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Slavery's Fugitives and the Making of the United States Constitution Timothy Messer-Kruse 9780807182765
RRP: $81.80$69.53Slavery's Fugitives and the Making of the United States Constitution unearths a long-hidden factor that led to the Constitutional Convention in 1787. While historians have generally acknowledged that patriot leaders assembled in response to postwar... -
Colonial Sequence 1949 to 1969: A Chronological Commentary upon British Colonial Policy in Africa Margery Perham 9781032455860
RRP: $62.98$53.53Colonial Sequence 1949 to 1969 (1970) continues the sequence begun in Colonial Sequence 1930 to 1949 and presents a valuable body of evidence for the enquiry into Britain’s colonial actions, written at a time when Britain was retreating from empire. In... -
Liberalism and Naval Strategy: Ideology, Interest and Sea Power During the Pax Britannica Bernard Semmel 9781032549293
RRP: $58.78$49.96Liberalism and Naval Strategy (1986) examines the role that liberalism played in shaping the naval strategy of the Pax Britannia. Liberalism was linked to commercial interest, and the devotion of the middle classes to peaceful commerce and their... -
Colonizing Ourselves Volume 5: Tejano Back-to-Mexico Movements and the Making of a Settler Colonial Nation José Angel Hernández 9780806194592
RRP: $81.80$69.53In the late nineteenth century, the Mexican government, seeking to fortify its northern borders and curb migration to the United States, set out to relocate “Mexico-Texano” families, or Tejanos, on Mexican land. In Colonizing Ourselves, José Angel... -
The Pullman Strike: A Gilded Age Clash between Labor, Capital, and Government Edward T. O'Donnell 9781032483917
RRP: $283.50$240.98This book examines the 1894 Pullman Strike, one of the most consequential clashes between labor and capital that paralyzed America’s railroad system.The Gilded Age saw rapid economic growth, expansion of industrialization, and real wage growth. Yet... -
The Morality of Revolution: Reeducation Camps and the Politics of Punishment in Socialist Mozambique, 1968–1990 Benedito Luís Machava 9780821425831
RRP: $67.20$57.12The Morality of Revolution offers the first historical examination of urban cleanup campaigns and reeducation camps in socialist Mozambique. The book presents the camps as the template for independent Mozambique’s punitive society under Frelimo... -
The Morality of Revolution: Reeducation Camps and the Politics of Punishment in Socialist Mozambique, 1968–1990 Benedito Luís Machava 9780821425824
RRP: $170.10$144.59The Morality of Revolution offers the first historical examination of urban cleanup campaigns and reeducation camps in socialist Mozambique. The book presents the camps as the template for independent Mozambique’s punitive society under Frelimo... -
The Chief Rabbi's Funeral: The Untold Story of America's Largest Antisemitic Riot Scott D. Seligman 9781640126183
RRP: $62.98$53.53On July 30, 1902, tens of thousands of mourners lined the streets of New York’s Lower East Side to bid farewell to the city’s chief rabbi, the eminent Talmudist Jacob Joseph. All went well until the procession crossed Sheriff Street, where the six-story... -
The Great Genesee Road: Traveling through Time on New York State's Historic Route 5 Richard Figiel 9781493075577
RRP: $39.88$33.89Today we call most of it New York Route 5. Over the centuries it has been called the Iroquois Trail, Genesee Road, Mohawk and Seneca Turnpike, Buffalo Road. In Route 5 and the Great Genesee Road, author Richard Figiel takes readers on a historical... -
The Forgotten Era: Nigeria Before British Rule Max Siollun 9780745350080
RRP: $52.50$44.63Much is known about colonial Africa (or, what Europeans did in Africa). Yet very little is known about Africa before its colonisation. In this surprising history, Max Siollun uncovers a Nigeria that was not part of a backward 'dark continent' as European... -
Intrepid's Fighting Squadron 18: Flying High with Harris' Hellcats Michael I. Fink 9781682473214
RRP: $73.40$62.39USS Intrepid’s Fighting Squadron 18 (VF-18) was one of the U.S. Navy’s highest-scoring carrier units of World War II. Despite having only one combat veteran in its roster, its aviators—including Cecil “Speedball” Harris, the Navy’s second-ranking... -
Fragments of Victory: The Contemporary Irish Left David Landy 9780745348759
RRP: $39.88$33.89There is much to learn from modern left-wing activism in Ireland. A rich tapestry of movements, including republicans, social democrats, trade unions, Trotskyists and anarchists, they have been battling neoliberalism and austerity with vigour,... -
The Guardian Angel: Michel Hollard: The Resistance Leader who stopped Hitler's Plans to destroy London Florian Hollard 9781526780058
RRP: $41.98$35.68This book tells the story of an important yet little-known episode of 20th century history. Just as General de Gaulle did, Lieutenant Michel Hollard refused to accept France's surrender in June 1940. A spirited soldier during the First World War, a... -
