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In Caribbean Blood Pacts, Aaron Coy Moulton argues that the CIA's Operations PBFORTUNE and PBSUCCESS derived from the longstanding efforts of dictators, reactionaries, the United Fruit Company, and British intelligence to silence calls for antifascism...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781644215081Author Aric McBayFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Seven Stories Press,U.S.Publisher Seven Stories Press,U.S.

A People's History of Portugal reconstructs the last two hundred years of class struggle in Portugal. Raquel Varela and Roberto della Santa examine the material conditions of its people - examining the real causes of the revolutionary waves and...

The word 'samurai' stands for ideals of courage, honour, self-sacrifice and loyalty. Yet much of the common understanding is imaginative fiction. This book explores the concept from medieval reality, through early modern changes, to today's hugely varied...

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Discover the little-known story of the famous inventor's time in the Sunshine State Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931) was America's most famous and, arguably, most prolific inventor. But few realize the extent to which he called Florida, not New Jersey,...

This book tells the history of the Industrial Revolution through the lens of publishing.In Second Printing Revolution, Jeremy Norman traces the transition in book production technology from handcrafts to mass media with some of the earliest examples of...

A detailed biography of Pierre de Belloy, an important figure in French royalist polemic and political theory from the 1580s to the 1600s. It offers a close socio-political reading of Belloy's life and career to enrich the discussion of his writings, his...

As a signatory to the League of Nations and United Nations covenants, China promised not to conquer new territories after 1919. Therefore, after the People's Republic of China (PRC) conquered Tibet in 1950, she saw the necessity of lying to the world...

A History of the Commercial Development of Miniaturisation Technologies and their Products is a record of the development of these technologies and their products from the early 1990s to 2024. Being a prominent part of the so-called twenty-first...

Please note this title is suitable for any student studying: Exam Board: International Baccalaureate Level and subject: Diploma Programme History First teaching: 2026 First exams: 2028 Developed in cooperation with the IB and fully aligned...

Please note this title is suitable for any student studying: Exam Board: International Baccalaureate Level and subject: Diploma Programme History (HL) First teaching: 2026 First exams: 2028 Comprehensively updated for the DP History first...

What is Jihadi-Salafism and how does it relate to classical Islam? Scholars of Terrorism Studies argue that 'Jihadism' and Salafism are derivatives of Wahhabism and lie on the ideological margins of the Islamic tradition. This book challenges this...

This book reconceptualizes the relationship between Portuguese society and Salazar's political police. By studying the PIDE from below, Salazar's PIDE and Portuguese Society challenges the prevailing historiographic emphasis on processes of top-down...

Please note this title is suitable for any student studying: Exam Board: International Baccalaureate Level and subject: Diploma Programme History First teaching: 2026 First exams: 2028 Developed in cooperation with the IB and fully aligned...

Please note this title is suitable for any student studying: Exam Board: International Baccalaureate Level and subject: Diploma Programme History First teaching: 2026 First exams: 2028 Developed in cooperation with the IB, Oxford's DP...

Please note this title is suitable for any student studying: Exam Board: International Baccalaureate Level and subject: Diploma Programme History First teaching: 2026 First exams: 2028 Developed in cooperation with the IB and fully aligned...

Examines the final years of the Warsaw ghetto, the uprising, and the varied, nuanced ways Jewish people resisted Nazi rule. The People's Uprising and the Fall of the Warsaw Ghetto, April 1942-June 1943 sheds light on the lives, choices, and experiences...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781838387730Author Stephen M. MillerFormat HardbackPage Count 376Imprint Army Records SocietyPublisher Army Records Society

During World War II, a group of physicists who had once been close friends found themselves on opposite sides of a deadly race. German scientist Werner Heisenberg and American physicists Robert Oppenheimer, Enrico Fermi, and Sam Goudsmit were all leading...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781847014702Author Roger SouthallFormat HardbackPage Count 424Imprint James CurreyPublisher James Currey

This is the story of the first ten years of SAMS and the remarkable reputation quickly acquired by its graduates, educated in a pre-World War II horse cavalry stable at Fort Leavenworth. It is also the story of the doctrinal revolution in which SAMS...

