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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781932304329Author Judith A. RidnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 158Imprint Pennsylvania Historical AssociationPublisher Pennsylvania Historical...

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...

This new book investigates communist rule in East Germany from its establishment as a sphere of Soviet influence after World War II to its rapid collapse after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Using newly available archive material, the early chapters trace...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781840337235Author Peter MortimerFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Stenlake PublishingPublisher Stenlake Publishing

Engaging the Crusades is a series of volumes which offer windows into a newly emerging field of historical study: the memory and legacy of the crusades. Together these volumes examine the reasons behind the enduring resonance of the crusades and present...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789390961399Author Smita MishraFormat PaperbackPage Count 196Imprint Vitasta Publishing Pvt.LtdPublisher Vitasta Publishing Pvt.LtdWeight(grams)...

Oral traditions are historical sources of a special nature. Their special nature derives from the fact that they are "unwritten" sources couched in a form suitable for oral transmission, and that their preservation depends on the powers of memory of...

This book provides an accessible introduction for students and anyone interested in increasing their enjoyment of Greek tragic plays. Whether readers are studying Greek culture, performing a Greek tragedy, or simply interested in reading a Greek play,...

Real war is a cruel theater of death, yet it is also an exciting narrative exploited for national, political and commercial purposes and turned into numerous films, television shows, computer games, news stories and reenactment plays. These essays...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780244455590Author Dennis CrosbyFormat PaperbackPage Count 90Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.comWeight(grams) 210g

Edinburgh is one of the most beautiful cities in the world - with one of the darkest histories on record. Sweeping through the centuries in a blood-soaked catalogue of assaults, assassinations and all-out attempts at annihilation, this volume reveals the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781840339420Author Arthur W.J.G. Ord-HumeFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Stenlake PublishingPublisher Stenlake Publishing

Murder and ghosts go hand-in-hand and vengeful spectres seeking justice or haunting the scene of the crime or their killers have adorned the pages of literature since before Shakespeare. This chilling collection of true-crime tales dating from the...

The Unification of Italy in the nineteenth century was the unlikely result of a lengthy and complex process of Italian revival (Risorgimento). Few Italians supported Unification and the new rulers of Italy were unable to resolve their disputes with the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781840338270Author John HoodFormat PaperbackPage Count 56Imprint Stenlake PublishingPublisher Stenlake PublishingDimensions(mm) 175mm * 240mm * 4mm

This is the first history of epidemics in South Africa, lethal episodes that significantly shaped this society over three centuries. Focusing on five devastating diseases between 1713 and today-smallpox, bubonic plague, "Spanish influenza," polio, and...

This book explores sixteenth-century German attitudes during a time of social, political and religious upheaval. It focuses on how medieval and fifteenth-century images of Islam, Saracens and the early Ottoman Empire evolved in incunabula print and...

'Almost alone among contemporary critics, Tzvetan Todorov has chosen to apply his prodigious talents to the literature of twentieth-century totalitarianism. His unique gift is his ability to elucidatethe memoirs and writings of some of the century's...

This title, first published in 1981, draws from an extensive range of national and local material, and examines how innovations in policy and administration, while solving problems or setting new objectives, frequently created or disclosed fresh...

The First British Empire is an authoritative, highly readable and substantial account of the origins, growth and transformation of the British Empire from its European beginnings until the aftermath of the American Revolution. Taking a regional and...

'Carefully compiled' in 1867 'from prison documents, ancient papers, and other authentic sources,' this extremely rare book contains the full details of the crimes, trials and executions of every murderer, highwayman, rogue and rebel ever to swing from...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995779563Author Mark BridgemanFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Watermill BooksPublisher Watermill Books

This is Ron Davies's seventh book about the Black Country townships of Bilston, Bradley & Ladymoor. The area has a rich industrial heritage, which forged a strong sense of community among its residents, many of whom worked in the factories, foundries and...

Robert Woodhouse describes people, places and incidents in County Durham that are unusual, odd or extraordinary.About the AuthorRobert Woodhouse began researching the history of north-east England in the 1960s. He has nineteen books on the area to his...

The Swiss Reformation was a seminal event of the sixteenth century which created a Protestant culture whose influence spread across Europe from Transylvania to Scotland. Offers the first comprehensive study of the Swiss Reformation and argues that the...

Republished in 1949, Jacob Burckhardt's brilliant study, first published in Germany in 1852, has survived all its critics and presents today perhaps a more intelligible and a more valid picture of events, their nexus, and their relevance than any later...

Brierley Hill is one of the heavily industrialised towns that make up the region known as the Black Country. Like many such towns it can easily be divided into many smaller communities that, while being part of Brierley Hill, have quite an independent...

It has been asserted that the Boeing NB-52B Stratofortress, carrying Air Force serial 52-0008, can lay claim to being the airplane that has seen and participated in more history than any other single airplane. For forty-five years, the NB-52B was a...

This Companion volume provides a comprehensive overview of the major themes and topics pertinent to ancient Greek law. A substantial introduction establishes the recent historiography on this topic and its development over the last 30 years. Many of the...

The midlife crisis has become a cliche in modern society. Since the mid-twentieth century, the term has been used to explain infidelity in middle-aged men, disillusionment with personal achievements, the pain and sadness associated with separation and...

History has always been more than just the past. It involves a relationship between past and present, perceived, on the one hand, as a temporal chain of events and, on the other, symbolically as an interpretation that gives meaning to these events...

This concise study of Ireland's revolutionary years charts the demise of the home rule movement and the rise of militant nationalism that led eventually to the partition of Ireland and independence for southern Ireland. The book provides a clear...

Science Communication in a Crisis: An Insider's Guide identifies the principal challenges that scientists face when communicating with different stakeholder groups and offers advice on how to navigate the maze of competing interests and deliver...

Revisits the life of the people, and the places in which they lived, that have shaped Crickhowell and the surrounding area over the past 100 years. This collection documents the vanished world of this once-bustling valley and will interest those who want...

The Fault Lines of Empire is a fascinating comparative study of two communities in the early modern British Empire--one in Massachusetts, the other in Nova Scotia. Elizabeth Mancke focuses on these two locations to examine how British attempts at...

`The Empire Strikes Back' will inject the empire back into the domestic history of modern Britain. In the nineteenth century and for much of the twentieth century, Britain's empire was so large that it was truly the global superpower. Much of Africa,...

On `What is History?' provides a student introduction to contemporary historiographical debates.Carr and Elton are still the starting point for the vast majority of introductory courses on the nature of history. Building on his highly successful...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780932813046Author David Hatcher ChildressFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Adventures Unlimited PressPublisher Adventures Unlimited PressWeight(grams)...