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This book examines the active political life of Luisa Carvajal y Mendoza (1566-1614), a poet and mystic who renounced her noble birthright for an ascetic, spiritual life.Historian Freddy Cristobal Dominguez draws on Luisa's autobiographical writings,...

How reforms to girlhood education in the Progressive Era cemented inequalities of gender, race, and class in urban school systems. In Home Work, historian Ruby Oram tells the story of how middle-class, white women reformers lobbied the state to...

For reluctant readers intrigued by the world of pirates, this is the ultimate guide! Step into a realm of daring adventures and high-seas intrigue. This engaging read delves into the daily lives of real pirates of the past, the historical facts behind...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781569029053Author Aklilu Kidanu WoldegiorgisFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Red Sea Press,U.S.Publisher Red Sea Press,U.S.

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The Byzantine Empire originated in AD 395 from the definitive subdivision of the Roman Empire into two distinct political entities: the Western Empire and the Eastern Empire. While the Western Empire disappeared in 476, due to Germanic invasions, the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915249210Author Gareth RoddyFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint University of London PressPublisher University of London

A provocative, critical take on the traditional narrative of US history-and a call to reimagine America's past. According to textbooks, the media, and politicians of all stripes, the story of the United States is one of steady progress toward a "more...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798987944561Author John P. KaminskiFormat HardbackPage Count 94Imprint Cntr for Study of the American ConstitutPublisher Cntr for Study of the American...

A critical first-hand appraisal of the activities, achievements, and importance of the Jewish Brigade by IDF Major-General Shlomo Shamir (Rabinowicz), its Covert Internal Commander on behalf of the Haganah and the Jewish national institutions in...

A cultural and culinary history of modern Egypt through the nation's beloved tomato. By the end of the twentieth century, the tomato-indigenous to the Americas-had become Egypt's top horticultural crop and a staple of Egyptian cuisine. The tomato...

This insightful introduction to the history of the United States spans from pre-European contact up to the present day. The textbook succinctly depicts the major themes and patterns in American history and incorporates social, economic, cultural,...

Remarkable Renaissance Books tells the story of eighteen extraordinary early printed volumes, from the very first titles printed in the fifteenth century to the groundbreaking scientific texts of the Enlightenment. Including Gutenberg's watershed...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912440788Author Gary BuckFormat HardbackPage Count 262Imprint Howgate Publishing LimitedPublisher Howgate Publishing Limited

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804518441Author Geir BrendenFormat PaperbackPage Count 532Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

The first book-length study of John Fremont's time in Missouri written since the Civil War, revealing the story of the first enslaved person ever set free by military order of the United States and exploring six campaigns in the Trans-Mississippi theater...

The first biography of the remarkable historical figure who challenged perceptions of women's experiences in the early American RepublicIn 1831 Sister Gertrude Wightt, the directress of Georgetown Academy (now Georgetown Visitation Preparatory School),...

One of the most influential painters of the Baroque era, Caravaggio transformed art history with his dramatic use of light and shadow and his raw, emotional realism. This beautifully produced, affordably priced book offers rich insights into his life and...

Brings together geographies and methodologies often kept apart by the difficulties of researching such a broad-ranging topic as the war Shots in the Dark offers cutting-edge scholarship across different subfields in World War II history, revealing new...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915143112Author Philip DaviesFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Atlantic Publishing, Croxley GreenPublisher Atlantic Publishing, Croxley Green

Coal's central role in America's history and its ongoing threats in the climate crisis. For decades coal has been crucial to America's culture, society, and environment, an essential ingredient in driving out winter's cold, cooking meals, and lighting...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781623715809Author Harriet MalinowitzFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Olive Branch PressPublisher Interlink Publishing Group, Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804518465Author Sean F ScullionFormat PaperbackPage Count 376Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

The Medium Is Still the Message presents Marshall McLuhan, history's foremost philosopher of media, as the indispensable guide for understanding the impact of technologies. McLuhan (1911-1980) shows that media are not simply tools of communication: they...

In 2003, Army Cavalry Officer, 2nd Lieutenant Ross Berkoff, led his Scout Platoon from the 10th Mountain Division on more than 10,000 miles of reconnaissance missions over a nine-month period across the dangerous southern provinces of Kandahar and...

As a strategically vital access route to southern England and as the anchorage for Portsmouth, Britain's premier naval base, the waters of Spithead reflect much of the UK's naval history. They have seen piracy and battles, countless departing and...

Presbyterian Church missionaries and the theology of race, enslavement, and Native American removal In Southern Shepherds, Savage Wolves, Otis Westbrook Pickett Sr. examines Presbyterian missionaries' attempts to live up to their understood calling from...

Originally published in 1961, this masterly study of the guns used by the rivals in the Armada campaign remains an essential contribution to the understanding of the event, for it gave a new perspective to the whole battle. The long-drawn-out struggle in...

Eleventh-century Europe was diverse and fast-changing. Historians have often debated this change through two sets of competing arguments, one about the shifting role of the Church and the Papacy, and the other about the rise of castellan lords and a...

The world's eyes were on Austria-Hungary on June 28, 1914. But both inside and outside of Austria, few could imagine the dramatic consequences of the events in Sarajevo. The popular shock and anger that greeted the assassination did not mean war was a...

Tracing the interwoven traditions of modern welfare states in Europe over five centuries, Thomas McStay Adams explores social welfare from Portugal, France, and Italy to Britain, Belgium and Germany. He shows that the provision of assistance to those in...

Apart from the ballot, strikes are the commonest means of attempted social change in Britain. There have been some 100,000 strikes in this country in eighty years, and 1971 saw more stoppages than any other year. Yet the standard twentieth-century social...

The Great Wheel weaves together British myth, legend and history. From the founding of Britain by Brutus, the grandson of Aeneas, to the death of King Arthur, spirituality and war are threaded into a single strand. It is the story of Britain in the age...

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license. It is free to read on Oxford Academic and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. Over the last 150 years, activists...

How ungovernable were seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Englishmen? Certainly, the historical evidence attests to an unruly and contumacious populace: riot was widespread, such criminal activities as the counterfeiting of coin flourished, disorder...

From the First Battle of Bull Run to the carnage at Gettysburg, the Book of the American Civil War delivers an unparalleled insight into the battles, leaders, politics and legacy of the most devastating war ever fought on American soil. Featuring...

First published in 1958, The Birth of Nigeria's University tells the story of how Dr Kenneth Mellanby, the 'Principal Designate', acquired five square miles of unsurveyed bush, and created there what is now accepted as one of the leading universities in...

Ahmad Vall Dine's The Rock of the Land offers a gripping narrative of Afghanistan's enduring struggle against foreign invasions, highlighting the nation's resilience and the human stories behind decades of conflict.

Russia is intent on attacking beyond Ukraine. Can Europe defend itself? While Ukraine holds back Russia's onslaught, Moscow has been working hard at rebuilding its army for the next invasion. But for the past 30 years, Britain and Europe have been...

This book re-writes the origins of the progressive 1960s. It argues that 94 leading British intellectuals, nearly all humanists, were inspired by H.G. Wells to amend the ethical laws of the nation under a banner of "The Open Conspiracy". Using a wealth...