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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780809339501Author Mark A. NeelsFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Southern Illinois University PressPublisher Southern Illinois University...

The authoritative and illuminating biography of T. E. Lawrence - the man who inspired the iconic film Lawrence of Arabia - from "The World's Greatest Living Explorer" Ranulph Fiennes.Thomas Edward Lawrence first set foot on the hot sands of Arabia in...

The first comprehensive biography of Philadelphia’s Henry C. Lea (1825–1909): historian, publisher, political activist, and reformer Writing in 1868, the Philadelphia publisher-cum-historian Henry Charles Lea informed a friend, “I am trying to collect...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804511824Author David JablonskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915113870Author Alexander MikaberidzeFormat PaperbackPage Count 196Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

A lively and provocative account of Bernard Mandeville and the work that scandalised and appalled his contemporaries—and made him one of the most influential thinkers of the eighteenth centuryIn 1714, doctor, philosopher and writer Bernard Mandeville...

THE FIRST BIOGRAPHY OF GEORGE WASHINGTON BY HIS FRIEND CHIEF JUSTICE JOHN MARSHALL.Also includes:George Washington’s First Inaugural AddressGeorge Wshington Second Inaugural AddressGeorge Washington’s Farewell Address to the People of the United...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780809339495Author Mark A. NeelsFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Southern Illinois University PressPublisher Southern Illinois University...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781785908552Author Tessa BlackstoneFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint Biteback PublishingPublisher Biteback Publishing

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A lyrical portrait of a young Irish woman reinventing herself at the turn of the twentieth century in America Ellen O’Hara was a young immigrant from Ireland at the end of the nineteenth century who, with courage and resilience, made a life for herself...

A lyrical portrait of a young Irish woman reinventing herself at the turn of the twentieth century in America Ellen O’Hara was a young immigrant from Ireland at the end of the nineteenth century who, with courage and resilience, made a life for herself...

From the political and social turmoil of early nineteenth century Britain, a young Welsh doctor emerged in Birmingham to play a leading role in the transformation of the town as physician, political activist, medical reformer, and the borough’s first and...

The international bestselling record of a German Jew in Nazi Germany.'Deserves to stand beside the diary of Anne Frank as a day-to-day description of the sufferings of the victims of Hitler's evil regime' EVENING STANDARD'Few English readers will fail to...

The superb, bestselling diaries of Victor Klemperer, a Jew in Dresden who survived the war - hailed as one of the 20th century's most important chronicles.'Compulsive reading' LITERARY REVIEW 'Deeply engrossing' SPECTATOR'Klemperer's diary deserves to...

People in the Ozarks have long told humorous vignettes that make sense of triumph and tragedy, relay family and local history, and of course entertain. Benjamin G. Rader’s memoir offers a loving portrait of the Ozarks of his youth, where his grandfather...

Volume 4: Red Union, Red Paper, Red Train, 1905-1910 gathers for the first time approximately 180 articles, speeches, letters, and interviews from the prime years of American socialist and labor leader Eugene V. Debs. These include materials relating to...

Lady Anne Bacon (1528-1610) was a highly educated woman who lived through the great political and religious transitions of five reigns and was embedded in the network of power at the Tudor court. Her intelligence and education took her far beyond the...

A top ten world chess player, George H. Mackenzie (1837-1891) dominated in the U.S. for more than a quarter century. Scottish by birth, Mackenzie was adopted by American chess players as their representative on the national and international scenes and...

At the turn of the twentieth century, New York City philanthropist, arts patron, and scholar Archer M. Huntington became the foremost collector and face of Spanish art in the United States with the founding of the Hispanic Society of America. This...

A TELEGRAPH BEST HISTORY BOOK OF 2023 ‘A highly imaginative and thought-provoking way of exploring the personality of a man who, like him or loathe him, left an indelible mark on our age’ ADAM ZAMOYSKI Winston Churchill followed his own star. He...

