Europe

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812931372Author Stanley KarnowFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 139g

Did you ever wonder what the Tudors ate and drank? What was Elizabeth I's first meal after the defeat of the Spanish Armada? Which pies did Henry VIII gorge on to go from a 32 to a 54-inch waist? The Tudor Kitchen provides a new history of the Tudor...

This book is intended to be a guide to the burgeoning literature on the history of childhood. Harry Hendrick reviews the most important debates and the main findings of a number of historians on a range of topics including the changing social...

Jerusalem: The Story of a Song is a popular history of England's unofficial national anthem, which began life as a poem by William Blake, was set to music by Hubert Parry and is sung every year at the Last Night of the Proms. About the AuthorEdwin...

When Isaac Newton died in 1727 without a will, he left behind a wealth of papers that, when examined, gave his followers and his family a deep sense of unease. Some of what they contained was wildly heretical and alchemically obsessed, hinting at a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for National Jewish Book Award (Holocaust) 2015.Book InformationISBN 9780374535926Author Nikolaus WachsmannFormat PaperbackPage Count 880Imprint Farrar, Straus...

This fascinating collection of over 200 picture postcards provides a nostalgic insight into the changing history of Birmingham during the period 1900-1945. For over a quarter of this time Britain was at war and the political and social changes...

The Tudor era belongs to its women. No other period of English History has produced so many notable and interesting women, and into other period have they so powerfully influenced the course of political events. Mary Tudor, Elizabeth 1 and, at moments of...

This book introduces the reader to the relationship between the Italian national movement, achieved by the Risorgimento, and the Italian unification in 1860. These themes are discussed in detail and related to the broader European theatre. Covering the...

For a King renowned for his love life, Henry VIII has traditionally been depicted as something of a prude, but the story may have been different for the women who shared his bed. How did they take the leap from courtier to lover - perhaps even to wife?...

The German Army invaded France on 10 May 1940, and in just over ten days their rapid advance, led by three panzer corps, had left three French field armies, Belgian forces and the British Expeditionary Force with their backs to the sea, trapped along the...

What unacknowledged theme can be found across 250 years of English history? What thread runs throughout the Plantagenet Royal House, including as it does the 'cadet' houses of Lancaster and York, to the beginning of the Modern Period in 1485? It is the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781609420086Author Fabio R. de AraujoFormat PaperbackPage Count 110Imprint Connecting to GodPublisher Connecting to GodWeight(grams) 172gDimensions(mm)...

Hannah's Dress tells the dizzying story of Berlin's modern history. Curious to learn more about the city she has lived in for over twenty years, journalist Pascale Hugues investigates the lives of the men, women and children who have occupied her...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781846826054Author Christopher MaginnFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Four Courts Press LtdPublisher Four Courts Press LtdWeight(grams) 367g

This new text places interwar European fascism squarely in its historical context and analyses its relationship with other right wing, authoritarian movements and regimes. Beginning with the ideological roots of fascism in pre-1914 Europe, Martin...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780595168637Author Lucjan KrolikowskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 348Imprint Authors Choice PressPublisher Authors Choice PressWeight(grams) 508g

Medieval England was full of books, many times the number that have survived. The great moment of loss was when the country's religious houses were suppressed by King Henry VIII and their libraries scattered and destroyed. Twentieth-century scholarship...

This innovative collection offers a reappraisal of gender as a category of analysis in modern Welsh history. Beginning with sex work in the eighteenth century and concluding with women's late twentieth-century anti-nuclear activism, the contributors show...

Though the first edition of this book (1960) rapidly established itself as a sound collection of source material and a comprehensive analysis of the government of England in the sixteenth century, the astonishing amount of work done, by many hands...

Considered to be the classic introduction to the subject, this third edition has been carefully revised and updated to take account of the developments in the subject, and includes an extensive newly compiled bibliography and twice the number of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780903521246Author Sven AggesenFormat PaperbackPage Count 182Imprint Viking Society for Northern ResearchPublisher Viking Society for Northern Research

Robert Halliday's new book about Cambridgeshire (including the old county of Huntingdonshire and the city of Peterborough) illustrates and describes unusual, odd and extraordinary people, places and incidents. We discover how Cambridge University began,...

Here is an essential short guide to the history of Eastern Europe under the early decades of communist rule. The study explores the communists attempt to transpose a uniform economic and social system across the region copied from the Soviet model. Dr...

This is a major new survey of the social and cultural history of sexuality in early modern Europe. Within a frame that includes the Renaissance, the Reformation, the Scientific Revolution, and the Enlightenment, it weaves together statistical findings,...

Did you Know? St Mary's Collegiate Church claims to be the single oldest church in Ireland to have been in constant use over the centuries. The original roof, dating to c.1200, is still in situ. It was Thomas Harriott of Youghal who first brought...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781643138817Author Ian MortimerFormat HardbackPage Count 448Imprint Pegasus BooksPublisher Pegasus BooksWeight(grams) 612gDimensions(mm) 230mm * 154mm * 42mm

Discover Europe with the 'Only In' Guides! These ground breaking city guides are for independent cultural travellers wishing to escape the crowds and understand cities from different and unusual perspectives. Unique locations, hidden corners and unusual...

Firsthand accounts of migrants who settled in Britain offer new insights into empire, belonging, migration, and diaspora Homeward Bound shines a light on a neglected aspect of twentieth-century migration history. It compares two groups of...

Who was the real King Arthur? What do the historical documents tell us about the Knight of the Round Temple? It is just a chivalric fantasy? The story of Arthur has been handed down to us by Medieval poets and legends - but what if he actually existed...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780300203554Author Steven OzmentFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Yale University PressPublisher Yale University Press

The highly publicized obscenity trial of Radclyffe Hall's The Well of Loneliness (1928) is generally recognized as the crystallizing moment in the construction of a visible modern English lesbian culture, marking a great divide between innocence and...

Examining a wide range of Japanese videogames, including arcade fighting games, PC-based strategy games and console JRPGs, this book assesses their cultural significance and shows how gameplay and context can be analyzed together to understand videogames...

The events of 1000-1130 were crucial to the successful emergence of the medieval kingdom of the Scots. Yet this is one of the least researched periods of Scottish history. We probably now know more about the Picts than the post-1000 events that...

First translation into English of key chronicle for events of the Albigensian Crusade and the attack on heresy, including the siege of the Cathar stronghold, Montsegur. The Albigensian Crusade, which forms the main subject of William of Puylaurens'...

Here Ireland's premier economic historian and one of the leading authorities on the Great Irish Famine examines the most lethal natural disaster to strike Europe in the nineteenth century. Between the mid-eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries, the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905769599Author Dane LoveFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Fort Publishing LtdPublisher Fort Publishing Ltd

In 1910, when Evelyn Wrench founded the Royal Over-Seas League, King George V was on the throne, the British Empire seemed invincible and for most people international travel was a new and exciting opportunity. One hundred years later, the world and...

This magisterial book is an analysis of the course of Western intellectual history between A.D. 400 and 1400. The book is arranged in two parts: the first surveys the comparative modes of thought and varying success of Byzantine, Latin-Christian, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375505003Author Jon MeachamFormat HardbackPage Count 512Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 873gDimensions(mm) 243mm...