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A History of the World in Twelve Maps by Jerry Brotton
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $20.49Throughout history, maps have been fundamental in shaping our view of the world, and our place in it. But far from being purely scientific objects, maps of the world are unavoidably ideological and... -
Talking Maps Jerry Brotton 9781851245154
RRP: $68.25Booksplease Price: $63.06Every map tells a story. Some provide a narrative for travellers, explorers and surveyors or offer a visual account of changes to people's lives, places and spaces, while others tell imaginary tales,... -
The Renaissance: A Very Short Introduction by Jerry Brotton
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.20More than ever before, the Renaissance stands as one of the defining moments in world history. Between 1400 and 1600, European perceptions of society, culture, politics and even humanity itself... -
Fifty Maps and the Stories they Tell by Jerry Brotton 9781851245239
RRP: $23.40Booksplease Price: $19.66From medieval maps to digital cartograms, this book features highlights from the Bodleian Library's extraordinary map collection together with rare artefacts and some stunning examples from... -
Great Maps: The World's Masterpieces Explored and Explained by Jerry Brotton
RRP: $52.65Booksplease Price: $44.17A superbly illustrated guide to 64 maps from all around the world! From examples of medieval Mappa Mundi and the first atlas to Google Earth and maps of the moon, this captivating maps book is a... -
This Orient Isle: Elizabethan England and the Islamic World by Jerry Brotton
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.00WINNER OF THE HISTORICAL WRITERS ASSOCIATION NON-FICTION CROWNAS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 4'Fabulous, timely, a marvellous achievement' Spectator'A richly resonant work which recasts our understanding of... -
Great Maps: The World's Masterpieces Explored and Explained by Jerry Brotton 9781465424631
RRP: $74.10Booksplease Price: $57.58A superbly illustrated guide to 64 maps from all around the world! From examples of medieval Mappa Mundi and the first atlas to Google Earth and maps of the moon, this captivating maps book is a... -
Four Points of the Compass: The Unexpected History of Direction by Jerry Brotton 9780802166005
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $24.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802166005Author Jerry BrottonFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Grove PressPublisher Grove... -
Trading Territories: Mapping the Early Modern World by Jerry Brotton 9781780239293
RRP: $35.08Booksplease Price: $31.90Trading Territories tells the compelling story of maps and geographical knowledge in the early modern world from the fifteenth to the early seventeenth century. Examining how European geographers... -
The Renaissance Bazaar: from the Silk Road to Michelangelo by Jerry Brotton 9780192802651
Booksplease Price: $82.08More than ever before, the Renaissance stands as one of the defining moments in world history. Between 1400 and 1600, European perceptions of society, culture, politics and even humanity itself... -
Four Points of the Compass: The Unexpected History of Direction by Jerry Brotton 9780141999562
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $18.19A sparkling exploration of direction, by the acclaimed author of A History of the World in 12 MapsNorth, south, east and west: almost all societies use the four cardinal directions to orientate... -
The Sale of the Late King's Goods: Charles I and His Art Collection by Jerry Brotton
RRP: $31.18Booksplease Price: $25.86Set against the backdrop of war, revolution, and regicide, and moving from London to Venice, Mantua, Madrid, Paris and the Low Countries, Jerry Brotton's colourful and critically acclaimed book, The... -
Emissaries in Early Modern Literature and Culture: Mediation, Transmission, Traffic, 1550-1700 by Gitanjali Shahani 9781138265561
RRP: $116.98Booksplease Price: $103.92With its emphasis on early modern emissaries and their role in England's expansionary ventures and cross-cultural encounters across the globe, this collection of essays takes the messenger figure as... -
Geographical Knowledge and Imperial Culture in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire Pinar Emiralioglu 9781138247543
