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Reveals a dark chapter in the Italian government’s colonial history that has been largely hidden from view. Between the end of the nineteenth century and over the first half of the twentieth, Italy invaded and occupied the Horn of Africa, Libya, and...

From Caldecott Honor–winning author-illustrator Steve Jenkins comes a fascinating, comprehensive, and in-depth look at our world as seen through numbers, facts, and stunning infographics.With his signature style, Steve Jenkins uses engaging graphics and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914325236Author Vyvyan KinrossFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Nomad PublishingPublisher Nomad PublishingWeight(grams) 600g

A critical examination of the life and legacy of Charles IV. Charles IV, King of Bohemia and Holy Roman Emperor, has been called “one of the most learned and diplomatically skillful sovereigns” of the fourteenth century. Having moved the seat of the Holy...

This groundbreaking study examines the unlikely merger of two Japanese cultural phenomena, an 11th-century aristocratic text and contemporary manga comics. It explores the ways in which the manga versions of The Tale of Genji use gender, sexuality, and...

A sweeping history of intimacy and family life in France during the age of revolutionThe French Revolution and Napoleonic Wars devastated Europe for nearly a quarter of a century. The Soldier’s Reward recovers the stories of soldiers and their...

How can a nation's archaeological treasures help explain its history, especially one as richly complex as Syria's? Ross Burns chooses 40 among Syria's outstanding range of sites to take the reader through the tangled paths of this crossroads of the...

In 2007 a collection of short essays was published as A Bold Imagining to mark the 175th anniversary of the opening of St David's College, Lampeter to students in 1827. Now the Lampeter campus of University of Wales Trinity St David, to commemorate the...

Der 16. Band der Vorträge aus dem Warburg-Haus versammelt Beiträge, deren inhaltiches Spektrum von den Wahrnehmungsoptionen spätantiker und mittelalterlicher Mosaiken im Licht moderner Reproduktionstechniken über die "Spinnerinnen" von Diego Velázquez,...

To achieve a better understanding of the everyday lives of the Mesopotamians, Alhena Gadotti and Alexandra Kleinerman interrogate the relationships between life, death and the afterlife in this ancient society. By focusing on the beliefs and rituals...

A detailed, fully illustrated overview of Julius Caesar's Gallic Wars, one of the most important conflicts of the ancient world. Julius Caesar was one of the most ambitious and successful politicians of the late Roman Republic and his short but bloody...

The first book to present the amazing swords and armor belonging to the most famous Samurai in Japanese history!In Japanese Swords and Armor, Samurai sword expert Paul Martin presents scores of magnificent blades, fittings and armor from the 12th to the...

Furious economic growth and social change resulted in pervasive civic conflict in imperial Germany. Roger Chickering presents a wide-ranging history of this fractious period, from German national unification to the close of the First World War...

For two generations after independence, Americans viewed the Mediterranean as the new commercial frontier. From common sailors to wealthy merchants, hundreds of Americans flocked to live and work there. Documenting the eventful lives of three American...

Why study Ottoman history? What are the available sources? And how can researchers begin locating, reading, and interpreting these? The Cambridge Companion to Ottoman History provides a broad introduction to the field, offering readers accessible...

During the 1980s, the Reagan Administration financed and directed wars against popular movements in El Salvador and Nicaragua that left more than 300,000 dead and countless more wounded. Vowing to block “Soviet expansion,” the U.S. waged a Vietnam-style...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781801511391Author Jennifer RedmondFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Four Courts Press LtdPublisher Four Courts Press Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781801511315Author Mairead LynchFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Four Courts Press LtdPublisher Four Courts Press Ltd

As America’s oldest merchant ship still afloat and the only wooden survivor of the once-vital whaling industry, the Charles W. Morgan has a complex story to tell.Elaborating on Mystic Seaport Museum’s earlier volumes on the Charles W. Morgan's history,...

