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Discovering the American Past: A Look at the Evidence, Volume II: Since 1865 by William Bruce Wheeler 9781305630437
$154.46This primary source reader in the popular DISCOVERING series contains a six-part framework that guides you through the process of historical inquiry and explanation. The text emphasizes historical study as interpretation rather than memorization of data... -
A People and a Nation, Volume I: to 1877 by Jane Kamensky 9781337402729
$174.80Think 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... -
The Earth and Its Peoples: A Global History, Volume I by Pamela Crossley 9781337401487
$166.34Featuring a beautiful new design, THE EARTH AND ITS PEOPLES, 7th Edition, presents world history in a balanced, global framework, shifting the focus away from political centers of power and toward the living conditions and activities of ordinary people... -
Cengage Advantage Books: Western Civilization: Beyond Boundaries, Volume II by William Cohen 9781133610151
$206.41Developed to meet the demand for a low-cost, high-quality history book, this text is an economically priced version of WESTERN CIVILIZATION: BEYOND BOUNDARIES, 7e. The Advantage Edition offers the high level of scholarship and engaging narrative of the... -
The Archimedes Palimpsest by Reviel Netz 9781107014374
RRP: $243.60$211.55The Archimedes Palimpsest is the name given to a Byzantine prayer book that was written over a number of earlier manuscripts, including one that contained two unique works by Archimedes, unquestionably the greatest mathematician of antiquity. Sold at... -
A Journey Through Literary America by Thomas Hummel 9780981742519
$55.71This 304 page coffee table book takes a look at 26 of America s great authors and the places that inspired them. Unique to this book of literary biography is the element of the photograph. With over 140 photographs throughout, the images add mood and... -
Helen: 2-volume set by Euripides 9780929524757
RRP: $35.68$29.67Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780929524757Author EuripidesFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Bryn Mawr CommentariesPublisher Bryn Mawr CommentariesWeight(grams) 80g -
Introduction to the Philosophy of History: with selections from The Philosophy of Right by G. W. F. Hegel 9780872200579
RRP: $75.58$61.51. . . eminently readable . . . admirably picks up the spirit of what Hegel is saying. . . . more readable and accurate than Hartmann's, and it trans lates a more readable text than does Nisbet's. It includes (as Hartmann's does not) an excerpt, which... -
Delight in Diversity by Nicola Johnson 9780861591183
$39.08A transcription of a day-long seminar held at the British Museum in 1995 to discuss aspects of display at the museum. Invited guests examined specific displays and were joined by many of the staff and other curators. A stimulating discussion ensued ... -
Hero of the Angry Sky: The World War I Diary and Letters of David S. Ingalls, America's First Naval Ace by David S. Ingalls 9780821420188
RRP: $54.58$48.07Hero of the Angry Sky draws on the unpublished diaries, correspondence, informal memoir, and other personal documents of the U.S. Navy's only flying "ace" of World War I to tell his unique story. David S. Ingalls was a prolific writer, and virtually all... -
Trustee for the Human Community: Ralph J. Bunche, the United Nations, and the Decolonization of Africa by Robert A. Hill 9780821419090
$163.19Ralph J. Bunche (1904-1971), winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1950, was a key U.S. diplomat in the planning and creation of the United Nations in 1945. In 1947 he was invited to join the permanent UN Secretariat as director of the new Trusteeship... -
Shanghai and the Edges of Empires by Meng Yue 9780816644131
RRP: $46.18$40.30Even before the romanticized golden era of Shanghai in the 1930s, the famed Asian city was remarkable for its uniqueness and East-meets-West cosmopolitanism. Meng Yue analyzes a century-long shift of urbanity from China's heartland to its shore. During... -
American Tropics: Articulating Filipino America by Allan Punzalan Isaac 9780816642748
$74.74In 1997, when the New York Times described Filipino American serial killer Andrew Cunanan as appearing "to be everywhere and nowhere," Allan Punzalan Isaac recognized confusion about the Filipino presence in the United States, symptomatic of... -
At the Margins: Minority Groups in Premodern Italy by Stephen J. Milner 9780816638215
RRP: $44.08$38.58Slaves, foundlings, prostitutes, nuns, homosexuals, exiles, the elderly, and mountain communities - such groups stood at the margins of society in premodern Italy. But where precisely the margins were was not so easily determined. Examining these... -
