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Rhetoric: A Very Short Introduction by Richard Toye
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.23Rhetoric is often seen as a synonym for shallow, deceptive language, and therefore as something negative. But if we view rhetoric in more neutral terms, as the 'art of persuasion', it is clear that... -
Winston Churchill: A Life in the News by Richard Toye 9780198803980
RRP: $57.73Booksplease Price: $46.79Before Winston Churchill made history, he made news. To a great extent, the news made him too. If it was his own efforts that made him a hero, it was the media that made him a celebrity - and it has... -
Winston Churchill: A Life in the News by Richard Toye 9780192896230
RRP: $36.73Booksplease Price: $29.09Before Winston Churchill made history, he made news. To a great extent, the news made him too. If it was his own efforts that made him a hero, it was the media that made him a celebrity - and it has... -
Winston Churchill: Politics, Strategy and Statecraft by Richard Toye 9781474263856
Booksplease Price: $62.75Winston Churchill is a renowned historical figure, whose remarkable political and military career continues to enthral. This book consists of short, highly readable chapters on key aspects of... -
Lloyd George and Churchill: Rivals for Greatness by Richard Toye 9781447266600
RRP: $42.00Booksplease Price: $34.69The two most significant British political figures of the twentieth-century, Churchill and Lloyd George were political rivals but personal friends. Between them their ministerial careers spanned... -
Age of Hope: Labour, 1945, and the Birth of Modern Britain by Richard Toye 9781472992307
Booksplease Price: $36.54"The clue to our future lies in our past and Toye has winkled it out with elegant and devastating precision." Chris Bryant, MP for Rhondda WAS THE ATTLEE GOVERNMENT OF 1945 REALLY THE GOLDEN... -
Churchill's Empire: The World that Made Him and the World He Made by Richard Toye 9781509804801
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $33.12'I have not become the King's First Minister in order to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire.' These notorious words, spoken by Churchill in 1942, encapsulate his image as an imperial... -
Making Reputations: Power, Persuasion and the Individual in Modern British Politics by Richard Toye 9781350176317
Booksplease Price: $74.47Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781350176317Author Richard ToyeFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Bloomsbury AcademicPublisher... -
The Roar of the Lion: The Untold Story of Churchill's World War II Speeches by Richard Toye 9780198715450
RRP: $36.73Booksplease Price: $29.78''My aunt, listening to the Prime Minister's speech, remarked of "our greatest orator", "He's no speaker, is he?"' -diary of teacher M.A. Pratt, 11 Nov. 1942. The popular story of Churchill's... -
Churchill's Empire: The World That Made Him and the World He Made by Professor of Modern History Richard Toye 9780312577131
RRP: $65.08Booksplease Price: $44.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312577131Author Professor of Modern History Richard ToyeFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint St... -
Parliament and Politics in the Age of Asquith and Lloyd George: The Diaries of Cecil Harmsworth MP, 1909-22 by Richard Toye 9781107162457
RRP: $119.70Booksplease Price: $116.45Cecil Bisshop Harmsworth, 1st Baron Harmsworth (1869-1948), was the younger brother of the press proprietors Lord Northcliffe and Lord Rothermere. Although he played a role in the early development... -
Water & Power by Richard Montoya 9780573696473
Booksplease Price: $30.956 m, 1 boy (doubling possible) Originally performed by the award-winning Chicano/Latino performance troupe Culture Clash A hard working immigrant father wants better for his sons, twins named Water... -
Palestine, New Mexico by Richard Montoya 9780573698385
Booksplease Price: $30.85Drama / Characters: 7m, 6f Rumors, Secrets, Sand and Blood. U.S. Army Captain Catherine Siler journeys to the New Mexico reservation home of Private First Class Raymond Birdsong on a search for... -
Jose Montoya's Abundant Harvest: Works on Paper / Works on Life by Richard Montoya 9780990762621
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $30.18Chicano activist, poet, artist, intellectual, professor, and musician, Jose Montoya (1932-2013) was a veritable Renaissance man. Montoya often found inspiration in the verdant fields of the San... -
