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'Piercingly revelatory ... a tour de force' - Carl Miller, author of The Death of the Gods'...a must-read ' - Eliot Higgins, author of We Are Bellingcat'A timely and frighteningly revealing book' - Richard Kerbaj, author of The Secret History of the Five...

At a time when rapidly evolving technologies, political turmoil, and the tensions inherent in multiculturalism and globalization are reshaping historical consciousness, what is the proper role for historians and their work? By way of an answer, the...

In his iconoclastic and controversial study, Norman G. Finkelstein moves from an interrogation of the place the Holocaust has come to occupy in global culture to a disturbing examination of Holocaust compensation settlements. It was not until the...

A Sunday Times, Observer, Waterstones and BBC Highlight for 2024 'As powerfully intimate as it is politically incendiary' Vogue 'A portrait of the country through four women who refused to accept the life laid out for them. Incredible' Sunday Times 'A...

J. Matthew Ward's Garden of Ruins serves as an insightful social and military history of Civil War–era Louisiana. Partially occupied by Union forces starting in the spring of 1862, the Confederate state experienced the initial attempts of the U.S. Army...

In eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Europe everyone lived ‘off the land’ in one way or another. In Ireland, however, almost everyone lived ‘on the land’ as well. Agriculture was the only economic resource for the vast majority of the population outside...

In More Than Farming, Fairs and Food: Cartoons of Dorset Life, artist and caricaturist Lyndon Wall has selected over 90 of his favourite cartoons of the humorous side of life in Dorset. This book is a timely celebration of everyday life in this...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781541704978Author Sathnam SangheraFormat HardbackPage Count 464Imprint PublicAffairsPublisher PublicAffairs

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781035835737Author Peter StaveleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 520Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

Uncover the gripping narrative of Irish immigrants who transformed America in the aftermath of the Great Hunger. Tyler Anbinder's landmark work exposes the grit and resilience of the Famine Irish, defying hardship to redefine the American dream. From the...

Grab your javelin and your discus - it's time to race in the ancient Greek Olympics!As a young boy in the city-state of Athens, the time has come to prove yourself in ancient Greek society. Following several years in school, your father pushes you to...

Translation and detailed commentary of a fourteenth-century Low-German work about the Near and Middle East. That extensive travel took place during the Middle Ages has long been established, via such accounts as, for example, Marco Polo's Devisement du...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781635769593Author Allen PackwoodFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint Diversion BooksPublisher Diversion Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467155434Author Glenn a KnoblockFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint History PressPublisher History PressWeight(grams) 9g

In this book, the late Richard Redding synthesizes his decades-long work on the ancient agricultural economy of Egypt. Drawing on a diverse range of data, including zooarchaeology, ancient texts, and iconographic sources, he explores the role of cattle,...

Embark on the ancient expedition of a lifetime as you unwrap the mysteries of mummification!It's time to make a mummy! As an ancient Egyptian, preparing the body for the afterlife was an expensive and fairly grotesque process. Organs were gruesomely...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982198220Author Joop Van Wijk-VoskuijlFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 259g

Explore Tokyo's incredible journey from a feudal past to a global metropolis in Edward Seidensticker's captivating narrative, a must-read for history enthusiasts and curious travelers eager to delve into the city's remarkable evolution.Edward...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467155700Author John RaileyFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint History PressPublisher History PressWeight(grams) 9g

Ian Knight's Warriors in Scarlet is a comprehensive and stirring history of the Victorian army between 1837 to 1860, from the Battle of Bossendon Wood to the Crimean War, a period of seismic change as the rapid expansion of the empire saw the British...

Examining the case that inspired a pop culture phenomenon In 1924 Beulah Annan was arrested and incarcerated for killing her lover, Harry Kalsted. Six weeks later, a jury acquitted her of murder. Inspired by the sordid event, trial, and acquittal,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593533987Author Ying Chang CompestineFormat HardbackPage Count 40Imprint Penguin Young ReadersPublisher Penguin Young ReadersWeight(grams) 471g

Reveals how Enlightened writers in England, both lay and clerical, proclaimed public support for Christianity by transforming it into a civil religion. In the aftermath of the seventeenth-century European wars of religion, civil religionists such as...

A compelling study of Anglican Evangelicalism in the Age of Wilberforce revealing its potency as a political machine whose reach extended into every area of the British establishment and its nascent Empire. SHORTLISTED for the EHS Book Prize 2020 The...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781646144181Author Anton TreuerFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Levine QueridoPublisher Levine QueridoWeight(grams) 485g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467155472Author Newport Historical SocietyFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint History PressPublisher History PressWeight(grams) 9g

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In March 1906, American soldiers on the island of Jolo in the southern Philippines surrounded and killed 1000 local men, women, and children, known as Moros, on top of an extinct volcano. The so-called 'Battle of Bud Dajo' was hailed as a triumph over an...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781541604278Author Eugene RoganFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint Basic BooksPublisher Basic Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781538708118Author Jacob KushnerFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Grand Central PublishingPublisher Grand Central PublishingWeight(grams) 531g

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERIn this "gripping . . . spectacular piece of reporting" (Ken Burns), a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist examines Senator Frank Church, the man at the center of numerous investigations into the abuses of power within...

The best new research on medieval clothing and textiles, drawing from a range of disciplines. The essays collected here continue the Journal's wide-ranging and eclectic tradition. Topics include literary evidence for linen armour; serial production in...

During the Enlightenment, people from the middling sort organised themselves into 56 patriotic societies in Denmark, Norway, and the German duchies of Schleswig and Holstein. The number of members totalled several thousand. They undertook educational and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250285836Author Tom ClavinFormat HardbackPage Count 368Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 454g

An evocative and lyrical history of Cyprus and the Mediterranean. Think of a place where you can stand at the intersection of Christian and Arab cultures, at the crossroads of the British, Ottoman, Byzantine, Roman and Egyptian empires; a place marked by...

This riveting new history tells the story of Britain’s journey from imperial power to a nation divided—one that alternately welcomes and excludes former imperial subjects and has been utterly transformed by them.In the turbulent years since the outbreak...

Presenting What Do We Know About?, an exciting extension of the #1 New York Times Best-Selling Who Was? series! The Nazca Lines in Peru have mystified people around the world for centuries. The famous figures, sometimes called geoglyphs, include a...