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From the mid-sixteenth to the early nineteenth centuries, Barbary corsairs from North Africa swarmed the Mediterranean and the Atlantic, seizing enormous amounts of booty and tens of thousands of captives, hauling them back to the slave markets in their...

In the 16th century warships engaged at close range, sometimes with yards touching, and small arms fire and hand-to-hand combat were at least as important as the "great guns." As time went on, the big guns became more decisive and increased in...

This fully illustrated study explores the formidable Athenian army, rivalled only by the Spartan army in terms of battlefield prowess and influence. In 508 BC, the reforms of Kleisthenes established the ten tribes of Athens, inaugurating a system of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781739484194Author Ben SkipperFormat PaperbackImprint Forester Green PublishingPublisher Forester Green Publishing

Not Just Green, Not Just White brings together a group of diverse contributors to explore the rich intersections between race and environment. Together these contributors demonstrate that the field of environmental history, with its core questions and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804515365Author Derek JamesFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

The history of the modern United States is the history of coal—and of coal miners. Trish Kahle reveals miners as forgers of a coal-fired social contract that was contested throughout the twentieth century as Americans sought to define the meaning of...

Challenging the conception that only men shaped the Holy Roman Empire, this book provides students and general readers with biographies of preachers, nuns, princesses, businesswomen, artists, scientists, writers, and social movers who exercised agency in...

A highly illustrated history of the Cold War operations of the submarines of the Royal Navy from 1948 to 1990. The Cold War was a period of intense activity for submarines of the Royal Navy, with many hair-raising incidents involving Soviet vessels...

After World War II, when a new German democracy was born in the western region of the vanquished Third Reich, tens of thousands of civil servants were hired to work for newly formed government agencies to get the new republic quickly on its feet. But...

What has gold done to people? What has it made them do? The Witwatersrand in South Africa, once home to the world’s richest goldfields, is today scattered with abandoned mines into which informal miners known as zama zamas venture in an illicit—often...

Across American history, the question of whose lives are long and healthy and whose lives are short and sick has always been shaped by the social and economic order. From the dispossession of Indigenous people and the horrors of slavery to infectious...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804515853Author Richard A RinaldiFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

This book reveals central texts of Augustan poetry-Vergil's Eclogues and Georgics, and Horace's Odes-to be environmental poetry. In contrast to readings that assume forms of nature poetry are mere Romantic projections, that suggest Roman authors did not...

This book is a collective reflection on the relationship between theory and methods, as practiced by American archaeologists of the Byzantine period in Greece, Turkey, Ukraine, and Egypt between the 1990s and 2020s. The eleven authors represent a...

Exploring what theologians at the University of Paris in the thirteenth century understood about the boundary between humans and animals, this book demonstrates the great variety of ways in which they held similarity and difference in productive tension...

Winner of the Clinton Jackson Coley Book Award from the Alabama Historical Association In the first-ever narrative history of this important American watercourse, John S. Sledge weaves chronological and thematic elements together with personal...

In the Victorian and Edwardian eras British explorers sought to become respected geographers and popular public figures, downplaying or reframing their reliance on others for survival. Far from being solitary heroes, these explorers were in reality...

Discover British history as you have never seen it before in this unique and funny history book for adults, brought to you from the multimillion-copy bestselling author of the Horrible Histories series.Ah, Britain. So special. The greatest nation on...

A broadly researched cultural history, Men of God offers a path to understanding the concept of religious masculinity through an intimate approach to the study of friars and lay brothers in colonial Mexico. Though other scholars have focused on the...

The unvarnished history of America's most notorious palace, its original American queen, and its current controversial king.Moments between the Roaring Twenties sunk into the Great Depression, socialite heiress Marjorie Merriweather Post and financier E...

This book is at the forefront of a new chapter in Australian military history. It is a fascinating collection of social-military stories that record Muslim involvement in Australian military forces from the Sudan and Boer wars to the Great War and Second...

Originally published in 1983 and slightly revised in 1985, joint winner of the Christopher Ewart-Biggs Memorial Prize, States of Mind is an exploration f the ideas underlying Anglo-Irish conflict over the past two centuries. This is a book about...

The story of the true savior of Little Round Top at Gettysburg—a 26-year-old Harvard-educated lawyer, who paid with his life to defend that hill. Citizen-soldier Strong Vincent was many things: Harvard graduate, lawyer, political speaker, descendent of...

A vital history of organizing within and beyond the walls of women’s prisons in the 1970s, illuminating a crucial chapter in today’s abolition feminist struggles. This new edition of an award-winning book features a foreword from acclaimed...

Derby has been variously described as the ‘crossroads of history’, ‘the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution’, ‘the real ale capital of the world’, ‘Jubilee City’ and ‘the most haunted place in the country’. It is all of these and much, much more. For...

Illustrated throughout, this book explains the composition and qualities of the Soviet tank force that fought Germany’s mighty Panzers at the biggest tank battle in history. In the summer of 1943, Hitler’s army had rebuilt its Panzer forces after defeat...

The long 19th century, approximately 1750 to 1918, was one of significant existential change for peoples across the globe. The beginning of this period saw the expansion of empires, and shortly thereafter, the Euro-American Enlightenment brought about...

Disorder and Diagnosis offers a social and political history of medicine, disease, and public health in the Persian Gulf from the late nineteenth century until the 1973 oil boom. Foregrounding the everyday practices of Gulf residents—hospital patients,...

This chronologically-arranged collection of articles demonstrates the complex and multifaceted nature of the Holocaust. From January 1933 and the ascent to office of Hitler and the Nazi Party in Germany, through to October 1945 and the opening of the...

After seventy-five years of independence, the history of Pakistan remains centered on the state, its ideology and the two-nation theory. Towards Peoples' Histories in Pakistan seeks to shift that focus away from histories of an imagined nation, to the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798886871456Author Paige V PolinskyFormat HardbackImprint Blastoff! DiscoveryPublisher Blastoff! DiscoveryWeight(grams) 227g

This is the definitive history of the Fort McKay Metis Nation. It traces the evolution of the community from the mid nineteenth to the early twenty-first century, paying special attention to genealogy, land-use, land-tenure, and responses to mass oil...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914325335Author Lam AkolFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Nomad PublishingPublisher Nomad Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782080455482Author Cyrille SciamaFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint FlammarionPublisher Editions Flammarion

Poet-Monks focuses on the literary and religious practices of Buddhist poet-monks in Tang-dynasty China to propose an alternative historical arc of medieval Chinese poetry. Combining large-scale quantitative analysis with close readings of important...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781529935851Author Emmanuel CarrèreImprint Vintage DigitalPublisher Random House (Digital)

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780861592418Author Jessica Harrison-HallFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint British Museum PressPublisher British Museum Press

The Story of Bradford traces the city's history from earliest times to the present, concluding with comments on the issues, challenges and opportunities that the 21st century will present. The departure of the German wool merchants in 1914 and the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781009444026Author Stefanie GängerFormat PaperbackImprint Cambridge University PressPublisher Cambridge University Press