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A groundbreaking history of how the Black Death unleashed revolutionary change across the medieval world and ushered in the modern ageIn 1346, a catastrophic plague beset Europe and its neighbours. The Black Death was a human tragedy that abruptly halved...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782080447227Author Flavie Durand-RuelFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint FlammarionPublisher Editions FlammarionWeight(grams) 780g

The renowned architectural historian and critic, beloved Yale professor, and outspoken public activist Vincent Scully (1920–2017) emerged in the 1950s as a guiding voice in American architecture. This intellectual biography of Scully’s life and career...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781805056010Author Alex HallFormat PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint BookLife PublishingPublisher BookLife Publishing

Raising the Red Flag is a stirring exploration of the origins of the British Marxist movement, from the creation of the Social Democratic Federation to the foundation of the Communist Party.It tells a story of rising class struggle, the founding of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781959265252Author Philip P. MassaroFormat PaperbackPage Count 624Imprint Gun Digest BooksPublisher Krause Publications

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_The Lost Years_ tells the story of Roger Rothwell, captured by the Japanese on Christmas Day 1941 during the fall of Hong Kong, along with 900 of his fellow soldiers. He was one of only 150 who walked through the camp gates to freedom in 1945. The book...

This volume explores the global history of natural dyes from the Americas and asks how their production and trade have shaped globalisation since early modern times. From their extraction and processing to their overseas trade, it shows how this...

The reed goes on, the reed comes off. The reed rots and returns to the earth. The houses we work on outlast us. The thatch we use has never stood still. On The Roof is a thatcher's tale - a journey of discovery, and a reflection on what it means for a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781890951818Author Philippe-Alain MichaudFormat PaperbackPage Count 408Imprint Zone BooksPublisher Zone Books

'Brilliantly written ... evokes the wonder of an entire civilisation.' Tom Holland, author of Pax and co-host of The Rest is History 'Splendid - an intimate portrait of the Viking Age. Highly recommended.' Neil Price, author of The Children of Ash and...

How encounters with the Roman Empire compelled the Jews of antiquity to rethink their conceptions of Israel and the TorahThroughout their history, Jews have lived under a succession of imperial powers, from Assyria and Babylonia to Persia and the...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781838993436Author Hugo D. CookFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint Priddy BooksPublisher Priddy Books

This illustrated study assesses the British Crusader and the Italian M13/40, two medium tanks that played crucial roles in World War II’s Desert War. Making its combat debut in North Africa during December 1940, Italy’s M13/40 medium tank was armed with...

Germany was the epicenter of the Cold War. Across the Iron Curtain, hundreds of thousands of soldiers faced each other, and if World War III were to break out, contemporaries feared, surely it would happen here. The country’s frontline status made it an...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781805056072Author Shalini VallepurFormat PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint BookLife PublishingPublisher BookLife Publishing

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Engaging the Crusades is a series of concise volumes (up to 50,000 words) which offer initial windows into the ways in which the crusades have been used in the last two centuries, demonstrating that the memory of the crusades is an important and emerging...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916526969Author Kelly RobertsFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Cheriton Children's BooksPublisher Cheriton Children's Books

The World Wide Web (WWW) and digitisation have become important sites and tools for the history of the Holocaust and its commemoration. Today, some memory institutions use the Internet at a high professional level as a venue for self-presentation and as...

The twentieth-century process of secularization does not mean that institutional church and Christian ideas were irrelevant for twentieth-century societal projects – such as the introduction of democracy, the improvement of school and education, the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916526976Author Kelly RobertsFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Cheriton Children's BooksPublisher Cheriton Children's Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800995871Author A. Cynfael LakeFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Y LolfaPublisher Y Lolfa

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780906245491Author Alasdair A. MacDonaldFormat HardbackPage Count 216Imprint Scottish History SocietyPublisher Scottish History SocietyWeight(grams) 1g

Monasticism was the dominant form of religious life both in the medieval West and in the Byzantine world. Latin and Greek Monasticism in the Crusader States explores the parallel histories of monasticism in western and Byzantine traditions in the Near...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798881801045Author D. E. MungelloFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint Rowman & Littlefield PublishersPublisher Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Chakarawarti explores the history of Indian eunuchs, from the Mughal empire's fall following the Mutiny of 1857 to the Supreme Court of India's historic ruling in 2014.This book examines the social, political, economic and religious aspects of Indian...

The story of Harriet Beecher Stowe and Charles Beecher in Reconstruction FloridaModern Florida—a world of tourists, retirees from the North, and novel agricultural crops—began among a group of Yankee reformers at the end of the Civil War, including...

The Briennes were a highly important aristocratic family who hailed from the Champagne region of north-eastern France, but whose reach and impact extended across Europe and into the Crusader States in the Middle East. It is a highly dramatic and...

The Broken Years tells the forgotten story of Russia's disabled ex-servicemen through three wars and three revolutions: the Russo-Japanese War, the Russian Civil War and the First World War. Using extensive archival material from national, regional and...

A new literary history of Arabic poetry from 500–750 CE that includes hundreds of lines of poetry never before translated into English To interpret the Quran’s Arabic, early medieval Muslims turned to pre-Islamic poetry, a corpus that the Prophet...

When this book was originally published in 1960 no full-length study of the Parnell ‘split’ had been made, despite it being such a landmark in Irish history. The book treats the eleven months between the verdict on the O’Shea divorce case the death of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781805056041Author Shalini VallepurFormat PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint BookLife PublishingPublisher BookLife Publishing

This book makes an insightful investigation of historical agrotechnical geography in West China in the Qing Dynasty from the perspective of historical geography and the history of agricultural technology. This study first divides West China into four...

This book provides a sweeping overview of East Asian international relations in history from the nineteenth century onwards, with a focus on Korea and its relationship with East Asia and the USA. In contrast with many books which concentrate exclusively...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789087284527Author Richard BullietFormat PaperbackPage Count 148Imprint Leiden University PressPublisher Leiden University Press

From prehistory to the present day, the story of Edinburgh is packed with incident and drama. As Scotland’s capital since 1437, the city has witnessed many of the key events which have shaped the nation. But Edinburgh has always been much more than just...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593479254Author Dean RobbinsFormat HardbackPage Count 40Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA Inc