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Let’S Spend the Night Together: Sex, Pop Music and British Youth Culture, 1950s–80s by Subcultures Network 9781526159984
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £84.11Let’s spend the night together explores how sex and sexuality provided essential elements of British youth culture in the 1950s through to the 1980s. It shows how the underlying sexual charge of rock... -
The Shakespearean Comic and Tragicomic: French Inflections by Richard Hillman 9781526144072
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £75.20In exploring links between the early modern English theatre and France, Richard Hillman focuses on Shakespeare's deployment of genres whose dominant Italian models and affinities might seem to leave... -
Covert Colonialism: Governance, Surveillance and Political Culture in British Hong Kong, c. 1966-97 by Florence Mok 9781526158192
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £49.06This book fills the long-standing void in the existing scholarship by constructing an empirical study of colonial governance and political culture in Hong Kong from 1966 to 1997.Using under-exploited... -
Situating Religion and Medicine in Asia: Methodological Insights and Innovations by Michael Stanley-Baker 9781526160010
RRP: £90.00Booksplease Price: £52.13This edited volume presents the latest research on the intersection of religion and medicine in Asia. It features chapters by internationally known scholars, who bring to bear a range of... -
Interventions: Rethinking the Nineteenth Century by Andrew Smith 9781526108708
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £23.54This book aims to intervene in current critical contexts for the study of nineteenth-century literature within the academy and beyond. Topics discussed include science and technology, poetry and... -
Auto/Biography and Identity by Maggie B. Gale 9780719063336
Booksplease Price: £23.54This groundbreaking book shows how female performers - one of the first groups of professional women - used and still use autobiography and performance as both a means of expression and control of... -
Materials and Medicine: Trade, Conquest and Therapeutics in the Eighteenth Century by Pratik Chakrabarti 9780719083129
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £75.20Medicine was transformed in the eighteenth century. Aligning the trajectories of intellectual and material wealth, this book uncovers how medicine acquired a new materialism as well as new materials... -
Religion in Revolutionary England by Christopher Durston 9780719064050
Booksplease Price: £23.54This book offers a collection of essays tightly focused around the issue of religion in England between 1640 and 1660, a time of upheaval and civil war in England. Edited by well-known scholars of... -
The English Revolution c. 1590-1720: Politics, Religion and Communities by Nicholas Tyacke 9780719090080
Booksplease Price: £23.54Focusing on the crisis of transition marked by the English Revolution (1640-60), this collection of essays also places it in the context of a long seventeenth century. Leading experts in the field... -
Female Performance Practice on the Fin-De-SieCle Popular Stages of London and Paris: Experiment and Advertisement by Catherine Hindson 9780719090141
Booksplease Price: £23.54This study focuses on seven women who used the fin-de-siecle's popular stage as a space to develop their experimental performance practices: acts that won them international fame and critical acclaim... -
Prisoners of Britain: German Civilian and Combatant Internees During the First World War by Panikos Panayi 9780719095634
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.62During the First World War, hundreds of thousands of Germans faced incarceration in hundreds of camps on the British mainland. This is the first book on these German prisoners, available in... -
Emile and Isaac Pereire: Bankers, Socialists and Sephardic Jews in Nineteenth-Century France by Helen M. Davies 9780719089237
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £75.20Emile (1800-75) and Isaac Pereire (1806-80) were pivotal and sensational figures, their lives and careers a lens through which to re-examine the history of France in the nineteenth century. Among the... -
Songs of Protest, Songs of Love: Popular Ballads in Eighteenth-Century Britain by Robin Ganev 9780719078903
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £75.20Songs of Protest, Songs of Love shows how songs can bring back voices from the past in a new way. The focus of the book is on rural Britain in a time of crisis. As the traditional rights of peasants... -
Terrorism and Democratic Stability Revisited by Jennifer S. Holmes 9780719075667
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £27.84Can terrorism and state violence cause democratic breakdown? Although the origins of violence have been studied, only rarely are its consequences examined. In this detailed comparative study of... -
Material Relations: Domestic Interiors and Middle-Class Families in England, 1850-1910 by Jane Hamlett 9780719099250
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £23.54Material relations, now available in paperback, tells the story of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century middle-class families by exploring the domestic spaces they inhabited and the material goods... -
Public Relations and the Making of Modern Britain: Stephen Tallents and the Birth of a Progressive Media Profession by Scott Anthony 9780719090042
Booksplease Price: £23.54The story of public relations in Britain was shaped by the economic hardships of the inter-war years. It was a profession established by a group of liberal-minded officials, whose manner and methods... -
Paris and the Commune 1871-78: The Politics of Forgetting by Colette Wilson 9780719074769
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £75.20Despite the scholarship and political activism devoted to keeping the memory of the Paris Commune alive, there still remains much ignorance both in France and elsewhere, about the traumatic civil war... -
Margaret Cavendish by Emma Rees 9780719099328
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £27.84Margaret Cavendish was one of the most prolific, complex and misunderstood writers of the seventeenth century. A contemporary of Descartes and Hobbes, she was fascinated by philosophical, scientific... -
Shaping a Global Women's Agenda: Women's Ngos and Global Governance, 1925-85 by Karen Garner 9780719088988
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £23.54Available in paperback for the first time, and drawing on a wide range of archival sources, Shaping a global women's agenda documents international women's history through the lens of the... -
The British Presidency by Michael Foley 9780719050169
