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This book explores the transformation of the state in Wallachia, an Ottoman tributary principality, between 1740 and 1800, by focusing on three administrative techniques: regulations, paperwork (registers, identification certificates), and weights and...

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Through a range of case studies, the book traces how death shaped cities, and vice versa. It argues that by focusing on death and the city, we can open up new avenues of research into religious, political and cultural change.Dying in a city was...

Greek and Latin Literature (1969) examines the two ancient literatures using a comparative method that recognizes the links between them – most Latin genres owe something to their Greek forebears. How far was Virgil influenced by Homer, Cicero by...

In 1856 the fledgling Republican party nominated as its first candidate for president John C. Frémont, the dashing explorer of the American West known as the Pathfinder and a radical opponent of slavery. He lost, but when the Civil War broke out, Lincoln...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780472133604Author Ruth ScodelFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint University of Michigan PressPublisher University of Michigan PressWeight(grams) 454g

This book explores how Australia managed the prisoner of war issue throughout the Second World War and the immediate post-war period. It examines how the Australian government responded to the captivity of thousands of Australians in Italy and the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781440881404Author Cassandra Newby-AlexanderFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Bloomsbury AcademicPublisher Bloomsbury AcademicWeight(grams) 454g

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781633451650Author Lanka TattersallFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint Museum of Modern ArtPublisher Museum of Modern Art

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781990042409Author Tarisi VunidiloFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Oratia BooksPublisher Oratia MediaWeight(grams) 250g

The first monograph entirely devoted to the illuminated manuscripts of Sister Eufrasia Burlamacchi (1478-1548), this book demonstrates that her artistry should not be confined to painting or sculpture alone. Within the convent walls of San Domenico in...

A History of the Roman World from 30 B.C. to A.D. 138 (1968) is a comprehensive survey of that period of Roman history during which the Principate was established and the Pax Romana consolidated. It looks at the lives of the Emperors and political and...

Envisioning the Empress illuminates dynamic and powerful empresses who impacted not only women in their own time, but whose influence extended to later generations of royalty, creating a greater role for imperial women and elevating the status of women’s...

The artistic society known as "Groupe de Saint-Luc" left its mark on the artistic and cultural heritage of Switzerland, in particular French-speaking Switzerland, throughout the inter-war period. Based on in-depth research into the abundant archival...

This open access book explores the changing representation of sunbed providers and consumers in Britain by analysing the role of the media, medical experts, and socio-political transformations during the 1970s-90s. Seeking to contextualise our cultural...

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Dieses Buch unternimmt das Experiment einer Zeitreise, hinein in die sonderliche Kunstwelt des späten 19. Jahrhunderts. Für die opulenten Bühnenstücke des Düsseldorfer Künstlervereins Malkasten schlüpft der Maler Otto Erdmann selbst ins Kostüm und macht...

This book presents a re-engagement with oral histories as a way of documenting, understanding, and discussing experiences of work and economic life in Africa under neoliberal capitalism. It draws on seven case studies in South Africa, Zimbabwe, Uganda,...

Ein Buch, geschrieben auf der Basis persönlicher Begegnungen mit Emigranten der Kunstgeschichte, die fast ausschließlich jüdischer Herkunft waren. Neben der Emigrationsgeschichte steht der Umgang mit Kunst im Zentrum. Es kommt zu Treffen mit...

A History of the Greek and Roman World (1926) is a single-volume sweeping examination of the Greek and Roman civilisations from 2000 B.C. to the second century A.D. It covers all parts of the Greek and Roman worlds, and all aspects of their societies...

The Greeks and their Gods (1950) examines the question of what the Greeks thought to be the proper relationship between human and divine. Religion was such an integral part of Ancient Greek life and thought that without a proper study their world can be...

Envisioning the Empress illuminates dynamic and powerful empresses who impacted not only women in their own time, but whose influence extended to later generations of royalty, creating a greater role for imperial women and elevating the status of women’s...

Globalizing through the Vernacular analyzes the relation between dominant frameworks of LGBTQ+ identity in India and non-elite, non-metropolitan communities such as kothis and hijras, a spectrum of feminine-identified people usually assigned male at...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781990042645Author Richard WolfeFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint Oratia BooksPublisher Oratia Media

This established introductory textbook provides students with a full overview of British social policy and social ideas since the late 18th century. It is the essential starting point for anyone learning about how and why Britain created the first...

This book investigates a forgotten chapter of history: the role of Italian sciences within the child study movement. Between the 1880s and the First World War, children became the focus of unprecedented professional and scientific interest in Europe and...

A fascinating new history of Britain told through its dogs, by acclaimed broadcaster and best-selling author Clare Balding, perfect for fans of Bill Bryson. Every dog must have his day. There's nothing the British love quite as much as their dogs - but...

Published to mark the 150th anniversary of the birth of the man voted 'the Greatest Briton', Churchill: A Visual History tells the incredible story of Winston Churchill's long life and lasting legacy. With particular focus on Churchill's pivotal role...

This book provides an authoritative history of the Holocaust in Eastern Europe and makes a compelling case for why the region can be considered ‘the epicentre of the final solution’. Waitman Wade Beorn introduces us to pre-war Jewish life in Eastern...

The 20 years between First and Second World Wars were a time of dramatic development for English people and their homes. By the end of the 1930s, one family in three was living in an interwar house. But one thing that did not change was the sentimental...

A History of the Roman World from 753 to 146 B.C. (1969) examines the rise of Rome from a small city-state among many to its conquest and unification of Italy and the founding of its overseas Empire. It covers in detail Rome’s struggle with Carthage for...

This open access book provides a thought-provoking new perspective on European imperialism in the 19th and 20th centuries. It does so by inquiring how smaller European powers and regions at the margins of the continent integrated into a globally...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781405970570Author Kerry BrownImprint PenguinPublisher Penguin Books Ltd

This book highlights the broad scope and span of resistance as a contentious practice in the early modern Iberian world. In this context, from the late Middle Ages onwards, resistance, rooted in the political and legal language of the ‘old regime’ that...

This established introductory textbook provides students with a full overview of British social policy and social ideas since the late 18th century. It is the essential starting point for anyone learning about how and why Britain created the first...

From the #1 bestselling author Hugh Sebag Montefiore, a spellbinding and fiercely told history of one of the most extreme episodes of the Second World War. The Sea War is a wonderful, accessible history rooted in the Second World War. As the Soviet...