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A history of how the freethought movement fought to maintain a secular United States.Although today it has largely faded from public memory, the American freethought movement played an important role in shaping the religious landscape of the United...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781009504782Author Charles HolcombeFormat HardbackPage Count 495Imprint Cambridge University PressPublisher Cambridge University Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525565703Author Hampton SidesFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 433g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398851696Author Al CiminoFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Sirius EntertainmentPublisher Sirius Entertainment

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780897336277Author Norman H FinkelsteinFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Chicago Review PressPublisher Chicago Review PressWeight(grams) 390g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780824899431Author Professor Janet R GoodwinFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint University of Hawaii PressPublisher University of Hawaii Press

“One of the most despicable scandals ever enacted in an English household.” In the 1880s, Lord Chief Justice Coleridge was the senior and deeply respected ‘celebrity’ judge in the land. After the premature death of his adored wife, his unmarried daughter...

During the First World War, over 300,000 Italian emigrants returned to Italy from around the world to perform their conscripted military service, a mass mobilisation which was a uniquely Italian phenomenon. But what happened to these men following their...

Originally published in 1985, Diet and Health in Modern Britain examines the changes in diet and health in Britain during the rapid social development of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It is particularly concerned with the ways in...

A lavishly illustrated guide to the medieval world covering the years 500 to 1500 around the world, including the Crusades, Marco Polo's travels to China, the Aztec Empire and more. Full of fascinating facts, maps and time charts, with contents and index...

On a sunny Friday morning in August 1945, a handful of people raised a homemade cotton flag and, on behalf of 68 million compatriots, announced the birth of a new nation. With the fourth largest population in the world, inhabiting islands that span an...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781784745080Author David RooneyFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Chatto & WindusPublisher Vintage Publishing

This book comprehensively surveys and critically analyses Gandhi’s ideas on caste and untouchability. It emphasizes the fact that Gandhi was a considerable thinker who had seminal ideas on the caste question. As an intellectual history, this book is not...

Soviet Russia (1955) discusses the origins and growth of Russian industry, in particular the emergence of a large modern working class and administrative class since the war, how the factories and farms are run, the wage systems, and the plans. The...

Originally published in 1958, this new impression of The Queen’s Wards from 1973 made available once more a work that remains a significant contribution to the history of society and government in Elizabethan England.The Court of Wards was a bizarre...

This book comprehensively surveys and critically analyses Gandhi’s ideas on caste and untouchability. It emphasizes the fact that Gandhi was a considerable thinker who had seminal ideas on the caste question. As an intellectual history, this book is not...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781405961745Author Ben MacintyreFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Penguin Books LtdPublisher Penguin Books LtdWeight(grams) 500g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525558347Author Marcus RedikerFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint VikingPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 661g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593963593Author DKFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Penguin Young ReadersPublisher Penguin Young ReadersWeight(grams) 567g

This book studies the social consequences of bureaucratic and scientific change during the transition to modern states and societies in the Age of Enlightenment, as it explores how the Habsburg Empire deployed new ways and means to integrate existing...

The Krio Fernandino women, pioneers of Europe’s African diaspora in the 19th Century.Little is known about the African women who came to Europe from the 1870s onwards, nor do we dare to imagine them as wealthy, elegantly dressed individuals with refined...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780553387315Author Mary Annette PemberFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint PantheonPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 588g

Electing the Pope in Early Modern Italy, 1450-1700 offers a radical reassessment of the history of early modern papacy, constructed through the first major analytical treatment of papal elections in English. Papal elections, with their ceremonial pomp...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593732304Author Lynne OlsonFormat HardbackPage Count 368Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 567g

A new, definitive queer history of the CommonwealthQueer Virginia is a long-needed record of the courageous and creative ways that LGBTQ+ people across the commonwealth have persevered and fought for their rights. The history recovered here is remarkable...

Originally published in English in 1985, this book concentrates on the people of the Middle Ages and how they saw the world they lived in. Medieval behaviour – social, economic, political and religious, was regulated by the Medieval picture of the world...

‘Utterly brilliant... this book really is the last word on the Battle of Arnhem.’ James Holland’Superb... A military historian of originality and insight to compare with the best.’ Saul David___________Al Murray has always been obsessed by this legendary...

A gripping tale of determination, betrayal, and the struggle for dignity amid societal and personal chaos.In The Strange and Tragic Wounds of George Cole's America, historian Michael deGruccio offers a gripping tale of ambition, self-making, and tragedy...

This textbook brings together a collection of the most important primary sources in the study of Palestinian nationalism, from the late nineteenth century through to the present day.Drawing from the eight-volume, 3000-page collection published by the...

Originally published in 1973, this book examines the urban community of Southampton through its early and formative years. Southampton is one of the most interesting and important medieval towns, because of its position as a ‘gateway’ between England and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780197697238Author Meena KrishnamurthyFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint OUP IndiaPublisher OUP India

A corrective history of the essential role that Black women played in the early Black press.A corrective history of the essential role that Black women played in the early Black press.In Great Thinkers and Doers, Teresa Zackodnik looks at the vital—and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780241741504Author Mark UrbanFormat HardbackPage Count 368Imprint VikingPublisher Penguin Books LtdWeight(grams) 750g

From actor, comedian, writer, and host of the hit history podcast SNAFU, Ed Helms brings you an absurdly entertaining look at history's greatest screwups, complete with lively illustrations. History contains a plethora of insane screwups-otherwise known...

The Scramble for Africa astonished everyone.In 1880 most of the continent was ruled by Africans, and barely explored. By 1902, five European Powers (and one extraordinary individual) had grabbed almost the whole continent, giving themselves 30 new...

A magisterial, single-volume history of the greatest conflict the world has ever known by our foremost military historian.The Second World War began in August 1939 on the edge of Manchuria and ended there exactly six years later with the Soviet invasion...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781984878908Author Bryan BurroughFormat HardbackPage Count 432Imprint The Penguin PressPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 703g

A panoramic history of WWII that argues that much of what we thought we knew is wrong - rather than being a conflict between democracy and fascism, it was a colonial race war that forged the Soviet and American empires.This new international history of...

A provocative new history of the forgeries, bogus science, rigged data, and fake news that keep American racism alive“Anyone interested in the intersection of race, politics, and public lies in America will want to read this book.” —David S. Reynolds,...

Spigot weapons, a unique British invention during World War II, were different from conventional mortars. Instead of a barrel, these weapons used a steel rod, or 'spigot', on which a bomb was placed before being fired. David Lister explores these...