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A death in Brazil by Peter Robb
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.78Delving into Brazil's baroque past, Peter Robb writes about its history of slavery and the richly multicultural but disturbed society that was left in its wake when the practice was abolished in the... -
Midnight In Sicily by Peter Robb
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.46Peter Robb's journey into the dark heart of Sicily uses history, painting, literature and food to shed light on southern Italy's legacy of political corruption and violent crime. Taking the trial of... -
A History of India by Peter Robb 9780230279810
Booksplease Price: £95.79This fresh and up-to-date interpretation of India's rich and extraordinary history, written by a leading authority in the field, explores themes in ancient, medieval and especially modern India... -
A History of India by Peter Robb 9780230279827
RRP: £28.99Booksplease Price: £27.99This fresh and up-to-date interpretation of India's rich and extraordinary history, written by a leading authority in the field, explores themes in ancient, medieval and especially modern India... -
M: The Caravaggio Enigma by Peter Robb 9781408819890
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.24The controversial, ground-breaking biography of Caravaggio'A great read; it grabs, it kicks, it lives ... Feel the force of Caravaggio's cutting edge' Guardian'Written in a vehemently passionate and... -
Useful Friendship: Europeans and Indians in Early Calcutta by Peter Robb 9780198099185
Booksplease Price: £55.56This book describes how friendship or quasi-friendly behaviour underwrote British life and work in Calcutta before and after 1800, even between patrons and clients, and when personal relations were... -
Rural South Asia: Linkages, Change and Development Peter Robb 9781032617541
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £29.49First published in 1983, Rural South Asia examines questions of change and development in terms of linkages between localities and the outside world. The authors examine the response specifically to... -
Agrarian Development in Colonial India: The British and Bihar by Peter Robb 9781032033020
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69This book looks at agriculture, development, poverty and British rule in India, especially in the Patna Division in Bihar between c.1870-1920. It traces the economic influence of British policies and... -
Rural South Asia: Linkages, Change and Development by Peter Robb 9781032617510
Booksplease Price: £110.69First published in 1983, Rural South Asia examines questions of change and development in terms of linkages between localities and the outside world. The authors examine the response specifically to... -
Ideas Matter: Debating the Impact of British Rule in India by Peter Robb 9789390232468
RRP: £44.95Booksplease Price: £40.72Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789390232468Author Peter RobbFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint -
Local Agrarian Societies in Colonial India: Japanese Perspectives by Peter Robb 9781138979963
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £45.93The first systematic attempt to introduce a full range of Japanese scholarship on the agrarian history of British India to the English-language reader. Suggests the fundamental importance of an Asian... -
Rule, Protest, Identity: Aspects of Modern South Asia by Peter Robb 9781032617992
RRP: £99.99Booksplease Price: £90.98First published in 1978, Rural, Protest, Identity consists of eleven essays on modern South Asia. Its concern is with the diversity of the region, to suggest how its study may be enriched by the... -
Rule, Protest, Identity: Aspects of Modern South Asia Peter Robb 9781032618012
RRP: £28.99Booksplease Price: £28.64First published in 1978, Rural, Protest, Identity consists of eleven essays on modern South Asia. Its concern is with the diversity of the region, to suggest how its study may be enriched by the... -
Sex and Sensibility: Richard Blechynden's Calcutta Diaries, 1791-1822 by Peter Robb 9780198075110
Booksplease Price: £35.22Richard Blechynden was a surveyor, architect, and builder in early colonial Bengal. This volume and its companion (Sentiment and Self) use 80 volumes of his diaries and other archival material along... -
Benign Imperialism?: Proper Conduct and the Public Interest in Colonial India by Peter Robb 9789361778001
RRP: £49.95Booksplease Price: £45.33Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789361778001Author Peter RobbPage Count 352Imprint -
Midnight in Sicily: On Art, Feed, History, Travel and La Cosa Nostra by Peter Robb 9780312426842
RRP: £23.00Booksplease Price: £15.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312426842Author Peter RobbFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint -
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Midnight in Sicily: on Art, Food, History, Travel and La Cosa Nostra by Peter Robb 9781860465970 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £3.71A journey into the heart of Sicily, using art, food, history and literature to shed light on southern Italy's legacy of political corruption and violent crime. The book takes as its starting point... -
Ancient Rights and Future Comfort: Bihar, the Bengal Tenancy Act of 1885, and British Rule in India by Peter Robb 9781138963504
RRP: £50.99Booksplease Price: £48.48This book analyses the character of British rule in nineteenth-century India, by focusing on the underlying ideas and the practical repercussions of agrarian policy. It argues that the great rent law... -
The British Hegelians: 1875-1925 by Peter Robbins
RRP: £34.99Booksplease Price: £33.73Originally published in 1982, this volume examines the sources of British Hegelian thinking, the lines of its development and intellectual relationships among members of the school. The sources in... -
Camus: Absurd North America by Peter Robbins 9781636612775
RRP: £16.00Booksplease Price: £10.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781636612775Author Peter RobbinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 210Imprint -
The British Hegelians: 1875-1925 by Peter Robbins 9780367409951
