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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781639732111Author Joseph KellyFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing USAPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798384502784Author Thomas S KiddFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint B&H Publishing GroupPublisher B&H Publishing GroupWeight(grams) 753gDimensions(mm)...

Take Over the City provides the first comprehensive spatial analysis of Italian operaismo and the extraordinary urban struggles of 1970s Italy. Take Over the City is the first systemic spatial account of Italian operaismo. Drawing on the Marxist urban...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798895656525Author Bing WestFormat HardbackPage Count 216Imprint Knox PressPublisher Knox PressWeight(grams) 338gDimensions(mm) 210mm * 140mm * 23mm

The Social History of Law in Nineteenth-Century Latin America examines how ordinary people responded to the transformation of Latin America's systems of justice following the end of the colonial period. In the decades following Latin American...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781801512176Author Oliver WhelanFormat 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 9781493095841Author Lenore SkomalFormat PaperbackPage Count 260Imprint Globe Pequot PressPublisher Globe Pequot Press

The End of Violence focuses on General Jacques Paris de Bollardiere, who transformed from a rising star in the French army into a stalwart of nonviolence. In 1957, de Bollardiere abruptly left his command in Algeria out of a refusal to countenance...

The Unorthodox offers a new history of Ukraine's and Russia's Protestant communities, from the religious resurgence of World War II through four decades of the Cold War. The subject of bureaucratic reports, sensationalist newspaper stories, and court...

Reds, Revolutions, and Rebellions investigates how insurgent strategies from three revolutionary states - Mao's China, Guevara's Cuba, and Ho Chi Minh's Vietnam - shaped the tactics of armed movements across the Global South. The afterlife of...

After Belsen reveals the deeply personal ways in which British and American Christians responded to and were affected by survivors of the Holocaust in the years immediately following the liberation of concentration camps. British and American...

Circulating Subjects investigates the migration of women abroad for sex work from the 1880s through the 1930s, which Russian feminists, liberal jurists, and imperial bureaucrats worked together to define and criminalize as "white slavery." As Circulating...

While interconnections between humanitarian actors and military operations are a pervasive feature of contemporary conflicts around the globe today, Military Humanitarianism challenges the idea that these interactions are a recent phenomenon. Instead,...

Abraham Lincoln's faith has commanded more broad-based attention than that of any other American president. Although he never joined a denomination, Baptists, Presbyterians, Quakers, Episcopalians, Disciples of Christ, Spiritualists, Jews, and even...

This book summarizes the academic biography of most influential Neo-Confucian philosopher Wang Yangming's life in Ming dynasty of China. It gives a detailed description of Wang Yangming's life and career, as well as to makes attention points of research...

'A thrilling story, wonderfully told by one of the great historians' KEN FOLLETT'Dazzling... This is biography of great brilliance and rare resonance' WILLIAM DALRYMPLE'A pulsating, vivid life of a true historical titan' DAN JONES'A splendid book,...

Catholicism and Elizabethan Seafaring is the first study to focus on Elizabethan Catholic seafarers who participated in the Anglo-Spanish conflicts. It demonstrates that Catholic identities persisted among English sailors operating between England and...

From the celebrated magazine of international writing, twelve sharp global perspectives on a changing United States, with an introduction by the Dial's editor in chief, Madeleine SchwartzThe 2024 U.S. presidential election reverberated internationally, a...

A completely revised and updated handbook of eye-opening-and frequently myth-busting-facts and figures about the real lives of Black Americans today, called "a gift of knowledge" by Susan Taylor, former editor-in-chief of Essence magazine There's no...

How the role of the Speaker of the House evolved amid power struggles and conflict in the early American Congress.The Speaker of the House occupies a central place in American political life, yet the office's authority has never been fixed or inevitable...

A true pivotal moment in American history, the Louisiana Purchase redefined the boundaries of the United States and recharted the course of its history. The story behind it transcends borders The United States bought the Louisiana Territory from...

An unforgettable story of survival and resilience in the death camps of World War II.A miracle unfolded on October 9, 1944, at Auschwitz. Amidst the gas chambers and crematoria, a ragtag group of Jewish boys, aged thirteen to seventeen, were marched...

How the Odyssey illuminates the two sides of the American mind, from one of our most influential cultural commentators.The Odyssey is among the oldest-known written works. Yet it is somehow profoundly contemporary. Its themes are inescapably human: the...

Discover how artists across the centuries have explored the unexplainable, documented the impossible and illuminated the dark unknown. What lurks at the edges of human perception? Across time and cultures, artists have found themselves drawn to document...

The surprising story of how the plain black suit became a symbol of masculinity, democracy, and modernity. How did black suits become so ubiquitous? Why has men's business clothing been so plain for the last 250 years? How did a style adopted by the...

From the accidental to the purposeful, the innocent to the brazen, discover all the ways famous artists have begged and borrowed their way to greatness. 'Good artists borrow, great artists steal.' - Pablo Picasso The great masters of art earned their...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788419898432Author Miguel ngel SauraFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Editorial el PirataPublisher Editorial el PirataWeight(grams) 322gDimensions(mm)...

The sauces we eat evoke emotions, define our meals, direct our conversations over those meals, and influence the way we think about ourselves and each other. Sauces, through their consumption and rejection, create bonds between peoples and distinguish...

The Sumerians are widely believed to have created the world's earliest civilization on the fertile floodplains of southern Iraq from about 3500 to 2000 BC. They have been credited with inventions no lesser than cities, writing and the wheel, and...

Migration requires constant re-evaluation and compromise, and since 1950 the migration landscape has undergone significant change. Government migration policies, the end of Empire, a global migrant pool and improved transport and communication links have...

Visualising Women in Late Antiquity examines depictions of contemporary women in the late antique Mediterranean as a rich source for social history. Most histories of women in this period focus on the copious surviving textual sources, the majority of...

The Ottoman Empire long used flexible administrative arrangements to govern its vast domains. Starting in the 1830s, however, European intervention in Ottoman affairs resulted in the emergence of a new type of negotiated province. The "privileged...

An extraordinary historical journey through England. From Alice Loxton, author of the acclaimed bestseller EighteenA Waterstones Best History Book of 2025'Joyous. The perfect walk through history' - Sir Tony Robinson, actor, presenter and...

The Ottoman Empire long used flexible administrative arrangements to govern its vast domains. Starting in the 1830s, however, European intervention in Ottoman affairs resulted in the emergence of a new type of negotiated province. The "privileged...

Should willingness to kill be a requirement for U.S. citizenship?Girl Without a Country tells the compelling, confounding story of Martha Graber-a Mennonite, registered nurse, and conscientious objector who in 1929 was twice denied citizenship because...

One of The Guardian's Best New Children's Books for Summer 2018.Longlisted for the North Somerset Teachers' Book Award.Instead of just studying history, let's think about HerStory too! In this uplifting and inspiring book, now released in a stunning new...

A HISTORY TODAY BOOK OF THE YEARFew cities in the world are as famous as Liverpool, the home of the modern world's most celebrated rock group and of a legendary football team.The city is equally notorious for its poverty, its ethnic and racial divides...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781476699462Author Ken LizzioFormat PaperbackPage Count 191Imprint McFarland & Co IncPublisher McFarland & Co Inc

The thirteenth-century manuscript The Chronicles of the Kings of Man and the Isles is the earliest surviving piece of historical documentation from the Isle of Man and a uniquely important source describing the rise and fall of the medieval Kingdom of...