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Emerging in colonial India, the fitness fad that was Indian Club Swinging became a global exercise practice in the early 19th century. Used by physicians, soldiers, gymnasts, children and athletes alike, clubs were used to solve numerous social concerns...

The League of Nations, one of the world's first multi-function intergovernmental organisations, was also one of the first to undergo liquidation. This book unveils the last chapter in its story, showing how complex and time-consuming the end of this...

Known as a time of revolutions in science, the early modern era in Europe was characterized by the emergence of new disciplines and ways of thinking. Taking this conceit a step further, Sacred Habitat shows how Spanish friars and missionaries used new...

The Zambezi is the fourth-longest river in Africa, and one of the continent's principal arteries of movement, migration, conquest and commerce. In this book, historian Malyn Newitt quotes rarely used Portuguese sources that throw vivid light on the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781469684857Author Ashley HowardFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint 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 9781469686202Author Tom HanchettFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint 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 9781469684864Author Ashley HowardFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint University of North Carolina PressPublisher University of North Carolina Press

Al-Sulami (d. 412/1021) was an influential classical Sufi master whose works espoused companionship as a way for believers to experience God's guidance and cultivate religious virtues. This book provides a historical reconstruction of Sufi companionship...

Imagining the Tropics is a history of the development of tourism in the Caribbean from the 1910s through the 1970s that focuses on the ways women's labors of hospitality, writing, and advocacy built the industry and its ubiquitous imagery of tropical...

This coursebook is the first full-length study of cinematic "legal medievalism," or the modern interpretation of medieval law in film and popular culture. For more than a century, filmmakers have used the "Middle Ages" to produce popular entertainment...

The temperature was 40 degrees below zero when fighter planes screamed out of the clouds, puncturing the fuselage with a spray of machinegun fire and sending the bomber beside them into a death spin. This was followed by intense flak, as a hundred...

Imagining the Tropics is a history of the development of tourism in the Caribbean from the 1910s through the 1970s that focuses on the ways women's labors of hospitality, writing, and advocacy built the industry and its ubiquitous imagery of tropical...

Through the work of the Italian architect, theorist and historian Paolo Portoghesi (1931-2023), this book offers a new perspective on postmodern architecture, showing the agency of other spheres of knowledge - history, politics and media - in the making...

When a police officer stood at his bedroom door on 3 August 1982, Michael Hardwick had no idea that he would become an avatar of the gay rights movement. Arrested for sodomy, Hardwick sued for his right to privacy all the way to the Supreme Court, as the...

Offers new perspectives on freedom of conscience and religious liberty by tracing their origins to the Middle Ages, thereby challenging the common assumption that these core tenets of modernity were products of the Enlightenment. Deeply committed to...

An absorbing journey through a region caught between history, geography and ideology. What is 'Central Europe'? Where do its borders lie? Does it even exist? Attempts to define it usually yield more questions than answers. But perhaps the wrong...

Explores the life and military career of Lucian Truscott, one of the greatest, yet least celebrated, US combat commanders of World War II. Born in Texas to a drug-addicted father, Truscott would become one of the United States' greatest ...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781496856333Author Carolynne Hitter BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint University Press of MississippiPublisher University Press of Mississippi

Shifting Sovereignties explores practical manifestations of sovereignty from antiquity to the Anthropocene. Taking a global-history perspective and centring Africa, the Middle East, and Asia, it destabilises overly neat theoretical notions of the concept...

Durer's Praying Hands are one of the world's most popular artworks. Few artists have changed the art world more profoundly than Leonardo and Durer. They bring their subjects to life with breath-taking virtuosity, creating masterpieces of incredible...

Money, Warfare and Power in the Ancient World offers twelve papers analysing the processes, consequences and problems involved in the monetization of warfare and its connection to political power in antiquity. The contributions explore not only how...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798765130070Author Dr. Toyin FalolaFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing USAPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing USA

The week-long Allied bombing campaign against Hamburg in late July 1943 was not only hugely destructive but also had a significant impact on the German night fighter arm. From now on, the "boxes" of Kammhuber's "Raumnachtjagd" would be the starting point...

This work describes U.S. Marine Corps helicopter operations, including their actions and evolution, throughout the Vietnam War. The book is divided into parts spanning the three stages of the Corps' combat deployment: "Buildup (1962-1966)," "Heavy...

This book sets out to explore how the Romans appropriated the Hellenistic concept of a complete library collection. Tracing this idea in the Roman world allows us to reconstruct the discourse on cultural transmission between Greece and Rome. The model of...

Many look to Ireland's Atlantic islands as timeless places, resistant to change. Island Endurance offers an alternative perspective, examining two neighboring islands where people have cultivated their heritage to confront new challenges and...

Many look to Ireland's Atlantic islands as timeless places, resistant to change. Island Endurance offers an alternative perspective, examining two neighboring islands where people have cultivated their heritage to confront new challenges and...

How has the distinctive Armenian-American community expressed its identity as an ethnic minority while 'assimilating' to life in the United States? This book examines the role of community leaders and influencers, including clergy, youth organizers, and...

"[A] vivid travelogue." New Statesman"Has much to offer." The Spectator"Sparks the imagination." BBC History Magazine "A fascinating study." BBC History Revealed Magazine "Essential reading." All About History"Valiant, valuable and entertaining." Times...

Textile tools offer a fascinating and yet intimate approach to ancient people. Textile production has been one of the core activities for millennia, spanning from domestic production to royal needs. Textiles were light goods, easy to transport and often...

The destruction of monuments during the Black Lives Matter movement of 2020 shows how many nations are being forced to grapple with their national histories. It is clear that the things which make up our streets form a core part of our historical,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780755635597Author Adam MezFormat PaperbackPage Count 544Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing PLCPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLCWeight(grams)...

Starting in the sixth century BCE, the conquests of the Persian kings Cyrus, Cambyses, and Darius transformed the lives of humans on a continental scale, as their empire reached from the Iranian plateau to as far as eastern Europe, Central Asia, and...

This book examines so far unused or relatively underused primary sources, investigates secondary resources and engages with the existing literature that deals with immigration but is not focused on attitudes nor always covers the entire period after 1921...

Andrew G. Bonnell's innovative survey examines the history of revolution in modern Germany by focusing on key revolutionary developments in the German states. There is coverage of Germany and the French Revolution, the 1848 revolutions, the Industrial...

D-Day, June 6, 1944, was one of the largest and most complicated undertakings in military history. During the first twenty-four hours of Operation Overlord, the Allies landed some 150,000 men by sea and air, secured a beachhead in France, and began the...

A fascinating, illustrated study of how the Roman Republican legions defeated the Macedonian army's much-vaunted phalanxes.The battle of Cynoscephalae represents a key moment in the history of the Greco-Roman world. In this one battle the Macedonian hold...

Forgotten Experts offers a history of Ottoman court astrologers and traces their shifting authority and prestige over the long sixteenth century. These individuals served the Ottoman court with their expertise in mathematical, astronomical, and...

Depicts the forces involved in uprisings and border conflicts after the break-up of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. The Austro-Hungarian Empire during World War I had included peoples of German, Hungarian, Polish, Czech, Slovakian, Serbian, Bosnian and...

A historical look at the American fascination with Italian fascism during the interwar periodIn the interwar years, the United States grappled with economic volatility, and Americans expressed anxieties about a decline in moral values, the erosion of...