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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

First published in 1986, Tunisia: Crossroads of the Islamic and European Worlds presents a comprehensive overview of Tunisian history along with its political and governmental structures and the role of Habib Bourguiba and other nationalist leaders in...

Daniel Boone is considered one of the United States' first folk heroes for his exploration beyond the thirteen colonies into Kentucky. Hugh McGary, the Irish-born American pioneer who joined Boone on his 1775 expedition, is lesser known, but he played a...

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...

We walk past remnants of our past every day without noticing. Our ancestors left echoes of themselves all around us, if we only know where to look and how to interpret the signs. These remnants lie all over Ireland, telling us of the lives they once...

Shortlist, Cundill History Prize"The extraordinary untold story of how a disillusioned American diplomat named William C. Bullitt came to Freud's couch in 1926, and how Freud and his patient collaborated on a psychobiography of President Woodrow Wilson."...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781801511766Author Fleming David A.Format PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Four Courts Press LtdPublisher Four Courts Press Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781801511759Author Kieran DevenishFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Four Courts Press LtdPublisher Four Courts Press Ltd

In November 1962, 20-year-old Oswald Augustus Grey, an immigrant from Jamaica who had been in the UK for less than two years, became the last man to be hanged in Birmingham's Winson Green prison. There were only five further executions in the UK before...

Since the end of the Second World War, the audacious Operation Jaywick has remained little known amongst the public or military in the United Kingdom. It was an incredible endeavour executed by British and Australian service personnel. The deepest...

The Gulbenkian Museum published its long-awaited catalogue of Calouste Gulbenkian's collection of illuminated manuscripts, marking the culmination of several years of research and collaboration by a group of international scholars. This group of works,...

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Transform your understanding of the underwater world with The Shipwreck Decoder. This essential illustrated guide helps you understand the silent stories told by submerged vessels. This insightful handbook delves into the features of shipwrecks, placing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781948803786Author Joseph P. FarrellFormat PaperbackPage Count 324Imprint Adventures Unlimited PressPublisher Adventures Unlimited Press

Filled with larger-than-life characters, and revelations of the vision and technology it took to dominate the skies before and during, World War II, here is a gripping piece of aviation history.Pan Am at War chronicles the airline's historic role in...

Rehabilitate Marx! conceptualizes new forms of socialist modernity during the post-Stalinist era, in the second half of the 1950s and 1960s. After the demise of Stalinism, Czechoslovak intellectuals within the Communist Party realized that the primary...

Silver Medal winner in Military History Matters 'Book of the Year' Award "Written with great accuracy, detail, enthusiasm, and insight..." Military History Matters judges' comment Striking where the enemy is weakest and melting away into the...

In After Caliban, Erica Moiah James examines the rise of global Caribbean artists in the 1990s and their production of a decolonized art history for the Caribbean. She draws on AimE CEsaire's rewriting of Shakespeare's The Tempest, in which Caliban...

During US colonial rule in the Philippines, reinforced concrete was used to the near exclusion of all other building materials. In Concrete Colonialism, Diana Jean S. Martinez examines the motivations for and lasting effects of this forgotten colonial...

Framing the U.S. consulate as a central point of analysis, Baghdad Dispatches highlights the experiences of refugees, prisoners of war, and foreign nationals stranded in Ottoman Baghdad.Jameel Haque examines the history of Ottoman Baghdad during the...

This sweeping history tells the story of contemporary Japan from its defeat in the Asia-Pacific War in 1945 until the early decades of the new millennium. How did the Japanese people deal with the collapse of its empire and the American-led occupation?...

According to conventional naval history, the Coastal Motor Boat was the brainchild of three enterprising young Royal Navy officers in the early stages of the First World War. This new book reveals that the truth was far more complex, and historically...

This book endeavors to provide a balanced analytical treatment of ethnic nationalists, state leaders, and foreign intervenors in China's frontier politics, explaining systematically the circumstances of their entanglements, and traces in detail the...

Rehabilitate Marx! conceptualizes new forms of socialist modernity during the post-Stalinist era, in the second half of the 1950s and 1960s. After the demise of Stalinism, Czechoslovak intellectuals within the Communist Party realized that the primary...

This much anticipated follow-up to the best-selling Historic Rural Churches of Georgia (2016) documents even more rural churches and communities founded prior to 1900 throughout the Peach State. With more than 250 stunning color images, the new volume...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915969316Author Hilary DoyleFormat PaperbackPage Count 124Imprint Panzer TractsPublisher Panzerwrecks LimitedWeight(grams) 500gDimensions(mm) 280mm *...

In the pitch of battle, according to Pericles, the Athenian citizen-soldier chooses to die rather than leave undefended the democratic principles that Athens embodies: this defines The Soldier's Choice. The great war between Sparta and Athens dominated...

First published in 1949, Cloak of Charity provides a short history of philanthropy in the eighteenth-century. The author asserts that the history of charity is the history of the changes which have occurred in the attitude of the rich towards the poor...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781901927948Author David WaddingtonFormat HardbackPage Count 474Imprint Route PublishingPublisher Route PublishingDimensions(mm) 216mm * 135mm * 35mm

First published in 1967, South Wales Miners: Glowyr de Cymru is a vivid portrayal of contending personalities in the generation before the first world war, often set forth in their own words. Outstanding amongst them are the founder of the Labour Party.,...

Marking the sixtieth anniversary of the premiere of Zulu, starring Stanley Baker and Michael Caine, this volume brings together contributions from leading military historians to analyse changing depictions of the British Army and its role in nineteenth-...

First published in 1986, Liberalism and Liberal Politics in Edwardian England makes a lively contribution to the historical debate over whether the Liberal Party was already threatened by decline before the First World War. It challenges the current...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781068336300Author Hugh GaultFormat PaperbackPage Count 132Imprint Gretton BooksPublisher Gretton Books

First published in 1983, England’s Sea Empire was originally part of the Early Modern Europe Today book series. It explores the relationships between the increase of English merchant shipping, the growth of naval power and the early experiments in...

Against the backdrop of major geopolitical developments, including Russia's invasion of Ukraine and intensifying great-power competition in the Indo-Pacific, this book undertakes a comprehensive reassessment of the United States' first Cold War strategy...

First published in 1978, Reviewing before the Edinburgh is a study of English literary reviewing during the fifteen years before the founding in 1802 of the Edinburgh Review, and an assessment of the reviewers’ achievement. The long introductory chapter...