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American distrust of government, polititians and authority in general can be traced back to the time of the official investigation into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy and the suspicion generated by the publication of the Warren report,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781847327901Author Sarah WarwickFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint Carlton Books LtdPublisher Welbeck Publishing Group

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781844420087Author Richard OveryFormat HardbackPage Count 64Imprint Carlton Books LtdPublisher Welbeck Publishing Group

This ground-breaking collection of new interviews, critical essays, and commentary explores South Asian identity and culture. Sensitive to the false homogeneity implied by "South Asian," "diaspora," "postcolonial," and "Asian American," the contributors...

Letters from the Rocky Mountain Indian Missions reveals the life of an Italian Jesuit as he worked at three missions in the northern Rocky Mountains from 1874 to 1878. Meticulously translated and carefully annotated, the letters of Father Philip...

Allen Stouffer's analysis of Ontario's response to the freedmen reveals a virulent strain of racism that helps to explain why British North Americans were slow to join their British and American counterparts in the North Atlantic antislavery triangle. ...

Dechene's work, when first published, constituted a major milestone in the development of methodology and use of sources. Her systematic examination of difficult and massive documentary collections blazed a number of new trails for other researchers. Her...

"This book will provoke intellectually, ideologically, and emotionally loaded responses in the U.S., Germany, and Israel. Barnouw's critique of the 'enduringly narrow post-Holocaust perspective on German guilt and the ensuing fixation on German remorse'...

"...the quality of each of these essays is excellent, and the book warrants extensive reading by political scientists, sociologists, and all scholars of the contemporary Middle East. -American Journal of Sociology "This book's ethnographic material...

In this compelling portrait of interracial activism, Mark A. Lause documents the efforts of radical followers of John Brown to construct a triracial portion of the Federal Army of the Frontier. Mobilized and inspired by the idea of a Union that would...

The Old Northwest is an unparalleled account of the pioneer period, the problems of settlers, and the westward movement of the American people. No historian, professional or otherwise, who is interested in the history of the region comprising Ohio,...

A lot of things started in Indiana the automotive industry for one and Indiana has produced a great many ideas, many wrong headed and some downright wicked. Viewed one way, this book is a study of Indiana ideas, for threads run through it the guest for...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780252015465Author S GompersFormat HardbackPage Count 744Imprint University of Illinois PressPublisher University of Illinois PressWeight(grams)...

Near the end of his life, the great Romantic artist Eug-ne Delacroix (1798-1863) painted one of the most enigmatic episodes from the Bible: Jacob wrestling with the angel. This painting, which decorates the wall of the Chapel of the Holy Angels in the...

This book situates U.S. foreign policy processes in the contexts of three imperial presidencies: the administrations of Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, and George W. Bush. The contributors examine the changing contours of U.S. relations with South Asian...

Moving Subjects is the first of its kind to make a case not simply for the necessity of a spatial analysis of imperial formations, but for the indispensability of an investigative approach that links space and movement with the domain of the intimate...

The National Barn Dance was the nation's most popular country music radio show during the 1930s and 1940s, essentially defining country and western entertainment until it was supplanted by the Grand Ole Opry and rock 'n' roll in the 1950s. Broadcast for...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788180900334Author Deo SharmaFormat HardbackPage Count 1336Imprint Bharatiya Kala PrakashanPublisher Bharatiya Kala PrakashanDimensions(mm) 280mm * 240mm *...

It has generally been assumed by historians of the Second World War that the Americans were caught completely unawares by the last great German Offensive - the drive into the Ardennes in December, 1944, known as the Battle of the Bulge. In this...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780862815417Author David RossFormat HardbackPage Count 58Imprint Appletree Press LtdPublisher Appletree Press LtdWeight(grams) 125g

Comprehensive second editions of History for the IB Diploma Paper 2, revised for first teaching in 2015. This coursebook covers Paper 2, World History Topic 8: Independence Movements (1800-2000) of the History for the IB Diploma syllabus for first...

Between 1946 and 1966a surge of violence in Colombia left 200,000 dead in one of the worst conflicts the western hemisphere has ever experienced. the first seven years of this little-studied period of terror, known as la Violencia, is the subject of...

Expanding Class is the study and story of industrial class relations in North Brabant, a Catholic province of The Netherlands, over a hundred-year period. In examining the lives of workers in one of Europe's more idiosyncratic industrial regions, Don...

Covers a world of magic, mystery and monumental buildings - the Pyramids, the temples, the Valley of the Kings - and introduces this ancient people, from god-kings to the working family, their astonishing feats of engineering and the beliefs that drove...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783506792228Author Lothar GallFormat PaperbackPage Count 154Imprint Brill SchoninghPublisher Brill SchoninghWeight(grams) 3506g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783170197541Author Jeannette GodauFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint KohlhammerPublisher KohlhammerWeight(grams) 449g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789067181990Author Fridus SteijlenFormat PaperbackPage Count 636Imprint K.I.T.L.V.Publisher K.I.T.L.V.Weight(grams) 989g

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...