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Western travel and collecting classical antiquities in the nineteenth century informed European understandings of Greece past and present and enriched private collections and museums. Travel and collecting have typically been studied separately by...

Ebook available to libraries exclusively as part of the JSTOR Path to Open initiative. In the early 1990s, after the fall of the Berlin Wall and during the process of German re-unification, the city of Berlin commissioned a working group to create a...

The French countryside is as beloved by the many millions of tourists who visit it each year as it is of French people themselves. But it has not always looked like it does today. An Environmental History of France instead presents the countryside in...

A History of the Roman World from A.D. 138 to 337 (1958) looks at the last centuries of the Roman Empire, from the rule of Hadrian and his policy of consolidation of the Roman Empire, halting its further expansion, to the reign of Constantine and the...

What did British citizens really feel about the political system, their role in it, and the people who represented them? Everyday Politics, Ordinary Lives examines British democracy from below, investigating how electors understood politics and how they...

This book offers an analysis of the character and impact of ideological change, addresses a different arena of Soviet policy or social life, and reflects somewhat different concerns about the role or significance of ideology. It summarizes the way in...

In the 1990s, states in what would become the eastern edge of the European Union transformed their political systems and economies, leaving state socialism behind for liberal democracies and free markets. In the ensuing decades, two shipyards that were...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781038771247Author Margaret CookFormat PaperbackPage Count 498Imprint ReadHowYouWantPublisher ReadHowYouWant

This book provides a well-structured, lyrical, and fictionalized account of the narrator's earlier years in the village of Bialik's birth. It describes the awakening curiosity of the gifted child, his wonder at the riddle of the mirror, and his inability...

This book starts from the very beginning of the cultural exchanges between China and the western regions, to the exchanges in modern times, featuring large time span and interdisciplinarity.

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781802063028Author Clair WillsFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint PenguinPublisher Penguin Books LtdWeight(grams) 200g

The persistent desire to animate inanimate objects has been a recurring theme in European culture dating back to ancient Greek and Roman times. Technological Animation in Classical Antiquity aims to establish, for the first time, the significance of this...

This volume provides the readers with a broad but detailed consideration of a wide array of transmutationist thinkers who published before Darwin. Highlighting some of those whom Darwin later acknowledged as well as number he chose not to, readers are...

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This book aims to reconceive the field of knowledge of the “Gallic past” in French discourse of the 18th and early 19th centuries by focusing on the monument as an object capable of underpinning insights into that past, the evolution of the concept, and...

A fascinating and revealing new biography of Mary Queen of Scots, drawing on dozens of newly decoded letters.For almost two decades before her execution at Fotheringhay Castle in 1587, Mary Queen of Scots was a prisoner. From her chambers, she wrote...

A fascinating and revealing new biography of Mary Queen of Scots, drawing on dozens of newly decoded letters.For almost two decades before her execution at Fotheringhay Castle in 1587, Mary Queen of Scots was a prisoner. From her chambers, she wrote...

First published in 1985, Shamans, Lamas and Evangelicals tells the little known yet fascinating story of a missionary venture to Eastern Siberia in the year 1818. Two missionaries, one English, one Swedish, with the tiresome voyage across the Baltic...

Fernando examines important aspects of the drafting of 1957 Federation of Malaya constitution related to the system of governance, division of legislative and executive powers, the conceptualization of citizenship and the roles of the judiciary and...

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...

Religion in Ancient History (1969) includes 25 essays on comparative religion, covering the origin of religion, and studies of the religions of the peoples of ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, Israel, Greece and Iran. It also includes essays on key ideas such...

Rethinking Feminist History and Theory considers the past, present, and future of feminist history and theory, emphasizing how feminism has influenced the histories of gender, class, and labour, and their intersections. This vibrant collection, inspired...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804515310Author Rodrigo Garcia-Munoz VaqueroFormat HardbackPage Count 376Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781478026839Author Erik S. McDuffieFormat HardbackPage Count 440Imprint Duke University PressPublisher Duke University PressWeight(grams) 572g

Guilty: the conclusion of many trials. But this verdict was unusual, delivered by a jury comprising of the greatest minds of the twentieth century: Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir, James Baldwin and Stokely Carmichael, and over a dozen...

This book examines the key content and propaganda value of posters in the dictatorships of Stalin’s USSR (1927-53) and Hitler’s Germany (1933-43), using posters as a point of entry for discussing key Soviet and Nazi policies. In so doing, Soviet and Nazi...

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.

This book assesses the impact of European colonization in the late 19th and early 20th century in ‘restructuring’ the shared past of India and Southeast Asia. It provides case studies that transcend colonial constructs and adopt newer approaches to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781529947960Author Sophy RobertsImprint Transworld DigitalPublisher Transworld Publishers Ltd

A new biography from the acclaimed and bestselling author of Longitude and Galileo’s Daughter, chronicling the life and work of the most famous woman in the history of science, and the untold story of the young women who trained in her laboratory. For...

This book explores the history of sports and sports-themed video games, providing a comprehensive and holistic view of this complex and diverse genre.The author highlights the influence of technological advancement, industry competition and popular...

'Remarkable and compelling. I loved this book' EDMUND DE WAAL'An exemplary sleuth, both astute and open-minded . . . Manera Sambuy writes with impassioned style and insight' TELEGRAPHA lost princess and a vanished world: a remarkable true story that...

The biography of remarkable SAS Original Reg Seekings, from his humble beginnings in the Cambridgeshire Fens to his instrumental role in the success of the SAS during the Second World War. Starting at the very bottom of the ranks, Seekings was a farm...

Hundreds of thousands of miles of paths reach into, and connect, communities across England and Wales. More than just a practical way for us to walk, ride and cycle around, they are an inheritance from the past, revealing how our ancestors interacted...

A pioneering study on Islamic spirituality in Southeast Asia, presenting a fresh approach to the longevity of the Sufi dialogical tradition Contemplating Sufism explores the factors and forces that have enabled Islam to assert and embed itself in...

Originally published in 1958, this was the first scholarly anglophone history of Spain. It covers the whole story from Spanish pre-history onwards and includes a full treatment of the various states until their fusion as a modern nation, and on through...

This book explores the rise of two resistance movements in Yugoslavia after its invasion and partition by Germany, Italy, Hungary, and Bulgaria in April 1941: one led by Draža Mihailović's Chetniks, supporters of the Serb monarchy; and the Partisans, led...

A major contribution to scholarship on medieval roll cartularies, shedding light both on the Aynho Cartulary itself and the wider social, political, and economic culture that produced it. Despite being one of the earliest and best preserved of its type...