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The Enlightenment World by Martin Fitzpatrick 9780415404082
RRP: £78.99Booksplease Price: £74.44The Enlightenment World offers an informed, comprehensive and up-to-date analysis of the European Enlightenment (c. 1720-1800) as both an historical epoch and a cultural formation. This prestigious... -
Multiculturalism and Moral Conflict by Maria Dimova-Cookson
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £45.63Multiculturalism is higher on the daily political agenda than it has ever been. Leading politicians and public commentators speak with an unparalleled bluntness about the perceived limitations of... -
Victorian Comedy and Laughter: Conviviality, Jokes and Dissent by Louise Lee 9781137578815
Booksplease Price: £112.12This innovative collection of essays is the first to situate comedy and laughter as central rather than peripheral to nineteenth century life. Victorian Comedy and Laughter: Conviviality,Jokes and... -
CSPR;Religion and Hume's Legacy by Professor D. Z. Phillips 9780312225261
Booksplease Price: £90.56Whether one agrees with him or not, there is no avoiding the challenge of Hume for contemporary philosophy of religion. The symposia in this stimulating collection reveal why, whether the discussions... -
Hume's Reflection on Religion by Miguel A.Badia Cabrera 9780792370246
Booksplease Price: £91.68Thepresentwork is arevisedand enlarged English versionofa book originally writtenin Spanish and published in late 1996, La rejlexion de DavidHume en lorno a /a religion. SinceDavidHume is arguablynot... -
Travellers Through Empire: Indigenous Voyages from Early Canada: Volume 91 by Cecilia Morgan 9780773551343
RRP: £37.00Booksplease Price: £31.61In the late eighteenth century and throughout the nineteenth century, an unprecedented number of Indigenous people - especially Haudenosaunee, Anishinaabeg, and Cree - travelled to Britain and other... -
Hume's Reflection on Religion by Miguel A.Badia Cabrera 9789401038447
Booksplease Price: £90.86Thepresentwork is arevisedand enlarged English versionofa book originally writtenin Spanish and published in late 1996, La rejlexion de DavidHume en lorno a /a religion. SinceDavidHume is arguablynot... -
Limits Of Multiculturalism: Interrogating the Origins of American Anthropology by Scott Michaelsen 9780816632473
Booksplease Price: £26.64Traces anthropology's Native American roots.In the early nineteenth century, the profession of American anthropology emerged as European Americans James Fenimore Cooper and Henry Rowe Schoolcraft,... -
Aristotle's Economic Thought by Scott Meikle 9780198152255
Booksplease Price: £62.71`[Meikle's] aim is to make proper sense of Aristotle's economic thinking, and in a detailed, lucid discussion he succeeds brilliantly.' Peter Jones, Sunday Telegraph Aristotle's work on money was... -
How to Flourish: An Ancient Guide to Living Well by Aristotle
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.99Aristotle's essential guide to human flourishing-the Nicomachean Ethics-in a lively new abridged translationAristotle's Nicomachean Ethics is one of the greatest guides to human flourishing ever... -
A Loeb Classical Library Reader by Loeb Classical Library 9780674996168
RRP: £8.95Booksplease Price: £6.95A paperback anthology of essential Greek and Latin texts with facing English translations.This selection of lapidary nuggets drawn from thirty-three of antiquity's major authors includes poetry,... -
The Odyssey by Homer 9780141192444
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £11.52Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful,... -
Peasantry and Society in France since 1789 by Annie Moulin 9780521395779
Booksplease Price: £41.37This book examines the social, economic and cultural evolution of the peasantry in France and its place in French society since 1789. Within an overall chronological framework, Annie Moulin analyses... -
Mosaics of the Greek and Roman World by Katherine M. D. Dunbabin 9780521002301
RRP: £47.99Booksplease Price: £42.98This book provides a comprehensive account of mosaics in the ancient world from the early pebble mosaics of Greece to the pavements of Christian churches in the East. Separate chapters in Part I... -
In Their Own Write: Contesting the New Poor Law, 1834–1900 by Steven King
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £29.74Few subjects in European welfare history attract as much attention as the nineteenth-century English and Welsh New Poor Law. Its founding statute was considered the single most important piece of... -
Polytheism and Society at Athens by Robert Parker 9780199274833
Booksplease Price: £93.59This book is the first attempt that has ever been made to give a comprehensive account of the religious life of ancient Athens. The city's many festivals are discussed in detail, with attention to... -
Roman Passions: A History of Pleasure in Imperial Rome by Ray Laurence 9781847250322
Booksplease Price: £71.55Immerse yourself in the sensual delights of Rome in all their guises. By the time of the emperors, the Romans had created the world's first global empire and plundered the provinces for produce to be... -
Commemorating the Dead in Revolutionary France: Revolution and Remembrance, 1789-1799 by Joseph Clarke 9780521189835
Booksplease Price: £55.15From the fall of the Bastille in 1789 to the coming of Napoleon ten years later, the commemoration of the dead was a recurring theme during the French Revolution. Based on extensive research across a... -
Julius Caesar by Robert Garland 9781904675020
Booksplease Price: £24.69Julius Caesar was, as this book maintains, quite simply the most famous Roman who ever lived. His influence endures to the present day: in our 'Julian' calendar of 365.25 days, which he introduced;... -
In Their Own Write: Contesting the New Poor Law, 1834–1900 by Steven King 9780228014324
RRP: £112.00Booksplease Price: £89.10Few subjects in European welfare history attract as much attention as the nineteenth-century English and Welsh New Poor Law. Its founding statute was considered the single most important piece of... -
The Sustainable Development Goals: Industry Sector Approaches by Martin Wynn