A Brief and Tentative Analysis of Negro Leadership by Ralph J. Bunche 9780814736647
$96.37A world-renowned scholar and statesman, Dr. Ralph J. Bunche (1903-1971) began his career as an educator and a political scientist, and later joined the United Nations, serving as Undersecretary General for seventeen of his twenty-five years with that... -
The Precious Raft of History: The Past, the West, and the Woman Question in China by Joan Judge 9780804773263
RRP: $67.20$59.24This book reveals and interprets the rich diversity of turn-of-the-twentieth-century Chinese approaches to their own past and the modern West through the lens of the woman question. Writers and activists who engaged in debates over this question... -
Against Freud: Critics Talk Back by Todd Dufresne 9780804755474
$187.61Everyone agrees that Sigmund Freud has had a profound impact on Western society and intellectual life. But even today few people know much about his life and work beyond the legends that Freud and his adherents created, fostered, and repeated. The... -
Bearing Arms for His Majesty: The Free-Colored Militia in Colonial Mexico by Ben Vinson 9780804742290
$225.35This study uses the participation of free colored men, whether mulatos, pardos, or morenos (i.e., Afro-Spaniards, Afro-Indians, or "pure blacks"), in New Spain's militias as a prism for examining race relations, racial identity, racial... -
Life Lived in Reverse: A Memoir by Lucille M. Griswold 9780761844938
RRP: $73.50$64.49This memoir details Lucille Griswold's journey to become the woman she is today. The author begins by examining her Italian American heritage and upbringing in a small town in New Jersey in the 1940s and 1950s. Griswold reflects on her experiences and... -
Amazing Jewish Facts and Curiosities: Can You Believe It? by Ronald H. Isaacs 9780742543546
RRP: $96.60$84.04This book presents an array of strange facts and curiosities about Jewish customs and rituals. In the great body of Jewish literature there are a plethora of fascinating (but relatively unknown), strange, and unusual statements, curiosities, oddities,... -
Landscapes of the Ethnic Economy by David H. Kaplan 9780742529489
RRP: $88.20$76.94Immigration has expanded dramatically in both traditional and emerging receiving nations. This worldwide boom has profoundly altered urban areas as new arrivals have transformed inner cities and suburbs alike into bastions of new ethnic economic activity... -
Landscapes of the Ethnic Economy by David H. Kaplan 9780742529472
RRP: $231.00$200.05Immigration has expanded dramatically in both traditional and emerging receiving nations. This worldwide boom has profoundly altered urban areas as new arrivals have transformed inner cities and suburbs alike into bastions of new ethnic economic activity... -
Social Movements in Twentieth-Century Iran: Culture, Ideology, and Mobilizing Frameworks by Stephen C. Poulson 9780739117576
RRP: $92.40$80.49In this work Stephen C. Poulson, a scholar of collective action and social movements, investigates cycles of social protest in Iran from 1890 to the present era. He illuminates the following social movements: the 1890-1892 Tobacco Movement; the 1906-1909... -
Beyond Catastrophe: German Intellectuals and Cultural Renewal After World War II, 1945D1955 by Mark W. Clark 9780739112311
RRP: $174.30$151.62Beyond Catastrophe examines the post-World War II leadership efforts of four major German intellectuals: Karl Jaspers, Thomas Mann, Friedrich Meinecke, and Bertolt Brecht. Clark focuses on the symbolic, practical, and theoretical contributions of these... -
Colonial Chesapeake: New Perspectives by Debra Meyers 9780739110911
RRP: $212.10$184.76In Colonial Chesapeake: New Perspectives leading scholars offer interdisciplinary revisionist essays on the political, cultural and social history of early Maryland and Virginia, calling special attention to the importance of power relations,... -
Eisenhower's Fine Group of Fellows: Crafting a National Security Policy to Uphold the Great Equation by Valerie L. Adams 9780739109588
RRP: $189.00$164.18Eisenhower's Fine Group of Fellows examines the contributions and management of civilians during the Eisenhower administration. Valerie Adams provides a concise history of the roles played by civilian advisers in developing a national security strategy... -
The Pius War: Responses to the Critics of Pius XII by Joseph Bottum 9780739109069
RRP: $197.40$171.36In the brutal fight that has raged in recent years over the reputation of Pope Pius XII-leader of the Catholic Church during World War II, the Holocaust, and the early years of the Cold War-the task of defending the Pope has fallen primarily to reviewers... -
