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This volume of studies presents the salient social, administrative and cultural developments of the medieval Kingdom of Hungary during the seventeenth-century. The authors are well known scholars in Romania and Hungary: university staff, archivists and...

Seventeen obituaries of recently deceased Fellows of the British Academy including Frank Barlow, John Barnes, Gerald Allen Cohen, Herbert Edward John Cowdrey, Ralf Dahrendorf, Robin Arthur Donkin, Simon Frederick Peter Halliday, Arthur Thomas Hatto,...

Every year 100 million visitor's tour historic houses and re-created villages, examine museum artifacts, and walk through battlefields. But what do they learn? What version of the past are history museums offering to the public? And how well do these...

Every white southerner understood what keeping African Americans "down" meant and what it did not mean. It did not mean going to court; it did not mean relying on the law. It meant vigilante violence and lynching. Looking at Vicksburg,...

"Davis writes with an authority derived from his own perceptive studies of Illinois during the Jackson period. His account is balanced and critical while at the same time recognizing the value of Ford's book." -- Robert W. Johannsen, J. G...

Some of the most important strategic decisions of our times can be traced to compelling official fictions such as Kennedy's "missile gap" and Reagan's "window of vulnerability." Exploring links between nuclear arms policy and the...

Even as symbols of Africa permeate Western culture in the 1990s, centers for the academic study of Africa suffer from a steady erosion of institutional support and intellectual legitimacy. Out of One, Many Africas assesses the rising tide of discontent...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780252010361Author Don DoyleFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint University of Illinois PressPublisher University of Illinois Press

Based on newly available archival sources, Krausz examines the holocaust in the Soviet Union and contrasts it with the genocide in Hungary. He studies the roots of Soviet anti-Semitism and its impact on politics before the holocaust. He also explains why...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781034628989Author James BoswellFormat PaperbackPage Count 392Imprint BlurbPublisher BlurbWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781034497424Author Frederick HoffmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 254Imprint BlurbPublisher BlurbWeight(grams) 152g

Combining historical research with a lucid explication of archaeological methodology and reasoning, Measuring Time with Artifacts examines the origins and changing use of fundamental chronometric techniques and procedures and analyzes the different ways...

Mari Sandoz immortalized her irascible father in Old Jules. Now her brother, Jules Sandoz, Jr. fills out the story of their family life, dominated by Papa, in western Nebraska in the early l900s. A frail boy who clung to the skirts of his German...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780353181915Author BidpaiFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Franklin Classics Trade PressPublisher Franklin Classics Trade PressWeight(grams) 156g

A unique history of Nebraska is presented in these pages, drawing on fifty-eight short topical chapters and a rich gallery of illustrations. Professor Frederick C. Luebke's lifelong commitment to the study of his state informs the book in every detail,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780738518565Author Steven D ElveFormat PaperbackImprint Arcadia Publishing (SC)Publisher Arcadia Publishing (SC)Weight(grams) 295g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780997267778Author Faith A ColburnFormat PaperbackPage Count 414Imprint Prairie Wild PressPublisher Prairie Wild PressWeight(grams) 549g

Originally published in 1880, McGlashan's History of the Donner Party remains in steady demand as an authoritative account of the tragic episode. The editors have added newly discovered information and photographs to their foreword, which is based on...

In these pages you will come to fall in love with a ruggedly diverse and strikingly beautiful state, a land that takes hold and won't let go. Montana: High, Wide, and Handsome is widely recognized as a classic history and delightful ode to the...

Responding to the enduring lure of the West that captured his imagination as a child, Jerry Ellis decides to follow the trail of the Pony Express, a short-lived, hell-for-leather mail delivery service that lasted just one and a half years starting in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780343725020Author Peter ParleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 230Imprint Franklin Classics Trade PressPublisher Franklin Classics Trade PressWeight(grams) 156g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061702624Author Author and Historian Simon WinchesterFormat PaperbackPage Count 495Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913836269Author David MauleFormat PaperbackImprint Tippermuir Books LimitedPublisher Tippermuir Books Limited

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780353251540Author Johannes KohtzFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Franklin Classics Trade PressPublisher Franklin Classics Trade PressWeight(grams) 254g

Bath’s pleasure gardens are gone beyond recall. Yet in their heyday they were as central to the city’s social life as its assembly rooms, pump room or parades. Far from being genteel retreats for the horticulturally minded, they were where well-heeled...

Salem, King James VI, Malleus Maleficarum. The world of witch hunts and witch trials sounds antiquated, relics of an unenlightened and brutal age. However, 'witch hunt' is heard often in the present-day media, and the misogyny it is rooted in is all too...

Learn American history YOUR Way with Shultz's HIST, 6th Edition! This easy-to-read, narratively constructed comprehensive paperback textbook presents course content through visually-engaging chapters, engaging story telling and clear analysis of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781957840017Author Joseph AvskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Mouthfeel PressPublisher Mouthfeel PressWeight(grams) 132g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061129803Author Tom WheelerFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 204gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788497779579Author Marco PizzutiFormat PaperbackImprint ObeliscoPublisher ObeliscoWeight(grams) 621g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788417418748Author Luis MollaFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint AlmuzaraPublisher AlmuzaraWeight(grams) 363g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788416192229Author Omar KhayyamFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint ObeliscoPublisher ObeliscoWeight(grams) 259gDimensions(mm) 193mm * 130mm * 15mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783700169529Author Barbara KarlFormat PaperbackPage Count 158Imprint Austrian Academy of Sciences PressPublisher Austrian Academy of Sciences...

By some estimates, there are as many as twelve million psychopaths in the United States alone. Cold-blooded, remorseless, and strangely charismatic, they commit at least half of all serious and violent crimes. Supposedly, most serial killers are...

The ever-growing interest in cultural memory has generated an impressive body of academic literature on public commemoration, but not enough attention has been paid until now to the power and appeal of names to transcend death. This book is the first to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914388415Author Michael PayneFormat PaperbackPage Count 508Imprint Verite CM LtdPublisher Verite CM Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781840339499Author John AlexanderFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Stenlake PublishingPublisher Stenlake Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781793634863Author Emeka C. AnaedozieFormat HardbackPage Count 204Imprint Lexington BooksPublisher Lexington BooksWeight(grams) 152g

Opium Consumption and Experience in India offers a "cultural biography" of opium in the subcontinent. It spans the Raj and India after independence. The book examines the "social lives" of opium in India, beginning as a commodity in the sixteenth century...

The first-person accounts in this historical work provide a primary source for the war that forever changed the United States of America. The stories gathered together in the years leading up to this collection’s first publication in 1896 came directly...