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Spoilt Rotten: The Toxic Cult of Sentimentality by Theodore Dalrymple 9781906142254
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £11.55In Spoilt Rotten, social commentator Theodore Dalrymple (Our Culture or What is Left of It, 2009) grinds his axe at our sentimentality-centric culture where feelings have become the yardstick of... -
The Great Commanders of the Medieval World 454-1582AD Andrew Roberts 9780857385895
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.88What qualities made Attila the Hun a strategist of genius? How did Henry V of England achieve victory at Agincourt for the loss of a few hundred of his men, when the mounted French knights suffered... -
The Persecution of the Templars: Scandal, Torture, Trial by Alain Demurger
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26The trial of the Knights Templar is one of the most infamous in history. Accused of heresy by the king of France, the Templars were arrested and imprisoned, had their goods seized and their... -
The Inheritance of Rome: A History of Europe from 400 to 1000 by Chris Wickham
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.03'The Penguin History of Europe series ... is one of contemporary publishing's great projects' New StatesmanThe world known as the 'Dark Ages', often seen as a time of barbarism, was in fact the... -
Setting the People Free: The Story of Democracy, Second Edition by John Dunn 9780691180038
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £17.05Why does democracy-as a word and as an idea-loom so large in the political imagination, though it has so often been misused and misunderstood? Setting the People Free starts by tracing the roots of... -
Blasphemy in the Christian World: A History by David Nash 9780199570751
Booksplease Price: £46.96Tracing the subject from the Middle Ages to the present, David Nash outlines the history of blasphemy as a concept - from a species of heresy to modern understandings of it as a crime against the... -
The Ends of Life: Roads to Fulfilment in Early Modern England by Keith Thomas 9780199247233
RRP: £35.99Booksplease Price: £29.95How should we live? That question was no less urgent for English men and women who lived between the early sixteenth and late eighteenth centuries than for this book's readers. Keith Thomas's... -
Edward III and the Triumph of England: The Battle of Crecy and the Company of the Garter by Richard Barber
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.73The destruction of the French army at Crecy in 1346 and the subsequent siege and capture of Calais marked a new era in European history. The most powerful, glamorous and respected of all western... -
The World of the Crusades by Christopher Tyerman 9780300274219
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.55A lively reimagining of how the distant medieval world of war functioned, drawing on the objects used and made by crusaders Throughout the Middle Ages crusading was justified by religious ideology,... -
Our Boys: The Story of a Paratrooper by Helen Parr
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95WINNER OF THE LONGMAN-HISTORY TODAY BOOK PRIZE 2019 WINNER OF THE TEMPLER MEDAL BOOK PRIZE 2019 WINNER OF THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON MEDAL FOR MILITARY HISTORY 2019LONGLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR... -
Empress: Queen Victoria and India by Miles Taylor 9780300118094
Booksplease Price: £29.37An entirely original account of Victoria's relationship with the Raj, which shows how India was central to the Victorian monarchy from as early as 1837"A widely and deeply researched, elegantly... -
Blasphemy in the Christian World: A History by David Nash 9780199255160
Booksplease Price: £99.65David Nash's new study focuses on the development of blasphemy in the Christian world. Tracing the subject from the Middle Ages to the present, he outlines the history of blasphemy as a concept, from... -
Empress: Queen Victoria and India by Miles Taylor
Booksplease Price: £23.70An entirely original account of Victoria's relationship with the Raj, which shows how India was central to the Victorian monarchy from as early as 1837"A widely and deeply researched, elegantly... -
Against Decolonisation: Campus Culture Wars and the Decline of the West by Doug Stokes
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.85Following the killing of George Floyd in 2020, a moral panic gripped the US and UK. To atone for an alleged history of racism, statues were torn down and symbols of national identity attacked. Across... -
Against Decolonisation: Campus Culture Wars and the Decline of the West by Doug Stokes 9781509554225
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £32.98Following the killing of George Floyd in 2020, a moral panic gripped the US and UK. To atone for an alleged history of racism, statues were torn down and symbols of national identity attacked. Across... -
The Mandela Brief: Sydney Kentridge and the Trials of Apartheid by Thomas Grant
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26'A forensic, riveting account of a wondrous and principled advocate' Philippe Sands'Well-written, deeply researched and wholly gripping' The Spectator'Meticulously researched' The Times'Kentridge is... -
What's Wrong with Rights? by Nigel Biggar
Booksplease Price: £20.70Are natural rights 'nonsense on stilts', as Jeremy Bentham memorably put it? Must the very notion of a right be individualistic, subverting the common good? Should the right against torture be... -
The Mandela Brief: Sydney Kentridge and the Trials of Apartheid Thomas Grant 9781529372861
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.90'Well-written, deeply researched and wholly gripping' The Spectator'Kentridge is one of many lawyers to whom I will forever be in debt, and whose everyday fights against injustice should inspire us... -
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Pushkin by T. J. Binyon 9780006373384 [USED COPY]
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £2.50A major biography of one of literature's most romantic and enigmatic figures, published in hardback to great acclaim: 'one of the great biographies of recent times' (Sunday Telegraph). ... -
Tamerlane: Sword of Islam, Conqueror of the World by Justin Marozzi
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.86A powerful account of the life of Tamerlane the Great (1336-1405), the last master nomadic power, one of history's most extreme tyrants, and the subject of Marlowe's famous play. Marozzi travelled in... -
