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Queer Vietnam recovers the forgotten stories of variant genders and sexualities in early twentieth-century Vietnam. By the beginning of the 1900s, European imperialism had spread Western notions of gender across much of Asia, narrowing and delegitimizing...

Willy Meisl was an Austrian-Jewish sports journalist who dominated the field during the Weimar Republic. A son of Viennese coffee houses, Meisl intellectualised sports writing in the interwar years, covering themes like professionalism, tactics and...

From one of today's most innovative ancient historians, a provocative new vision of why ancient history matters-and why it needs to be told in a radically different, global wayIt's easy to think that ancient history is, well, ancient history-obsolete,...

In June 1975 Prime Minister Indira Gandhi imposed a state of emergency, resulting in a 21-month suspension of democracy. Jaffrelot and Anil explore this black page in India's history, a constitutional dictatorship of unequal impact, with South India...

Exploring the intriguing interplay between tradition and modernity in the 19th-century capitals of London, Athens and Rome, Richard Alston delves into the political and architectural choices that shaped these cities as representations of self-consciously...

What was popular entertainment like for everyday Arab societies in Middle Eastern cities during the long nineteenth century? In what ways did cafe culture, theatre, illustrated periodicals, cinema, cabarets, and festivals serve as key forms of popular...

The 1970s are widely seen as a turning point for the world economy and a transformative decade for the international order. This volume explores the role played by the oil crises in this transformation, focusing particularly on their impact in previously...

A deeply researched and clearly argued account of the mutual growth of the federal government and the modern tobacco industry in the decades following the American Civil War Nearly everything about the United States tobacco economy changed in the...

Reformatting Agrarian Life presents a stealth urban history from the countryside that foregrounds the mutual entanglements of agrarian and urban expertise. Will Glover traces an essential genealogy for understanding how urbanism unexpectedly left the...

Packed with illustrations, this is the first book to focus on the 'Transportation Plan', the air campaign to isolate the D-Day beaches from German reinforcements.As the invasion of Europe grew closer, thought was given to how to use the Allies'...

A remarkable collection of artworks that shine a light on the city's grand edifices, quirky nooks, hidden quarters and modern architecture with equal affection and pride.From cotton mills - for this city was once the centre of textile manufacture - to...

In Spaces of Enslavement, Andrea C. Mosterman addresses the persistent myth that the colonial Dutch system of slavery was more humane. Investigating practices of enslavement in New Netherland and then in New York, Mosterman shows that these ways of...

A thrilling political history about the months that brought England to the cusp of civil war, from the acclaimed author of The Blazing WorldIn 1641, England exits a plague-ridden and politically unstable summer having reached a semblance of peace: the...

In the first half of the twentieth century, a major change occurred in Egyptian nationalist understandings of imperialism and economic sovereignty. Where once the volatilities of foreign markets and capital were seen as the main threat, over time large...

It is not Egypt's 2011 revolution that opened a space for women's and feminist activism, but-as this book shows-the long history of women's activism that created the intellectual and political background for revolution. By centering the experiences and...

It is not Egypt's 2011 revolution that opened a space for women's and feminist activism, but-as this book shows-the long history of women's activism that created the intellectual and political background for revolution. By centering the experiences and...

Prior to the East India Company's arrival in India in 1661, Islamic law was widely applied in India by the Mughal Empire. As the Company's power grew, it established a court system intended to limit Islamic law. Following the Great Rebellion of 1857, the...

At the turn of the twentieth century, the city of Edirne was a bustling center linking Istanbul to Ottoman Europe. It was also the capital of Edirne Province-among the most religiously diverse regions of the Ottoman Empire. But by 1923, the city had...

Women do have a history of their own.All we need to do is remember it.In this illuminating new history, Christine Lehnen looks back at our collective memory to explore the myriad ways that women in the past have enjoyed a more egalitarian life.Due to...

