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Discussing Pax Germanica: The Rise and Limits of German Hegemony in European Integration examines and reconsiders Germany’s paramount role in shaping European integration from the aftermath of World War II to the present.This volume meticulously explores...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798881801786Author Robert E. MayFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Rowman & Littlefield PublishersPublisher Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398842816Author Michael FitzGeraldFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Arcturus Publishing LtdPublisher Arcturus Publishing Ltd

This rich and enjoyable book by the acclaimed author of Japan Story explores the many ways in which Asia has influenced Europe and North America over centuries of tangled, dynamic encountersFrom the time of the ancient Greeks onwards the West's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398840713Author AN HodgeFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Arcturus Publishing LtdPublisher Arcturus Publishing Ltd

Ecological and political instability have time and again emerged as catalysts for risky development projects along India's south-west coastline. Devika Shankar probes this complicated relationship between crisis and development through a focus on a port...

In the Greco-Turkish War of 1919-1922, Prince Andrew of Greece was given command of the 2nd Army Corps during the Battle of the Sakarya. He was commanded to lead his troops in attacking the Turkish positions, though, to the consternation of his...

Arguably the most authoritative English translation of Poland’s great national poem. Sometimes called the “last epos in world literature,” Pan Tadeusz (first published in Paris in 1834) is a classic tale of romance, mystery, war, and patriotism set in...

This book reveals the medieval Mediterranean region as a richly nuanced space of places and peoples connected by a body of water, but far from unified – and seeks to challenge what we think we know about the medieval Mediterranean, and the world it...

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The Vancouver Island Treaties and the Evolving Principles of Indigenous Title illuminates the history of the enigmatic Vancouver Island treaties of the 1850s, offering new interpretations based on a fresh, exhaustive, and multidisciplinary critical...

Explore the failures, mistakes and missed opportunities that shaped history in this new entry in the bestselling series.From the botched attempt to create a life-extending elixir that produced gunpowder, to the unsuccessful stint in medical school which...

This book offers a study of how football became in the 1870s a global sport that was played by high school students on several continents. It provides a horizontal perspective that focusses on the spread of football in the 1870s from its English cradle...

Explore the failures, mistakes and missed opportunities that shaped history in this new entry in the bestselling series.From the botched attempt to create a life-extending elixir that produced gunpowder, to the unsuccessful stint in medical school which...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798881803278Author David W.J. GillFormat HardbackPage Count 300Imprint Rowman & Littlefield PublishersPublisher Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

The migration experiences, career paths, and scholarship of historians born in Germany who started emigrating to North America in the 1950s have had a unique impact on the transatlantic practice of Central European History. German Migrant Historians in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398828230Author Phyllis JesticeFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Arcturus Publishing LtdPublisher Arcturus Publishing Ltd

It was a bold, ambitious and wildly arrogant idea: extending the reach of communism into space. Spurred on by the defeat of Hitler and the competitive rivalry with the United States, the Soviet space programme saw a frenetic surge of scientific activity...

The Baltic's time has come. It is not only critical to Europe's security and increasingly a centre of political and military power in its own right; it is a reservoir of ideas and experiences that could shape the continent's future.The Baltic offers by...

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...

Lessons for the antifascist fight now and to come rooted in well-learned lessons from Black liberation.Revolution In These Times delivers veteran Black Panther Party member, Black Liberation Army leader, and former political prisoner Dhoruba Bin-Wahad...

The fall of a city is not just an incisive event with often catastrophic, long-term, and wide-ranging consequences, but also a moment that captivates the imagination, elicits intense cultural reflections, and is used to draw a dividing line in historical...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781350338319Author Kelly J EvansFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Bloomsbury AcademicPublisher Bloomsbury AcademicWeight(grams) 454g

Brought to you by Penguin. In the 1970s, a network of radical extremists terrorised the West with plane hijackings and hostage-takings. Among them were the beautiful young Leila Khaled with her jewellery made from grenade rings, the hard-drinking...

Perpetrators of genocidal violence have regularly orchestrated propaganda campaigns using newspapers, radio, televisions, the internet, and other means to justify mass killings. Through 50 primary sources, readers will learn about 11 genocides, spanning...

Abraham Lincoln drew upon history in his political career and particularly when crafting the rhetorical masterpieces that still resonate in the present day. Jesse Derber explores how Lincoln’s views of the limits of human understanding drove a belief...

This book describes and illustrates the uniforms and personal equipment of the troops fielded by the Midwestern and Western states that fought for the Union during the Civil War. During the American Civil War, the United States Army, pitted against the...

This book traces how city councils, medical practitioners and urban society developed their understandings of and responses to the ‘French pox,’ a pandemic that swept through Europe during the winter of 1494-1495, and is now more commonly known as...

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Forthcoming Fall 2024Book InformationISBN 9781439924099Author Molly LesterFormat HardbackPage Count 202Imprint Temple University Press,U.S.Publisher Temple University Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 454g

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. After the deaths of Antony and Cleopatra, Rome finally took control of Egypt. This...

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Over the past few decades, scholars have traced how Indian Ocean merchants forged...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783935751322Author Nicholas J. ConardFormat PaperbackPage Count 276Imprint Kerns VerlagPublisher Kerns Verlag

Making an Industrial Revolution presents a fresh perspective on British industrialization. Advances in technology, commerce and science played their part, but - as this book argues - above all it was communities of shared skill, knowledge and experience...

A foundational text on the early modern history of Tunis that places Tunisian history firmly within Ottoman historyThe Tunisian historiography of the modern era has broadly centered on a narrative of three successive powers: the pashas, first, followed...

Mr. Lifton and I initially started talking per phone once a month or so around mid-2018, this due to the David Lifton Project, a video interview my students created back in February 2018 - the point being to share his all important research with the next...

An illustrated study of Abraham Lincoln’s reading life. Few people in history are written about more than Abraham Lincoln, and deservedly so, for as America’s sixteenth president he oversaw both the victory of the Union in the Civil War and the end of...

Neer uncovers a key moment in the history of early modern art, when painting was understood to be a tool for self-transformation and for living a philosophical life.  In this wide-ranging study, Richard Neer shows how French painters of the seventeenth...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783486751598Author Alois DempfFormat HardbackPage Count 179Imprint Walter de GruyterPublisher Walter de GruyterWeight(grams) 467g

A fascinating account of the last major Allied operation in the South-West Pacific, and the largest Australian military operation of World War II. A week after Pearl Harbor in December 1941, Japanese troops landed near Brunei on the South-East Asian...