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'These stories of witchcraft, true and vividly told, demonstrate the potent reality of belief in evil and how in any era or place fear can be weaponised and marginal people, mostly women, labelled as wicked and dangerous. Together they comprise not just...

The World of Hesiod (1936) examines the world of the Ancient Greeks before Ionian rationalism and the civilisation of Athens. Lying between the Heroic Age and the Lyric Age, Hesiod and the Geometric potters and painters set the scene for the economic,...

Town and Country in Roman Britain (1964) is a study of the effects of Roman rule on the lowland zone of Britain and of the relationship between town and country. The author places the Romano-British towns and villas in their economic and political...

The Georgia of the North is a historical narrative about Black women and the long civil rights movement in New Jersey from the Great Migration to 1954. Specifically, the critical role played by Black women in forging interracial, cross-class, and...

Wine in the Ancient World (1957) examines wine in all its forms in, primarily, ancient Greece and Rome. It looks at the origins of wine, its production, transportation and consumption, and its changing status through the centuries.Book InformationISBN...

This edited volume studies the logic of community formation and common view of the past to show how various social bonds of communities functioned during the modern national era of East-Central Europe from the late eighteenth century until today, and how...

Sydney Stutterheim introduces a new figure into histories of Western performance art during the 1970s and 1980s: the accomplice, whose unseen and unacknowledged role questions notions of artistic agency, intellectual property, and authorship.

First published in 1964, The Kurdish War presents the firsthand historical account of the aspirations, history, background of the Kurdish nationalists in Iraq. It showcases David Adamson’s 200-mile journey on foot and horseback through the rebel...

‘That this is a legitimate question, even a necessary one, is argued by Vergara in a pleasurable manner, with the pace and attitude of a peripatetic thinker. There is something here that reminds one of Montaigne or Stendhal.’ – El País In-depth...

A powerful work of reportage and American history that braids the story of the forced removal of Native Americans onto treaty lands in the nation’s earliest days, and a small-town murder in the ‘90s that led to a Supreme Court ruling reaffirming Native...

Life and Thought in the Greek and Roman World (1961) aims to provide a brief but comprehensive outline sketch of Greek and Roman civilization. It describes the geographic, political and social background of that civilization, and sets forth its main...

Seers, Shrines and Sirens (1965) surveys the history of Greek religion during the great formative and revolutionary era of the sixth century BC. It treats, among other subjects, the rise to prominence of the Delphic oracle, the growth of religious...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798891557345Author David R. GrossFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Austin Macauley Publishers LLCPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers LLC

The Ionians and Hellenism (1980) presents an assessment of the art, literature and philosophy of the Asia Minor Greeks – the Ionians – in the eighth to sixth centuries B.C. The Ionians are notable both for what they achieved and for the way in which they...

Patronage in Ancient Society (1989) examines a subject central to the society of the ancient Mediterranean, bringing together the interests of ancient historians and sociologists, using ancient societies, and particularly Roman society, as the focus for...

The studies collected in Science in the Early Roman Empire (1986) represent key research done on the Elder Pliny – an important and difficult figure whose Natural History forms a valuable compendium at a fixed historical point in time of ancient science...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781394208241Author Melvyn DubofskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Wiley-BlackwellPublisher John Wiley & Sons Inc

First published in 1963, Massacre at Amritsar recreates the terrible scene of the Jallianwala Bagh from the stories of eyewitnesses and survivors.

The Universities of Ancient Greece (1912) examines Greek education in the Classical world, from the pre-Alexandrian times to the last three centuries B.C. ‘Universities’ are defined as congregations of professors and students, as well as the organized...

"Bourton on the Water: An Illustrated Guide" is written by Paul Snowdon. This beautifully handrawn guide to this famous Cotswold village brings alive the history of the area dating from before Roman times, explore this village's history page by page...

First published in 1965, The Culture and Civilisation of Ancient India in Historical Outline is a strikingly original work, the first real cultural history of India.

First published in 1981, Libya: A Modern History traces the history of Libya from 1900 to 1980, showing how its first monarchic constitution was modelled by the UN Commission, and survived precariously until the military coup of 1969. The author traces...

First published in 1937, India captures the tense and tumultuous developments in India that would eventually result in her freedom a decade later.

First book-length study by an African that incorporates the trials and triumphs of Queen Elizabeth II, tracing her contributions to African affairsThe road to Queen Elizabeth II’s implementation of African reforms was rough, especially in the first two...

Developed in collaboration with the Scottish Storytelling Centre, Edinburgh UNESCO City of Literature and the Scottish International Storytelling Festival, this book, by the esteemed Donald Smith invites you to discover the captivating tapestry of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913083632Author Lesley DownerFormat HardbackPage Count 262Imprint Old Street PublishingPublisher Old Street Publishing

Based in Perthshire, the Murray family played an important role in all Jacobite rebellions, whether as rebels or supporters of the government. During the Great Rising of 1715, the head of the family the Duke of Atholl remained loyal to the Hanoverian...

There is the story the Lone Star State likes to tell about itself—and then there is the reality, a Texas past that bears little resemblance to the manly Anglo myth of Texas exceptionalism that maintains a firm grip on the state’s historical imagination...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789390095674Author Anil SengarFormat HardbackPage Count 260Imprint Pentagon PressPublisher Pentagon Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789198842531Author Petr DolezalFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Canfora Grafisk FormPublisher Canfora Grafisk Form

At a time of increased pressure for new urban development, where there is a focus on either object-based architecture or the rolling out of developer-designed suburban sprawl, there is a concern that the lessons learned about the creation of a general...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804515488Author Stuart B JenningsFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

McNeill's The Webs of Humankind offers a refreshingly clear view of world history through the lens of connective "webs" of interaction-along which trade, religious beliefs, technologies, pathogens, and much else traveled. Instructors have hailed...

Now in its fifth edition, The Historian's Toolbox is designed to help students become skilled in the intellectual process and craft of history, offering an overview of the field and techniques for reading and writing about history.The fifth edition...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800087217Author Eva MillerFormat PaperbackImprint UCL PressPublisher UCL Press

From the podcast legends who brought you The Rest is History comes The Rest is History Returns. This time Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook bring you an alphabetical miscellany, taking on some of history’s best and most bizarre moments! Charge forth...

Get the inside track on the incredible lives of history's biggest names Get the inside track on the incredible lives of history's biggest names, from William Shakespeare to Oprah Winfrey, and Anne Frank to Julius Caesar. More than 150 visual timelines...

The first major history of the American glider pilots, the forgotten heroes of World War II, by a New York Times bestselling author. A story of no guns, no engines and no second chances. This book distills war down to individual young men climbing into...

I Hope I Break Even, I Could Use the Money is a book of black and white photographs taken at Aqueduct Racetrack by NYC photographer Larry Racioppo. In a short accompanying essay, Larry describes a day spent there with his father and uncle who, like the...

With a new preface by the author on the Gaza war An unflinching exposé of the hidden costs of American war-making written with “an immense and rare humanity” (Naomi Klein) by one of our premier political analystsEvery election cycle, candidates across...