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In Left for Dead, Eric Jay Dolin-"one of today's finest writers about ships and the sea" (American Heritage)-tells the true story of a wild and fateful encounter between an American sealing vessel, a shipwrecked British brig and a British warship in the...

Drawing together new research from emerging and senior scholars, this open-access volume presents an up-to-date discussion of these notions in the ancient world, both at the individual and community level. This open access edited volume offers insights...

This book traces and analyses the relationship between Britain and Spain in its various forms since 1489. So often viewed as antagonistic rivals in history, the two countries are here compared and contrasted in order to shed light on their international...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916931404Author Mark BaileyFormat HardbackPage Count 200Imprint Suffolk Records SocietyPublisher Suffolk Records SocietyWeight(grams) 666g

Mercenaries, Gunslingers, and Outlaws is the story of 21/2 years as a security contractor in Iraq. It's not just a story about firefights and surviving IEDs while protecting American contractors, although those kinds of stories are there, it shares an...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593355220Author James LaceyFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA Inc

In this book, Tim Jenkins examines the factory worker poisonings and suspect government procurement procedures that resulted in Allied success in the air during First World War.The early development of aircraft during World War I was an important yet...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915249456Author Rachel E. JohnsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 188Imprint University of London PressPublisher University of London

In a fast-paced narrative of soaring ideals and sordid politics, of civil war and foreign invasion, the award-winning historian Alan Taylor presents a pivotal twenty-year period in which North America's three largest countries-the United States, Mexico...

Frontier Comrades examines six accounts of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender lives on the frontier of the American West. Each account interprets this history through experiences that take place in different parts of the West, moving chronologically...

The interpretation of the revisionist historiography of the Mexican Revolution (1910-1917) has focused primarily on revolutionary leaders who were men, pushing the heroines of the war to the sidelines. If women happened to be mentioned, they appeared...

Spanning six decades, three continents, and multiple mediums, this exhibition catalog explores one of the most significant and influential artistic movements of the twentieth century. At the beginning of the twentieth century, painting underwent a...

This coursebook is the first full-length study of cinematic "legal medievalism," or the modern interpretation of medieval law in film and popular culture. For more than a century, filmmakers have used the "Middle Ages" to produce popular entertainment...

This is the first broad-ranging, comprehensive and comparative study of the concepts of propaganda and neutrality. Bringing together world-leading and early career historians, this open access book explores case studies from the time of the First World...

The Search for Modern China originated in a legendary course at Yale taught by the late Jonathan Spence and has been the best-selling text for students and teachers of modern Chinese history ever since. Janet Chen (Princeton University), a leading...

Photographic chronicle of the history and evolution of New York subway signage, covering porcelain, wood, tin, and mosaic signs from the 1920s to the 1980s. Foreword by renowned transit photographer and historian Douglas Grotjahn Vintage...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915249401Author Hannah JeansFormat HardbackPage Count 246Imprint University of London PressPublisher University of London PressWeight(grams) 454g

This book examines Nazi Germany's expansion, population management and establishment of a racially stratified society within the Reichsgaue (Reich Districts) of Wartheland and Danzig-West Prussia in annexed Poland (1939-1945) through a colonial lens. The...

Explores how marketers have leveraged feelings of personal familiarity in modern consumer capitalism Our wired world connects us with corporations in ways that, just a generation ago, would have been hard to imagine. Marketers track users' habits down...

At the outbreak of hostilities in 1939, many of the aircraft in service with Britain and Commonwealth countries were outdated, and the RAF had to urgently expand production of the new types, such as the superb Supermarine Spitfire fighter and...

A social and transnational history of black abolitionism in Brazil Freedom's Horizon is a transnational history of black abolitionism in Brazil. In the last country to abolish slavery in the Western Hemisphere, enslaved and free Africans and their...

From Ponce de Leon's discovery of the "Land of Flowers" in 1513 to the suspense of the 2000 presidential election, It Happened in Florida takes readers on a behind-the-scenes tour of thirty of the most compelling episodes from the Sunshine State's...

Using the Icelandic context, Sigurdur Gylfi Magnusson examines egodocuments as distinct and fascinating manifestations of microhistory, reflecting on their nature, the circumstances in which they originated, and their strengths and weaknesses for...

Set in interwar Germany, The Intermediaries tells the forgotten story of the Institute for Sexual Science, the world's first centre for homosexual and transgender rights. Headed by a gay Jewish man, Dr. Magnus Hirshfeld, the institute aided in the first...

Many people know something of Plato's works, yet few are familiar with his life outside of his writings. In Plato and the Tyrant, acclaimed classicist James Romm uses a little-known set of Plato's personal letters to introduce the man behind the ethereal...

Sephardi identity has meant different things at different times, but has always entailed a connection with Spain, from which the Jews were expelled in 1492. While Sephardi Jews have lived in numerous cities and towns throughout history, certain cities...

An evocative journey through Cape Cod, Massachusetts, uncovering the hidden and often-overlooked stories of the enslaved people who lived and worked there As both a work of historical, creative nonfiction and a guidebook, For the...

The modern relationship between the Vatican and the State of Israel is rooted in a long history of hostility between Judaism and Roman Catholicism. Through the centuries, popes and theologians marginalized the Jewish people, assigning them collective...

This highly illustrated publication marks the origins of a revolutionary new nation, focusing on the years 1775 and 1776, the events that preceded and followed, and the people who contributed to its formation. The book recognizes Virginians who have...

Finalist for the 2024 Pulitzer Prize in HistoryWinner of the 2024 Bancroft Prize in American HistoryWinner of the 2024 Caughey Western History PrizeWinner of the 2024 Spur AwardNamed a Best Civil War Book of 2023 by Civil War Monitor In Continental...

Local communities in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries commonly addressed the needs of refugees, defined more broadly during the Progressive Era to also include internally displaced people and economic migrants. These communities' efforts...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915249449Author Rachel E. JohnsonFormat HardbackPage Count 188Imprint University of London PressPublisher University of London

Meet the rebels, robbers, radicals, determined teenagers, and ordinary Americans who shaped our Constitutional rights. The first ten amendments of the U.S. Constitution-known as the Bill of Rights-include the guarantee that no person may be deprived of...

This study examines how the British Empire of the 18th century contained revolution by integrating opposition agents as new spaces of power opened up. Monika Barget convincingly argues that this process of constitutionalisation meant that groups from the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262552387Author George BakerFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

Writing history, the systematic effort to understand the human past, is a demanding intellectual endeavor. For historian Gordon H. Chang, it has also been a personal and moral enterprise intimately connected to his commitment to realizing a better world...

A bracing, accessible history of white American liberals-and why it's time to change the conversation about them. If there's one thing most Americans can agree on, it's that everyone hates white liberals. Conservatives hate them for being culturally...

From the late 1940s until 1991, the Soviet Air Force was the largest military air arm in the world, providing the core of Warsaw Pact air power that matched NATO during the five decades of the Cold War. A highly sophisticated air force capable of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915249418Author Hannah JeansFormat PaperbackPage Count 246Imprint University of London PressPublisher University of London Press

Sons of the Arghandab tells the story of the 1-320th Field Artillery "Top Guns" Battalion, 101st Airborne, in the Arghandab Valley, 2010-2011. The Arghandab River Valley is known for its lush vegetation from its grape furrows and its pomegranate...