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This collection of essays re-examines ideas of change and movements for change in early modern Europe without presuming that "progressive" change was the outcome of "reforms"."Reform" today implies rational, incremental change to public institutions and...

Motherhood, Respectability and Baby-Farming in Victorian and Edwardian London explores a largely obscured marketplace of motherhood that provided ways for women to manage the stigma of illegitimacy and their respectable identities within Victorian and...

‘The Laws of all Nations … define & declare a Pirate to be an Enemy of Mankind … He is perhaps the only Criminal on Earth, whose crime cannot be absolutely pardoned … a Pirate is equally an Enemy and dangerous to all Societies … Piracy is in its self a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780735242067Author Nahlah AyedFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Prentice Hall PressPublisher Prentice Hall Press

Originally published in 1937 and written by de Kiewiet who in his lifetime was recognized as one of the premier historians of British imperial policy and African history, this book covers the years 1871-1885 in South Africa’s history, discussing racial,...

The studies collected here cover a period of about 33 years, from 1986 to 2019, and represent a sustained effort to understand the institutions of the Merovingian kingdom and its history. There has long been a predisposition to cast the Merovingian...

An illustrated account of the Bf 109E's evolving role during the fateful first stages of the Battle of Britain. The Luftwaffe’s famous Bf 109 Emil saw considerable combat across the first stages of World War 2, but it was 1940’s Battle of Britain that...

WINNER OF THE EDGAR AWARD FOR BEST FACT CRIME SHORTLISTED FOR THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE IN NON-FICTION SHORTLISTED FOR THE CWA ALCS GOLD DAGGER FOR NON-FICTION **NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE DIRECTED BY MARTIN SCORSESE STARRING LEONARDO...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783111520964Author Christoph WitzenrathFormat PaperbackPage Count 314Imprint De GruyterPublisher De Gruyter

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This is a book by and about Frank O. Etheridge, an African-American musician from an age of cultural explosion. The decade after World War II saw the coming-of-age of marginalized cultures, and in North America a new voice emerged among peoples of...

Read the legendary story of the Lockheed C-130 Hercules aircraft, seen through the eyes of former RAF captain Scott Bateman'An engaging and revealing read' JOHN NICHOL---Anytime, Anywhere, Anyhow. Whether it’s war, natural disaster, or humanitarian...

Barry Broman joined the CIA in 1971 straight out of the Marine Corps, choosing a career in intelligence largely because he wanted to spend his working life in Southeast Asia. Over the next thirty years, he had the privilege of working with brave men and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781541601741Author June ThomasFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Seal Press (CA)Publisher Seal Press (CA)Weight(grams) 413g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374614072Author QuestloveFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint AuwaPublisher AuwaWeight(grams) 454g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781541602922Author Lloyd Llewellyn-JonesFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint Basic BooksPublisher Basic Books

Antarctica. Winter 1912.Hunkering down in the windiest place on earth, eighteen young Australians eagerly await a chance to prove themselves as polar explorers and scientists. The spring sledging season will bring adventure, danger, and the discovery of...

This book provides a concise and incisive introduction to the Teutonic Knights, or Teutonic Order, the last of the great military orders established in the twelfth century. Evolving into a powerful religious institution, the Knights left a profound and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998968957Author Jennifer WingateFormat HardbackPage Count 232Imprint Pritzker Military Museum & LibraryPublisher Pritzker Military Museum &...

In A Mirror for History, author Marc Egnal uses novels and art to provide a new understanding of American society. The book argues that the arc of middle-class culture reflects the evolution of the American economy from the near-subsistence agriculture...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781541645912Author Hugh WilfordFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint Basic BooksPublisher Basic BooksWeight(grams) 590g

This book is Volume IV in the Official History of Criminal Justice in England and Wales. Previous volumes have focused on the moral reforms of the 1960s, the changes to the criminal courts and the introduction of an independent prosecution service, and...

On the Trail of William Wallace offers a refreshing insight into the life and heritage of the great Scots hero whose proud story is at the very heart of what it means to be Scottish, and whose effect on the ordinary Scot through the ages is manifest in...

Originally published in 1987, South Africa in Crisis documents the perceptions and policies of all the major interest groups in South Africa during the 1980s when the long-running struggle for ultimate political power in South Africa entered a new phase...

This book brings together critical essays on time, history and narrativity and the explorations of these concepts in philosophy, music, art and literature.The volume provides a comprehensive introduction to narrative theories as well as philosophical...

To most of us, Celtic culture is at once distinctive and enigmatic. Though we may acknowledge the Celtic heritage of Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Spain (Galicia) and France (Brittany), and be familiar with the mythology and literature that has given us...

'Fascinating, masterful ... gems scattered throughout the book' Peter Frankopan, Spectator'Quirkily original but also scholarly and authoritative, to be read for pleasure and serious reflection' Telegraph*The dramatic history of Europe's shape-shifting...

The formation of modern European states during the long 19th century was a complicated process, challenged by the integration of widely different territories and populations. The Science of State Power in the Habsburg Monarchy, 1790-1880 builds on...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788119139606Author Abdul KarimFormat HardbackPage Count 234Imprint Manohar Publishers and DistributorsPublisher Manohar Publishers and Distributors

Originally published in 1994, Portrait of a Racist is an astonishing biography of Byron De La Beckwith (1920–2001), who murdered Black civil rights leader Medgar Evers in June 1963. Written by Beckwith’s nephew by marriage, the book is based on dozens of...

Originally published in 1981, this book took a position which was unpopular within the academic establishment at the time of its publication. It argued that the extraordinary social and economic changes that came over South Africa in the 20th Century...

First published in 1942, Palestine is a brief history of Zionism, interspersed with a wealth of observation stimulation for the seeker of objective truth. The author develops his own theories of Jewish racialism, nationalism and colonization, and...

Following emancipation, African Americans continued their quest for an education by constructing schools and colleges for Black students, mainly in the U.S. South, to acquire the tools of literacy, but beyond this, to enroll in courses in the Greek and...

In the 1890s, conflict erupted on the Ottoman island of Crete. At the heart of the Crete Question, as it came to be known around the world, were clashing claims of sovereignty between Greece and the Ottoman Empire. The island was of tremendous...

Conspicuously missing from narratives of the Lebanese Civil War are the stories of women who took part in daily social activism and political advocacy during the tumultuous conflict. What the War Left Behind gives voice to their stories, with eight women...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781685900557Author Bruce NeuburgerFormat HardbackPage Count 408Imprint Monthly Review Press,U.S.Publisher Monthly Review Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 703g

In the dying light of the nineteenth century, the world came to know and fear terrorism. Like today, this was a time of progress and dread, characterised by political and technological breakthroughs and waves of immigration that swelled the populations...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911658955Author Dr Ron SmithFormat HardbackPage Count 300Imprint Mortons Media GroupPublisher Mortons Media GroupWeight(grams) 1305g