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How Muslims integrated themselves into the Kingdom of Jerusalem, founded in the wake of the First Crusade In Plain Sight draws from a wide array of interdisciplinary sources to show how Muslims, seemingly hostile to the entire crusading enterprise,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781805056034Author Alex HallFormat PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint BookLife PublishingPublisher BookLife Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781438498966Author Tingyang ZhaoFormat HardbackPage Count 162Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York...

Focusing in turn on history, powerful individuals, under-represented voices and the arts, the essays in this collection cover a wide variety of modern and contemporary narrative fiction from Jo Walton and L. Sprague De Camp to T. S. Chaudhry and...

This book demonstrates how the Romans constructed garden boundaries specifically in order to open up or undermine the division between a number of oppositions, such as inside/outside, sacred/profane, art/nature, and real/imagined. Using case studies from...

In this book readers will find stories about medieval heresies and “magic” from an unusual perspective: that of food studies. The time span ranges from Late Antiquity to the Late Middle Ages, while the geographical scope includes regions as different as...

In 1969 Greece withdrew from the Council of Europe (CoE), following pressure exercised by various European countries, organisations, social movements and individuals in response to the brutal conduct of the military junta that had taken power by force on...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782869251878Author Alain Dominique PerrinFormat HardbackPage Count 436Imprint Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporainPublisher Fondation Cartier pour...

One of the greatest ever sieges is masterfully brought to life by a leading expert on the Eastern Front. At the height of World War II the people of Leningrad endured a bitter 900-day siege, struggling against bombing, shelling, and starvation. Prit...

Emma Goldman’s life and work offer countless perspectives for study and analysis. As an anarchist activist she always attacked any form of inequality and was a lifelong agent for freedom. Goldman, who lived a transnational life, in her writings and...

This book weaves together theories of pre-Columbian trans-Pacific contact between Oceania and the Americas and analyses them from a history of ideas perspective. Despite limited factual evidence, trans-Pacific contact theories between the Americas and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781785908668Author David LeeFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Biteback PublishingPublisher Biteback Publishing

This volume utilises the personal papers of Sir Ronald Storrs, as well as other archival materials, to make a microhistorical investigation of his period as Governor of Jerusalem between 1917 to 1926.It builds upon Edward Said’s work on the Orientalist...

First published in 1980, Catalogue of Chinese Manuscripts in Danish Archives is a descriptive catalogue that gives the date, address, and a summary of the contents for some 500 Chinese manuscripts in three Danish archives: the National Archives, the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783161625435Author Carina Kühne-WespiFormat HardbackPage Count 220Imprint Mohr SiebeckPublisher Mohr Siebeck

This study offers a radically new perspective on Dutch Neorealist work, one that emphasizes the role of film as an apparatus, the effects of which, when emulated in painting, can reproduce the affective experience of film-watching.More of a tendency than...

The Global Wireless charts a history of wireless beginning in the 1910s, when it was used as a tool for global communication, and ending as it declined and slowly fell from view. Located at a crossroads of media history and science and technology...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800087224Author Eva MillerFormat HardbackImprint UCL PressPublisher UCL Press

Through the diaries and personal papers of a German woman, Vera Conrad, this book documents her wartime experiences and deepens our understanding of the complex experiences of trauma and grief that National Socialist supporters experienced. Building on...

This interdisciplinary edited volume explores the notion of queenship as it has manifest from antiquity to the present, in contexts ranging from political acts to art production. Featuring the work of scholars, educators, curators and artists, this book...

The story of how information networks have made, and unmade, our world from the #1 Sunday Times bestselling author of Sapiens.For the last 100,000 years, humans have accumulated enormous power. But despite all our discoveries, inventions and conquests,...

Over the course of the fourth through seventh centuries, Rome witnessed a succession of five significant political and military crises, including the Sack of Rome, the Vandal occupation, and the demise of the Senate. Historians have traditionally...

A powerful look at the changing cultural understanding of postpartum depression in America. “If you begin to feel at all depressed,” the famous pediatrician Dr. Benjamin Spock advised new mothers, “go to a movie, or to the beauty parlor, or to get...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782080447203Author Lynn GumpertFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint FlammarionPublisher Editions Flammarion

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910996645Author Ben GristwoodFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Greenwich Exchange LtdPublisher Greenwich Exchange Ltd

A surprising look at the 28 Catholic radicals who raided a draft board in 1971—and got away with it. When the FBI arrested twenty-eight people in connection to a break-in at a Camden, New Jersey, draft board in 1971, the Bureau celebrated. The case...

A Cultural History of Sport in Antiquity covers the period 800 BCE to 600 CE. From the founding of the Olympics and Rome’s celebratory games, sport permeated the cultural life of Greco-Roman antiquity almost as it does our own. Gymnasiums, public baths,...

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In the spring of 1851 nine members of the Oatman family set out for California on the old Santa Fe Trail. Seventy miles from the California border they were attacked by Indians, who killed the entire family, except a boy, Lorenzo (mistakenly left for...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781990823930Author Ted BarrisFormat HardbackPage Count 300Imprint The Sutherland House Inc.Publisher The Sutherland House Inc.

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Ven. Fulton J. Sheen, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and Rev. Jerry Falwell—religious leaders who popularized theology through media campaigns designed to persuade the public In Religion in the Public Square, James M. Patterson considers religious leaders...

An examination of the Farm Security Administration's migrant camp system and the people it served Today's concern for the quality of the produce on our plates has done little to guarantee U.S. farmworkers the necessary protections of sanitary housing,...

Food stood at the centre of Mussolini’s attempt to occupy Ethiopia and build an Italian Empire in East Africa. Seeking to redirect the surplus of Italian rural labor from migration overseas to its own Empire, the fascist regime envisioned transforming...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781727645Author Marsha O'MahonyFormat PaperbackImprint SerenPublisher Poetry Wales Press

Germany developed a large colonial empire over the last thirty years of the 19th century, spanning regions of the west coast of Africa to its east coast and beyond. Largely forgotten for many years, recent intense debates about Africa’s cultural heritage...

Since the brutal massacre perpetrated by Hamas on 7 October and the subsequent bombing and invasion of Gaza, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has been thrust back to the centre of the world’s attention. How can this deep-rooted conflict, stretching back...

Turn the pages of this thought-provoking book and discover maps that challenge conventional wisdom, confront social and political norms, and offer fresh perspectives on familiar landscapes. This meticulously curated selection of 40 maps spans the ages,...

In 1972 an image became an icon: ‘Blue Marble’, a photograph of the Earth as seen from outer space. The picture features prominently the globe’s water-covered surface. The ocean connects nature and culture in the modern world. Within the time-span of 100...

This book addresses the unique and profound indeterminacy of “Creole,” a label applied to white, black, and mixed-race persons born in French colonies during the nineteenth century. "Creole” implies that the geography of one’s birth determines identity...