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Originally published between 1920 and 1970,The History of Civilization was a landmark in early twentieth century publishing. It was published at a formative time within the social sciences, and during a period of decisive historical discovery. The aim of...

The Catholic Reformation provides a comprehensive history of the 'Counter Reformation in early modern Europe. Starting from the middle ages, Michael Mullett clearly traces the continuous transformation of the Catholic religion in its structures, bodies...

Peter Burke follows up his magisterial Social History of Knowledge, picking up where the first volume left off around 1750 at the publication of the French Encyclopedie and following the story through to Wikipedia. Like the previous volume, it offers a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999833018Author Bill BodriFormat PaperbackPage Count 172Imprint Top Shape Publishing LLCPublisher Top Shape Publishing LLCWeight(grams) 236g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781786294357Author Andrew G. PatersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 778Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

Relatively little has been written about how ballet teachers become teachers themselves and how each generation passes on its experience to the next. The teacher-dancer relationship within the context of the Russian classical tradition is a theme of "A...

'Barbarians' is the name the Romans gave to those who lived beyond the frontiers of the Roman Empire - the peoples they considered 'uncivilised'. Most of the written sources concerning the barbarians come from the Romans too, and as such, need to be...

A leading intellectual member of France's Freudian school, Michel de Certeau combined principles from the disciplines of religion, history, and psychoanalysis in order to redefine historiography and rethink the categories of history. In The Writing of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995697713Author Roger HoldenFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint Roger N. HoldenPublisher Roger N. HoldenWeight(grams) 292g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781903953143Author Mike ReadFormat PaperbackPage Count 374Imprint Woodfield PublishingPublisher Woodfield PublishingWeight(grams) 922gDimensions(mm) 274mm *...

In The Barber of Natchez, Edwin Adams Davis and William Ransom Hogan tell the remarkable story of William Johnson, a slave who rose to freedom, business success, and high community standing in the heart of the South, all before 1850. Emancipated as a...

The success of the First Crusade, and its capture of Jerusalem in 1099, has been conventionally explained in terms of its ideological and political motivation. This book looks at the First Crusade primarily as a military campaign and asks why it was so...

Expertly renders the furious ebb and flow of the two-day battleExpertly renders the furious ebb and flow of the two-day battleAbout the AuthorPeter Cozzens is a foreign service officer with the U.S. Department of State and the author of No Better Place...

Hugh Crow was the captain of a slave-trading vessel which made one of the last legal journeys across the Atlantic with its 'human cargo'. This is a highly engaging, rare, first-hand account written by a staunch defender of the slave trade. Crow depicts...

This book is part of the Images of England series, which uses old photographs and archived images to show the history of Crewe's Pubs.Book InformationISBN 9780752432540Author Howard CurranFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint The History Press...

Useful Toil engages freshly and directly with the `ordinary' people of the nineteenth century. John Burnett has assembled twenty seven telling extracts from the diaries and autobiographies of working people - wheelwrights and stone-masons, miners and...

The graphic history of the Nazi attempt to destroy the Jews of Europe during the Second World War is illustrated in this series of 333 detailed maps. The maps, and the text and photographs that accompany them, powerfully depict the fate of the Jews...

Analyzes the Frenchman's unique national identity, attitudes towards foreigners, education, and intellectual and cultural development from the late 1840's through the 1900's.Book InformationISBN 9780192851062Author Theodore ZeldinFormat PaperbackPage...

Riversdale Robert 'Barney' Barnfather was an RAF fighter pilot who flew Spitfires in action almost continuously from November 1941 until the end of the war in Europe. Barney was often in the thick of the fighting and saw action in the offensive sweeps...

Dispelling the romanticized myths surrounding pirates, Pennell's edited collection provides a corrective history of bandits at sea The romantic fiction of pirates as swashbuckling marauders terrorizing the high seas has long eclipsed historical fact...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780954446178Author Kenna RudolphFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Fort Publishing LtdPublisher Fort Publishing Ltd

Dividing the nation and causing massive political change, the English Civil War remains one of the most decisive and dramatic conflicts of English history. Lawrence Stone's account of the factors leading up to the deposition of Charles I in 1642 is...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060686611Author Karen Jo TorjesenFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint HarperOnePublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 224gDimensions(mm)...

Creating the Opium War examines British imperial attitudes towards China during their early encounters from the Macartney embassy to the outbreak of the Opium War - a deeply consequential event which arguably reshaped relations between China and the West...

Why is postmodernist discourse so biased against the Enlightenment? Indeed, postmodern theory challenges the validity of the rational basis of modern historical scholarship and the Enlightenment itself. Rather than avoiding this conflict, the...

Darfield and Wombwell Then & Now offers the reader a comprehensive overview of life as it has changed from the coalmining communities of decades past through to the modern developments of the present day. The coal mines are long gone but have not been...

This textbook serves as an introduction to the extraordinary diversity of women's activism. The author's original research is supported by a range of writing to provide a powerful impression of the actions taken by groups of women from across the social...

What did Queen Victoria have for dinner? And how did this compare with the meals of the poor in the nineteenth century? This classic account of English food habits since the industrial revolution answers these questions and more.Reviews`Gives a most...

The power of the popular press presents all modern societies with difficulties. It is, however, a problem with a history: the hold of the press over public opinion was debated with urgency throughout the 19th century. This book looks at the ways in...

Step behind the scenes of the biggest mystery of the British Isles Loch Ness is one of the most popular visitor sites in the world. Its stunning beauty draws many, but far more come to experience the mystery of the monster that may lurk in its waters...

In 1870 the German Chancellor Otto von Bismarck ordered the Prussian Army to invade France, inciting one of the most dramatic conflicts in European history. It transformed not only the states-system of the European continent but the whole climate of...

W.A. Camps' four-volume edition of Propertius' Elegies was originally published by Cambridge University Press. Books II and III were later reissued by Bristol Classical Press, now an imprint of Bloomsbury. Book II, the longest, is commonly regarded as...

Many towns and cities expanded and went through continuous redevelopment during the 19th and 20th centuries, and Wolverhampton was one of these, losing a lot of historic buildings. Fortunately, at the end of the 1970s, Wolverhampton Council stepped in to...

The Byzantine Empire, fragmented and enfeebled by the Fourth Crusade in 1204, never again recovered its former extent, power and influence. Its greatest revival came when the Byzantines in exile reclaimed their capital city of Constantinople in 1261 and...

The importance of the themes of rulership and rebellion in the history of the Anglo-Norman world between 1066 and the early thirteenth century is incontrovertible. The power, government, and influence of kings, queens and other lords pervaded and...

We've all been taught about kings and queens, great battles and the rise and fall of empires. The term historians have coined for this is 'history from above'. But what about the ordinary folk? What about almost everybody who ever existed? What about the...

In the second half of the nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth century a variety of forces emerged which changed society in many profound and subtle ways. The Making of Modern English Society from 1850 uses the findings of recent...

Graham Greene saw the Castros rise; Sarah Rainsford watched them leave. From the street where Wormold, the hapless hero of Greene's Our Man in Havana, plied his trade, BBC foreign correspondent Rainsford reports on Fidel's reshaping of a nation, and...

Graham Greene saw the Castros rise; Sarah Rainsford watched them leave. From the street where Wormold, the hapless hero of Greene's Our Man in Havana, plied his trade, BBC foreign correspondent Rainsford reports on Fidel's reshaping of a nation, and...

"Cartoon History of the Modern World" is a wickedly funny take on modern history. In two volumes of engaging and witty graphics, Larry Gonick covers the history, personalities, and big topics that have shaped our universe over the past five centuries...