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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783865607010Author Tom HolertFormat PaperbackPage Count 40Imprint Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther KonigPublisher Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906969011Author Peter DarmanFormat HardbackImprint Park Lane BooksPublisher Park Lane Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781840136876Author Marina CardinaudFormat HardbackPage Count 124Imprint Grange BooksPublisher Grange Books

Combining high-quality production with magnificent fine art, this gorgeous month-to-view year planner features on its cover a design based on Art Nouveau artist Alphonse Mucha's Monaco, Monte Carlo, making it a perfect gift or special treat just for you...

New concerns with the intersections of culture and power, historical agency, and the complexity of social and political life are producing new questions about the United States' involvement with Latin America. Turning away from political-economic models...

When Southerners fired on Fort Sumter in April 1861, John Beatty left his bank job in Ohio to answer President Lincoln's call for soldiers. Within a short while he was commanding the Third Ohio Volunteer Infantry Regiment, as green to combat as his men...

This book addresses the most important issues associated with Confederate desertion. How many soldiers actually deserted, when did they desert, and why? What does Confederate desertion say about Confederate nationalism and the war effort? Mark A. Weitz...

Reconciling Modernity challenges the academic consensus of a simplistic Church-State reconciliation in postrevolutionary Mexico and reveals instead a cultural power struggle between entrenched elite factions, each intending to define Mexico's national...

'A model anthology...It includes talented work in several genres - poetry, fiction, memoirs, letters, a one-act play - and the translators are specialists who have an ear for language' - "New Yorker". "The cure is bitter,/The journey long,/But I reach...

As far back as colonial times, Native individuals and communities have fought alongside European and American soldiers against common enemies. Medicine Bags and Dog Tags is the story of these Native men and women whose military service has defended...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781170676240Author George ColmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Gale Ecco, Print EditionsPublisher Gale Ecco, Print EditionsWeight(grams)...

Click here to view videos of the authors talking about Words Their Way! Words Their Way(R) companion volumes, 2e We believe that the hands-on word sorting approach to word study is invaluable to you and your students. These stage-specific companion...

The publications of the Hakluyt Society (founded in 1846) made available edited (and sometimes translated) early accounts of exploration. The first series, which ran from 1847 to 1899, consists of 100 books containing published or previously unpublished...

Books V and VI of Tacitus' Annals, when complete, carried the narrative of Tiberius' reign from AD 29 to 37. Unfortunately most of Book V has been lost, and, with it, Tacitus' account of the sensational events that led to the execution on 18 October in...

Volumes in the Canada's National Defence series present an annotated collection of government statements on defence policy and internal studies and reports prepared by senior military officers, defence officials, and consultants to governments and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorCAReviews"I found A Rich Broth thoroughly engrossing ... A deft mix of diplomatic insight and humour from a distinguished ex-ambassador who never takes himself...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorLawrence Frederick Kohl is Associate Professor of History at the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, and series editor of the Irish in the Civil War.Reviews"Very...

In this nuanced history of occupied France, Francine Muel-Dreyfus presents a powerful examination of the political and social construction of gender under the Vichy regime. Arguing that the regime used symbolic violence to reshape a liberal culture once...

Organized in the mid-1970s as a means of communal protection against livestock rustling and general thievery in Peru's rugged northern mountains, the rondas campesinas (peasants who make the rounds) grew into an entire system of peasant justice and one...

Rural Revolt in Mexico is a historical investigation of how subaltern political activity engages imperialism, capitalism, and the United States. In this volume, Daniel Nugent has gathered a group of leading scholars whose work examines the relationship...

Facing two oceans and three seas, Alaska's coastline stretches through bays, fjords, and around islands for 45,000 miles. Living with the Coast of Alaska, a new volume in the Living with the Shore series, is a user's guide for both present and future...

In The Ashio Riot of 1907, Nimura Kazuo explains why the workers at the Ashio copper mine-Japan's largest mining concern and one of the largest such operations in the world-joined together for three days of rioting against the Furukawa Company in...

