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The Reformation of the Landscape: Religion, Identity, and Memory in Early Modern Britain and Ireland by Alexandra Walsham 9780199243556
Booksplease Price: $226.99The Reformation of the Landscape is a richly detailed and original study of the relationship between the landscape of Britain and Ireland and the tumultuous religious changes of the sixteenth and... -
Tudor Children by Nicholas Orme
Booksplease Price: $45.55The first history of childhood in Tudor England "Tudor Children is social history at its best. . . . By connecting with our own history as children, Orme invites us to embrace a new way of engaging... -
Statesman of Europe: A Life of Sir Edward Grey by T. G. Otte 9780141991474
RRP: $42.00Booksplease Price: $30.83'The lamps are going out all over Europe. We shall not see them lit again in our life-time.' The words of Sir Edward Grey, looking out from the windows of the Foreign Office at the end of August... -
Tudor Children by Nicholas Orme 9780300276114
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $17.68The first history of childhood in Tudor England "Tudor Children is social history at its best. . . . By connecting with our own history as children, Orme invites us to embrace a new way of engaging... -
The Gun, the Ship, and the Pen: Warfare, Constitutions, and the Making of the Modern World by Linda Colley 9781324092384
RRP: $33.58Booksplease Price: $33.52A work of extraordinary range and striking originality, The Gun, the Ship, and the Pen traces the global history of written constitutions from the 1750s to the twentieth century, modifying accepted... -
Emergency State: The Freedoms We Lost in the Pandemic and How to Get Them Back by Adam Wagner
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $23.96'Superb... authoritative, thoughtful and terrifying in equal measure', The Secret Barrister'Astonishing. Detailed, dispassionate and definitive. An urgent warning and work of major importance', James... -
The Gun, the Ship, and the Pen: Warfare, Constitutions, and the Making of the Modern World by Linda Colley
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.45'If there were a Nobel Prize in History, Colley would be my nominee' Jill Lepore, New Yorker 'One of the most exciting historians of her generation, but also one of the most interesting writers... -
Empire and Revolution: The Political Life of Edmund Burke by Richard Bourke 9780691175652
RRP: $73.50Booksplease Price: $67.41Edmund Burke (1730-97) lived during one of the most extraordinary periods of world history. He grappled with the significance of the British Empire in India, fought for reconciliation with the... -
The Verdict of Battle: The Law of Victory and the Making of Modern War by James Q. Whitman 9780674416871
RRP: $56.60Booksplease Price: $53.70Today, war is considered a last resort for resolving disagreements. But a day of staged slaughter on the battlefield was once seen as a legitimate means of settling political disputes. James Whitman... -
The Posthumous Papers of the Manuscripts Club by Christopher de Hamel 9780241304372
RRP: $84.00Booksplease Price: $60.27The illuminated manuscripts of the Middle Ages are among the greatest works of European art and literature. We are dazzled by them and recognize their crucial role in the transmission of knowledge... -
Not One Inch: America, Russia, and the Making of Post-Cold War Stalemate by M. E. Sarotte
RRP: $37.78Booksplease Price: $34.57A leading expert on foreign policy reveals how tensions between America, NATO, and Russia transformed geopolitics A Foreign Affairs Best Book of 2021 and winner of the Pushkin House Book Prize ... -
Invisible Walls: A Journalist in Search of Her Life by Hella Pick 9781474613750
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.54'Memoirs of such richness are rare . . . a joy' JAMES NAUGHTIE'A remarkable personal journey, by one of the great political correspondents of our world - eloquent, enlightening, exhilarating'... -
Taming the Gods: Religion and Democracy on Three Continents by Ian Buruma 9780691156057
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $24.57Why religion must be separated from politics if democracy is to thrive around the worldFor eight years the president of the United States was a born-again Christian, backed by well-organized... -
The Last Utopia: Human Rights in History by Samuel Moyn
RRP: $46.10Booksplease Price: $39.59Human rights offer a vision of international justice that today's idealistic millions hold dear. Yet the very concept on which the movement is based became familiar only a few decades ago when it...