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After the First World War, tens of thousands of Jews immigrated to Palestine. They went there not to found a Zionist state but primarily to seek refuge from the violence and persecution of the Russian Civil War and its aftermath. Fleeing to the United...

Much more than an excellent gazetteer, an engaging history using contemporary sources shows whose hands the defence of the Anglo-Scottish border was in while Henry V was at Agincourt.Subsequent surveys show how Christopher Dacre forwarded a bold project...

A deeply personal yet broadly relevant exploration of the ephemeral life of the classic in art, from the eighteenth century to our own day Is there such a thing as a timeless classic? More than a decade ago, Rochelle Gurstein set out to explore and...

Originally published in 1988, the essays in this book focus primarily on colonial medicine in the British Empire but comparative material on the experience of France and Germany is also included. The authors show how medicine served as an instrument of...

The long 1970s have recently emerged as the start of a new epoch in which we still live. This volume asks whether the accelerated value change of these years can be explained with the rise of a new kind of post-rationalism, and presents case studies from...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781036150020Author �scar Gonz�lezFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Pen & Sword MilitaryPublisher Pen & Sword Military

Never heard of alum? You’re not alone. Yet, for centuries, alum was vital to the production of coloured cloth. Alum was needed to fix dyes and colours to the cloth. Without alum, the colours ran and faded. With alum, they shone and were fast. As a...

A staggering new account of the civilian death toll of the world wars—and what it reveals about the true nature and cost of modern warSoldiers have never been the only casualties of wars. But the armies that fought World Wars I and II killed far more...

Who were the German scientists who worked on atomic bombs during World War II for Hitler's regime? How did they justify themselves afterwards? Examining the global influence of the German uranium project and postwar reactions to the scientists involved,...

An interpretative history of global urbanity in the 1920s and 1930s, from the vantage point of Bombay, London, and Shanghai, that follows the life of business tycoon Victor Sassoon. In this book, historian Rosemary Wakeman brings to life the frenzied,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063341081Author Max HastingsFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 646g

How corporations used mass media to teach Americans that capitalism was natural and patriotic, exposing the porous line between propaganda and public service. Business as Usual reveals how American capitalism has been promoted in the most ephemeral of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593734223Author Yuval Noah HarariFormat HardbackPage Count 528Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 819g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781504098441Author Daniel P MannixFormat PaperbackPage Count 212Imprint Open Road MediaPublisher Open Road Media

The World Today Series: Western Europe is an annually updated presentation of each sovereign country in Western Europe, past and present. It is organized by individual chapters for each country expertly covering the region’s geography, people, history,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781036150174Author Anthony Tucker-JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Pen & Sword MilitaryPublisher Pen & Sword Military

At the height of its popularity in the late nineteenth century, absinthe reigned in the bars, cafés, and restaurants of France and its colonial empire. Yet by the time it was banned in 1915, the famous green fairy had become the green peril, feared for...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914477492Author Jon WinderFormat PaperbackPage Count 276Imprint University of London PressPublisher University of London

How Jefferson and Madison ensured religious freedom in the United States Thomas Jefferson considered the establishment of religious freedom as a governing principle in the United States to be one of the great accomplishments of his life. It was not his...

On 26 February 1991, cavalry troops of “Cougar Squadron,” the 2nd Squadron of the 2nd Armored Cavalry Regiment, charged out of a sandstorm during Operation Desert Storm and caught Iraq's Republican Guard Corps in the open desert along the North-South...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800504820Author Raz KletterFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint Equinox Publishing LtdPublisher Equinox Publishing LtdWeight(grams) 263g

This is the first comparative study of Mosaic and Islamic law in American history. Constructing a complex picture in trans-Atlantic, trans-European and world historical perspective, this book elucidates the deeper intersecting storylines which lie...

Queen of Sorrows takes an original approach to both late-medieval Italian history and the history of Christianity, using quantitative and qualitative analyses of a remarkable archive of 1,904 testaments to determine patterns in giving to the Virgin of...

Under the slogan ‘Merdeka!’, the Republic of Indonesia rushed into a battle for independence – a struggle whose outcome no one could predict. Harry Poeze and Henk Schulte Nordholt provide a new narrative about the revolution, focusing not only on the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914477485Author Jon WinderFormat HardbackPage Count 276Imprint University of London PressPublisher University of London

Major interdisciplinary study of medieval church porches, bringing out their importance and significance. The church porches of medieval England are among the most beautiful and glorious aspects of ecclesiastical architecture; but in comparison with its...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783161635632Author Sydney ToothFormat PaperbackPage Count 261Imprint Mohr SiebeckPublisher Mohr SiebeckWeight(grams) 470g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800504813Author Raz KletterFormat HardbackPage Count 280Imprint Equinox Publishing LtdPublisher Equinox Publishing LtdWeight(grams) 263g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798881803902Author Maegan Parker BrooksFormat PaperbackPage Count 222Imprint Rowman & Littlefield PublishersPublisher Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798881803841Author Erica L. BallFormat PaperbackPage Count 164Imprint Rowman & Littlefield PublishersPublisher Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798384900665Author Julie MurrayFormat HardbackPage Count 24Imprint Abdo Kids JumboPublisher Abdo Kids Jumbo

Sex, Drugs and Rock 'n' Roll in Rembrandt’s Time focuses on the generation of rich young men that grew up in the seventeenth century in the Dutch Republic. These men had more money to spend on clothes, music, and recreation than the generation before...

Considers how elite women could participate in Crusade, their means and motivations. The popular perception of the medieval Crusades is of conflicts spanning from the Holy Land to the Baltic, with huge armies of religious zealots led by knights wearing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789361568527Author MoonstoneFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Rupa Publications India Pvt Ltd.Publisher Rupa Publications India Pvt Ltd.

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789361569418Author MoonstoneFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Rupa Publications India Pvt Ltd.Publisher Rupa Publications India Pvt Ltd.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789361562280Author MoonstoneFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Rupa Publications India Pvt Ltd.Publisher Rupa Publications India Pvt Ltd.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9786156595232Author Miriam SzőcsFormat PaperbackPage Count 178Imprint Museum of Fine Art, BudapestPublisher Museum of Fine Art, Budapest / Hungarian National...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789360456566Author Nisha Nair-GuptaFormat PaperbackPage Count 244Imprint Westland Publications LimitedPublisher Westland Publications Limited

The World Today Series: Africa provides students with vital information on all countries on the African continent through a thorough and expert overview of political and economic histories, current events, and emerging trends. Each country is examined...