Social Movements in Twentieth-Century Iran: Culture, Ideology, and Mobilizing Frameworks by Stephen C. Poulson 9780739108888
RRP: $220.50$191.92In this work Stephen C. Poulson, a scholar of collective action and social movements, investigates cycles of social protest in Iran from 1890 to the present era. He illuminates the following social movements: the 1890-1892 Tobacco Movement; the 1906-1909... -
Packaging Post/Coloniality: The Manufacture of Literary Identity in the Francophone World by Richard Watts 9780739108550
RRP: $174.30$151.62In 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... -
Brown v. Board of Education at Fifty: A Rhetorical Retrospective by Clarke Rountree 9780739108543
RRP: $174.30$151.62The story of Brown v. Board of Education is a half-century old now and has been retold many times by historians, legal scholars, sociologists, and others. This collection of persuasive scholarly essays examines, for the first time, the role rhetorical... -
The Pig War: The United States, Britain, and the Balance of Power in the Pacific Northwest, 1846-1872 by Scott Kaufman 9780739107294
RRP: $220.50$191.08Very few people have heard of the 'Pig War,' since this episode in American history was overshadowed by the U.S. Civil War and the beginning of mass immigration from Europe. Yet this diplomatic conflict between the United States and Great Britain,... -
Robert Redfield and the Development of American Anthropology by Clifford Wilcox 9780739107287
RRP: $191.10$165.98Relying upon close readings of virtually all of his published and unpublished writings as well as extensive interviews with former colleagues and students,Robert Redfield and the Development of American Anthropology traces the development of Robert... -
Presence, Prevention, and Persuasion: A Historical Analysis of Military Force and Political Influence by Edward J. Rhodes 9780739107263
RRP: $262.50$227.79Can great powers ensure the political outcomes they want and prevent political developments they oppose, by stationing their military forces in distant regions during peacetime? If so, what kinds of military capabilities yield this sort of peacetime... -
Postsocial History: An Introduction by Miguel A. Cabrera 9780739106839
RRP: $174.30$151.62In Postsocial History: An Introduction, historian Miguel A. Cabrera points to the crisis of modernity as a locus for the collapse of social historical models. Previously established theories of social change and social relations are proving insufficient,... -
Surprising Bedfellows: Hindus and Muslims in Medieval and Early Modern India by Sushil Mittal 9780739106730
RRP: $163.80$142.65Surprising Bedfellows: Hindus and Muslims in Medieval and Early Modern India argues that religious and cultural identities in medieval and early modern India were marked by fluid and constantly shifting relationships rather than by the binary model of... -
Anglo-European Science and the Rhetoric of Empire: Malaria, Opium, and British Rule in India, 1756D1895 by Paul C. Winther 9780739105849
RRP: $254.10$220.63A fascinating and intricately woven tale of opium trade, evangelism, scientific discovery and political intrigue, Anglo-European Science and the Rhetoric of Empire: Malaria, Opium and British Rule in India 1756-1895 documents the contribution of a... -
Big Brother, Little Brother: The American Influence on Korean Culture in the Lyndon B. Johnson Years by Sang-Dawn Lee 9780739104354
$228.40Big Brother, Little Brother provides a fascinating case study of the impact of American culture on an East Asian nation. Sang-Dawn Lee's concise cultural history describes how the influx of U.S. aid to South Korea during the Lyndon Johnson years led not... -
The Great Frontier: Freedom and Hierarchy in Modern Times by William Hardy McNeill 9780691657080
$174.28A leading American historian examines the character of the frontiers of European expansion throughout the modern age, questioning a notion of frontier freedom popular since Turner. William McNeill argues that social hierarchy characterized the frontier... -
Filelfo in Milan: Writings 1451-1477 by Diana Robin 9780691636900
$228.31In this portrait of the flamboyant Milanese courtier Francesco Filelfo (1398-1481), Diana Robin reveals a fifteenth-century humanism different from the cool, elegant classicism of Medicean Florence and patrician Venice. Although Filelfo served such heads... -
Christianity and History: Essays by Elmore Harris Harbison 9780691651316
$237.74In Part I of Christianity and History, the author asks whether the committed Christian should be more conscious than the uncommitted of some meaning in history. In answering this he offers a critique of Arnold Toynbee and makes some penetrating...