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As the United States marks its semiquincentennial in 2026, renowned historian Marc Stein looks back at the politics of another landmark celebration during a time of striking similarities and surprising differences: the US bicentennial in 1976. In the...

The word 'samurai' stands for ideals of courage, honour, self-sacrifice and loyalty. Yet much of the common understanding is imaginative fiction. This book explores the concept from medieval reality, through early modern changes, to today's hugely varied...

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In Art as Sanctuary, Michael D. Harris considers literal and metaphorical uses of sanctuary in the Black experience and African diaspora art, including locales of spiritual expression, self-renewal, and cultural celebration. Harris offers an alternative...

Discover the little-known story of the famous inventor's time in the Sunshine State Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931) was America's most famous and, arguably, most prolific inventor. But few realize the extent to which he called Florida, not New Jersey,...

Explores how anticolonial movements in South Africa enabled enduring inequality through the rise of privileged minorities and exclusive economic advantagesIn Privileged Minorities, Mesrob Vartavarian examines a central paradox in South African history:...

This book examines the art collector and trickster John Hilditch’s struggle to become a renowned collector and expert in early twentieth-century Britain. Through his life it explores how cultural authority was constructed, challenged and forged during a...

During the 1980s, as global antiapartheid sentiment grew, an international coalition of far-right activists arose to preserve racial hierarchy in South Africa and beyond. This groundbreaking book tells the story of how a transatlantic pro-apartheid...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908590787Author Rowan ThompsonFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint University of London PressPublisher University of London

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908590794Author Rowan ThompsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint University of London PressPublisher University of London

This first truly global history of the suppression of piracy links maritime raiding to empire building in the nineteenth century In the middle decades of the nineteenth century, imperial powers around the world came into direct confrontation with local...

Since the end of World War II, the United States has been the world's pre-eminent military power. Yet it has suffered as much failure as it has experienced victory. The bloody stalemate in Korea, defeats in Vietnam and Afghanistan, and difficulties...

On August 2, 1943, prisoners at the Nazi extermination camp Treblinka, located in occupied Poland, launched an uprising against their captors, during which hundreds successfully escaped while guards killed as many in the process. In this groundbreaking...

5,000 years ago, the people who lived on the north Pembrokeshire coast moved their entire culture, along with as many as 8o 1-to-2 tonne "Bluestones", 300km across country to the place now known as Stonehenge. Why? In this book you will find an answer -...

The preeminent historians of the founding era speak their mind on the anniversary of the United States' birth In these powerful and personal essays, some of the most celebrated historians of the American Revolutionary era reflect on the meaning of 1776...

In this open access book, Florian Bieber traces the history of the island of Hvar during the 19th and 20th centuries. Bieber uses Hvar as a novel lens to tell a larger story about modernity, changing states and identity, tourism and the transnational...

Lawyer and royalist, political prisoner and polemicist, Pierre de Belloy (c. 1550-1611) had the misfortune to live through interesting times. During the 1580s, Belloy became a notorious opponent of the French Catholic League for his position as the...

In Art as Sanctuary, Michael D. Harris considers literal and metaphorical uses of sanctuary in the Black experience and African diaspora art, including locales of spiritual expression, self-renewal, and cultural celebration. Harris offers an alternative...

A History of the Commercial Development of Miniaturisation Technologies and their Products is a record of the development of these technologies and their products from the early 1990s to 2024. Being a prominent part of the so-called twenty-first...

Please note this title is suitable for any student studying: Exam Board: International Baccalaureate Level and subject: Diploma Programme History First teaching: 2026 First exams: 2028 Developed in cooperation with the IB and fully aligned...

This is the first book to explore the history of ancient Greek and Roman influences and reception in England's North East, topics which have often transcended social boundaries dictated by working identity, class, religion, gender, and ethnicity...

Please note this title is suitable for any student studying: Exam Board: International Baccalaureate Level and subject: Diploma Programme History (HL) First teaching: 2026 First exams: 2028 Comprehensively updated for the DP History first...

A richly illustrated survey of Matisse's impact on modern art that also examines his career, techniques, aesthetics and stages of artistic development. The work of Henri Matisse has been both a profound inspiration to his successors and a source of...

What is Jihadi-Salafism and how does it relate to classical Islam? Scholars of Terrorism Studies argue that 'Jihadism' and Salafism are derivatives of Wahhabism and lie on the ideological margins of the Islamic tradition. This book challenges this...

An illustrated history of the motor torpedo boats of Italy's fast coastal forces, from their raids on enemy battleships in World War I to the dashing campaigns of World War II. The confined seas around Italy made fast torpedo boats particularly suitable...

The 3rd edition of Public History: A Practical Guide explores history in the public sphere and examines the variety of skills that historians require in the practice of public history. It discusses how through various mediums of interpretation and...

How do different generations remember the democratic transitions in the post-authoritarian European South fifty years later, and why does that matter? A Collective Biography of Southern European Democratization shows how individual stories, family...

Please note this title is suitable for any student studying: Exam Board: International Baccalaureate Level and subject: Diploma Programme History First teaching: 2026 First exams: 2028 Developed in cooperation with the IB and fully aligned...

Please note this title is suitable for any student studying: Exam Board: International Baccalaureate Level and subject: Diploma Programme History First teaching: 2026 First exams: 2028 Developed in cooperation with the IB, Oxford's DP...

In this collection of essays, James Howard-Johnston evaluates historical sources from across the entire existence of the Byzantine empire. Byzantium was peculiarly well endowed for the writing of history, given a relatively high degree of literacy, a...

The last decade of the nineteenth century and the first of the twentieth were marked by growing industrial and social uncertainty in Britain. Domestically, the expanding influence of socialism and, internationally, the rising threat from Germany - set...

Please note this title is suitable for any student studying: Exam Board: International Baccalaureate Level and subject: Diploma Programme History First teaching: 2026 First exams: 2028 Developed in cooperation with the IB and fully aligned...

Two major transformations of Late Antiquity redefined what it meant to be Roman: the Christianisation of imperial power and the collapse of the Western Roman state. This book examines how Prudentius, Athanasius, Augustine and other Roman and post-Roman...

Fully illustrated, this study examines the US Army and Japanese troops who fought for control of the Philippine Islands in the climactic months of World War II. In October 1944 the Sixth US Army landed on Leyte in the Japanese-held Central Philippine...

An in-depth look at the battle that saw the American Overmountain Men come together and defeat the British Loyalist army, turning the tide of the war.By 1780, the British strategy of subduing the South by mobilizing Loyalist forces appeared to be working...

In Retracing the Dragoon Trail in Iowa, historian Kevin T. Mason presents a vivid and deeply researched account of Iowa's evolving landscape, beginning with the 1835 expedition of the First U.S. Dragoons. Drawing from archival records, maps, government...

Examines the final years of the Warsaw ghetto, the uprising, and the varied, nuanced ways Jewish people resisted Nazi rule. The People's Uprising and the Fall of the Warsaw Ghetto, April 1942-June 1943 sheds light on the lives, choices, and experiences...

A military and political history of one of the world's most remarkable leaders, with over 250 photographs, illustrations, maps and battleplans. This concise and expert book describes the might of Alexander's armies, and the arms, troops, ships and war...

Stories of Aztec sungods and blood sacrifice, of pyramids and temples, and of the vast treasuries of gold raided by the Spaniards have fascinated many generations. This book offers enthralling insights into the history, myths and legends of the peoples...

In the 1960s, a musical revolution took place in the industrial landscapes of Cleveland and Detroit. Disenchanted with the strictures of bebop, musicians forged a new style-free jazz-that took inspiration from a vast range of sources, including figures...