This book explores the process of modernisation during the Porfiriato and the Conservative republic from the perspective of one of its most erratic agents: the urban police.Taking a pragmalinguistic approach, this book examines police bureaucratic,...

The Henschel Hs 126 aircraft used by Luftwaffe during WW2. This book consists of 16 pages and features detailed scale plans in 1/72 scale. It includes 12-14 colour profiles, providing a visual guide to various markings. Caption is presented in English,...

Black Robes Enter Coyote’s World brings to life the complicated history of Jesuit missionaries among Montana’s Native peoples—a saga of encounter, accommodation, and resistance during the transformative decades of the mid-to-late nineteenth century...

The Port (present-day Hà Tiên), situated in the Mekong River Delta and Gulf of Siam littoral, was founded and governed by the Chinese creole Mo clan during the eighteenth century and prospered as a free-trade emporium in maritime East Asia. Mo Jiu and...

The 1914–2024 War Atlas deconstructs the contemporary widespread and well-known image of the 20th and 21st century, arguing for the continuity of the historical process covering the period 1914-2024.The years between 1914 and 2024 constitute a period of...

A fully illustrated study of the French armies that were inspired by Saint Jeanne d’Arc, reformed under King Charles VII and eventually victorious over England in the Hundred Years’ War. Saint Jeanne d’Arc remains a central figure in France’s national...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781578598557Author Jim WillisFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint Visible Ink PressPublisher Visible Ink Press

We may think of ‘globalism’ as a recent development, but its origins date back to century and beyond, when courageous seafarers pioneered routes across the oceans with the objectives of exploration, trade and profits. Improvements in ship design,...

Although little known and mostly anonymous, members of the "Dungaree Navy" are irreplaceable contributors to the operations, maintenance and readiness of the U.S. battle force. They include a variety of tugboats, barges, floating dry docks, lighters and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781801511292Author Amy BoylanFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Four Courts Press LtdPublisher Four Courts Press Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781578598106Author Richard EstepFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Visible Ink PressPublisher Visible Ink Press

George Downing came of age as a Puritan pioneer in colonial Massachusetts, before crossing the Atlantic to sign up for the English Civil War. He fast became Oliver Cromwell's chief of military intelligence and was later a diplomat and an MP. However,...

Hertfordshire is a county full of stories. Its closeness to London attracts the great and the good (and the not so good). We have saints - St Albans, St Thomas More and the only English Pope, Nicholas Breakspear. In contrast Hertford elections were once...

An all-round account of the actions of Company G of the 163rd Infantry Regiment, 41st Division, U.S. Army, during World War II in the Pacific. The narrative follows the company from training in the Pacific Northwest, to Australia, New Guinea, the...

'Both pioneering and fundamental. This is the essential history of Ukraine, from one of the greatest Ukrainian thinkers and scholars.' Timothy Snyder #1 New York Times and #1 Sunday Times bestselling author of On Tyranny 'Ukrainian historian Yaroslav...

This book examines the impact of the African slave trade and colonialism on political, civil, economic, social, and environmental human rights. Using multiple combined data sets, the book demonstrates that many contemporary human rights issues stem from...

He was steely eyed, hard riding and straight shooting; a soft-spoken, tee-totaling lawman who never drew his gun...unless he meant to use it. Among other things he was also a buffalo hunter, Indian fighter, rancher horse breeder, saloon keeper,...

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By recovering a largely forgotten English Renaissance mindset that regarded sovereignty and Providence as being fundamentally entwined, Alexander Haskell reconnects concepts historians had before treated as separate categories and argues that the first...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781771624077Author Farley MowatFormat PaperbackPage Count 498Imprint Douglas & McIntyrePublisher Douglas & McIntyre

The wartime interest in Greenland was a direct result of its vital strategic position-if you wanted to predict the weather in Europe, you had to have men in place on the vast, frozen island. The most celebrated example of Greenland's crucial contribution...