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State parks across Texas offer a world of opportunities for recreation and education. Yet few park visitors or park managers know the remarkable story of how this magnificent state park system came into being during the depths of the Great Depression in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781147481198Author John Paul RylandsFormat PaperbackPage Count 90Imprint Nabu PressPublisher BiblioLife, LLCWeight(grams) 178gDimensions(mm) 189mm * 246mm *...

In modern Latin America, profound social inequalities have persisted despite the promise of equality. Nara B. Milanich argues that social and legal practices surrounding family and kinship have helped produce and sustain these inequalities. Tracing...

In 1829, Thomas Simpson (1808-1840), born in Dingwall, Scotland, joined the fur-trading Hudson's Bay Company. Under its auspices, he was the junior officer of a successful survey expedition along the North-West Passage, beyond the limits of Franklin's...

An intimate portrait of "lived religion" as experienced by a middle-class family over three generations.Explores Victorian domestic religion through the daily and often turbulent lives of three generations of a prominent Protestant middle classAbout the...

Although he is best known for his paintings of Native Americans, George Catlin (1796-1872) also wrote books about his experiences among the indigenous peoples of the United States. During the 1830s he travelled widely in the western frontier regions with...

Despite the importance of archives to the profession of history, there is very little written about actual encounters with them-about the effect that the researcher's race, gender, or class may have on her experience within them or about the impact that...

This work, reprinted from the 1901 Census of India Series in 1902, examines the growth of the great Indian port city, giving contemporary statistics as well as recounting its long history before and during British rule (the East India Company had begun...

Endorsed by University of Cambridge International Examinations. Written for the Cambridge International Examinations syllabus, Cambridge IGCSE India Studies adopts an enquiry based approach with a strong focus on investigating and analysing the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780755215010Author A. L. BoxellFormat PaperbackPage Count 174Imprint New Generation PublishingPublisher New Generation PublishingWeight(grams)...

A sweeping social history of the Armenian-Canadian experience that links the Old World with the New through a far-flung diaspora.A sweeping social history of the Armenian-Canadian experience that links the Old World with the New through a far-flung...

This book offers a fresh approach to some of the most studied documents relating to Christian female asceticism in the Roman era. Focusing on the letters of advice to the women of the noble Anicia family, Kate Wilkinson argues that conventional...

The Transactions of the Royal Historical Society offers readers an annual collection of major articles representing some of the best historical research by some of the world's most distinguished historians. Also available as a journal, volume eight of...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780921368670Author Robert EnrightFormat PaperbackPage Count 350Imprint Blizzard Publishing LtdPublisher Blizzard Publishing LtdWeight(grams) 560g

With an expert blend of political, social, and economic history, Thomas Summerhill's Harvest of Dissent investigates the character of agrarian movements in nineteenth century New York to reexamine the nature of Northern farmers embrace of or resistance...

Missions played a vital role in frontier development in Latin America throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. They were key to the penetration of national societies into the regions and indigenous lands that the nascent republics claimed as...

Valentina Vitali presents the history of Bombay action films, posing new questions about the relationship between movies and their socioeconomic context. She considers how action gained prominence as an ingredient in film narrative, one that made it...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781566564403Author Ian RobertsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Interlink BooksPublisher Interlink Publishing Group, IncWeight(grams)...

New Mexico's Pajarito Plateau encompasses the Bandelier National Monument and the atomic city of Los Alamos. On Rims and Ridges throws into stark relief what happens when native cultures and Euro-American commercial interests interact in such a remote...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781406776089Author Putnam WealeFormat PaperbackPage Count 378Imprint Read BooksPublisher Read BooksWeight(grams) 480gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 21mm

This book traces the development of the environment movement in Australia from the first visionaries who pressed for preservation of native fauna and for sanitation in cities to a mass social movement that challenges the most powerful interests in...

In Mobilizing Youth, Susan B. Whitney examines how youth moved to the forefront of French politics in the two decades following the First World War. In those years Communists and Catholics forged the most important youth movements in France. Focusing on...

Ugly Stories of the Peruvian Agrarian Reform reveals the human drama behind the radical agrarian reform that unfolded in Peru during the final three decades of the twentieth century. That process began in 1969, when the left-leaning military government...

In November 2004, the controversial Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh was killed on a busy street in Amsterdam. A twenty-six-year-old Dutch citizen of Moroccan descent shot van Gogh, slit his throat, and pinned a five-page indictment of Western society to...

In 1980, the newly independent and democratic Zimbabwe was a beacon of hope in a troubled region. Three decades later, Zimbabwe became the focus of international attention for very different reasons: acrimonious racial relations, controversial elections,...

This book is the first full portrait of a single assembly center--located at the Western Washington fairgrounds at Puyallup, outside Seattle--that held Japanese Americans for four months prior to their transfer to a relocation center during World War II...

Building Ships, Building a Nation examines the rise and fall, during the rule of Park Chung Hee (1961-79), of the combative labor union at the Korea Shipbuilding and Engineering Corporation (KSEC), which was Korea's largest shipyard until Hyundai...

First published in French in 1981 under the title Le declin du nationalisme au Quebec, this classic has received considerable critical acclaim. Graham Fraser of the Montreal Gazette wrote, "a suberb book: provocative, ironic, stimulating, and...

This illustrated survey of the work of Modigliani shows how he was regarded by contemporaries as the very definition of a Parisian bohemian. Modigliani's style is seen as having roots in antiquity or Africa, and the text also brings to life the Parisian...

Scholars from the United States, Canada, Europe, and the Middle East combine their talents and expertise to honor George Lenczowski, whose studies of the Middle East over two generations have made him a foremost expert on contemporary affairs in this...

* An intriguing discussion of Canada's involvement, at home and aboard, in the First World War.Book InformationISBN 9780773525467Author Briton C. BuschFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint McGill-Queen's University PressPublisher McGill-Queen's University...

In this edition of Pirates, Terry Deary reveals the terrible truth behind the lousy pirate legends and lies. So forget the brave heroes swinging from masts and the handsome young men sailing the seven seas for this is...

'An extraordinary family tale of survival' Sunday TimesHuman and curious . . . an admirable family memoir of migration' GuardianJonathan Dean's great-grandfather, David Schapira, lived a life of epic achievement and epic suffering. Forced to flee Ukraine...

An exciting series that covers selected topics from the Higher Level options in the IB History syllabus. This coursebook covers Higher Level option 5, Topic 2, Unification and Consolidation of Germany and Italy 1815-90. The text is divided into clear...

An exciting new series that covers the three prescribed subjects for Paper 1 of the IB 20th Century World History syllabus. This coursebook covers Paper 1, Prescribed Subject 2, The Arab-Israeli Conflict 1945-79, in the 20th Century World History...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780879757670Author John QuigleyFormat HardbackPage Count 433Imprint Prometheus BooksPublisher Prometheus BooksWeight(grams) 155g

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.Book InformationISBN 9780889117907Author Douglas L. BlandFormat HardbackPage Count 374Imprint Queen's UniversityPublisher Queen's UniversityWeight(grams) 706g

"Over There" is a richly illustrated social history of Americans' involvement in World War I. Frank Freidel incorporates numerous quotations from regimental histories and from diaries, letters, and memoirs of soldiers involved in the conflict. The...