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When Otto Habsburg, son of the last emperor of the Austria-Hungarian Empire Karl I, died in 2011, among those who prayed at the funeral in Vienna's Stephansdom was Mustafa Efendi Ceri, the Reis ul-ulema of Bosnia and Herzegovina. This was to honour the...

This book fills an important gap in Achaemenid studies by using traditional Iranian narratives, such as those found in the famous Shahnameh, or 'Book of Kings', of Ferdowsi, to analyse the Greco-Roman accounts of Median and Persian royalty. The study...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798337200460Author Richard TregaskisFormat PaperbackPage Count 344Imprint Open Road MediaPublisher Open Road Media

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9784794608710Author James M VardamanPage Count 232Imprint IBC Publishing, Inc.Publisher IBC Publishing, Inc.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781604881912Author Fidel CastroFormat PaperbackImprint Pathfinder PressPublisher Pathfinder Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781668027745Author Nathalia HoltFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Atria/One Signal PublishersPublisher Atria/One Signal PublishersWeight(grams) 581g

An iconoclastic history of the first two decades after independence in IndiaNehru’s India brings a provocative but nuanced set of new interpretations to the history of early independent India. Drawing from her extensive research over the past two...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316592857Author Claire SarnowskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Little, Brown Books for Young ReadersPublisher Little, Brown Books for Young Readers

This book tells the stories of women from Spain, North Africa, Senegambia, and Canaries accused of sorcery in sixteenth-century Mexico for adapting native magic and healing practices. These non-native women – the mulata of Seville who cured the evil eye;...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782503617282Author Kim ChristiaensFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Brepols N.V.Publisher Brepols N.V.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782503613864Author Kyle KillianFormat HardbackPage Count 275Imprint Brepols N.V.Publisher Brepols N.V.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782503602929Author Rory G CrittenFormat HardbackPage Count 390Imprint Brepols PublishersPublisher Brepols PublishersWeight(grams) 1297g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782503578064Author Anti SelartFormat HardbackPage Count 412Imprint Brepols N.V.Publisher Brepols N.V.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780299352707Author Cynthia E MiltonFormat HardbackPage Count 312Imprint University of Wisconsin PressPublisher University of Wisconsin Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593476048Author Sam KellyFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint PlumePublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 280g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781476697475Author Marc HydenFormat PaperbackPage Count 238Imprint McFarland & Co IncPublisher McFarland & Co Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781837721894Author Diarmait Mac Giolla ChriostFormat HardbackPage Count 232Imprint University of Wales PressPublisher University of Wales PressWeight(grams)...

This is the first comprehensive modern account of the history of the Isle of Man, through the years between the establishment of the Stanley lordship early in the fifteenth century and the Revestment of 1830. Focusing on social and economic aspects, it...

Writers and poets, academics and art critics, mathematicians and experimental scientists, churchmen and politicians, women of strong opinions gather for a summer weekend in the 1870s. Is it real, or is it a fantasy? One thing’s sure: their debates –...

Our story begins in 1920s London, at a time when women’s rights were surging after the long battle for suffrage and nightclubs emerged as spaces where single women could socialise unchaperoned. This was the age of the dance craze and the gender-bending...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804518786Author Jakob Tøtrup KjærsgaardFormat HardbackPage Count 248Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

I Want to be a Baker is the second book in the Traditional Career Series which describes traditional careers in the British Virgin Islands in the early 1900s.Marie’s mother is a seamstress, but Marie has no interest in following in her mother’s footsteps...

I Want to be a Baker is the second book in the Traditional Career Series which describes traditional careers in the British Virgin Islands in the early 1900s.Marie’s mother is a seamstress, but Marie has no interest in following in her mother’s footsteps...

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...

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...

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...