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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9786255888792Author Yakoob AhmedFormat PaperbackPage Count 360Imprint Ketebe PublishingPublisher Ketebe Publishing

Borderline bodies offers original interpretations of visual representations of human bodies as bounded and unbounded, fortified and permeable, mobile and static-subject to borders and able to traverse and challenge them. It also takes as its focus images...

At the start of the American War of Independence, Great Britain dominated overseas commerce and was the leading slave-trading nation in the world. In 1776, American privateers-privately owned ships granted commissions by the Continental Congress to...

The North African scholar Muhammad ibn Yusuf al-Sanusi (1436-90), from Tlemcen, present-day Algeria, was one of the most influential theologians and logicians in the Islamic tradition. al-Sanusi's theological works were wildly popular in large areas of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781967673001Author Julian CobbingFormat PaperbackPage Count 285Imprint Catalyst CollectivePublisher Catalyst Collective

This volume in The Medieval Globe book series explores a fundamental problem of European historiography within a global context: the history of medieval nations and the question of their relationship to modern nation-states. Focusing on the emerging or...

This book presents an exhaustive analytical history of the great Spanish publishing house Editorial Gustavo Gili, specifically the scientific and technological works in its catalogue that were published during the years of the Franco regime. The history...

Bursting with fun would-you-rather questions and fascinating facts about capybaras to keep kids busy and for family fun. Would you rather your fingers never stopped growing OR your teeth never stopped growing? ...

Collects critical essays by the author of Making the Second Ghetto. Arnold R. Hirsch (1949-2018) was one of the preeminent urban historians of his generation, a reputation cemented by his landmark book, Making the Second Ghetto. With compelling...

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Scotland's diaspora, reframed through the Dutch East Indies: the intertwined lives of Highland lairds, Islay farmers and metropolitan merchants who built fortunes, and families, on the island of Java. A vivid group portrait of Scots who embedded...

In the 1848-1867 period, the Habsburg Adriatic was contended by incipient nationalisms, particularly the Italian, German, and South Slavic. The Fight for a Supranational World focuses on Trieste, Fiume/Rijeka, and Dalmatia, where opposing nationalisms...

In the 1848-1867 period, the Habsburg Adriatic was contended by incipient nationalisms, particularly the Italian, German, and South Slavic. The Fight for a Supranational World focuses on Trieste, Fiume/Rijeka, and Dalmatia, where opposing nationalisms...

Jean Morrison, Ruth McKenzie, Harriet Rouillard, Isabel Wilson, and Clare Clark were among the many intellectual women contributing to the birth and growth of the Canadian Association for Adult Education, which was transformative for literacy in the...

Never before has the disturbing story of blackface and its piercing reflection of American society been so comprehensively told. Darkology meticulously unravels this complex, subterranean and all-too-often expunged history. By 1830, blackface, which...

Jean Morrison, Ruth McKenzie, Harriet Rouillard, Isabel Wilson, and Clare Clark were among the many intellectual women contributing to the birth and growth of the Canadian Association for Adult Education, which was transformative for literacy in the...

When the hum of engines could be heard over the skies of London on 7 September 1940, it was the start of an onslaught that would push Britain to the brink. The Blitz had begun, and as aircraft went up against aircraft, there was a fight for the nation...

A remarkable exploration of Chicago's architectural history through the humble brick. By the late 1920s, at its peak of brick making and consumption, Chicago was making over a billion bricks a year for its buildings and importing almost another billion...

A collection of essays grappling with the many, often overlooked, forms of unfree labor in the WestBook InformationISBN 9781477333457Author Jessica R. PlileyFormat HardbackPage Count 280Imprint University of Texas PressPublisher University of Texas...

Aristotle Kallis uses comparative analysis in Fascism and Iconoclasm to demonstrate that fascists were supreme icon-lovers even as they were consummate icon-breakers. Kallis shows that Iconoclasm - the wilful destruction of icons - was a core feature of...

The Lowest Freedom is an intellectual history of how economic dispossession shaped the meaning of freedom in Black thought from antebellum abolitionism to the rise of Jim Crow.

The first ever comprehensive history in English of China's Warring States period, an era that saw epic battles, the birth of profound philosophies, groundbreaking innovations, and shaped much of East Asian culture as we know it today In 481 BCE,...

The hundred years that began with the Great Exhibition of 1851 and ended with the Festival of Britain in 1951 was a period of remarkable progress in science and technology. First published in 1951, A Century of Technology focuses on technology-the...

Christ's war examines Carolingian holy war from the forging of their empire in the eighth century to its dissolution in the late ninth century during the Northmen's attacks. It argues that the Franks understood their wars to be holy when their soldiers...

The Lowest Freedom is an intellectual history of how economic dispossession shaped the meaning of freedom in Black thought from antebellum abolitionism to the rise of Jim Crow.

Thomas Ward examines Inca Garcilaso de la Vega's seventeenth-century work and how it influenced post-independence Peruvian literature in the nineteenth century. As literati struggled to define their fledgling Peruvian Republic, they found inspiration in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781496237811Author David Andrew NicholsFormat HardbackPage Count 250Imprint University of Nebraska PressPublisher University of Nebraska Press

An accessible and hugely popular history of art explained through many of the world's most famous masterpieces. Written by an international team of artists, art historians and curators, this absorbing and beautiful book gives readers unparalleled...

Texas history is often recounted through tales of revolution, oil booms, and cattle drives. But what if we considered a different lens-one shaped by wind and wildfire, rivers and drought, grasslands and pine forests? Nature and Place in Texas reimagines...

The Untold Story of South Carolina's Pivotal Role in the American RevolutionAbout the AuthorCarl P. Borick is Director of the Charleston Museum in Charleston, South Carolina, and the author of Relieve Us of This Burthen: American Prisoners of War in the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781496244307Author Susie S. PorterFormat HardbackPage Count 316Imprint University of Nebraska PressPublisher University of Nebraska Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916672192Author Lucy H. PearceFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint Womancraft PublishingPublisher Womancraft Publishing

Explores how anticolonial movements in South Africa enabled enduring inequality through the rise of privileged minorities and exclusive economic advantagesIn Privileged Minorities, Mesrob Vartavarian examines a central paradox in South African history:...

The preeminent historians of the founding era speak their mind on the anniversary of the United States' birth In these powerful and personal essays, some of the most celebrated historians of the American Revolutionary era reflect on the meaning of 1776...

This is the first book to explore the history of ancient Greek and Roman influences and reception in England's North East, topics which have often transcended social boundaries dictated by working identity, class, religion, gender, and ethnicity...

An illustrated history of the motor torpedo boats of Italy's fast coastal forces, from their raids on enemy battleships in World War I to the dashing campaigns of World War II. The confined seas around Italy made fast torpedo boats particularly suitable...

In this collection of essays, James Howard-Johnston evaluates historical sources from across the entire existence of the Byzantine empire. Byzantium was peculiarly well endowed for the writing of history, given a relatively high degree of literacy, a...

Fully illustrated, this study examines the US Army and Japanese troops who fought for control of the Philippine Islands in the climactic months of World War II. In October 1944 the Sixth US Army landed on Leyte in the Japanese-held Central Philippine...

An in-depth look at the battle that saw the American Overmountain Men come together and defeat the British Loyalist army, turning the tide of the war.By 1780, the British strategy of subduing the South by mobilizing Loyalist forces appeared to be working...

In Retracing the Dragoon Trail in Iowa, historian Kevin T. Mason presents a vivid and deeply researched account of Iowa's evolving landscape, beginning with the 1835 expedition of the First U.S. Dragoons. Drawing from archival records, maps, government...