RRP: $116.98Booksplease Price: $103.92Exploring the reasons for a flurry of geographical works in the Ottoman Empire in the sixteenth century, this study analyzes how cartographers, travellers, astrologers, historians and naval captains... -
Early Modern Encounters with the Islamic East: Performing Cultures by Ms Sabine Schulting
RRP: $116.98Booksplease Price: $103.92An exploration of early modern encounters between Christian Europe and the (Islamic) East from the perspective of performance studies and performativity theories, this collection focuses on the ways... -
Post-Colonial Shakespeares by 9780415606813
RRP: $95.53Booksplease Price: $86.52First published in 2002. This collection of new essays explores the multiple possibilities for the study of Shakespeare in an emerging post-colonial period. Post-Colonial Shakespeares examines the... -
Horizons: A Global History of Science by James Poskett
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.00'Superb' Sunday Times'Revolutionary' Alice Roberts'Hugely important' Jim Al-Khalili_______________A radical retelling of the history of science that foregrounds the scientists erased from history In... -
A History of the World in Twelve Shipwrecks by David Gibbins 9781399603485
RRP: $48.75Booksplease Price: $29.04'Masterful and entrancing - this is big history at its best.' Professor Alice Roberts, author of Ancestors'A real-life Indiana Jones takes readers on a dive through these underwater museums,... -
Global Interests: Renaissance Art Between East and West by Lisa Jardine
Booksplease Price: $45.14In this radical and wide-ranging reassessment of Renaissance art, Jerry Brotton and Lisa Jardine examine the ways in which European culture came to define itself culturally and aesthetically in the... -
Mappings by Denis Cosgrove 9781861890214
Booksplease Price: $46.20With essays by Jerry Brotton, Paul Carter, Michael Charlesworth, James Corner, Wystan Curnow, Christian Jacob, Luciana de Lima Martins, David Matless, Armand Mattelart, Lucia Nuti and Alessandro... -
Tudor Church Militant: Edward VI and the Protestant Reformation Diarmaid MacCulloch 9780141985077
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.00Edward VI died a teenager in 1553, yet his brief reign would shape the future of the nation, unleashing a Protestant revolution that propelled England into the heart of the Reformation. This... -
Hidden Heritage: Rediscovering Britain's Lost Love of the Orient by Fatima Manji
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.89A fresh perspective on British history from award-winning broadcaster Fatima ManjiWhy was there a Turkish mosque adorning Britain's most famous botanic garden in the eighteenth century? How did a... -
The Globe: How the Earth Became Round by James Hannam 9781789147582
RRP: $37.03Booksplease Price: $28.35The Globe tells the story of humanity's quest to discover the form of the world. Philosophers in ancient Greece deduced the true shape of the Earth in the fourth century BCE; the Romans passed the... -
Secret Maps: How they Conceal and Reveal the World Tom Harper 9780712355643
RRP: $78.00Booksplease Price: $53.43Secrets and maps are a match made in heaven. A Second World War military plan of a cave system covered with red stamps, a tatty hand-drawn treasure map marked with an 'X', or even your personal phone... -
A Renaissance Treasury: The Schroder Collection at the Holburne Museum Caterina Badan 9781913645847
RRP: $87.75Booksplease Price: $75.80This lavishly illustrated catalogue will unveil the treasures of the Schroder Collection, one of the finest collections of Renaissance silver, paintings, works on paper, bronzes, maiolica and gems in... -
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The Edge of the World: How the North Sea Made Us Who We Are by Michael Pye 9780241963838 [USED COPY]
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $10.12An epic adventure: from the Vikings to the Enlightenment, from barbaric outpost to global hub, this book tells the dazzling history of northern Europe's transformation by sea.'Pye writes like a dream... -
Adventurers: The Improbable Rise of the East India Company: 1550-1650 by David Howarth 9780300276497