A narrative of cultural translation, identity, and belonging.The thrill of a new place fades quickly for Caroline Topperman when she moves from Vancouver to Poland in 2013. As she delves into her family’s history, tracing their migration through pre-WWII...

In this penetrating biography of Thomas Bradbury Chandler, S. Scott Rohrer takes readers deep into the intellectual world of a leading loyalist who defended monarchy, rejected rebellion and democracy, and opposed the American Revolution.Talented,...

Read the international sensation already translated into 9 languages!A Brazilian journalist’s investigation unearths the story of a network of people responsible for hiding "The Angel of Death," the infamous Nazi doctor who fled to South America and...

The compelling story of a talented potter, enslaved by the author's ancestors, who became one of the singular artists of the nineteenth century.He signed many of his works simply as “Dave” and is known today as Potter David Drake. He made pots and...

A Gilded Age industrialist becomes Michigan's wealthiest resident and helps shape the nation.Eber Brock Ward (1811–1875) began his career as a cabin boy on his uncle's sailing vessels, but when he died in 1875, he was the wealthiest man in Michigan. His...

They said she was a tyrant, a murderer and the most wicked woman in history.She kicked her way into the male spaces of politics and demanded to be recognised as an equal and a leader. For her audacity, she was murdered by her son and reviled by history...

Based on hundreds of interviews with friends, family, and lovers over a thirty-year period - as well as previously unreleased material from the JFK Library - Kennedy historian J. Randy Taraborrelli paints an unforgettable new portrait of a woman whose...

This is a triumph. A love letter to the ghosts of Edinburgh. I feel its hand upon my shoulder. – Sara Sheridan As a writer of fiction, I found myself itching to lift some of these characters from the page into the fertile fields of my own imagination. –...

The macabre tale of an eighteenth-century woman immortalised in folklore as the ‘Manchester Mummy’. In 1835, the Manchester Natural History Society opened the doors of its museum. Taking pride of place in its collection were three mummies: one was...

Who was Arminius Vambery? A poverty-stricken, Jewish auto-didact; a linguist, traveller, and writer; or a sometime Zionist, inspiration for Dracula's nemesis, and British secret agent? Vambery wrote his own story many times over. And it was these often...

Both King of Poland and Elector of Saxony, Augustus is one of the great what-ifs of the 18th century. He could have turned the accident of ruling two major realms into the basis for a powerful European state – a bulwark against the Russians and a block...

Throughout his career Churchill was an outsider, accumulating a reputation for bad judgement and untrustworthiness. Only risk-takers and fellow outsiders would back him and he needed the company of like-minded individuals to create a social environment...

THE MEMOIRS AND OTHER KEY WRITINGS OF THOMAS JEFFERSON, PRIMARY AUTHOR OF THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE.Also includes:The Declaration of IndependenceThe Louisiana Purchase,Notes on VirginiaThomas Jefferson’s First Inaugural AddressLetter to Congress...

THE MEMOIRS AND OTHER KEY WRITINGS OF JOHN ADAMS, A LEADER OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION.Also includes:A Dissertation on the Canon and Federal LawInstructions of the Town of Braintree to Their RepresentativeNovanglus and MassachusettensisThoughts on...

THE FIRST BIOGRAPHY OF ALEXANDER HAMILTON, THE FATHER OF AMERICAN BANKING.Also includes:The Federalist PapersConjectures About the New ConstitutionThe Biography of Alexander Hamilton: with Conjectures About the New Constitution, The Federalist Papers and...

The Franz Boas Papers, Volume 2 explores the development of the ethnography of Salishan-speaking societies on the North American Plateau as revealed through the correspondence between Franz Boas and the Scottish-born James Teit, who married into an...

'A majestic, sparkling account of one of the most important rulers in history . . . modern history writing at its finest' Peter Frankopan'Superb and gripping. Epic historical biography that brings the emperor to life . . . filled with new ideas and...