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Arctic explorer and American visionary Walter Wellman pioneered both polar and trans-Atlantic airship aviation, making history's first attempts at each. Wellman has been cast as a self-promoting egomaniac known mostly for his failures. Instead he was a...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501780653Author Andrew N. BuchananFormat HardbackPage Count 402Imprint Cornell University PressPublisher Cornell University Press

This open access book explores how Italy experienced the crucial period of transition that has come to be known as the 'Shock of the Global' during the 1970s. This decade marked a change between the prevailing socio-political and economic structures of...

In this unique book, His Holiness the Dalai Lama tells the full story of his 75-year struggle with China to save Tibet and its people. The Dalai Lama has had to contend with the People's Republic of China his entire life. He was 15 years old...

An original analysis of the relationship between slavery and the labor movement in the late-nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. During the rise of the labor movement in the late nineteenth century, why were American workers unable to organize...

Walking the Footsteps of a Forgotten Revolution details the bold and audacious insurrection in the opening phase of the German Revolution of 1848-1849. Friedrich Hecker, the most gifted young politician of his day, attempted to lead a group of rebels...

Louis XIII's court has long been a feature of the popular imaginary, thanks in part to the many movie and TV adaptations of Alexandre Dumas' novel The Three Musketeers. Yet it remains misunderstood, commonly mischaracterised as weak, unimportant, or...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789888876853Author Yoshiko NakanoFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Hong Kong University PressPublisher Hong Kong University Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789888876761Author Ruth Mandujano LopezFormat HardbackPage Count 212Imprint Hong Kong University PressPublisher Hong Kong University Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781625348753Author Carol R GardnerFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint University of Massachusetts PressPublisher University of Massachusetts...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780774870368Author Yihong PanFormat PaperbackPage Count 282Imprint University of British Columbia PressPublisher University of British Columbia...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804516690Author Dermot RooneyFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

The temperature was 40 degrees below zero when fighter planes screamed out of the clouds, puncturing the fuselage with a spray of machinegun fire and sending the bomber beside them into a death spin. This was followed by intense flak, as a hundred...

Shifting Sovereignties explores practical manifestations of sovereignty from antiquity to the Anthropocene. Taking a global-history perspective and centring Africa, the Middle East, and Asia, it destabilises overly neat theoretical notions of the concept...

This book sets out to explore how the Romans appropriated the Hellenistic concept of a complete library collection. Tracing this idea in the Roman world allows us to reconstruct the discourse on cultural transmission between Greece and Rome. The model of...

This book examines so far unused or relatively underused primary sources, investigates secondary resources and engages with the existing literature that deals with immigration but is not focused on attitudes nor always covers the entire period after 1921...

A pictorial guide to Akagi and Kaga, two early Japanese aircraft carriers that were sunk at the Battle of Midway. Akagi and Kaga were the second and third aircraft carriers to enter service with the Imperial Japanese Navy. Akagi was initially...

How an event once considered the greatest of all political dangers came to be seen as a solution to all social problemsPolitical thinkers from Plato to John Adams saw revolutions as a grave threat to society and advocated for a constitution that...

In Spaces of Enslavement, Andrea C. Mosterman addresses the persistent myth that the colonial Dutch system of slavery was more humane. Investigating practices of enslavement in New Netherland and then in New York, Mosterman shows that these ways of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781469685205Author Alys D BevertonFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint University of North Carolina PressPublisher University of North Carolina Press

Reformatting Agrarian Life presents a stealth urban history from the countryside that foregrounds the mutual entanglements of agrarian and urban expertise. Will Glover traces an essential genealogy for understanding how urbanism unexpectedly left the...

A concise pictorial guide to the F-4 Phantom, featuring over 200 images. The McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II first flew in the 1950s, entered US military service in the 1960s, and remained on duty into the 1990s. The plane gained a reputation for...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781626401334Author Arnold HylenFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint Angel City Press,U.S.Publisher Angel City Press,U.S.

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Over the course of the 19th century, European societies started thinking of themselves as “civilisations of work.” In the wake of the political and industrial revolutions, labour as a human activity and condition gradually came to embody a general...

This study centres around three leading military statesmen who served under Oliver Comwell but were also his kin and shared the experiences of the civil wars, John Disbrowe (1608–80), Henry Ireton (1611–51), and Charles Fleetwood (1618–92). It seeks to...

This work examines how beauty standards, specifically the ideology of "fairness," contributed to the racialization of bodies in early modern England. Schoel emphasizes the need to dismantle whiteness's invisibility in historical criticism, noting that it...

From the evidence of Chinese documents, East African excavations and the researches of scholars and historians, the author of this book, originally published in English in 1972, gives a fascinating account of China’s early relations with Africa, the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789888876778Author Robert J AntonyFormat HardbackPage Count 268Imprint Hong Kong University PressPublisher Hong Kong University PressWeight(grams) 454g

This book explores Tagore’s socio-political ideas through his novels, short stories, and essays. It looks at Tagore beyond his literary achievements and examines his notions of friendship, religion, nationalism, civilization, and knowledge. It highlights...

This volume is a study of the ancient glass vessels from 70 years of excavation at Gordion in central Anatolia. The corpus of vessel glass, currently numbering over 1,800 fragments, is extraordinary in that it includes exceptional examples of vessels...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807183717Author Bridget BennettFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint LSU PressPublisher LSU PressWeight(grams) 572g