In The Slumbering Volcano, Maggie Montesinos Sale investigates depictions of nineteenth-century slave ship revolts to explore the notion of rebellion in formulations of United States national identity. Analyzing how such revolts inspired citizens to...

During Louisiana's Spanish colonial period, economic, political, and military conditions combined with local cultural and legal traditions to favor the growth and development of a substantial group of free blacks. In Bounded Lives, Bounded Places,...

This collection of essays by a distinguished group of international scholars is the first to analyze current Russian policies in China, Japan, and the two Koreas. Although Russia was a rising power in Asia a century ago, historical and political events...

This book is both an analysis of the Bastille as cultural paradigm and a case study on the history of French political culture. It examines in particular the storming and subsequent fall of the Bastille in Paris on July 14, 1789 and how it came to...

From Two Republics to One Divided examines Peru's troubled transition from colonial viceroyalty to postcolonial republic from the local perspective of Andean peasant politics. Thurner's reading of the Andean peasantry's engagement and disengagement with...

In Perfect Wives, Other Women Georgina Dopico Black examines the role played by women's bodies-specifically the bodies of wives-in Spain and Spanish America during the Inquisition. In her quest to show how both the body and soul of the married woman...

Monsters, ghosts, the supernatural, the fantastic, the mysterious. These are not usually considered the "stuff" of modernism. More often they are regarded as inconsequential to the study of the modern, or, at best, seen as representative of traditional...

The Pacific, long a source of fantasies for EuroAmerican consumption and a testing ground for the development of EuroAmerican production, is often misrepresented by the West as one-dimensional, culturally monolithic. Although the Asia/Pacific region...

Many observers in colonial Spanish America-whether clerical, governmental, or foreign-noted the large numbers of forasteros, or Indians who were not seemingly attached to any locality. These migrants, or "wanderers," offended the bureaucratic...

Landing Zones brings to life the dramatic, gripping, and often painful stories of twenty-four Vietnam Veterans from the American South. The men and women interviewed here represent a remarkable range of experience, including a marine rifleman, a...

Contributors. Stephen Feinstein, Robert O. Freedman, Theodore H. Friedgut, Zvi Gitelman, Marshall I. Goldman, Sidney Heitman, William Korey, Howard SpierBook InformationISBN 9780822309062Author Robert O. FreedmanFormat HardbackPage Count 280Imprint Duke...

The Omaha Tribe of Nebraska has borne more than its fair share of the burden created by the federal government's wildly vacillating Indian policy. Mark R. Scherer's "Imperfect Victories" provides a detailed examination of the Omahas' tenacious...

"An important contribution to the history of women and families in the West and ...to the larger history of women in America and to the history of immigration". (Elliott West, "Growing Up in America in the Twentieth Century: A History and Reference...

"A work of great merit." ("American Historical Review"). "A real contribution to the pioneer history of Wyoming, Montana, Idaho, and Colorado." ("Review of Reviews"). "A detailed and constantly interesting story. It is as if the young boy, infinitely...

The Militarization of Culture in the Dominican Republic, from the Captains General to General Trujillo traces the interaction of the military and the civilian population, showing the many ways in which the military ethos has permeated Dominican culture...

It is widely known that L. Frank Baum spent several years in South Dakota before moving to Chicago, where he wrote the Oz books that made him famous...Koupal carefully lays out the complexities and ambiguities of Baum's thinking by providing us with the...

In January 1941, the hulking twenty-one-thousand ton troopship Edmund B. Alexander docked in St John's Harbour, carrying a thousand American soldiers sent to join the thousands of Canadian troops protecting Newfoundland against attack by Germany. France...

How people lived, played, and celebrated when radio was new, dance bands the rage, and Quintland the place to visitBook InformationISBN 9780773535916Author Francoise NoelFormat HardbackPage Count 360Imprint McGill-Queen's University PressPublisher...