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Every nation tells its own history in its own way. This important book explains what's going on behind the scenes in those tellings - who gets to decide which facts are taught, and which truths are massaged, or even denied. Using a mix of comic strips,...

2023 de la Torre Bueno® First Book Award, Dance Studies Association The impact of folkloric dance and performance on Mexican cultural politics and national identity. The years between 1910 and 1940 were formative for Mexico, with the ouster of Porfirio...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781529151039Author Lyse DoucetFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Hutchinson HeinemannPublisher CornerstoneWeight(grams) 700g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781529151022Author Lyse DoucetFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint Hutchinson HeinemannPublisher CornerstoneWeight(grams) 750g

Every Tudor Queen had ladies-in-waiting. They were her confidantes and her chaperones. Only the Queen's ladies had the right to enter her most private chambers, spending hours helping her to get dressed and undressed, caring for her clothes and jewels,...

Peek beneath the bedsheets of nineteenth-century Britain in this affectionate, informative and fascinating look at sex and sexuality during the reign of Queen Victoria. It examines the prevailing attitudes towards male and female sexual behaviour, and...

Periodically, in Australian society racial chasms emerge portraying the great divide between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians, exposing the sustained influence of the doomed-race protective myth and its residue.This book exposes a long and...

Between 1970 and 1986, countries around the world expelled hundreds of Soviet officials and personnel for espionage or other misconduct. One official source puts the number at 672 for the 16-year period, or an average of 42 expulsions per year. Some...

Combining the destructive firepower of the famous 8.8cm gun with the mobility of the Pzkpfw IV medium tank, the Panzerjäger Nashorn, or rhinoceros, was quite possibly one of the most effective tank destroyers of the Second World War, although less than...

Die Auseinandersetzung mit Positionen des Skeptizismus wurde in der Kunstgeschichte bisher geführt, indem man Thesen aus der Philosophie auf die Ikonographie von Gemälden bezog. Forschung, die sich mit Skepsis beschäftigte, fragte danach, wie...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780008495138Author Charlie EnglishFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint William CollinsPublisher HarperCollins PublishersWeight(grams) 270g

Continuity and Change in Medieval East Central Europe explores the crucial societal, political, and cultural dynamics that defined medieval East Central Europe during the early and high Middle Ages. Focusing on the historical regions of Bohemia, Hungary,...

AS FEATURED ON THE JOE ROAGN EXPERIENCE'Entertaining' The Times'Utterly fascinating and illuminating' Sinclair McKay'Fascinating... An astonishing read, with remarkably vivid protagonists' Harald Jähner'Ohler weaves a masterful tapestry of history in...

Originally published as a collection in 2006, this volume discusses the development of the Atlantic slave trade in the seventeenth century, looking at issues such as how African societies reacted to the trade; the economic origins of black slavery in the...

Originally published as a collection in 2006, this volume covers the Atlantic slave trade from its origins to 1600, the selection of essays here look at the reasons for the causes of slavery and serfdom; slavery in Africa; the development of the slave...

The book seeks to reframe debates on the conflicting scientific and spiritual traditions that underpinned Nazi worldview, and shows how despite the multitude of tensions and rivals among its adherents, it provided a coherent conceptual grid and possessed...

‘The Armchair General team has done it again. An absorbing read for Christmas.’Peter Caddick-Adams‘Brilliant and immersive.’Harry SidebottomThe second book in the Armchair General series, where YOU choose the fate of the First World...

A sweeping study of sexual assault trials in the Jim Crow South, detailing the racial and economic inequities of rape law and the resistance of ordinary women In the early years of the twentieth century, Mississippi County, Arkansas, was a brutal and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781529443141Author QuercusFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint GreenfinchPublisher Quercus Publishing

The image of the solitary author devoting days and nights to writing endless bestselling novels remains an insidious and largely unchallenged myth within German culture. In this exacting examination of the German publishing industry, Agency and Author...

The border between England and Scotland is rich in history. It has been the site of battles, treaties, castles and crossroads. But it can also be a lens through which to look at the changing history and identities of these two countries. Between Britain...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798881802639Author Noah CharneyFormat PaperbackPage Count 170Imprint Rowman & Littlefield PublishersPublisher Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

No country in history has been more deeply penetrated by spies than divided Germany after the Second World War. Fighting for the eastern corner were the 'first class comrades' of the Stasi - the East German Ministry for State Security. Rising from the...

This monograph presents a study of the most significant book in the history of anatomy, Fleming Andreas Vesalius’ (1514-1564) De humani corporis fabrica. Vesalius’ Fabrica was immediately recognised as changing the view of the human body when it was...

This fascinating study traces sixteenth-century German colonialism in Venezuela through the lens of racialized capitalism and the subsequent memorialization of the period through to the twentieth century. Giovanna Montenegro investigates one of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781529942125Author Edward W SaidFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint Vintage ClassicsPublisher Vintage PublishingWeight(grams) 500g

While the 1914 Christmas truces have a mythological status in British culture, intimate interactions with the enemy are, this edited collection shows, a staple of modern warfare. Spanning the nineteenth century to the present, chapters consider how...

Founded in 1833 by white teacher Prudence Crandell, Canterbury Academy educated more than two dozen Black women during its eighteen-month existence. Racism in eastern Connecticut forced the teen students to walk a gauntlet of taunts, threats, and legal...

A history of wars through the ages and across the world, and the irrational calculations that so often lie behind them Benjamin Franklin once said, “There never was a good war or a bad peace.” But what determines whether war or peace is chosen?...

This folio of more than two hundred-fifty photographs with a foreword by President William D. Underwood and accompanying text by Gordon Johnston celebrates Georgia's oldest private university. Since its founding in 1833 in Penfield as Mercer Institute,...

Founded in 1833 by white teacher Prudence Crandell, Canterbury Academy educated more than two dozen Black women during its eighteen-month existence. Racism in eastern Connecticut forced the teen students to walk a gauntlet of taunts, threats, and legal...

Thanks to their economic and military strength, the European empires had achieved global supremacy by 1900, with large parts of the world under their dominance in the wake of colonial expansion. This situation fuelled ideas of Europe's permanent, almost...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781646426645Author Vitus HuberFormat HardbackPage Count 370Imprint University Press of ColoradoPublisher University Press of Colorado

The Puritan Ideology of Mobility: Corporatism, the Politics of Place, and the Founding of New England Towns before 1650 examines the ideology that English Puritans developed to justify migration: their migration from England to New England, migrations...

This collection offers an innovative and fresh interpretation of Antitrinitarian and rational dissent in the early modern world. The central themes focus on the fierce debates surrounding Antitrinitarianism and Unitarianism that emerged from the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781646426652Author Vitus HuberFormat PaperbackPage Count 370Imprint University Press of ColoradoPublisher University Press of Colorado

This is the story of the last generation of British miners: fathers and sons, brothers and comrades, big hitters and broken men, strikers and scabs. Men for whom the masculine world of pit was all they had ever known, who reluctantly emerged into the...

Solvieg lives in a land of glaciers and frozen waterfalls, the home of frost giants and trolls. Yet it is a world with a fiery heart, created from the ashes of dead stars, heat buried deep within...The Flickering Fires takes us on a journey from the...

This book studies British cultural engagement with Napoleon Bonaparte from his 1815 surrender and time in British custody, until the return of his remains to France in 1840. Adopting a chronological approach, James Gregory studies the British use of...

Examining film, literature and art produced during and after the Malayan Emergency, the guerrilla war fought between independence fighters of the Malayan National Liberation Army and the military forces of the British Empire, this collection demonstrates...