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L’Écriture est la peinture de la voix honours and celebrates the inestimable contributions that Professor Nicholas Cronk has made to our understanding of the Enlightenment. As director of the University of Oxford’s Voltaire Foundation, he has played a...

In 1820, King Radama of Imerina, Madagascar signed a treaty allowing approximately one hundred young Malagasy to train abroad under official British supervision, the so-called 'Madagascar Youths'. In this lively and carefully researched book, Gwyn...

Legitimacy has long been perceived through a Westernized lens as a fixed, binary state. In this book, Kathy Dodworth offers an exploration of everyday legitimation practices in coastal Tanzania, which challenges this understanding within postcolonial...

This book is an interdisciplinary study that draws on a combination of archaeological evidence, building archaeological analysis, archival sources to explore the dynamic relations between dwelling houses, social organization of households, and patterns...

Covers three thousand years of history and highlights key pieces from the British Museum’s outstanding collection of Egyptian antiquities The rulers of ancient Egypt were not always male, nor always Egyptian. At times, Egypt was divided by civil war,...

This book addresses the varied performances of magic in medieval and early modern Scandinavia. It provides a comprehensive review of the rapidly expanding field of European magic and specifically discusses performances of magic in the pre-modern north...

A comprehensive history of the women architects who left their enduring mark on American ModernismIn the decades preceding World War II, professional architecture schools enrolled increasing numbers of women, but career success did not come easily. Women...

In the ancient Mediterranean world, the sea was an essential domain for trade, cultural exchange, communication, exploration, and colonisation. In tandem with the lived reality of this maritime space, a parallel experience of the sea emerged in narrative...

This book tells the story of what happens when an essentially Parisian institution travels and establishes itself in its neighbour’s capital city, bringing with it French food culture and culinary practices. The arrival and evolution of the French...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915113948Author Albert C E ParkerFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

Provides vital new evidence that Union veterans remained stubbornly opposed to the nation’s reconciliationist tendencies and unwilling to surrender the causes for which they fought Union soldiers’ service to the nation did not end in 1865. Instead, it...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781068609800Author Alexander PfeiferFormat PaperbackImprint True Perspective PressPublisher True Perspective Press

This book investigates the mixed economy of welfare that took care of the assistance of socially marginalised people in interwar Europe: namely, the state; local authorities; and a combination of voluntary and informal actors. While literature has...

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A concise compendium of the lives and work of the 101 most significant Surrealists by one of the last surviving members of the movement, bestselling author and artist Desmond Morris, who knew several of the key participants personally. 2024 marks the...

This illustrated study lifts the veil on the gladiators of ancient Rome, who provided a bloody spectacle for the people of the Eternal City and its vast empire. By the start of the Principate in 27 BC, the gladiator games were a long-standing part of the...

First published in 1932, Thoughts and Adventures is Churchill’s most philosophical book. It conveys the extraordinary variety and depth of the statesman’s mature thoughts on questions facing modern men and women. Written in what biographers have called...

The Business of Transition examines how the cosmopolitan bourgeoisie of the Eastern Mediterranean navigated the transition from empire to nation-state in the early twentieth century. In this social and cultural history, Paris Papamichos Chronakis shows...

A biography of a controversial patriarch of a mixed-race family A controversial figure for his views on manumission and his unorthodox marital arrangements, Zephaniah Kingsley Jr. (1765-1843) is mostly known today for his Fort George Island plantation in...

This book examines the period of political violence in Turkey between 12 March 1971 and 12 September 1980. It sets out a close analysis of the tactics used by the various protagonists in the conflict, showing how they took over public institutions, the...

Der erste Band der Reihe der Schriften der Forschungsstelle Informelle Kunst dokumentiert die Ergebnisse des ersten »Forschungskolloquiums Informelle Kunst«. Die Beiträge von Nachwuchswissenschaftler*innen decken ein breites Spektrum relevanter Themen...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781682195185Author Alpa ShahFormat PaperbackPage Count 688Imprint OR BooksPublisher OR Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804514641Author Efim SandlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

Taking the reader through the fragmentary text of Petronius’ Satyrica in a coherent sequence, this book gives a deeper understanding of the fascinating aesthetic, literary and social issues raised within the text. Petronius' Satyrica has long been...

Through the analysis of 10 oral witness testimonies of local residents and a previously undocumented letter correspondence between a Jewish Holocaust survivor and her gentile friend, The Jewish Purging of a Small German Town provides new insights into...

Based on archives from governments, parties, organisations and individuals, this book investigates the relationship between the British left and Algerian liberation movements during the Algerian War of Independence (1954-1962). It explores the presence...

An exciting and richly detailed new history of the Silk Road that tells how it became more important as a route for diplomacy than for tradeThe King’s Road offers a new interpretation of the history of the Silk Road, emphasizing its importance as a...

A finales del siglo XVII, la América española no sufrió ninguna crisis destinada a la decadencia de su Imperio. El presente libro desentraña las causas y consecuencias de los cambios políticos que llevó a cabo Carlos II en uno de los reinos más poderosos...

There are no such thing as an easy victory in war but after triumph in Tunisia, the sweeping success of the Sicilian invasion, and with the Italian surrender, the Allies were confident that they would be in Rome before Christmas 1943.And yet it didn't...

How women preserved the power of the Catholic Church in Mexican political lifeWhat accounts for the enduring power of the Catholic Church, which withstood widespread and sustained anticlerical opposition in Mexico? Margaret Chowning locates an answer in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780241419328Author Helen CastorFormat HardbackPage Count 672Imprint Allen LanePublisher Penguin Books LtdWeight(grams) 750g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804515839Author Krzysztof DabrowskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

A sweeping history of the Native Southerners who wrote their principles into Spanish and English law A sweeping history of the Native Southerners who challenged European empires from the inside, Republic of Indians tells the story of Indigenous leaders...

Partisanship is a dirty word in American politics. If there is one issue on which almost everyone in our divided country seems to agree, it’s the belief that the intense loyalty within the electorate toward Democrats and Republicans is the source of our...

Fully illustrated, this is the second volume in a detailed study of the German auxiliary troops who fought for Britain in the American Revolutionary War. During the American Revolutionary War (1775-83), German auxiliary troops provided a vital...

What happened to the loggers of America’s past when lumbermen moved west and south in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries? How did these communities continue to create value and meaning in these marginal lands? Cutover Capitalism: The...

A compelling narrative of the largest land battle of its time, and the decisive engagement of the Russo-Japanese War. Mukden stands out as the most significant battle of the Russo-Japanese War. By February 1905, the conflict had reached its culmination,...

The Bolshevik takeover of Russia created an alternative Russia in exile that never laid down its arms. For two decades, expelled White Russians sought ways to retaliate against the Soviet Union and return home. Their irreconcilability was galvanized by a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780008704179Author The Imperial War MuseumFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins PublishersWeight(grams) 270g

A DAILY MAIL BOOK OF THE WEEK A SPECTATOR BOOK OF THE YEAR A DAILY TELEGRAPH BEST HISTORY BOOK OF 2023 ASPECTS OF HISTORY BOOKS OF THE YEAR A GUARDIAN BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 A DAILY MAIL BEST CHRISTMAS BOOK OF 2023 The prequel to Frank McDonough's...