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China’s Date Debate is an in-depth investigation of the Chinese Communist Party’s remapping of China’s World War II timeline from eight years (1937-–1945) to fourteen years (1931–1945). Instead of the previously accepted starting date of the Marco Polo...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781639732111Author Joseph KellyFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing USAPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798384502784Author Thomas S KiddFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint B&H Publishing GroupPublisher B&H Publishing GroupWeight(grams) 753gDimensions(mm)...

Take Over the City provides the first comprehensive spatial analysis of Italian operaismo and the extraordinary urban struggles of 1970s Italy. Take Over the City is the first systemic spatial account of Italian operaismo. Drawing on the Marxist urban...

A major new interpretation of the French Revolution that brings to life the criminal tribunals at the heart of the Republic's political culture In The People's Justice, Carla Hesse offers a sweeping reappraisal of political violence in the French...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063430327Author Roopika RisamFormat HardbackPage Count 480Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 585gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Taking a global perspective to the computer age reveals how work, gender, and emotions have shaped its history. Since the 1960s, workplaces have been key sites for the introduction of computers, transforming organizations, future imaginaries, and...

While Stalin’s Great Terror has been extensively studied, this is the first book to uncover the fate of Iranian communists and migrant workers in the Soviet Union during the 1930s purges. It reveals how foreign nationals, particularly Iranians, were...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780825452987Author Mitch GlaserFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Kregel PublicationsPublisher Kregel PublicationsWeight(grams) 577gDimensions(mm) 229mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798895656525Author Bing WestFormat HardbackPage Count 216Imprint Knox PressPublisher Knox PressWeight(grams) 338gDimensions(mm) 210mm * 140mm * 23mm

The Vietnam idea examines how Vietnam became a potent symbol for global movements fighting colonialism, racism, and imperialism during the American War and its aftermath. Rather than focusing on Vietnam as a place, Brynn Hatton explores how artists and...

The Social History of Law in Nineteenth-Century Latin America examines how ordinary people responded to the transformation of Latin America's systems of justice following the end of the colonial period. In the decades following Latin American...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781493095841Author Lenore SkomalFormat PaperbackPage Count 260Imprint Globe Pequot PressPublisher Globe Pequot Press

The End of Violence focuses on General Jacques Paris de Bollardiere, who transformed from a rising star in the French army into a stalwart of nonviolence. In 1957, de Bollardiere abruptly left his command in Algeria out of a refusal to countenance...

The Unorthodox offers a new history of Ukraine's and Russia's Protestant communities, from the religious resurgence of World War II through four decades of the Cold War. The subject of bureaucratic reports, sensationalist newspaper stories, and court...

This book traces the story of a Nenets indigenous community in Siberia and how their lives were transformed by religious conversion in post-Soviet and Putin's Russia. Based on over a decade of ethnographic fieldwork in a region now largely closed to...

A collection of works by early modern men writing in women's voices. This anthology gives students and scholars access to a body of texts that provide a clearer understanding of what life was like for early modern women by presenting hundreds of...

A sweeping history of America's first media revolution: the rise of the newspaper, and the transformation of a fledgling republic into the world's first information superpowerNo society had ever generated so much ink and paper in so little time. Between...

This account reveals the overlooked role of Marine Defense Battalions in shaping the early Pacific War, from Pearl Harbor to Guadalcanal. Highlighting their coordination with Marine aviation and their legacy in today's littoral regiments, it shows how...

Reds, Revolutions, and Rebellions investigates how insurgent strategies from three revolutionary states - Mao's China, Guevara's Cuba, and Ho Chi Minh's Vietnam - shaped the tactics of armed movements across the Global South. The afterlife of...

After Belsen reveals the deeply personal ways in which British and American Christians responded to and were affected by survivors of the Holocaust in the years immediately following the liberation of concentration camps. British and American...

Circulating Subjects investigates the migration of women abroad for sex work from the 1880s through the 1930s, which Russian feminists, liberal jurists, and imperial bureaucrats worked together to define and criminalize as "white slavery." As Circulating...

While interconnections between humanitarian actors and military operations are a pervasive feature of contemporary conflicts around the globe today, Military Humanitarianism challenges the idea that these interactions are a recent phenomenon. Instead,...

The encounter of indigenous history-making tradition with Western historical practice has been long neglected in Southeast Asian scholarship. Theara Thun offers one of the first critical and systematic studies of the interface between these two...

Abraham Lincoln's faith has commanded more broad-based attention than that of any other American president. Although he never joined a denomination, Baptists, Presbyterians, Quakers, Episcopalians, Disciples of Christ, Spiritualists, Jews, and even...

'Rare and riveting' LYSE DOUCET'A must-read . . . compulsively readable . . . unputdownable' JON LEE ANDERSON'Rarely has a book been so timely . . . Essential reading' LINDSEY HILSUM'Extraordinarily powerful' JACK STRAW'Deeply reported and quietly...

A provocative look at the secret society that has controlled St. Louis for over a century, revealing how shadowy elites organize themselves against working-class power. Every December in downtown St. Louis, the city's upper crust attend a garish...

This book summarizes the academic biography of most influential Neo-Confucian philosopher Wang Yangming's life in Ming dynasty of China. It gives a detailed description of Wang Yangming's life and career, as well as to makes attention points of research...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593490235Author David S. ReynoldsFormat HardbackPage Count 480Imprint The Penguin PressPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 658gDimensions(mm) 243mm...

To revive the fortunes of socialism we must articulate a credible and attractive alternative. The Constitution of Socialism takes a decisive step in this direction. Offering an original synthesis of socialism and republicanism, the book discusses...

Beyond the Tricolour explores the history of internationalism through individuals and political organizations who took practical action in defense of internationalist principles. Birchall looks at committed internationalists who argued against...

A revised and updated edition of a classic text on the early puritans. The Puritan Experiment is an accessible, authoritative account of early New England, one with an enduring appeal for students and general readers. This revised and updated edition...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593652794Author Thomas W. LaqueurFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint The Penguin PressPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 924gDimensions(mm) 242mm...

FLICK is a rousing history of women enjoying sex: sex with themselves, sex with each other, and occasionally sex with men as well.Meet the women throughout history who, quite literally, came before us.From the host of award-winning History Hit podcast...

All We Say is the story of the United States through fifteen speeches - some iconic, others long forgotten, all pivotal - from its founding to the intense divisions of our times, from one of President Obama's former speechwriters.'A learned and...

'A thrilling story, wonderfully told by one of the great historians' KEN FOLLETT'Dazzling... This is biography of great brilliance and rare resonance' WILLIAM DALRYMPLE'A pulsating, vivid life of a true historical titan' DAN JONES'A splendid book,...

The first fully illustrated history of Juneteenth and other Emancipation Day celebrations, told through photographs, art, and an engrossing narrative from an award-winning historian. For more than 150 years, Black communities have gathered to honor...

A profound examination of how photographs can both sever and connect, tracing the paths of Ottoman Armenians across state and family archives. In 1896 the Ottoman sultan issued a decree that allowed Armenians – and only Armenians – to emigrate on the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781476699943Author Michael StrandFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint McFarland & Co IncPublisher McFarland & Co IncWeight(grams) 322gDimensions(mm) 229mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798217033348Author Sharon McMahonFormat HardbackPage Count 32Imprint Knopf Books for Young ReadersPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)...