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For over half a century the US granted Cubans, one of the largest immigrant groups in the country, unique entitlements. While other unauthorized immigrants faced detention, deportation, and no legal rights, Cuban immigrants were able to enter the country...

Many histories of the Burma Campaign climax with the incredible battles of Imphal and Kohima in 1944. The reconquest of Burma that followed in 1945 is often, taken for granted: 'it was just mopping up'. It reality it was the culmination of the journey...

Winner of the Bronisław Malinowski Award in the Social Sciences Why do pogroms occur in some localities and not in others? Jeffrey S. Kopstein and Jason Wittenberg examine a particularly brutal wave of violence that occurred across hundreds of...

You've got to speculate to accumulate. We apply that notion to individuals in pursuit of wealth, but what about countries? The Debt of a Nation is a comprehensive history of Canada's nineteenth-century public debt. Beginning in the 1820s, loans gave...

North America was not empty nor were its inhabitants savages when Europeans arrived in 1492. Quite the opposite, North America was thickly populated by indigenous people who lived in clean cities, had a thriving economy, and transformed the landscape...

Uncovering the origins of the new sentencing structure that emerged in the course of the nineteenth century, this book travels from the demise of the "Bloody Code" in the 1830s, through the mid-century transition from convict transportation to home-based...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781068263903Author Darren PalmerFormat PaperbackPage Count 446Imprint Darren PalmerPublisher Darren PalmerWeight(grams) 748g

Philosophical hermeneutics has shed a good deal of light both upon the methodological underpinnings of the humanities and social sciences generally and in particular upon some fundamental issues in the philosophy of history and history proper. The aim in...

Philosophical hermeneutics has shed a good deal of light both upon the methodological underpinnings of the humanities and social sciences generally and in particular upon some fundamental issues in the philosophy of history and history proper. The aim in...

The Roman poet Ovid, while sailing across the Black Sea to Tomis, considered his exile to have cosmic proportions; in the surging waves he sees his world seemingly veering back towards primordial chaos. Throughout his work Ovid seeks to depict the vast...

Although the first thing one learns about the 'Byzantine Empire' is that it was really the eastern Roman empire, scholars have preferred to call it 'Byzantine' in a repudiation of the self-conception and emic vocabulary of the inhabitants of that polity...

Although the first thing one learns about the 'Byzantine Empire' is that it was really the eastern Roman empire, scholars have preferred to call it 'Byzantine' in a repudiation of the self-conception and emic vocabulary of the inhabitants of that polity...

In Red Internationalism, Salar Mohandesi returns to the Vietnam War to offer a new interpretation of the transnational left's most transformative years. In the 1960s, radicals mobilized ideas from the early twentieth century to reinvent a critique of...

It’s your LUCKY day! You’ve stumbled across an ancient treasure chest in your garden that was buried THOUSANDS of years ago by a child living in ancient Rome. And the chest is packed with 20 strange and curious items that tell us so much about their...

In 1665 Crispina Peres, the most powerful trader in the West African slave trafficking port of Cacheu, was arrested by the Inquisition. Her enemies had conspired to denounce her for taking treatments prescribed by Senegambian healers: the djabakós. But...

The eighteenth century was a time of major global transitions. Movements of religious and intellectual revival challenged established ideas, European colonies emerged in the Western hemisphere, global trade expanded, and political revolutions and revolts...

Libya and the West: What Everyone Needs to Know® is a welcome update to the literature on Western diplomatic relations with Libya. It specifically analyzes the complicated relationships that Italy, Britain, the United States, and France developed with...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798350994483Author Michael Herbert Ph DFormat HardbackPage Count 280Imprint BookbabyPublisher Bookbaby

The Class Struggle in the Ancient Greek World is an original and influential reconstruction of Classical Antiquity through a Marxist lens. Geoffrey de Ste. Croix explores the personality of the Ancient world as a slave economy. He traces the social...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780500298756Author Martin GayfordFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Thames & HudsonPublisher Thames & Hudson

A fascinating flap book with fabulously detailed illustrations and information about peoples of the Ancient World, including the Ancient Egyptians, Romans and Greeks. Lift the flaps to look inside an Egyptian temple, an attack by the Assyrian army, a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913083977Author Mart KuldkeppFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Old Street PublishingPublisher Old Street PublishingWeight(grams) 400g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913083946Author Linda JaivinFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint Old Street PublishingPublisher Old Street PublishingWeight(grams) 260g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913083939Author Sheila FitzpatrickFormat HardbackPage Count 129Imprint Old Street PublishingPublisher Old Street PublishingWeight(grams) 280g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913083922Author Lesley DownerFormat PaperbackPage Count 276Imprint Old Street PublishingPublisher Old Street PublishingWeight(grams) 200g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800353312Author Tim MclellandFormat HardbackImprint Crecy PublishingPublisher Crecy Publishing

On the Russian Arctic convoys in 1942, Leonard H. Thomas kept a secret notebook containing detailed observations of life aboard his ship, HMS Ulster Queen, including intense recollections of hours spent at action stations in the engine room, keeping the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781667205229Author Sophie CollinsFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint Thunder Bay PressPublisher Thunder Bay PressWeight(grams) 1161g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467162487Author Rev Doug W Sears JdFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Arcadia Publishing (SC)Publisher Arcadia Publishing (SC)Weight(grams) 141g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467161718Author Rachel HelveringFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Arcadia Publishing (SC)Publisher Arcadia Publishing (SC)Weight(grams) 141g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467157957Author Mrs Nancy WilliamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint History PressPublisher History PressWeight(grams) 141g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789362135438Author Daneesh MajidFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers India

This volume presents the way the discourse of memory and identity in the post-Soviet territory of Kaliningrad Oblast has altered over time, examining the ways in which German myths about East Prussia were reused and adapted after 1991 and the role of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781665952569Author Dr Edith Eva EgerFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Atheneum Books for Young ReadersPublisher Atheneum Books for Young Readers

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467159890Author Kathy MyersFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint History PressPublisher History PressWeight(grams) 141g

This book examines Machiavelli in contemporary or past realities through the way in which he read, wrote, related to cultures distant in time and space—a first in the field of Machiavellian studies. It proposes and experiments with a change of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781476746746Author James DodsonFormat HardbackPage Count 416Imprint Avid Reader Press / Simon & SchusterPublisher Avid Reader Press / Simon &...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467159609Author Duel ChristianFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint History PressPublisher History PressWeight(grams) 141g

As the Allies broke out of Normandy in June 1944 and pushed into France and the Low Countries they soon found that their supplies lines became more and more extended. They needed a proper working port on the Channel that would enable them to bring in...

The second volume of a series on a glossary of codebreaking, WW2 Codebreaking Events and Organisations, brings to the reader an easily understandable account and listing, of those organisations involved in collecting and analysing military intelligence...