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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. The pioneering radio program defined country and western entertainment until the Grand Ole Opry and rock 'n' roll supplanted it in the 1950s...

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...

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...

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...

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...