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The pursuit of youth and beauty transcends time periods. As now, women in the early modern period also sought to turn back the clock using cosmetic recipes promising beauty and clear, younger-looking skin. Facing Decay systematically examines early...

This accessible and beautifully produced volume honours the extraordinary legacy of Leonardo da Vinci, whose genius shaped the Renaissance and continues to inspire the modern world. Through stunning reproductions of his most iconic works, including The...

Scottish Bastards: Illegitimacy in Scotland by Alex Wood delves into a fascinating yet often overlooked aspect of Scottish history. This groundbreaking book explores the complex tapestry of illegitimacy woven into the fabric of Scottish life, sparking...

Writing the History of Modern Revolutions provides students with a comprehensive overview of the history of revolutions and how these histories have been framed, debated, and understood since the nineteenth century.Beginning in the 19th century with...

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The Third Reich subjected some one hundred thousand individuals to a pernicious anti-homosexual campaign that included censorship, surveillance, medical experimentation, and death. Credible scholarship suggests that as many as fifteen thousand were...

This study investigates the development, manufacture, decoration and use of the Roman infantry helmet, a vital piece of personal protection equipment of both legionary and auxiliary troops. The protective headgear worn by Roman foot soldiers of the...

'James Payne's YouTube Channel "Great Art Explained" gained a huge and appreciative worldwide audience. This beautifully put-together book is simply the best introduction to the lifelong pleasure and rewards of looking at pictures since Gombrich. An...

An unprecedented cultural history of reproductions of medieval manuscripts Facsimiles are, or claim to be, exact copies of objects, and medieval manuscripts have long been a focus for this kind of reproduction. Today, digitization delivers complete,...

In the sixteenth century, Spain was small and divided, yet it built the largest empire in history. How? Felipe Fernandez-Armesto and Manuel Lucena Giraldo reveal the crucial role of engineers in this achievement. By investing in infrastructure that...

Voices of Thunder illuminates the stories and beliefs of more than a dozen seventeenth-century radical Protestant women, including a Colchester woman who feared that her four children would starve to death and a former maidservant from Yorkshire who was...

This book examines the active political life of Luisa Carvajal y Mendoza (1566-1614), a poet and mystic who renounced her noble birthright for an ascetic, spiritual life.Historian Freddy Cristobal Dominguez draws on Luisa's autobiographical writings,...

Chiara Formichi argues that Muslim women in Java and Sumatra, from the late 1910s to the 1950s, were central to Indonesia's progress as guardians and promoters of health and piety through gendered activities of care work. While sidelined in the Dutch...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804517659Author Jacek ZabielskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 130Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

Writing the History of Modern Revolutions provides students with a comprehensive overview of the history of revolutions and how these histories have been framed, debated, and understood since the nineteenth century.Beginning in the 19th century with...

An illustrated study of some of the final and most fierce aerial clashes of the Pacific War, featuring first-hand accounts and combat reports.For four months in 1945, the skies over Tokyo saw USAAF P-51 Mustang pilots clash with Imperial Japanese Army...

Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring The Reformation transformed Europe and left an indelible mark on the modern world. But what actually was the Reformation and how should it be defined? Historians have long wrangled over whether it...

Offering new and original approaches to the Roman civil wars of 49-30 BCE, the eleven papers presented here for the first time shed light on this crucial moment in the forging of Roman identity. They engage with a variety of problems and topics in...

In autumn 1951, a diverse array of Muslim, Christian, and Jewish students from clubs like the Muslim Brotherhood and the Worker's Vanguard launched a guerrilla struggle against British occupation of the Suez Canal Zone. Revolutionary Emotions in Cold War...

Spanning antiquity until the present, Zhao Lu analyses the eclectic and fictitious representations of Confucius that have been widely celebrated by communities of people throughout history.While mainstream scholarship mostly considers Confucius in terms...

Ethnic majorities and minorities are produced over time by the same processes that define national borders and create national institutions. Minority Identities in Nigeria traces how western Niger Delta communities became political minorities first,...

December 2, 1971 ushered the United Arab Emirates into existence and marked the end of one hundred fifty years of British protection of the Arab states of the Gulf. Today, the UAE projects an image of modernity and prosperity; but before its formation,...

Guns, Furs, and Gold offers a riveting narrative of the American West by exploring the interactions of the Arikaras, Crows, Cheyennes, and Arapahos with each other and with Euro-American traders, explorers, and settlers from 1804, when Meriwether Lewis...

This book presents an original perspective on the variety and intensity of biblical narrative and rhetoric in the evolution of history writing in Leon-Castile during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. It focuses on six Hispano-Latin chronicles, two of...

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...

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...

A thorough and absorbing account of the life and times of the famous young pharaoh, Tutankhamun, from the discovery of his tomb to the CT-scans of the twenty-first century, now fully updated and expandedPenned by one of the world's best known...

Located in the Papantla municipality of the Mexican state of Veracruz, El TajIn is a UNESCO World Heritage site but a lesser-known tourist destination and national symbol. The Indigenous Totonac residents of the region know well that the site's relative...

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

Serfdom was a coercive relationship between a landowner and peasant, which was widespread across medieval and early modern Europe. It features prominently in major historical debates, such as the origins of capitalism and the divergent pathways of...

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 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...

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...

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

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...

The Erasure of Palestine is the result of a three-year journey by award-winning photographer and filmmaker Ahmad Al-Bazz, to record the hundreds of Palestinian villages and towns depopulated and destroyed during the creation and expansion of Israel, from...