Paleoart. Visions of the Prehistoric Past Walton Ford 9783836593205
RRP: $157.50$133.88It was 1830 when an English scientist named Henry De la Beche painted the first piece of paleoart, a dazzling, deliciously macabre vision of prehistoric reptiles battling underwater. Since then, artists the world over have conjured up visions of...Qty in Cart: 0Quantity:Price:RRP: $157.50$133.88Subtotal: -
The Origin and Evolution of China's Names I: The Reigning Dynasties HU A-Xiang 9781032815817
RRP: $283.50$240.98This is the first volume of a two-volume set on the names of China, focusing on the country's official titles throughout history.Using interdisciplinary approaches from fields such as history, geography, ethnic studies, linguistics, psychology and... -
Jurisdictional Battlefields: Political Culture, Theatricality, and Spanish Expeditions in Charcas in the second half of the sixteenth century Mario Graña Taborelli 9781835537091
RRP: $241.50$205.28The book examines three expeditions by the Spanish to the borders of Charcas, a district that covers present-day Bolivia and the northwest of Argentina, in the second half of the sixteenth century, through an approach that has not been attempted until... -
Training Churchill's Secret Army: Special Operations Executive s Training Section, 1940-1945 An Official History 9781399069984
RRP: $42.00$35.70Shortly after the creation of the Special Operations Executive in July 1940, the first of its Special Training Schools was formed at Brickendonbury in Hertfordshire. The object of the school was to train men of different nationalities as instructors and... -
Ancient Egyptians (2 Vols) J. Gardner Wilkinson 9780415645836
RRP: $75.58$64.24Written in 1836, this two-volume study has enduring importance in the field of Egyptology. Covering topics including Egyptian homes, ceremonies, hunting, religious rites, and castes, it provides a comprehensive account of ancient Egyptian life and... -
Overflow, Afterglow: New Work in Chromatic Figuration Liz Munsell 9780300275797
RRP: $52.50$44.63An investigation of how seven cutting-edge contemporary artists use high-key, kaleidoscopic color to express the hybrid and multiform nature of identity As contemporary artists reckon with the immense destructive forces of today’s world, including... -
The Great Mughals: Art, Architecture and Opulence Susan Stronge 9781838510367
RRP: $84.00$71.40The Great Mughals presents, for the first time the opulent, internationalist culture of Mughal Hindustan in the age of its greatest emperors: Akbar (r.1556-1605), Jahangir (r.1605-1627) and Shah Jahan (r. 1628-1658). Providing a compelling new narrative... -
Fashion and the Floating World: Japanese ukiyo-e Prints Anna Jackson 9781838510503
RRP: $73.50$62.48This sumptuous book explores the important world that woodblock prints played in the fashionable world of Edo-period Japan (1603-1868). 140 ukiyo-e - 'pictures of the floating world' offer us a vivid view of the culture of entertainment, style and... -
Indigenous Sacraments: Christian Rituals and Local Responses at the Fringes of Spanish America, 1529–1800 Oriol Ambrogio Gali 9781496235770
RRP: $132.30$112.46Indigenous Sacraments provides the first study of Indigenous perceptions of the Christian sacraments at the fringes of colonial Spanish America, particularly in the missions established by the Jesuits in northwestern Mexico, central southern Chile, and... -
Burgenland: Village Secrets and the First Tremors of the Holocaust David Joseph 9781398122567
RRP: $27.28$23.18When Hitler marched into Austria in March 1938, he was given a rapturous reception. Millions lined the streets and filled the squares of Vienna. Tobias Portschy, a self-appointed regional Nazi chief, considered what to give the Fuhrer for his birthday,... -
The Unnatural Trade: Slavery, Abolition, and Environmental Writing, 1650-1807 Brycchan Carey 9780300224412
RRP: $102.90$87.47A look at the origins of British abolitionism as a problem of eighteenth-century science, as well as one of economics and humanitarian sensibilities How did late eighteenth-century British abolitionists come to view the slave trade and British colonial... -
Let's Make Things Better: Finding Hope in the Darkest Days Gidon Lev 9781035043989
RRP: $42.00$35.70“To me, hard times are like hide-and-seek: where is the solution, where is the hope? We can never give up looking for these things because they are just waiting to be found.” Gidon Lev, an 89-year-old Holocaust survivor, has lived an extraordinary life... -
Ashes of Our Fathers: Inside the Fall of Nagorno-Karabakh Gabriel Gavin 9781911723578
RRP: $42.00$35.70On 19 September 2023, war broke out once again in Nagorno-Karabakh, a tiny breakaway state nestled in the mountains at the very edge of Europe. For three decades since the fall of the Soviet Union, this battle-scarred geopolitical hotspot had been... -
