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It was in 1869 that Bradford MP Edward Miall who, standing alongside that champion of Elementary Education, William Edward Forster, proclaimed that without the influence of women, men were naught. ‘Happy will be the day throughout the whole world,’ he...

In Morafe, Khumisho Moguerane has written a luminous exploration of two generations of the prominent Molema family. They were “border people” who straddled what would become present-day South Africa and Botswana. The book begins in the 1880s at the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783770568987Author Rogier GerritsFormat PaperbackPage Count 450Imprint Brill U FinkPublisher Brill U FinkWeight(grams) 372g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781849355827Author Roberto Martinez CatalanFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint AK PressPublisher AK Press

The Great Fire of London which destroyed much of England's capital city in the autumn of 1666 was one of those seminal events that stand out in history, enthralling, fascinating and yet repulsive in the damage and destruction it caused. The story of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781806720620Author Richard W HarrisonFormat HardbackPage Count 476Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783412533014Author Prof. Dr. Kathleen Sprows CummingsFormat HardbackPage Count 236Imprint Bohlau VerlagPublisher Bohlau VerlagWeight(grams) 526g

Driven by extensive Japanese primary sources, Gamble in the Coral Sea offers an operational analysis of the first clash of aircraft carriers at the pivotal Battle of the Coral Sea from the Japanese perspective, including leadership, tactics, and errors...

'Timely, necessary and impeccably researched . . . Required reading for anyone interested in Europe. And even more so for anyone interested in Britain'DAILY TELEGRAPH From human rights barrister Marina Wheeler KC, a cathartic injection of reason into the...

‘Combines brilliant storytelling with rich and deeply researched evidence . . . essential reading for anyone seeking a global history that reexamines the past on a massive scale’ – Caroline Elkins, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Imperial Reckoning and...

An urgent, indispensable guide to why Taiwan matters – for China, the West and everyone’s future'An erudite primer . . . Brown's mission to educate westerners about Taiwan and why it matters is a critical one, which makes this book well worth reading'...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781918277029Author Arthur L ClampFormat PaperbackPage Count 40Imprint Arthur L Clamp PublishingPublisher Arthur L Clamp Publishing

History has not been kind to King James. A cradle king who was crowned in Scotland in 1567 and England and Ireland in 1603, James VI and I has long been eclipsed in fame and reputation by his predecessor and cousin, Elizabeth I, and his mother, Mary,...

The global powerhouse that is the United States of America is younger even than the British Museum, Guinness and the flushing toilet. In 2026 it will celebrate its 250th birthday. How did this vast land, long inhabited by diverse indigenous cultures,...

Arguably the most important—and influential—German woman writer of the last century, Christa Wolf was long heralded as "die gesamtdeutsche Autorin," an author for all of Germany; but, after 1989 in unified Germany, Wolf found herself suddenly embroiled...

'Jones has an eagle's high eye for the history of Rome' The Times 'Jones makes the classical world feel both beguiling and fresh' Sunday TimesThe untold story of the real people who built an empireThe plebs were the backbone of Roman civilization. They...

***LONGLISTED FOR THE 2025 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR NON-FICTION***IN SEPTEMBER 2022, in response to the death of Mahsa Jîna Amini in police custody, after being arrested and beaten for not wearing her hijab properly, thousands of Iranians - mostly women -...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593833407Author Colin WoodardFormat HardbackPage Count 368Imprint VikingPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 505g

A new and updated edition of the classic history of the British railway, published to coincide with the 200th anniversary of train travel in 2025.The opening of the pioneering Stockton and Darlington railway, the world's first passenger line, in 1825...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781918277012Author Arthur L ClampFormat PaperbackPage Count 45Imprint Arthur L Clamp PublishingPublisher Arthur L Clamp Publishing

A reframing of the history of 1960s New York avant-garde art centered on the queer, genre-bending criticism of Gene Swenson and Jill Johnston. In the early 1960s, Gene Swenson and Jill Johnston began to imagine art criticism as something unruly and...

Using first-hand material from Chinese archives that are no longer open to researchers, and bringing together a leading team of international scholars, this volume is a major contribution to the study of the People's Republic of China. Calling into...

After the Second World War, national self-determination became a recognized international norm, yet it only extended to former colonies. Groups within postcolonial states that made alternative sovereign claims were disregarded or actively suppressed...

Magic is ubiquitous across the world and throughout history. Yet if witchcraft is acknowledged as a persistent presence in the medieval and early modern eras, practical magic by contrast – performed to a useful end for payment, and actually more common...

La cité Maya de Naachtun, au Guatemala, fut, à la période Classique (150-950 apr. J.-C.), une capitale politique et économique de premier ordre, dotée d’une architecture monumentale et publique majestueuse et siège d’une puissante dynastie. C’est au...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781806720651Author Soviet General StaffFormat HardbackPage Count 344Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781806720637Author Richard W HarrisonFormat HardbackPage Count 412Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

More than sixty years after Turkey's Democrat Party was removed from office by a military coup and three of its leaders hanged, it remains controversial. For some, it was the defender of a more democratic political order and founder of a dominant...

Across the medieval and early modern eras, new rulers were celebrated with increasingly elaborate coronations and inaugurations that symbolically conferred legitimacy and political power upon them. Many historians have considered rituals like these as...

In this book, Kenneth Morgan provides the most comprehensive account of the abolition of the slave trade to the United States since W. E. B. Du Bois's 1896 The Suppression of the African Slave Trade to the United States of America, 1638–1870. Utilising a...

In this book, Kenneth Morgan provides the most comprehensive account of the abolition of the slave trade to the United States since W. E. B. Du Bois's 1896 The Suppression of the African Slave Trade to the United States of America, 1638–1870. Utilising a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781668013908Author Mikhail ZygarFormat HardbackPage Count 560Imprint ScribnerPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 748g

The rise and establishment of Safavid rule in Iran is a clear and momentous event in the wider history of the Middle East and Islamic world. In this study, Hani Khafipour explores how loyalty, social cohesion, and power dynamics found in Sufi thought...

The book "Digital Monuments in a Digital Landscape" explores the intricate relationship between cultural monuments and the landscapes in which they reside. Through the lens of modern digital tools and technologies, it examines how these monuments can be...

Finalist for the 2024 George Washington Prize The Spurgin family of North Carolina experienced the cataclysm of the American Revolution in the most dramatic ways—and from different sides. This engrossing book tells the story of Jane Welborn Spurgin, a...

'Unputdownable' - Sunday Times'Nobody has written a better account' – ObserverGermany’s greatest historian of Nazism describes in vivid detail the claustrophobic atmosphere of the Fuhrer's bunker during the bitter last days of the war when, drugged and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9791254631096Author Jacopo TintorettoFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Marsilio ArtePublisher Marsilio ArteWeight(grams) 476g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781477316658Author Mohsen Mostafavi MobasherFormat PaperbackPage Count 284Imprint University of Texas PressPublisher University of Texas PressWeight(grams)...

Linear A is a Middle and Late Bronze Age script principally used on Crete. Dated to 1800 - 1450 BC, it was discovered by archaeologist Sir Arthur Evans in 1900 and for over 120 years it has – until now – defied decipherment. In his book, author Mark...

Dive into the history, geography, and culture of Texas in this installment of the 50 States series. From major cities to historic events, Where Is Texas? introduces you to the state in a whole new way, whether you’re proud to call it home or learning...