The Great Controversy Between Christ and His Angels and Satan and His Angels: Comparing The 1911 Great Controversy & The 1884 Great Controversy by Richard Montoya Miller Luna Gonzales 9781479610082
RRP: $132.01Booksplease Price: $119.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781479610082Author Richard Montoya Miller Luna GonzalesFormat HardbackPage Count 410Imprint... -
The Great Controversy Between Christ and His Angels and Satan and His Angels: Comparing The 1911 Great Controversy & The 1884 Great Controversy by Richard Montoya Miller Luna Gonzales 9781479610075
RRP: $113.36Booksplease Price: $102.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781479610075Author Richard Montoya Miller Luna GonzalesFormat PaperbackPage Count 410Imprint... -
An Affluent Society?: Britain's Post-War 'Golden Age' Revisited Lawrence Black 9781138247529
RRP: $104.98Booksplease Price: $97.63During an election speech in 1957 the Prime Minister, Harold Macmillan, famously remarked that 'most of our people have never had it so good'. Although taken out of context, this phrase soon came to... -
Liberal Reform and Industrial Relations: J.H. Whitley (1866-1935), Halifax Radical and Speaker of the House of Commons by John A. Hargreaves 9780367348830
RRP: $94.48Booksplease Price: $88.70J.H. Whitley came from an established business family in Halifax, where he engaged in youth work and municipal politics before becoming MP for Halifax from 1900 to 1928. He was a Liberal Radical who... -
Arguing about Empire: Imperial Rhetoric in Britain and France, 1882-1956 by Martin Thomas 9780198820482
Booksplease Price: $64.07Arguing about Empire analyses the most divisive arguments about empire between Europe's two leading colonial powers from the age of high imperialism to the post-war era of decolonization. Focusing on... -
The Tory World: Deep History and the Tory Theme in British Foreign Policy, 1679-2014 Jeremy Black 9781138703612
RRP: $117.58Booksplease Price: $110.75Political decisions are never taken in a vacuum but are shaped both by current events and historical context. In other words, long-term developments and patterns in which the accumulated memory of... -
Age of Promises: Electoral Pledges in Twentieth Century Britain by 9780198843030
RRP: $197.40Booksplease Price: $189.63Age of Promises explores the issue of electoral promises in twentieth century Britain - how they were made, how they were understood, and how they evolved across time - through a study of general... -
Arguing about Empire: Imperial Rhetoric in Britain and France, 1882-1956 by Martin Thomas 9780198749196
Booksplease Price: $127.20Arguing about Empire analyses the most divisive arguments about empire between Europe's two leading colonial powers from the age of high imperialism to the post-war era of decolonization. Focusing on... -
Imagining Britain's Economic Future, c.1800-1975: Trade, Consumerism, and Global Markets by David Thackeray 9783030100384
RRP: $230.98Booksplease Price: $230.10Following the Brexit vote, this book offers a timely historical assessment of the different ways that Britain's economic future has been imagined and how British ideas have influenced global debates... -
Imagining Britain's Economic Future, c.1800-1975: Trade, Consumerism, and Global Markets by David Thackeray 9783319712963
Booksplease Price: $235.41Following the Brexit vote, this book offers a timely historical assessment of the different ways that Britain's economic future has been imagined and how British ideas have influenced global debates... -
The UN and Global Political Economy: Trade, Finance, and Development by John Toye
RRP: $48.28Booksplease Price: $42.88Against the backdrop of a 20-year revolt against free trade orthodoxy by economists inside the UN and their impact on policy discussions since the 1960s, the authors show how the UN both nurtured and... -
The Wind of Change: Harold Macmillan and British Decolonization by L. Butler
Booksplease Price: $196.27Harold Macmillan's 'Wind of Change' speech, delivered to the South African parliament in Cape Town at the end of a landmark six-week African tour, presaged the end of the British Empire in Africa... -
The Wind of Change: Harold Macmillan and British Decolonization by Larry Butler 9780230361034
