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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593863183Author Hampton SidesFormat PaperbackPage Count 704Imprint Random House Large PrintPublisher Diversified PublishingWeight(grams) 658g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398838598Author Sun TzuFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Arcturus Publishing LtdPublisher Arcturus Publishing Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788119953547Author Samuel MateerFormat HardbackPage Count 450Imprint Manohar Publishers and DistributorsPublisher Manohar Publishers and Distributors

Despite having become marginalized on the map of contemporary art since the wars of the 1990s, the regions of former Yugoslavia continue to be a hub of creative activity. Especially noteworthy is the strong presence of women artists, scholars, and...

In the summer of 1940 the British Isles stood isolated and alone facing the might of a seemingly unstoppable German war machine. Never before had the United Kingdom been in a state of such uncertainty and possible peril. Fortunately the full breadth of...

From genocidal campaigns to careful neutrality to valiant lifesaving efforts, every country’s experience of the Holocaust was different during and immediately following World War II. This book profiles 50 nations and territories from around the globe,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780197786352Author Ann ShukmanFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint OUP IndiaPublisher OUP IndiaWeight(grams) 635g

Until relatively recently, scholars of Egyptian history understood the modern period to begin with the movement of European people and ideas to Egypt's northern shores precipitated by Napoleon's invasion in 1798. From this perspective, modern Egyptian...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398838611Author Miyamoto MusashiFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Arcturus Publishing LtdPublisher Arcturus Publishing Ltd

A history of one of America's earliest canals and its impact on the people of the South Carolina LowcountryCompleted in 1800, the Santee Canal provided the first inland navigation route from the Upcountry of the South Carolina Piedmont to the port of...

Originally published in 1988, the essays in this book focus primarily on colonial medicine in the British Empire but comparative material on the experience of France and Germany is also included. The authors show how medicine served as an instrument of...

This volume is the fifth of a six volume collection that brings together primary sources on gardens and gardening across the long nineteenth-century. Economic expansion, empire, the growth of the middle classes and suburbia, the changing role of women...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467156950Author Nick WynneFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint History PressPublisher History PressWeight(grams) 9g

From women’s suffrage to Civil Rights for African Americans, to the environment, and the gay and lesbian liberation movement, the American Left has achieved notable successes in the 20th and 21st centuries. Sometimes celebrated and sometimes reviled, the...

The ancient Greek world consisted of approximately 1,000 autonomous polities scattered across the Mediterranean basin and was remarkable for both its diversity and its uniformity. As Greeks dispersed throughout the Mediterranean, the different...

This book aims to highlight the causes why the Prohibition Era led to an evolution of the New York mob from a rural, ethnic and small-scale to an urban, American and wide-scale crime. The temperance project, advocated by the WASP elite since the early...

This book tells the story of how the "servile arts" turned into the "mechanical arts," which in turn developed into a kind of philosophical apparatus that made modern science possible. Why did the scientific revolution take place in the West and not in...

'A Scout is a Friend to all' An amalgam of imperial myth, borrowed tips on health and hygiene, and object lessons in woodcraft, the 1908 text of Robert Baden-Powell's Scouting for Boys is the original blueprint and 'self-instructor' of the Boy Scout...

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Through a skillful combination of economic and cultural history, this book describes the impact on Moldavia and Wallachia of steam navigation on the Danube. The Danube route integrated the two principalities into a dense network of European roads and...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781639366965Author Barnaby RogersonFormat HardbackPage Count 432Imprint Pegasus BooksPublisher Pegasus BooksWeight(grams) 635g

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467157230Author Kathy MyersFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint History PressPublisher History PressWeight(grams) 9g

How Methodist settlers in the American West acted as agents of empire In the early years of American independence, Methodism emerged as the new republic’s fastest growing religious movement and its largest voluntary association. Following the contours of...

The book critically analyses questions of gender and sexuality in the medieval religious texts of Bengal. It analyses the emergence of religious cults in patriarchal contexts, the humanization of the goddess figure as a wife and mother who is subject to...

This Variorum collection of articles is intended to illustrate that conflict in the late Middle Ages was not only about soldiers and fighting (about the makers and the making of war), important as these were. Just as it remains in our own day, war was a...

How would the history of an urban area look if water were at the center of analysis? Water in the Making of a Socio-Natural Landscape explores the transition from early modern to modern water management in late nineteenth-century Rome. It merges local...

Uncover History and find out about ancient Egypt, its people and the story of ancient Egypt that goes back some 4,000 years. Who were the Ancient Egyptians? Read about their daily lives, what jobs they did and why the river Nile was so important to them...

Pan’gyesurok (or "Pan’gye’s Random Jottings") was written by the Korean scholar and social critic Yu Hyŏngwŏn(1622-1673), who proposed to reform the Joseon dynasty and realise an ideal Confucian society. It was recognised as a leading work of political...

This book highlights the pivotal role of the Caribbean in the Second World War.Book InformationISBN 9781913546793Author Colin DouglasFormat PaperbackImprint Lawrence & Wishart LtdPublisher Lawrence & Wishart Ltd

A focused, illustrated history and analysis of perhaps the most complete air power victory in modern times, NATO's war against Serbian forces over Kosovo. On the night of March 24, 1999, NATO forces began military action to stop Serbia's campaign of...

'[A] captivating and dramatic account. . . Drawn from letters and diaries, Holland’s immersive narrative is told through the eye-level perspectives of dozens of subjects. Readers will be enthralled' Publishers Weekly‘Tells the story of the hard, bloody,...

Nearly one thousand years ago, Native Americans built a satellite suburb of ancient America’s great metropolis, Cahokia, on the site that later became St. Louis. At its height, as many as 30,000 people lived in and around Cahokia. While the eastern...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781538769416Author George StephanopoulosFormat HardbackPage Count 480Imprint Grand Central PublishingPublisher Grand Central Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781035049646Author Geraint JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint MacmillanPublisher Pan MacmillanWeight(grams) 528g