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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781639366378Author Edward Robert McClellandFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint Pegasus BooksPublisher Pegasus BooksWeight(grams) 599g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474443449Author Andrew SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University PressWeight(grams) 331g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593687796Author Juan VilloroFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA Inc

Britain and Russia maintained a frosty civility for a few years after Napoleon’s defeat in 1815. But, by the 1820s, their relations degenerated into constant acrimonious rivalry over Persia, the Ottoman Empire, Central Asia—the Great Game—and, towards...

In 1924, the Bolshevik regime began an unprecedented campaign to forcibly emancipate the Muslim women of Tajikistan. The emancipatory reforms included unveiling women, passing progressive family code laws, and educating women. By the 1950s, the Soviet...

Friends and Enemies presents a collection of essays on Canadian foreign policy written by J.L. Granatstein, one of the leading political and military historians in the country. The essays cover a period primarily from the Second World War through to the...

Herminie and Fanny Pereire were sisters-in-law, married to the eminent Jewish bankers and Saint-Simonian socialists Emile and Isaac. They were also mother and daughter. This book, a companion to the author's acclaimed Emile and Isaac Pereire (2015),...

An examination of the career of Texas Ranger and immigration official William Hanson illustrating the intersections of corruption, state-building, and racial violence in early twentieth century Texas. At the Texas-Mexico border in the 1910s and 1920s,...

One a revolutionary leader and the other a vagabond who deserted from the Continental Army, Samuel Adams and Henry Tufts appear opposites, yet they were two sides of the same coin. While one devoted his life to overthrowing British colonial rule and the...

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. One of the most hotly debated issues in contemporary Muslim ethics is the status of...

"The leading academic vehicle for scholarly publication in the field of medieval warfare." Medieval Warfare The articles in volume 22 of the Journal of Medieval Military History range widely, not only in chronology but also in geography and approach...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783110785180Author Azamat KumykovFormat HardbackPage Count 290Imprint Walter de Gruyter & CoPublisher De GruyterWeight(grams) 634g

Cartomania was a photographic phenomenon that seized the public imagination at the beginning of the 1860s. Small portraits, dubbed cartes de visite, were avidly exchanged with friends and family, quickly earning a reputation as 'the paper currency of...

This second collection of primary sources in English translation ranges across a gamut of places and moments in the early modern Spanish Pacific. It may be used in conjunction with Volume 1 or on its own. While its focus continues to be on the encounters...

New interdisciplinary research in education Given the current demands on schools and the challenges they face in an increasingly complex and volatile world, new and visionary educational paths and new educational concepts are urgently needed...

Founded in 1919, the Communist Party (CP) in San Francisco survived an ineffectual early period to become a force in the trade union heyday of the 1930s. Robert Cherny uses the lives and careers of more than fifty members to tell the story of the city’s...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062869685Author Rachel KousserFormat HardbackPage Count 416Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 454g

In fourteen essays that speak to the full breadth of George L. Mosse’s intellectual horizons and scholarly legacy, Masses and Man explores radical nationalism, fascism, and Jewish modernity in twentieth-century Europe. Breaking from the conventions of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781606189030Author Patrick SperoFormat HardbackPage Count 104Imprint American Philosophical Society PressPublisher American Philosophical Society Press

Devil’s Mile tells the rip-roaring story of New York’s oldest and most unique street The Bowery was a synonym for despair throughout most of the 20th century. The very name evoked visuals of drunken bums passed out on the sidewalk, and New Yorkers...

In 1577, a scientist who served as an advisor to Queen Elizabeth I proposed to her the creation of colonies in the New World. Nei2/5/2024ther Elizabeth nor Walter Raleigh imagined the task would be so difficult or take more than 30 years. The effort...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781639730537Author Tabitha StanmoreFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing USAPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing USAWeight(grams) 454g

Military Jet Aircraft provides a detailed look at over fifty of the most important jet-engined aircraft developed between 1945 and the present day. Aircraft profiled include dedicated interceptors, bombers, and reconnaissance platforms, as well as modern...

'Stephen Fisher is one of the best kept secrets in military history. With his wealth of knowledge and exacting eye for detail, his book on D-Day is sure to impress a vast audience' Dan Snow'Stephen Fisher... is a very rare beast - a man who can bring...

Why did England’s one experiment in republican rule fail? Oliver Cromwell’s death in 1658 sparked a period of unrivalled turmoil and confusion in English history. In less than two years, there were close to ten changes of government; rival armies of...

Today, we perceive Gothic cathedrals as light-filled forms representing the sacred. The colored light projected from brightly-colored stained glass windows onto the walls and floors of these buildings suggests the presence of divinity. Suger...

This book tells the fascinating and thrilling story of Leonard R. “Lenny” Werner, who was assigned to the USAAF’s famed 4th Fighter Group in England in June 1944. It operated North American P-51 Mustangs to fight the Luftwaffe of Nazi Germany. Born in...

Twentieth-century painter, designer and wood engraver Eric Ravilious was responsible for a whole host of different works, including book illustrations, woodcuts and ceramic designs for the Wedgwood pottery firm. This fascinating wall calendar features 12...

Oxford Revise AQA GCSE History: America, 1920-1973: Opportunity and inequality is a complete revision and practice book covering the full topic specification, containing everything you need to revise for this choice of period study. All key knowledge is...

American Aurora explores the impact of climate change on early modern radical religious groups during the height of the Little Ice Age in the seventeenth century. Focusing on the life and legacy of Johannes Kelpius (1667-1707), an enormously influential...

A 'Cognitive Book' that everyone can enjoy and is suitable for people living with dementia or other cognitive difficulties. In collaboration with Alzheimer's Society, there's a contribution to the charity with each purchase. Includes a free audio...

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Sam Hanna (1903-96), a pioneering filmmaker from Burnley, Lancashire, was dubbed the ‘Lowry of filmmaking’ by BBC broadcaster Brian Redhead in the 1980s. The well-meant label stuck, even though it misses the variety of Hanna’s remarkable output.Hanna’s...

Richard Overy is not the first scholar to take up the title question. In 1931, at the request of the League of Nations, Albert Einstein asked Sigmund Freud to collaborate on a short work examining whether there was “a way of delivering mankind from the...

The story of one of Savannah's first and most prominent Jewish families, the son who died on the battlefield, and the house that remembers it all.Gratz Cohen's ghost seemed to haunt the apartment as its new owner worked to bring it back to life. As the...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781648431296Author Kenneth WerrellFormat HardbackPage Count 312Imprint Texas A&M University PressPublisher Texas A&M University Press

The period of Egypt's Rammesside empire is best known for its foreign wars and monumental buildings but the chronological history of many of its rulers and preeminent priests and their genealogies was poorly understood. While it was not possible to fix...

This is the first volume that examines dangerous gift-giving across centuries and disciplines. Bringing to the fore the subject that features as an aside in gift studies, it offers new insights into the ambivalent and troubled history of gift-giving...

Today, the Mayflower II—the replica of the 1620 ship that brought the Pilgrims to America and launched a nation—is visited by some 2.6 million tourists annually and listed on the National Register of Historic Places. But there is much more to the...