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This intellectual biography of Lev Shternberg (1861-1927) illuminates the development of professional anthropology in late imperial and early Soviet Russia. Shortly after the formation of the Soviet Union the government initiated a detailed ethnographic...

Peter the Great, whose reign saw the explosion of Russia onto the European scene, has become a legendary figure in history, as well as the subject of abiding controversy over the past two decades. Does he deserve the title 'The Great'? Was he...

In this ambitious study, Diane Bjorklund explores the historical nature of self-narrative. Examining over 100 American autobiographers published in the last two centuries, she discusses not only well-known autobiographies such as Mark Twain and Andrew...

Annette Libeskind Berkovits thought her attempt to have her father record his life's story failed. But in 2004, three years after her father's death, she was going through his things and found a box of tapesaseveral years' worthawith his spectacular...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781538139127Author Maria Belen Rabadan VegaFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Rowman & Littlefield PublishersPublisher Rowman & Littlefield

It is a perverse but almost inescapable phenomenon in the history of violent revolutions that after the first heroic days a colorless bureaucrat will inherit the mantle of leadership. In the Russian Revolution, Lenin was followed by a plodding Stalin...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780670090662Author Rudrangshu MukherjeeFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint PenguinPublisher Penguin Random House IndiaDimensions(mm) 230mm * 150mm * 30mm

Poet, republican, diplomat, and entrepreneur, Joel Barlow filled many roles and registered impressive accomplishments. In the first biography of this fascinating figure in decades, Richard Buel Jr. recounts the life of a man more intimately connected to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982129224Author Nathan GorensteinFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Scribner Book CompanyPublisher Scribner Book CompanyWeight(grams)...

When literary biographer and memoirist Louise DeSalvo embarked upon a journey to learn why her father came home from World War II a changed man, she didn't realize her quest would take ten years, and that it would yield more revelations about the man-and...

"This moving account of a key figure in American history contributes greatly to our understanding of the past. It also informs our vision of the servant leader needed to guide the 1990s movement." Marian Wright Edelman, President, Children's...

Known in the West as a "noble heathen," the great Muslim sultan Saladin led Muslim forces in the reconquest of the Crusader kingdoms and captured Jerusalem in 1187. This concise history traces Saladin's role in the contest between Islam and Christianity...

The last face FDR saw before he died was that of Lucy Mercer Rutherford, his mistress of thirty-one years. Although Eleanor, his children, and the press knew about Lucy, the American public would not hear of her until 1966. FDR and Lucy is the first book...

Olivia Langdon Clemens was not only the love of Mark Twain's life and the mother of his children, she was also his editor, muse, critic and trusted advisor. She read his letters and speeches. He relied on her judgment on his writing, and readily admitted...

This engaging new biography dispels many myths surrounding Nehru, and distinguishes between the icon he has become and the politician he actually was. Benjamin Zachariah places Nehru in the context of the issues of his time, including the central...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307956774Author Kara CooneyFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Crown PublicationsPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 244gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

This intellectual biography of Hans Kohn (1891-1971) looks at theories of nationalism in the twentieth century as articulated through the life and work of its leading scholar and activist. Hans Kohn was born in late nineteenth-century Prague, but his...

An acclaimed journalist and novelist makes history personal, painting a rich and vivid portrait of the time when America become modern by tracing the life of one man who lived through it.It all began with a black-and-white family snapshot of a...

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...