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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804513453Author Zack WhiteFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

On the surface, historical scholarship might seem thoroughly incompatible with political engagement: the ideal historian, many imagine, is a disinterested observer focused exclusively on the past. In truth, however, political action and historical...

How has the digital turn shaped the practices of film historical research and teaching? While computational approaches have been used by film historians since the 1960s and 1970s, the arrival and use of digital tools and methods in recent decades has...

This is the amazing story in words and images of the historic discovery of the wreck of Ernest Shackleton’s Endurance, deep beneath the ice of Antarctica.In March 2022, an international polar expedition team made an astonishing find: the wreck of Ernest...

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...

A deep dive into racial politics, Hollywood, and Black cultural struggles for liberation as reflected in the extraordinary life and times of Sammy Davis Jr. Through the lens of Sammy Davis Jr.'s six-decade career in show business—from vaudeville to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804514580Author David SnapeFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

A special bond Born in Bern, the businessman Hermann Rupf was an avid collector of modern art. In 1907, he was Daniel Henry Kahnweiler’s first client at his Gallery in Paris. This catalogue contains previously unpublished archival material from the...

Winner of the 2022 Hagley Prize in Business History Finalist of the 2023 International Convention for Asian Scholars Book Prize in the Social Sciences In A Medicated Empire, Timothy M. Yang explores the history of Japan's pharmaceutical industry in the...

This major volume aims to re-colour the European world of dress, c.1300-1800. New dyes created one of the most important visual experiences of the period, yet their story has been side-lined by a focus on visual experiences shaped by the high arts...

This book examines the role of Europeans who settled in the Ottoman Empire between the 16th and 19th centuries and assumed “Ottoman identity”, be it by way of conversion to Islam and assimilating to the host society or by becoming loyal servants or...

Why is it that so many Americans have not heard of John Dickinson? John Dickinson of Pennsylvania and Delaware was an early leader of the resistance to British rule in the American colonies. In fact, to many, he was the most prominent figure in the...

How has human response to genocide evolved over time? What effect has it had on our understanding of the cause and consequences of genocide? Spanning 2,800 years of human history, A Cultural History of Genocide offers the first comprehensive,...

The book represents an exciting visual investigation using rare and never-before-published documents and photos. There has never been a book on the Chicago plot shortly before the Kennedy assassination, as well as an in-depth look at prior plots and...

In this long-awaited updated edition of Race & Liberty in America, editor Jonathan Bean presents the timeless and urgent insights classical liberalism has to offer our troubled and polarized time. In 2009, when Race & Liberty in America was originally...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798888571064Author David PettsFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Casemate PublishersPublisher Casemate Publishers

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780140276916Author Anthony GraftonFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Penguin Books LtdPublisher Penguin Books LtdWeight(grams) 500g

How the United Nations headquarters became the architectural instrument and broadcast medium of global diplomacy For almost seven years after World War II, a small group of architects took on an exciting task: to imagine the spaces of global governance...

An innovative, interdisciplinary perspective on soft power in history, moving beyond the framework of the nation-state Starting in the nineteenth century, as world events became more interconnected than ever, and as public opinion began to weigh on...

A groundbreaking reinterpretation that draws on cognitive theory to show that belief wasn’t absent from—but rather was at the heart of—Roman religionBelief and Cult argues that belief isn’t uniquely Christian but was central to ancient Roman religion...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798893040036Author Rachel FirstFormat HardbackPage Count 32Imprint Bellwether MediaPublisher Bellwether MediaWeight(grams) 227g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783935751261Author Kurt Felix HillgruberFormat HardbackPage Count 290Imprint Kerns VerlagPublisher Kerns Verlag

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798886874488Author Sara GreenFormat HardbackImprint Blastoff! DiscoveryPublisher Blastoff! DiscoveryWeight(grams) 231g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912390977Author Serena JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

Ongoing arguments over how histories are honoured – as evidenced by the conflict between South Korea and Japan over the opening of Tokyo’s Heritage Information Centre in June 2020 – reveal the extent to which heritage processes enable states to assert...

William Butterfield was the most daring, rigorous and brilliant architect of his age, whose 60-year practice spanned the entire Victorian era. This book addresses the emergence of a modern society, with rapidly expanding new institutions and a changing...

From the birth of Berlin’s railway network to the time when the bombs of the Second World War and the concrete slabs of the Wall changed the city forever, the Prussian and later German capital counted eight major railway stations. These were beacons in...

Interwar European minority questions have been predominantly discussed in the context of Eastern Europe until now. This open access book challenges that geographical emphasis by examining both Eastern and Western European experiences. It thus lays the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262049108Author Andre TavaresFormat HardbackPage Count 280Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781846828683Author Raymond GillespieFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Four Courts Press LtdPublisher Four Courts Press LtdWeight(grams) 700g

An overview of the importance of fire to ecosystems in the Southeast, with guidance on how to best conduct controlled burns in the region.A biodiversity hotspot, Florida is home to many ecosystems and species that evolved in the presence of frequent fire...

The period between the two World Wars was characterized by an acceleration of mass violence across the world. Developments in technology, communications, ideology, global political and economic integration, and the organization of society greatly...

For the past decade at least 25% of the UK population and 30% of children have been in poverty by internationally accepted measures, and the numbers keep rising. In The Rise and Fall of the British Welfare State, Pat Thane analyses the history of state...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804514795Author V a PerovskiiFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804510339Author Tom CooperFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

Tracing the experiences of women who were designated insane by judicial processes from 1850 to 1900, this book considers the ideas and purposes of incarceration in three dedicated facilities: Bethlem, Fisherton House and Broadmoor. The majority of these...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781846829840Author Brian HodkinsonFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Four Courts Press LtdPublisher Four Courts Press Ltd

The year 2025 marks the 75th anniversary of final demobilisation of the Women’s Land Army in 1950. The employment of over 200,000 land girls on British farms, replacing male farm labourers who joined the armed forces, contributed to the nation’s ultimate...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812253221Author Jennifer BarrettFormat HardbackPage Count 312Imprint University of Pennsylvania PressPublisher University of Pennsylvania Press

Long recognized as Ireland's greatest demographic disaster in recent memory, the Great Famine of 1845–1851 has shaped Irish identities around the world. From the monuments erected to commemorate its victims to the political rhetoric involving it to the...