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Arctic explorer and American visionary Walter Wellman pioneered both polar and trans-Atlantic airship aviation, making history's first attempts at each. Wellman has been cast as a self-promoting egomaniac known mostly for his failures. Instead he was a...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501780653Author Andrew N. BuchananFormat HardbackPage Count 402Imprint Cornell University PressPublisher Cornell University Press

On a sunny day, men and women march through the streets wearing orange collarettes and carrying colourful banners. However, this is not the Orange Order in Northern Ireland but the same organisation in Africa. This book moves beyond the cliche to delve...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798881807740Author Peter V N HendersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Rowman & Littlefield PublishersPublisher Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

This open access book explores how Italy experienced the crucial period of transition that has come to be known as the 'Shock of the Global' during the 1970s. This decade marked a change between the prevailing socio-political and economic structures of...

In this unique book, His Holiness the Dalai Lama tells the full story of his 75-year struggle with China to save Tibet and its people. The Dalai Lama has had to contend with the People's Republic of China his entire life. He was 15 years old...

Good Trouble will show the strong connection between the Black Civil Rights Movement in the United States and the Catholic Civil Rights Movement in Northern Ireland - specifically the influence of the Montgomery to Selma march on the 1969 Belfast to...

Good Trouble will show the strong connection between the Black Civil Rights Movement in the United States and the Catholic Civil Rights Movement in Northern Ireland - specifically the influence of the Montgomery to Selma march on the 1969 Belfast to...

An original analysis of the relationship between slavery and the labor movement in the late-nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. During the rise of the labor movement in the late nineteenth century, why were American workers unable to organize...

Walking the Footsteps of a Forgotten Revolution details the bold and audacious insurrection in the opening phase of the German Revolution of 1848-1849. Friedrich Hecker, the most gifted young politician of his day, attempted to lead a group of rebels...

Louis XIII's court has long been a feature of the popular imaginary, thanks in part to the many movie and TV adaptations of Alexandre Dumas' novel The Three Musketeers. Yet it remains misunderstood, commonly mischaracterised as weak, unimportant, or...

In the early twentieth century, as the multiethnic Qing empire transformed into the Republican Chinese nation-state, Chinese Muslims faced new challenges, confronting competing visions of nation-building, religion, secularism, democracy, and modernity...

In the early twentieth century, as the multiethnic Qing empire transformed into the Republican Chinese nation-state, Chinese Muslims faced new challenges, confronting competing visions of nation-building, religion, secularism, democracy, and modernity...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789888876853Author Yoshiko NakanoFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Hong Kong University PressPublisher Hong Kong University Press

The origins of the Teutonic Order are poorly illuminated by sources. These sources are late and unreliable. The history of the order was reconstructed by tracing the evolution of its statutes and comparing the results of these studies with papal,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789888876761Author Ruth Mandujano LopezFormat HardbackPage Count 212Imprint Hong Kong University PressPublisher Hong Kong University Press

Who organized numerous exhibitions of American art in the Cold War Soviet Union - and why? Did Americans truly want to "subvert" the Soviet regime with abstraction, and were the Soviets really "afraid" of non-figurative art? And, most noteworthy, can we...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780774870368Author Yihong PanFormat PaperbackPage Count 282Imprint University of British Columbia PressPublisher University of British Columbia...

The temperature was 40 degrees below zero when fighter planes screamed out of the clouds, puncturing the fuselage with a spray of machinegun fire and sending the bomber beside them into a death spin. This was followed by intense flak, as a hundred...

This book sets out to explore how the Romans appropriated the Hellenistic concept of a complete library collection. Tracing this idea in the Roman world allows us to reconstruct the discourse on cultural transmission between Greece and Rome. The model of...

This book examines so far unused or relatively underused primary sources, investigates secondary resources and engages with the existing literature that deals with immigration but is not focused on attitudes nor always covers the entire period after 1921...

Faith of the Fathers provides a captivating collective biography of the Catholic priests who served in America's most deadly war. Faith of the Fathers brings to light the forgotten stories of courageous chaplains whose commitments to faith and to men at...

A history with surprising new revelations about the depths of government surveillance and constitutional rights abuses In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, anarchist and socialist political movements spurred the expansion of nascent US federal...

A pictorial guide to Akagi and Kaga, two early Japanese aircraft carriers that were sunk at the Battle of Midway. Akagi and Kaga were the second and third aircraft carriers to enter service with the Imperial Japanese Navy. Akagi was initially...

How an event once considered the greatest of all political dangers came to be seen as a solution to all social problemsPolitical thinkers from Plato to John Adams saw revolutions as a grave threat to society and advocated for a constitution that...

Willy Meisl was an Austrian-Jewish sports journalist who dominated the field during the Weimar Republic. A son of Viennese coffee houses, Meisl intellectualised sports writing in the interwar years, covering themes like professionalism, tactics and...

Reformatting Agrarian Life presents a stealth urban history from the countryside that foregrounds the mutual entanglements of agrarian and urban expertise. Will Glover traces an essential genealogy for understanding how urbanism unexpectedly left the...

Assessing the role Jews played in Germany’s political and legal history remains a subject of debate. Traditional scholarship’s focus on Jews as objects of state-orchestrated violence and antisemitic discrimination often only risks disempowering them...

A concise pictorial guide to the F-4 Phantom, featuring over 200 images. The McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II first flew in the 1950s, entered US military service in the 1960s, and remained on duty into the 1990s. The plane gained a reputation for...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781626401334Author Arnold HylenFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint Angel City Press,U.S.Publisher Angel City Press,U.S.

In July 1936 a military revolt brought civil war to Spain; it erupted into a bitter political contest and a brutal land war which have been well covered by historians - a less appreciated dimension of the conflict was the crucial role played by the...

From 1939 to 1945, units of The King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry were involved in some of the fiercest battles of the Second World War. From the snowy wastes of Scandinavia to the deserts of North Africa, and from the mountains of Italy to the...

Fifteen years since the publication of its second edition, this foundational text in Arab-Israeli peace studies has been updated to include developments from the first two decades of the twenty-first century.Thoroughly revised and expanded, the third...

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