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Decolonization represented the end of colonial rule, but did not eradicate imperial and colonial categories and mythologies. Situated in the wider context of European colonial legacies, this book looks at the legacies of the Portuguese empire in today’s...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780801452598Author Susan A. BrewerFormat HardbackPage Count 376Imprint Three HillsPublisher Three HillsWeight(grams) 907g

A vivid history of how Cold War politics helped solve one of the twentieth century’s biggest refugee crisesWhen World War II ended, about one million people whom the Soviet Union claimed as their citizens were outside the borders of the USSR, mostly in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780700637416Author Blake Andrew WatsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint University Press of KansasPublisher University Press of Kansas

Contextualizes the Czech Reformation in the setting of Prague University. The Czech Reformation offered a radical solution to the spiritual and institutional crisis of the late medieval church at the end of the fourteenth century. The beginnings of this...

World-renowned archaeologist Zahi Hawass weaves a spellbinding narrative about how the pyramids were built and why, new in paperbackNearly five thousand years ago, the fourth dynasty of Egypt’s Old Kingdom reigned over a highly advanced civilization...

'A truly radical book; radical in subject, radical in form. For the most tragic reasons, it could not feel more immediate; and yet it's a fluid, fast-paced, hugely enjoyable and engaging read.' - Andrew Marr''Unforgettable... Non fiction will be...

In May 1982, Captain Roger Field, The Blues and Royals, attached to HQ 5th Infantry Brigade, sailed on the Queen Elizabeth 2 as part of the second wave to liberate the Falkland Islands. Surprised by what he saw at Brigade HQ he started writing a diary...

An explication of how global decolonization provoked profound changes in American political theory and practice. In The Internal Colony, Sam Klug reveals the central but underappreciated importance of global decolonization to the divergence between...

A long overdue study of agunot based on exhaustive research in rabbinic sources, memoirs, and communal records. Noa Shashar sheds light on Jewish family life in the early modern era and on the activity of rabbis whose Jewish legal rulings determined the...

Take a journey to a vanished world with the ADVENTURES IN TIME series - stories so exciting you won't believe they're all true'An invisible tremor ran through the Aztecs on the rooftops, a breathless gasp of excitement. On the edge of the city the...

Shortlisted by the North American Society for Sport History for its 2022 Anthologies Award From gladiatorial combat to knightly tournaments and from hunting to games and gambling, sport has been central to human culture. A Cultural History of Sport...

This work investigates how various sacred spaces in Ottoman and Republican Turkey interfaced with British foreign policy. It considers how these spaces impacted upon British prestige in the context of its dealings with Turkey chiefly, as well as other...

This collection takes a case study approach to enter into and explore spaces of ‘Second-Third World’ interaction during the Cold War. From the dining halls of a university, to hospital wards, construction sites, military barracks, pubs and more, the...

In the shadow of the Cold War, whispers from the cosmos fueled an unlikely alliance between the US and USSR. The search for extraterrestrial intelligence (or SETI) emerged as a foundational field of radio astronomy characterized by an unusual level of...

A probe into corruption in late Imperial ChinaAt the beginning of China's long eighteenth century or "High Qing" era, a time of peace and prosperity when the foundations of Manchu rule under the Qing dynasty were established, a courageous official named...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780955309243Author Sharon KivlandFormat PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint information as materialPublisher MA BIBLIOTHEQUE

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914093661Author Robert Louis StevensonFormat HardbackPage Count 300Imprint Anulap BooksPublisher Island Ink Publishing Co. Ltd.

A rivalry that remade the political world as we know it today Politics today doesn’t look much like it did fifty years ago. Electorates that were once divided by economics—with blue-collar workers supporting leftwing parties while the wealthy trended...

The entangled human and more-than-human histories of one of the world’s iconic urban green spacesFrom deer and beavers to “free range” pigs and goats in and around Seneca Village, what we now know as Central Park has long been home to an abundance of...

The volume examines the proliferation of inventorying models and practices as cultural techniques of knowledge organization and production during the long nineteenth century. While inventories are still broadly treated as raw data and unprocessed source...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804515297Author Vincent HuntFormat HardbackPage Count 536Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781838485931Author Michael B. BarryFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Andalus PressPublisher Andalus Press

During the 19th century, coming under the increasing military pressure exerted by the colonial military powers of Europe, several Muslim countries of both Africa and Asia were forced to modernize - in a progressive way - their armies in order to face the...

A long-time Austinite and journalist’s exploration of the profound movements that have shaped Austin, Texas—charting the shifts within its vibrant music scene, the impact of rapid urbanization, and the challenges of gentrification—ultimately questioning...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781985900769Author John T GreenwoodFormat HardbackPage Count 598Imprint The University Press of KentuckyPublisher The University Press of Kentucky

How computational methods can expand how we see, read, and listen to Holocaust testimonyThe Holocaust is one of the most documented—and now digitized—events in human history. Institutions and archives hold hundreds of thousands of hours of audio and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816553914Author Stephanie Baker OppermanFormat HardbackPage Count 248Imprint University of Arizona PressPublisher University of Arizona Press

The essays in this volume explore the myriad ways in which caste (varna and jati) has been theorized and critiqued in multiple philosophical, religious, logical and narrative traditions in India. Spanning ancient, medieval and modern times, and in...

This timely text charts the metamorphosis of Russian media and culture in the 21st century. It considers how, when Vladimir Putin came to power in 2000, Russia's media and culture industry had enjoyed nearly a decade of almost unrestricted freedom and...

Forthcoming Fall 2024Book InformationISBN 9781439925508Author Pacharee SudhinarasetFormat HardbackPage Count 250Imprint Temple University Press,U.S.Publisher Temple University Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 454g

A Hudson Valley Reckoning tells the long-ignored story of slavery's history in upstate New York through Debra Bruno's absorbing chronicle that uncovers her Dutch ancestors' slave-holding past and leads to a deep connection with the descendants of the...

This volume examines the interplay between emotions and archives from the 18th to the 21st century. Exploring how feelings have affected the ways in which the past is preserved, remembered, controlled and experienced by various peoples and societies, and...

Forthcoming Fall 2024Book InformationISBN 9781439925515Author Pacharee SudhinarasetFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint Temple University Press,U.S.Publisher Temple University Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 454g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629637877Author Abdullah OcalanFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint PM PressPublisher PM Press

This is the story of how and why such powerhouse Wall Street law firms as Cravath, Swaine & Moore, Davis Polk & Wardwell, and Sullivan & Cromwell, grew from nineteenth-century entrepreneurial origins into icons of institutional law practice; how, as...

A personal testament in poetry to survival, resilience, and the complex legacy of the Holocaust.In this harrowing firsthand account of the Holocaust, survivor Tobias Schiff displays the depths of human suffering, the capacity for hope and renewal, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780735382572Author MudpuppyPage Count 22Imprint GalisonPublisher Galison

The T&T Clark Encyclopedia of Second Temple Judaism provides a comprehensive reference resource of over 600 scholarly articles aimed at scholars and students interested in Judaism of the Second Temple Period. The two-volume work is split into four parts...