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The Routledge History of Witchcraft is a comprehensive and interdisciplinary study of the belief in witches from antiquity to the present day, providing both an introduction to the subject of witchcraft and an overview of the on-going debates.This...

This title is the first study to relate the history and contemporary role of the South East Asian monarchy to the politics of the region today. Comprehensive & up-to-date, Monarchy in South East Asia features an historical and political overview of ...

We are in the midst of a digital revolution - until recently, the majority of appliances used in everyday life have been developed with analogue technology. Now, either at home or out and about, we are surrounded by digital technology such as digital...

Making England, 796-1042 explores the creation and establishment of the kingdom of England and the significant changes that led to it becoming one of the most successful and sophisticated political structures in the western world by the middle of the...

Follow in the footsteps of royalty past and present on this journey through England's capital and beyond to Kew, Hampton Court and Windsor. London has a charm that draws visitors from home and abroad who are looking to explore what England's capital city...

The Covenanter was intended to be the main equipment of the Armoured Divisions during the early years of the Second World War, and was a generally reliable tank that was well suited to its primary task of home defence. Due to a rather convoluted series...

The search for gold and for the mythical El Dorado gripped the imagination of the conquistadors from the beginning of the sixteenth century. Crossing over the Andes, they explored the unknown eastern forests and jungles, launching expeditions that were...

Stalinism is a provocative addition to the current debates related to the history of the Stalinist period of the Soviet Union. Sheila Fitzpatrick has collected together the newest and the most exciting work by young Russian, American and European...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781900318457Author Peter BrearsFormat HardbackPage Count 280Imprint Excellent PressPublisher Excellent PressDimensions(mm) 240mm * 160mm * 20mm

The most devastating economic crash in modern times ushered in the Great Depression of the 1930s, which turned the lives of ordinary Americans upside down and left an indelible mark on the nation's psyche. In this lively and incisive history, acclaimed...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781841517209Author Chris MakepeaceImprint Alan Godfrey MapsPublisher Alan Godfrey Maps

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908326270Author Eugene ByrneFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Redcliffe Press LtdPublisher Redcliffe Press LtdDimensions(mm) 210mm * 210mm * 10mm

Historians not only have knowledge of history, but by writing about it and engaging with other historians from the past and present, they make history themselves. This companion offers young historians clear guidelines for the different phases of...

This book tells a true detective story set mainly in Elizabethan London during the years of cold war just before the Armada of 1588. The mystery is the identity of a spy working in a foreign embassy to frustrate Catholic conspiracy and propaganda aimed...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913336615Author Mark ShearwoodFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

When Henry VIII died in 1547 he left a church in England that had broken with Rome - but was it Protestant? The English Reformation was quite different in its methods, motivations and results to that taking place on the continent.This book: * examines...

In a stunning work combining historical memory, legal ambiguity, and profound issues of justice, J. Kenneth Brody provides a picture of France in World War II that continues to haunt the present. Architect in 1940 of Marshal Petain's Vichy French regime...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995450240Author Christopher GoddardFormat PaperbackPage Count 19Imprint Christopher GoddardPublisher Christopher Goddard

Written from the perspective of the factory worker and peasant at the ground level, this study of Russia during the Revolution 1917-21 aims to shed light on the realities of living through and participating in these tumultuous events. The book is...

Leatherhead (Archive Photographs)Book InformationISBN 9780752407005Author Linda HeathFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint The History Press LtdPublisher The History Press Ltd

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...

In The Balkan Wars 1912-1913, Richard Hall examines the origins, the enactment and the resolution of the Balkan Wars, during which the Ottoman Empire fought a Balkan coalition of Bulgaria, Greece, Montenegro and Serbia.The Balkan Wars of 1912 - 1913...

Brzezinski provides a stark and realistic look at the world's economy and moral crisis in a brilliant analysis of today's geopolitical order.Book InformationISBN 9780684826363Author Zbigniew BrzezinskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint...

In this companion volume to Useful Toil, John Burnett has drawn extensively on over eight hundred previously unpublished manuscripts. The result is a unique record of childhood that reveals in intimate detail the trials and hard-won triumphs of...

This selection of over 200 old photographs of Rossendale has been chosen from the extensive archives in Bacup, Haslingdon, Rawtenstall and Whitworth libraries by the author who spent many years as the Reference Librarian. The area covered by the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999001615Author S T SanchezFormat PaperbackPage Count 274Imprint Pampered Cat PressPublisher Pampered Cat PressWeight(grams) 404gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

A History of the Sudan by Martin Daly and PM Holt, sixth edition, has been fully revised and updated and covers the most recent developments that have occurred in Sudan over the last nine years, including the crisis in Darfur.The most notable...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911043034Author Dane LoveFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Carn Publishing ltdPublisher Carn Publishing ltd

Combining original research with the latest scholarship Warfare and Society in Europe, 1792 - 1914 examines war and its aftermath from Napoleonic times to the outbreak of the First World War. Throughout, this fine book treats warfare as a social and...

Includes airfields and landing grounds such as RAF Fairwood Common, RAF Pembrey, Castle Martin, Ilford Haven fuel depot, RAF Dale, Picton Castle Camp cubstrip, RAF Havefordwest, RAF St David's and RAF Aberporth. This book covers the west and combines the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995450233Author Christopher GoddardFormat PaperbackPage Count 12Imprint Christopher GoddardPublisher Christopher GoddardWeight(grams) 110g

The Rise of Professional Society lays out a stimulating and controversial framework for the study of British society, challenging accepted paradigms based on class analysis. Perkins argues that the non-capitalist "professional class" represents a new...

The A43 Black Prince arose from the need for a "Super Churchill," armed with the powerful 17 pounder anti-tank gun that could augment the firepower of the standard Churchills within the tank brigades. The resulting machine would prove to be...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781623170165Author Paul BruntonFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint North Atlantic Books,U.S.Publisher North Atlantic Books,U.S.Weight(grams)...

Through analysis of the life and writings of eighteenth-century Quaker artist and author Mary Knowles, Judith Jennings uncovers concrete but complex examples of how gender functioned in family, social, and public contexts during the Georgian Age...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781608742400Author Ralph Vaughan WilliamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 52Imprint Serenissima MusicPublisher Serenissima MusicWeight(grams) 145gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781451656497Author Peter PringleFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & Schuster

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780953478033Author Susan GlaspellFormat PaperbackImprint Persephone Books LtdPublisher Persephone Books LtdDimensions(mm) 180mm * 140mm * 31mm

The idea of progress from the Enlightenment to postmodernism is still very much with us. In intellectual discourse, journals, popular magazines, and radio and talk shows, the debate between those who are "progressivists" and those who are "declinists" is...

This title, first published in 1969, is concerned with historic documents and their uses, and with a discussion of living standards among the peasants, as it is the author's belief that any worthwhile discussion is impossible without an understanding of...