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'I believe I'm going to die doing the things I was born to do. I believe I'm going to die high off the people. I believe I'm going to die a revolutionary' - Fred Hampton Fred Hampton was one of the most promising Black radical leaders of the 20th...

Fresh perspectives on the implications of gender and race in US military history from a diverse group of scholars in the field of war and society.Book InformationISBN 9780817361686Author Lesley J. GordonFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint The...

An introduction to the rich history of the Tensaw River.Book InformationISBN 9780817361723Author Mike BunnFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint The University of Alabama PressPublisher The University of Alabama PressWeight(grams) 454g

In 1769, the Welsh antiquary Thomas Pennant admired Stockton-on-Tees as a 'handsome town' with a 'remarkably fine high street'. Only a century earlier, 'it had scarce a house that was not made of clay and thatch', but now it was 'a flourishing place'...

Eight kings of England were the named Henry, but only two of them were born as heirs to the throne and these – the third and sixth – proved to be the weakest. Two seized the crown by force of arms, one by craft and opportunistic speed, and one by skilful...

In the more than two decades since the publication of Ontario since Confederation: A Reader, Ontario, Canada, North America, and the world have experienced a whirlwind of profound changes. This new edition brings together leading scholars to present a...

General George S. Patton’s legendary image was carefully crafted during World War II and continues to shape our understanding of American history and culture today. Historian Nathan C. Jones explores the creation of the Patton legend and its enduring...

An intellectual history of architectural modernism for an age of rising global inequality and environmental crisis.The Earth That Modernism Built traces the rise of planetary design to an imperialist discourse about the influence of the earthly...

A social history of alcohol, identity, secularism, and modernization from the late Ottoman and early Turkish republican eras to the present day.Prohibition in Turkey investigates the history of alcohol, its consumption, and its proscription as a means to...

Naturalism's Imaginary Museum, French Art, and the Eclectic Nineteenth Century examines one of the most revered art historical narratives of Western art: the famous turning point for painting and sculpture usually emblematized by the works of Édouard...

Finally back in print, the celebrated journals of the "de Tocqueville of Russia" Marquis de Custine, providing an intriguing look at the Russian politics and culture of the 19th Century that continued to drive Soviet behavior during the Cold War and...

The atom bombs dropped on Japan at the end of the Second World War opened the door to the nuclear age. Seeing the potential for developing nuclear energy for the US Navy, Capt. Hyman Rickover initiated a research programme that culminated in the launch...

How San Franciscans exploited natural resources such as redwood lumber to produce the first major metropolis of the American West. California’s 1849 gold rush triggered creation of the “instant city” of San Francisco as a base to exploit the rich natural...

Michael Burger’s goal in this overview is to provide a brief historical narrative of Western civilization. The no-frills, uncluttered format and well-written, one-author approach make this book an affordable yet valuable asset for every history student...

During the 1948 war, looting was a general and widespread phenomenon whereby Israeli fighters and residents alike plundered Palestinian property - including homes, shops, businesses, and farms - left behind by those who were expelled or fled during the...

Best known to Americans as the “singing cowboy,” beloved entertainer Gene Autry (1907–1998) appeared in countless films, radio broadcasts, television shows, and other venues. While Autry’s name and a few of his hit songs are still widely known today, his...

The funeral of Paddy Dignam in James Joyce’s Ulysses serves as the pivotal event of the “Hades” episode. This volume explores how Dignam’s interment in Glasnevin Cemetery allowed Joyce the freedom to consider the conventions, rituals and superstitions...

This America 1840-1895: Expansion and Consolidation Revision Guide is part of the popular Oxford AQA GCSE History (9-1) series. It covers the history of Indigenous North America, conflicts including the American Civil War, and resistance. Written to...

The Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) was founded in 1924 as a sort of federal air service, carrying out civilian-type operations for Ottawa. In the Second World War, the RCAF grew to more than 200,000 personnel in overseas squadrons and performed...

'Magesterial, brilliant, capacious and transformative' Kate WilliamsMotherland by historian, archaeologist, and anthropologist Luke Pepera is a groundbreaking new exploration of African history and identity. He takes us on a personal journey discovering...

