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Ordinary victims' voices from the Holocaust are still far less recognized than those of the perpetrators, Volume III of The Cambridge History of the Holocaust centers upon victims' perspectives, examining their experiences, responses, and fates. Chapters...

A pictorial guide to the Imperial Japanese Navy's Nagato-class battleships, Nagato and Mutsu. The Nagato-class battleships, Nagato and Mutsu, were super-dreadnought-type vessels launched just after the end of the First World War. Mutsu exploded...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781493092499Author Daniel PattersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Globe Pequot PressPublisher Globe Pequot Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782080454928Author Helene FulgenceFormat HardbackPage Count 346Imprint FlammarionPublisher Editions Flammarion

An experienced, multi-faceted historian shows how revisionist history is at the heart of creating historical knowledge "A rallying cry in favor of historians who, revisiting past subjects, change their minds. . . . Rewarding reading."-Kirkus Reviews "A...

A fresh and vibrant account of the USA's New Deal art programmes, highlighting diversity, activism, social justice, and urgent lessons for today. Franklin D. Roosevelt's landslide victory in the USA's 1932 presidential election gave him a mandate to...

The story of the German exiles-and cultural titans-who settled in Pacific Palisades and influenced American culture. In the early twentieth century, Pacific Palisades was home to America's most modern film studio of the time as well as the proposed...

What is China? While many perceive it as a rising power challenging Western dominance, eminent historian Professor Gungwu Wang posits that the country has no ambitions on that front. In this illuminating book comprised of edited transcripts of selected...

What is China? While many perceive it as a rising power challenging Western dominance, eminent historian Professor Gungwu Wang posits that the country has no ambitions on that front. In this illuminating book comprised of edited transcripts of selected...

The stage entertainments known as music hall emerged in mid-Victorian London just as the British began colonising large parts of the world.Settlers recreated this metropolitan popular culture throughout the empire and in places under foreign control...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780300286601Author Sara LodgeFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Yale University PressPublisher Yale University Press

A new account of the enduring cultural, legal, and scientific legacy of the 1925 Scopes Trial.In The Hundred Years' Trial, Alexander and Harold Gouzoules explore the century-long impacts of the historic 1925 Scopes "Monkey Trial," starting with the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798894805139Author Philip A BonneauFormat HardbackPage Count 448Imprint BlurbPublisher BlurbWeight(grams) 998gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 33mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798894805207Author Philip A BonneauFormat HardbackPage Count 428Imprint BlurbPublisher BlurbWeight(grams) 962gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 32mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798892925921Author Philip A BonneauFormat HardbackPage Count 454Imprint BlurbPublisher BlurbWeight(grams) 1012gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 33mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798892925945Author Philip A BonneauFormat HardbackPage Count 462Imprint BlurbPublisher BlurbWeight(grams) 1025g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781801510882Author Patrick LittleFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Four Courts Press LtdPublisher Four Courts Press Ltd

In the summer of 1847, over four hundred ships arrived in the Gulf of St Lawrence, carrying Irish men, women, and children who were fleeing the starvation and misery of the Great Potato Famine. Tens of thousands of famine refugees rebuilt their lives in...

In eighteenth-century America, genealogy was more than a simple record of family ties--it was a powerful force that shaped society. Lineage delves into an era where individuals, families, and institutions meticulously documented their connections...

Visible strangers is a collection of essays on the nature of cultural pluralism in the Mediterranean and the different ways in which this was managed in various cities during the early modern period. The book's nine chapters considers new case studies,...

How Russia Got Big accounts for Russia's changing physical scope over some seven centuries.Even people who know little about Russia know that it is big. This concise book tells the story of how it became so. Beginning with the small principality of...

Throughout the Twentieth Century many women in Ireland and Britain endured shame and institutionalisation for becoming pregnant outside of marriage. In this welcome study, Lorraine Grimes examines the journeys made by hundreds of pregnant Irish women to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912018222Author Blake GopnikFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Blue Crow MediaPublisher Blue Crow MediaWeight(grams) 800gDimensions(mm) 177mm * 254mm *...

Uncovers the remarkable role of emigration, particularly of indentured labourers, in forging independent India's foreign relations. Over the centuries, millions of migrant labourers sailed from the Indian subcontinent, across the Bay of Bengal and...

Marcel Duchamp zahlt zu den ratselhaftesten Kunstler*innen des 2 . Jahrhunderts. Im Jahr 92 erschuf er sein Alter Ego Rrose Selavy, eine der schillerndsten Figuren der modernen Kunst. Lars Blunck widmet sich erstmals umfassend der komplexen Geschichte...

This major study of the famous seventeenth century music manuscripts at Peterhouse sets them in the context of the religious and political movements leading to the Civil War. The Peterhouse partbooks constitute a unique resource for studying two periods...

Deepens our understanding of Black women's anti-rape activism by attending to how their tactics shifted in response to the federal War on Crime Beginning in the 1970s, a series of government agencies established to carry out the federal "war on crime"...

This volume investigates the positions of women artists, their institutional frameworks, and the role of other female actors in the art world in Ibero-America and on the Iberian Peninsula from the 19th to the late 20th century, focusing especially on the...

The race for riches is on, and one bold expedition is about to make history. The Voyage That Changed the World follows Ferdinand Magellan's journey around the globe - and shines a light on the people who helped shape it, including Enrique de Malacca, the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798892925907Author Philip A BonneauFormat HardbackPage Count 418Imprint BlurbPublisher BlurbWeight(grams) 943g

This book explores the role of horses across the medieval world, from the Kievan Rus' and Scandinavia to Central Europe, Byzantium, the Arab world and Asia, including China and India. Covering the early medieval period to the late Middle Ages, it...

An ABC adventure through the American Southwest, filled with vibrant art and playful rhymes for young children and their families.Discover the alphabet through a whimsical exploration of the scenic American Southwest! This magical book highlights...

Ancient Egyptians believed that pharaohs were the god Horus in human form. Scientists continue to uncover more information about the lives of these larger-than-life legendary historical figures. From royal tombs to lost cities, each archaeological find...

The Secret Sacred explores the hidden religious practices of the classical world. These cults, shrouded in secrecy, promised initiates a transformative afterlife. While many rituals remain mysterious, artworks and historical texts provide glimpses of...

A radical history of England, Contested Commons is a gripping overview of increasingly restrictive policing and legislation against protest in public spaces. It tells the long history of contests over Trafalgar Square, Hyde Park, Cable Street and Kinder...

What has Confucius to do with a transatlantic quarrel and a post-truth epoch? As the Chinese past becomes the academic expression of a clash between superpowers, and as the question of Confucius's realness, or not, echoes a rather ludicrous Sino-American...

In this thought-provoking work, historian Justin M. Jacobs challenges the widely accepted belief that many of Western museums' treasures were acquired by imperialist plunder and theft. His account re-examines the allegedly immoral provenance of Western...

In 1844, seven widows dared to cast ballots in an election in Canada West, a display of feminist effrontery that was quickly punished: the government struck a law excluding women from the vote. It would be seven decades before women regained voting...

Scipio Africanus (235-183 BC) commanded his first army at the age of 25, led a daring invasion in Africa to personally defeat Hannibal and secured Rome's dominance over the Mediterranean. In ten years of command he never lost a battle, employing bold...

In late sixteenth-century Rome, artists found inspiration in bustling streets and taverns, depicting soldiers, Romani fortune tellers, sex workers and servants among the city's poorest inhabitants. Street Style explores these hidden lives, uncovering how...