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Queen Maria of Castile, wife of Alfonso V, "the Magnanimous," king of the Crown of Aragon, governed Catalunya in the mid-fifteenth century while her husband conquered and governed the kingdom of Naples. For twenty-six years, she maintained a...

Bette Oliver's book From Royal to National offers a comprehensive and innovative look into the effects of the French Revolution on the nation's culture and identity. As a direct result of the Revolution of 1789, institutions previously under the crown's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615193403Author F. Lestar MartinFormat HardbackPage Count 50Imprint F. Lestar MartinPublisher F. Lestar MartinWeight(grams) 544g

From bears on the Renaissance stage to the equine pageantry of the nineteenth-century hunt, animals have been used in human-orchestrated entertainments throughout history. The essays in this volume present an array of case studies that inspire new ways...

Beggars, outcasts, urchins, waifs, prostitutes, criminals, convicts, madmen, fallen women, lunatics, degenerates-part reality, part fantasy, these are the grotesque faces that populate the underworld, the dark inverse of our everyday world. Lurking in...

The liberation of Belgium by Allied troops in September 1944 marked the end of a harsh German Occupation, but also the beginning of a turbulent and decisive period in the history of the country. There would be no easy transition to peace. Instead, the...

These essays are dominated by Edmund Burke and by the accounts of the ways in which he and some of those that he influenced understood the revolutionary changes that produced the modern world. The issues of liberty and empire, faction and revolution,...

This engaging text offers a concise, readable description of our common Western heritage. Providing a tightly focused narrative and interpretive structure, Brian Pavlac covers the basic historical information that all educated adults should know. His...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781885942074Author Steven SchlesserFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Cune Press,USPublisher Cune Press,USWeight(grams) 444g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783832944940Author Kiran Klaus PatelFormat PaperbackPage Count 302Imprint Nomos VerlagsgesellschaftPublisher Nomos VerlagsgesellschaftWeight(grams) 454g

The seventeenth century was called the Dutch Golden Age. Over the course of eighty years, the tiny United Provinces of the Netherlands overthrew Spanish rule and became Europe's dominant power. Eventually, though, Dutch hegemony collapsed as quickly as...

The 2015 law granting Spanish nationality to the descendants of Jews expelled in 1492 is the latest example of a widespread phenomenon in contemporary Spain, the "re-discovery" of its Jewish heritage. In The Memory Work of Jewish Spain, Daniela Flesler...

The early modern period opened a new era in the history of dermal marking. Intensifying global travel and trade, especially the slave trade, bought diverse skin-marking practices into contact as never before. Stigma examines the distinctive skin cultures...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781942130833Author Elizabeth HorodowichFormat HardbackPage Count 464Imprint Zone BooksPublisher Zone BooksWeight(grams) 666g

The early modern period opened a new era in the history of dermal marking. Intensifying global travel and trade, especially the slave trade, bought diverse skin-marking practices into contact as never before. Stigma examines the distinctive skin cultures...

This lively text offers a brief history of Western civilization. Providing a focused narrative and interpretive structure, Brian Pavlac uses the joined terms “supremacies and diversities” to develop themes of conflict and creativity. His easily...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788788415780Author Soren H AndersenFormat HardbackPage Count 327Imprint Jysk Arkaeologisk SelskabPublisher Jysk Arkaeologisk Selskab

First published in 1921, Gilbert Murray's treatise considers a largely euro-centric foreign policy during the inter-war period. Believing passionately in the prospect of a Liberal England and the hope promised by the League of Nations, with Britain at...

This book examines the key relationship between Willy Brandt (the former Mayor of West Berlin and future West German Chancellor) and the administration of President John F. Kennedy. Arne Hofmann focuses on the administration's influence on the...

This book explores the main currents of European thought between 1350 and 1992, which it approaches in two main ways; culture as produced by place and the progressive unmooring of thought from previously set religious and philosophical boundaries. The...

This book analyses the institution and concept of dictatorship from a legal, historical and theoretical perspective, examining the different types of dictatorship, their relationship to the law, as well as the analytical value of the concept in...

Sound and statuary have had a complicated relationship in Western aesthetic thought since antiquity. Taking as its focus the sounding statue-a type of anthropocentric statue that invites the viewer to imagine any sounds the statue might make-Sculpted...

In Measuring Shadows, Raz Chen-Morris demonstrates that a close study of Kepler's Optics is essential to understanding his astronomical work and his scientific epistemology. He explores Kepler's radical break from scientific and epistemological...

In Measuring Shadows, Raz Chen-Morris demonstrates that a close study of Kepler's Optics is essential to understanding his astronomical work and his scientific epistemology. He explores Kepler's radical break from scientific and epistemological...

This volume is a compilation of articles written by renowned scholars and promising young researchers, in which the Jewish space is revealed as diverse forms of life and relations that developed in the rich context of urbanism, social life, leisure and...

A fresh perspective on the history of the radical left in inter-war ScotlandThis book presents a distinctive reading of inter-war Scottish politics, reinterpreting the consequences of the expanded electorate after 1918 by focusing on changing perceptions...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474484312Author Christine KellyFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University PressWeight(grams)...

The importance of oil for national military-industrial complexes appeared more clearly than ever in the Cold War. This volume argues that the confidential acquisition of geoscientific knowledge was paramount for states, not only to provide for their own...

This book reproduces more than 200 fascinating photographs of Stafford and the surrounding area including the villages of Gnosall, Haughton and Sandon. Many of these illustrations, which have been acquired from a wide variety of sources, have never been...

A ground-breaking volume which examins material in three languages - Welsh, English and Cherokee (Dsalagi) - while discussing different aspects of the missionary work of two Welsh Baptists who lived and worked amongst the native American tribe.Book...

This book narrates the history of Owain Myfyr (Owen Jones) - from his birth in Llanfihangel Glyn Myfyr in 1741 through to his death in London in 1814. It pays particular attention to his career as a literary sponsor. The book also explores the centrality...

A joint publication of the Gennadius Library and the Aikaterini Laskaridis Foundation, Ottoman Athens is the first volume to focus on the Ottoman presence in Athens. This collection of 12 essays explores the architecture, antiquities, cartography, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789462700789Author Vera HajtoFormat HardbackPage Count 298Imprint Leuven University PressPublisher Leuven University Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789058679505Author Tine van OsselaerFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Leuven University PressPublisher Leuven University Press

This volume focuses on the various Habsburg courts and households among the two branches of the dynasty that arose following the division of the territories originally held by Charles V. The authors trace the connections between these courtly communities...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789058678263Author Paula YatesFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Leuven University PressPublisher Leuven University Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789058678256Author Keith RobbinsFormat HardbackPage Count 248Imprint Leuven University PressPublisher Leuven University Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789052017525Author Ms Danielle de VooghtFormat PaperbackPage Count 285Imprint Presses Interuniversitaires EuropeennesPublisher Presses Interuniversitaires...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910634981Author Professor Jane FenoulhetFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint UCL PressPublisher UCL PressWeight(grams) 400g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910634301Author Professor Jane FenoulhetFormat PaperbackPage Count 234Imprint UCL PressPublisher UCL PressWeight(grams) 370g