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This book takes an innovative approach to the study of the past in the past. It seeks to understand history, not as a discipline or profession, but as a cultural phenomenon. Spanning the early-modern and modern pasts, this book focuses on the posthumous...

Experience the vibrant history of Atlanta, Georgia through its treasures in this captivating, richly illustrated book.From the Western & Atlantic Railroad's Zero Milepost signifying the city's birth as a transportation hub, to the glittering disco ball...

New and ambitious approaches to contemporary China, informed by perspectives taken from civilizational analysis and the specific concept of social imaginaries.This collection of essays by some of today's most prominent scholars on Chinese society,...

Literature and Revolution in Modern China sets out to rescue Lu Xun from the distortion of his legacy by the Chinese Communist literary establishment, Mao Zedong, and Stalinism. The book reconstructs Lu Xun's literary theory and political position...

Charts the founding of the American Empire.The Fourth Kingdom is the second volume in a series of books, The Personality of American Power, tracing the distinctive continuities in the American way of war and strategy-making. A handful of themes emerge:...

A comprehensive exploration of how labor unions, broadly conceived, shape party loyalties in the American mass public.How and why do labor unions matter for American mass party loyalties, specifically party identification and vote choice? Labor Unions...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781645030607Author Michael Edison HaydenFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Bold Type BooksPublisher Bold Type Books

A comprehensive study of the New Christian elite of Jewish origin-prominent traders, merchants, bankers and men of letters-between the fifteenth and eighteenth centuriesIn Strangers Within, Francisco Bethencourt provides the first comprehensive history...

**** THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER ****WINNER 2025 Goodreads Choice AwardsBlackwell's Scottish Book of the Year'Fascinating and illuminating, this book tempers the justifiable rage with sharp and funny pinpricks to the pompous.' VAL MCDERMID, author of...

This book reconstructs the intellectual and political trajectory of Zoltan Laszlo (1881-1961), a representative figure of the East-Central European middle-class intelligentsia. His shifting positions-on nationalism, imperialism, colonialism,...

Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Asians have migrated to North America for centuries, in search of opportunities and conveyed by increasingly dense, international circuits of trade, labor markets, and family networks. Drawn by the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781540299550Author John S DicksonFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint History PressPublisher History PressWeight(grams) 141gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

Why are there so few public monuments honoring women? Unsung Heroines shows it's time to claim that space!Women are grossly underrepresented in all of the Bay Area's public spaces, but not because they didn't exist! Did you know about Charlotte Brown, a...

The Great Repair explores how Jews and Germans began reparations discussions fewer than seven years after the Holocaust - a momentous achievement relegated to the margins of Holocaust scholarship and memory - and the complexities that emerged from the...

Belfastmen reconstructs the everyday experiences of queer men in a region infamous for its recent history of intolerance, violence, and religious homophobia to show how queer lives before the gay rights movement were not only possible but also rich,...

From the forging of a constitution for the postindependence republic to the reign of Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party today, the idea of India as a nation-state has predominated. Yet the country encompasses a vast diversity of communities, regions,...

Gina Pane (1939-1990) is acknowledged as one of the first artists to use her body as the medium for her practice through live works or Actions she began in the late 1960s.She became well known for this highly charged body of work, particularly her 1970s...

Ming Wong is the fifth Artist in Residence at the National Gallery. His practice encompasses film, performance, painting and installation. This book will serve as an introduction to Ming Wong’s work and as a record of the artist’s residency at the...

This book provides a comprehensive account of the long-neglected but fascinating figure Marie-Therese Charlotte (1778-1851), the only surviving daughter of Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette, Duchesse d'Angouleme, then Dauphine and de jure Queen of France...

This revealing history explores Hermann Goering's desperate creation of twenty-two Luftwaffe Field Divisions-air force personnel hastily repurposed as infantry and sent to the Eastern Front with disastrous results. Michael J. Stout delivers the first...

Soon after independence in 1947, the Pakistani government adopted a language policy that promoted the use of Urdu. This provoked a strong reaction in provinces where languages such as Bengali, Sindhi, Punjabi, Pashto, and Balochi were spoken by the...

Women and Resistance in the Annals of Tacitus explores how Tacitus often represents a Roman woman's relationship to the imperial household and its members as one of resistance. Throughout his Annals, women discover ways to resist without relying on...

Soon after independence in 1947, the Pakistani government adopted a language policy that promoted the use of Urdu. This provoked a strong reaction in provinces where languages such as Bengali, Sindhi, Punjabi, Pashto, and Balochi were spoken by the...

The Loyalists who supported the British during the American Revolution have frequently been neglected in accounts of that conflict. Nevertheless, Loyalists made significant efforts to assist British forces in restoring royal control of the thirteen...

By examining the PMU's self-positioning as a pillar of Iraq's defence infrastructure, this book offers a critical perspective on the prospects for Security Sector Reform (SSR) and highlights the limitations of externally driven Disarmament,...

The first radically longitudinal study of a saint who had a significant cultural presence in early medieval England. What happens when the Life of a medieval Fenland hermit is read (and rewritten) over a broad span of time? Which elements do writers...

A celebration of Renoir's imagery of love in all its guises, from seduction and courtship to friendship, camaraderie and parenthood. More than any of his contemporaries, Renoir was committed to chronicling love and friendship. Whether painting Parisian...

Dallas, 22 November 1963. The main event is supposed to be downtown, on Main Street. News footage shows office workers leaning out of windows, peering at the motorcade through a blizzard of ticker tape. On the sidewalks, the crowds are fifty deep, a wall...

The Politics of Collaboration explores the initial fifteen years of the French protectorate in Morocco (1912-1927) when the independent Sharifian Empire ruled by a sultan claiming descent from the Prophet Mohammed was of political and economic importance...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788857250007Author Jack PersekianFormat HardbackPage Count 500Imprint SkiraPublisher SkiraWeight(grams) 2720g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788857250441Author Christian JanicotFormat PaperbackPage Count 60Imprint SkiraPublisher SkiraWeight(grams) 400g

Ovid's Metamorphoses and its lasting impact on visual art The Roman poet Ovid's Metamorphoses is among the most important works of Classical Antiquity, described in the seventeenth century as a 'Bible for artists'. The compelling epic intertwines tales...

Join Lou Brusch, a poo historian from the University of Suwar-on-Stench, as she investigates her latest dung discovery! The Haukdaelir Clan are preparing for war, and bumbling Birger - the clan's clumsiest member - is determined to help. But as the...

This book examines the transformation of Eurasianist historiographic and historiosophic concepts within the Soviet post-Stalinist intellectual milieu. By researching the most understated phase in the development of Eurasianism between the late 1950s and...

More than 75,000 coins have been found during excavations at the Agora, many minted in the city but others brought from Athens's far-flung commercial contacts. Together they are a testament to the city's broad regional influence, and they help trace the...

An estimated 200,000 Latvian soldiers-ten percent of the total prewar population of Latvia- served on the Eastern Front during the Second World War. Since the Republic of Latvia had been occupied and annexed by the Soviet Union in 1940, then occupied by...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780764370854Author David DoyleFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint Schiffer Publishing LtdPublisher Schiffer Publishing LtdWeight(grams) 993gDimensions(mm)...

"This autobiography tells the story of a political activist over some sixty years. In his school days Bob Newland was a supporter of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament. Later he was active in the Communist and Labour parties. 'A great part...

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...