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Volume V of E.J.W. Gibb's classic study of Ottoman Poetry - here reissued with a new foreword by Christine Woodhead - covers the later 19th century. Gibb's History of Ottoman Poetry, first published in six volumes between 1900 to 1909, provided the...

This annotated diary describes the politics, cultural richness and practicalities of elite educational travel in England during the early reign of Charles II. Prince George of Denmark is best known to Anglophone historiography for having married...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798892137416Author Cesar SamaniegoFormat PaperbackPage Count 24Imprint Grasshopper BooksPublisher Grasshopper BooksWeight(grams) 110g

Volume I of E.J.W. Gibb’s classic study of Ottoman Poetry – here reissued with a new foreword by Christine Woodhead – covers the period 1300 to c. 1450. Gibb’s History of Ottoman Poetry, first published in six volumes between 1900 to 1909, provided the...

Volume III of E.J.W. Gibb’s classic study of Ottoman Poetry covering the period from 1520 to c. 1700, is now reissued with a new foreword by Christine Woodhead. Gibb’s History of Ottoman Poetry, first published in six volumes between 1900 to 1909,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798892137508Author Cesar SamaniegoFormat PaperbackPage Count 24Imprint Grasshopper BooksPublisher Grasshopper BooksWeight(grams) 110g

New and ambitious approaches to contemporary China, informed by perspectives taken from civilizational analysis and the specific concept of social imaginaries.This collection of essays by some of today's most prominent scholars on Chinese society,...

The killing of Jane McCrea on July 26, 1777, on the outskirts of a village in the northern Hudson Valley, would unexpectedly rupture the British advance from Canada that was meant to crush the American Revolution in one knockout blow. On that day,...

Lydia Darragh is famed for eavesdropping on British General William Howe's staff as they planned a surprise attack, then sneaking through the lines to give warning to American soldiers. Her actions are said to have saved George Washington's army from a...

Illuminated offers a journey through twelve extraordinary Islamic manuscripts. These masterpieces of the medieval Islamic world are not only repositories of knowledge, but works of art and objects of wonder.From medical treatises and celestial charts to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781541600140Author James McDougallFormat HardbackPage Count 608Imprint Basic BooksPublisher Basic Books

Imad Yusuf Nuwayhid was born in 1944 in the Lebanese village of Ras al-Matn. He came of age in the 1960s, splitting time between Beirut and Europe. And he died in 1975, the start of the Lebanese Civil War. But who was Imad Nuwayhid? Was he a leftist...

Showing how and why Grant became such a successful general, Smith presents a reexamination of the commander and the campaign. His fresh analysis of Grant's decision-making process during the Vicksburg siege and battle details the process of campaigning...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781476698823Author Michael J ForsythFormat PaperbackPage Count 243Imprint McFarland & Co IncPublisher McFarland & Co Inc

At Sea Against the Soviet Fleet is a history of the evolution of the United States Navy's Operational Intelligence culture that informs great power competition with China today.At Sea Against the Soviet Fleet examines the critical transformation of naval...

A comprehensive, first-of-its-kind book about Chicago's residential architecture and the stories that shaped it. This is an entertaining and precisely illustrated story of Chicago homes from the city's earliest days through the Second World War,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781836953302Author Rene SchlottFormat HardbackPage Count 398Imprint Berghahn BooksPublisher Berghahn Books

The question of how to conceive of the Holocaust within a wider, historical framework remains contentious. For some, it is a universal catastrophe that provides a blueprint for understanding comparable instances of targeted violence, while for others...

This open access book examines the first modern diplomatic contact between Europe and East Asia: the 1517 Portuguese embassy to China. The experience did not end well, for in 1521, the Ming Court decided to cut off relations, and a battle broke out...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781836953333Author Eren Yıldırım YetkinFormat HardbackPage Count 322Imprint Berghahn BooksPublisher Berghahn Books

First Published in 1980 Victoria and Albert at Home describes the sitting, construction, and decorating of the two royal residences at Osborne and Balmoral and paints a memorable portrait of the Queen's family and her Court beside the Solent and the Dee...

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Civil Blood is a study of the practice of vendetta among the civic elites in sixteenth-century Italy and illustrates the complex and integral role that vendetta violence played in civic life and state formation on the winding path to state centralization...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910481158Author Paul CavillFormat PaperbackImprint University of Chester PressPublisher University of Chester Press

First published in 1958, The Making of Modern Uganda is concerned with the formation of modern Uganda in the sixty years since the 1890s when the foundations of the British administration were laid. In the first decade of the 20th century Sir Hesketh...

First published in 1967, Latin Biography contains chapters on Nepos, Plutarch and Suetonius, the three best-known Classical biographers. There are also accounts of the less-familiar works of Q. Curtius Rufus and the author - or authors - of the Historia...

First published in 1984, Death, Burial and the Individual in Early Modern England traces how and why the modern reaction to death has come about by examining English attitudes to death since the Middle Ages. In earlier centuries death was very much in...

This book explores the collections, the networks, and the methods of the antiquarian and scholar of the everyday Francis Douce (1757-1834). Throughout his life, Douce acquired rare books, illuminated manuscripts, coins, paintings, miscellaneous...

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First published in 1960, The Treasure of the Copper Scroll is the companion volume to John Marco Allegro's People of the Dead Sea Scrolls and tells the story of this unusual, buried treasure. Allegro here reveals much hitherto unknown information - the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916742857Author Bryan MacMahonFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Eastwood BooksPublisher Wordwell

First published in 1966, Latin Historians gives an account of some of the most important Latin historians. There are chapters on Caesar, Sallust, Livy and Ammianus Marcellinus, together with an account of earlier historians, and on Polybius, the Greek...

A Most Quiet Murder examines the death of a five-year-old girl in late nineteenth-century France, unfolding the mystery through judicial investigations, psychiatric medical evaluations, and ultimately, a trial for murder. The investigators quickly...

First published in 1978, Rural, Protest, Identity consists of eleven essays on modern South Asia. Its concern is with the diversity of the region, to suggest how its study may be enriched by the juxtaposition of various disciplines, and in particular...

First published in 1975, The Kingdom of Toro in Uganda describes the foundation of the Toro kingdom in the nineteenth century by the rebel prince Kaboyo, and investigates how Kasagama, Kaboyo's grandson, was able to recreate, with little local support, a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780817362454Author Michael A. FlanneryFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint University Alabama PressPublisher University Alabama PressWeight(grams) 454g

China is a multicultural country home to fifty-five ethnic minority groups, yet due to linguistic and cultural barriers many of these groups remain understudied or unknown in the West. The Qiang, one of modern China's officially recognized ethnic...

One of the most outstanding diarists in modern Britain, the leading churchman and public figure Herbert Hensley Henson (1863-1947) commenced his Journal in Birkenhead in 1885, while tutoring the indolent son of William Rathbone, a Liverpool shipping...

Traces the birth, plunder, and scavenging of Rosemont, a Black middle-class neighborhood in Baltimore. In the mid-1950s Baltimore's Rosemont neighborhood was alive and vibrant with smart rowhouses, a sprawling park, corner grocery stores, and doctor's...

Concerted government efforts to assist in the rehabilitation of wounded veterans started with the Civil War era artificial-limbs programs. This book is the first to examine the evolution of these programs for military amputees during and after the Civil...