The British have been baking for centuries. Here, for the first time, is a comprehensive account of how our relationship with this much-loved art has changed, evolved and progressed over time. Renowned food historian and author, Emma Kay, skilfully...

The Stamp Act and the American Revolution tells the story of the Stamp Act controversy of 1764 to 1766, widely considered to be the most influential event in the run-up to American independence from Great Britain. The Stamp Act and its repeal by...

This is the story of clothes as pictures and of the importance and meanings of the way we picture clothes. Focusing on the rapid changes of the interwar period, fashion is explored as a sensory interplay of images. From illustrations to editorial...

How did the Columbian Exchange transform diets around the world? Why did expanding global trade hurt textile workers in India? In what circumstances did the COVID-19 virus become a global pandemic?Panorama explores these questions by following the...

The Afterlife of Ottoman Europe examines how Bosnian Muslims navigated the Ottoman and Habsburg domains following the Habsburg occupation of Bosnia Herzegovina after the 1878 Berlin Congress. Prominent members of the Ottoman imperial polity, Bosnian...

Sarah Keys Evans wasn't a person anyone thought would spend a night in a jail cell-or change the world. But trouble came Sarah's way in 1952, at a North Carolina bus station. There, dressed in her Women's Army Corps uniform, she was arrested for not...

Resisting Nazism paints a vivid picture of resistance to far-right extremism across the generations.

It is newly estimated that 750,000 soldiers died in the American Civil War but less well known is that roughly 400,000 were captured and imprisoned-a milestone in the history of mass dehumanisation. Many POWs died from starvation, dysentery and exposure,...

How did Teotihuacan in Mexico become one of the world's largest cities? Why did Roman soldiers in Britain worship a Persian god? What important roles did women play in the Mongol empire?Panorama explores these questions by following the journey of...

Winner of the ACIS Donald Murphy Prize for Distinguished First Book, 2023 In the wake of the Good Friday Agreement, the redevelopment of the former Girdwood Army Barracks in North Belfast was hailed as a 'symbol of hope' for Northern Ireland. It was a...

The first history of France's present-day foreign intelligence service to be published in EnglishFrance's foreign intelligence service for espionage, analysis, covert action, and security is the formidable Direction Generale de la Securite Exterieure...

The Death and Life of Chinese Civil Society examines how a group of Chinese intellectual elites referred to as the liberals or ziyou pai edified the civil society project beginning in the 1990s to build an independent space to constrain state power,...

Icon Dresden explores how memory and politics in Dresden after its 1945 bombing are deeply intertwined with the city's urban history. It highlights the complex origins of Dresden's reputation as an exclusively cultural center, focusing on urban planning,...

Soviet materialities explores how material transforms our understanding of Soviet culture, from the textures of domestic space in 1960s apartment blocks to Gulag labour on the Moscow canal, and from avant-garde literary theory in the 1920s to conceptual...

The Photographic Fix explores how photographs from World War I were used in personal photo albums and mass-market picture books to determine the meaning and legacy of the postwar Weimar Republic. Due to their publication success and wide reception,...

Icon Dresden explores how memory and politics in Dresden after its 1945 bombing are deeply intertwined with the city's urban history. It highlights the complex origins of Dresden's reputation as an exclusively cultural center, focusing on urban planning,...

Documents the influence Britain and France had on the ideas of liberty and human rights from the twelfth century to the French Revolution. This book innovatively challenges the widely held perception that the idea of Human Rights and their...

Monasticism and Manuscript Culture in Medieval Europe offers a new perspective on the abbey at Cluny, one of the medieval Christianity's most influential institutions. Most historical approaches to Cluny have embraced a predictable "rise and fall"...