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An authoritative anthology tracing the history of one of the most important concepts Black people drew on to challenge the brutal, totalizing system of Jim Crow racismThis book brings together a wealth of readings on the metaphor of the "New Negro,"...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781529199314Author Fern RiddellFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Ebury PressPublisher Ebury Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781503870444Author Ann HeinrichsFormat HardbackPage Count 40Imprint Child's World, Inc. StridePublisher Child's World, Inc. StrideWeight(grams) 295g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781503870352Author Ann HeinrichsFormat HardbackPage Count 40Imprint Child's World, Inc. StridePublisher Child's World, Inc. StrideWeight(grams) 295g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467157155Author Brian W KincaidFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint History PressPublisher History PressWeight(grams) 454gDimensions(mm) 218mm * 160mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783447120630Author Radoslaw TarasewiczFormat PaperbackPage Count 621Imprint HarrassowitzPublisher HarrassowitzWeight(grams) 426g

From Bohemia to Rus’ and from the White Sea to the Balkans, Medieval East Central and Eastern Europe by Florin Curta and Sébastien Rossignol covers the medieval history of a large area. This groundbreaking textbook is an important introduction for...

A compelling alternative account of the history of knowledge from the Renaissance to the EnlightenmentUntil now the history of knowledge has largely been about formal and documented accumulation, concentrating on systems, collections, academies, and...

Collectors are often praised for their taste in art or contributions to science, and considered great public benefactors. But collectors have also been seen as dangerous obsessives who love objects too much. Why? From looters and idolaters to fin de...

An Exhibition History of Victorian Leeds is a groundbreaking account of the city's cultural history through its public exhibitions. Offering a vivid analysis of these striking displays in appropriated spaces, it explores Leeds' relationship with fine and...

Thousands of years ago, in a part of the world we now call ancient Mesopotamia, people began writing things down for the very first time. What they left behind, in a vast region between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, preserves leaps in human ingenuity,...

Gabriele Esposito presents a detailed overview of the history, organization, equipment and tactics of the military forces deployed by Achaemenid Persia during the period 550-330 BC. The Achaemenid Empire founded by Cyrus the Great was one of the major...

Frommer's books aren't written by committee or by travel writers who simply pop in briefly to a destination and then consider the job done. Our authors are passionate local experts like Erin Vivid Riley, a journalist who lives in New Mexico and loves...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467157209Author Sharon PajkaFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint History PressPublisher History PressWeight(grams) 141gDimensions(mm) 152mm * 152mm * 8mm

Best-selling novelist and art historian Iain Pears enchants readers with the real-life romance between Larissa Salmina, a Russian art curator, and Francis Haskell, a British art historian. His fabulous book brings into sharp focus the strange world of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798875215827Author Myra Faye TurnerFormat HardbackPage Count 32Imprint Capstone PressPublisher Capstone Press

Established in 1916, with training programs in over three thousand high schools and an enrollment of more than half a million student cadets across the country, the Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps (JROTC) is the largest and most enduring military...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798889834618Author Ed SimonFormat PaperbackPage Count 285Imprint Fortress Press,U.S.Publisher Augsburg Fortress PublishersWeight(grams) 318g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781959569213Author John W DurelFormat PaperbackPage Count 260Imprint University of LouisianaPublisher University of LouisianaWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781594164422Author Gary EcelbargerFormat HardbackPage Count 296Imprint Westholme PublishingPublisher Westholme PublishingWeight(grams) 454gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781668003916Author Michael M GrynbaumFormat HardbackPage Count 368Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 590gDimensions(mm) 231mm *...

A wide-ranging and dramatic account of the Antonine plague, the mysterious disease that struck the Roman Empire at its pinnacleIn the middle of the second century AD, Rome was at its prosperous and powerful apex. The emperor Marcus Aurelius reigned over...

In The Bajio Revolution, John Tutino examines how popular insurgents reshaped Mexico, the US, and global capitalism during the nineteenth century. After detailing New Spain's silver-driven wealth, Tutino shows how the Bajio insurgency of 1810-1820 broke...

This is a book about some of the unexpected people and places involved in cultivating knowledge of the natural world and mastery of scientific apparatus around 1800, taking readers across continental Europe from the Enlightenment to the onset of academic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781805830641Author John R HiltonFormat PaperbackPage Count 172Imprint Archaeopress PublishingPublisher Archaeopress PublishingWeight(grams) 708g

The period from September 1939 to early 1942 was crucial for Soviet foreign policy and coincided with the early stages of the Second World War, including the Great Patriotic War. In Stalin’s Great Game, Michael Jabara Carley unpacks the complexities of...

Ethical consumption and consumer choice are at the heart of public debates today, but consumer activism has a long history. At the end of the nineteenth century, groups of women activists in different countries weaponised their reputation as consumers to...

This study explores the distinctive features of Fatimid ideology and propaganda, as demonstrated in the largest and most notable mosque of this era, built in Cairo during the Fatimid period (909-1171 AD). It specifically examines the numerous Quranic...

This is a book about the social in Highland entanglements with Empire the networks, relationships and identities that made it possible for Highland Scots to access the Empire and its benefits. It explores from a range of perspectives the impact...

By situating Traditional Chinese Law within the broader context of Traditional Western Law and Modern Law, the book presents a groundbreaking model for comparative legal history.

When public history was imported from the United States to China around the turn of the twenty-first century, it was introduced as a sub-field within history, and has developed along that path ever since. Professional historians in China, even some...

This work looks at the gendered nature of the US video gaming industry. Although there were attempts to incorporate women into development roles and market towards them as players, the creation of video games and the industry began in a world strongly...

The Province of All Mankind is the story of a powerful idea about the cosmos. Born in the science-fiction literature of the nineteenth century and maturing in the Age of Apollo, this idea held that outer space should be preserved as a "sanctuary" from...

This is a study of sea power and maritime strategy in the Classical Greek world. More than just a study of navies and battles, it examines how the sea was used to influence events ashore and how the use of naval power combined with land power had a...

Persistent Illusions examines the visual representation of history in interwar Hungary, where interpretations of the past were suffused with references to the country's recent territorial loss. In these images of history, nineteenth-century themes and...

Clashes over the American family and its values have always implicitly or explicitly addressed issues of gender and highlighted the significance of present and future families to American society. This is the insight underpinning Isabel Heinemann's...

Radiances gathers previously unpublished essays by one of the greatest historians of the twentieth century. Although best known for The King's Two Bodies (1957), Ernst Kantorowicz's scholarly expertise ranged from classical antiquity to early modernity...

To Your Posts! Fort Meigs in the War of 1812 through the Voices of Those Who Fought There recounts the history of Fort Meigs, a U.S. military garrison built on the outermost reaches of Ohio's northwestern frontier during the War of 1812. Troops commanded...

The first biography of the remarkable historical figure who challenged perceptions of women's experiences in the early American RepublicIn 1831 Sister Gertrude Wightt, the directress of Georgetown Academy (now Georgetown Visitation Preparatory School),...

What is deep history? How do histories make sovereignty on Country? What is history's future?For Aboriginal people, the past is the present. Competing histories form and transform the lands, peoples and nations of Oceania, from the Pacific Islands, New...