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The University of South Carolina Trivia Book by Elizabeth Cassidy West 9781493074495
RRP: £17.99£13.33The University of South Carolina Trivia Book features a wealth of new and recent facts, with over 700 questions (with answers) and quotations spanning more than two centuries of USC history, from the fun to the significant, the bizarre to the informative... -
Six Air Forces Over the Atlantic: How the Allies Won the Battle of the Atlantic from the Air by Col. Joseph T. Molyson, Jr. (RET) 9780811775366
RRP: £30.00£21.58The Battle of the Atlantic was the longest campaign of World War II, lasting the entirety of the war in Europe from September 1939 to May 1945. It was also one of the war’s most complex campaigns, involving strategy, operations, tactics, logistics,... -
Devour by Jazmine Joyner 9781419763069
RRP: £17.99£12.86In this horror graphic novel, American Gods meets Get Out in a dark retelling of the West African legend of Anansi the SpiderIn the Deep South, something evil waits in the darkness . . . This horror graphic novel tells the story of the Turner family, who... -
Left for Dead: Shipwreck, Treachery, and Survival at the Edge of the World by Eric Jay Dolin 9781324093084
RRP: £23.99£19.95The best-selling author of Black Flags, Blue Waters tells the story of a wild encounter between an American sealing vessel, a shipwrecked British brig and a British warship in the Falkland Islands during the War of 1812. Fraught with misunderstandings... -
Victory at Sea: Naval Power and the Transformation of the Global Order in World War II by Paul Kennedy 9780300276787
RRP: £18.99£16.18A sweeping, lavishly illustrated one-volume history of the rise of American naval power during World War II “When he is at his best, as he often is in these pages, Kennedy can be dazzling.”—Ian W. Toll, New York Times “The book makes for enjoyable... -
Hebrew Union College Annual Vol. 94 (2023) by Jason Kalman 9780878202300
£101.80Hebrew Union College Annual is the flagship journal of Hebrew Union College Press and the primary face of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion to the academic world. From its inception in 1924, its goal has been to cultivate Jewish learning... -
Longing for Connection: Entangled Memories and Emotional Loss in Early America by Andrew Burstein 9781421448305
RRP: £29.00£22.70Untangling the private feelings, ambitions, and fears of early Americans through their personal writings from the Revolution to the Civil War.Modern readers of history and biography unite around a seemingly straightforward question: What did it feel like... -
The Princeton University Trivia Book by Helene van Rossum 9781493074303
RRP: £17.99£13.33The unofficial guide to the home of the Tigers! The Princeton University Trivia Book features a wealth of historic and recent facts, with over 650 questions (with answers!) and quotations spanning nearly three centuries of Princeton history, ranging from... -
The Official U.S. Army Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear Operations Field Manual by Department of the Army 9781493084326
RRP: £14.99£11.26The Official U.S. Army Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear Operations Field Manual is the newest edition of this critical U.S. Army field manual about the nuclear, chemical, and biological threats to our military members and civilians and... -
My Presidential Life: The Showdown at Putin's Dacha and Other Misadventures on the Diplomatic Road by Judd Swift 9781493081486
RRP: £25.00£15.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781493081486Author Judd SwiftFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint The Lyons PressPublisher Rowman & Littlefield -
American Eagles: A History of the United States Air Force Featuring the Collection of the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force by Daniel Patterson 9781493072958
RRP: £58.00£41.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781493072958Author Daniel PattersonFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint The Lyons PressPublisher Rowman & Littlefield -
The University of Central Florida Trivia Book by Mary A. Rubin 9781493075515
RRP: £17.99£13.33The unofficial guide to the home of the Knights! The University of Central Florida Trivia Book features a wealth of new and recent facts, with over 650 questions (with answers!) and quotations spanning more than six decades of UCF history, ranging from... -
Frontline Bodies: Sports and Black Struggles for Justice since the Late Nineteenth Century by Nicolas Martin-Breteau 9781421448640
RRP: £50.00£48.25A captivating exploration of Black American civil rights activism through the lens of sport.In Frontline Bodies, Nicolas Martin-Breteau argues that sports are not—and have never been—purely about entertainment for Black Americans. Instead, beginning in... -
