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The first part of Volume 14 of the Yearbook presents ten essays concerned with Futurism in Italy, Russia, Ukraine, Czechoslovakia, Romania and Germany, and two focusing on dance and typography. Among other things, this publication provides analysis of...

A study of the experience of nature in the eighteenth century based on the life of Horace-Bénédict de Saussure (1740–99). In The Alpine Enlightenment, historian Kathleen Kete takes us into the world of the Genevan geologist, physicist, inventor, and...

This volume starts from a reconsideration of the idea that ancient perceptions of the non-human world rested on the profound belief in universal order and therefore paid little attention to variety, irregularity, and change. Focusing on the ancient...

'A modern-day Freya Stark' - Tatler'Roberts' writing is beguiling' - The i'Roberts is a wonderfully lyrical writer' - ObserverFrom the acclaimed author of The Lost Pianos of Siberia, comes a new journey tracing a colonial-era African expedition.In 1879,...

This book examines the history of the military comfort women system in China. It aims to give readers a deeper insight into the origin, establishment, and operations of comfort stations, as well as tell the sufferings of comfort women, many of whom were...

Winston S. Churchill won the Nobel Prize for Literature for “his mastery of historical and biographical description.” Nowhere is that mastery more evident than in Great Contemporaries, first published in 1937. Written in the decade before Churchill...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781441134486Author George ConyneFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Continuum Publishing CorporationPublisher Continuum Publishing...

“This way, General, this way!” With these words, Major General Henry Procter was ushered off the field of battle. It was the 5th of October 1813, and the British commander—having abandoned his army and Indigenous allies—had just lost not only the Battle...

Subjugate the Earth traces the biography of a strange idea: the idea that human beings can subdue nature and rule over it, that humans are outside and above nature. Born in Mesopotamia at the dawn of civilisation, the idea of subjugating the Earth was...

The final book in a series of five titles which graphically cover each year of the war. Countless thousands of pictures were taken by photographers on all sides during the First World War. These pictures appeared in the magazines, journals and newspapers...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781578598670Author Jim WillisFormat HardbackPage Count 250Imprint Visible Ink PressPublisher Visible Ink Press

The hydra rears its many heads in a flurry of teeth and poisonous fumes. The cyborg lays waste to humanity with a ruthless, expressionless stare.From ancient mythology to modern science fiction, we have had to confront the monsters that lurk in the...

For nearly all of the Great War, the Jewish doctor Bernhard Bardach served with the Austro-Hungarian army in present-day Ukraine. His diaries from that period, unpublished and largely overlooked until now, represent a distinctive and powerful record of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915070463Author Marc Geerdink-SchaftenaarFormat PaperbackPage Count 204Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

For all of the recent debates over the methods and theoretical underpinnings of the historical profession, scholars and laypeople alike still frequently think of history in terms of storytelling. Accordingly, historians and theorists have devoted much...

In 1945, Germany lay in ruins, morally and materially. The German people stood condemned by history, responsible for a horrifying genocide and a war of extermination. But by 2015 Germany looked to many to be the moral voice of Europe, welcoming almost...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798893040029Author Rachel FirstFormat HardbackPage Count 32Imprint Bellwether MediaPublisher Bellwether MediaWeight(grams) 227g

A detailed account of the war-winning role that a handful of Harrier squadrons played in the Falklands War. On 5 April 1982, the British aircraft carriers Hermes and Invincible sailed for the South Atlantic at the heart of the task force that would...

Founded in the waning years of the Ottoman Empire, the Imperial School for Tribes (Asiret Mektebi) was an initiative by Sultan Abdulhamid II to bring the sons of prominent Arab tribal leaders to Istanbul for a world-class education and transform them...

The first biography of Ericka Huggins, a queer Black woman who brought spiritual self-care practices to the Black Panther Party. In this groundbreaking biography, Mary Frances Phillips immerses readers in the life and legacy of Ericka Huggins, a revered...

Winner of the Davis Center Book Prize in Political and Social Studies Co-winner of the Charles Taylor Book Award How do ordinary people navigate the intense uncertainty of the onset of war? Individuals mobilize in different ways—some flee, some pick up...

