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Arctic explorer and American visionary Walter Wellman pioneered both polar and trans-Atlantic airship aviation, making history's first attempts at each. Wellman has been cast as a self-promoting egomaniac known mostly for his failures. Instead he was a...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501782411Author Caroline GruenbaumFormat HardbackPage Count 198Imprint Cornell University PressPublisher Cornell University PressWeight(grams) 907g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501781780Author Phil TiemeyerFormat PaperbackPage Count 324Imprint Cornell University PressPublisher Cornell University Press

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'No one knows why or how standing stones were set upright thousands of years ago and yet, amazingly, here they still are, in our modern world, waiting for us to go out and find them. They are totems of longevity, endurance and mystery; they are symbols...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501782923Author Stephen BuonoFormat PaperbackPage Count 348Imprint Cornell University PressPublisher Cornell University PressWeight(grams) 454g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501782381Author Jesús R. VelascoFormat PaperbackPage Count 246Imprint Cornell University PressPublisher Cornell University PressWeight(grams) 454g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501781544Author Sarah Ellen ZarrowFormat HardbackPage Count 294Imprint Cornell University PressPublisher Cornell University Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467159210Author Adam PapaganFormat PaperbackPage Count 178Imprint History PressPublisher History PressWeight(grams) 141g

This is a true story. About survival. A Breton soldier who fought at Hastings returns to his family’s ancient Celtic roots in the West County. Nicholas St Aubyn follows his family’s tenuous path over the next one thousand years, describing those they...

This book explores the Brontë siblings growing up with maternal deprivation and loss, and how this affected their development both as children and as adults. It examines how their sibling rivalry led to disharmony and separation, where each of the...

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Dr Adrian Greaves’ is widely acknowledged as a leading expert on the Anglo-Zulu War of 1879 and his previous account of Rorke’s Drift has become a standard work on that battle. However, by his own admission, it is hopelessly out of date as are other...

This is a comprehensive study of Holocaust memory in the digital age of social media. Focusing on the five most popular digital platforms in use today: Flickr, Instagram, YouTube, Twitter and Facebook, it examines how social technology affects the way...

How street vendors tangle with the law in Sao Paulo, Brazil. The daily delights and conveniences that any city dweller has become accustomed to, such as cold water bottles on a summer afternoon in the park or a popsicle from a tray while you're sitting...

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Candid memoir of facing extreme violence in Iraq’s Triangle of Death with the 101st Airborne Division.

A reflection on the evolution of physical media into metaphor, through the history of music curation. Obsolescence makes the heart grow fonder, at least in the case of the mixtape. Not all technologies are so lucky. Some (say, wax cylinders) fade almost...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780875659183Author James Hugh BroussardFormat PaperbackImprint Texas Christian University PressPublisher Texas Christian University Press

Beginning in the late nineteenth century, British companies used the resources of empire to create an imperial oil industry that controlled 20% of global oil reserves by 1939 and allowed for the movement of capital and labor between regions and companies...

The North Yorkshire seaside town of Scarborough grew up around its mediaeval castle, built on a headland. It developed as a spa town in the seventeenth century, becoming one of the country’s first coastal resorts. The railways brought more visitors in...

The legacy of the German General, Otto Liman von Sanders, remains highly contested in the history of twentieth-century Europe and the Middle East. Noted for leading the 5th Ottoman army’s successful defence of the Dardanelles and Gallipoli in 1915, his...

Within France, the expression “duty of memory” (le devoir de mémoire)speaks to a complex and ever-evolving relationship with the past. Emerging in the 1970s, this term raised questions about memorialization which dominated public debates in the 1990s,...

Historical lessons are useful or even necessary for our guidance and orientation in time. These lessons, however, have often been overlooked in historical reflections on watershed moments, such as genocides, treaties, and global movements. Focusing on...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781788551779Author Cormac MooreFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Irish Academic Press LtdPublisher Irish Academic Press Ltd

A new account of how Haiti under French colonial rule became a violent sugar plantation stateIn the early eighteenth century, France turned to its New World colonies to help rescue the monarchy from the wartime debts of Louis XIV. This short-lived scheme...

The role played by film in reshaping Austria’s post-war national identity is often studied within narrow historical and geographical margins. Film history traditionally focuses on either the work of a sole director, German cinematography, or the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789189882416Author Elisabeth Svalin GunnarssonFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Bokforlaget StolpePublisher Bokforlaget Stolpe

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781636245164Author Simon FortyFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Casemate PublishersPublisher Casemate Publishers

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781609389710Author Coreen DerifieldFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint University of Iowa PressPublisher University of Iowa PressWeight(grams) 454g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804517765Author Glenn W. PriceFormat PaperbackPage Count 260Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804516294Author Vincent HuntFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781890951917Author Quinn SlobodianFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Zone BooksPublisher Zone Books

The German-Soviet War revises the conflict's generally accepted understanding through case-studies, demonstrating the complexity of the war at the local level. The contributors assembled by Jeff Rutherford and Robert von Maier examine the multiplicity of...

Since the 1960s, nations across the “developed world” have been profoundly shaped by deindustrialization. In regions in which previously dominant industries faced crises or have disappeared altogether, industrial heritage offers a fascinating window...

Focusing on youth, family, work, and consumption, Ambiguous Transitions analyzes the interplay between gender and citizenship postwar Romania. By juxtaposing official sources with oral histories and socialist policies with everyday practices, Jill...

A storm of illiberalism, building in the United States for years, unleashed its destructive force in the Capitol insurrection of January 6, 2021. The attack on American democracy and images of mob violence led many to recoil, thinking "That's not us."...