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What was the role of elected legislators? Was it to represent the opinions of constituents or to vote according to their informed opinions reflecting the needs of the kingdom? Most authorities have accepted Edmund Burke’s depiction of 18th-century MPs,...

Poison - invisible, unknown, hard to detect and deadly - taps into hard-wired anxieties about the risks of the world around us. From ancient times to the modern age, it has always created more fear than any other threats. In A Basilisk Glance: Poisoners...

Religion and Politics in Interwar Yugoslavia explores the interaction between religion, nationalism, and political modernity in the first half of the 20th century, taking the case of the Serbian Orthodox Church as an example. This book historicizes the...

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...

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...

At the zenith of its power, Britain, the 'Workshop of the World', dominated the globe with military might and commercial acuity. The celebration of Queen Victoria's sixty years on the throne was carefully positioned to highlight the country's strength,...

The twentieth-century process of secularization does not mean that institutional church and Christian ideas were irrelevant for twentieth-century societal projects – such as the introduction of democracy, the improvement of school and education, the...

This book examines a topical phenomenon from a previously neglected perspective by bringing together multidisciplinary insights from the field of humanities into human-nature relations. So far, the changes in biodiversity have been mainly studied by...

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 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

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Deep Republicanism: Prelude to Professionalism establishes the importance of Machiavelli's radical republican agenda in understanding the major revolutions of the modern world. Donald Hodges's nuanced analysis of The Discourse of Livy reveals a...

Between 1817 and 1825, 10,000 British mercenaries, many of them veterans of the Napoleonic Wars, left Europe to join the armies and navies of Bolivar, San Martin, and other leaders fighting to liberate their countries from the colonial domination of...

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

There is a growing scholarly interest in the historical development of what has been called a 'consumer society.' In this important collection of essays, historians from six different countries trace the history of the consumer cooperative movement in...

In Religion, Civilization, and Civil War author Jonathan Fox carves out a new space of research and interrogation in conflict studies. As a preeminent observer of religious trends on domestic conflicts, Fox utilizes new statistical analysis in the...

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 1960-1961, voter registration revolutionized the people and politics of Haywood County, Tennessee. In Haywood County, as in much of the nation during the Civil Rights movement, issues such as voter registration and desegregation ignited a firestorm of...

This detailed investigation of Communists and their Party in the hard coal fields of northeastern Pennsylvania, known as the Anthracite, draws on sources such as the central archives of the Communist Party of the United States to examine the origins,...

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...

Enemies of the Bay Colony offers a narrative history of Puritan New England from its beginnings through the Great Awakening of the mid-18th Century. This newly expanded and revised edition features two new chapters on the Salem Witchcraft frenzy of 1692...

In Religion, Civilization, and Civil War author Jonathan Fox carves out a new space of research and interrogation in conflict studies. As a preeminent observer of religious trends on domestic conflicts, Fox utilizes new statistical analysis in the...

The Korean Struggle for International Identity in the Foreground of the Shufeldt Negotiation, 1866-1882 places a special focus on how Koreans view themselves and the outside world, especially China, Japan, and the United States. It challenges the...

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...

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...

The grand historical and social theorizing of early in this century-works that conjure up names like Marx, Spengler, Toynbee, and Sorokin-has been out of favor for many years. Only recently have two new schools of research, comparative civilizational...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798986817224Author James Turner JohnsonFormat PaperbackImprint Stone Tower PressPublisher Stone Tower PressWeight(grams) 930g

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,...