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The Peterloo Massacre by Robert Reid
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.81__________________________'The universal significance of this historic event becomes ever more relevant in our own turbulent times.' MIKE LEIGH, director of the award-winning film... -
Reimagining the Nation-State: The Contested Terrains of Nation-Building by Jim Mac Laughlin 9780745313641
Booksplease Price: £31.52This book assesses competing modes of nation-building and nationalism through a critical reappraisal of the works of key theorists such as Benedict Anderson and Eric Hobsbawm. Exploring the processes... -
The New Penguin Atlas of Medieval History by Colin McEvedy
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23This is a revised edition of "The Penguin Atlas of Medieval History".About the AuthorColin McEvedy is the author of The Penguin Atlas of Ancient History; The New Penguin Atlas of Medieval History;... -
Revolutionary Spring: Fighting for a New World 1848-1849 by Christopher Clark 9780141988313
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.68'One of the best history books you will read this decade' History Today'Fascinating, suspenseful, revelatory, alive' The TimesThere can be few more exciting or frightening moments in European history... -
Workshop of the World: Essays in People's History by Raphael Samuel 9781804292808
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.45'ONE OF THE MOST OUTSTANDING, ORIGINAL INTELLECTUALS OF HIS GENERATION', Stuart Hall, author of The Hard Road to RenewalThe work of the pioneering historian Raphael Samuel opened up new vistas of... -
The Dreadful History and Judgement of God on Thomas Müntzer: The Life and Times of an Early German Revolutionary Andrew Drummond 9781839768958
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.42'The princes are nothing but tyrants who flay the people; they fritter away our blood and sweat on their pomp and whoring and knavery.' These were the words of Thomas Muntzer at the head of the... -
Victorious Century: The United Kingdom, 1800-1906 by Mr David Cannadine
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £10.99SHORTLISTED FOR THE DUFF COOPER PRIZE 2018 'This is stupendous. The British nineteenth century, in all its complexity, all its horror, all its energy, all its hopes is laid bare. This is the... -
The Dreadful History and Judgement of God on Thomas Müntzer: The Life and Times of an Early German Revolutionary by Andrew Drummond 9781839768941
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.45'The princes are nothing but tyrants who flay the people; they fritter away our blood and sweat on their pomp and whoring and knavery.' These were the words of Thomas Muntzer at the head of the... -
Prison Letters by Antonio Gramsci
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £21.19Antonio Gramsci is one of the great European Marxists, hailed by Eric Hobsbawm as 'an extraordinary philosopher ... probably the most original communist thinker of twentieth-century Europe'. ... -
The Anatomy of Fascism by Robert O. Paxton
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Fascism was the major political invention of the twentieth century and the source of much of its pain. How can we try to comprehend its allure and its horror? Is it a philosophy, a movement, an... -
Capital: Volume II by Karl Marx
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.43The "forgotten" second volume of Capital, Marx's world-shaking analysis of economics, politics, and history, contains the vital discussion of commodity, the cornerstone to Marx's theories.The... -
Dark Continent: Europe's Twentieth Century by Mark Mazower
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51From award-winning historian Mark Mazower, Dark Continent: Europe's Twentieth Century retells the story of a century of division, charting the struggles of rival ideologies to create a new world... -
The Good Mothers: The True Story of the Women Who Took on The World's Most Powerful Mafia by Alex Perry 9780008222130
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.42You are born into it or marry in. Loyalty is absolute, bloodshed revered and you kill or go to your grave before betraying The Family. This code of omerta is how the 'Ndrangheta became... -
Citizens: A Chronicle of The French Revolution by Simon Schama 9780141017273
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.68One of the great landmarks of modern history publishing, Simon Schama's Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution is the most authoritative social, cultural and narrative history of the French... -
Industry and Empire: From 1750 to the Present Day E J Hobsbawm 9780140257885
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51This outstanding history describes and accounts for Britain's rise as the world's first industrial world power, its decline from the temporary dominance of the pioneer, its rather special... -
Microcosm: A Portrait of a Central European City by Norman Davies
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.05The story of Central Europe is anything but simple. As the region located between East and West, it has always been endowed with a rich variety of migrants, and has repeatedly been the scene of... -
The Hitler Conspiracies: The Third Reich and the Paranoid Imagination by Richard J. Evans
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95'Brilliant, a 5 out of 5 masterpiece' Evening StandardThe renowned historian of the Third Reich takes on the conspiracy theories surrounding Adolf Hitler and the Nazis, in a vital history book for... -
A History of Histories: Epics, Chronicles, Romances and Inquiries from Herodotus and Thucydides to the Twentieth Century by John Burrow
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51This unprecedented book, by one of Britain's leading intellectual historians, describes the intellectual impact that the study and consideration of the past has had in the western world over the past... -
The Emperor by Ryszard Kapuscinski
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73The Penguin Modern Classics edition of Ryszard Kapuscinski's The Emperor is translated by William R. Brand and Katarzyna Mroczkowska-Brand, with an introduction by Neal Ascherton.After the deposition... -
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The Enlightenment by Norman Hampson 9780140137453 [USED COPY]
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £2.14Armed with the insights of the scientific revolution, the men of the Enlightenment set out to free mankind from its age-old cocoon of pessimism and superstition and establish a more reasonable world... -
