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A major new history of Saudi Arabia, from its eighteenth-century origins to the present day Saudi Arabia is one of the wealthiest countries in the world, a major player on the international stage and the site of Islam’s two holiest cities. It is also...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780300281064Author Marek KohnFormat PaperbackPage Count 342Imprint Yale University PressPublisher Yale University Press

Originally published as a collection in 2006, this volume looks at the eighteenth century, which saw the high point of the Atlantic slave trade. It contains essays which examine the commercial and financial structure of the British slave trade; the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780300281071Author Rory MuirFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Yale University PressPublisher Yale University Press

The post-WWII era was a time of super power confrontation and antagonistic bloc politics, but it was also a period in which organized internationalism reached its peak as both an ideological value and a political practice. This edited volume explores how...

Since 1776, America's Founding mythology has attempted to portray the Founding generation as creating a new world were liberty and freedom were the inherent birthright of all peoples. We now can acknowledge that the Founders created a country conceived...

An adventurous, dazzling and original continent-sized history that brings South America’s epic past and fascinating present to lifePatria tells an alternative history of South America, spanning thousands of miles and five centuries to the present...

A beautifully illustrated look at the paints and palettes used by many of the world’s greatest artists from the sixteenth century to todayWhat can the palette an artist used or depicted tell us about their artistic process, preferences, and finished...

This book offers a new understanding of the main economic and political trends of 20th-century Britain, through the lens of Churchill’s early career and approach to industrialisation. Shedding fresh light on Churchill’s political endeavours between 1900...

Christchurch developed in Saxon and Norman England as a trading port on the south coast of the country and its harbour, beaches and nature reserves attract many visitors today. Its mediaeval priory church is one of the largest in England and the town is...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781399964821Author Matthew BallFormat PaperbackPage Count 172Imprint Southway PressPublisher Southway Press

The history of Union Ireland is typically told through its best-known historical events and leaders - from the 1798 Rising, the Great Famine, and the Irish Revolution, to Parnell and De Valera -- and as moments of sectarian division and high...

A comprehensive look at how slavery and resistance to it have shaped Yale University Award-winning historian David W. Blight, with the Yale and Slavery Research Project, answers the call to investigate Yale University’s historical involvement with...

Jean Stubbs has published widely on Cuba, with a specialist interest in tobacco, class, race, gender, nation and migration. In 1985 she established her place as a pre-eminent historian of Cuban tobacco with the publication of Tobacco on the Periphery (a...

This A-to-Z encyclopedia surveys the history, meaning, and enduring impact of the Declaration of Independence by explaining its contents and concepts, profiling the Founding Fathers, and detailing depictions of the Declaration in art, music, and...

The first account of Jewish children’s flight from Nazi Germany to France—and their subsequent escape to America from the Vichy regime At the eve of the Second World War, an estimated 1.6 million Jewish children lived in Nazi-occupied Europe. While...

An award-winning historian reconstructs the life of Francis of Assisi and his medieval world, uncovering the man behind the myths One of the most famous figures in Christian history, Francis of Assisi (1181/82–1226) was revered as a miracle worker...

The long history of the racial wealth gap in America told through the stories of six Black families who struggled to build wealth over multiple generations Wealth is central to the American pursuit of happiness and is an overriding measure of well-being...

This book provides a significant contribution to our understanding of the Ottoman Empire's economic history, particularly through its exploration of local entrepreneurship, which brings new perspectives to the economic dynamics of the region.This focus...

Legendary journalist Wilfred Burchett's eyewitness account of the military coup d'étatthat ended authoritarian dictatorship and established democracy in Portugal. The Captains' Coup offers an insightful, poignant narrative of events during the first year...

From the sex worker to the lorry driver, the hedge fund manager to the veteran-turned-teacher, this is the story of work in 21st century Britain, as told by workers themselves.Charlie Colenutt is a writer and historian who, since 2021 has been...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780241993712Author Jonathan DimblebyFormat PaperbackPage Count 576Imprint Penguin Books LtdPublisher Penguin Books LtdWeight(grams) 500g

Among the most progressive of Zionist settlement movements, Hashomer Hatzair proclaimed a brotherly stance on Zionist-Palestinian relations. Until the tumultuous end of the British Mandate, movement settlers voiced support for a binational Jewish-Arab...

America’s Horror Stories: U.S. History Through Dark Tourism conducts a ghost tour(ist) methodology to explore how slavery and racism are represented in dark tourism via ghost tours.The authors travel to key sites of racist U.S. history, including Salem,...

This volume adopts an inter-disciplinary approach to rethink the multiple dimensions of marginality – political, societal, economic, cultural, legal, spatial. It explores their new representations in colonial and postcolonial India. Departing from extant...

Imagination is about far more than whether people think of themselves as creative or not. We use our imagination all the time in planning, anticipating, daydreaming, reminiscing and being able to enjoy other people’s stories. In fact, we don’t live in...

Dante’s Visions: Crossing Sights on Natural Philosophy, Theory of Vision, and Medicine in the Divine Comedy and Beyond offers a fascinating insight into Dante’s engagement with the science of his time, particularly with visual perception and neurological...

Albrecht Durer (1471-1528), Renaissance genius - artist, poet, writer, and theorist - was acknowledged across Europe. He was praised as the Apelles Germaniae ('German Apelles'), honoured by noble patronage, commissioned by the Elector of Saxony,...

This book is a comprehensive guide for instructors and graduate students on preparing scholarly manuscripts for peer-reviewed journals, theses, or dissertations in the humanities and social sciences.Providing a toolbox of approaches to understand the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781785374845Author Mike CroninFormat HardbackPage Count 432Imprint Merrion PressPublisher Merrion Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789515185853Author Sanae ItoFormat PaperbackPage Count 298Imprint University of HelsinkiPublisher University of HelsinkiWeight(grams) 655g

The origins and evolution of Irish American identity, from colonial times through the twentieth century “Subtly provocative. . . . [Meagher] traces the making and remaking of Irish America through several iterations and shows the impact of religion on...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798881802622Author Noah CharneyFormat HardbackPage Count 170Imprint Rowman & Littlefield PublishersPublisher Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

The collapse of the Habsburg monarchy in the aftermath of World War I marked a foundational shift in the histories of Austria and Hungary. Previously part of the Habsburg’s Austro-Hungarian Empire, this event stripped the two new states of a...

In 1943 a women's orchestra was formed at one of the most brutal death camps ever created on the order of German SS officers. Some forty-seven or so young girls who had been sent to Auschwitz-Birkenau from various countries, played in this hotch-potch...

Imagination is about far more than whether people think of themselves as creative or not. We use our imagination all the time in planning, anticipating, daydreaming, reminiscing and being able to enjoy other people’s stories. In fact, we don’t live in...

For the Aegean island of Syros, the Greek Revolution (1821-1832) marked a significant turning point. Known as “the island of the Pope”, due to its Catholic majority, Syros transformed into a major commercial hub, seemingly triggering the withdrawal of...

Shows how mid-Victorian efforts to gather information about the Fenians laid the foundation for later British domestic intelligence in both Ireland and mainland Britain. British Intelligence and the Fenians provides the first narrative account of the...

As commander-in-chief of the Continental Army, George Washington developed the strategy that won the Revolutionary War, but while Washington directed some battles, his strategy for the most part was carried out—and most battles were won or lost—by his...

In the early modern period, members of the Society of Jesus working as missionaries in the so-called mission of Maynas explored vast areas of the upper Amazon. These missionaries belonged to the very small group of Europeans who lived in the forests of...