Booksplease Price: £23.84Makes a compelling argument about the increrased importance of political leaders and the changing style of leadership in Britain and the US. Introduces new concepts and backs them up with a... -
Harriet Martineau: Authorship, Society and Empire by Ella Dzelzainis 9780719081330
RRP: £90.00Booksplease Price: £79.50Harriet Martineau responds to the strong revival of interest in her life and writing, exploring Martineau's controversial views through her innovative use of popular cultural forms-journalism,... -
The Subject of Britain, 1603–25 by Christopher Ivic 9780719088704
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £49.06The subject of Britain analyses key seventeenth-century texts by Bacon, Jonson and Shakespeare within the context of the English reign of King James VI and I, whose desire to create a united Britain... -
The My Lai Massacre in American History and Memory by Kendrick Oliver 9780719068911
Booksplease Price: £23.54On 16 March 1968, two US infantry companies entered a Vietnamese village and in the course of a single morning killed over 400 of its unarmed, unresisting inhabitants . . .This is the first book to... -
Regulating Lobbying: a Global Comparison by Raj Chari 9780719079375
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £75.20In an age of corruption, sleaze and scandal associated with financial crisis and economic downturn across the globe, citizens want more transparency and accountability in politics. This book examines... -
A History of British Sports Medicine by Vanessa Heggie 9780719091285
Booksplease Price: £23.54This book offers a comprehensive study, and social history, of the development of sports medicine in Britain, as practised by British doctors and on British athletes in national and international... -
Reading Popular Prints 1790-1870 by Brian Maidment 9780719033711
Booksplease Price: £23.54Each chapter of this stimulating book collects a wide variety of images show the different ways that historical events can be represented. Metal and wood engravings, lithographs, woodcuts, etchings,... -
The Nine Years' War and the British Army 1688-97: The Operations in the Low Countries by John Childs 9780719089961
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £23.84Between 1689 and 1697 the British army fought as a member of the Grand Alliance against Louis XIV. Despite the military and political significance of the European conflict, this book is the first... -
Two Tiers or Two Speeds? by James Sperling 9780719054020
Booksplease Price: £23.54The sudden transformation of the Cold War security order in 1989 altered the structure of the European state system, and necessitates the striking of a new balance between the economic, political and... -
Imperial Persuaders: Images of Africa and Asia in British Advertising by Anandi Ramamurthy 9780719063794
Booksplease Price: £23.54The first book to provide an historical survey of images of black people in advertising during the colonial period. Analyses the various conflicting, and changing ideologies of colonialism and racism... -
Step-Daughters of England: British Women Modernists and the National Imaginary by Jane Garrity 9780719061646
Booksplease Price: £23.54Jane Garrity shows how four British women modernists - Dorothy Richardson, Sylvia Townsend Warner, Mary Butts and Virginia Woolf - used experimental literary techniques in order to situate themselves... -
Security in a Greater Europe: The Possibility of a Pan-European Approach by Charlotte Wagnsson 9780719078828
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £75.20Can Russia, the European Union and the three major EU member states adopt a unified policy line in the global arena? Charlotte Wagnsson investigates the cohesiveness of 'greater Europe' through the... -
The Becoming of Bodies: Girls, Images, Experience by Rebecca Coleman 9780719089183
Booksplease Price: £23.54The relationship between bodies and images has long occupied feminism. The becoming of bodies, available for the first time in paperback, explores the way in which this relationship has primarily... -
History on British Television: Constructing Nation, Nationality and Collective Memory by Robert Dillon 9780719080920
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £75.20History on British television explores the production and consumption of factual history programming on British television. The chronological development of Western historiography is compared to... -
The Poetry of Mildmay Fane, Second Earl of Westmorland: Poems from the Fulbeck, Harvard and Westmorland Manuscripts by Earl of Mildmay Fane Westmorland 9780719080654
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £32.45This edition of some five hundred recently-discovered poems by Mildmay Fane, second Earl of Westmorland presents the largest collection of 'new' seventeenth-century poetry since Traherne's poems were... -
The Victorian Soldier in Africa by Edward M. Spiers 9780719091278
Booksplease Price: £23.54Available in paperback for the first time, The Victorian soldier in Africa re-examines the campaign experience of British soldiers in Africa during the period, 1874-1902 - the zenith of the Victorian... -
Margins of Desire: The Suburbs in Fiction and Culture 1880-1925 by Lynne Hapgood 9780719059711
Booksplease Price: £23.54Margins of Desire' turns the critical spotlight on the London suburbs by showing how the expanding city created new literary locations, genres and themes between 1880 and 1925. Drawing on a wide... -
Consumerism and the Co-Operative Movement in Modern British History: Taking Stock by Lawrence Black 9780719076848
RRP: £90.00Booksplease Price: £79.80Despite the abundance and quality of recent historical writing on consumerism, it cannot be said that the modern Co-operative movement (Co-op) has been well served. It has also been by-passed in... -
Honecker'S Children: Youth and Patriotism in East(Ern) Germany, 1979-2002 by Anna Saunders 9780719082139
Booksplease Price: £23.54During the final decade of the German Democratic Republic (GDR), young citizens found themselves at the heart of a rigorous programme of socialist patriotic education, yet following the fall of the... -
The Agency Phenomenon in the European Union: Emergence, Institutionalisation and Everyday Decision-Making by Madalina Busuioc 9780719085543
RRP: £90.00Booksplease Price: £79.50This volume offers a comprehensive analysis of the agency phenomenon in the European Union. It takes stock of the emergence and development of EU agencies, providing insight into the characteristics... -
Smoking in British Popular Culture 1800-2000 by Matthew Hilton 9780719052576
Booksplease Price: £23.54A concise history of smoking in British popular culture from the early nineteenth century to the present day.. Provides the historical backdrop to the current debates about the politics of tobacco...