Poisoning the Pacific: The US Military's Secret Dumping of Plutonium, Chemical Weapons, and Agent Orange by Jon Mitchell 9781538189290
RRP: £14.99£11.26For decades, US military operations have been contaminating the Pacific region with toxic substances, including plutonium, dioxin, and VX nerve agent. Hundreds of thousands of service members, their families, and residents have been exposed—but the... -
The Amusement Park at Sloan's Lake: The Lost History of Denver's Manhattan Beach by David Forsyth 9781493076970
RRP: £18.99£14.00Sloan’s Lake had a long history of entertaining Denver residents with boating, fishing, swimming, and a steamboat canal built in the 1870s. In 1890, Adam Graff and his partners opened a new park on the shore of Sloan’s Lake that would eventually become... -
F.D. Ascoli: Early Revenue History of Bengal and The Fifth Report, 1812 by Ananda Bhattacharyya 9781032654607
RRP: £39.99£35.46Early Revenue History of Bengal and the Fifth Report, 1812 was the outcome of a series of four lectures delivered at the Dacca College by the distinguished Bengali civil servant, F.D. Ascoli. It embodies the text of the Fifth Report on the affairs of the... -
The Southern Silk Route: Historical Links and Contemporary Convergences by Lipi Ghosh 9781032654539
RRP: £39.99£35.46Southern Silk Route is the historic route, which runs from China to Myanmar and ends up in Assam. The route has historical importance as it served as a major artery of ancient trade articles. The Southern Silk Route: Historical Links and Contemporary... -
F.D. Ascoli: A Revenue History of the Sundarbans: From 1870 to 1920 by Ananda Bhattacharya 9781032654485
RRP: £39.99£35.46Frank David Ascoli’s Revenue History of Sundarbans during the Period 1870- 1920 looks at the area bounded on the north by the limits of Permanent Settlement in 24-Parganas, Khulna and Bakarganj districts and on the south by the sea face stretching from... -
Frederick Eden Pargiter: A Revenue History of the Sundarbans from 1765 to 1870 by Ananda Bhattacharyya 9781032654423
RRP: £39.99£35.46The Sundarban stretches from the brackish waters of the broad Hooghly on the west, to the fresh waters of the still broader Meghna to the east; the turbid waters of the Bay of Bengal on its southern limits, to the zamindari or pargana lands on its... -
The Making of Medieval Panjab: Politics, Society and Culture c. 1000–c. 1500 by Surinder Singh 9781032654409
RRP: £39.99£36.06This book seeks to reconstruct the past of undivided Panjab during five medieval centuries. It opens with a narrative of the efforts of Turkish warlords to achieve control in the face of tribal resistance, internal dissensions and external invasions. It... -
The Indian Army in World War I, 1914-1918 by Ian Cardozo 9781032654034
RRP: £39.99£35.46This volume recounts India’s contribution to World War I.Please note: Taylor & Francis does not sell or distribute the Hardback in India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Sri LankaBook InformationISBN 9781032654034Author Ian CardozoFormat... -
Gallant Haryana: The First and Crucial Battlefield of AD 1857 by C.B. Singh Sheoran 9781032654027
RRP: £39.99£36.06The book contains a narrative of the events of the first Indian war of Independence (1857-60) in modern Haryana and surrounding areas in a chronological order derived from hitherto untouched sources such as original and first-hand reports of the British... -
Studies in Indo-Muslim History by S.H. Hodivala Volume I: A Critical Commentary on Elliot and Dowson’s History of India as Told by Its Own Historians (Vols. I-IV) & Yule and Burnell’s Hobson-Jobson by Sanjay Garg 9781032653587
RRP: £39.99£36.06In the field of medieval Indian historiography, an eight-volume magnum opus, History of India as Told by Its Own Historians, by Sir Henry Myers Elliot (1808-53) and the editor-compiler of his posthumous papers, John Dowson (1820-81), was published from... -
Gandhi and the Nobel Peace Prize by Rajinder Singh 9781032653242
RRP: £39.99£35.06The Nobel Prize, according to the will of its founder Alfred Nobel, are awarded to persons for their services in the field of chemistry, physics, medicine and physiology, literature and peace. The Economic Sciences Prize was introduced by the Swedish... -
Towards a Ceasefire in Kashmir: British Official Reports from South Asia, 18 September – 31 December 1948 by Lionel Carter 9781032653235
RRP: £39.99£36.06The central theme of this volume is deteriorating India-Pakistan relations. It opens in the aftermath of the Indian takeover of Hyderabad. This had been accomplished so rapidly that there was a widespread feeling in Pakistan that their country would be... -
The Autobiography of a Revolutionary in British India by Kali Ghosh 9781032653044
