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Closely examining the work of women in the US and British naval services towards Allied naval intelligence during the Second World War, this book focuses on their contributions during the Battle of the Atlantic and Pacific Naval War, in order to shed new...

A gripping account of an alien abduction and its connections to the breakdown of American society in the 1960s “Excellent and exhaustive.”—Colin Dickey, Slate In the mid-1960s, Betty and Barney Hill became famous as the first Americans to claim that...

This book examines how, at the end of the 19th century, Japanese modernizers abandoned the traditional Chinese-style medicine that had dominated for centuries, and turned instead to Western medical theory and practice. Ellen Gardner Nakamura considers...

Examining the Italian artist’s career-long exploration of the human figure, this book offers new perspectives on the history of postwar and contemporary art Widely regarded as the central protagonist of the twentieth-century Italian art movement Arte...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800087521Author Zainab BahraniFormat HardbackImprint UCL PressPublisher UCL Press

The Age of Liutprand provides a thematic analysis of Lombard Italy in the pivotal early part of the 8th century. It surveys the crucial role and rule of Liutprand [712-44], the powerful and effective Lombard king. By restoring this successful exemplar of...

Mass violence comes not only from states, but also from people. By analyzing mass violence as social interaction through survivor accounts and other sources, this book presents understudied agents, aims and practices of direct violence and ways of action...

The question of economic justice for Black Americans remains unresolved and continues to be the subject of contentious political debate. In Unjust Restitution, Michael K. Brown examines the meaning of racial equality during three transformative periods...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780753559949Author Michael MeyerFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint W H AllenPublisher Ebury PublishingWeight(grams) 500g

During the Second World War Japanese soldiers committed several different war crimes, including the kidnapping and raping of women or the mistreatment of POWs. In relation to the war crime trials after 1945 these perpetrators were interviewed by the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804369586Author Mike CroissantFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint August BooksPublisher Canelo

An exploration of the multifaceted characters and complex events that have defined the Lone Star State from its inception through today When Americans turn on their laptops, play video games, go to church, vote, eat TexMex, shop for groceries, listen to...

In the ever-growing and evolving field of Digital Papyrology – intending both the set of electronic tools for papyrological research and a new way of representing our knowledge of the Greek papyri in digital environments – a focal current issue is the...

Julia Sneeringer’s book provides a concise overview of developments in the Federal Republic of Germany from the end of the Second World War and Germany’s division, to the unification of East and West Germany in 1990. Within the framework of key political...

While there has been a huge expansion of the literature on Turkish political economy and foreign policy in the last decade or so, fewer studies have explored Turkey’s engagement with the changing global political economy since 2008 in a holistic manner...

The story of how racial segregation and suburbanization shaped lives, the built environment, and the law in Arlington, Virginia Arlington, Virgina, sits on the bank of the Potomac River, just opposite the nation's capital city of Washington, DC. This...

This edited collection of new research highlights the way in which the cartoon - long regarded as a staple of journalism and freedom of expression - faces new challenges in the twenty-first century that can be far better understood and appreciated if one...

This edited collection aims to look beyond established narratives of feminist history, by focusing on non-English speaking European countries. Recent scholarship on the history of the women’s liberation movement in individual countries has enhanced our...

Examining the history of slavery in the American South, it is impossible to separate the interpretations of Christianity from the arguments and counter-arguments surrounding liberation. In Tools of Control or Seeds of Liberation, Iain Whyte considers how...

The early motion picture industry exploded in the 1910s when middle class audiences became hooked on the beautiful storytelling images flashing by them onscreen. As movie attendance exploded, more workers were required to produce this riveting new form...

'Andrew North has a deep empathy and understanding for Afghanistan and has seen sides of it - both good and horrifying - that very few international observers have encountered' - Rory Stewart'By weaving personal stories into a modern history of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780349146447Author Alexander NormanFormat HardbackPage Count 368Imprint AbacusPublisher Little, Brown Book Group

How Reconstruction-era political battles reflected global struggles over the era's core ideals Exporting Reconstruction examines Ulysses S. Grant's Reconstruction-era policy, both foreign and domestic, as an integrated whole. Grant's vision for America's...

Julia Sneeringer’s book provides a concise overview of developments in the Federal Republic of Germany from the end of the Second World War and Germany’s division, to the unification of East and West Germany in 1990. Within the framework of key political...

In 1864 Abraham Lincoln appointed Elihu Burritt as United States consul in Birmingham. Burritt captured the very nature of the Black Country’s unique industrial landscape with his now famous phrase ‘black by day and red by night’, referring to the...

A reinterpretation of one of America's most notorious lynchings The 1918 lynching of Mary Turner by a white mob in Brooks County, Georgia, is remembered and studied mainly because of the horror of an allegedly pregnant woman's murder. In Mary and the...

By the middle of the second century BCE, after nearly one hundred years of warfare, Rome had exerted its control over the entire Mediterranean world, forcing the other great powers of the region—Carthage, Macedonia, Egypt, and the Seleucid empire—to...

Former Israeli intelligence officer Moshe Shemesh offers a fresh understanding of the complex history and politics of the Middle East in this new analysis of the Palestinian national movement. Shemesh looks at the formative years of the movement that...

A cache of letters leads to a journey of discovery that reveals the long and lasting consequences of war William Walker never knew his uncle, Fletcher "Bud" Blanton. Blanton had been killed fighting in Europe during World War II before Walker was born...

The enduring legacy of the nineteenth-century struggle for Black literacy in the American South Few populations have ever valued literacy as much as the enslaved Black people of the American South. To them, it was more than a means to a better life; it...

The ancient Egyptian myths are some of the oldest and most famous stories in the world. This striking new comic book collection will be the perfect introduction to the world of the ancient Egyptians - containing six tales full of mythical creatures,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781509817511Author Judith FlandersFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint PicadorPublisher Pan Macmillan

This textbook offers a new interpretation of the origins of the contemporary global order - the set of institutions and international practices created by the United States and its allies after the Second World War. Previous interpretations have argued...

The long history of China’s relationship between stability, diversity, and prosperity, and how its current leadership threatens this delicate balance A Foreign Affairs Best Book of 2023 Chinese society has been shaped by the interplay of the...

The story of how racial segregation and suburbanization shaped lives, the built environment, and the law in Arlington, Virginia Arlington, Virgina, sits on the bank of the Potomac River, just opposite the nation's capital city of Washington, DC. This...

A dramatic history of the Steel Lobsters, Sir Arthur Hesilrige’s Regiment of Horse, in the English Civil War – the last fully armoured knights in England. The 17th-century battlefield ushered in a new era, with formed musketeers and pistol-wielding...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780349146454Author Alexander NormanFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint AbacusPublisher Little, Brown Book Group

'The very best sort of panoramic portrait' David Kynaston 'The Edwardians have long been the lost decade of British history, yet they are that history at its climax. Alwyn Turner sets the record straight, bringing its characters, strains and stresses...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781399420082Author Hetta HowesFormat PaperbackImprint Bloomsbury ContinuumPublisher Bloomsbury Continuum

Imagine a Viking, and a certain image springs to mind: a nameless, faceless warrior, leaping ashore from a longboat, and ready to terrorise the hapless local population of a northern European country. Yet while such characters define the Viking Age...