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In one of his most important books, the renowned historian Eugene D. Genovese examines slave revolts in the United States, the Caribbean, and Brazil, placing them in the context of modern world history. By studying the conditions that favoured these...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679776307Author Leo BraudyFormat PaperbackPage Count 720Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 735gDimensions(mm) 202mm * 131mm...

This book presents the collectors' roles as prominently as the collections of books and texts which they assembled. Contributors explore the activities and networks shaping a range of continental and transcontinental European public and private...

Corpses in the street! The Black Death decimates Bristol. A stomach full of arsenic! Poisoned puddings and merry murderers. Take that you brute! Suffragettes attack Winston Churchill. Bombs drop on Bristol! Blackouts and the blitz. Bristol has one of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993088483Author Sacha LlewellynFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Liss LlewellynPublisher Liss Llewellyn

The Black Country has more miles of canal than Venice. During the industrial revolution this transport system developed to serve the steel, coal, lime and glass industries that grew up so extensively. Now much of the area's heavy industry has...

The Russian Revolution dismantled the ancient Tsarist autocracy and led to the rise of the Soviet Union. The Russian Empire collapsed with the abdication of Emperor Nicholas II and the old regime was replaced in February 1917. In the second revolution...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781857944556Author David MatherFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Silver Link BooksPublisher Mortons Media Group

New York Times bestseller and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Gordon S. Wood elucidates the debates over the founding documents of the United States. The half century extending from the imperial crisis between Britain and its colonies in the 1760s to...

We Die Alone recounts one of the most exciting escape stories to emerge from the challenges and miseries of World War II. In March 1943, a team of expatriate Norwegian commandos sailed from northern England for Nazi-occupied arctic Norway to organize and...

1. This book has a multi-disciplinary market, across criminology, law, socio-legal studies, history and social work. 2. This book has potential as supplementary reading across a range of popular teaching topics in criminology and law, including sexual...

The second edition of Steven Ellis's formidable work represents not only a survey, but also a critique of traditional perspectives on the making of modern Ireland. It explores Ireland both as a frontier society divided between English and Gaelic worlds,...

While chronicling the development of Teer's National Black Theatre of Harlem, this study explores the National Black Theatre's quest to develop a new black theory of acting. Teer's theory of performance was realized in a theater that combined elements of...

The Frontier area of northern England is the most important and reliable source for archaeologists in existence. The perpetuation of the Roman imperial ideal, the survival of classical art and literature, and the spread of the Christian faith depended on...

Life in the largely rural county of Dorset has not always been idyllic, for over the years it has experienced numerous murders, some of which are little known outside the county borders, others that have shocked the nation. These include arguments...

A history of the Grand Pavilion Porthcawl.Book InformationISBN 9780752432564Author I M MorganFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint The History Press LtdPublisher The History Press LtdWeight(grams) 300gDimensions(mm) 235mm * 156mm * 9mm

The centuries after the end of Roman control of Britain in AD 410 are some of the most vital in Britain's history - yet some of the least understood. "Warlords" brings to life a world of ambition, brutality and violence in a politically fragmented land,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781840334852Author George RountreeFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Stenlake PublishingPublisher Stenlake PublishingDimensions(mm) 272mm * 210mm * 7mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781780915869Author Shaun KnappFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint JMD MediaPublisher JMD Media

The Irish have always been proud of their contribution to Manchester. Alan Keegan and Danny Claffey's Irish Manchester: A Third Selection combines many previously unpublished photographs with well-researched captions to create a fascinating picture of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781845276843Author Myrddin ap DafyddFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Gwasg Carreg GwalchPublisher Gwasg Carreg Gwalch

The Picts were a sophisticated and powerful people who dominated much of what is now Scotland for hundreds of years, before uniting with the Gaels to form the nation of Alba (later Scotland). Their language has all but disappeared, but their cultural...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781840334494Author Arthur W. J. G. Ord-HumeFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint Stenlake PublishingPublisher Stenlake PublishingDimensions(mm) 273mm *...

In 1900, Billingham was a rural community with a history going back over 1,000 years. This fascinating collection of over 200 archive photographs celebrates more than a century of history: beginning in the very earliest days of photography, it moves from...

It will be indispensable reading for those who wish to understand the bloody birth of independent Ireland." Michael Laffan, Irish Historical Studies "Michael Hopkinson has finally broken the taboo on research into this crucial event in Irish...

This comprehensive and beautifully illustrated collection of essays conveys a vivid picture of a fascinating and hugely significant period in history. Featuring contributions from thirty-eight international scholars, the book takes a thematic approach to...

From Reliable Sources is a lively introduction to historical methodology, an overview of the techniques historians must master in order to reconstruct the past. Its focus on the basics of source criticism, rather than on how to find references or on the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781840334876Author Linda FitzpatrickFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Stenlake PublishingPublisher Stenlake PublishingDimensions(mm) 272mm * 209mm * 7mm

Ruth Winstone retells Britain's history through the great diarists of the last century, drawing back the curtain on the lives of political classes, their doubts, ambitions, and emotions. She moves deftly among those in the thick of it, showing the...

Immigration, ethnicity, multiculturalism and racism have become part of daily discourse in Britain in recent decades - yet, far from being new, these phenomena have characterised British life since the 19th century. While the numbers of immigrants...

SEX IN HISTORY chronicles the pleasures- and perils- of the flesh from the time of mankind's distant ancestors to the modern day; from a sexual act which was bried, crude and purposeful, to the myriad varieties of contemporary sexual mores.Reay...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781840338508Author Paul ChrystalFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Stenlake PublishingPublisher Stenlake PublishingDimensions(mm) 273mm * 210mm * 5mm

Ardkinglas is a 45,000-acre estate in Cairndow, a beautiful area of the Highlands at the head of Loch Fyne. Sir Andrew Noble, the author's great-grandfather, bought the estate in 1905 and his family have run it ever since. The estate has become famous...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780670090303Author Vikram SampathFormat HardbackPage Count 624Imprint Penguin VikingPublisher Penguin Random House India

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782080428455Author Hubert SagnieresFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint FlammarionPublisher Editions FlammarionWeight(grams) 3000g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780900588341Author Rene GuenonFormat PaperbackPage Count 188Imprint Sophia Perennis et UniversalisPublisher Sophia Perennis et UniversalisWeight(grams) 284g

"Swords and lances, arrows, machine guns and even high explosives have had far less power over the fate of nations than the typhus louse, the plague flea and the yellow-fever mosquito." Both shocking and entertaining, this masterpiece of popular...

Colonialism and Homosexuality is a thorough investigation of the connections of homosexuality and imperialism from the late 1800s - the era of 'new imperialism' - until the era of decolonization. Robert Aldrich reconstructs the context of a number of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780227179390Author John M RistFormat PaperbackPage Count 246Imprint James Clarke CompanyPublisher James Clarke CompanyWeight(grams) 762g

The ability to view recorded moving pictures has had a major impact on human culture since the development of the necessary technologies over a century ago. For most of this time people have gone to the movies to be entertained and perhaps edified, but...