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The voluminous correspondence of Maria Salviati de' Medici. In recent years, there has been an upsurge of interest in Maria Salviati de' Medici, specifically, in her role in Medici governance and her relationships with other members of the Medici court...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780974917825Author Judy StoneFormat PaperbackPage Count 392Imprint Mountainside MD PressPublisher Mountainside MD PressWeight(grams) 622g

First Published in 1990. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an Informa company.Book InformationISBN 9780873325998Author Jeannie LoFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint M.E. SharpePublisher Taylor & Francis IncWeight(grams) 204g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780770435622Author The Countess of CarnarvonFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)...

This volume, first in the Yale Research Series of Boswell's journals, covers his emotionally eventful youthful travels through the German and Swiss territories, from mid-June 1764 (after his law studies in Utrecht) to New Year's Day, 1765, when he...

Alexander Hamilton and the Persistence of Myth explores the shifting reputation of our most controversial founding father. Since the day Aaron Burr fired his fatal shot, Americans have tried to come to grips with Alexander Hamilton's legacy. Stephen...

"This book is a search for 'the real Anandibai Joshee' -- a search in which the readers are invited to participate."In her short and eventful life, Anandibai Joshee, the first Indian woman to earn a medical degree, broke many stereotypes. Literate at a...

The definitive biography of a radical activist and intellectual Max Eastman (1883-1969) was a prolific writer, radical, and public intellectual who helped shape the twentieth century. While researching this masterful work, acclaimed biographer Christoph...

When after three decades of research Singapore could produce its own water, the little city-state was said to have lost its vulnerability. No longer would every policy have to bend at the knees for water survival. It was finally time to celebrate...

In May of 1868, Elizabeth Bingham Young and her husband of only fivemonths, Egerton Ryerson Young, began a long journey from Hamilton,Ontario, to the Methodist mission of Rossville, at Norway House. Overthe next eight years, Elizabeth supported her...

Spurred by the commitment to continue the critical work that Malcolm X began, this volume analyses the enduring significance of his life, work, and religious philosophy. Bringing together thirteen different scholars from six different countries, Malcolm...

Most Civil War histories focus on the performance of top-level generals. However, it was the individual officers below them who actually led the troops to enact the orders. Some of these were remarkably effective. One such officer was Edmund Winchester...

My Own Story (1914) is a memoir by English political activist and suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst. Written at the onset of the First World War, My Own Story brings attention to Pankhurst's cause while defending her decision to cease activism until the end...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982128241Author David S BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Scribner Book CompanyPublisher Scribner Book CompanyWeight(grams) 376gDimensions(mm)...

The Russian Great Reforms of the 1860s were the last major modernizing effort by the Romanov dynasty. From 1855 to 1861, Grand Duchess Elena, born Princess Charlotte of WA1/4rttemberg (1807-1873), acted as the spokeswoman for the reform-minded circles of...

In 1858 Savannah businessman Charles Lamar, in violation of U.S. law, organized the shipment of hundreds of Africans on the luxury yacht Wanderer to Jekyll Island, Georgia. The four hundred survivors of the Middle Passage were sold into bondage. This was...

Becoming Bourgeois is the first study to focus on what historians have come to call the "middling sort," the group falling between the mass of yeoman farmers and the planter class that dominated the political economy of the antebellum South...

Cleopatra: kohl and vipers, barges and thrones, Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton. We have long been schooled in the myth of the Egyptian ruler. In his new book Michel Chauveau brings us a picture of her firmly based in reality. Cleopatra VII reigned...

This edition of Boswell's "Life of Johnson" details how Boswell's original words were changed during the publication process, and offers a fresh reading of Boswell's work. Marshall Waingrow charts the changes made during composition and at the...

Drawing from a variety of sources - literary, visual, archaeological; papyri, inscriptions and coins - the author studies the nature of Diocletian's imperial strategy, his wars, his religious views and his abdication. The author also examines Galerius'...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography 2013 and Pulitzer Prize 2013. Short-listed for National Book Critics Circle Awards 2012 and Phillis Wheatley Book...

One of America's foremost civil engineers of the past 150 years, John Frank Stevens was a railway reconnaissance and location engineer whose reputation was made on the Canadian Pacific and Great Northern lines. Self-taught and driven by a bulldog...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781925835779Author Sean ScalmerFormat HardbackPage Count 480Imprint Monash University PublishingPublisher Monash University Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781925377088Author Frank VajdaFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Monash University PublishingPublisher Monash University PublishingWeight(grams)...

A biography of the American Gilbert Imlay (c 1754 - c 1828), revolutionary war veteran - and infamous lover of Mary Wollstonecraft. It also highlights how Imlay unwittingly acted as an intermediary between figures of greater significance, whose ideas,...

'He thought his happiness was complete when, as he meandered aimlessly along, suddenly he stood by the edge of a full-fed river.' One of the most popular children's books of all time, the dreamy world of the riverbank and Toad, Ratty, Mole and Badger is...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781630262129Author Martin GoldsmithFormat HardbackPage Count 354Imprint WileyPublisher WileyWeight(grams) 689g

The legendary poet and boxer Arthur Cravan, a fleeting figure on the periphery of early twentieth-century European avant-gardism, is frequently invoked as proto-Dada and Surrealist exemplar. Yet he remains an insubstantial phenomenon, not seen since...

H. Lark Hall presents the first comprehensive biography of Vernon Louis Parrington (1871-1929). The recipient of the 1928 Pulitzer Prize in history for the first two volumes of his Main Currents in American Thought, Parrington remains one of the most...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400076789Author Simon Sebag MontefioreFormat PaperbackPage Count 848Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)...

Pioneer to the Past tells the intensely human, often poignantly moving story of the brilliant career of James Henry Breasted, one of the greatest Egyptologists and archaeologists America has produced. Breasted's greatest achievement was the founding of...

In the tradition of #1 New York Times bestsellers like Unbroken, Boys on the Boat, and Band of Brothers, No Surrender is an unforgettable story of a father's extraordinary acts of valor in World War II and a son's thrilling journey to discover them?an...

Joseph Bonaparte, King of Naples and Spain, claimed that he had never wanted the overpowering roles thrust upon him by his illustrious younger brother Napoleon. Left to his own devices, he would probably have been a lawyer in his native Corsica, a...

Sharp, resourceful, and with a style all her own, Althea Altemus embodied the spirit of the independent working woman of the Jazz Age. In her memoir, Big Bosses, she vividly recounts her life as a secretary for prominent (but thinly disguised) employers...

In this biography, Randolph B. Campbell explores the life of Sam Houston and his important role in the development of the Southwest. Governor of two states, president of an independent republic, and for thirteen years a United States senator, Sam...

The "superb" (The Guardian) biography of an American who stood against all the forces of Gilded Age America to fight for civil rights and economic freedom: Supreme Court Justice John Marshall Harlan.They say that history is written by the victors. But...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853033561Author Alan D. CrownFormat HardbackPage Count 216Imprint Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdPublisher Vallentine Mitchell & Co Ltd

One of the most famous figures of the American frontier, Daniel Boone clashed with the Shawnee and sought to exploit the riches of a newly settled region. Despite Boone's fame, his life remains wrapped in mystery.The Boone legend, which began with the...

George Armstrong Custer. The name evokes instant recognition among Americans and people around the world. No figure in the history of the American West has more powerfully moved the human imagination. This new, lavishly illustrated book combines over 300...

2019 Choice Outstanding Academic TitleThe Enigma of Max Gluckman examines one of the most influential British anthropologists of the twentieth century. South African-born Max Gluckman was the founder of what became known as the Manchester School of...