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Crossing Boundaries, Building Bridges by Annie Canel
RRP: $100.78$88.64Women engineers have been in the public limelight for decades, yet we have surprisingly little historically grounded understanding of the patterns of employment and education of women in this field. Most studies are either policy papers or limited to... -
Vichy Law and the Holocaust in France Richard H. Weisberg 9783718658923
RRP: $283.50$247.13The involvement of Vichy France with Nazi Germany's anti-Jewish policy has long been a source of debate and contention. At a time when France, after decades of denial, has finally acknowledged responsibility for its role in the deportation and murder of... -
The Reformation in Eastern and Central Europe Karin Maag 9781859283585
RRP: $283.50$246.29This work provides a comprehensive and multi-facetted account of the Reformation in eastern and central Europe, drawing on extensive archival research carried out by Continental and British scholars. Across a broad thematic, temporal and geographical... -
"Honest Claret": The Social Meaning of Georgian Ireland's Favourite Wine by Tara McConnell
RRP: $73.50$65.00In the eighteenth century, Ireland's elite could choose from a wide range of wines, but their favourite was claret - the red wine of Bordeaux. Whereas Britain's wine drinkers turned to port in this period, and America's elite filled their glasses with... -
Crafting Enlightenment: Artisanal Histories and Transnational Networks by Lauren R. Cannady
$180.58A ground-breaking volume examining the transnational conditions of the European Enlightenment, Crafting Enlightenment argues that artisans of the long eighteenth-century on four different continents created and disseminated ideas that revolutionized how... -
Irish Civilization: An Introduction by John Oakland
RRP: $83.98$73.90Irish Civilization provides the perfect background and introduction to both the history of Ireland until 1921 and the development of Ireland and Northern Ireland since 1921. This book illustrates how these societies have developed in common but also... -
Mobilizing Minerva: American Women in the First World War by Kimberly Jensen
RRP: $54.58$47.23American women did more than pursue roles as soldiers, doctors, and nurses during World War I. Mobilizing Minerva: American Women in the First World War reveals women/u2019s motivations for fighting for full citizenship rights both on and off the... -
Conserving Culture: A NEW DISCOURSE ON HERITAGE by Mary T. Hufford
RRP: $48.28$42.02Conserving Culture examines heritage protection in the United States and how it has been implemented in specific cases. Contributors challenge the division of heritage into nature, the built environment, and culture. They describe cultural... -
The Revival of Labor Liberalism by Andrew Battista
RRP: $81.90$71.65The Revival of Labor Liberalism is a careful analysis of the twentieth-century decline of unions and liberals and the important efforts to revive their political fortunes. The break in the labor-liberal coalition in the late 1960s paved the way for an... -
From Body to Community: Venereal Disease and Society in Baroque Spain by Cristian Berco
RRP: $107.10$92.95Known in early modern Europe by many names - the French Disease, the Bubas, and, eventually, syphilis - the Great Pox was a chronic disease that carried the stigma of sexuality and produced a slow and painful death. The main institution which treated it,... -
Popular Receptions of Archaeology: Fictional and Factual Texts in 19th and Early 20th Century Britain by Susanne Duesterberg
RRP: $117.58$96.31Popular archaeology is a heterogeneous phenomenon: By focussing on the German archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann, Egyptian mummies and the ruin complex Great Zimbabwe in fictional and factual texts, Susanne Duesterberg analyses the popular reception of... -
Air Transport by Peter J. Lyth
RRP: $182.68$158.63Each volume in this new series is a collection of seminal articles on a theme of central importance in the study of transport history, selected from the leading journal in the field. Each contains between ten and a dozen articles selected by a... -
Before Science: The Invention of the Friars' Natural Philosophy Roger French 9781859282878
RRP: $273.00$235.43The opposition of science and religion is a recent phenomenon; in the middle ages, and indeed until the middle of the nineteenth century, there was almost no conflict. In the Middle Ages the objective study of nature - the activity we now call science -... -
Antifraternalism and Anticlericalism in the German Reformation: Johann Eberlin von Gunzburg and the Campaign Against the Friars by Geoffrey Dipple
RRP: $75.58$66.55Many of the leading figures of the Reformation and many of their most able opponents came from among the ranks of the Franciscan Order. This Order became the focus of attack in a pamphlet war waged against it in 1523 by converts to the Reformation. ... -
The Making of the Scottish Rural Landscape David Turnock 9781859280270
RRP: $283.50$247.13This book looks at the evolution of rural settlement in Scotland from the Mesolithic period through to the improving movement of the 18th and 19th centuries. The main emphasis is on changes in society and technology, but the book also considers how... -
Frontiersmen: Warfare In Africa Since 1950 Anthony Clayton 9781857285253
