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The book tells the untold story of the Conservative Party’s involvement in terms of stance and policy in the destruction of selective state education from 1945 up to the present day. Close consideration is paid to their attitudes and prejudices towards...

The Tudors as a dynasty executed many people, both high and low. But the nobility were the ones consistently involved in treason, either deliberately or unconsciously. Exploring the long sixteenth century under each of the Tudor monarchs gives a sense of...

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Celtic chieftains emerging from the mists of ancient Wales, the ‘battle-keen’ Cadogans play their part at Blenheim alongside Marlborough, on board Pellew’s Indefatigable, with Wellington at Mondego Bay and Vittoria; at Balaklava and Sevastapol; at Ypres,...

“We are a much-lectured people,” wrote Robert Spence Watson in 1897. Beginning at mid-century, cities and towns across England used the popular lecture for purposes ranging from serious education to effervescent entertainment and from regional pride to...

This introductory text explores the lives of 100 Black women and their unique and meaningful legacies upon the history, society, and culture of the USA. Today, the names and remarkable achievements of Black women such as Maya Angelou, Serena Williams,...

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Radical domestic politics, musical experimentation, advancing technology and the influence of migration from Europe and Britain’s enrichment from it, all had their affects on a remarkable year in musical cultural life in the mid-30s. This book looks at...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398845411Author Paul RolandFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Arcturus Publishing LtdPublisher Arcturus Publishing Ltd

What is happening to perceptions of time, durability, and reality in the twenty-first century – and how do we deal with it? This anthology explores a diversity of uncommon insights about time, as seen from our historical and geographical standpoint. All...

A lively discussion between two eminent Indian academics that examines what it means to be an Indian. Through a stimulating dialogue, two old friends trace the history of the idea of India through digressions, anecdotes, and observations. Historian...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789189696754Author Iskander RehmanFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Stolpe PublishingPublisher Stolpe PublishingWeight(grams) 740g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798888306093Author Jacob AbbottFormat HardbackPage Count 152Imprint Bibliotech PressPublisher Bibliotech PressWeight(grams) 354g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798888306154Author Jacob AbbottFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint Bibliotech PressPublisher Bibliotech PressWeight(grams) 345g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798888306147Author Jacob AbbottFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Bibliotech PressPublisher Bibliotech PressWeight(grams) 181g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798888306048Author Jacob AbbottFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Bibliotech PressPublisher Bibliotech PressWeight(grams) 163g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798888305997Author Jacob AbbottFormat HardbackPage Count 158Imprint Bibliotech PressPublisher Bibliotech PressWeight(grams) 363g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798888302767Author R R MarettFormat PaperbackPage Count 156Imprint Bibliotech PressPublisher Bibliotech PressWeight(grams) 195g

Means without End is based on a recognition that contemporary technology is without limits in both a practical and an ideological sense. In following the historical evolution of ideas about technology in Western culture and situating them in the...

In Packaging Post/Coloniality, Richard Watts breaks from convention and reads Francophone books by their covers, focusing on the package over the content. Watts looks at the ways that the 'paratext'-the covers, illustrations, promotional summaries,...

Madame de Pompadour's famous quip, 'Apr_s nous, le deluge,' serves as fitting inspiration for this lively discussion of postwar French intellectual and cultural life. Over the past thirty years, North American and European scholarship has been...

This book carries the reader back to the early years of World War II. It is centered on an insightful American woman's daily experience, recorded in her diary from 1939 to 1942, wherein personal reflections and epic thrust yield an intriguing sense of...

This revised edition, originally published in 1955 by Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, provides a comprehensive record of the most significant political ideas in this country from Massachusetts puritanism to post-World War II conservatism. Its emphasis is on...

A vivid recreation of the varied ways in which colonists lived. Bustling seaport towns, lonely farming valleys and forest frontiers come alive through the words of contemporary observers. Their humorous, sometimes piously pompous comments on courtship,...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913836276Author Rut Nic FoirbeisFormat PaperbackPage Count 560Imprint Tippermuir Books LimitedPublisher Tippermuir Books Limited

In Africans at Home and in the United States: One People, One Problem, One Destiny, Emeka C. Anaedozie examines Pan-African cultural and intellectual history, focusing on sociocultural commonalities and challenges facing African people. To this end, Dr...

The Concept of the Foreign investigates the diverse and consequential uses of the concept of the foreign-a formidable and hitherto untheorized force in everyday discourse and practice. This highly original work-whose experimental nature moves beyond...

The fact that Auschwitz, Hiroshima, and Rwanda cast ominous shadows forward into the future compels us to confront these horrific results of the human head, heart, and hand. In Genocidal Temptation, Robert Frey presents a compelling, integrated focus...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780786444847Author Robert E. KellyFormat PaperbackPage Count 348Imprint McFarland & Co IncPublisher McFarland & Co IncWeight(grams) 503g

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The contributions of this volume discuss the broad field of transformation processes in Muslim societies from different perspectives with various disciplinary approaches. Apart from methodological questions the authors investigate religious and social...

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The relationship between President John F. Kennedy and Prime Minister Harold Macmillan was a complex factor in the creation of Anglo-American foreign policies in the early 1960's. Kennedy and Macmillan offers a systematic account of this personal...

Meyer Cornelis Smit (1918-1981) taught history and philosophy in the Free University at Amsterdam for a quarter century. Toward a Christian Conception of History presents the harvest of his scholarly output. The relation between God and history and the...

In African and Africa-Related Nobel Prize Winners, Uju Nkwocha Afulezi and Ugochukwu Uju Afulezi present the first assembled information on African and Africa-related Nobel Prize winners. The information presented reveals what made these individuals...

This is the first book that looks at how the U.S. House of Representatives really works, by drawing on the insights and experiences of former members. Chapters address every aspect of life in the House, from running for Congress to the impact on family...

The Power to Persuade is the true story of four magazines that persuaded the opposition to support America's entry into World War II, and rallied the electorate to demand belligerent military confrontation against the Nazi-led Axis. In the decisive...

Civil society is one of the most hotly debated topics in contemporary political theory. These debates often assume that a vibrant associational life between individual and state is essential for maintaining liberal democratic institutions. In Uncivil...

London has seen huge changes since the 1980s. Massive infrastructure projects such as Crossrail/the Elizabeth Line have transformed the cityscape in many parts of the capital. Areas such as Kings Cross and much of the City of London have been rebuilt and...