RRP: £39.99£35.06This is a fascinating autobiography set before the partition of the subcontinent. Kali Prasad Ghosh belonged to a zamindar or landed family in Bengal. He joined the Congress movement and later, in the 1920s, became more radical. He was brought up as an... -
Windows into a Revolution: Ethnographies of Maoism in India and Nepal by Alpa Shah 9781032653013
RRP: £39.99£35.46Windows into a Revolution edited by Alpa Shah and Judith Pettigrew, the first book in the series offers glimpses into the spread of Maoism in India and Nepal by tracing some of its effects on the lives of ordinary people living amidst the revolutions... -
The Year of Blood: Essays on the Revolt of 1857 by Rudrangshu Mukherjee 9781032652962
RRP: £39.99£35.06Rudrangshu Mukherjee places the ‘soldier-peasant’ at the forefront of the Revolt. Violence has rarely been described with so much realism and subtlety. The imaginative use of primary source materials adds clarity to accounts such as the massacre in... -
The Sundarbans: Folk Deities, Monsters and Mortals by Sutapa Chatterjee Sarkar 9781032652931
RRP: £39.99£35.06The book is about the colonization of the Sunderbans that began with the coming of the British. For two centuries, land-hungry peasants strove to transform the tidal forest vegetation into an agro- ecosystem dominated by paddy fields and fish culture... -
Calcutta: The Stormy Decades by Tanika Sarkar 9781032652856
RRP: £39.99£35.46Politics and culture are organically related in the city of Calcutta. The period (1940s to 1950s), was chaotic and turbulent, yet, this was also a time of significant creativity in literature, art, films and music in the city. This is an unusual feature... -
Gandhi’s Battlefield Choice: The Mahatma, The Bhagavad Gita, and World War II by Francis G. Hutchins 9781032652818
RRP: £39.99£35.06This much anticipated volume compares and contrasts Gandhi’s non-violent leadership during World War II to the military leadership of Arjuna in the war that prompted the Bhagavad Gita dialogue, the Sanskrit text that guided Gandhi’s actions throughout... -
Much Ado Over Coffee: Indian Coffee House Then And Now by Bhaswati Bhattacharya 9781032652771
RRP: £39.99£35.46Based on oral history, fiction, fascinating intellectual gossip, and records of the Coffee Board of India, this study is a multi-sited ethnography of the Indian Coffee House, possibly the world’s first coffee house chain. It offers a critical analysis of... -
An Outline of the Aryan Civilization by R.N. Nandi 9781032652689
RRP: £39.99£35.06In a first of its kind, this book attempts a comprehensive account of the old Vedic society with particular focus on the physical conditions of life during the Bronze Age in north western South Asia. Based primarily on textual evidence, the narrative... -
Transaction and Hierarchy: Elements for a Theory of Caste by Harald Tambs-Lyche 9781032652658
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The Intellectual Roots of India’s Freedom Struggle (1893-1918) by Prithwindra Mukherjee 9781032652641
RRP: £39.99£35.46Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Ascent of John Company: From Traders to Rulers (1756-1787) by G.S. Cheema 9781032652603
RRP: £39.99£35.46The Ascent of John Company is the story of the founding of the British empire in India. The process of founding empires is rarely, if ever, edifying. It is invariably a sordid story of brutality and violence, tempered to some extent by blatant lies,... -
Mughal Administration and the Zamindars of Bihar by Tahir Hussain Ansari 9781032654133
RRP: £39.99£35.46The volume provides a complex portrait of the chieftains of Bihar and their relationship with the Mughal Empire as well as their role in the consolidation and expansion of the Mughal Empire in India. Please note: Taylor & Francis does not sell or... -
‘Be Clear Kashmir will Vote for India’ Jammu & Kashmir 1947-1953: Reporting the Contemporary Understanding of the Unreported by Raghuvendra Tanwar 9781032654058
RRP: £39.99£35.46The central point that this volume makes is that much of what happened in Jammu & Kashmir in the critical first few years (1947-53) needs a more careful reassessment. It is argued that there were little voices of ordinary people that should have been... -
From Popular Movements to Rebellion: The Naxalite Decade by Ranabir Samaddar 9781032653686
RRP: £39.99£36.06From Popular Movements to Rebellion: The Naxalite Decade argues that without an understanding of the popular sources of the rebellion of that time, the age of the Naxalite revolt will remain beyond our understanding. Many of the chapters of the book... -
The Sikh Minority and the Partition of the Punjab 1920-1947 by Chhanda Chatterjee 9781032653655
RRP: £39.99£35.06Guru Nanak had gifted the Sikhs with an ideology. Guru Angad had given them the Gurmukhi script. Guru Arjan Dev coalesced the hymns authored or collected by the Gurus and made them a people of the book. Guru Govind Rai created the Khalsa identity with...