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This book examines how three exiled Jesuits from colonial Mexico-Rafael Landivar, Francisco Clavijero, and Pedro Marquez-shaped the discourse of continental emancipation from Spain. By considering their works in relation to critical debates about the...

This volume analyzes the religious history of the early modern Philippines. It examines the unstable authority of its archbishops and the preeminence of the Manila cathedral chapters in the second half of the seventeenth century. In particular, it...

A key contributor to Nouveau Realisme in early 1960s Paris, Niki de Saint Phalle (1930-2002) worked alongside artists such as Arman, Yves Klein, and Jean Tinguely, scavenging real objects in place of traditional art materials. She connected art to life...

In 1924 Norman Leys shocked liberals by revealing the truth about settler colonialism in a best-selling book called, simply, Kenya. He showed that settler colonialism had nothing to do with a 'civilising mission' but meant the ruthless exploitation of...

Whether measured by the period during which it has been celebrated, the frequency with which it has been held, or the cumulatively vast numbers of people who have participated in it, the Eucharist has been central to Western life. The book explains how...

On October 7, 2023, Hamas fighters killed more than eleven hundred Israelis and took more than two hundred hostages, prompting an Israeli response that has in turn taken tens of thousands of lives and devastated the Gaza Strip. Why did this happen, and...

This book offers the first in-depth analysis of anti-monopoly petitioning in late-Elizabethan and Jacobean England. Drawing on a range of manuscript petitions, it reveals the centrality of the issues of monopoly and corporatism for the politicisation of...

How West Texas business and culture molded the rise of conservatism in the United States. Much of what we understand as modern American political conservatism was born in West Texas, where today it predominates. How did the people of such a vast...

Gender history has alerted us to the fact that it is misleading to assume transhistorical features when it comes to issues such as childbearing, mother- and fatherhood, and gendered systems of labour division. Instead, all of these are culturally...

Ed Glinert has written the first ever epic,detailed, exciting, accurate history of theworld's first modern city - the industrialstrength city - from the Romans to 21stcentury renaissance, from cotton machines to cultural richness, from Gothic to Gotham.A...

This book unfolds the artistic and cultural exchanges between China, Persia, and Italy, picturing "a Transcultural Renaissance on the Silk Road" with fascinating reading of rich images. The author has been intensely engaged in the transcultural art...

In Han China (202 BCE-220 CE), few luxury objects were as widely coveted as bronze mirrors. Typically circular and ranging from seven to thirty centimeters in diameter, these mirrors were crafted from high-tin bronze, with highly reflective surfaces on...

In the thirty-five years since the publication of David Cannadine's Decline and Fall of the British Aristocracy (1990) the power of Britain's landed elite declined, but they remain far from extinct. One-third of Britain's land still belongs to the...

Unraveling the hidden influence of the paranormal on science, literature, and belief Telepathy, clairvoyance, precognition, and telekinesis: these attributes of the paranormal mind are widely dismissed as nonsense, but what can an exploration of such...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781595911537Author James H BrunsFormat HardbackPage Count 496Imprint Melcher MediaPublisher Melcher Media

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781635425772Author Goran RosenbergFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Other Press LLCPublisher Other Press LLC

A new history of two centuries of Jewish revolts against the Roman Empire, drawing on recent archeological discoveries and new scholarship by leading historian Barry Strauss.Jews vs. Rome is a gripping account of one of the most momentous eras in human...

This Palgrave Pivot examines a key area of the Korean Wave or Hallyu, which stands for the global popularity of South Korean popular culture that started in the 1990s. While K-dramas (Korean dramas) have found many viewers throughout Asian countries and...

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Monsoon Voyagers follows the voyage of a single dhow, the Crooked, along with its captain and crew, from Kuwait to port cities around the Persian Gulf and Western Indian Ocean, from 1924 to 1925. Through his account of the voyage, Fahad Ahmad Bishara...

Women, African Americans, and the evolution of an American city St. Louis was the pivot of the free states and slave states and the border of the settled East and frontier West. Sharon Hartman Strom draws on disparate and previously untapped sources to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781068407703Author Jonathan DimblebyFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Quartet BooksPublisher Quartet Books

Gaia Gianni's All in the Family explores how children shaped the development of pseudo-familial bonds, or fictive kinship, in Roman society during the early imperial period. Previous scholarship on the Roman family has primarily emphasized the...

Migration between the United States and Mexico is often compared to the river that runs along the border: a "flow" of immigrants, a "flood" of documented and undocumented workers, a "dam" that has broken. Scholars, journalists, and novelists often tell...

In the 82 s, there was a little-known quest to unite the world by building a waterway between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. As new Spanish American nations declared independence and new canals intensified US expansion and British industrialization,...

Robert Gildea presents an ambitious and wide-ranging but succinct history of France from 1945 to 2024, which seeks to provide a sympathetic understanding of the forces that have shaped a country that is so close to Britain and yet so different. This...

Originally published in 1959, this volume covers the history of the Service which has been through the centuries the first, and often the last line of British defence, and the spearhead of Britian's imperial expansion. In the book Professor Lewis puts...

For over 2,000 years, the precise location of the Stone Tower-the midpoint of the ancient Silk Road, where caravans traveling between Europe and Asia paused to rest, trade, and resupply-has remained a mystery. Claudius Ptolemy (AD 90-168), an...

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...

Island Ablaze and Other Stories is an anthology of thirteen stories-eleven from South Korea and two from North Korea-about these countries' complicated relationships with their most important ally and enemy: the United States. Set in times ranging from...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780813081007Author Kathleen DeaganFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint University Press of FloridaPublisher University Press of Florida

Island Ablaze and Other Stories is an anthology of thirteen stories-eleven from South Korea and two from North Korea-about these countries' complicated relationships with their most important ally and enemy: the United States. Set in times ranging from...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781802700510Author Joshua DaviesFormat HardbackPage Count 220Imprint Arc Humanities PressPublisher Arc Humanities Press

The first systematic Marxist account of the capitalist character of Atlantic slavery. Karl Marx's writings on enslavement and labor have fallen out of favor among historians, but David McNally injects new life into them. Slavery and Capitalism gives...

"By turns moving, evenhanded and lyrical in its evocation of time and place." - Seattle TimesIn this rigorously researched and incisively written account, historian and journalist Cassandra Tate challenges generations of received wisdom about the 1847...

In the fading light of August 28, 1862, an untested Union brigade of Wisconsin and Indiana men fought an unexpected 90-minute stand-up clash with the Confederate veterans of Stonewall Jackson on the Virginia farm fields of John Brawner. The Rebels...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780735236868Author Adam ShoaltsFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Prentice Hall PressPublisher Prentice Hall Press

Winner of the New South Wales Premier's History Awards, General History Prize (2022) The Filipino Migration Experience introduces a new dimension to the usual depiction of migrants as disenfranchised workers or marginal ethnic groups. Mina Roces suggests...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780771003288Author John IbbitsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 456Imprint SignalPublisher McClelland & Stewart Inc.

Fascism in Europe and Beyond examines fascism from its origins to the present. It begins in the fin-de-siecle era when the various ideas that eventually coalesced into fascism first emerged and concludes with the re-emergence of fascist ideas in recent...