From the battles over Jerusalem to the emergence of the “Holy Land,” from legally mandated ghettos to the Edict of Expulsion, geography has long been a component of Christian-Jewish relations. Attending to world maps drawn by medieval Christian...

A dynamic history of the Battle of Sitka that recognizes the vital importance of the Tlingit people, their fight against Imperial Russia, and how it changed the fate of the North America.“If the long-term plans of Peter the Great had been realized, then...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781640096653Author Randall K. WilsonFormat HardbackPage Count 416Imprint CounterpointPublisher Counterpoint

From the magnificent gardens created by Vita Sackville-West at Sissinghurst to a striking self-portrait by Angelica Kauffman; from elegant, mass-produced ceramics by Susie Cooper, to a model of a Palmyran temple by lady’s maid Betty Ratcliffe – this...

An awe-inspiring deep-dive into the treasures found on the sea floor and what they reveal about our past. In Wonders in the Deep Mensun Bound, the renowned archaeologist who was the Director of Exploration on the team that discovered Ernest Shackleton’s...

Mesopotamia is the birthplace of history. At the height of its power, this lush region was encircled by two great rivers, the Tigris and the Euphrates. Over the course of thousands of years, Mesopotamia saw the world's first cities, the first writing...

Why do we think of social struggles as movements? Have struggles been practiced otherwise? Not as motion but as, interruption, occupation, disturbance, arrest? If so, what are struggles trying to stop? Looking at 300 years of Atlantic social struggle...

The first in a new in-depth nonfiction series examining the devastating terrorist attacks that changed the course of history from #1 New York Times bestselling author Jack Carr and Pulitzer Prize finalist James M. Scott, beginning with the 1983 Marine...

Experience the “heartwarming, smart, and at times even humorous” (Woman’s World) wisdom of Eleanor Roosevelt in this annotated collection of the candid advice columns that she wrote for more than twenty years.In 1941, Eleanor Roosevelt embarked on a new...

Learn the little-known history of the turning-point battle of Kings Mountain, one of the most decisive American victories in the Revolutionary War. The Battle of Kings Mountain was the most remarkable, unexpected, and unorthodox patriot victory of...

Conversion and Catastrophe in German-Jewish Émigré Autobiography is a collective biography of four German-Jewish converts to Christianity, recounting their spiritual and confessional journeys against the backdrop of the Holocaust and its aftermath...

In great depth, Volume II examines the escalation of the Vietnam War and its development into a violent stalemate, beginning with the overthrow of the Ngô Đình Diệm in 1963 to the aftermath of the 1968 Tết Offensive. This five-year period was, for the...

The myths about Franklin Delano Roosevelt live on. For the left, FDR was a champion of the working class and the oppressed, suffering abuse as a “traitor to his class.” He gave up the lifestyle of the Hudson River gentry to lead his country out of the...

Recent years have witnessed a growing affinity between increasingly radicalized right-wing movements in the United States and Russia, countries that only recently viewed each other as intractable foes. In Illiberal Vanguard: Populist Elitism in the...

The Instant Top 5 Irish Times Bestseller From the creator of The Irish History Podcast comes a fascinating look at Irish history through the lens of murder. In A Lethal Legacy, Fin Dwyer charts 200 years of Irish history, opening up our past as never...

The Rhodes blood libel of 1840, an outbreak of anti-Jewish violence, was initiated by the island’s governor in collusion with Levantine merchants, who charged the local Jewish community with murdering a Christian boy for ritual purposes. An episode in...

If we don’t understand the past, how can we understand the now? Why is the teaching of Black history – both in the past and present, and in the UK and beyond – still not only fundamentally flawed, but scarce and inadequate? So many of us have gaps in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798985571646Author The Missouri Historical Society PressFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Missouri Historical Society PressPublisher Missouri Historical...

Examining playhouses of the super-rich to understand how architecture contributed to the construction of elite identity and modern childhoodPlayhouses and Privilege explores children’s playhouses built on British and American estates between the 1850s...

In the nineteenth century, a great number of Zoroastrians emigrated from Iran to India. The subsequent importance of the cultural, religious and political ties between the Zoroastrian communities of Iran and the Zoroastrians communities of India has long...