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Saudi Modern: Jeddah in Transition, 1938-1964, edited by Abdulrahman and Turki Gazzaz of Bricklab, explores the urban and architectural transformation of the city of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, since the discovery of oil-highlighting the city's rapid...

The Big Smoke. The Big Apple. Bright lights and skylines set the scene for a housing tale of two cities: London and New York. Growing up in tandem and maturing as urban democracies during the 19th and 20th centuries, London and New York have both...

Some ten thousand years ago, hunter-gatherers moving through a landscape newly emerged from the grip of the last Ice Age reached four islands on the western seaboard. The shores they landed on were deserted. After making camp, they struck out to hunt and...

Italy, from the toe to the Alps, was the scene of the longest, bloodiest, most frustrating, and least understood series of battles fought by the Western Allies during World War II. Now, John S. D. Eisenhower offers a new look at the Italian...

Anomie Collections is a London-based initiative that supports the work of contemporary British painters by acquiring works on behalf of a group of private collectors. Since its inception in 2022, Anomie Collections has acquired eighty-six paintings and...

The intriguing story of the WW2 airfield that wasn't there!Read stories from the people who held thise closely-guarded secret for yearsPart of the remarkable story of the war of deception to confound HitlerThe Dummy Drome is a well-researched story...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804517680Author David Keable-ElliottFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

The Anatomy of Colorism in America addresses the significance that colorism, racial hierarchy, and white skin idealization have each had on the lives of individuals across multiple communities and how those experiences have compared with one another...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804517291Author Ben ZweibelsonFormat HardbackPage Count 536Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

The Canadian postwar economic boom did not include one western coal-mining region. When the Canadian Pacific Railway switched to diesel power, over 2,000 coal-production jobs were lost in the Crowsnest Pass and Elk Valley. The Lights on the Tipple Are...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916931206Author Ben JonesFormat HardbackPage Count 492Imprint Navy Records SocietyPublisher Navy Records Society

This book is about the Cannes Medical Conference of April 1919 and its long-lasting impacts in the humanitarian space. In the aftermath of the First World War, as the world order was being redesigned, this conference served to shift the Red Cross...

All my life I have dreamed of retreat. Of letting go each responsibility and cutting every tie. And I know I'm not the only one. But, in the vacant days of the pandemic, I began to ask myself: what is gained and what is lost when we withdraw from the...

This book explores the automata of the Medici Villa Pratolino, focusing on the intersection of art, engineering, and philosophy in the late sixteenth century. The author examines how these 'living sculptures' went beyond traditional Renaissance static...

This interdisciplinary book provides timely fresh perspective on Palestine-Israel by rethinking the nature of settler-colonial sovereignty and the relationship between land and people. Muhannad Ayyash argues that this relationship comes in two distinct...

"Remarkably ambitious in scope, Harte manages to knit together a social and cultural history of these years, including how Churchill both influenced the world and was defined by the issues of the day. Harte wants to show when and where the 'scrawny...

On Afghanistan's Plains tells the story of four gruelling tours of duty during Operation Herrick, the codename under which British operations in Afghanistan were conducted from 2002 until 2014 when the mission changed from direct combat with the Taliban...

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All monarchs have need of those to whom they give their trust. Never was this more essential than for the kings of Medieval England. From the Norman victory of 1066 to the bloody demise of Richard III in 1485, the stings and arrows of royal life bred...

This interdisciplinary book provides timely fresh perspective on Palestine-Israel by rethinking the nature of settler-colonial sovereignty and the relationship between land and people. Muhannad Ayyash argues that this relationship comes in two distinct...

Examines the struggle between factions debating the morality and impact on public behaviour of the theatre following the Glorious Revolution, and the political significance of public feeling around this controversy. In 1698 the Jacobite clergyman...

In a world defined by the brutalities of war, one German general stands apart from the Hollywood stereotype. Before the storm of the Second World War, Fridolin von Senger und Etterlin was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford, fluent in multiple languages, and a...

How did technical advances in weaponry alter the battlefield during the reign of Queen Victoria? In 1845, in the first Anglo-Sikh War, the outcome was decided by the bayonet; just over fifty years later, in the second Boer War, the combatants were many...

The Tokyo Sixteen tells the gripping story of the sixteen pilots who took part in the Doolittle Raid on Tokyo in April 1942. The book follows their personal journeys, from their diverse backgrounds and motivations for joining the military to their daring...

A graphic study of military and military revolution in the pivotal 17th century in the context of the Thirty Years War, shown by dramatic battle scenes, personal, heroic and tragic for all levels of society, and all strikingly brought to life. The first...

Too often historical writing on the Russian War of 1854-56 focuses narrowly on the land campaign fought in the Crimean peninsula in the Black Sea. The wider war waged at sea by the British and French navies against the Russians is ignored. The allied...

This open access book explores how Italy experienced the crucial period of transition that has come to be known as the 'Shock of the Global' during the 1970s. This decade marked a change between the prevailing socio-political and economic structures of...

A wide-ranging collection of essays that centers Latinos in the history of American cities and suburbs. Latino urban history has been underappreciated not only in its own right but for the centrality of its narratives to urban history as a field. A...

This is the eighth in Christina Holstein's masterly series of Battleground books on the Verdun area during the Great War, following the usual method of narrative to set the scene accompanied by detailed tours. Christina brings to bear her outstanding...

When 1944 began, the Third Reich's position on the Eastern Front still seemed promising. Despite a series of major defeats at Kursk, Smolensk and on the Dnieper, the Germans still held vast swathes of Russian territory. Hitler declared that the conquered...

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Volume Six of this series chronicles aerial warfare in the New Guinea theatre in the critical period of January to March 1943. It can be read alone or as a continuation of the previous five volumes which span the first thirteen months of the Pacific War...

I.B. Tauris in association with the Institute of Ismaili Studies.Historical documentation and archaeological material have revealed that the Fatimids once presided over a diverse, multicultural state composed of Muslims, Christians, Jews and other...

A novel and comprehensive narrative of American intelligence from the Revolutionary War to the present day. Intelligence is all around us. We read about it in the news, wonder who is spying on us through our phones or computers, and want to know what...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781772841107Author Kevin NikkelFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint University of Manitoba PressPublisher University of Manitoba Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781598538014Author Tyina L. SteptoeFormat HardbackPage Count 700Imprint The Library of AmericaPublisher The Library of America

Mesa Verde National Park is the only congressionally designated land-based Wilderness to prohibit all recreational use. While backcountry use was encouraged for decades, stewardship changed over time as "gardening" the park for aesthetic purposes...

Pantex was built during World War II near the town of Amarillo, Texas. The site was converted early in the Cold War to assemble nuclear weapons and produce high explosives. For nearly fifty years Pantex has been the sole assembly and disassembly plant...

A long-awaited work by one of the deans of Black studies Reginald Butler, the second director of UVA's Carter G. Woodson Institute, wrote an influential and much-cited but never published dissertation at Johns Hopkins University that focused on community...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781598538144Author Tyina L. SteptoeFormat HardbackPage Count 1526Imprint The Library of AmericaPublisher The Library of America