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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474429290Author Gordon PentlandFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University PressWeight(grams)...

Examination of texts concerning the vikings reveals much about their origin myth and legend. Viking settlers and their descendants inhabited both England and Normandy in the tenth century, but narratives discussing their origins diverged significantly...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375711688Author Robert HughesFormat PaperbackPage Count 544Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 448gDimensions(mm) 202mm *...

This collection presents, for the first time in English, Jean-Francois Lyotard's major essays on film: 'Acinema', 'The Unconscious as Mise-en-scene', 'Two Metamorphoses of the Seductive in Cinema' and 'The Idea of a Sovereign Film'. Then, eight critical...

How can the concept of nostalgia illuminate the culturally specific ways in which societies understand the contested relationship between the past, present, and future? The word nostalgia was invented in the late seventeenth century to describe the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062471185Author Brad S GregoryFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint HarperOnePublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 249g

First study of James Macpherson (1736-1796) as an historian Situates Macpherson as a key figure of the Scottish Enlightenment, broadening our understanding of historiography and the relationship between history and fiction Explores Macpherson's...

The Dutch Revolt has long been hailed as the triumph of political freedom over monarchical tyranny. In 1781, John Adams observed that the American Revolution was its "transcript." Known for its many protagonists-King Philip II, the Duke of Alba, the...

Britain's Rottenest Years is not just a bad news story. It is a fantastically readable leapfrog through British history which takes us, via the interesting bits, from the misery of the Roman invasion of AD60 (when 50,000 Roman thugs invaded) to the...

In Capitalism and Cartography in the Dutch Golden Age, Elizabeth A. Sutton explores the fascinating but previously neglected history of corporate cartography during the Dutch Golden Age, from ca. 1600 to 1650. She examines how maps were used as...

Provides a wealth of detail on how "the wild geese" - the Irish who refused to submit to the English - played a significant role in the armies of Spain. It is well-known that many Irishmen who refused to submit to the English in the reigns of...

After completing his conquest of the Persian empire, Alexander the Great maneuvered his army across the Hindu Kush and into India. During his two years there, he traveled from dry frigid mountains to humid tropical lowlands and then back across one of...

In Hitler's Face Claudia Schmoelders reverses the normal protocol of biography: instead of using visual representations as illustrations of a life, she takes visuality as her point of departure to track Adolf Hitler from his first arrival in Munich as a...

How did the telegraph, a new and revolutionary form of communication, affect diplomats, who tended to resist change? In a study based on impressive multinational research, David Paull Nickles examines the critical impact of the telegraph on the diplomacy...

This book re-evaluates and extends understandings about how work was conceived and what it could entail for women in the premodern period in Europe from c. 1100 to c. 1800. It does this by building on the impressive growth in literature on women's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781725654228Author Captivating HistoryFormat PaperbackPage Count 74Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...

In recent years, organized crime has become endemic in the countries of southeast Europe giving rise to an urgent debate on what needs to be done to fight it. This collection of essays contributes directly to this debate. The discussions range over...

In recent years, organized crime has become endemic in the countries of southeast Europe giving rise to an urgent debate on what needs to be done to fight it. This collection of essays contributes directly to this debate. The discussions range over...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781546787211Author VariousFormat PaperbackPage Count 702Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781546741381Author Henry Smith Williams LLDFormat PaperbackPage Count 710Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908258304Author Stephen HardingFormat PaperbackPage Count 249Imprint University of Chester PressPublisher University of Chester Press

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798640897777Author Joe SciclunaFormat PaperbackPage Count 370Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedWeight(grams) 540g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781535535120Author Christopher BerryFormat PaperbackPage Count 356Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...

This highly original study brings together the disparate histories of murder and enlightenment, prostitution and the cult of nature, sodomy and sentimentalism in order to retell the story of the making of the modern self. It suggests that the history of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781985033092Author Zane GreyFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781540556448Author Robert E ConnollyFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307387509Author Mark MoleskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 455gDimensions(mm) 202mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781621386780Author Christopher DawsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 102Imprint Angelico PressPublisher Angelico PressWeight(grams) 118gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781519169952Author Hendrik Willem Van LoonFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781721029907Author Zane GreyFormat PaperbackPage Count 268Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908448941Author R.J. HunterFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint Ulster Historical FoundationPublisher Ulster Historical Foundation

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789087284510Author Philipp KrauerFormat PaperbackPage Count 236Imprint Leiden University PressPublisher Leiden University Press

This is the first English translation of Dom Jean Mabillon's treatise that defends the propriety of study and research as an occupation for monks, and lays out a course of studies for young Benedictines training to be scholars. In the 1680s the strict...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781647483609Author Captivating HistoryFormat HardbackPage Count 74Imprint Captivating HistoryPublisher Captivating HistoryWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781508710158Author Hendrik Willem Van LoonFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781540408877Author Robert E ConnollyFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781546741084Author Henry Smith Williams LLDFormat PaperbackPage Count 718Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace...