General

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781946145321Author Isaac WattsFormat PaperbackPage Count 154Imprint CuriosmithPublisher CuriosmithWeight(grams) 236gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 9mm

This edition of Houston Stewart Chamberlain's Politische Ideale (1915) reveals the historical significance of Chamberlain in German conservative political philosophy. Contrasting the vital nationalistic state with the sterile commercialism of liberal...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781291986419Author Graham WatkinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 381Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.com

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781291986419Author Graham WatkinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 381Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.com

Bringing together subjects such as culture, religion, morals, politics, economics, and mentality, Perkin presents and applies a holistic concept of social history in the tradition of great historians of the past. In this classic text of social history,...

In the middle of the 19th century a new value began to appear in Western Europe - the belief that (in the words of Matthew Arnold) 'the exercise of a creative activity is the true function of man'. This book gives an account of the stages by which, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780955200922Author June WhiteheadFormat PaperbackPage Count 50Imprint Handstand PressPublisher Handstand Press

Fascism in Europe, 1919-1945 surveys the phenomenon which is still the object of interest and debate over fifty years after its defeat in the Second World War. It introduces the recent scholarship and continuing debates on the nature of fascism as well...

Tens of thousands of US soldiers and untold millions of Koreans died in this war the first major arena of the East-West conflict. This concise international history of the war offers a new approach to its understanding, tracing its origins and dynamics...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345806314Author Craig ChildsFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA Inc

The daring flights of the early balloonists that were the first steps on mankind's upward journey to the Moon and beyond have been strangely neglected, and their names have been largely forgotten. This book helps to redress that situation. James...

In the French Revolution, Jocelyn Hunt examines the major issues and background to the revolution, including its causes, and disputes as to when it ended. The author also surveys the views of historians on this period and looks at wider questions such as...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062061027Author Emory M. ThomasFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 348g

Examines the impact of World War Two across Huntingdonshire. This book charts activities and attitudes at the outbreak of war. It describes the county's experience of bombing, looks at airfields and path finders, RAF Bomber Command, USAAF at Molesworth...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789189069770Author Hew StrachanFormat HardbackPage Count 380Imprint Stolpe PublishingPublisher Stolpe PublishingWeight(grams) 1100g

The Liber legis Scaniae: The Latin Text with Introduction, Translation and Commentaries forms the second volume of The Danish Medieval Laws and is dedicated to the Latin text based on the Danish medieval Law of Scania. Also known as the "Old laws of...

The Soviet Union in World Politics provides an introductory history of Soviet foreign policy and international relations from 1945 to the end of the Cold War and the break up of the USSR. The book summarizes historical and political controversies about...

Originally published 1979 The Scientific Revolution in Victorian Medicine looks at the discovery of inhalation anaesthesia in 1846, and how it began a new era in surgery. The book looks at James Young Simpson's demonstration of the value of chloroform as...

Machon was a writer of Comedies who lived and worked in Alexandria in the middle of the third century B.C. All of his work that survives is preserved in the Deipnosophistae of Athenaeus who, besides two fragments of Comedies of no great importance,...

A Social History of Medicine traces the development of medical practice from the Industrial Revolution right through to the twentieth century.Drawing on a wide range of source material, it charts the changing relationship between patients and...

Think history is dull? No way, and you're about to find out for yourself. A PEOPLE AND A NATION offers a lively narrative, telling the stories of the diverse peoples in the United States. The authors bring history to life by encouraging you to imagine...

Yugoslavia: A History of its Demise is a new history of the disintegration and collapse of the former Yugoslavia. Commencing with the death of Tito, Meier presents an insider's guide to all the regions of Yugoslavia, including Macedonia, and in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865434127Author Molara Ogundipe-LeslieFormat PaperbackPage Count 262Imprint Africa Research & PublicationsPublisher Africa World PressWeight(grams) 330g

Rustington, a village on the Sussex plain between the South Downs and the sea, has a long history, which has been dramatically transformed over the past century. This book recounts its story, from its earliest inhabitants, and in a wealth of historic...

At the start of the Second World War, Britain was at the height of its imperial power, and it is no surprise that it drew upon the global resources of the Empire once war had been declared. Whilst this international aspect of Britain's war effort has...

Poignant in its honesty and grim in its details, Escape from Sobibor offers stunning proof of resistance--in this case successful--by victims of the Holocaust. The smallest of the extermination camps operated by Nazi Germany during World War II, Sobibor...

Intelligence agency veteran and journalist Edward Hunter shares the experiences of men he interviewed who were subject to brainwashing as prisoners in totalitarian communist societies. A shocking yet informative expose of the history and techniques of...

Published on the quatercentenary of the Mayflower's journey, this book offers a unique perspective by placing the story in a British context and providing a fresh analysis of why the journey took place. It explores the economic as well as the religious...

Beginning with Native American stories, this invaluable resource provides hands-on activities that inspire children to understand and appreciate Native American cultures and the Earth.Book InformationISBN 9781555913854Author Joseph BruchacFormat...

Voices of Geordie Childhood is a remarkable compilation of oral history extracts drawn from the extensive Beamish Museum Audio Archive, revealing what childhood was like as recalled by over one hundred Tynesiders born at the turn of the century and...

In January 2007, the young and optimistic soldiers of the 2-16, the American infantry battalion known as the Rangers, were sent to Iraq as part of the surge. Their job would be to patrol one of the most dangerous areas of Baghdad.For fifteen months,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780906479049Author Susan N. NicholsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint National Museums & Galleries on MerseysidePublisher National Museums & Galleries...

The carefully curated readings in Black Rhetorical Traditions in the Civil Rights Movement: Voices of Struggle and Strength guide students through troubled times and show how the Black rhetorical tradition both informed and empowered African Americans...

Maria Montoya Laura A. Belmonte Carl J. Guarneri Ellen Hartigan-O'Connor Steven Hackel Lon Kurashige America's national experience and collective history have always been subject to transnational forces and affected by global events and conditions. In...

After the Great Spirits created the world, the Trickster fooled the Pte Oyate (Buffalo Nation) into leaving the Underworld. They became the Ordinary People and needed help to survive. Tatanka, the holy man, turned himself into a Buffalo and sacrificed...

Gwinnett County, northeast of Atlanta, Georgia, has been one of the fastest growing counties in the nation since the 1980s. Nobody walking the unpaved county roads could have imagined that, two centuries after its founding, it would become the...

Jean Stubbs has published widely on Cuba, with a specialist interest in tobacco, class, race, gender, nation and migration. In 1985 she established her place as a pre-eminent historian of Cuban tobacco with the publication of Tobacco on the Periphery (a...

America�s national experience and collective history have always been subject to transnational forces and affected by global events and conditions. In recognition of this reality, Montoya/Belmonte/Guarneri/Hackel/Hartigan-O'Connor/Kurashige's GLOBAL...

Exploring the history and politics of a powerful and long-lasting idea: the creation and maintenance of European worlds outside of Europe, this textbook provides a broad overview of settler colonialism in the modern era. The author outlines how the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781845279561Author Siân SuttonFormat PaperbackPage Count 140Imprint Gwasg Carreg GwalchPublisher Gwasg Carreg Gwalch