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In 1718 the British crown in the Bahamas pardoned 209 mariners accused of piracy. In A Pirate's Life No More, Steven C. Hahn explores the lives of these "retired” pirates. While there are a number of "famous" names on that list—Benjamin Hornigold,...

The Isle of Lismore has a long reputation as a holy island, beginning with the foundation of a monastery by St Moluag in the sixth century, when it became a major centre of Christianity. The Roman Catholic Bishopric of Argyll was founded on Lismore in...

How the US services prepared for the largest amphibious operation in history,American forces storming the beaches of Normandy on D-Day, June 6, 1944, is one of the most famous moments in US military history. But behind this iconic assault is the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398846746Author Al CiminoFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint ArcturusPublisher Arcturus Publishing LtdWeight(grams) 211gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 153mm *...

Libya and the West: What Everyone Needs to Know (R) is a welcome update to the literature on Western diplomatic relations with Libya. It specifically analyzes the complicated relationships that Italy, Britain, the United States, and France developed with...

The Constitution has become a threat to American democracy. Due to its inherent flaws-its treatment of race, dependence on a tainted Electoral College, a glaringly unrepresentative Senate, and the outsized influence of the Supreme Court-Erwin...

The forgotten history of the occult foundations of the early-twentieth-century global city.Book InformationISBN 9781477331408Author Shiben BanerjiFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint University of Texas PressPublisher University of Texas...

Five hundred years ago, Thomas Wolsey endowed in Oxford a foundation he called Cardinal's College. Henry VIII, the monarch who dismissed and ruined him, re-established it as Christ Church later in his reign as an institution rich, spacious...

Less celebrated than the 1893 Chicago World's Fair, the 1933-1934 Century of Progress Exposition brought visitors face-to-face with gleaming American consumerism in the midst of the Great Depression. Lindsay Fullerton draws on a wealth of personal...

The story of the birth and evolution of modern Israel, especially concerning the struggle for Israeli-Palestinian peace, from the view of a journalist, politician and diplomat who wrote with his own hands several important chapters in that history.Book...

A comprehensive volume on historical mapping in Texas.ReviewsTexas Takes Shape is a beautifully illustrated and designed book of the most comprehensive map collection relating to Texas. Texas is unique in the Union in that it retained ownership of its...

Kurdistan has a storied and turbulent past, marked by a relentless struggle for self-determination and survival. Kurdish women have been at the forefront of this struggle: their lives are a testament to resilience in the face of relentless adversity, as...

The first ever critical biography of Helen Chadwick, who died tragically young but is now revered as a pioneering feminist artist. Helen Chadwick (1953-1996) embraced the sensuous aspects of the natural world, breaking taboos of the 'traditional' or...

Not Just Another Cold War considers how the emerging superpower rivalry between the US and China compares to the Cold War, and what that means for the future of global politics. By contrasting the current US-China rivalry with a well-understood conflict,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780252088520Author Lindsay FullertonFormat PaperbackPage Count 328Imprint University of Illinois PressPublisher University of Illinois PressWeight(grams)...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806195360Author Michael PhillipsFormat HardbackPage Count 296Imprint University of Oklahoma PressPublisher University of Oklahoma Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802164865Author Sophy RobertsFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly PressPublisher Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781625348845Author Francis G CouvaresFormat PaperbackPage Count 436Imprint University of Massachusetts PressPublisher University of Massachusetts...

A wide-ranging history of the term "fascism," what it has meant in the past, and what it means today. The rise of political figures like the United States' Donald Trump, Hungary's Viktor Orban, Italy's Giorgia Meloni, and Argentina's Javier Milei has...

How Black Protestants in Chicago created Ethiopianism, a transnational religious movement against Western imperialism City of Black Souls uncovers the history of how, from the late nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century, Black Protestants in Chicago...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781643365626Author Keith RushingFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint University of South Carolina PressPublisher University of South Carolina Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781625348852Author Francis G CouvaresFormat HardbackPage Count 436Imprint University of Massachusetts PressPublisher University of Massachusetts...

In James Cowles Prichard of the Red Lodge Margaret M. Crump offers the first in-depth biography of the early Victorian British scientist James Cowles Prichard (1786-1848). An intellectual giant in the developing human sciences, he was a pioneering...

Ties That Bind narrates five stories of how a transnational community helped shape American perceptions and understandings of Korea and Koreans, from a time when only a small number of Americans knew anything about Korea to a time when most Americans...

What monuments to conflict, and the people they commemorate, tell us about our history and ourselves. 'When you go home, tell them of us and say, for their tomorrow we gave our today.' John Maxwell...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781623179625Author Deatra CohenFormat PaperbackPage Count 360Imprint North Atlantic Books,U.S.Publisher North Atlantic Books,U.S.Weight(grams) 369g

The Pacific theater is often discussed in terms of its most famous battles: from Coral Sea and Midway to Guadalcanal and Leyte Gulf. The Sundowners, Pegasus, and Little Butch provides a new perspective on the Pacific War by following the exploits of a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807019054Author Miguel Leon-PortillaFormat HardbackPage Count 216Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 567g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781962645287Author Jonathan BachFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Oregon State University PressPublisher Oregon State University PressWeight(grams) 454g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593735107Author Kareem Abdul-JabbarFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Crown Publishing Group, Division of Random House IncPublisher Random House USA...

Set in the golden age of whaling in the nineteenth century, this captivating book brings to life the adventures of the dynamic protagonist, Benjamin Clough, best known for single-handedly rescuing the ship Sharon from mutineers in 1842. Clough's heroism...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781625348685Author Louis J ParascandolaFormat PaperbackPage Count 313Imprint University of Massachusetts PressPublisher University of Massachusetts...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781625348692Author Louis J ParascandolaFormat HardbackPage Count 313Imprint University of Massachusetts PressPublisher University of Massachusetts...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781625348623Author James C O'ConnellFormat PaperbackPage Count 260Imprint University of Massachusetts PressPublisher University of Massachusetts...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806195353Author Jonathan M HouseFormat HardbackPage Count 392Imprint University of Oklahoma PressPublisher University of Oklahoma Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781586424060Author Francis S. BarryFormat PaperbackPage Count 560Imprint Steerforth PressPublisher Steerforth Press

No animal is so entangled in human history as the horse. The thread starts in prehistory, with a slight, shy animal, hunted for food. Domesticating the horse allowed early humans to settle the vast Eurasian steppe; later, their horses enabled new forms...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806195391Author Robert P WettemannFormat HardbackPage Count 296Imprint University of Oklahoma PressPublisher University of Oklahoma Press