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Making Cities Socialist by Katherine Zubovich 9781108797108
RRP: £17.00£14.72This Element explores the history of urban planning, city building, and city life in the socialist world. It follows the global trajectories of architects, planners, and ideas about socialist urbanism developed during the twentieth century, while also... -
Resistance As Idea And Action: The Epic Struggle Against Oppression and Tyranny Throughout History by Gew Reports and Analyses Team 9781787950887
RRP: £18.30£12.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781787950887Author Gew Reports and Analyses TeamFormat PaperbackPage Count 158Imprint Global East-West (London)Publisher Global East-West... -
Selling French Sex: Prostitution, Trafficking, and Global Migrations by Elisa Camiscioli 9781009418409
RRP: £22.99£19.56Selling French Sex is an illuminating account of the cultural, social, and economic history of the sale of 'French sex'. It explores the discourses and experiences surrounding the early twentieth century debate on sex trafficking, which mobilized various... -
Swahili Worlds in Globalism by Chapurukha M. Kusimba 9781009074056
RRP: £17.00£14.72This Element discusses a medieval African urban society as a product of interactions among African communities who inhabited the region between 100 BCE and 500 CE. It deviates from standard approaches that credit urbanism and state in Africa to... -
The Chertsey Tiles, the Crusades, and Global Textile Motifs by Amanda Luyster 9781009353175
RRP: £17.00£14.72While visual cultures mingled comfortably along the silk roads and on the shores of the Mediterranean, medieval England has sometimes been viewed – by both medieval and more recent writers – as isolated. In this Element the author introduces new evidence... -
The Endurance of Nationalism: Ancient Roots and Modern Dilemmas by Aviel Roshwald 9780521842679
RRP: £85.00£77.00Aviel Roshwald directly challenges prevalent scholarly orthodoxies about the exclusively modern character of nationalism. He argues that nationalism's enduring power to shape the world we live in arises directly out of its position at the heart of... -
Mooring the Global Archive: A Japanese Ship and its Migrant Histories by Martin Dusinberre 9781009346528
RRP: £22.99£19.56Martin Dusinberre follows the Yamashiro-maru steamship across Asian and Pacific waters in an innovative history of Japan's engagement with the outside world in the late-nineteenth century. His compelling in-depth analysis reconstructs the lives of some... -
Mooring the Global Archive: A Japanese Ship and its Migrant Histories by Martin Dusinberre 9781009346511
RRP: £70.00£63.71Martin Dusinberre follows the Yamashiro-maru steamship across Asian and Pacific waters in an innovative history of Japan's engagement with the outside world in the late-nineteenth century. His compelling in-depth analysis reconstructs the lives of some... -
The Anticolonial Transnational: Imaginaries, Mobilities, and Networks in the Struggle against Empire by Erez Manela 9781009359108
RRP: £80.00£72.17This volume is the first to explore transnational anticolonialism as a general global phenomenon that spanned the entire twentieth century. Its collected essays model both a broadening of the issues under consideration and the collaboration necessary to... -
Urban Disasters by Cindy Ermus 9781009001908
RRP: £17.00£14.72This Element explores the history of urban disasters around the globe over the last three-hundred years. It introduces the reader to central concepts that help define the study of disasters, then moves on to explore the relationship between cities and... -
Medieval Textiles across Eurasia, c. 300–1400 by Patricia Blessing 9781009393362
RRP: £17.00£14.72This study considers the textiles made, traded, and exchanged across Eurasia from late antiquity to the late Middle Ages with special attention to the socio-political and cultural aspects of this universal medium. It presents a wide range of textiles... -
Late Tang China and the World, 750–907 CE by Shao-yun Yang 9781009397254
RRP: £17.00£14.72In recent decades, the Tang dynasty (618-907) has acquired a reputation as the most 'cosmopolitan' period in Chinese history. The standard narrative also claims that this cosmopolitan openness faded after the An Lushan Rebellion of 755-763, to be... -
Rationalities in History: A Weberian Essay in Comparison by D. L. D'Avray 9780521199209
RRP: £44.00£39.71In Rationalities in History the distinguished historian David d'Avray writes a new comparative history in the spirit of Max Weber. In a strikingly original reassessment of seminal Weberian ideas, d'Avray applies value rationality to the comparative... -
