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As recently as 1928, a vast swath of Asia stretching from the Red Sea to the borders of Thailand was bound together under a single imperial banner, an entity known officially as the "Indian Empire" or, more simply, as the Raj. It was the British Empire's...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781917356091Author David CohenFormat PaperbackPage Count 140Imprint Tolsey PressPublisher Tolsey Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781917356107Author David CohenFormat HardbackImprint Tolsey PressPublisher Tolsey Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800089150Author Paul AyrisImprint UCL PressPublisher UCL Press

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...

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 for the 2026 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, Oxford's DP...

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...

From the Baltic to the Pacific, from the Arctic to the steppes of Central Asia, Russia's forests account for nearly one-fifth of the world's wooded lands. The Oak and the Larch is the first-ever English-language exploration of this vast expanse-a...

The author and director of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Library Publishing Project gives voice to long silent African Americans from the past, allowing them to tell their own stories that shed new light on critical moments in the Black Freedom Struggle,...

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...

The extraordinary creative energy of Renaissance Italy lies at the root of modern Western culture. In this magisterial study, Virginia Cox offers a fresh vision of this iconic moment in cultural history. Her lucid and absorbing book explores key...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798898290030Author Mark ArchuletaFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint University of North Texas PressPublisher University of North Texas Press

A war on Lebanon began on 8 October 2023. This report presents a comprehensive analysis of its immediate impact and far-reaching consequences. It provides a solid analysis to inform the country's immediate recovery plan and guide longer-term reform...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780844751092Author Yuval LevinFormat PaperbackPage Count 158Imprint AEI PressPublisher AEI PressWeight(grams) 231g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781835436776Author Americo N. F. SimoesFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint Olympia PublishersPublisher Olympia Publishers

In this innovative history, Liang Cai examines newly excavated manuscripts alongside traditional sources to explore convict politics in the early Chinese empires, proposing a new framework for understanding Confucian discussions of law and legal practice...

In this fascinating collection, thirteen engaging authors share their views of Mary Lincoln’s complex nature and show how she is viewed today. With a superb blend of private and public views of her life, mixed with gripping prose and in-depth...

In 1877 former president Ulysses S. Grant, along with his family and friends, embarked on a two-year world tour that took him from Liverpool to Yokohama with stops throughout Europe and Asia. Biographies of Grant deal very briefly, if at all, with this...

The Filthiest Village in Europe traces how a community shrouded by "industrial fog," at the brink of gaping coal pits, became a symbol that galvanized grassroots ecology - campaigns by diverse local actors that exposed environmental and economic crises...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915969330Author Hilary DoyleFormat PaperbackPage Count 102Imprint Panzer TractsPublisher Panzerwrecks LimitedWeight(grams) 500gDimensions(mm) 280mm *...

The Filthiest Village in Europe traces how a community shrouded by "industrial fog," at the brink of gaping coal pits, became a symbol that galvanized grassroots ecology - campaigns by diverse local actors that exposed environmental and economic crises...

The Korean War was never formally declared, and no peace treaty ending the war was ever signed. The 1953 armistice did not stop the war but marked its extension and expansion into a warlike state of emergency. How did the new reality of life under...

An essential primer for students of Tennessee history. The first volume in the revived Three Star Series. "This is the greatest calamity that could befall us," wrote Sallie Gannaway Jamison in 1861, echoing the fears of a generation of Tennesseans. Over...

A fascinating exploration of a little-known subject--the government-in-exile of Poland which existed in London for over 50 years.In the wake of the German and Soviet invasions in September 1939, the Republic of Poland's government re-established itself...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781685970451Author William GreenFormat PaperbackPage Count 198Imprint University of Iowa PressPublisher University of Iowa PressWeight(grams) 454g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781588348135Author National Museum of African American History andFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Smithsonian BooksPublisher Smithsonian Books

Thomas Jefferson called the Declaration of Independence "an expression of the American mind." Not merely a document, the Declaration is the common creed of our civic life, and it inspires the shared poetry of our political soul. In The Making of the...

In this richly woven tapestry of family, social, and local history, the lives of ordinary people unfold in extraordinary ways. The Jaques brothers were part of the infamous Long Company - a criminal gang that brought fear to the streets of Prescot in...

This book chronicles the history of Chinese miners in one of the largest mines in Northeast Asia from 1900 to 1948, situating this emergent working class at the nexus of industrial capitalism, imperial expansion, and nation-state construction. Coal from...

First published in 1962, A History of Bulgaria, based primarily on Bulgarian sources, sheds light on the lesser-known period of the Turkish yoke, with much of the material appearing in English for the first time. Topics include Turkish administration,...

British Travel Writers in Morocco, 1856-1937: Discursive Encounters reflects the growing academic interest in travel writing as a literary genre shaped by colonial and imperial motivations that transcend both literary canons and geographical boundaries...

In Shrines, Relics, and Saints,the eminent medievalist Andre Vauchez explores the evolution of spaces in Christianity - chapels, monasteries, holy wells, grottos, and other holy places - that are considered sacred because they house the relics of a saint...

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...

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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.

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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,...

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...