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Khalifa ibn Khayyat was born in the southern Iraqi city of Basra in the 770s AD and in his lifetime Iraq grew into a thriving centre of culture and trade and one of the most populous and prosperous regions of the world. He was one of a generation of...

The third book in the series of historic photographs of the area around Hayes and West Drayton.Book InformationISBN 9780750927680Author Philip SherwoodFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint The History Press LtdPublisher The History Press LtdWeight(grams)...

Are Europe's 'Christian values' under threat? Can religion be a pillar of identity and culture? What will be the fate of Christianity in Europe? In this short but bracing book, Olivier Roy traces the Church's long battle against a tide of...

The failure of the Weimar Republic and the rise of National Socialism remains one of the most challenging problems of twentieth-century European history. The German Right, 1918-1930 sheds new light on this problem by examining the role that the non-Nazi...

A unique and detailed history of the south-west of England written in a clear and accessible style. A wondeful resource for any local historian.Book InformationISBN 9780582492745Author Malcolm ToddFormat PaperbackPage Count 354Imprint LongmanPublisher...

In the bestselling tradition of The Swerve and A Distant Mirror, The Verge tells the story of a period that marked a decisive turning point for both European and world history. Here, author Patrick Wyman examines two complementary and contradictory sides...

Was there international law in the Middle Ages? Using treaties as its main source, this book examines the extent to which such a system of rules was known and followed in the period 700 to 1200. It considers how consistently international legal rules...

First discovered in a Hungarian library in 1838, the Rohonc Codex keeps privileged company with some of the most famous unsolved writing systems in the world, notably the Voynich manuscript, the Phaistos Disk, and Linear A. Written entirely in cipher,...

Over the twentieth century Scots' lives changed in fast, dramatic and culturally significant ways. By examining their bodies, homes, working lives, rituals, beliefs and consumption, this volume exposes how the very substance of everyday life was...

For centuries, Somerset depended on its harbours and rivers as its lifeblood. This is the story of the county's ports, pills and waterways - the unique vessels and the skilled men that used them, the cargoes they carried and the day-to-day practicalities...

Whether as an epic battleground or a cradle of civilizations, Europe has left an enduring imprint on the history of the world for over two millennia. From megalithic civilizations through ancient times, the Renaissance, the Industrial Revolution, the...

The Spanish empire in America was the first of the great seaborne empires of western Europe; it was for long the richest and the most formidable, the focus of envy, fear, and hatred. Its haphazard beginning dates from 1492; it was to last more than three...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781801510264Author Conor LuceyFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Four Courts Press LtdPublisher Four Courts Press Ltd

Jacob and Esau is a profound new account of two millennia of Jewish European history that, for the first time, integrates the cosmopolitan narrative of the Jewish diaspora with that of traditional Jews and Jewish culture. Malachi Haim Hacohen uses the...

How 'The Troubles' in Ulster defined the Scottish and British military experience post-WW2 'Bloody Sunday' is one of the iconic moments in British History, but what were the experiences of the soldiers in Ulster, many of them Scottish, and how did the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062471178Author Brad S. GregoryFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc

Rudy Koshar constructs a powerful framework in which to examine the subject of German collective memory, which for more than a half century has been shaped by the experience of Nazism, World War II, and the Holocaust. Finding the assumptions of many...

This Companion brings together 32 new essays by leading historians to provide a reassessment of British history in the early twentieth century. The contributors present lucid introductions to the literature and debates on major aspects of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780953928750Author Jeffrey DudgeonFormat PaperbackPage Count 366Imprint Belfast PressPublisher Belfast Press

A bold new account of the Age of Revolution, one of the most complex and vast transformations in human history "A fresh and illuminating framework for understanding our past and imagining our future. Powerfully argued and engagingly written, Patrick...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780904920420Author Tom ArkellFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Leopard's Head Press LtdPublisher Leopard's Head Press LtdWeight(grams)...

The first full-length historical study of pre-abolition black British writing, this book challenges established narratives of eighteenth-century black history that focus almost exclusively on slavery and abolition. Ryan Hanley expands our perspectives to...

After Cambridge, in 1938, Philip Snow left the first-class cricket field and sailed halfway around the world to pursue a Colonial Service career. His work in Fiji could hardly have been more varied: Commissioner, Magistrate, Officer-in-Charge-of-Police,...

Describes the history of how the 'Africa Trade' formed the backbone of the British Empire. This book retells the story of how the international commodity market in Africans operated, how transportation of millions of Africans over thousands of miles...

When did thousands of people last crowd into Edinburgh's High Street to witness an execution? Three brass bricks on the pavement mark the spot, but how many people notice them or know what they mean? As a fire engine roars along the road sirens blaring...

Few causes before or since have inspired such passion, determination and sacrifice than the Spanish Civil War (1936 9). This book explores the many ways in which Scots responded to the war in Spain, covering the activists and humanitarians who raised...

This exciting new edition is an indispensable guide for undergraduates to the study of Alexander the Great, showing the problems of the ancient source material, and making it clear that there is no single approach to be taken.The twelve thematic chapters...

The dead of Paris, before the French Revolution, were most often consigned to mass graveyards that contemporaries described as terrible and terrifying, emitting "putrid miasmas" that were a threat to both health and dignity. In a book that is at once...

The emperor Joseph II (1741-90) tried to carry through something like a 'revolution from above' in the vast, varied, and mainly backward provinces of the Austrian Monarchy. This volume carries the story down to 1780. It describes the claustrophobic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781846828225Author Billy ColferFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Four Courts Press LtdPublisher Four Courts Press Ltd

Renaissance Galway is the next ancillary publication from the Irish Historic Towns Atlas. The subject of the book is the remarkable 'pictorial map' of Galway, which was produced in the mid-seventeenth century. It offers a bird's eye view of Galway city...

This second volume of The Official History of the British Civil Service explores the radical restructuring of the Civil Service that took place during the Thatcher and Major premierships from 1982 until 1997, after a period of confusion and disagreement...

A study of one of the most intense and formative periods of modern political history. The years 1899-1914 witnessed a fundamental challenge to many Victorian values and institutions: Free Trade, the new Poor Law, the House of Lords, the Irish Union - all...

In his New History of England, leading historian Jeremy Black takes a cool and dispassionate look at the vicissitudes of over two millennia of English history.About the AuthorJEREMY BLACK MBE is Professor of History at Exeter University. Among his many...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781859373743Author Peggy ParnellFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Frith Book Company Ltd.Publisher Frith Book Company Ltd.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781643130002Author Kate WilliamsFormat HardbackPage Count 432Imprint Pegasus BooksPublisher Pegasus BooksWeight(grams) 612gDimensions(mm) 231mm * 150mm *...

'You capture so much in one frozen moment of time, and the fact that this tiny moment will now last forever makes it so much more profound...' Immortalised through the BBC's 'Peaky Blinders', and now in the throes of HS2 development, Birmingham's up and...

Introducing the Medieval Ass presents a lucid, accessible, and comprehensive picture of the ass’s enormous socio-economic and cultural significance in the Middle Ages and beyond. In the Middle Ages, the ass became synonymous with human idiocy, a comic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061330018Author J. BronowskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 540Imprint HarperPerennialPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 390g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912368303Author J. E. LloydFormat PaperbackPage Count 612Imprint Cockatrice BooksPublisher Cockatrice Books