Big Business and the Wealth of Nations by Alfred D. Chandler 9780521481236
RRP: £82.00£74.34Written in non-technical terms, this book explains how the dynamics of big business have influenced national and international economies. A path-breaking study, it provides the first systematic treatment of big business in advanced, emerging, and... -
Early Tang China and the World, 618–750 CE by Shao-yun Yang 9781009214643
RRP: £17.00£14.72For about half a century, the Tang dynasty has held a reputation as the most 'cosmopolitan' period in Chinese history, marked by unsurpassed openness to foreign peoples and cultures and active promotion of international trade. Heavily influenced by... -
African Activists in a Decolonising World: The Making of an Anticolonial Culture, 1952-1966 by Ismay Milford 9781009276993
RRP: £85.00£76.60As wars of liberation in Africa and Asia shook the post-war world, a cohort of activists from East and Central Africa, specifically the region encompassing present-day Malawi, Zambia, Uganda and mainland Tanzania, asked what role they could play in the... -
Networks of Empire: Forced Migration in the Dutch East India Company by Kerry Ward 9780521885867
RRP: £65.00£58.56This book argues that the Dutch East India Company empire manifested itself through multiple networks that amalgamated spatially and over time into an imperial web whose sovereignty was effectively created and maintained but always partial and contingent... -
Epidemic Cities by Antonio Carbone 9781108930895
RRP: £17.00£14.72Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781108930895Author Antonio CarboneFormat PaperbackImprint Cambridge University PressPublisher Cambridge University Press -
European Encounters with the Yamana People of Cape Horn, before and after Darwin by Anne Chapman 9780521513791
RRP: £74.00£67.86This is a documented narration of dramas played out from 1578 to 2000 in the Cape Horn area, Tierra del Fuego, by the native Yamana and Charles Darwin, explorers, sealers, whalers, Anglican missionaries, and three other famous people who made contact... -
Global Electrification: Multinational Enterprise and International Finance in the History of Light and Power, 1878-2007 by William J. Hausman 9780521880350
RRP: £57.00£51.53This 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... -
Nature and the Godly Empire: Science and Evangelical Mission in the Pacific, 1795-1850 by Sujit Sivasundaram 9780521848367
RRP: £58.00£52.01Nineteenth-century historians have described how science became secular and how scientific theories such as evolution justified colonialism. This book explores the relationship between nineteenth-century science and Christianity outside the Western world... -
Channelling Mobilities: Migration and Globalisation in the Suez Canal Region and Beyond, 1869-1914 by Dr. Valeska Huber 9781107030602
RRP: £70.00£63.71The history of globalisation is usually told as a history of shortening distances and acceleration of the flows of people, goods and ideas. Channelling Mobilities refines this picture by looking at a wide variety of mobile people passing through the... -
Islamic Societies to the Nineteenth Century: A Global History by Ira M. Lapidus 9780521514415
RRP: £55.00£49.03First published in 1988, Ira Lapidus' A History of Islamic Societies has become a classic in the field, enlightening students, scholars, and others with a thirst for knowledge about one of the world's great civilizations. This book, based on fully... -
The Warsaw Rising of 1944 by Jan M. Ciechanowski 9780521894418
RRP: £22.99£20.66Why did the Polish underground Home Army call for what proved to be a suicidal uprising? Why did they decide that their poorly armed troops should alone liberate Warsaw shortly before the Soviet entry into the capital? Why were the approaching Russians... -
Seventeen Years in the Underworld by Wellington Scott 9789357973441
RRP: £15.09£10.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789357973441Author Wellington ScottFormat PaperbackPage Count 52Imprint Alpha EditionPublisher Alpha EditionWeight(grams) 91g -
History for Tomorrow: Inspiration from the Past for the Future of Humanity by Roman Krznaric 9780753559628
RRP: £22.00£15.62'Brimming with ideas and insights, this is a welcome, important and clear-eyed view of how understanding the past can help us better prepare for the future' - Peter Frankopan, bestselling author of The Earth Transformed and The Silk Roads'Enlightening... -
The Great Defiance: How the world took on the British Empire by David Veevers 9781529109962
