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The Renaissance: A Very Short Introduction by Jerry Brotton
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.66More 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... -
A History of the World in Twelve Maps by Jerry Brotton
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €12.51Throughout 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... -
Fifty Maps and the Stories they Tell by Jerry Brotton 9781851245239
RRP: €14.28Booksplease Price: €12.00From 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: €32.13Booksplease Price: €26.95A 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: €15.46Booksplease Price: €10.98WINNER 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... -
Four Points of the Compass: The Unexpected History of Direction by Jerry Brotton 9780802166005
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €15.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802166005Author Jerry BrottonFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint -
Trading Territories: Mapping the Early Modern World by Jerry Brotton 9781780239293
RRP: €21.41Booksplease Price: €19.47Trading 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 Sale of the Late King's Goods: Charles I and His Art Collection by Jerry Brotton
RRP: €19.03Booksplease Price: €15.78Set 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... -
A History of the World in Twelve Shipwrecks by David Gibbins 9781399603485
RRP: €29.75Booksplease Price: €17.72'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,... -
Hidden Heritage: Rediscovering Britain's Lost Love of the Orient by Fatima Manji
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.70A 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... -
Tudor Church Militant: Edward VI and the Protestant Reformation Diarmaid MacCulloch 9780141985077
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €10.98Edward 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... -
The Globe: How the Earth Became Round by James Hannam 9781789147582
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €17.30The 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... -
Adventurers: The Improbable Rise of the East India Company: 1550-1650 by David Howarth 9780300276497
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.64"Overflowing with surprises."-William Dalrymple, The Spectator "Essential reading."-Dan Jones, Times (UK) "Fascinating and authoritative."-Jerry BrottonThe unlikely beginnings of the East India... -
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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: €17.84Booksplease Price: €2.87An 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... -
Sale Of The Century: The Inside Story of the Second Russian Revolution by Chrystia Freeland
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €12.50This 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... -
Osman's Dream by Caroline Finkel
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €14.95The 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... -
Shakespeare's First Folio: Four Centuries of an Iconic Book by Emma Smith
RRP: €24.98Booksplease Price: €18.93Celebrating 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... -
Benvenuto Cellini and the Embodiment of the Modern Artist Andreas Beyer 9781836390008
RRP: €21.36Booksplease Price: €16.45The 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... -
Shakespeare's First Folio: Four Centuries of an Iconic Book by Emma Smith 9780198819998
RRP: €16.05Booksplease Price: €12.45This 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: €23.80Booksplease Price: €20.12Many 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... -
About Time: A History of Civilization in Twelve Clocks by David Rooney 9780241370513
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.46'An utterly dazzling book, the best piece of history I have read for a long time' Jerry Brotton, author of A History of the World in Twelve Maps'Not merely an horologist's delight, but an ingenious... -
The Edge of the World: How the North Sea Made Us Who We Are by Michael Pye
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €12.51Featured 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... -
Gresham's Law: The Life and World of Queen Elizabeth I's Banker John Guy 9781788162371
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €8.90Thomas Gresham was arguably the first true wizard of global finance. He rose through the mercantile worlds of London and Antwerp to become the hidden power behind three out of the five Tudor monarchs... -
Shakespeare's Money: How much did he make and what did this mean? by Robert Bearman 9780198822240
Booksplease Price: €28.19There is no doubting Shakespeare's literary genius, immortalised in his published work. However, statements along these lines are frequently followed by laments of how little is known about this life... -
Agents of Empire: Knights, Corsairs, Jesuits and Spies in the Sixteenth-Century Mediterranean World by Noel Malcolm
