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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

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789087284541Author Asghar Seyed-GohrabFormat HardbackPage Count 260Imprint Leiden University PressPublisher Leiden University Press

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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When Dwight Eisenhower graduated from West Point in 1915, few would have predicted he was destined for greatness. A middling student, he was denied his first choice of posting, missed overseas service in World War I, spent a dozen years as a major, and...

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...

The first book to lay bare the life of a Nazi camp guard who settled in a Chicago suburb and to explore how his community and others responded to discoveries of Nazis in their midst. Reinhold Kulle seemed like the perfect school employee. But in 1982,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781838071981Author Mick StanleyImprint The Historic Towns TrustPublisher The Historic Towns Trust

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063371439Author David K. RandallImprint HarperAudioPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc

As fans of Just a Minute know, the key to the game is knowing your way around the English language: how it works, how it’s evolved, and how words connect, often in surprising ways. When it comes to the English language (and Just a Minute), Gyles...

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...

On 20 August 1612, ten people from Pendle were executed before a vast crowd at Lancaster's Gallows Hill. The condemned and their associates had endured six months of accusations, imprisonment and torture; their treatment was such that one of the group...

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...

Work and labour are fundamental to an understanding of Roman society. In a world where reliable information was scarce and economic insecurity loomed large, social structures and networks of trust were of paramount importance to the way work was provided...

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