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Describes the relationship between economic and novelistic form within the period 1900-1934 by way of major novels by Kafka, Thomas Mann, Brecht, B. Traven, OEdoen von Horvath, and Vicki Baum. One of the most pressing problems facing literary...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788857254807Author Oceane SaillyFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint SkiraPublisher Skira

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789815323085Author David GuerreroFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Penguin Random House SEAPublisher Penguin Random House SEAWeight(grams)...

2025 Readers' Favorite Book Awards Gold Medal-winner A breakneck adventure of war, romance, and politics in the golden age of piracy.Captain William Kidd stands as one of the most notorious "pirate" outlaws ever, but his legend is tainted by a bed of...

Study of the Norman World's borders, frontiers, and boundaries in Europe, shedding fresh light on their nature and extent. The Normans exerted great influence across Christendom and beyond in the eleventh and twelfth centuries. Figures like William...

A close analysis of forgeries and historical writings at Saint Peter's, Ghent; Saint-Denis near Paris; and Christ Church, Canterbury, offering valuable access to why medieval people often rewrote their pasts. What modern scholars call "forgeries" (be...

In Senorita Telefonista Susie S. Porter recounts the dynamic role of telephone operators in labor organizing in early twentieth-century Mexico City, taking us from switchboards to union halls and into the streets as working women fought for better wages...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780811778596Author Lee VetterFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Stackpole BooksPublisher Stackpole Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780811778350Author Lee VetterFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Stackpole BooksPublisher Stackpole Books

In its second edition, this book provides a comprehensive Indigenous perspective on Latin American political, social, and economic changes from pre-colonization to the present.Set within a postcolonial framework and enhanced by interdisciplinary insights...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982196295Author Victoria JohnsonFormat HardbackPage Count 448Imprint Free PressPublisher Simon & Schuster LtdWeight(grams) 617gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Just a year after the town of Borger, Texas was founded, the press called it "the wickedest in the state' for good reason. The town, sprung into existence overnight to support the oilfields, had become a lawless haven for bootleggers, pimps and gamblers,...

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Diodoros of Sicily (c.90-c.30 BC) spent thirty years producing an encyclopedic compendium of world history from its mythical beginnings to his own day. His is the only surviving, connected account of Greek affairs from 480/79 to 302/1. The books...

Diodoros of Sicily (c.90-c.30 BC) spent thirty years producing an encyclopedic compendium of world history from its mythical beginnings to his own day. His is the only surviving, connected account of Greek affairs from 480/79 to 302/1. The books...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781668214541Author Michael AuslinFormat HardbackPage Count 368Imprint Avid Reader Press / Simon & SchusterPublisher Avid Reader Press / Simon &...

Born into slavery in St. Louis in 1806, Jeffrey Deroine (de-rō-NAY) worked and lived in the heart of a rapidly changing nation. Forced to work in the fur trade on the Missouri River, he experienced Missouri’s rapid transformation from territory to...

It has been called the year that changed everything, the postwar watershed in which the forces that shaped public and private life erupted, everywhere and all at once--New York, Paris, Prague, Mexico City. Beginning with the Tet Offensive in Vietnam in...

A comprehensive overview of the British army in Ireland in the eighteenth century and the army's relationship with the local population. The eighteenth-century army in Ireland, which consisted of 12,000 to 15,000 men, and which was its own...

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William and Benjamin Frank joined the Second Rhode Island Regiment in the spring of 1777, following the tradition of military service established by their father, a veteran of the French and Indian War. The brothers became part of a cohort of free Black...

In December 1987, UNESCO bestowed its greatest honour on Bath when it declared the city a World Heritage Site for its outstanding cultural heritage - including its natural thermal spa waters - and landscape setting. Bath was one of the first ten sites to...

Taking the most existential question, ‘What is the Meaning of Life?’, this publication dissects creative expression, considers the place for frivolity, and unpacks the rhythms and rules of the everyday to address how we might live more meaningfully. In...

An eye-witness account from two key figures in Liberia’s struggle with colonial threats and the political, economic, and social changes of five presidential terms of the time of the author.Chronicling Liberian politics and presidential administrations...

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An eye-witness account from two key figures in Liberia’s struggle with colonial threats and the political, economic, and social changes of five presidential terms of the time of the author.Chronicling Liberian politics and presidential administrations...

Edward Schröder Prior (1852-1932) is not easily labelled. His reputation as an Arts and Crafts architect is well-earned but his output is much broader and more complex, offering a fascinating window into the debates surrounding English architectural and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781834050324Author Hassan KanafaniFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Arsenal Pulp PressPublisher Arsenal Pulp Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781493098378Author Garrett RyanFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Globe Pequot PressPublisher Globe Pequot Press

This book provides the first comprehensive work that examines the intellectual impact of New English narratives about Indigenous peoples, colonization, and the cultural influence they had in the northeastern United States.By examining works that aided in...

Public History, Gender, and Power in Latin American Museums brings together pioneering voices of women curators, museum professionals, and community leaders who are transforming the cultural landscape of Latin America.Through first-hand testimonies and...

A teacher and minister, Thomas Bog Slade, was a prominent advocate for education regardless of gender or class in nineteenth-century Georgia, altering the lives of many and the future of the state.Thomas Bog Slade was one of the most important reformers...

This book is the first systematic study examining depictions of Roman Britain in fictional film and television, exploring the varying interpretations of the rich history and myths that emerge from the clash of cultures between Romans and Britons.The book...

Classical Athenian democracy is rightly famous but democracy flourished in other parts of the Greek world as well. In this clear and fascinating book, Matthew Simonton traces the emergence, growth, consolidation and decline of democratic city-states over...

Europe, 1940. Nazi forces sweep across the continent, with a British invasion likely only weeks away. Never before has a resistance movement been so crucial to the war effort. In this comprehensive appraisal of Anglo-Norwegian cooperation in the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788857254173Author Sara SalvadoriFormat HardbackPage Count 244Imprint SkiraPublisher SkiraWeight(grams) 1780g

A new history of Brazil told through the lens of the often-overlooked interior regions. In colonial Brazil, observers frequently complained that Portuguese settlers appeared content to remain “clinging to the coastline, like crabs.” From their...

Classical Athenian democracy is rightly famous but democracy flourished in other parts of the Greek world as well. In this clear and fascinating book, Matthew Simonton traces the emergence, growth, consolidation and decline of democratic city-states over...

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