RRP: £10.99£7.77The story of the British Empire is a familiar one: Britain came, it saw, it conquered, forging a glorious world empire upon which the sun never set. In fact, far from being the tale of a single nation imposing its will upon the world, the British Empire... -
Worlds Together, Worlds Apart by Jeremy Adelman 9781324069690
£72.61Instructors have made Worlds Together, Worlds Apart the #1-selling collegiate survey because its global-by-design narrative builds each chapter around big themes in world history that allow most of the regions to be discussed in each chapter while... -
The Archaeology of Iron Production on Ethiopia: Ethnoarchaeometallurgical Case Studies from Wollega by Temesgen Burka 9783941267008
RRP: £74.90£63.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783941267008Author Temesgen BurkaFormat PaperbackPage Count 259Imprint Galda VerlagPublisher Galda Verlag -
American-Russian Rivalry in the Far East: A Study in Diplomacy and Power Politics, 1895-1914 by Edward Henry Zabriskie 9781512809169
£81.73This study of relations examines the close diplomatic association of Russia and the United States, both close and distant. The book deals particularly with the still vital and very timely question: the control of Manchuria. It describes in detail the... -
Y=Arctg X: The Hyperbola of the World Order by Max Ostrovsky 9780761834991
RRP: £62.00£54.41Combining history, archaeology, sociology, political science, and agricultural studies, Y=Arctg X: The Hyperbola of the World Order presents a theory claiming that any political system with a firm agricultural foundation is pre-destined to reach... -
The Palgrave Handbook of Global Slavery throughout History by Damian A. Pargas 9783031132599
RRP: £44.99£40.58This open access handbook takes a comparative and global approach to analyse the practice of slavery throughout history. To understand slavery - why it developed, and how it functioned in various societies – is to understand an important and widespread... -
Britain At Bay by Spenser Wilkinson 9789356143340
RRP: £9.00£8.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789356143340Author Spenser WilkinsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint Lector HousePublisher Lector HouseWeight(grams) 163g -
History That Changed the World: From Africa to Outer Space in 300,000 Years by J C Peters 9789082506358
RRP: £24.00£23.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789082506358Author J C PetersFormat PaperbackPage Count 700Imprint Odyssea PublishingPublisher Odyssea PublishingWeight(grams) 1012gDimensions(mm) 229mm *... -
An Oration Pronounced Before the Phi Beta Kappa Society of Dartmouth College, Aug. 25, 1825. by Charles Haddock 9781241554491
RRP: £12.99£9.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781241554491Author Charles HaddockFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint British Library, Historical Print EditionsPublisher British Library, Historical Print... -
The origin of humanity: What can be denied only by confirming it by Beat Schindler 9783739247373
RRP: £43.50£36.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783739247373Author Beat SchindlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 220Imprint Books on DemandPublisher Books on DemandWeight(grams) 399gDimensions(mm) 246mm *... -
Protestant Thought Before Kant by Arthur Cushman McGiffert 9781666734171
RRP: £24.00£17.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781666734171Author Arthur Cushman McGiffertFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Wipf & Stock PublishersPublisher Wipf & Stock PublishersWeight(grams) 272g -
The Loss of El Dorado: A Colonial History by V. S. Naipaul 9781400030767
RRP: £19.00£13.88Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400030767Author V. S. NaipaulFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 323g -
The Deindustrialized World: Confronting Ruination in Postindustrial Places by Steven High 9780774834933
RRP: £70.00£60.71Since the 1970s, the closure of mines, mills, and factories has marked a rupture in working-class lives. The Deindustrialized World interrogates the process of industrial ruination, from the first impact of layoffs in metropolitan cities, suburban areas,... -
The Dream of Christian Nagasaki: World Trade and the Clash of Cultures, 1560-1640 by Reinier H. Hesselink 9780786499618
RRP: £35.99£29.60Nagasaki, on the west coast of the Japanese island of Kyushu, is known in the West for having been the target of an atomic bomb attack on August 9, 1945. Less well known is that the city was founded by Europeans, Jesuit missionaries who arrived in the...