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This edition reflects recent research on the French Revolution, taking into account the scholarship of the "New Revisionist" school. It incorporates recent events in France, including an assessment of post-Socialist politics and examines the...

This is a new chapter by George Walden to bring the phenomenon up to date. This is an explosive new book, "Time to Emigrate?" by author George Walden. Why are those who are neither rich nor underprivileged no longer heard in Britain? The idea...

Part of a series of illustrated history books which use computer technology to bring the past to life, this book looks at the Roman Empire. The sights, smells and practicalities of this period in history are made real and the reportage text gives a new...

By the end of the nineteenth century, almost all the great writers, artists and intellectuals had abandoned Christianity, and many had abandoned belief in God altogether. A.N. Wilson demonstrates through such diverse lives as those of Gibbon, Kant, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781849931670Author Curtis WattFormat HardbackPage Count 32Imprint Hometown WorldPublisher Hometown WorldWeight(grams) 215g

It's 1008 AD, and after being injured in a raid that goes horribly wrong, Tor Scaldbane is devastated at losing his chance to be a legendary warrior. But then he remembers the sagas of his ancestors; glorious, bloody battles, ancient heroes, powerful...

An enthralling introduction to the Queen, accompanied by stunning photographs, a family tree and timeline. It is written with the expert advice of writer and broadcaster, Hugo Vickers. Part of Usborne's popular "Young Reading" series, it is...

Refreshed, renewed, reloaded! All the foulfacts about the Woeful Second World Warare ready to uncover, including: why the blitzed Brits ate chicken-fruit, sinkers and nutty, what really happened in Dad's Army and how to make a rude noise with a gas mask...

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...

Red Squirrel Phonics is a new series of decodable readers from Raintree, packed with real stories using words that children can read. The programme teaches children phonics skills in a sequential and systematic way so that they can learn the sounds...

The fascinating and turbulent black America of the 1960s emerges in these essays, through the lenses of dissent and its contradictions. Gerald L. Early revisits this volatile time in American history, when class, culture, and race ignited conflagrations...

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...

What makes someone willing to die, not for a nation, but for a language? In the mid-20th century, southern India saw a wave of dramatic suicides in the name of language. Lisa Mitchell traces the colonial-era changes in knowledge and practice linked to...

"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...

"...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...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780245545269Author Robin TannerFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Impact Books LtdPublisher Impact Books LtdWeight(grams) 820g

A new edition of this widely used text covers the last two centuries of Indian history, concluding with an epilogue written from the perspective of the 1990s. It thematically and analytically discusses the emergence of India as one of the world's largest...

During the 20th century, England had surrendered her status as a major world power to the U.S. and Soviet Union. Meanwhile, life at home has become more tolerable for the unfortunate and more secure for the majority. This book surveys these two great...

Persian civilization flourished at a continuously high level for nearly three thousand years of recorded history. This volume, in the Legacy series, is written by leading authorities in their subjects who illustrate some of the many ways in which...

As a young American composer, Colin McPhee quite by accident heard some recordings of Balinese gamelan music. Changed forever by this experience, he "wanted to hear every Gamelan in the countryside." This book recounts the details of his stay in Bali...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780195207927Author John CampbellFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint OUP IndiaPublisher OUP IndiaWeight(grams) 1370g

We all know that the Battle of Hastings was fought in 1066, London's 'one big burning blaze' tore through the capital in 1666 and that Britain declared war on Nazi Germany in 1939, but many of us remember the most important moments in our history by the...

Few books have captured the atmosphere of daily medieval life as well or as movingly as "A Fool and his Money". Rodez, in southern France, was divided for centuries by a fued between two masters. This partitioned town thus acquired two distinct...

Based on the BBC television series, Shopgirls is the true story of the incredible women behind the counters of Britain's most famous - and not so famous - stores. From the Victorian age through to the present day, an unsung army of shopgirls have been at...

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...

"This collection belongs on the shelf of anyone teaching American labor history, but it also should prove useful to scholars with related interests." -- Illinois Historical JournalBook InformationISBN 9780252015465Author Samuel GompersFormat...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780285626034Author Kenneth Gordon McIntyreFormat HardbackPage Count 260Imprint Souvenir Press LtdPublisher Souvenir Press LtdWeight(grams) 473g

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...

Britain has not been successfully invaded since 1066; nor, in nearly 1,000 years, has it known a true revolution - one that brings radical, systemic and enduring change. The contrast with her European neighbours - with France, Germany, Italy, Spain,...

The Corinium Museum is located at the heart of Cirencester, the 'Capital of the Cotswolds'. Its principal collection consists of the highly significant finds from the Roman town of Corinium Dobunnorum. However, the museum today is much more than that,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781840651058Format PaperbackPage Count 768Imprint Salamander Books LtdPublisher Pavilion BooksWeight(grams) 3305g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780861011605Format HardbackPage Count 160Imprint Salamander BooksPublisher Salamander Books LtdWeight(grams) 321g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780861010349Format HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Salamander BooksPublisher Salamander Books LtdWeight(grams) 1197g