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The contributors to this landmark collection set the attacks on the United States in historical perspective. They reject the simplistic notion of an age-old "clash of civilizations" and instead examine the particular histories of American nationalism,...

In this moving account of the Cuban Revolution and its aftermath, eleven women who lived through it as children or young adults recall the events of the last forty years. In Torres' words, 'This book, which began in Miami, looking toward the island, ends...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857344229Format HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Igloo Books LtdPublisher Bonnier Books Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780823435579Author Susan Goldman RubinImprint Holiday HousePublisher Holiday HouseWeight(grams) 408gDimensions(mm) 251mm * 201mm * 10mm

In Rural Resistance in the Land of Zapata, TanalIs Padilla shows that the period from 1940 to 1968, generally viewed as a time of social and political stability in Mexico, actually saw numerous instances of popular discontent and widespread state...

The French slave trade forced more than one million Africans across the Atlantic to the islands of the Caribbean. It enabled France to establish Saint-Domingue, the single richest colony on earth, and it connected France, Africa, and the Caribbean...

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From 1970 until his death in 2000, Hafiz Asad ruled Syria with an iron fist. His regime controlled every aspect of daily life. Seeking to preempt popular unrest, Asad sometimes facilitated the expression of anti-government sentiment by appropriating the...

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Modernity Disavowed is a pathbreaking study of the cultural, political, and philosophical significance of the Haitian Revolution (1791-1804). Revealing how the radical antislavery politics of this seminal event have been suppressed and ignored in...

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A look at the intricate history of collegiate women's support networks-otherwise known as sororities Sororities are often thought of as exclusive clubs for socially inclined college students, but Bound by a Mighty Vow, a history of the women's Greek...

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Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2008 A Half-Century of Greatness paints a vivid and dramatic picture of the creative thought of mid- to late nineteenth century Europe and the influence of the unsuccessful revolutions of 1848. It reveals often...

This is the first book in English on the Chinese judicial system and its operations in the Republican era, filling a large gap in the scholarship on modern China, Chinese law, Chinese legal history, and comparative law. It offers a richly-textured...

This book examines the lives of people caught in the dynamics of changing mores, rapid urbanization, and real public health issues in nineteenth-century Buenos Aires. Modernity in the Flesh shows the costs Argentines paid for the establishment of liberal...

William Winters was unlike most of the young soldiers who answered the Union's appeal for men in 1861 and 1862. He was different from many of his comrades in age and point of view, and his war service was also out of the ordinary. The last great surge of...

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A stunning edition of this gory city guide with all the gruesome bits left in! Horrible Histories: Gruesome Guide To York takes readers on a gore-tastic tour of the streets of York, exposing all of its most...

In May 1940, the small British Expeditionary Force was sent to help the Belgians and French hold back the German army. Ill-equipped and under-trained, they fought hard for three weeks, from the German invasion of France to the rescue of the last British...

Most of Alexander Posey's short and remarkable life was devoted to literary pursuits. Through a widely circulated satirical column published under the pseudonym Fus Fixico, he did much to document and draw attention to conditions in Indian Territory. He...

For nearly 200 years the Middle East was the battleground on which Islam, Byzantium and western Christendom fought themselves to a standstill. This history presents this epic struggle as a narrative that not only relates to the crucial events, but also...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780714121680Author Sandy RansfordFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint British Museum PressPublisher British Museum PressWeight(grams) 80g

This is the story of D-Day, the turning point in World War 2 has been well documented. But this lavishly illustrated book and accompanying epic TV drama will turn all preconceptions of Operation Overlord on their head. June 2004 marks the 60th...

Reporting America is a magnificent collection of Alistair Cooke's key dispatches on the key moments, movements, men and women of post-war America. Alistair Cooke was the greatest, and most humane, of all modern reporters and interpreters of...

What are the key 50 events you really need to understand to grasp the developments of our world? In this highly entertaining read Hugh Williams distils world history into an insightful overview. By selecting fifty key people, places, battles,...

Originally published in 1880, McGlashan's History of the Donner Party remains in steady demand as an authoritative account of the tragic episode. The editors have added newly discovered information and photographs to their foreword, which is based on...

After a lifetime spent writing and working on his family's cattle ranch outside of Helena, Montana, Ralph Beer has gathered his best magazine essays into one collection called In These Hills. In thirty-three essays he provides a moving and elegiac...

In 1938 Brian Kingcome joined the RAF with a permanent commission and was posted to No 65 Fighter Squadron at Hornchurch, soon to be equipped with the Spitfire, and so it came about that Brian flew the Spitfire throughout the war. He became acting CO for...

This collection of classic tales comprises over 50 accounts of true-life adventure taken from contemporary memoirs, letters and journals. They span the years 1800 to the end of the 20th century, in a period which can be termed the modern age of...

Calke is unlike any other great house; it has been conserved in a state of frozen decay. Its collections contain few outstanding pieces, apart from the extraordinary state bed, but it is the accumulation of books, silver, portraits, clothes, childrens...

X D Operations is the first account of the thrilling operations by the Kent Fortress Royal Engineers, tasked with destroying all the oil reserves stored in refineries in the ports along the Continental coastline, thus denying the Nazis vital stocks...

Six raids that changed the course of history.Operation Judgement: one of the most spectacular efforts of World War Two, where obsolete British biplanes attacked the Italian fleet in Taranto.Operation Archery: the first true combined operation carried out...

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