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In the wake of colonial and racial exploitation, political leaders, technocrats, activists, and workers across the Third World turned to socialism to offer a new vision of post-colonial development. Against a backdrop of decolonization, white supremacy,...

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

Migration is often viewed as a one-way process, from the country of origin to the place of arrival, but recent academic research shows that this presumption is fundamentally flawed. Return migration has always been part of migration movements, as a...

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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...

The third issue of the yearbook History of Intellectual Culture (HIC) devotes a thematic section to experimental spaces for knowledge production. The articles in this section investigate the role of experimental environments as sites for knowledge...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789087284541Author Asghar Seyed-GohrabFormat HardbackPage Count 260Imprint Leiden University PressPublisher Leiden University Press

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

When Dwight Eisenhower graduated from West Point in 1915, few would have predicted he was destined for greatness. A middling student, he was denied his first choice of posting, missed overseas service in World War I, spent a dozen years as a major, and...

A detailed re-examination of Midway, one of the most significant battles in the Pacific Theater of World War II. In April 1942, the Combined Fleet of the Imperial Japanese Navy was at the zenith of its power. It had struck a severe blow against the US...

A history of diabetes science and the experience of diabetics in the nineteenth-century England A Male Hysteria examines both the science of diabetes in nineteenth-century England and the testimony of Victorian diabetics. What could be known about...

Early Modern Maternities in the Iberian Atlantic is the first volume to emphasize women’s personal experiences and their life trajectories as mothers within the Peninsula and across the Atlantic. Although an official discourse that defined the conditions...

Ebook available to libraries exclusively as part of the JSTOR Path to Open initiative. Female agency in the ancient world has long been implicitly, and on a few occasions explicitly, examined in classical scholarship, but few of these studies begin with...

As fans of Just a Minute know, the key to the game is knowing your way around the English language: how it works, how it’s evolved, and how words connect, often in surprising ways. When it comes to the English language (and Just a Minute), Gyles...

The first comprehensive study of self-purchase in the United States from the American Revolution to the Civil War Enslaved people lived in a world in which everything had a price. Even freedom. Freedom’s Currency follows enslaved people’s efforts to buy...

From source to sea, artist Kurt Jackson's fascination with the rivers of the British Isles and beyond has endured throughout his life. This book explores, for the first time, Jackson's visual and written responses to the rivers that he has followed, from...

For almost five million years, humans have been locked in a relationship with morality, inventing and reinventing the concepts of 'Good' and 'Evil', and weaving them into our cities, laws and customs. Morality is a concept that can feel joyless and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780500298183Author Diana DarkeFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Thames & Hudson LtdPublisher Thames & Hudson Ltd

Winner of the Gilder Lehrman Military History Prize, Winner of the Fraunces Tavern Museum Book Award & Winner of The Society of the Cincinnati Prize. In The Compleat Victory, award-winning military historian Kevin J. Weddle traces an epic panorama of...