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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467159210Author Adam PapaganFormat PaperbackPage Count 178Imprint History PressPublisher History PressWeight(grams) 141g

This is a true story. About survival. A Breton soldier who fought at Hastings returns to his family’s ancient Celtic roots in the West County. Nicholas St Aubyn follows his family’s tenuous path over the next one thousand years, describing those they...

This book explores the Brontë siblings growing up with maternal deprivation and loss, and how this affected their development both as children and as adults. It examines how their sibling rivalry led to disharmony and separation, where each of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467162371Author Latah County Historical SocietyFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Arcadia Publishing (SC)Publisher Arcadia Publishing (SC)Weight(grams)...

Dr Adrian Greaves’ is widely acknowledged as a leading expert on the Anglo-Zulu War of 1879 and his previous account of Rorke’s Drift has become a standard work on that battle. However, by his own admission, it is hopelessly out of date as are other...

The Ordnungspolizei or Order Police was one of the main apparatus for the security of Nazi Germany. During the 1930s, Heinrich Himmler, Head of the SS, along with the Commander-in-Chief of the Order Police, Kurt Daluege, totally reconstructed the police...

This book redefines the history of modernity by focusing on how people used photography to affirm continuity and social stability during a time defined by rapid transition in all every field of life. By the early 1860s, commercial portrait photography...

A Crusader's Death and Life in Acre uses five parchment rolls that inventoried the possessions of Eudes of Nevers, son of the duke of Burgundy, at his death in Acre in 1266 to open out a panorama of Christian crusader life. The contents of the rolls, or...

On 6 June 1944 when the allied armies landed on D-Day, the Second World War had already lasted almost five years. Yet many of the British and American troops who invaded Normandy were virgin soldiers, never before...

This is a comprehensive study of Holocaust memory in the digital age of social media. Focusing on the five most popular digital platforms in use today: Flickr, Instagram, YouTube, Twitter and Facebook, it examines how social technology affects the way...

How street vendors tangle with the law in Sao Paulo, Brazil. The daily delights and conveniences that any city dweller has become accustomed to, such as cold water bottles on a summer afternoon in the park or a popsicle from a tray while you're sitting...

A poignant photographic tour of honor, sacrifice, and memory within America's national cemeteries. In America's National Cemeteries, Timothy B. Spears takes the reader on a grand tour of these singular places of commemoration, the final resting place for...

"...a pageturner that reads like a novel, made better by the fact that it is true." - ARMY Magazine_x000D_ _x000D_ Kelly Eads joined the 101st Airborne Division soon after 9/11, his experience reflecting the patriotism and commitment of so many young...

A reflection on the evolution of physical media into metaphor, through the history of music curation. Obsolescence makes the heart grow fonder, at least in the case of the mixtape. Not all technologies are so lucky. Some (say, wax cylinders) fade almost...

Whether discussing contemporary American political issues, Federalist opposition to Jeffersonian ideology, or the shape and texture of Texas politics, Jim Broussard evinced a keen understanding of what moved voters to act as they did. His love of the...

Offering an insightful and concise introduction to the history of the United States from pre-European contact up to the present day, this book succinctly depicts the major themes and patterns in American history incorporating social, economic, cultural,...

Beginning in the late nineteenth century, British companies used the resources of empire to create an imperial oil industry that controlled 20% of global oil reserves by 1939 and allowed for the movement of capital and labor between regions and companies...

The North Yorkshire seaside town of Scarborough grew up around its mediaeval castle, built on a headland. It developed as a spa town in the seventeenth century, becoming one of the country’s first coastal resorts. The railways brought more visitors in...

New discoveries of surviving color on sculpture spanning two millennia and across the globe, from ancient Greece to Tenochtitlán to Renaissance Europe Many ancient and early modern works that are viewed in monochrome today were once painted in vibrant...

A lively new history of London told through twenty-five buildings, from iconic Georgian townhouses to the Shard A walk along any London street takes you past a wealth of seemingly ordinary buildings: an Edwardian church, modernist postwar council...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781998365241Author Greg KoabelFormat HardbackPage Count 250Imprint The Sutherland House Inc.Publisher The Sutherland House Inc.

The legacy of the German General, Otto Liman von Sanders, remains highly contested in the history of twentieth-century Europe and the Middle East. Noted for leading the 5th Ottoman army’s successful defence of the Dardanelles and Gallipoli in 1915, his...

Within France, the expression “duty of memory” (le devoir de mémoire)speaks to a complex and ever-evolving relationship with the past. Emerging in the 1970s, this term raised questions about memorialization which dominated public debates in the 1990s,...

Historical lessons are useful or even necessary for our guidance and orientation in time. These lessons, however, have often been overlooked in historical reflections on watershed moments, such as genocides, treaties, and global movements. Focusing on...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781788551779Author Cormac MooreFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Irish Academic Press LtdPublisher Irish Academic Press Ltd

A new account of how Haiti under French colonial rule became a violent sugar plantation stateIn the early eighteenth century, France turned to its New World colonies to help rescue the monarchy from the wartime debts of Louis XIV. This short-lived scheme...

This is the first book to bring together groundbreaking scholarship focusing on the various ways in which famines result from political decision-making, and how the threat, occurrence, relief, or memory of famine are instrumentalized as a political and...

The year 1925 was arguably the peak of literature's centrality. There were more magazines, more journals, more reviews, more book news, and more book gossip than ever before or since. Literature's rivals for cultural attention were on the rise-film was...

The role played by film in reshaping Austria’s post-war national identity is often studied within narrow historical and geographical margins. Film history traditionally focuses on either the work of a sole director, German cinematography, or the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789189882416Author Elisabeth Svalin GunnarssonFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Bokforlaget StolpePublisher Bokforlaget Stolpe

The German procurement process resulted in a wide range of gun-armed armored vehicles-assault guns, tank destroyers and self-propeled artillery-mounting both German and captured guns. Some were developed from existing German chassis; many employed...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781609389710Author Coreen DerifieldFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint University of Iowa PressPublisher University of Iowa PressWeight(grams) 454g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804517765Author Glen W. PriceFormat PaperbackPage Count 260Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

All golden ages are marked by periods of spectacular cultural flourishing, scientific exploration, technological achievement and economic growth; yet no two are the same. Their beliefs, societies and place in the wider world all vary. Despite this, all...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804516294Author Vincent HuntFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780935995312Author Hans Jacob OrningFormat HardbackPage Count 277Imprint Cornell University Library, Division of Rare & Manuscripts CollectionsPublisher...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781890951917Author Quinn SlobodianFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Zone BooksPublisher Zone Books

The German-Soviet War revises the conflict's generally accepted understanding through case-studies, demonstrating the complexity of the war at the local level. The contributors assembled by Jeff Rutherford and Robert von Maier examine the multiplicity of...

Since the 1960s, nations across the “developed world” have been profoundly shaped by deindustrialization. In regions in which previously dominant industries faced crises or have disappeared altogether, industrial heritage offers a fascinating window...

Focusing on youth, family, work, and consumption, Ambiguous Transitions analyzes the interplay between gender and citizenship postwar Romania. By juxtaposing official sources with oral histories and socialist policies with everyday practices, Jill...