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In Domesticating the Empire, Julia Clancy-Smith and Frances Gouda bring together twelve essays - most of them original - that probe issues of gender, race, and power in the French and Dutch Empires of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.Book...

The Vikings are well-known for their violent raids and pillage, but they also had a well-organised system for political decision-making, legal cases and conflict resolution.These activities took place at outdoor assembly sites, such as Thingvellir in...

Did you know the name Jessica was first used in "The Merchant of Venice"? Or that Freud's idea of a healthy sex life came from Shakespeake? Nearly four hundred years after his death, Shakespeare permeates our everyday lives: from the words we speak to...

From a wealth of vivid autobiographical writings, Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie reconstructs the extraordinary life of Thomas Platter and the lives of his sons. With masterful erudition, Le Roy Ladurie deepens and expands the historical contexts of these...

No human society has ever been perfect, a fact that has led thinkers as far back as Plato and St. Augustine to conceive of utopias both as a fanciful means of escape from an imperfect reality and as a useful tool with which to design improvements upon it...

Trowbridge VoicesBook InformationISBN 9780752416441Author Ruth MarshallFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint NPI Media GroupPublisher The History Press Ltd

Trowbridge VoicesBook InformationISBN 9780752416441Author Ruth MarshallFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint NPI Media GroupPublisher The History Press Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400031764Author Joshua GilderFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

"A History of Wales 1660-1815" is the second volume of a trilogy on the history of Wales from 1485 to 1906. Beginning with the political activity of the period, the author traces developments in education, the religious explosion of the Methodist...

Anti-Semitism and Islamophobia are on the rise in twenty-first-century Europe, but these notions of the malevolent, conspiring Jew or Muslim are far more than a medieval trope. Over the last millennium, deep currents of exclusion have shaped not only...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781637480199Author Heather LynnFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint New Page Books,USPublisher Red Wheel/Weiser

In June 1609, two judges left Bordeaux for a territory at the very edge of their jurisdiction, a Basque-speaking province on the Atlantic coast called the Pays de Labourd. In four months, they executed up to 80 women and men for the crime of witchcraft,...

'Sumption is that rare and precious thing: a serious, decent, honest thinker . . . and one of our finest historians.' Dan Jones, Sunday Times'Gripping and eminently readable . . . a compelling justification for the enduring value of historical narrative...

This is the first book-length study of James Macpherson (1736-1796) that considers him as an historian. From his early poetry, to the Ossianic Collections, his prose histories, and his later political writing, Macpherson's subject was the past and he...