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The Persistence of Party: Ideas of Harmonious Discord in Eighteenth-Century Britain by Max Skjönsberg
Booksplease Price: £87.92Political parties are taken for granted today, but how was the idea of party viewed in the eighteenth century, when core components of modern, representative politics were trialled? From Bolingbroke... -
King Hancock: The Radical Influence of a Moderate Founding Father by Brooke Barbier
RRP: £24.95Booksplease Price: £21.72A rollicking portrait of the paradoxical patriot, whose measured pragmatism helped make American independence a reality.Americans are surprisingly more familiar with his famous signature than with... -
The Persistence of Party: Ideas of Harmonious Discord in Eighteenth-Century Britain by Max Skjönsberg 9781108794992
Booksplease Price: £26.61Political parties are taken for granted today, but how was the idea of party viewed in the eighteenth century, when core components of modern, representative politics were trialled? From Bolingbroke... -
Critical Approaches to the Films of Robert Rodriguez by Frederick Luis Aldama
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.47Frederick Aldama's The Cinema of Robert Rodriguez (2014) was the first full-scale study of one of the most prolific and significant Latino directors making films today. In this companion volume,... -
The Roman Predicament: How the Rules of International Order Create the Politics of Empire by Dr. Harold James
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £29.02Modern America owes the Roman Empire for more than gladiator movies and the architecture of the nation's Capitol. It can also thank the ancient republic for some helpful lessons in globalization. So... -
King Hancock: The Radical Influence of a Moderate Founding Father Brooke Barbier 9780674301511
RRP: £20.95Booksplease Price: £18.06A concise and highly readable biography...[Hancock's] legacy is very much worth our remembering. -Wall Street Journal"King Hancock is a vastly enjoyable work of popular history that wears its... -
Conservatism: The Fight for a Tradition by Edmund Fawcett 9780691174105
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £26.01A fresh and sharp-eyed history of political conservatism from its nineteenth-century origins to today's hard RightFor two hundred years, conservatism has defied its reputation as a backward-looking... -
Conspiracy on Cato Street: A Tale of Liberty and Revolution in Regency London by Vic Gatrell
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £22.99Shortlisted for the Duff Cooper Prize, and a Daily Telegraph and BBC History Magazine Book of the Year. On the night of 23 February 1820, twenty-five impoverished craftsmen assembled in an obscure... -
Conservatism: The Fight for a Tradition by Edmund Fawcett
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.28A fresh and sharp-eyed history of political conservatism from its nineteenth-century origins to today's hard RightFor two hundred years, conservatism has defied its reputation as a backward-looking... -
Conspiracy on Cato Street: A Tale of Liberty and Revolution in Regency London by Vic Gatrell 9781108971454
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.74Shortlisted for the Duff Cooper Prize, and a Daily Telegraph and BBC History Magazine Book of the Year. On the night of 23 February 1820, twenty-five impoverished craftsmen assembled in an obscure... -
The Cabinet: George Washington and the Creation of an American Institution by Lindsay M. Chervinsky 9780674271036
RRP: £15.95Booksplease Price: £14.19Winner of the Daughters of the American Revolution's Excellence in American History Book AwardWinner of the Thomas J. Wilson Memorial Prize"Cogent, lucid, and concise...An indispensable guide to the... -
Edmund Burke and the Invention of Modern Conservatism, 1830-1914: An Intellectual History by Emily Jones 9780198799429
Booksplease Price: £119.95Between 1830 and 1914 in Britain a dramatic modification of the reputation of Edmund Burke (1730-1797) occurred. Burke, an Irishman and Whig politician, is now most commonly known as the 'founder of... -
The Cabinet: George Washington and the Creation of an American Institution by Lindsay M. Chervinsky
RRP: £24.95Booksplease Price: £22.02Winner of the DAR Excellence in American History Book AwardWinner of the Thomas J. Wilson Memorial Prize"Cogent, lucid, and concise...indispensable guide to the creation of the cabinet. With her... -
The Will of the People: The Revolutionary Birth of America by T H Breen
RRP: £17.95Booksplease Price: £15.74"Important and lucidly written...The American Revolution involved not simply the wisdom of a few great men but the passions, fears, and religiosity of ordinary people."-Gordon S. WoodIn this boldly... -
Statesman of Europe: A Life of Sir Edward Grey by T. G. Otte 9780141991474
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.68'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... -
The Eastern Front: A History of the First World War Nick Lloyd 9780241992098
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23'The First World War from a refreshingly unfamiliar angle . . . masterly' Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times 'Compelling . . . The Eastern Front is essential reading' Margaret Macmillan, Financial... -
Iron and Blood: A Military History of the German-Speaking Peoples since 1500 by Peter H. Wilson 9780674987623
RRP: £39.95Booksplease Price: £27.37From the author of the acclaimed The Thirty Years War and Heart of Europe, a masterful, landmark reappraisal of German military history, and of the preconceptions about German militarism since before... -
The Will of the People: The Revolutionary Birth of America by T. H. Breen
RRP: £26.95Booksplease Price: £16.38A prize-winning historian provides the missing piece in the story of America's founding, introducing us to the ordinary men and women who turned a faltering rebellion against colonial rule into an... -
Iron and Blood: A Military History of the German-Speaking Peoples since 1500 by Peter H. Wilson 9780674299313
RRP: £24.95Booksplease Price: £23.65"The scholarship of this book is breathtaking...No one interested in the history of Europe, and of the Germans in particular, can afford not to read this stupendous book." -Simon Heffer, The... -
Judge Dredd: The Complete Case Files 40 by John Wagner
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £15.80Democracy - Or Die! In the nightmare metropolis of the future he is judge, jury and executioner - he is Judge Dredd!The best-selling Complete Case Files series continues with the gripping and timely... -
Judge Dredd: The Complete Case Files 50: Volume 50 John Wagner 9781837867806
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £17.68THE STREETS OF DAN FRANCISCO Chief Judge Dan Francisco is back in charge of Mega-City One. This means that Judge Dredd finds himself on Francisco's Council of Five - a committee of the Chief Judge's... -
Tomorrow, the World: The Birth of U.S. Global Supremacy by Stephen Wertheim
RRP: £17.95Booksplease Price: £15.74A Foreign Affairs Best Book of the Year"Even in these dismal times genuinely important books do occasionally make their appearance...You really ought to read it...A tour de force...While Wertheim is... -
Judge Dredd: The Complete Case Files 42 by John Wagner 9781786187093
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £17.68Eat Your Heart Out! The best-selling series collecting The Law in order continues as Judge Dredd tests his wits against a grisly selection of Mega-City One's most maniacal murderers! In the dystopian... -
The Intellectual Life of Edmund Burke: From the Sublime and Beautiful to American Independence by David Bromwich
RRP: £35.95Booksplease Price: £34.54David Bromwich's portrait of statesman Edmund Burke (1730-1797) is the first biography to attend to the complexity of Burke's thought as it emerges in both the major writings and private... -
Judge Dredd: The Complete Case Files 44 by John Wagner 9781837861675
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £17.81NO CITY FOR OLD MEN! The best-selling series collecting The Law in order continues. This action-packed volume contains the finale of the epic Origins saga, which sets Dredd on a new quest for justice...