As winter comes and the hours of darkness overtake the light, we seek out warmth, good food, and good company. But beneath the jollity and bright enchantment of the festive season, there lurks a darker mood - one that has found expression over the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804514184Author Albrecht ZimburgFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

Since the beginning of his artistic career in 1959, Bahram Beyzaie’s oeuvre has incorporated various aspects of Iranian, Euro-American, Chinese, Japanese, and Indian performance traditions and cinema. Beyzaie’s work reformulates indigenous artistic and...

In Defending Fort Stanwix, William L. Kidder tells the dramatic story of "the Fort that Never Surrendered" and the crucial role it played in the American War for Independence. After a series of military defeats over the winter of 1776–1777, British...

Throughout much of history, imperial China has exhibited a seemingly capricious relationship with the sea. At times, it has welcomed commerce and travel across its vast waters with open arms, yet at others, it has sought to completely cordon off the...

More than any other artist, the painter Rembrandt developed a charisma through the outstanding quality and originality of his works and through the organisation of his workshop. His pupils and successors continued his style as the Rembrandt “brand” with...

A sweeping yet penetrating collection of interviews with Noam Chomsky, exploring the most pressing global concerns of our time. In these illuminating interviews conducted by C.J. Polychroniou, Noam Chomsky yet again shares his brilliant insights on an...

The Berlin council movement of 1919–20 proves that there was a left alternative beyond Social Democracy and Stalinism in the German Revolution.The movement combined an impressive mass mobilisation with extensive socialist and democratic aspirations that...

Cold has long been a fixture of Russian identity both within and beyond the borders of Russia and the Soviet Union, even as the ongoing effects of climate change complicate its meaning and cultural salience. The Russian Cold assembles fascinating new...

This book provides a well-researched, well-structured, interesting, and informative narrative depicting the little-known yet successful efforts of the Captain Arve Staxrud Norwegian Arctic Rescue Expedition of 1913 that searched for and saved members of...

Conformity, uniformity, institutionality, exceptionality – each of these terms encapsulates an aspect of the common perception of Sparta, both among scholars and in the popular imagination. This volume seeks to interrogate how rightly we may apply these...

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER ‘A rigorous and thoughtful study of what has happened on battlefields over the past eight decades’ THE TIMES ‘A hugely important book … elegantly written and persuasively argued’ DAILY TELEGRAPH ** FULLY UPDATED TO...

Anger was the engine of justice in the ancient Greek world. It drove quests for vengeance which resulted in a variety of consequences, often harmful not only for the relevant actors but also for the wider communities in which they lived. From as early as...

Tracing the development of Catholic ideas in Japan and China during the late sixteenth and early seventeenth century, this book provides an overview of the early emplantation of Catholicism in East Asia and the evolution of the missionary strategy. Kevin...

An urgent, indispensable guide to why Taiwan matters – for China, the West and for everyone’s futureWhen the bloody Chinese Civil War concluded in 1949 two Chinas were born. Mao's communists won and took China’s Mainland; Chiang Kai-shek's nationalists...

For decades, scholars have examined the Mughal Empire, South Asia’s largest and most powerful pre-colonial empire, to measure the greatness of its political, ideological, and cultural institutions. Between Household and State departs from dynastic...

This volume surveys the major German reform initiatives in the field of design in the 20th century. Their central point of departure was the creation of the German Werkbund in 1907, which in close cooperation with industry strove to achieve a new sense...

Die Neuauflage des Dehio Thüringen enthält neben notwendigen Korrekturen einzelner Fehler vor allem umfängliche Aktualisierungen. Es wurden Ergänzungen aufgrund von neuen Forschungen und abgeschlossenen Sanierungen vorgenommen und die neue Schwerpunkte...

It is widely known in Wales that some nineteenth-century schoolchildren were victims of the Welsh Not. It was a wooden board, hung around the neck of children heard speaking Welsh, and was often accompanied by corporal punishment. The Welsh Not is then...