlessly fascinating historical figure. Here are two classic studies by a pioneer in African American studies, one about the place of John Brown in African American history, the other about the reasons for the unique esteem in which he... -
Allies: Pearl Harbor To D-Day by John S. D. Eisenhower 9780306809415
£26.50Dwight D. Eisenhower once remarked that "the history of alliances is a history of failure." This provocative, absorbing work, based on a study by the General and written by his son, is a history of one of the great exceptions, the most... -
Genocide by William D. Rubinstein 9781138149427
RRP: £90.00£78.11Genocide is a topic beset by ambiguities over meaning and double standards. In this stimulating and gripping history, William Rubinstein sets out to clarify the meaning of the term genocide and its historical evolution, and provides a working definition... -
The Atlantic Experience: Peoples, Places, Ideas by Catherine Armstrong 9780230272736
RRP: £100.00£99.72Providing a succinct yet comprehensive introduction to the history of the Atlantic world in its entirety, The Atlantic Experience traces the first Portuguese journeys to the West coast of Africa in the mid-fifteenth century through to the abolition of... -
Les Merveilles de la Terre d'Outremer by Jean De Vignay 9780859893480
RRP: £35.00£30.95A critical editon of Jean de Vignay's Les Merveilles de la Terre D'Outremer, a story not well known by most. First published in 1990 by University of Exeter Press, it is part of the Textes Litteraires series.Book InformationISBN 9780859893480Author Jean... -
The Second Bull Run Campaign: July-August 1862 by David Martin 9780306813320
£19.16A fully illustrated account, replete with detailed maps, of one of Robert E. Lee's greatest Civil War successes.Book InformationISBN 9780306813320Author David MartinFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint Da Capo Press IncPublisher INGRAM PUBLISHER... -
A History of the Pacific Islands by Steven Fischer 9780230362680
£80.04This wide-ranging study of the Pacific Islands provides a dynamic and provocative account of the peopling of the Pacific, and its broad impact on world history. Spanning over 50,000 years of human presence in an area which comprises one-third of our... -
Intercultural Transfers and the Making of the Modern World, 1800-2000: Sources and Contexts by Thomas Adam 9780230243545
£32.28For 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... -
Beyond the Military Revolution: War in the Seventeenth Century World by Professor Jeremy Black 9780230251564
£34.23The seventeenth century has long been seen as a period of 'crisis' or transition from the pre-modern to the modern world. This book offers a chance to explore this crisis from the perspective of war and military institutions in a way that should appeal... -
Picture Windows: How The Suburbs Happened by Elizabeth Ewen 9780465070138
£19.16Picture Windows chronicles how suburbia sprawled, proving to be a hothouse for scores of disaffected artistic types and mopey teens.-Vanity FairBook InformationISBN 9780465070138Author Elizabeth EwenFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Basic... -
The Last Days of the Renaissance: & the March to Modernity by Theodore K. Rabb 9780465068029
£23.44There is little debate that the Renaissance began at the end of the fourteenth century. Its end, though, is much more difficult to pin down. Here, for the first time, renowned classicist Theodore Rabb defines the changes that marked the shift away from... -
Bound Together: How Traders, Preachers,Adventurers, and Warriors Shaped Globalization Large Print Edition by Nayan Chanda 9780300130447
£27.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780300130447Author Nayan ChandaFormat PaperbackPage Count 676Imprint Yale University PressPublisher Yale University PressWeight(grams) 1155g -
The Greenwood Dictionary of World History by John J. Butt 9780313327650
£84.24The Greenwood Dictionary of World History is an indispensable, handy, and easy to use A-to-Z first-stop ready-reference resource providing essential information on over 2,000 of the most studied and important people, events, places, and ideas in world... -
. . 1.. by Aleksandr Lazarevsky 9781241794132
RRP: £14.99£13.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781241794132Author Aleksandr LazarevskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 150Imprint British Library, Historical Print EditionsPublisher British Library, Historical... -
John Bull's Neighbour in Her True Light. Being an Answer to Some Recent French Criticisms. by a Brutal Saxon. by John Bull 9781240910557
RRP: £14.99£13.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781240910557Author John BullFormat PaperbackPage Count 148Imprint British Library, Historical Print EditionsPublisher British Library, Historical Print... -
Binah: Volume I; Studies in Jewish History by Joseph Dan 9780275930363
£83.24Praeger, in collaboration with the distinguished International Center for University Teaching of Jewish Civilization, Jerusalem, and in association with Israeli's Open University, has undertaken the publication of this multi-volume series. Binah brings... -
The New Imperialism, Volume 1 by Maximilian Forte 9780889474963
RRP: £8.23£7.52Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780889474963Author Maximilian ForteFormat PaperbackImprint Alert PressPublisher Alert PressWeight(grams) 358g -
The Ingenuity of Man by Estelle H. Ries 9780837180410
£83.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780837180410Author Estelle H. RiesFormat HardbackPage Count 333Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO -
Bulgarian Communism: The Road to Power 1934-1944 by Nissan Oren 9780313247415
£55.96This study examines the politics of Bulgarian Communism during the decade preceding the establishment of Communist rule in Bulgaria. It completes the history of the Bulgarian Communist Party in its pre-ruling days.Book InformationISBN 9780313247415Author... -
Britain and the Congo in the Nineteenth Century. by Roger Anstey 9780313233661
£83.64A microcosmic study of nineteenth century British imperialism.Book InformationISBN 9780313233661Author Roger AnsteyFormat HardbackPage Count 260Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO -
Socialist Banking and Monetary Control: The Experience of Poland by T.M. Podolski 9780521130974
RRP: £36.99£23.80Originally published in 1973, this book deals with the development of financial institutions, changes in methods of finance and the role of monetary control in socialist economic management. The structure and activity of financial institutions were... -
The Nuclear Age in Popular Media: A Transnational History, 1945-1965 by Dick Van Lente 9781349343645
RRP: £99.99£99.71The atomic age was described as one that might soon end in the destruction of human civilization, but from the beginning, utopian images were attached to it as well. This book compares representations of nuclear power in popular media from around the... -
Hawthorn: The Tree That Has Nourished, Healed, and Inspired Through the Ages by Bill Vaughn 9780300219876
£29.61An engaging introduction to the ancient hawthorn tree and its varied roles in human history One of humankind's oldest companions, the hawthorn tree is bound up in the memories of every recorded age and the plot lines of cultures across the Northern... -
The Falklands War by David Monaghan 9780333655818
RRP: £89.99£89.87This book examines the debate which has long raged in Britain about the meaning of the Falklands War. Using literary critical methods, Monaghan examines how the Thatcherite reading of the war as a myth of British greatness reborn was developed through...