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A detailed examination of one of the key issues for British-American relations, for international trade and for international law. The taking of prizes, that is the capture of enemy vessels either by the Royal Navy or by private individuals licensed as...

An updated guide to Greek historiography was long overdue. In this comprehensive and temporally wide-ranging reassessment, History and Historiography in Greece examines the evolution of Greek historical scholarship by reviewing the ideas, methods, and...

The true story of the clandestine British organisation briefed to wage psychological warfare to beat the NazisAt the beginning of the Second World War, a team of unlikely and ill-assorted characters assembled in their secret country headquarters. They...

This volume continues the systematic edition of the unpublished Bo-texts deposited in the Museum of Ancient Anatolian Civilizations in Ankara. As in previous volumes, the text fragments are presented in both photographs and transliterations, with...

The work of Charles Tripp - professor at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) for over three decades - has shaped a distinct approach to the study of Middle East politics: an analytical sensibility that is empirically rich, theoretically...

The Soviet Union (1989) examines the state of the Soviet Union at the end of the 1980s. The Soviet Union claimed to offer a new social, economic and political order – a planned socialist system – and this book looks at the Soviet alternative and the...

'A fascinating, insightful book that will transform your understanding of the modern world' Jonathan KennedyFrom a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian comes the first definitive history of the Western hemisphere, a sweeping five-century narrative of North...

Belle Epoque Paris: Haussmann's airy boulevards, well-trimmed parks and markets. The capital of the 19th century. The glittering, glamorous age that would be lost in the industrialised human butchery of the First World War. When we think of this era, we...

This book presents a historical synthesis of colonial relations between Brazil and Portugal, illuminating the projects that the statesmen of the period formulated for the rich Portuguese territory in America, at first as a colonial domain, then as a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781635576566Author Becky AikmanFormat HardbackPage Count 416Imprint Bloomsbury PublishingPublisher Bloomsbury PublishingWeight(grams) 454g

Compelling oral history, collecting personal Welsh memories of D-Day, Kindertransport, Home Guard, Women's Land Army, bombing raids, POW camp escape and more. Published to mark the 80th anniversary of VE Day, it gives the whole spectrum of experiences of...

The George Spangler farm in Gettysburg is a place of reverence. Nurses held the hands of dying soldiers and prayed and spoke last words with them amid the blood, stench, and agony of two hospitals. Heroic surgeons resolutely worked around the clock to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781644453414Author Deborah BakerFormat HardbackPage Count 432Imprint Graywolf PressPublisher Graywolf PressWeight(grams) 454g

The Life of an Enslaved African in the Ottoman Empire and Iran is a poignant and compelling account of one man’s journey through struggle, resilience, and unimaginable suffering. In the early twentieth century, Mahboob Qirvanian recorded his personal...

In 1904, Berlin did not exactly look like a haven of tolerance. Sex between consenting males and gender non-conformity were illegal, and other forms of sexual expression faced oppressive societal taboos. But despite fear, secrecy, and blackmail,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467162555Author Tennyson DickinsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Arcadia Publishing (SC)Publisher Arcadia Publishing (SC)Weight(grams) 141g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467162319Author Ian C HartmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Arcadia Publishing (SC)Publisher Arcadia Publishing (SC)Weight(grams) 141g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781925909166Author Tracy P RockwellFormat PaperbackPage Count 500Imprint Ashnong Pty Ltd T/As Pegasus PublishingPublisher Ashnong Pty Ltd T/As Pegasus...

First published in 1966, in Human Robots in Myth and Science, the author traces the idea of the robot from antiquity until the present day (1960s) and sketches the lines of its likely development in the future. Modern science, like science fiction, is...

This volume presents the first fruits of the research project Hexameters Beyond the Canon: New Poetry on Papyri from Roman and Byzantine Egypt, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council. The new texts illustrate the great variety and interest of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385548571Author Michael LuoFormat HardbackPage Count 576Imprint Doubleday & Co Inc.Publisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 986g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780349147802Author Simon JenkinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint AbacusPublisher Little, Brown Book Group

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780306835667Author Dennis McNallyFormat HardbackPage Count 416Imprint Hachette BooksPublisher Hachette Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780007255498Author Robert FiskFormat PaperbackPage Count 672Imprint Fourth Estate LtdPublisher HarperCollins PublishersWeight(grams) 125g

Western India's Brahman communities have played a key role in the shaping of India's modern caste system. In Lineages of Brahman Power, Rosalind O'Hanlon focuses on their rise to power between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries, exploring the ways...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781978845053Author Jane S SmithFormat HardbackPage Count 225Imprint Rutgers University PressPublisher Rutgers University PressWeight(grams) 454g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681065885Author Nini HarrisFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint Reedy PressPublisher Reedy Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913083953Author Ross KingFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Old Street PublishingPublisher Old Street PublishingWeight(grams) 200g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781541702332Author Laurence ReesFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint PublicAffairsPublisher PublicAffairs

Brimming with life and drama, this is a magnificent journey into two thousand years of history, from the acclaimed historian of Europe'All roads lead to Rome.' It's a medieval proverb, but it's also true: today's European roads still follow the networks...

During World War II, the United States Marine Corps (USMC) evolved into a powerful multi-division force, playing a central role in the Pacific theater. Among its lesser-known units were the Paramarines and the Raiders. The Paramarines, the Marine...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781639734146Author William DalrympleFormat HardbackPage Count 464Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing USAPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing USAWeight(grams) 454g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781985902503Author James C NicholsonFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint The University Press of KentuckyPublisher The University Press of Kentucky

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781639368839Author Luke PeperaFormat HardbackPage Count 432Imprint Pegasus BooksPublisher Pegasus BooksWeight(grams) 635g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781594164446Author Don N HagistFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint Westholme PublishingPublisher Westholme PublishingWeight(grams) 454g

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 9781501781483Author Danielle BeaujonFormat PaperbackPage Count 270Imprint Cornell University PressPublisher Cornell University Press

This book situates historical scholarship within a plurihistoricity of contemporary historical culture, exploring conflicting conceptions of historical change in technological utopias of human enhancement, in prospects of human extinction, in societal...

'The best book on Pompeii I've ever read' STEPHEN FRYThis is Pompeii, as you've never seen it before. In this revelatory history, Gabriel Zuchtriegel shares the new secrets of Pompeii. Over the last few years, a vast stretch of the city has been...

On the evening of 5 June 1944, the people of Britain braced for news that would truly change the course of history. Ships and landing craft assembled in the Channel, paratroopers prepared for flight and troops readied for action. A brief announcement the...