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This innovative study is the first to explore the evolution of domestic service in the Soviet Union, set against the background of changing discourses on women, labour, and socialist living. Even though domestic service conflicted with the Bolsheviks'...

Tehran, the capital of Iran since the late eighteenth century, is now one of the largest cities in the Middle East. Exploring Tehran's development from the nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century, Ashkan Rezvani Naraghi paints a vibrant picture of a city...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467158305Author Amanda RotondoFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint History PressPublisher History PressWeight(grams) 141g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781668046296Author Augustine SedgewickFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint ScribnerPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 550g

Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 radically changed the way many viewed the nature of the Russian state. The centrality of resentment and imperial nostalgia in Russian narratives led many to argue that Russian imperialism was a key...

The first comprehensive guide dedicated solely to research on Latin-European early modern student notes.The many preserved collections of student notes from the early modern period – ranging from neatly maintained notebooks to barely legible scribbles...

The forces that fight asymmetric wars are so distinct that one side avoids direct military confrontation in favor of political, social, or otherwise unorthodox means of resistance. These conflicts have been a mainstay of modern times, though scholars...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467159050Author David FelsenFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint History PressPublisher History PressWeight(grams) 141g

"An intimate, moving look at the war that extracts deep meaning from the carnage and loss." - Publishers WeeklyWhat happens when you lose your freedom and the people who eventually get it back for you are no longer alive to thank? Remember Us, by Robert...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467159319Author Craig GainesFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint History PressPublisher History PressWeight(grams) 141g

Bodies of Work examines the transnational development of large-scale national systems, international organizations, technologies, and cultural material aimed at rehabilitating Allied ex-servicemen, disabled in the First World War. When nations mobilised...

'Greater India' was a transimperial, Indocentric research paradigm that informed the colonial recovery of the ancient past in Central and Southeast Asia. Ancient India was postulated as the fount of an expansive classicism – an actor in world history on...

This book contributes to the growing scholarship on the political dimensions of Ottoman Sufi thought and practice by examining the intersections of self-representation and religious authority in the writings of Ismail Hakki Bursevi (1653-1725), a...

This book provides an in-depth analysis of the social structure of Late Byzantine society (mid 13th - mid 15th c.), including the norms and ideas that governed social relations, and the Byzantine perceptions of their society. It includes an analysis of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798331025915Author Susan Elaine JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint BlurbPublisher BlurbWeight(grams) 168g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798331042868Author Paul St PierreFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint BlurbPublisher BlurbWeight(grams) 345g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798331229719Author Philip A BonneauFormat HardbackPage Count 448Imprint BlurbPublisher BlurbWeight(grams) 998g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781399540674Author Professor of English Caroline BreashearsFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University...

Music was everywhere in ancient Rome. Wherever one went in the sprawling city, the sound of singing and piping, drumming and strumming was never far out of earshot. This book examines the role of music in Roman politics and society, focusing on the...

The boni, the wealthy, but largely non-political, section of the Roman elite, have hitherto escaped scholarly attention. This book draws a detailed and rounded picture of the boni, their identity, values and interests, also tracing their – often tense -...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798348464974Author Antonio A StuckeyFormat PaperbackPage Count 70Imprint A. Alexander AuthorPublisher A. Alexander AuthorWeight(grams) 91g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781009303361Author Masako HattoriFormat HardbackPage Count 250Imprint Cambridge University PressPublisher Cambridge University Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798347627820Author Paolo ZanonFormat HardbackPage Count 152Imprint BlurbPublisher BlurbWeight(grams) 671g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250390417Author John GanzFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 454g

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802885142Author Asante U ToddFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint William B. Eerdmans Publishing CompanyPublisher William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company

Between the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, more than fifteen million people were uprooted from West Africa and enslaved in the Trans-Saharan and Transatlantic slave systems The state of Gajaage, located on the West African hinterland, offered a...

Was Churchill correct when he claimed the Second World War could easily have been prevented if Chamberlain had not appeased Hitler? How far did Churchill and Chamberlain differ on defence and foreign policy? To what extent was Chamberlain responsible for...

The 'Indian Mona Lisa' is an eighteenth-century portrait of the goddess Radha from the Kishangarh school of Rajput Painting. It was purportedly modelled after a young enslaved woman and court-performer, Banī-ṭhanī, who became a concubine of the patron of...

From the shadow of the Kantian critique it to the Oxford debates over Darwinism that shook the discipline to the core, and from the death of God to the rise of new Evangelical movements, 19th-century theology was fundamentally reshaped by both internal...

Why are activists in Thailand, Hong Kong, and Burma willing to court danger to help one another? The political situations in Burma, Thailand, and Hong Kong are radically different. Only Burma is in a state of civil war. Only Hong Kong has changed in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781464238987Author Mike BezemekFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint SourcebooksPublisher Sourcebooks

In the late eighteenth-century, elite British women had an unprecedented opportunity to travel. Taking travel home uncovers the souvenir culture these women developed around the texts and objects they brought back with them to realise their ambitions in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781009456692Author Sarah RoddyFormat HardbackImprint Cambridge University PressPublisher Cambridge University Press

Modernist Iranian art represents a highly diverse field of cultural production deeply involved in discussing questions of modernity and modernization as practiced in Iran. This book investigates how artistic production and art criticism reflected upon...

This book deals with the exploration and theorisation of Modern and Contemporary art of Iran through the examination of art movements and artistic practices in relation to other cultural, social and political discourses during the twentieth and...

It is commonplace that the modern world is more international than at any point in human history. Yet the sheer profusion of terms for describing politics beyond the nation state—including “international,” “European,” “global,” “transnational” and...

Exploring women's stories of work, protest, and power in the medieval Low CountriesThe Middle Ages—a time often cast as a dark period when violence reigned and men dominated society. Women, as the deeply rooted cliché would have it, played scarcely any...

The position of India’s princely states is a relatively under-studied aspect of the British withdrawal from India and the early years of Indian and Pakistani independence. Far from playing second fiddle to events in the British Indian provinces, the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789189615489Author Norbert GötzFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint Sodertorn UniversityPublisher Sodertorn UniversityWeight(grams) 113g