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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781903688366Author Thomas BartlettFormat PaperbackPage Count 244Imprint Ulster Historical FoundationPublisher Ulster Historical FoundationWeight(grams)...

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South Korean historian Jie-Hyun Lim, raised under an anticommunist dictatorship, turned to Marxian thought to explain his country's development, even as he came to struggle with its Eurocentrism. As a transnational scholar working in postcommunist...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789189069343Author Erica BennerFormat HardbackPage Count 376Imprint Stolpe PublishingPublisher Stolpe PublishingWeight(grams) 1120g

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913934934Author Salvador RyanFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint WordwellPublisher Wordwell

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Few, if any, historians have brought such insight, wisdom, and empathy to public discourse as Jill Lepore. Arriving at The New Yorker in 2005, Lepore, with her panoptical range and razor-sharp style, brought a transporting freshness and a literary...

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In The Moral Imagination, Gertrude Himmelfarb, one of America's most distinguished intellectual historians, explores the minds and lives of some of the most brilliant and provocative thinkers of modern times. In their distinctive ways, she argues, they...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781953967022Author John Kayode FayemiFormat PaperbackPage Count 488Imprint PT BooksPublisher PT BooksWeight(grams) 771gDimensions(mm) 244mm * 170mm * 25mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913176389Author Oswald MosleyFormat HardbackPage Count 166Imprint Sanctuary Press LtdPublisher Sanctuary Press LtdWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 216mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781594039256Author Gertrude HimmelfarbFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Encounter Books,USAPublisher Encounter Books,USA

This is the first English translation of this controversial essay that challenged fundamental ideas about political power. Egypt, 1925: the Muslim world is in turmoil over Mustapha Kamal Ataturk's proposal to abolish the caliphate in Turkey. The debate...

Nine killed in Charleston church shooting. White supremacists demonstrate in Charlottesville. Monuments decommissioned in New Orleans and Chapel Hill. The headlines keep coming, and the debate rolls on. How should we contend with our troubled history as...

"Time Maps extends beyond all of the old cliches about linear, circular, and spiral patterns of historical process and provides us with models of the actual legends used to map history. It is a brilliant and elegant exercise in model building that...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789898336262Author Erik NorlingFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Finis Mundi PressPublisher Finis Mundi PressWeight(grams) 222gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

This book brings back into print, for the first time since the 1830s, a text that was central to the transatlantic campaign to fully abolish slavery in Britain's colonies. James Williams, an eighteen-year-old Jamaican "apprentice" (former slave), came to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781387780099Author Francis BaconFormat HardbackPage Count 106Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.comWeight(grams) 313gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 8mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998411255Author Liese Sherwood-FabreFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint Little ELM PressPublisher Little ELM PressWeight(grams) 136gDimensions(mm)...

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Edith Durham is best known for her classic travel books about the Balkans. However, she was also a passionate, articulate and well-informed commentator on the twists and turns of Balkan politics and the machinations of the Great Powers. The pieces in...

"There is something about a treasure," says Joseph Conrad in Nostromo, "that fastens on a man's mind." And, yes, there is something about the subject of treasure hunting that continues to fascinate us. One only needs to browse the Web to discover a whole...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400064120Author John McCainFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 717gDimensions(mm) 242mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781923224001Author Frank KnopfelmacherFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint Connor Court Publishing Pty LtdPublisher Connor Court Publishing Pty...

In London, Metropolis of the Slave Trade, James A. Rawley, a pioneer in the modern study of the slave trade, collects some of his best works from the past three decades. Also included in this volume are three new pieces: an essay on a South Carolina...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781627310949Author Bart KennedyFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Feral House,U.S.Publisher Feral House,U.S.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9786072900141Author Fatima Fernandez ChristliebFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Fatima EditoresPublisher Fatima EditoresWeight(grams) 345gDimensions(mm)...

Although the animal may be, as Nietzsche argued, ahistorical, living completely in the present, it nonetheless plays a crucial role in human history. The fascination with animals that leads not only to a desire to observe and even live alongside them,...

Originally published in 1978, this volume provides a selection of Michael Crowder's wrtings on the impact of colonial rule in West Africa and African reaction to it from the conquest to independence. Key themes include the impact of European culture on...

Sixteen obituaries of recently deceased Fellows of the British Academy: Peter Birks; Lord Dacre of Glanton; William Frend; John Gallagher; Philip Grierson; Stuart Hampsire; William McKane; Sir Malcolm Pasley; Ben Pimlott; Robert Pring-Mill; John Stevens,...

Shakespeare's Theater: A Sourcebook brings together in one volume the most significant Elizabethan and Jacobean texts on the morality of the theater. A collection of the most significant Elizabethan and Jacobean texts on the morality of the theater...

Nations need identities. These are created from perceptions of how societies have evolved. In this, history plays a central role. Insisting on reliable history is therefore crucial to more than just a pedagogic cause. Delicate relationships between the...

The Pirate Queen begins in Ireland with the infamous Grace O'Malley, a ruthless pirate and scourge to the most powerful fleets of sixteenth-century Europe. This Irish clan chieftain, sea captain, and pirate queen was a contemporary of Elizabeth I, a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865971653Author Edmund BurkeFormat PaperbackPage Count 476Imprint Liberty Fund IncPublisher Liberty Fund IncWeight(grams) 839g