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Queer premises provide vital social and cultural infrastructure - a queer infrastructure - connecting different generations and locations, facilitating the movement of resources, across and beyond the city. Queer Premises offers evidence for how...

Five thousand years ago there began the most momentous revolution in human history. Starting in Mesopotamia, city civilization emerged for the first time on earth, to be followed in Egypt, India, China and the Americas. The ideals of these ancient...

In the second half of the nineteenth century, after the removal of the Crystal Palace to the hill above, Sydenham and Forest Hill were among the most delightful of London's suburbs. By the first two decades of the twentieth century they were beginning to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910809808Author Jack CurrieFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint Goodall Publications LtdPublisher Crecy Publishing

Witchcraft has recently been undergoing a huge popular revival, but does modern pagan witchcraft really bear any resemblance to its historical antecedents? The witch in history was a very different creature from her modern counterpart, and this book sets...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857301154Author Lois MartinFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Pocket EssentialsPublisher Oldcastle Books Ltd

**CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title** In September 1814, the rulers of Europe and their ministers descended upon Vienna after two decades of revolution and war. Their task was to redraw continental borders following the collapse of the Napoleonic...

After the collapse of the Romanov dynasty in February 1917, Russia was subject to an eight month experiment in democracy. Sarah Badcock studies its failure through an exploration of the experiences and motivations of ordinary men and women, urban and...

This volume of Reiner Stach's acclaimed and definitive biography of Franz Kafka tells the story of the final years of the writer's life, from 1916 to 1924--a period during which the world Kafka had known came to an end. Stach's riveting narrative, which...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909796614Author David ButcherFormat PaperbackPage Count 369Imprint Poppyland PublishingPublisher Poppyland Publishing

Machiavelli was painfully aware of living in a disastrous moment of Italy's history: foreign invasions, occupations and shattered states. He was harshly critical of Italy's princes (such as Francesco Sforza), its professional military class (especially...

Behind the world's most iconic front door lies the core of British political power: the Prime Minister's home and office. Designed over three centuries ago as an ordinary residence, 10 Downing Street (or 'No. 10') has undergone a challenging...

Farquhar, Crawford, Cavenagh, Thomson, Anderson, Napier, Fullerton, Henderson, MacRitchie, MacPherson, Outram, Purvis, Spottiswoode. These are some of the Scots who have played a part in making Singapore.Guthrie, Fraser & Neave, Rodyk & Davidson, Sime...

A fresh treatment of Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany, revealing the close ties between Mussolini and Hitler and their regimes From 1934 until 1944 Mussolini met Hitler numerous times, and the two developed a relationship that deeply affected both...

During the Second World War, approximately 1000 Christian chaplains accompanied Wehrmacht forces wherever they went, from Poland to France, Greece, North Africa, and the Soviet Union. Chaplains were witnesses to atrocity and by their presence helped...

The nineteenth century was a time of extraordinary scientific innovation, but with the rise of psychiatry, faiths and popular beliefs were often seen as signs of a diseased mind. By exploring the beliefs of asylum patients, we see the nineteenth century...

Beyond Empire looks at three decades of British colonial administration to assess the capacity of the independent governments of Africa to achieve independence. A wealth of archival material and a unique review of British press over those decades brings...

The perfect gift for history fans. Follow the conflict of World War 2 from 1939 to 1945 through a unique collection of historical maps, expert commentary and photographs. Published in association and including material from the archives of the...

'Engaging ... As each era superimposes itself on the ones before, he conjures up the vanished human history, hidden like the rivers flowing beneath, that is so much part of London's atmosphere' IRISH TIMES'Tantalisingly excellent' ISLINGTON TRIBUNEFrom...

For seventy years, Queen Elizabeth ruled over an institution and a family. During her lifetime she was constant in her desire to provide a steady presence and to be a trustworthy steward of the British people and the Commonwealth. In the face of her...

This book is the second of a series documenting a thousand years of selected London streets and their respective histories. Some of the streets have their roots and foundations in places of worship, locations for trading or because of their geographical...

A pioneering history of medical care in Stalin’s Gulag—showing how doctors and nurses cared for inmates in appalling conditions   A byword for injustice, suffering, and mass mortality, the Gulag exploited prisoners, compelling them to work harder for...

The Irish Civil War ended in 1923. Eighty years on, documentary-maker Tom Hurley wondered if there were many people left from across Ireland who experienced the years 1919 to 1923, their prelude and aftermath. In early 2003, he recorded the experiences...

What was the appeal of the values of the Revolution? When did disillusionment set in, and why? Why did so few women identify with the Revolution? These are some of the questions which recur in this fresh study which focuses on some of the major themes...

This is a political biography of William III (1650–1702): prince of Orange; stadhouder in the Netherlands from 1672; and (in a novel joint monarchy with his wife, Mary), king of England, Scotland, and Ireland after the revolution of 1688–9. William III...

The first major history of what happened in Germany immediately after the Second World War 'Frederick Taylor is one of the brightest historians writing today.' Newsweek 'Taylor's book is popular history at its best, essential reading for anyone who...

This book is a detailed history of the economic, educational and religious life of three contrasting communities, Chippenham, Orwell and Willingham in Cambridgeshire from 1525 to 1700. The three villages had very difference economic settings, in which...

An extremely well-preserved example of an Iron Age hillfort, Danebury is typical of many in Wessex but made exceptional by being the most thoroughly excavated and explored hillfort in the whole of Europe. Barry Cunliffe recreates the hillfort's past...

Halperin traces the persistence of traditional class structures during the development of industrial capitalism in Europe, and the way in which these structures shaped states and state behavior and generated conflict. She documents European conflicts...

In a unique application of critical theory to the study of the role of ideology in politics, Jeffrey Herf explores the paradox inherent in the German fascists' rejection of the rationalism of the Enlightenment while fully embracing modern technology. He...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781566565554Author Carl ShilletoFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Interlink BooksPublisher Interlink Publishing Group, Inc

This book provides a twenty-first century perspective on Roman Britain, combining current approaches with the wealth of archaeological material from the province. This volume introduces the history of research into the province and the cultural changes...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781872074726Author Rhona WilsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 52Imprint Stenlake PublishingPublisher Stenlake PublishingDimensions(mm) 170mm * 239mm * 6mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915113603Author Michael Fredholm Von EssenFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

Speakers' Corner is a unique look at the people who come to argue, discuss and preach at Speakers' Corner in London's Hyde Park, regarded worldwide as the home of free speech. Many of the photographs, taken on Sunday afternoons stretching back almost...

Just days into the miners' strike of 1984-1985, a few women in coalfield communities around Britain began to meet to consider how they could support the strike, a clash with the Thatcher government over the future of the coal industry. Women ultimately...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781857801958Author W. R ChorleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 504Imprint Midland PublishingPublisher Crecy PublishingDimensions(mm) 234mm * 156mm * 2mm

The story of the British army, from its inception in the late seventeenth century to the present. This new concise history by one of Britain's leading military historians explores the British army from the creation of a permanent standing army in the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911658191Author Robin JonesFormat HardbackPage Count 250Imprint Mortons Media GroupPublisher Mortons Media GroupWeight(grams) 534gDimensions(mm) 245mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780226792200Author Susan StewartFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint University of Chicago PressPublisher University of Chicago PressWeight(grams) 178g