Digging All Night and Fighting All Day: The Civil War Siege of Spanish Fort and the Mobile Campaign, 1865 Paul Brueske 9781611217100
RRP: $56.68$48.17The bloody two-week siege of Spanish Fort, Alabama (March 26-April 8, 1865) was one of the final battles of the Civil War. Despite its importance and fascinating history, surprisingly little has been written about it. The fall of the fort was considered... -
Who Will Defend Europe?: An Awakened Russia and a Sleeping Continent Keir Giles 9781911723486
RRP: $42.00$35.70Who will defend Europe? The answer should be obvious: Europe should be able to defend itself. Yet, for decades, most of the continent enjoyed a defence holiday, outsourcing protection to the United States while banking an increasingly illusory ‘peace... -
A Reservation Undiminished: The Saginaw Chippewa Case and Native Sovereignty Todd Adams 9780806194707
RRP: $81.80$69.53It took more than one hundred years for federal, state, and local governments to recognize the Saginaw Chippewa Tribe’s claim to its Isabella Reservation in central Michigan. This book tells the story of how the tribe persevered and eventually succeeded... -
The State of Sequoyah: Indigenous Sovereignty and the Quest for an Indian State Donald L. Fixico 9780806194639
RRP: $62.90$53.47Few people today know that the forty-sixth state could have been Sequoyah, not Oklahoma. The Five Tribes of Indian Territory gathered in 1905 to form their own, Indian-led state. Leaders of the Cherokees, Chickasaws, Choctaws, Muscogees, and Seminoles... -
City of Kashmir: Srinagar, A Popular History Sameer Hamdani 9781911723769
RRP: $63.00$53.55City of Kashmir offers readers a journey into the 2,000-year history of Srinagar, exploring its written history, legends and oral traditions to take a living pulse. In exploring the city's geography, it maps the daily rituals of life and the accompanying... -
Philippines 1944: Third Fleet's first victory over Japanese land-based airpower Edward M. Young 9781472860439
RRP: $35.68$30.32The US Navy’s 1944 Philippines raids were the first time naval aircraft had challenged and beaten a land-based air force. With artwork and rare photos, this is the first book to study them. During September 1944, the US Navy’s Task Force 38 launched a... -
Lithuania: A Short History Richard Butterwick 9781911723608
RRP: $39.88$33.89Lithuania is often portrayed as a small nation- state that has survived against the odds of history: together with Estonia and Latvia, it won independence at the end of the First World War, lost it to the Soviet Union in 1939–40, regained it in 1990–1,... -
Ancient Sculpture and Twentieth-Century American Womanhood: Venus Envy Hallie Franks 9781350469860
RRP: $178.50$151.73This book examines the reception of Graeco-Roman sculptures of Venus and their role in the construction of the body aesthetics of the “fit” American woman in the decades around the turn of the 20th century. In this historical moment, 19th-century... -
In-Between Empire: Imperial Exceptionalism, Poland, and Colonial Travel Writing Raymond Patton 9781350498648
RRP: $178.50$151.73Exploring how Polish writers positioned themselves as neither colonized nor colonizers, In-Between Empire analyses their literary works on empire during the 19th and 20th centuries to explore how they negotiated their in-between position in the global... -
Exports of J-7/F-7/FT-/FTC-2000: China's Fighter for the World Holger Muller 9781804513743
RRP: $41.90$35.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804513743Author Holger MullerFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Paris Concealed: Masks in the City of Light James H. Johnson 9780226836461
RRP: $75.60$64.26A comprehensive history of masks in France from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century. Masks can conceal, disguise, or protect. They can announce status, inspire delight, or spread fear. They can also betray trust through insincerity, deceit, and... -
An Irishman in Northern Mesopotamia: A Journey of Discovery in South-East Türkiye – A Personal Perspective Nicholas Mackey 9781916846289
RRP: $52.50$44.63Embark on an extraordinary odyssey through south-east Türkiye with Nicholas Mackey as he guides you through a captivating region embraced by the legendary Euphrates and Tigris rivers—the Cradle of Civilization. Here he explores the ancient wonders of... -
The 1914–2024 War Atlas: Modernity Deciphered Anew Marcin Wojciech Solarz 9781032523910
RRP: $75.58$64.24The 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... -
Chippenham History Tour Mike Stone 9781398102552
RRP: $18.88$16.04Chippenham History Tour offers an insight into the fascinating history of this Wiltshire town. Author Mike Stone guides us around its well-known streets and buildings, showing how its famous landmarks used to look and how they have changed over the years...