Pandemic Response and the Cost of Lockdowns: Global Debates from Humanities and Social Sciences Peter Sutoris (SOAS University of London, UK) 9781032193892
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £37.99Pandemic Response and the Cost of Lockdowns brings the vast analytical apparatus of the humanities and social sciences to the task of critically analysing the political decisions taken in 2020-21.The... -
Pandemic Response and the Cost of Lockdowns: Global Debates from Humanities and Social Sciences by 9781032194714
RRP: £140.00Booksplease Price: £128.38Pandemic Response and the Cost of Lockdowns brings the vast analytical apparatus of the humanities and social sciences to the task of critically analysing the political decisions taken in 2020-21.The... -
What's Wrong with Rights? by Nigel Biggar 9780198861973
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £37.43Are natural rights 'nonsense on stilts', as Jeremy Bentham memorably put it? Must the very notion of a right be individualistic, subverting the common good? Should the right against torture be... -
To Kidnap a Pope: Napoleon and Pius VII by Ambrogio Caiani
RRP: £22.50Booksplease Price: £19.40A groundbreaking account of Napoleon Bonaparte, Pope Pius VII, and the kidnapping that would forever divide church and state "In gripping, vivid prose, Caiani brings to life the struggle for power... -
Pushkin by T. J. Binyon 9780006373384
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £16.95A major biography of one of literature's most romantic and enigmatic figures, published in hardback to great acclaim: 'one of the great biographies of recent times' (Sunday Telegraph). ... -
The Triumph of the Dark: European International History 1933-1939 by Zara Steiner
Booksplease Price: £22.84In this magisterial narrative, Zara Steiner traces the twisted road to war that began with Hitler's assumption of power in Germany. Covering a wide geographical canvas, from America to the Far East,... -
The Rule of Laws: A 4000-year Quest to Order the World by Fernanda Pirie
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50'A fascinating, comprehensive study that forces us to think again about what law is, and why it matters ... For those who want to understand why human society has emerged as it has, this is essential... -
Henry V: The Conscience of a King by Malcolm Vale
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.30More than just a single-minded warrior-king, Henry V comes to life in this fresh account as a gifted ruler acutely conscious of spiritual matters and his subjects' welfare Shakespeare's centuries-old... -
The Origins of the English Parliament, 924-1327 by J.R. Maddicott 9780199585502
Booksplease Price: £97.72The Origins of the English Parliament is a magisterial account of the evolution of parliament, from its earliest beginnings in the late Anglo-Saxon period. Starting with the national assemblies which... -
The Origins of the English Parliament, 924-1327 by J.R. Maddicott
Booksplease Price: £36.30The Origins of the English Parliament is a magisterial account of the evolution of parliament, from its earliest beginnings in the late Anglo-Saxon period. Starting with the national assemblies which... -
Rethink: How We Can Make a Better World Amol Rajan 9781785947179
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £16.31After darkness, there is always light In a time of increasing uncertainty, Rethink offers a guide to a much-needed global 'reset moment', with leading international figures giving us glimpses of a... -
Rethink: How We Can Make a Better World Amol Rajan 9781785947186
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49After darkness, there is always lightIn a time of increasing uncertainty, Rethink offers a guide to a much-needed global 'reset moment', with leading international figures giving us glimpses of a... -
Marie-Antoinette: The Making of a French Queen John Hardman 9780300260946
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.30A new look which fundamentally overturns our understanding of this famously "out of touch" queen"Presents [Marie-Antoinette] as much more than a symbol whose meaning is in the eye of her beholder . ... -
Trading in War: London's Maritime World in the Age of Cook and Nelson by Margarette Lincoln
RRP: £27.50Booksplease Price: £24.95A vivid account of the forgotten citizens of maritime London who sustained Britain during the Revolutionary Wars In the half-century before the Battle of Trafalgar the port of London became the... -
The Coalition and the Constitution by Vernon Bogdanor 9781849461580
Booksplease Price: £61.05`England', Benjamin Disraeli famously said, `does not love coalitions'. But 2010 saw the first peace-time coalition in Britain since the 1930s. The coalition, moreover, may well not be an aberration... -
Captives and Companions: A History of Slavery and the Slave Trade in the Islamic World by Justin Marozzi 9780241522158
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £26.42A startling exploration of slavery in the Islamic world from the 7th century to the presentSlavery in the Islamic world has a long, diverse and controversial history. Captives and Companions is a... -
The World the Plague Made: The Black Death and the Rise of Europe by James Belich
RRP: £48.00Booksplease Price: £41.23A groundbreaking history of how the Black Death unleashed revolutionary change across the medieval world and ushered in the modern ageIn 1346, a catastrophic plague beset Europe and its neighbours... -
The End: Germany, 1944-45 by Ian Kershaw
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.43Named Book of the Year by the Sunday Times, TLS, Spectator, Sunday Telegraph, Daily Mail and Scotland on Sunday, Ian Kershaw's The End is a searing account of the final months of Nazi Germany,... -
The World the Plague Made: The Black Death and the Rise of Europe James Belich 9780691219165
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £18.02A groundbreaking history of how the Black Death unleashed revolutionary change across the medieval world and ushered in the modern ageIn 1346, a catastrophic plague beset Europe and its neighbours... -
Remembering Peasants: A Personal History of a Vanished World Patrick Joyce 9780141998732
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorPatrick Joyce is Emeritus Professor of History at Manchester University, and one of the leading social...