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Martin Kitchen's compelling account of Europe between the wars sets the twenty-year crisis within the context of the profound sense of cultural malaise shared by many philosophers and artists, the economic crises that plagued a Europe ruined by war and...

First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Book InformationISBN 9781138155787Author Charles CarltonFormat HardbackPage Count 464Imprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor & Francis LtdWeight(grams) 454g

How have ancient Greece and Rome intersected with South African histories? This book canvasses architecture, literature, visual arts and historical memory. Some of the most telling manifestations of classical reception in South Africa have been indirect,...

Playful, popular visions of Troy and Carthage, backdrops to the Iliad and Aeneid's epic narratives, shine the spotlight on antiquity's starring role in nineteenth-century culture. This is the story of how these ruined cities inspired bold reconstructions...

In its original Spanish language version, this tour de force was awarded the famed Espejo de Espana prize. Rubert deVentos examines the ambiguous yet highly charged relationships between Spain and the American nations of the Western hemisphere. Writing...

Originally published in 1989. The extraordinary story of Britain's child migrants is one of 350 years of shaming exploitation. Around 130,000 children, some just 3 or 4 years old, were shipped off to distant parts of the Empire, the last as recently as...

Full details of where to find - and how to kill - all of Britain's most historic zombies. Fact files on the undead in history, including Roman revenants, people who were buried alive and some resurrected royal corpses! High-profile targets including Jane...

In this highly-illustrated book, Mary T. Boatwright examines five of the peoples incorporated into the Roman world from the Republican through the Imperial periods: northerners, Greeks, Egyptians, Jews and Christians. She explores the tension between...

How should we react as readers and as critics when two passages in a literary work contradict one another? Classicists once assumed that all inconsistencies in ancient texts needed to be amended, explained away, or lamented. Building on recent work on...

The rich collections of the Hermitage Museum include a remarkable series of Norman and later medieval British coins. Unlike the Hermitage's Anglo-Saxon coins which are mainly from Russian finds, the coins in this volume come from three major private...

A history of Rhondda.Book InformationISBN 9780752433882Author Emrys JenkinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint The History Press LtdPublisher The History Press LtdWeight(grams) 300gDimensions(mm) 250mm * 165mm * 10mm

Seit dem Wiener Kongress 1814/15 uberstand der mitteleuropaische Raum eine Menge an staatsrechtlichen, wirtschaftlichen, kulturellen, geistigen und territorialen Veranderungen. Manche Projekte zur Neugestaltung des mitteleuropaischen Gebiets blieben...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783899714494Author William C. KirbyFormat PaperbackPage Count 36Imprint V&R unipress GmbHPublisher V&R unipress GmbHWeight(grams) 0g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783899712445Author Dr Christian HackeFormat HardbackPage Count 173Imprint V&R unipress GmbHPublisher V&R unipress GmbHWeight(grams) 452g

This is James Kittelsons "Toward an established church. Strasbourg from 1500 to the dawn of the seventeenth century".Book InformationISBN 9783525100189Author James M. KittelsonFormat HardbackPage Count 280Imprint Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH...

Labouring Lives unravels the huge changes which have so fundamentally altered the life courses of ordinary women over the past one hundred and fifty years, namely the changes in marriage and fertility patterns. Using dynamic data from Dutch population...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912224661Author David PierceFormat HardbackPage Count 108Imprint Edward Everett RootPublisher Edward Everett Root

Foreign Policy and Security Strategy collects works by the late Professor Martin Wight (1913-1972), an historian and scholar of international relations. Wight conducted research on many topics, including British colonial history, European studies,...

History and International Relations collects works by the late Professor Martin Wight (1913-1972), an historian and scholar of international relations. Wight conducted research on many topics, including British colonial history, European studies,...

The demonstrations of monks in Tibet and Myanmar (Burma) in recent times as well as the age-old conflict between a predominantly Buddhist population and a Hindu minority in Sri Lanka raise the question of how the issues of human rights and Buddhism are...

This four volume collection looks at the essential issues concerning crime and punishment in the long nineteenth-century. Through the presentation of primary source documents, it explores the development of a modern pattern of crime and a modern system...

Bringing the histories of British anti-slavery and Australian colonization together changes our view of both. This book explores the anti-slavery movement in imperial scope, arguing that colonization in Australasia facilitated emancipation in the...

Kenneth Morgan's history of Jamaica is a social, economic, political, and cultural assessment of the island's most important periods and themes over the past millennium. This includes the island's development before 1500, with detailed material on the...

The age of Nero has appealed to the popular imagination more than any other period of Roman history. This volume provides a lively and accessible guide to the various representations and interpretations of the Emperor Nero as well as to the rich...

In his 1997 work Guns, Germs and Steel, Jared Diamond marshals evidence from five continents and across 13,000 years of human history in an attempt to answer the question of why that history unfolded so differently in various parts of the globe. His...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789087284008Author Isabelle DuyvesteynFormat PaperbackPage Count 324Imprint Leiden University PressPublisher Leiden University Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789391165062Author Man Aman Singh ChhinaFormat PaperbackPage Count 328Imprint Juggernaut PublicationPublisher Juggernaut Publication

Early Records of British India (1972) is an important collection of source material deriving from official documents which now form part of the India Office Records. It throws light upon the beginnings of British power through the rise of the East India...

The Yoruba-Speaking Peoples of the Slave Coast of West Africa (1894) is an important work of in-depth research into one of the principal indigenous communities of West Africa. The territory of the Yoruba peoples extends over the southern parts of western...

This book discusses the untold story of North East India's role during the Second World War and its resultant socio-economic and political impact. It goes beyond standard campaign histories and the epicentre of the Kohima-Imphal battlefields to the...

First published in 1991, Parnell in Perspective is a collection of essays exploring the ideas and political style of Charles Stewart Parnell. Divided into two parts, the book explores Parnell's career in detail and investigates the parliamentary and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781840331554Author David OttewellFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Stenlake PublishingPublisher Stenlake Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781840331332Author James HamiltonFormat PaperbackPage Count 52Imprint Stenlake PublishingPublisher Stenlake Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781840339512Author Rosie NicolFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Stenlake PublishingPublisher Stenlake Publishing

Nineteenth-century commentators often claimed that Russia burned to the ground every thirty years. In an empire whose cities were built of wood, firefighters had a visible presence throughout Russia's urban centres and became politically active across...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060882372Author Carla KaplanFormat PaperbackPage Count 544Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 675gDimensions(mm)...

Marcus Garvey founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association in 1914. He was one of the first black leaders to encourage black people to discover their cultural traditions and history, and to seek common cause in the struggle for true liberty and...

The discovery and decryption of Ugaritic cuneiform tablets in the 1920s has given scholars an insight into the development of alphabetic writing and the origins of biblical poetry. In this book, based on his Schweich Lectures given in 2007, Professor...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781902700229Author Michael StammersFormat PaperbackPage Count 54Imprint National Museums LiverpoolPublisher National Museums LiverpoolWeight(grams) 214g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781118167632Author Nancy R. ReaginFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint John Wiley & Sons IncPublisher Turner Publishing CompanyWeight(grams)...