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $19.07"Overflowing with surprises."-William Dalrymple, The Spectator "Essential reading."-Dan Jones, Times (UK) "Fascinating and authoritative."-Jerry BrottonThe unlikely beginnings of the East India... -
Osman's Dream by Caroline Finkel
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $24.49The Ottoman chronicles recount that the first sultan, Osman, dreamt of the dynasty he would found - a tree, fully-formed, emerged from his navel, symbolising the vigour of his successors and the... -
Matters of Exchange: Commerce, Medicine, and Science in the Dutch Golden Age by Harold J. Cook 9780300143218
Booksplease Price: $96.74A new and unexpected history of the Dutch pursuit of commerce in the 16th and 17th centuries and how it triggered the Scientific Revolution In this wide-ranging and stimulating book, a leading... -
Shakespeare's First Folio: Four Centuries of an Iconic Book by Emma Smith
RRP: $40.93Booksplease Price: $31.02Celebrating the 400th Anniversary of the publication of Shakespeare's First Folio This is the biography of a book: the first collected edition of Shakespeare's plays printed in 1623 and known as... -
Sale Of The Century: The Inside Story of the Second Russian Revolution by Chrystia Freeland
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $20.48This is the first account of Russia's second revolution - the country's dramatic, wrenching transition from communist central planning to a market economy. Written by one of the finest writers on... -
Lost Maps of the Caliphs Yossef Rapoport 9781851244911
RRP: $73.13Booksplease Price: $64.51About a millennium ago, in Cairo, someone completed a large and richly illustrated book. In the course of thirty-five chapters, our unknown author guided the reader on a journey from the outermost... -
Benvenuto Cellini and the Embodiment of the Modern Artist Andreas Beyer 9781836390008
RRP: $35.00Booksplease Price: $26.95The art history public has long been both fascinated and repelled by the renowned Renaissance sculptor Benvenuto Cellini. He was a murderer, thief, lover of both genders, servant and rival of popes... -
The Queen's Atlas: Saxton's Elizabethan Masterpiece David Fletcher 9781851246205
RRP: $68.25Booksplease Price: $55.15Nowadays, we take for granted the ready availability of maps of all kinds. In mid-Tudor England, they were rare. All this was to change in 1579 when Christopher Saxton, a farmer from the West Riding... -
Shakespeare's First Folio: Four Centuries of an Iconic Book by Emma Smith 9780198819998
RRP: $26.31Booksplease Price: $20.40This is a biography of a book: the first collected edition of Shakespeare's plays printed in 1623 and known as the First Folio. It begins with the story of its first purchaser in London in December... -
Why North is Up: Map Conventions and Where They Came From by Mick Ashworth
RRP: $39.00Booksplease Price: $32.97Many people have a love of maps. But what lies behind the process of map-making? How have cartographers through the centuries developed their craft and established a language of maps which helps them... -
Ruthless: A New History of Britain’s Rise to Wealth and Power Edmond Smith 9780300278514
RRP: $48.75Booksplease Price: $44.11A revelatory new history of Britain's industrial revolution and the exploitation that enabled it Was Britain's industrial revolution the result of its machines, which produced goods with miraculous... -
Merchants: The Community That Shaped England's Trade and Empire, 1550-1650 by Edmond Smith
RRP: $53.63Booksplease Price: $48.07WINNER OF THE 2023 RALPH GOMORY BOOK PRIZE "A superb book."-Jerry Brotton "Wonderfully wide-ranging and deeply-researched."-William Dalrymple "Sharply observed, innovatively analysed, and... -
Savonarola: The Rise and Fall of a Renaissance Prophet by Donald Weinstein 9780300111934
Booksplease Price: $144.83A deeply considered new biography of the visionary Dominican by a leading Renaissance scholar Girolamo Savonarola, the fifteenth-century doom-saying friar, embraced the revolution of the Florentine... -
The Edge of the World: How the North Sea Made Us Who We Are by Michael Pye
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $20.49Featured in New York Times: 100 Notable Books of 2015 Michael Pye's The Edge of the World is an epic adventure: from the Vikings to the Enlightenment, from barbaric outpost to global centre, it...