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Great Cities Through Travellers' Eyes by Peter Furtado
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26Throughout history, intrepid men and women have related their experiences and perceptions of the world's great cities to bring them alive to those at home. The thirty-eight cities covered in this... -
Histories of Nations: How Their Identities Were Forged by Peter Furtado
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.48National history is a vital part of national self-definition. Most books on the history of the world try to impose a uniform narrative, written usually from a single writer's point of view. Histories... -
Plague, Pestilence and Pandemic: Voices from History by Peter Furtado 9780500296134
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50A collection of intimate and revelatory first-hand accounts of pandemics through the ages. Humanity has always been struck by pestilence and pandemics, from the plagues of ancient Egypt to the pox... -
Revolutions: How they changed history and what they mean today by Peter Furtado
RRP: £24.95Booksplease Price: £24.30Revolutions hold a distinct place in the popular imagination. This may be because their rhetoric, such as 'liberty, fraternity, equality', articulates aspirations with which we identify; or because... -
Revolutions: How they changed history and what they mean today by Peter Furtado 9780500296349
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26Revolutions - peaceful or violent, radical or reactionary - have shaped the political landscape of the world we live in today. But what led revolutionaries to action? What were they fighting against... -
A History of the World in Six Plagues Edna Bonhomme 9780349704364
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £15.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780349704364Author Edna BonhommeFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Dialogue BooksPublisher Dialogue -
Soho: A Street Guide to Soho's History, Architecture and People Dan Cruickshank 9781780224954
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02SOHO - ILLICIT, GLAMOROUS, SORDID, LOUCHE, POVERTY-STRICKEN, SQUALID, EXHILARATING.One of Britain's best-loved historians, Dan Cruickshank grants us an intimacy with centuries of rich and varied... -
The Human Tide: How Population Shaped the Modern World by Paul Morland
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26'Superbly explained' Washington Post'Fascinating' Sunday Times'Engrossing' Evening StandardEvery phase since the advent of the industrial revolution - from the fate of the British Empire, to the... -
Understanding Popular Violence in the English Revolution: The Colchester Plunderers by John Walter 9780521022705
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £26.81This is a critical re-evaluation of one of the best known episodes of crowd action in the English Revolution, in which crowds in their thousands invaded and plundered the houses of the landed classes... -
Understanding Popular Violence in the English Revolution: The Colchester Plunderers by John Walter 9780521651868
RRP: £114.00Booksplease Price: £105.09This is a critical re-evaluation of one of the best known episodes of crowd action in the English Revolution, in which crowds in their thousands invaded and plundered the houses of the landed classes... -
1536: The Year that Changed Henry VIII by Suzannah Lipscomb
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26One of the best-known figures of British history, collective memory of Henry VIII presents us with the image of a corpulent, covetous, and cunning king whose appetite for worldly goods met few... -
The Jewel House: Elizabethan London and the Scientific Revolution by Deborah E. Harkness 9780300143164
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.85Not just a few elite scientists, but Londoners from all walks of life--lawyers, prisoners, midwives, merchants--participated in the scientific community of Elizabethan times Bestselling author... -
The Killing Age: How Violence Made the Modern World by Clifton Crais 9781035013425
Booksplease Price: £16.07'Combines brilliant storytelling with rich and deeply researched evidence . . . essential reading for anyone seeking a global history that reexamines the past on a massive scale' - Caroline Elkins,... -
A Little History of the World E. H. Gombrich 9780300108835
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.46The international bestseller: E. H. Gombrich's sweeping history of the world, for the curious of all ages "All stories begin with 'Once upon a time.' And that's just what this story is all about:...