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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781464226908Author Mike BezemekFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint SourcebooksPublisher Sourcebooks

The Life of an Enslaved African in the Ottoman Empire and Iran is a poignant and compelling account of one man’s journey through struggle, resilience, and unimaginable suffering. In the early twentieth century, Mahboob Qirvanian recorded his personal...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781990771750Author Anne De VriesFormat PaperbackPage Count 286Imprint Paideia PressPublisher Paideia PressWeight(grams) 272g

Foregrounding the entangled history of China and the Philippines, Guingona brings to life an array of understudied, but influential characters, such as Filipino jazz musicians, magnetic Chinese swimmers, expert Filipino marksmen, leading Chinese...

The Edinburgh Companion to Irish Modernism presents a fresh perspective on received understandings of Irish modernism. The introduction draws connections between modernism in the arts and modernism as a resistant, liberal, relativist movement within the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316564472Author Alexander RoseFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Little Brown and CompanyPublisher Little Brown and Company

History is full of the weird, wild, and wacky—and in this interactive adventure book with 250+ photos, middle grade readers uncover the incredible mysteries of our worldKids ages 7+ will discover why history is the coolest subject ever with mind-blowing...

Displacement and Erasure in Palestine: The Politics of Hope explores the ways in which Palestinians negotiate physical and symbolic erasures by producing their own archives and historical narratives. With a focus on the city of Jaffa and its displaced...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781399518109Author Associate Professor Reem BailonyFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780811777490Author Steven ZalogaFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Stackpole BooksPublisher Stackpole Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467158671Author Karen E StoneFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint History PressPublisher History PressWeight(grams) 141g

Along the coast of Gujarat, nineteenth-century merchant houses or havelis still stand in historic cities, connecting ports from Durban to Rangoon. In this ambitious and multifaceted work, Ketaki Pant uses these old spaces as a lens through which to view...

The Pioneer Kingdoms of Macedon and Qin critically compares the cultures of Ancient Greece and Early China in the first millennium BC through following the histories of two of its peripheral cases: Argead Macedon and Qin. Emerging from being fringe...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467159531Author Ray John de AragónFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint History PressPublisher History PressWeight(grams) 141g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781665968928Author Lynn CurleeFormat HardbackPage Count 48Imprint Atheneum Books for Young ReadersPublisher Atheneum Books for Young Readers

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781668007808Author Jane BordenFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Atria/One Signal PublishersPublisher Atria/One Signal PublishersWeight(grams) 481g

Greek tragedy enjoyed a rich afterlife on ancient stages. This book reconstructs that history across the entire Mediterranean area, from the fourth century BC to the early third century AD. It is based on an extensive collection of primary sources...

Transnational solidarity excavates the forgotten histories of solidarity that were vital to radical political imaginaries during the ‘long’ 1960s. It decentres the conventional Western focus of this critical historical moment by foregrounding...

Hannah Arendt's recurring disenchantment with conventional political discourses, protocols and practices led her to redefine politics and recommend alternative public realms. Her repeated emphases on freedom, plurality (or pluralism), critique, agonistic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250390363Author William HogelandFormat PaperbackPage Count 544Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 454g

Nothing More than Freedom explores the long and complex legal history of Black freedom in the United States. From the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment in 1865 until the end of Reconstruction in 1877, supreme courts in former slave states decided...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781665937290Author Kim KellyFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Simon & Schuster Books for Young ReadersPublisher Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781668027820Author Garrett M GraffFormat PaperbackPage Count 608Imprint Avid Reader PressPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 364g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781399537575Author Associate Professor Majid DaneshgarFormat HardbackPage Count 664Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781541675896Author Peniel E JosephFormat HardbackPage Count 480Imprint Basic BooksPublisher Basic Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798889922773Author Philip Arthur BonneauFormat HardbackPage Count 194Imprint BlurbPublisher BlurbWeight(grams) 531g

In this book, Sophie van den Elzen shows how advocates for women's rights, in the absence of their 'own' history, used the antislavery movement as a historical reference point and model. Through a detailed analysis of a wide range of sources produced...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780226840871Author Jacinto CuviFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint University of Chicago PressPublisher The University of Chicago PressWeight(grams) 454g

Japan is often imagined as a nation with a long history of whaling. In this innovative new study, Fynn Holm argues that for centuries some regions in early modern Japan did not engage in whaling. In fact, they were actively opposed to it, even resorting...

Mandatory Madness offers a new perspective on a pivotal period in the history of modern Palestine, by putting mental illness and the psychiatric encounters it engendered at the heart of the story. Through a careful and creative reading of an eclectic mix...

In the immediate aftermath of the French abolition of slavery in 1848, many previously enslaved children suddenly became wards of the colonial state. The colonial administration in Senegal created an institution called tutelle, a form of guardianship or...

Imagine a world in which clothing wasn't superabundant - cheap, disposable, indestructible - but perishable, threadbare and chronically scarce. Eighty years ago, when World War II ended, a textile famine loomed. What would everyone wear as uniforms were...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780295753768Author Assistant Professor of History Coll ThrushFormat HardbackImprint University of Washington PressPublisher University of Washington Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501781186Author Kelly HopkinsFormat HardbackPage Count 324Imprint Cornell University PressPublisher Cornell University PressWeight(grams) 907g

In Imagining the Heavens across Eurasia, 20 authors tell in novel ways the histories of astral knowledge through objects and their imagery. These objects include, for instance, caves and buildings, manuscripts and prints, textiles and metal dishes,...

This new edition of The Essential Guide to Western Civilization provides a succinct and engaging overview of European history for students.With wide chronological coverage, from early humans and the first civilizations to the present, this book provides...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781958872789Author Luigi MarsigliFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Nafziger CollectionPublisher Nafziger CollectionWeight(grams) 222g

Before the 16th century Britain was a small, out-of-the-water backwater, lagging far behind other global powers in terms of power and innovation. This all changed when Queen Elizabeth I was crowned. During her reign, creative and intellectual life...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780349129020Author Georgina SturgeFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint Little, BrownPublisher Little, Brown Book Group

A major new history of Churchill in the 1930s, showing how his meetings at Chartwell, his country home, strengthened his fight against the Nazis In the 1930s, amidst an impending crisis in Europe, Winston Churchill found himself out of government and...