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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467156936Author Orice JenkinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint History PressPublisher History PressWeight(grams) 9g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467157124Author Donna Blake BirchellFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint History PressPublisher History PressWeight(grams) 9g

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Originally published in 1980, this book examines the ‘self-government’ constitution, administrative and party system of The Ciskei which was one of the black ‘homelands’ created by the government of the Republic of South Africa in its pursuit of...

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Originally published in 1972, this book covers South African history from the earliest times up to 1968. After portraying the land itself, its people and their migrations, it describes what early travellers found and the arrival of the first white...

The fighting on the first day at Gettysburg, July 1, 1863, was heavy, confusing, and decisive. Much of it consisted of short and often separate simultaneous engagements or “firefights,” a term the soldiers themselves often used to describe the close,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467161084Author Elizabeth Hoxie JoynerFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Arcadia Publishing (SC)Publisher Arcadia Publishing (SC)Weight(grams) 9g

Forgotten Island is the story of Navy radioman George Tweed, who was trapped on Japanese-occupied Guam during World War II, and the American liberation of the island.The opening days of World War II in the Pacific found the island of Guam in the Mariana...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467157582Author Cody PolstonFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint History PressPublisher History PressWeight(grams) 9g

In Ghostly Past, Capitalist Presence, Tithi Bhattacharya maps the role that Bengali ghosts and ghost stories played in constituting the modern Indian nation, and the religious ideas seeded therein, as it emerged in dialogue with European science...

Following thirty years of research, including research into recently declassified government archives, this newly revised and expanded edition of Linda Melvern’s classic of investigative journalism reveals how policymakers continue to refuse to properly...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781598537765Author Wendell BerryFormat HardbackPage Count 800Imprint The Library of AmericaPublisher The Library of America

Tales of Two Cities tells the story of Old Sarum and Salisbury, from the middle of the tenth century to the beginning of the twentieth. The volume brings together the most up-to-date thinking on the archaeological evidence for both medieval cities, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916556386Author Jack BowsherFormat HardbackPage Count 300Imprint Chiselbury PublishingPublisher Chiselbury Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467155687Author Nelson HarrisFormat HardbackPage Count 776Imprint History PressPublisher History PressWeight(grams) 9g

Reframing Berlin is about how architecture and the built environment can reveal the memory of a city, an urban memory, through its transformation and consistency over time by means of 'urban strategies', which have developed throughout history as cities...

Unveiling Jan Hendrix's graphic journey which spans almost half a century, offering a rich tapestry of maps and coordinates. Featuring essays by esteemed colleagues such as Estrella de Diego, Patricia Sloane, Olivier Debroise, and more, "ATLAS" not only...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781789071603Author Frank RennieFormat PaperbackPage Count 198Imprint AcairPublisher AcairWeight(grams) 300g

The first full-length study of one of the most controversial figures of later fourteenth century England. Robert de Vere was a close friend of the young King Richard II. He was accused of a wide range of political crimes and private vices by his...

A history of diabetes science and the experience of diabetics in the nineteenth-century England A Male Hysteria examines both the science of diabetes in nineteenth-century England and the testimony of Victorian diabetics. What could be known about...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781646426638Author Alan J M NoonanFormat PaperbackPage Count 378Imprint University Press of ColoradoPublisher University Press of Colorado

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467156745Author Carl R OliverFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint History PressPublisher History PressWeight(grams) 9g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467157667Author Marie LathersFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint History PressPublisher History PressWeight(grams) 9g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467156349Author Raymond a GuadagniFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint History PressPublisher History PressWeight(grams) 9g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781606188972Author Thomas E. ChávezFormat PaperbackPage Count 472Imprint American Philosophical Society PressPublisher American Philosophical Society Press

Dennis Unkovic's much-needed message punctures the myth of China's inexorable ascent: Because China is a Leninist party-state it is dangerous-and doomed to inefficiencies and irrationalities that will sap its vigor.- George F. Will, syndicated...

This is the first book length study of Salon caricature, a widespread genre of press illustration that flourished in Paris in the second half of the 19th century. Salon caricature began with a few tentative lithographs in the 1840s and, within a few...

Peasant Rebellion in a Slave Society identifies the immediate and remote reasons for the Balaiada revolt in Maranhão, Brazil, analyzing the special characteristics of the region that favored the development of a relatively independent peasantry within...

Originally published in 1973, this book begins with the arrival of the Europeans in South Africa. It examines the part played by the Dutch, British and Afrikaners, as well the diverse ethnic groups including the Xhosa and Zulus. The complicated period of...

The Roman empire was like no other. Stretching from the north of Britain to the Sahara, and from the Atlantic coast to the Euphrates, it imposed peace and prosperity on an unprecedented scale. Its only true rival lay in the east, where the Parthian and...

_Martin Packard is an extraordinary man who has led an extraordinary life. An idealist and a man of liberal instincts, his enthusiasms resulted in him having an inside track in several major events of recent decades, including the coup and bloody...

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The arrival of the first snapshot camera in Victorian times bred a new kind of photographer, one who might never before have thought of owning a camera, but for whom the ability to take pictures without any previous experience offered a new liberation...

**LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2024****WINNER OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE FOR HISTORY**This is the authoritative history of South Asia in the 20th century.'A classic ... wonderfully enjoyable' WILLIAM DALRYMPLE'Chatterji...

A colossal basalt statue was uncovered through rescue excavation in downtown Amman, Jordan in 2010. Despite the statue's Roman period find context, its form and motifs show it to be an Iron Age sculpture, and geoscientific testing indicates a regional...

An illustrated history of the American-built destroyers and frigates supplied to the Royal Navy under Lend-Lease, which played a crucial role in Britain's war in the Atlantic. As U-boat attacks on Britain’s vital sea lanes increased in ferocity, and...

The Isle of Wight: Women, History, Books and Places does not contain a chapter about Queen Victoria and Osborne House, which are, perhaps, all some know about the Island. But somehow she sneaks into several chapters. If her daughter, Princess Beatrice,...

Serial Drawing offers a timely and rigorous exploration of a relatively little-researched art form. Serial drawings – artworks that are presented as singular works but are made up of distributed parts – are studied in fresh, contemporary terms with a...