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €14.79In the second half of the sixteenth century, most of the Christian states of Western Europe were on the defensive against a Muslim superpower - the Empire of the Ottoman sultans. There was violent... -
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A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages: The World Through Medieval Eyes by Anthony Bale 9780241993408 [USED COPY]
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €1.49'Rich and wonderful . . . This is the world as you've never seen it before' Ian Mortimer'A joyful, erudite book . . . A global Middle Ages for our times' Jerry Brotton'Wisdom fills the pages of this... -
New World, Inc.: The Story of the British Empire's Most Successful Start-Up by John Butman
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.21'Deeply researched and well-written' - Financial TimesIn the mid-sixteenth century, England was a small and relatively insignificant kingdom on the periphery of Europe, and it had begun to face a... -
Nomads: The Wanderers Who Shaped Our World Anthony Sattin 9781473677890
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.02A Spectator Book of the Year'Sweeping . . . Poetic . . . Not only readable but also vital' Literary Review'A terrific storyteller' New York Times'Exceptional . . . tender and beautifully written'... -
Oliver Cromwell: Commander in Chief Ronald Hutton 9780300284256
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.64The second volume in an acclaimed biography of Oliver Cromwell, from the capture of Charles I to the expulsion of the Long Parliament In 1647, the Parliamentarians were divided. They had won the... -
Mr Selden's Map of China: The spice trade, a lost chart & the South China Sea Timothy Brook 9781781250396
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.02In 1659, a vast and unusual map of China arrived in the Bodleian Library, Oxford. It was bequeathed by John Selden, a London business lawyer, political activist, former convict, MP and the city's... -
Seapower States: Maritime Culture, Continental Empires and the Conflict That Made the Modern World by Andrew Lambert
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €14.22One of the most eminent historians of our age investigates the extraordinary success of five small maritime states "A superb survey of the perennial opportunities and risks in what Herman Melville... -
The Globe: How the Earth Became Round James Hannam 9781836391128
RRP: €14.27Booksplease Price: €10.83Now in paperback, The Globe traces humanity's quest to understand the true shape of the Earth. Ancient Greek philosophers identified it as spherical in the fourth century BCE, with this knowledge... -
Mapping the Ottomans: Sovereignty, Territory, and Identity in the Early Modern Mediterranean by Palmira Brummett 9781107090774
Booksplease Price: €63.45Simple paradigms of Muslim-Christian confrontation and the rise of Europe in the seventeenth century do not suffice to explain the ways in which European mapping envisioned the 'Turks' in image and... -
A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages: The World Through Medieval Eyes by Anthony Bale 9781324106982
Booksplease Price: €14.41Europeans of the Middle Ages were the first to use travel guides to orient their wanderings, as they moved through a world punctuated with miraculous wonders and beguiling encounters. In this vivid... -
About Time: A History of Civilization in Twelve Clocks by David Rooney
RRP: €16.65Booksplease Price: €14.65For thousands of years, people of all cultures have made and used clocks, from the city sundials of ancient Rome to the medieval water clocks of imperial China, hourglasses fomenting revolution in... -
Origins: How the Earth Shaped Human History by Lewis Dartnell
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.70Read the Sunday Times bestseller that reveals the Earth's awesome impact on the shape of human civilisations.'Stands comparison with Sapiens... Thrilling' Sunday Times Human evolution in East Africa... -
Empireworld: How British Imperialism Has Shaped the Globe Sathnam Sanghera 9780241997086
RRP: €14.27Booksplease Price: €10.22THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERIn his ground-breaking new book, Sathnam Sanghera traces the legacies of British empire around the world.'A wonderful book' Rory Stewart'Nuanced and deeply... -
Terra Incognita: 100 Maps to Survive the Next 100 Years by Ian Goldin
RRP: €35.70Booksplease Price: €28.96'Amazing. It would be my desert island choice' Martin Rees'Fascinating, beautiful, alarming and revelatory use of mapping and infographics' Stephen Fry on EarthTime maps'An indispensable read'... -
Elizabeth: The Forgotten Years by John Guy
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €10.98History has pictured Elizabeth I as Gloriana, an icon of strength and power -- and has focused on the early years of her reign. But in 1583, when Elizabeth is fifty, there is relentless plotting... -
Shakespeare's Binding Language by John Kerrigan 9780198818359
Booksplease Price: €47.61This remarkable, innovative book explores the significance in Shakespeare's plays of oaths, vows, contracts, pledges, and the other utterances and acts by which characters commit themselves to the...