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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...

Emerging as multifaceted cultural activism, the minjung (people's) art movement defined the aesthetics of the pro-democracy movements in the 1970s and 1980s in South Korea. Tracing minjung art's history and legacy, Sohl Lee explores how artists...

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...

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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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781623715588Author J.M.N. JeffriesFormat PaperbackPage Count 800Imprint Olive Branch PressPublisher Interlink Publishing Group, Inc

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...

Andrew Benjamin approaches the relationship between philosophy and art history through the concept of gesture. Critically engaging with Walter Benjamin, Aby Warburg and Giorgio Agamben, by focusing on gesture he offers a novel philosophical intervention...

How a key period in American Catholic history connects with contemporary populismCatholics fought on both sides of the American Civil War, but few supported the war's evolving aim of emancipating the enslaved. After the war, white Catholics played...

In the nineteenth century, a number of Zoroastrians emigrated from Iran to India. The subsequent importance of the cultural, religious and political ties between the Zoroastrian communities of Iran and the Zoroastrian communities of India has long been...

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

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This book examines the art collector and trickster John Hilditch’s struggle to become a renowned collector and expert in early twentieth-century Britain. Through his life it explores how cultural authority was constructed, challenged and forged during a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908590787Author Rowan ThompsonFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint University of London PressPublisher University of London

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908590794Author Rowan ThompsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint University of London PressPublisher University of London

On August 2, 1943, prisoners at the Nazi extermination camp Treblinka, located in occupied Poland, launched an uprising against their captors, during which hundreds successfully escaped while guards killed as many in the process. In this groundbreaking...

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...

Egypt's Mediterranean explores the intersections of commerce and statecraft in the eighteenth-century Ottoman Empire through the lives of overlooked intermediaries who lived and worked on Egypt's Mediterranean coast. Egypt's port cities mediated the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262052627Author Huey CopelandFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

Over the past century, landscapes across South American fundamentally changed. As forests were felled, cities and highways built, and agricultural land was managed, national governments set aside protected landscapes in certain charismatic places. These...

An Illustrated History of Indonesia describes the history of Indonesia from prehistoric times up to the present day. The narrative is an amalgam of Indonesia's own original traditions, most of Asia's great faiths and civilisations and 450-odd years of...

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How the iconic publication's unruly first decade rewrote the rules of journalism. Rolling Stone's first decade was truly rock and roll: chaotic, wild, and unpredictable. Brand New Beat charts the origins and evolution of the magazine during its formative...

Egypt's Mediterranean explores the intersections of commerce and statecraft in the eighteenth-century Ottoman Empire through the lives of overlooked intermediaries who lived and worked on Egypt's Mediterranean coast. Egypt's port cities mediated the...

Arisiag and Morar, Norse and Gaelic, the 'river-mouth bay' and the 'great water', part of na garbh Chriochan (The Rough Bounds), an area so rugged and desolate it was itself known as the Highlands of the Highlands. From Borrodale (fort-dale) to...

First developed in the final years of World War I, aircraft carriers have been the dominant technology in naval warfare since World War II, following the devastatingly effective carrier-borne air raid on the Italian base of Taranto by the British in...

Since World War I, weapons of war have become increasingly more sophisticated as industrialization and computerization have taken hold in weapons design and manufacture. Tanks & AFVs is a directory of more than 1000 of the finest tanks, jeeps, trucks,...