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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781685624231Author Edward ChukukereFormat PaperbackPage Count 578Imprint Austin Macauley Publishers LLCPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers LLC

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781324104599Author Eric FonerFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint W. W. Norton & CompanyPublisher W. W. Norton & CompanyWeight(grams) 331g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781324104643Author Eric FonerFormat PaperbackPage Count 424Imprint W. W. Norton & CompanyPublisher W. W. Norton & CompanyWeight(grams) 363g

How have fairy tales from around the world changed over the centuries? What do they tell us about different cultures and societies? Spanning the years from 900 to 1500 and traversing geographical borders, from England to France and India to China, this...

The German chemical firm, I.G. Farben, remains an object of historical scrutiny. Responsible for developing the gasoline and aviation fuel so integral to the Nazi regime’s military campaign, the company’s executives enabled the Third Reich’s war crimes...

How have fairy tales from around the world changed over the centuries? What do they tell us about different cultures and societies? Spanning chronologically from the third millennium BCE through to the seventh century CE and beyond, and geographically...

Survival, the IISS’s bimonthly journal, challenges conventional wisdom and brings fresh, often controversial, perspectives on strategic issues of the moment.In this issue:Michael Carpenter discusses the deepening contest between democratic and...

A centennial edition of the classic work that instilled a liberal spirit into the study of American historyJ. Franklin Jameson’s The American Revolution Considered as a Social Movement was among the first books to look at American history through the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781037100925Author Peter HuntFormat PaperbackPage Count 148Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781035896721Author John K LanderFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781035889419Author William LillyFormat HardbackPage Count 536Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781035889402Author William LillyFormat PaperbackPage Count 536Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

What happens when migrants are rejected by the host society that first invited them? How do they return to a homeland that considers them outsiders? Foreign in Two Homelands explores the transnational history of Turkish migrants, Germany's largest ethnic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789369896776Author Devdutt PattanaikFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Harper FictionPublisher HarperCollins Publishers India

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798384907602Author Julie MurrayFormat HardbackPage Count 24Imprint Abdo Kids JumboPublisher Abdo Kids JumboWeight(grams) 17g

Discover the fascinating world of the kingdom of Benin through 99 questions and answersWho ruled the kingdom of Benin? How did the people of Benin wear their hair? And what is so special about the Benin bronzes? Find out the answers to all these...

The New Cold War at Sea exposes the growing maritime partnership between China and Russia, revealing how their increasingly coordinated naval strategies-from the Arctic to the Pacific-might threaten U.S. maritime dominance. Drawing on rare Russian and...

In this comparative study, Bin-Kasim examines environmental sanitation in the historical development of Accra and Nairobi, the capitals of the Gold Coast (Ghana) and Kenya. This book traces the approaches to sanitation during colonial rule and urban...

The Paradox of Protection: The Making of Indirect Rule in Southern Sierra Leone, 1850-1915 charts the history of protection to tell a new story about indirect rule in West Africa. Protection emerged as one of the central concepts through which Africans...

How the "recycling" of the Ottoman Empire's uses of genealogy and religion created new political orders in the Middle EastIn this groundbreaking book, Adam Mestyan argues that post-Ottoman Arab political orders were not, as many historians believe,...

A groundbreaking history of fengshui's roles in public life and law during China's last imperial dynastyToday the term fengshui, which literally means "wind and water," is recognized around the world. Yet few know exactly what it means, let alone its...

Discover the fascinating world of the Song Dynasty through 99 questions and answersHow big was the Song civilisation? Why was Confucius so important to the Song? And did the Song really invent gunpowder? Find out the answers to all these questions and...

As the first book-length examination of abolition and its legacies in Mexico, this collection reveals innovative social, cultural, political, and intellectual approaches to Afro-Mexican history. It complicates the long-standing belief that Afro-Mexicans...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913993764Author J. H. AndrewsFormat PaperbackPage Count 552Imprint Ulster Historical FoundationPublisher Ulster Historical Foundation

An entire forgotten corpus of US writing on the Nazi German enemy boomed in a matter of a few years, peaked during World War II, and collapsed within months of the war ending. For a fleeting moment in history, significant parts of the intellectual world...

This book traces an emotional and revolutionary history of the Second World War, through the prism of the Quit India Movement in Bengal. While this last mass-movement of colonial India echoed at an all-India level, Bengal was exceptional in the 1940s due...

An entire forgotten corpus of US writing on the Nazi German enemy boomed in a matter of a few years, peaked during World War II, and collapsed within months of the war ending. For a fleeting moment in history, significant parts of the intellectual world...

Ancient Greek terminology continues to shape contemporary discourse; hubris is a case in point. Typically seen as the catastrophic yet common tendency to reach too high, only to fall, it remains a fixture in the contemporary discourse of business and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781592115976Author James M DonovanFormat HardbackPage Count 170Imprint Histria AcademicPublisher Histria LLC

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798350501964Author Samuel Eliot MorisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 902Imprint Maple Spring PublishingPublisher Maple Spring Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798897100057Author Philip StephensFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Pegasus BooksPublisher Pegasus BooksWeight(grams) 499g

How New York State has led the way in expanding freedom for all over the last 250 years.Revolutionary New York celebrates the 250th anniversary of the American Revolution and the many historical changes that have occurred since, as reflected through the...

Considered one of “the most innovative studies of American emancipation in the Civil War” (David W. Blight, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Frederick Douglass), Somewhere Toward Freedom is a groundbreaking account of Sherman’s March to the Sea—the...

The groundbreaking people, ideas, and inventions of the Industrial Revolution, spanning from 1760 to 1840, are brought to life in this fascinating addition to the New York Times bestselling What Was? series.Following the Agricultural Revolution, the...

Once seen as an ultra-centralized structure, the Portuguese empire is now often portrayed as a headless entity, coaxed into action by restless overseas subjects. This book proposes a more nuanced approach. Through an in-depth analysis of imperial...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781668049686Author MR Gareth RussellFormat HardbackPage Count 496Imprint Atria BooksPublisher Atria BooksWeight(grams) 476g

Red Dead Redemption and Red Dead Redemption II, set in 1911 and 1899, are the most-played American history video games since The Oregon Trail. Beloved by millions, they've been widely acclaimed for their realism and attention to detail. But how do they...

The question of whether Britain is "apart from or a part of Europe" (D. Abulafia) has gained significance in recent years. This book reassesses an underexplored field of early modern transnational history: the variety of ways in which connections between...

This Element explores the yearning for things of the past, from early modern antiquarianism to the contemporary art market. It tells a global story about scholars who, driven by this yearning, roamed the world and amassed many of its historical artefacts...