The Enlightened Economy: Britain and the Industrial Revolution, 1700-1850 by Joel Mokyr
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £15.97Why did Western countries become so much wealthier than the rest of the world? What explains the huge rise in incomes during the Industrial Revolution - and why did Britain lead the way?In the years... -
The Habsburg Monarchy 1809-1918: A History of the Austrian Empire and Austria-Hungary by A. J. P. Taylor
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51A history of the Habsburg monarchy from the end of the Holy Roman Empire to the monarchy's dissolution in 1918. The book offers an insight into the problems inherent in the attempt to give peace,... -
For All the Tea in China: Espionage, Empire and the Secret Formula for the World's Favourite Drink by Sarah Rose
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15Robert Fortune was a Scottish gardener, botanist, plant hunter - and industrial spy. In 1848, the East India Company engaged him to make a clandestine trip into the interior of China - territory... -
Britain Against Napoleon: The Organization of Victory, 1793-1815 by Roger Knight
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £11.97From Roger Knight, established by the multi-award winning The Pursuit of Victory as 'an authority ... none of his rivals can match' (N.A.M. Rodger), Britain Against Napoleon is the first book to... -
The Age of Decadence: Britain 1880 to 1914 by Simon Heffer
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.04'A riveting account of the pre-First World War years . . . The Age of Decadence is an enormously impressive and enjoyable read.' Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times'A magnificent account of a less than... -
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An Intimate History Of Humanity by Theodore Zeldin 9780749396237 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £2.41'The book that changed my life... a constant companion' Bill Bailey'Extraordinary and beautiful...the most exciting and ambitious work of non-fiction I have read in more than a decade' The Daily... -
The Force of Destiny: A History of Italy Since 1796 by Christopher Duggan
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.73The greatness of Italy's culture and way of life have had a powerful attraction for many generations of visitors. This has created an overwhelming sense that Italy is a fundamentally benign and easy... -
Einstein's Monsters by Martin Amis
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.83An ex-circus strongman, veteran of Warsaw, 1939, and Notting Hill rough-justice artist, meets his own personal holocaust and 'Einsteinian' destiny; maximum boredom and minimum love-making are advised... -
An Intimate History of Humanity Theodore Zeldin 9780749396237
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46'The book that changed my life... a constant companion' Bill Bailey'Extraordinary and beautiful...the most exciting and ambitious work of non-fiction I have read in more than a decade' The Daily... -
The Enlightenment by Norman Hampson
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51Armed with the insights of the scientific revolution, the men of the Enlightenment set out to free mankind from its age-old cocoon of pessimism and superstition and establish a more reasonable world... -
The Pursuit of Power: Europe, 1815-1914 by Richard J. Evans
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.68'A scintillating, encyclopaedic history, rich in detail from the arcane to the familiar... a veritable tour de force' Richard Overy, New Statesman'Transnational history at its finest ... .. social,... -
Reheated Cabbage by Irvine Welsh
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49Hilarious, shocking and hugely entertaining, Reheated Cabbage has all the classic Irvine Welsh ingredientsIn Reheated Cabbage you can enjoy Christmas dinner with Begbie and discover how aliens... -
The First World War: An Illustrated History by A. J. P. Taylor
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51A. J. P. Taylor was one of the most acclaimed and uncompromising historians of the twentieth century. In this clear, lively and now-classic account of the First World War, he tells the story of the... -
The Bedroom Secrets of the Master Chefs by Irvine Welsh
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49At Edinburgh's Department of Environmental Health, hard-drinking, womanising officer Danny Skinner wants to uncover secrets: 'the bedroom secrets of the master chefs', secrets he believes might just... -
Essays in Idleness: and Hojoki by Meredith McKinney
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £9.19These two works on life's fleeting pleasures are by Buddhist monks from medieval Japan, but each shows a different world-view. In the short memoir Hojoki, Chomei recounts his decision to withdraw... -
The Penguin History of Modern China: The Fall and Rise of a Great Power, 1850 to the Present, Third Edition by Jonathan Fenby
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.73In 1850, China was the 'sick man of Asia'. Now it is set to become the most powerful nation on earth. The Penguin History of Modern China shows how turbulent that journey has been. For 150 years... -
Meet Me in Buenos Aires Marlene Hobsbawm 9781999313579
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.10At the time of his death Eric Hobsbawm was the most famous historian in the world. He not only wrote history was also witness to it, from the Communist uprising in Europe to revolution in Cuba where... -
Statesmanship: The Best of the New Statesman, 1913-2019 by Various
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £6.99No British periodical or weekly magazine has a richer and more distinguished archive than the New Statesman, which has long been at the centre of British political and cultural life. If not quite at... -
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Meet Me in Buenos Aires by Marlene Hobsbawm 9781999313579 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £2.09At the time of his death Eric Hobsbawm was the most famous historian in the world. He not only wrote history was also witness to it, from the Communist uprising in Europe to revolution in Cuba where... -
Ideologies in the Age of Extremes: Liberalism, Conservatism, Communism, Fascism 1914-1991 by Willie Thompson 9780745327112
Booksplease Price: £31.52This is a history of political ideologies during the period from the First World War to the collapse of the Soviet Union, famously described by Eric Hobsbawm as 'The Age of Extremes'. By introducing...