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Turkism as an idea which emphasizes the Turkic ethnic component in national identity is widely associated with Turks and Turkey. However, many millions of Turkic peoples with distinctive histories, cultures, social and political traditions live outside...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780907239888Author Shaun D. McGuinnessFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint Canterbury & York SocietyPublisher Canterbury & York SocietyWeight(grams) 666g

The origins of the Teutonic Order are poorly illuminated by sources. These sources are late and unreliable. The history of the order was reconstructed by tracing the evolution of its statutes and comparing the results of these studies with papal,...

A vivid exploration of how Catholicism endured far longer into the Elizabethan era and continued to shape the very identity of early modern England. This compelling study delves into the complexities of religious and political power during Elizabeth...

A sweeping history of the violence perpetrated by governments committed to extreme forms of secularism in the twentieth century A popular truism derived from the Enlightenment holds that violence is somehow inherent to religion, to which political...

Using Palestine as a case study, Recognition Politics in Settler Colonial States shows how recognition politics operate to legitimize long-standing colonial power structures.In existing scholarship, recognition has been seen as an asset coveted by...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780252088698Author Louis P CainFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint University of Illinois PressPublisher University of Illinois PressWeight(grams) 454g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789888876761Author Ruth Mandujano LopezFormat HardbackPage Count 212Imprint Hong Kong University PressPublisher Hong Kong University Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781643365725Author Professor Christopher D JohnsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 266Imprint University of South Carolina PressPublisher University of South...

The breakneck adventure of war, romance, politics, and betrayal, where noble gentleman privateer William Kidd becomes a scapegoat, and Crown and crew sink to unfathomable depths to brand him pirate enemy #1.Captain William Kidd stands as one of the most...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780700638642Author Jon K LauckFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint University Press of KansasPublisher University Press of Kansas

Depicting the Holy War examines the impact that crusades in the Middle East had on societies in western Europe through the analysis of a heretofore largely ignored type of source: mural paintings. In this book, Elizabeth Lapina analyzes five programs of...

A compelling, expansive history of the relationship between China and Russia, from the seventeenth century to the present Russia and China, the largest and most populous countries in the world, respectively, have maintained a delicate relationship for...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781625348753Author Carol R GardnerFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint University of Massachusetts PressPublisher University of Massachusetts...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781643365923Author Rebecca Capobianco ToyFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint University of South Carolina PressPublisher University of South Carolina Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804517130Author Simon ClarkeFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

The weeks of bloody maneuvering and fighting along the Delaware River at Fort Mercer, Fort Mifflin, and Gloucester receive but scant attention in the literature of the American Revolution. The same is true for the five-day Whitemarsh operation and other...

This volume presents the first comprehensive study in English of the Roman History by Appian of Alexandria. Appian was an Egyptian Greek and Roman citizen, who wrote his history of Rome in twenty-four books, covering the period from the foundation of the...

Who organized numerous exhibitions of American art in the Cold War Soviet Union - and why? Did Americans truly want to "subvert" the Soviet regime with abstraction, and were the Soviets really "afraid" of non-figurative art? And, most noteworthy, can we...

"It is glorious to see such courage in one so young!" So exclaimed Confederate General Robert E. Lee on December 13, 1862, during the battle of Fredericksburg as he watched Major John Pelham fight at least five Union batteries with just one lone gun...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780774870368Author Yihong PanFormat PaperbackPage Count 282Imprint University of British Columbia PressPublisher University of British Columbia...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804516690Author Dermot RooneyFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

June 1940: France surrenders to Germany. The Gestapo is searching for Heinrich Mann and Franz Werfel, Hannah Arendt, Lion Feuchtwanger and many other writers and artists who had sought asylum in France since 1933. The young American journalist Varian Fry...

The remarkable history of the women who worked for Special Operations Executive across occupied Europe In the wake of the Nazi invasion of Europe, the tentative sparks of resistance in occupied countries were fanned by Britain’s Special Operations...

This is a fascinating fast-paced study on the politics of command, human nature, and the stress of war, and how it all combined to influence the outcome of the Civil War’s most important campaign.

From 1874 until 1915, the "Storm Warriors" of the Fletchers Neck Life Saving Service and the citizens of the Village of Biddeford Pool shared a common history. During the 19th century, the stretch of Maine coast between Portland and the busy docks at...

Manifesto houses reflect new visions for how we can live. Often extreme and uncompromising, they are vehicles for innovation, new ideas and news ways of doing things. Most houses are the product of multiple layers of norms and expectations built up over...

On October 19, 1979, the largest, most intense tropical cyclone ever recorded propelled 5,500 gallons of gasoline into corrugated steel huts filled with U.S. Marines. The gas ignited, injuring seventy-three people, thirteen of them fatally. The Marine...

On the eve of the Civil War, the London Times informed its readers that Castle Pinckney has "been kept garrisoned, not to protect Charleston from naval attack from the ocean, but to serve as a bridle upon the city." Located on a marshy island in the...

The third and final entry of this groundbreaking trilogy examines the battlefield’s transformation from post-battle Hell to American shrine.

As wooden ships gave way to ironclads in the middle of the nineteenth century, one warship stood out. Born in the American Civil War and buffeted by the rivalries of North and South and Europe, it ultimately helped secure the foundations of modern Japan...

The fighting on the first day at Gettysburg on July 1, 1863, was unexpected, heavy, confusing, and in many ways, decisive. Much of it consisted of short and often separate simultaneous engagements or "firefights," a term soldiers often use to describe...

An insightful and beautifully illustrated new perspective on the role of Central European émigré artists, architects, and designers on American modernism While the history of modernism in the United States is often seen as having roots in French art...

Drawing on the latest research and exclusive access to archival materials, this visually stunning monograph traces Otto's groundbreaking career as one of the twentieth century's most important and influential architects. Published to mark the...

Socialist Subjectivities works within the logics of queer time to reanimate East German subjectivities in the 1970s and 1980s beyond the narrative of the German Democratic Republic’s long march towards demise. While East Germany certainly ended in...

Emerging in colonial India, the fitness fad that was Indian Club Swinging became a global exercise practice in the early 19th century. Used by physicians, soldiers, gymnasts, children and athletes alike, clubs were used to solve numerous social concerns...

The League of Nations, one of the world's first multi-function intergovernmental organisations, was also one of the first to undergo liquidation. This book unveils the last chapter in its story, showing how complex and time-consuming the end of this...

Known as a time of revolutions in science, the early modern era in Europe was characterized by the emergence of new disciplines and ways of thinking. Taking this conceit a step further, Sacred Habitat shows how Spanish friars and missionaries used new...

The Zambezi is the fourth-longest river in Africa, and one of the continent's principal arteries of movement, migration, conquest and commerce. In this book, historian Malyn Newitt quotes rarely used Portuguese sources that throw vivid light on the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781469686202Author Tom HanchettFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint University of North Carolina PressPublisher University of North Carolina Press