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This book undertakes an in-depth exploration of the pivotal role of rice, which is the world's most essential food crops, sustaining over half of the global populace. It meticulously analyzes how rice cultivation constitutes the material bedrock and...

Entangled Alliances is a reinterpretation of the American Revolution through analysis of diplomacy in the emerging United States during decades of hemispheric transformation. Ronald Angelo Johnson brings to light the fascinating story of American...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781961293403Author Travis HellstromFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint Hatherleigh Press,U.S.Publisher Hatherleigh Press,U.S.

The nineteenth century in the United States witnessed the end of slavery and the expansion of another form of confinement: the asylum. How did enslaved and free Black people encounter psychiatric institutions? How were notions of mental disability used...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916931190Author Anna Marie RoosFormat HardbackPage Count 296Imprint Hakluyt SocietyPublisher Hakluyt Society

Fifty years after the 1974 Ethiopian revolution, Etana H. Dinka brings together a who's-who of modern Ethiopian studies in order to offer this long-overdue analysis of the revolution and its legacies. With contributions both from seasoned academics-many...

Newport Gardner's Anthem explores the remarkable life of Occramer Marycoo, an enslaved African who went on to become one of early America's most important Black leaders. In the mid-eighteenth century, Marycoo was taken from West Africa to Newport, Rhode...

Secrets and maps are a match made in heaven. A Second World War military plan of a cave system covered with red stamps, a tatty hand-drawn treasure map marked with an 'X', or even your personal phone screen showing a precise 'blue dot' location. These...

This companion is the first global, comprehensive text to explicate, theorize, and propose decolonial methodologies for art historians, museum professionals, artists, and other visual culture scholars, teachers, and practitioners.Art history as a...

This book utilizes postcards as a historical and visual lens to consider the built environment of the Philippines after the governmental regime change in 1898. By compiling and using visual references to show shifting patterns of urban environmental...

In the centuries which are the focus of this book, Scotland was going though a period of profound and often violent change. With the Americas having been recently discovered in 1492, awareness of other continents' cultures and natural wonders was...

Why are relations between minorities and the police in France so fraught? Stripping away the myth that this tension is a sudden and recent disruption of its universalist republican tradition brought on by the presence of North African immigrants, Amit...

The age of Enlightenment was also an age of development of sporting and physical activities. This book aims to study the forms of sociability induced and defined by such activities in the eighteenth century. By bringing together archival work and textual...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781476699066Author Gerald H AnkenyFormat PaperbackPage Count 323Imprint McFarland & Co IncPublisher McFarland & Co Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781586424145Author Randall BalmerFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Steerforth PressPublisher Steerforth PressWeight(grams) 130gDimensions(mm) 159mm *...

This book sets forth the historical lines from primitive society, through slave society, feudal society and capitalist society, to socialist society, and from Stone Age to information era with brief words and colorful images, and also clarifies the...

Violence was a constant on all colonial frontiers, from the British expansion into the Australian and African continents, to the expansion of the United States and the Napoleonic Empire's many incursions into Europe. Yet how did the forms of violence...

Surviving Revolution explores how two wealthy and well-connected families with roots in Lyon responded to the French Revolution and the resulting transformations. In building a new political system based on liberty, equality, and fraternity, the French...

This book offers the first systematic, comparative analysis of the ideology of kingship and empire under the Achaemenids, Alexander the Great and the early Seleucids. It explores key issues thematically such as legitimation, representations of empire and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780735248229Author Tim CookFormat PaperbackPage Count 576Imprint Prentice Hall PressPublisher Prentice Hall Press

Surviving Revolution explores how two wealthy and well-connected families with roots in Lyon responded to the French Revolution and the resulting transformations. In building a new political system based on liberty, equality, and fraternity, the French...

Six Red Months in Russia conveys Bryant's understanding of the revolution, and reminds us of the utter enthusiasm that many Russians, and Americans, felt for socialism and its yet-untainted, utopian ideals. This new edition of Bryant's book is annotated...

Numbers: A Cultural History provides students with a compelling interdisciplinary view of the development of mathematics and its relationship to world cultures over 4,500 years of human history.Mathematics is often referred to as a "universal language,"...

Six Red Months in Russia conveys Bryant's understanding of the revolution, and reminds us of the utter enthusiasm that many Russians, and Americans, felt for socialism and its yet-untainted, utopian ideals. This new edition of Bryant's book is annotated...

This book presents a theory of the morality of human relations deeply drawn from widespread spiritual traditions, offering an account of the full range of sociality that comprises our moral life. Bennett Gilbert argues that the dynamic character of our...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802164841Author Paul GillinghamFormat HardbackPage Count 752Imprint Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly PressPublisher Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press

This book illuminates the often-overlooked story of early modern Irish women, particularly those from the Protestant colonial community. Drawing from aristocratic, gentry, farming, business, and trade families, these women were shaped by the religious...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804584149Author John BurkeFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint Gill ChildrensPublisher GillWeight(grams) 500g

Whether it's tightly rolled up between two nervous, wringing hands, proudly sticking out from a quick-stepping back pocket or carefully brought home to be kept for posterity, the match day programme is part of the very fabric of the GAA and in The GAA...

LGBT Victorians argues for re-visiting the Victorian era's thinking about gender and sexual identity. We think of those whose primary self-definition is in terms of sexuality (lesbians, gay men, bisexuals) and those for whom it is gender identity...

Traditional accounts of the campaigns of 1813 concentrate on the major powers: Napoleon's France versus Russia, joined successively by Prussia, Sweden and Austria, and how, as in the French catastrophe of 1812, early successes were transformed into...

Following the death in 1789 of Abbe de l'Epee, the first teacher of deaf pupils renowned in France and beyond, revolutionaries committed to founding national institutes for the education of deaf pupils. There was little doubt about their ability to...

Women's songs of the grind mill are among the oldest oral traditions in South Asia. They have been sung to accompany a daily household labor, making flour using a stone hand mill, for many centuries. Even today, grind mill songs are still well known in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781801511797Author Ciaran McCabeFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Four Courts Press LtdPublisher Four Courts Press Ltd

Women's songs of the grind mill are among the oldest oral traditions in South Asia. They have been sung to accompany a daily household labor, making flour using a stone hand mill, for many centuries. Even today, grind mill songs are still well known in...

Solidarity and Pressure is the first full-length study of the Irish Anti-Apartheid Movement (IAAM). Founded in April 1964, the IAAM spearheaded fundraising efforts, organized events, lobbied Irish politicians, and actively promoted the struggle against...

In the autumn of 1835, as the Orange Order faced a parliamentary inquiry and the imminent prospect of being banned, an 'Old Orangeman', signing himself 'Montanus', wrote a series of articles defending the Orange brethren and telling their story. Almost...

Through the Russian Revolution by Albert Rhys-Williams, a Congregationalist pastor turned labor organiser and journalist, offers readers a first-hand account of the exciting and confusing events of the Russian revolution from June 1917 to August 1918...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781801511773Author Susan Marie MartinFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Four Courts Press LtdPublisher Four Courts Press Ltd