Booksplease Price: $190.18Harold Macmillan's 'Wind of Change' speech, delivered to the South African parliament in Cape Town at the end of a landmark six-week African tour, presaged the end of the British Empire in Africa... -
Feminism and Feminists After Suffrage Julie Gottlieb (University of Sheffield, UK) 9781138094772
RRP: $111.28Booksplease Price: $104.77What happened in women's history after the vote was won? Was the suffragette spirit quashed by the advent of the First World War, and due to the achievement of women's partial (1918) and then equal... -
Electoral Pledges in Britain Since 1918: The Politics of Promises by David Thackeray 9783030466657
RRP: $251.98Booksplease Price: $235.45Nobody doubts that politicians ought to fulfil their promises - what people cannot agree about is what this means in practice. The purpose of this book is to explore this issue through a series of... -
Embassies in Crisis: Studies of Diplomatic Missions in Testing Situations by Rogelia Pastor-Castro
RRP: $294.00Booksplease Price: $269.60Embassies are integral to international diplomacy, their staff instrumental to inter-governmental dialogue, strategic partnerships, trading relationships and cultural exchange. But Embassies are also... -
Embassies in Crisis: Studies of Diplomatic Missions in Testing Situations by 9780367609818
RRP: $96.58Booksplease Price: $90.47Embassies are integral to international diplomacy, their staff instrumental to inter-governmental dialogue, strategic partnerships, trading relationships and cultural exchange. But Embassies are also... -
Electoral Pledges in Britain Since 1918: The Politics of Promises by David Thackeray 9783030466626
RRP: $251.98Booksplease Price: $236.08Nobody doubts that politicians ought to fulfil their promises - what people cannot agree about is what this means in practice. The purpose of this book is to explore this issue through a series of... -
Worlds of Political Economy: Knowledge and Power in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries by Frank Trentmann 9781403932181
Booksplease Price: $190.18Worlds of Political Economy explores the meanings and workings of political economy as a source of knowledge and power in national, imperial, and transnational settings in the nineteenth and... -
Churchill, Chamberlain and Appeasement by G. C. Peden
RRP: $65.10Booksplease Price: $59.89Was Churchill correct when he claimed the Second World War could easily have been prevented if Chamberlain had not appeased Hitler? How far did Churchill and Chamberlain differ on defence and foreign... -
Modern Populism: Weaponizing for Power and Influence by Deepak Tripathi 9783031322327
RRP: $230.98Booksplease Price: $214.62This book sheds light on modern populism and discusses the link between populism and identity politics against the backdrop of populist leaders asserting the identity of their own group, while... -
United Kingdom Adrian Bingham (University of Sheffield) 9781509537563
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.32The United Kingdom has been at the heart of global history for centuries - as a conqueror, an engine of international trade, and a symbol of modernity. It was the first industrial nation, the centre... -
United Kingdom Adrian Bingham (University of Sheffield) 9781509537556
RRP: $94.50Booksplease Price: $68.63The United Kingdom has been at the heart of global history for centuries - as a conqueror, an engine of international trade, and a symbol of modernity. It was the first industrial nation, the centre... -
Keynes in Action: Truth and Expediency in Public Policy Peter Clarke (University of Cambridge) 9781009255011
RRP: $65.10Booksplease Price: $62.18John Maynard Keynes died in 1946 but his ideas and his example remain relevant today. In this distinctive new account, Peter Clarke shows how Keynes's own career was not simply that of an academic... -
The Churchill Myths by Steven Fielding 9780198851967
RRP: $56.68Booksplease Price: $55.15This is not a book about Winston Churchill. It is not principally about his politics, nor his rhetorical imagination, nor even about the man himself. Instead, it addresses the varied afterlives of... -
After Elizabeth: Can the Monarchy Save Itself? by Ed Owens 9781399406529
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $41.01The British monarchy has been through turbulent times of late. Rocked by scandal and strife, and without it seems a clear plan for the future following the death of Queen Elizabeth II, we have been...