In 878, Alfred, king of Wessex was on the verge of oblivion. Trapped on a small island in the Somerset Levels, it seemed as if he and his kingdom were about to be destroyed. Yet within months he had defeated the Viking invaders and started to reverse the...

Helmand Province in Afghanistan in 2008 was the most dangerous place on earth. George McCafferty of Delta Company led 12 Platoon Delta Company, 5 SCOTS through the fighting season. He kept a diary. For some of that period Ross Kemp went out with the...

'The Witches of Scotland... profile persecuted women from the burning times. Their tales are woven by archivists, historians and writers - and by Venditozzi and Mitchell themselves, two of Scotland's most vivid storytellers.' THE TIMESAs a woman, if you...

Germany's legendary Atlantic surface war was fought by Naval Group West. Superbly illustrated, this unpacks the details of how it operated and fought.Having spent the 1930s on an ambitious but confused bid to build a new battle fleet, Germany began World...

This fully illustrated study examines the German, Italian and Bulgarian occupation forces in Greece during 1941-44 as well as those of the two Greek Resistance organizations. Italy's failed invasion of Greece in 1940-41 led to the German invasion of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781469681023Author Jacob BlancFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint University of North Carolina PressPublisher University of North Carolina Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781469685205Author Alys D BevertonFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint University of North Carolina PressPublisher University of North Carolina Press

The runaway #1 New York Times bestseller'Timely and fascinating... There are many astonishing vignettes... an important book' Max Hastings, Sunday Times'A ripping read. . . . The parallels to the present day are strong, even startling' New York TimesAs...

The story of the Rwandan Genocide has been told many times by scholars and journalists. Over the course of a hundred days in the spring and summer of 1994, about eight hundred thousand Tutsi and moderate Hutu were murdered by their extremist Hutu...

With only 1.3 million inhabitants, Estonia is one of Europe's least populous nations -- yet it boasts one of the continent's fastest growing economies. In the first serious English-language history of this small Baltic state, Neil Taylor charts Estonia's...

When Lenin and the Bolsheviks shut down the Constituent Assembly after only one session, it was said to mark the end of Russia's one-day experiment with democracy. However, with the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, a true period of democracy was ushered...

By the end of the twentieth century, US architecture and engineering firms held more capital than entire countries, employed more people than were housed in most cities, and rented offices in more nations than comprised the UN. Within them, architects...

A history of the dandy from below, from Beau Brummell and Baudelaire to Bowie and Bolan... and beyond. The historical figure of the dandy has commonly been described as an upper-class gentleman, often exemplified by well-known men such as Beau...

Reformatting Agrarian Life presents a stealth urban history from the countryside that foregrounds the mutual entanglements of agrarian and urban expertise. Will Glover traces an essential genealogy for understanding how urbanism unexpectedly left the...

All golden ages are marked by periods of spectacular cultural flourishing, scientific exploration, technological achievement and economic growth; yet no two are the same. Their beliefs, societies and place in the wider world all vary. Despite this, all...

Using newly available government records, private papers, and documents obtained through Freedom of Information, this book tells the secret story of UK security vetting from 1914 to the present. Although Britain avoided American-style red-baiting and...

A concise pictorial guide to the F-4 Phantom, featuring over 200 images. The McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II first flew in the 1950s, entered US military service in the 1960s, and remained on duty into the 1990s. The plane gained a reputation for...

This book considers how art market stakeholders, including art dealers, collectors and agents, have shaped museum collections and affected exhibition practices since the mid-nineteenth century. Based on new archival research and data analysis, it...

She helped found MoMA and pioneered the promotion of work of American and French modern artists at the turn of the 20th century, but until now, her life and legacy remain woefully under examined.An early pioneer and patron of French and American...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780472133604Author Ruth ScodelFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint The University of Michigan PressPublisher The University of Michigan PressWeight(grams)...

During the Polish campaign, SS combat units were seconded to various formations of the Heer. Still considered more parade troops than frontline soldiers, they did not prove a decisive factor in the fighting, but the campaign was important for their...