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69In 2015, the United Nations launched the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to define and coordinate global priorities and aspirations up to 2030 in response to the economic, social and... -
Selected Speeches by Demosthenes
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78'Even if everyone else succumbs to slavery, we must still fight for our freedom.' Admired by many in the ancient world as the greatest of the classic Athenian orators, Demosthenes was intimately... -
Fragments by Sophocles
Booksplease Price: £25.31Ancient Athens' most successful tragedian.Sophocles (497/6-406 BC), the second of the three great tragedians of Athens and by common consent one of the world's greatest poets, wrote more than 120... -
How To Start a Business without Any Money Rachel Bridge 9780753540879
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.41Do you dream of starting your own business but don't have any money? What if you could set up a venture with nothing but a good business idea and the determination to make it work?It's an appealing... -
Financing the Landed Estate: Power, Politics and People on the Marquis of Anglesey's Estate, 1812-1854 by Carol Beardmore 9783030145514
RRP: £99.99Booksplease Price: £99.82While there is an extensive historiography which explores English agriculture in the nineteenth century, there has been less attention paid to individual estates and in particular the role of the... -
Transatlantic Upper Canada: Portraits in Literature, Land, and British-Indigenous Relations: Volume 2 by Kevin Hutchings 9780228001294
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £26.32Literature emerging from nineteenth-century Upper Canada, born of dramatic cultural and political collisions, reveals much about the colony's history through its contrasting understandings of nature,... -
Suetonius: Life of Augustus by D. Wardle 9780199686469
Booksplease Price: £72.45Suetonius' Life of Augustus is the most commonly read ancient account of the life of Rome's first emperor, presenting a mass of historical and biographical detail about both his public and personal... -
Legitimacy Gap: Secularism, Religion, and Culture in Comparative Constitutional Law by Vincent Depaigne 9780198803829
Booksplease Price: £109.82This book provides an account and explanation of a fundamental dilemma facing secular states: the 'legitimacy gap' left by the withdrawal of religion as a source of legitimacy. Legitimacy... -
The Oxford Companion to Classical Civilization by Simon Hornblower
Booksplease Price: £53.43What did the ancient Greeks eat and drink? What role did migration play? Why was emperor Nero popular with the ordinary people but less so with the upper classes? Why (according to ancient authors)... -
The Histories by Herodotus 9780140455397
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.53Tom Holland's 'stirring new translation' (Telegraph) of Herodotus' Histories, one of the great books in Western history - now in paperbackThe Histories of Herodotus, completed in the second half of... -
How to Make a Million Before Lunch by Rachel Bridge
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.41Fed up with working for someone else? Want to start your own business but don't want to wait years to reap the rewards? Take every shortcut you can ... and get there fast.As Enterprise Editor of The... -
The Archaeology of Athens by John M. Camp 9780300101515
Booksplease Price: £35.42The definitive work on the monuments of ancient Athens and Attica In this book, a leading authority on the archaeology of ancient Greece presents a survey of the monuments-first chronologically and... -
Rubicon: The Triumph and Tragedy of the Roman Republic by Tom Holland
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50'The book that really held me, in fact, obsessed me, was Rubicon . . . This is narrative history at its best. Bloody and labyrinthine political intrigue and struggle, brilliant oratory, amazing feats... -
How to Be Content: An Ancient Poet's Guide for an Age of Excess by Horace
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.44What the Roman poet Horace can teach us about how to live a life of contentment What are the secrets to a contented life? One of Rome's greatest and most influential poets, Horace (65-8 BCE) has been... -
Recognition Cillian McBride 9780745648484
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £14.48A tension between the desire to be respected as an equal and the desire to distinguish oneself as a unique person lies at the heart of the modern social order. Everyone cares about recognition: no... -
Strabo's Geography: A Translation for the Modern World by Strabo 9780691243139
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £46.54A lively new translation of Strabo's complete Geography-an encyclopedic guide to the ancient world of the first century CE-connecting it with the world of the twenty-first centuryStrabo's Geography... -
The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius: A Study by R. B. Rutherford 9780198147558
Booksplease Price: £95.90Marcus Aurelius, Roman emperor from AD 161 to 180, is renowned for his just rule at home and for his long frontier wars. But his lasting claim to fame rests on the work known as the Meditations - a... -
Taken at the Flood: The Roman Conquest of Greece by Robin Waterfield
RRP: £13.49Booksplease Price: £10.46The Romans first set military foot on Greek soil in 229 BCE; only sixty or so years later it was all over, and shortly thereafter Greece became one of the first provinces of the emerging Roman Empire... -
Taken at the Flood: The Roman Conquest of Greece Robin Waterfield (Writer and translator) 9780199656462
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £19.52The Romans first set military foot on Greek soil in 229 BCE; only sixty or so years later it was all over, and shortly thereafter Greece became one of the first provinces of the emerging Roman Empire... -
Out of One, Many: Ancient Greek Ways of Thought and Culture by Jennifer T. Roberts 9780691181479
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.21A sweeping new account of ancient Greek culture and its remarkable diversityCovering the whole of the ancient Greek experience from its beginnings late in the third millennium BCE to the Roman...