Booksplease Price: £108.12Originally published in 1982, this volume examines the sources of British Hegelian thinking, the lines of its development and intellectual relationships among members of the school. The sources in... -
The Trader’s Journey: Navigating the path to trading success by Peter Robbins 9781804091661
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £17.38Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Century Review, 1805-1905, Maury County, Tennessee: A Condensation of the Most Important Events of the Past One Hundred Years (1905) by David Peter Robbins 9781169966888
RRP: £36.95Booksplease Price: £30.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781169966888Author David Peter RobbinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 340Impr -
Memory, Identity and the Colonial Encounter in India: Essays in Honour of Peter Robb Ezra Rashkow (Assistant Professor, Department of History, Montclair State University, Montclair, USA) 9780367277888
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £42.24This book sheds new light on the dynamics of the colonial encounter between Britain and India. It highlights how various analytical approaches to this encounter can be creatively mobilised to rethink... -
Naples: A Traveller's Reader Mr Desmond Seward 9781472142306
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.23Many Italian cities look back with pride to the days when they were independent republics: Naples, on the contrary, remembers its days as a royal capital, the brilliant administrative and political... -
A Winter in India: Light Impressions of its Cities, Peoples and Customs by Archibald B. Spens 9780367176815
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £45.63A charming travelogue set in the British Raj, A Winter in India presents a fascinating journey across people, customs, languages, cities, monuments, and landscapes. Spens thrilling and amusing... -
Street Fight in Naples by 9781408822326
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.54Naples is always a shock, flaunting beauty and squalor like nowhere else. It is the only city in Europe whose ancient past still lives in its irrepressible people. In 1503, Naples was the... -
Sweet Honey, Bitter Lemons: Travels in Sicily on a Vespa by Matthew Fort
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.74At the age of twenty-six Matthew Fort first visited the Italian island of Sicily. He and his brother arrived in 1973 expecting sun, sea and good food, but they were totally unprepared for the... -
Young Michelangelo by John T. Spike
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.80This is a long-awaited and authoritative reinterpretation of the early life and career of arguably the greatest artist in history. Author John T. Spike surveys Michelangelo's early life from birth to... -
Wage Labour and Unfreedom in Agriculture: An Indian Case Study by V. K. Ramachandran 9780198286479
Booksplease Price: £46.58This book addresses the question of how it is that so much growth and technical change can take place in agriculture and yet leave the position of agricultural labourers relatively unchanged. Much... -
The Old Nurse's Story: A Ghost Story for Christmas by Elizabeth Gaskell 9781771963152
RRP: £4.99Booksplease Price: £4.30After her parents pass away, young Rosamond is raised by her nurse in the ancestral home of her aunt, Miss Furnivall. One day the two uncover an exceptionally beautiful old portrait? A relative,... -
The Sundial: A Ghost Story for Christmas by R.H. Malden 9781771963138
RRP: £4.99Booksplease Price: £4.30When he returns to England from the Civil Service, a man takes up residence in an old country home. Enchanted by midsummer days in the garden, he decides to install a sundial. As he waits for it to... -
An Imperial Disaster: The Bengal Cyclone of 1876 by Benjamin Kingsbury
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £23.93The storm came on the night of 31 October. It was a full moon, and the tides were at their peak; the great rivers of eastern Bengal were flowing high and fast to the sea. In the early hours the... -
The Morgan Trust: A Ghost Story for Christmas by Richard Bridgeman
RRP: £5.99Booksplease Price: £4.92World-renowned illustrator Seth returns with three new Christmas ghost stories for 2020.Intrigued by a travel guide's mention of tales of hauntings, Selby Pyle, an "Amateur Psychic Investigator,"... -
The Open Door: A Ghost Story for Christmas by Margaret Oliphant
RRP: £5.99Booksplease Price: £4.92World-renowned illustrator Seth returns with three new Christmas ghost stories for 2020. Retired officer Colonel Mortimer takes a lease on the mansion of Brentwood, the grounds of which share the... -
The Story of a Disappearance and an Appearance: A Ghost Story for Christmas by M.R. James
RRP: £5.99Booksplease Price: £4.92World-renowned illustrator Seth returns with three new Christmas ghost stories for 2020.After receiving word that his Uncle Henry has gone missing, W.R. travels to his town to join in the search, but... -
The Trouble with Empire: Challenges to Modern British Imperialism by Antoinette Burton 9780199936601
RRP: £33.49Booksplease Price: £33.40Incredibly, there is no comprehensive history dedicated to resistance in the 19th and 20th century British empire. This is not for want of attention to the enemies of imperialism. There are accounts... -
Law and the Economy in a Young Democracy: India 1947 and Beyond by Tirthankar Roy
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £34.80An essential history of India's economic growth since 1947, including the legal reforms that have shaped the country in the shadow of colonial rule. Economists have long lamented how the inefficiency... -
Sicilian Avengers: A Novel by Luigi Natoli 9781635769272
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £15.47A thrilling Sicilian saga about the legendary secret sect purported to be forerunners of the Mafia, translated into English for the first time. Emerging from the dark streets and subterranean... -
The Trouble with Empire: Challenges to Modern British Imperialism by Antoinette Burton 9780190858551
Booksplease Price: £35.55The Trouble with Empire contends that dissent and disruption were constant features of imperial experience and that they should, therefore, drive narratives of the modern British imperial past...