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The legacy of the German General, Otto Liman von Sanders, remains highly contested in the history of twentieth-century Europe and the Middle East. Noted for leading the 5th Ottoman army’s successful defence of the Dardanelles and Gallipoli in 1915, his...

Within France, the expression “duty of memory” (le devoir de mémoire)speaks to a complex and ever-evolving relationship with the past. Emerging in the 1970s, this term raised questions about memorialization which dominated public debates in the 1990s,...

Historical lessons are useful or even necessary for our guidance and orientation in time. These lessons, however, have often been overlooked in historical reflections on watershed moments, such as genocides, treaties, and global movements. Focusing on...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781788551779Author Cormac MooreFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Irish Academic Press LtdPublisher Irish Academic Press Ltd

A new account of how Haiti under French colonial rule became a violent sugar plantation stateIn the early eighteenth century, France turned to its New World colonies to help rescue the monarchy from the wartime debts of Louis XIV. This short-lived scheme...

The year 1925 was arguably the peak of literature's centrality. There were more magazines, more journals, more reviews, more book news, and more book gossip than ever before or since. Literature's rivals for cultural attention were on the rise-film was...

The role played by film in reshaping Austria’s post-war national identity is often studied within narrow historical and geographical margins. Film history traditionally focuses on either the work of a sole director, German cinematography, or the...

The Arts & Crafts movement began as a backlash against industrialism and the prevailing stylistic ideals in mid-19th century Britain. The basic ideas of its followers, including the art critic John Ruskin and the artist William Morris, developed into a...

The German procurement process resulted in a wide range of gun-armed armored vehicles-assault guns, tank destroyers and self-propeled artillery-mounting both German and captured guns. Some were developed from existing German chassis; many employed...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781609389710Author Coreen DerifieldFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint University of Iowa PressPublisher University of Iowa PressWeight(grams) 454g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804517765Author Glen W. PriceFormat PaperbackPage Count 260Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

All golden ages are marked by periods of spectacular cultural flourishing, scientific exploration, technological achievement and economic growth; yet no two are the same. Their beliefs, societies and place in the wider world all vary. Despite this, all...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780935995312Author Hans Jacob OrningFormat HardbackPage Count 277Imprint Cornell University Library, Division of Rare & Manuscripts CollectionsPublisher...

The German-Soviet War revises the conflict's generally accepted understanding through case-studies, demonstrating the complexity of the war at the local level. The contributors assembled by Jeff Rutherford and Robert von Maier examine the multiplicity of...

Since the 1960s, nations across the “developed world” have been profoundly shaped by deindustrialization. In regions in which previously dominant industries faced crises or have disappeared altogether, industrial heritage offers a fascinating window...

Focusing on youth, family, work, and consumption, Ambiguous Transitions analyzes the interplay between gender and citizenship postwar Romania. By juxtaposing official sources with oral histories and socialist policies with everyday practices, Jill...

A storm of illiberalism, building in the United States for years, unleashed its destructive force in the Capitol insurrection of January 6, 2021. The attack on American democracy and images of mob violence led many to recoil, thinking "That's not us."...

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Shia Revival, a revelatory account of Iran’s grand strategy at home and on the world stageIran presents one of the most significant foreign policy challenges for America and the West, yet very little is...

Indian counterinsurgency has expanded steadily over the years, adding a new region in each decade since the 1950s. Beginning with Nagaland, these wars without a name have followed a remarkably consistent pattern throughout the Northeast, in Punjab,...

This book looks at a contemporary concept toxic masculinity and considers its usefulness for understanding the ancient Mediterranean world. By concentrating on the particular elements that make up this form of masculine behaviour and identity,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467158510Author Jane Parks GardnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint History PressPublisher History PressWeight(grams) 141g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467159098Author Samuel BockFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint History PressPublisher History PressWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm) 226mm * 150mm * 13mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467155663Author Nancy EastFormat PaperbackPage Count 178Imprint History PressPublisher History PressWeight(grams) 141g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798894805139Author Philip A BonneauFormat HardbackPage Count 448Imprint BlurbPublisher BlurbWeight(grams) 998gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 33mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467158466Author Jeffrey J HardingFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint History PressPublisher History PressWeight(grams) 141gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063227415Author Amanda BellowsFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 295g

The book analyses how racial knowledge has circulated in transnational entanglements, particularly between Germany and India, into the research on human variation in India, racializing the understanding of caste and ethnicity. It focuses on the legacy...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781399542616Author Associate Professor Masayuki UenoFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467159562Author Linda HassFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint History PressPublisher History PressWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 226mm * 152mm * 13mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467159449Author Sharon KitchensFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint History PressPublisher History PressWeight(grams) 141gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

From Fidel Castro to Qassem Soleimani, the US government has been involved in an array of assassinations and assassination attempts against foreign leaders and officials. The President's Kill List reveals how the US government has relied on a variety of...

Gender and Authority in the Late Medieval Church asks a deceptively simple question: How did the governance of the medieval institutional church remain exclusively male, despite plentiful evidence of women being as capable and devout as men? The...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467158381Author Clem C PellettFormat PaperbackPage Count 166Imprint History PressPublisher History PressWeight(grams) 141g

Award-winning author-illustrator Lynn Curlee's "exquisitely detailed...reverent, absorbing homage" (Publishers Weekly, starred review) to the Statue of Liberty-now with a new look!"Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593657225Author Caroline FraserFormat HardbackPage Count 480Imprint The Penguin PressPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 686gDimensions(mm) 243mm *...

But There Was Love-Shaping the Memory of the Shoah proposes a new paradigm for Shoah remembrance in today's cultural and political reality. It derives from the four-year workings of a group of researchers and artists at The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute...

What do scholars do when they talk about virtues (impartiality, accuracy) or vices (dogmatism, prejudice)? Against the common view that such high-minded talk is largely irrelevant to actual scholarly practice, this volume proposes to treat it as a...

The miraculous story of Madrid-how a village became a great world city For centuries Madrid was an insignificant settlement on the central Iberian plateau. Under its Muslim rulers the town was fortified and enlarged, but even after the Reconquista it...

After the first use of nuclear weapons in 1945, Albert Einstein warned that 'we thus drift towards unparalleled catastrophe'. Today we are no longer drifting but racing toward catastrophe at breakneck speed. This book analyses recent events that have...

Indispensable for understanding the historical forces that shaped modern governance. How did Enlightenment philosophy shape the modern bureaucratic state? While thinkers like Adam Smith and David Hume are celebrated for their contributions to...