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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...

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

A bestseller upon its publication in 1724, Charles Johnson's General History of the Pyrates shaped public perceptions of piracy with its portraits of such legendary figures as Blackbeard, Mary Read, Anne Bonny, and Bartholomew Roberts. Yet despite...

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...

The University of Alabama was burned to the ground in the final days of the Civil War. In the war's aftermath, survivors constructed a new collection of buildings using many of the bricks left from the original campus. Nevertheless, the university's...

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

A bestseller upon its publication in 1724, Charles Johnson's General History of the Pyrates shaped public perceptions of piracy with its portraits of such legendary figures as Blackbeard, Mary Read, Anne Bonny, and Bartholomew Roberts. Yet despite...

How the contours of the United States took shape-and what they might have been There was nothing predestined about the now-familiar shape of the United States of America. Early visions of what the new country's borders could encompass included Canadian...

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...

The Latino Big Bang in California presents a Spanish transcription and English translation of a diary written by Forty-Niner Justo Veytia, a Mexican immigrant seeking riches during California's Gold Rush. Veytia's diary offers insights into the dilemmas...

Texas during the Civil War period is often viewed through the lenses of military tactics and the state's role in the Confederacy. But what was life like for the families who endured wartime separation? How did women ensure stability at home while their...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781772841114Author Kevin NikkelFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint University of Manitoba PressPublisher University of Manitoba Press

The legend of Billy the Kid and the Lincoln County War remains prominent in the annals of American frontier history, but for men like JosE ChAvez y ChAvez, Juan PatrOn, MartIn ChAvez, and Yginio Salazar, it was merely one famous epoch in a much broader...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781802701845Author Helle VogtFormat HardbackPage Count 147Imprint Arc Humanities PressPublisher Arc Humanities Press

While headline writers in the ETO were naturally focused on events in Normandy and the Bulge in the north, equally ferocious combats were taking place in southern France and Germany during 1944-45, which are now finally getting their due. The US 14th...

This book examines African Latin Christianity from the fifth to the thirteenth century, exploring the complex interactions between local Christian communities and Vandals, Byzantines, and Arabs.Focusing on the resilience of successive generations of...

This accessibly written volume examines the major periods of Jewish history around the world, from their distant origins in antiquity through the beginnings of the modern period and the emergence of secular culture.Although Jews are a small minority,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781554812820Author Valerie S. ThalerFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint Broadview Press LtdPublisher Broadview Press LtdWeight(grams) 500g

Curated and introduced by Ian Warrell, the leading expert on Turner, this selection from the fabled Hickman Bacon collection is one of the finest groups of British watercolours in existence, and hardly ever seen or reproduced. Centered around 32...

Providing a broad as well as a pointillist overview of modern Jewish history on a global scale from the eighteenth century to the present day, this book analyses how the Jewish people have been dramatically transformed by the forces of social, economic,...

Tried Men and True, or Union Life in Dixie is the memoir of a Union supporter in south-central Tennessee. In it, he chronicles in vivid and emotional detail the local tensions between Unionists and Confederates during the Civil War South and offers a...

The first full English translation of one of the most important sources on Thomas Becket.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781476692876Author Per-Olof HasselgrenFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint McFarland & Co IncPublisher McFarland & Co Inc

The gripping, untold story of how six epic journeys launched the three communist revolutions that changed world history forever.From the streets of Petrograd during the heady autumn of 1917, to Mao's stunning victory in October 1949, and Fidel's...

In the early 1820s, Thomas Harvie, a newly rich, arrogant Glasgow distiller, bought Westthorn estate on the eastern edge of the city close to the north bank of the River Clyde. To establish the bounds of his property and keep out intruders, he erected...

To the extent Jewish historians have recalled the American Council for Judaism at all, the picture they have left has been a badly distorted one. Far from a marginal voice among midcentury American Jews, its membership was impressive by the standards of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789087284770Author Leonard BlusseFormat PaperbackPage Count 350Imprint Leiden University PressPublisher Leiden University Press

The surrealist movement, which began in the early 1920s, pushed the boundaries of reality, dream and the subconscious, blending reality with fantastical elements. The Pocket Surrealism provides a concise introduction to the artists who shaped the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789087284602Author Rose Mary AllenFormat HardbackPage Count 450Imprint Leiden University PressPublisher Leiden University Press

Authoritarianism is everywhere on the advance, democracy seems fragile and threatened. We console ourselves that where rule by the people has long established itself, it has never collapsed from internal causes. Except it did, once: in Rome. This book...

Auburn University possesses a rich and storied past as well as an esprit de corps that is the envy of its rivals. Dwayne Cox's The Village on the Plain traces the school's history in fascinating detail from its origins as a private college through its...

This book connects the First and Second World Wars. It uses oral histories and Mass Observation material to explore men's attitudes to Second World War enlistment and the relationship they perceived between military service and masculinity, and how these...

Landlocked, mountainous, and surrounded by global giants India and China, Bhutan has provided remarkable leadership on both climate action and human happiness, despite its pre-2023 status as a least-developed nation. Bhutan was the first country to be...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800353350Author Robin GardinerFormat PaperbackImprint Crecy PublishingPublisher Crecy Publishing

An original analysis of the relationship between slavery and the labor movement in the late-nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. During the rise of the labor movement in the late nineteenth century, why were American workers unable to organize...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800996885Author Dafydd JenkinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Y LolfaPublisher Y LolfaDimensions(mm) 215mm * 140mm * 35mm

Based on years of research in libraries and archives in England, Germany, India and Switzerland, this book offers a new interpretation of global migration from the early nineteenth until the early twentieth century. Rather than focusing upon the mass...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800996915Author Gerald MorganFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Y LolfaPublisher Y LolfaDimensions(mm) 215mm * 140mm * 14mm