Essays

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781538741221Author Douglas PrestonFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Grand Central PublishingPublisher Grand Central PublishingWeight(grams)...

"Like all the best meetings of Jewish minds, this book will make you think, argue and see the world anew." Hadley Freeman, author of House of GlassConspiracy theories about Jews are back in the mainstream. The Pittsburgh gunman who murdered 11 people in...

The partition of India into two countries, India and Pakistan, caused one of the most massive human convulsions in history. Within the space of two months in 1947 more than twelve million people were displaced. A million died. More than seventy-five...

These wide-ranging essays- on many individual political, economic, cultural and legal issues- have as a recurring, underlying theme the decline of the values and institutions that have sustained and advanced American society for more than two centuries...

A. C. Grayling's lucid and stimulating books, based on the idea that philosophy should engage with the world and make itself useful, are immensely popular. The Challenge of Things joins earlier collections like The Reason of Things and Thinking of...

From the travails of art critical language in the late eighteenth century to the upheaval of the Paris Commune of 1871, from neo-classical art criticism to the Paris Commune of 1871, from Bizet's Carmen and Edith Piaf's song to the culture of gay...

"What a splendid subject to sink one's teeth into," raved the Washington Post . Here was a six-foot-two Irishman with a red beard,a Victorian family man, a spirited debater, and the author of novels and short stories largely forgotten today. All, of...

The best essays from America's premier cultural historian Jackson Lears has been hailed as the "dean of American cultural history" and "one of the few pre-eminent historians of our time." Well known for his elegant, daring scholarship on topics such as...

George Orwell wrote that "history is written by the winners". Even if that seems a bit too cut-and-dried, we can say that history is always written from a viewpoint but that viewpoints change, sometimes radically. The history of workers, women and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692202401Author Thomas CarlyleFormat PaperbackPage Count 420Imprint Adp GauntletPublisher Adp GauntletWeight(grams) 612gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

Sanjay Subrahmanyam is becoming well known for the same sort of reasons that attach to Fernand Braudel and Carlo Ginzburg, as the proponent of a new kind of history - in his case, not longue duree or micro-history, but 'connected history': connected...

Greco-Roman antiquity's premier Jewish historian.Josephus, soldier, statesman, historian, was a Jew born at Jerusalem about AD 37. A man of high descent, he early became learned in Jewish law and Greek literature and was a Pharisee. After pleading in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629637129Author Gabriel KuhnFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint PM PressPublisher PM Press

The First Crusade received its name and shape late. To its contemporaries, the event was a journey and the men who took part in it pilgrims. Only later were those participants dubbed Crusaders-"those signed with the Cross." In fact, many developments...

The Annals of St-Bertin, covering the years 830 to 882, are the main narrative source for the Carolingian world in the ninth century. This richly-annotated translation by a leading British specialist makes these Carolingian histories accessible in...

A collection of intimate and revelatory first-hand accounts of pandemics through the ages. Humanity has always been struck by pestilence and pandemics, from the plagues of ancient Egypt to the pox that ravaged Europe in the Middle Ages, to Covid-19...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781609801328Author Howard ZinnFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Seven Stories Press,U.S.Publisher Seven Stories Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 255g

The texts in this volume offer critical assessments of a number of leading figures in contemporary intellectual life, who are in different ways thinkers at the intersection of history and politics. They include Roberto Unger, advocate of plasticity; the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063221352Author Ari ShapiroFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 454g

In a major publishing project, all of Brian Aldiss' 300+ short stories are being collected together for the first time. In a major publishing project, all of Brian Aldiss' 300+ short stories are being collected together for the first time. ...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781942503521Author Daniel J HuggerFormat PaperbackPage Count 284Imprint Acton InstitutePublisher Acton InstituteWeight(grams) 331gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

A captivating cultural and scientific history of orchards, for readers of Michael Pollan's The Botany of Desire and Mark Kurlansky's Salt. Throughout history, orchards have nourished both body and soul: they are sites for worship and rest, inspiration...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780982934005Author William R PolkFormat PaperbackPage Count 402Imprint William Roe PolkPublisher William Roe PolkWeight(grams) 535gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Greco-Roman antiquity's premier Jewish historian.Josephus, soldier, statesman, historian, was a Jew born at Jerusalem about AD 37. A man of high descent, he early became learned in Jewish law and Greek literature and was a Pharisee. After pleading in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345303639Author Barbara W. TuchmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Ballantine Books Inc.Publisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)...

Scholars at dinner.In The Learned Banqueters, Athenaeus describes a series of dinner parties at which the guests quote extensively from Greek literature. The work (which dates to the very end of the second century AD) is amusing reading and of...

Bringing together essays on uses of history as both a practical activity and an approach to thinking about the present, this collection explores ways in which people have reckoned with history in pasts both distant and near.Reckoning with History begins...

The Yearbook of Transnational History is dedicated to disseminating pioneering research in the field of transnational history. This fifth volume advances the frontier of transnational history into early modern times. The six chapters of this volume...

Since Aristotle's famous declaration that the speculative sciences originated with the emergence of a leisure class, it has been accepted as a truism that intellectual activity requires political stability and leisure in order to flourish. Paradoxically,...

Co-published with the Intercollegiate Studies Institute, each of the author's articles in this collection was published separately during the decade of the 1970s. Covering both domestic and diplomatic history, they reflect a conservative outlook and a...

Since Aristotle's famous declaration that the speculative sciences originated with the emergence of a leisure class, it has been accepted as a truism that intellectual activity requires political stability and leisure in order to flourish. Paradoxically,...

Volume 125 of the Proceedings of the British Academy contains 15 lectures delivered at the British Academy in 2003.Book InformationISBN 9780197263242Author Professor P.J. Marshall, CBE, FBAFormat HardbackPage Count 484Imprint Oxford University...

Volume 124 of the Proceedings of the British Academy contains 19 obituaries of recently deceased Fellows of the British Academy.Book InformationISBN 9780197263204Author Professor P.J. Marshall, CBE, FBAFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint Oxford...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788497774031Author Virginia FellowsFormat PaperbackPage Count 343Imprint ObeliscoPublisher ObeliscoWeight(grams) 155g

In this volume distinguished scholars from both sides of the Atlantic explore the work of Tacitus in its historical and literary context and also show how his text was interpreted in the sixteenth through eighteenth centuries. Discussed here, for...

From mining to sex work and from the classroom to the docks, violence has always been a part of work. This collection of essays highlights the many different forms and expressions of violence that have arisen under capitalism in the last two hundred...

The history of sexuality has been the subject of increased interest in recent years and more widely acknowledged importance in the interpretation of past mentalites. Yet historians have only recently begun to study sexual practices in any depth,...

This volume publishes texts from the British Academy's 2013 and 2014 lecture programmes, which were posted to the online Journal of the British Academy in 2014. The subjects covered include relic veneration in Confucianism, UK education policy,...

The history of sexuality has been the subject of increased interest in recent years and more widely acknowledged importance in the interpretation of past mentalités. Yet historians have only recently begun to study sexual practices in any depth,...

Questions surrounding the genesis, development, and viability of modern academic theology have drawn renewed and heightened interest in recent years. Over the past decade, an increasing number of detailed studies have inquired into the emergence of...