RRP: $83.98$73.63Since 1950, there has been almost continuous military unrest in Africa. This study offers an overview of warfare in this period, examining a military tradition that ranges from the highly sophisticated electronic, air and armour fighting between South... -
The Secrets of Generation: Reproduction in the Long Eighteenth Century by Raymond Stephanson
RRP: $153.30$132.83From theories of conception and concepts of species to museum displays of male genitalia and the politics of breastmilk, The Secrets of Generation is an interdisciplinary examination of the many aspects of reproduction in the eighteenth century. ... -
World Prehistory: A Brief Introduction by Brian M. Fagan
$189.25This popular introductory textbook provides an overview of more than 3 million years of human prehistory. Written in an accessible and jargon-free style, this engaging volume tells the story of humanity from our beginnings in tropical Africa up to the... -
Spanish and Portuguese Conflict in the Spice Islands: The Loaysa Expedition to the Moluccas 1525-1535: From Book XX of The General and Natural History of the Indies by Gonzalo Fernandez de Oviedo y Valdes by Glen Frank Dille
RRP: $283.50$141.20Gonzalo Fernandez de Oviedo y Valdes, (1478-1557), warden of the fortress and port of Santo Domingo of the Island of Hispaniola, also served his emperor, Charles V, as the official chronicler of the first half-century of the Spanish presence in the New... -
The 1933 Chicago World's Fair: A Century of Progress by Cheryl R. Ganz
RRP: $35.68$32.49Chicago's 1933 world's fair set a new direction for international expositions. Earlier fairs had exhibited technological advances, but Chicago's fair organizers used the very idea of progress to buoy national optimism during the Depression's darkest... -
Science, Cold War and the American State by Allan A. Needell
RRP: $283.50$247.13This book illuminates how Berkner became a model that produced the scientist/advisor/policymaker that helped build post-war America. It does so by providing a detailed account of the personal and professional beliefs of one of the most influential... -
Asymmetrical Concepts After Reinhart Koselleck - Historical Semantics and Beyond Kay Junge 9783837615890
RRP: $71.38$58.82Although the asymmetrical concepts have been well-known to scholars across the social sciences and humanities, their role in structuring the human world has never been an object of detailed research. 35 years ago Reinhart Koselleck sketched out the... -
Doing Anthropology in Wartime and War Zones - World War I and the Cultural Sciences in Europe Reinhard Johler 9783837614220
RRP: $92.38$75.47World War I marks a well-known turning point in anthropology, and this volume is the first to examine the variety of forms it took in Europe. Distinct national traditions emerged and institutes were founded, partly due to collaborations with the military... -
The Collector's Voice: Critical Readings in the Practice of Collecting: Volume 2: Early Voices by Kenneth Arnold
RRP: $54.58$48.36The Collector's Voice is a major four-volume project which brings together in accessible form material relevant to the history and practice of collecting in the European tradition from c. 1500 BC to the present day. The series demonstrates how attitudes... -
The End of Manhood: Parables on Sex and Selfhood by John Stoltenberg
RRP: $262.50$227.35In this practical follow up to Refusing to be a Man, John Stoltenberg uses a combination of case studies, autobiography, checklists and discussion points, to speak directly to men about how the social construction of manhood operates in everyday... -
Jewish Child Soldiers in the Bloodlands of Europe by David M. Rosen
RRP: $283.50$246.29This book is about the experiences of Jewish children who were members of armed partisan groups in Eastern Europe during World War II and the Holocaust. It describes and analyze the role of children as activists, agents, and decision makers in a... -
Divine Liturgies - Human Problems in Byzantium, Armenia, Syria and Palestine by Mr. Robert F. Taft
$245.68In obedience to Jesus' command, 'Do this in remembrance of me', the ritual repetition of the Lord's Supper down through the ages and across multiple Christian cultures in the liturgies of East and West, has given rise, inevitably, to innumerable... -
Slavery and Abolition in the Atlantic World: New Sources and New Findings by Jane Landers
RRP: $283.50$246.29This book highlights newly-discovered and underutilized sources for the study of slavery and abolition. It features the contributions of scholars who work with Portuguese, Spanish, German, Dutch, and Swedish materials from Europe, Africa and Latin... -
Battle of Glorieta Pass PA: A Gettysburg in the West, March 26-28, 1862 by Thomas S. Edrington
RRP: $46.10$39.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780826322876Author EdringtonFormat PaperbackPage Count 186Imprint University of New Mexico PressPublisher University of New Mexico Press -
Guide To Colorado Ghost Towns: And Mining Camps by Perry Eberhart
RRP: $54.58$40.32"This is not a history book. Rather it is a directory of towns, and compilation of known information about those towns. In undertaking the stud, I was amazed at the amount of legend and contradictory information Colorado history has collected in... -
The Mountainous West: Explorations in Historical Geography by William Wyckoff
$72.56Traditional interpretations of the American West have concentrated on the importance of its aridity to the region's cultural evolution and development. But the West is marked by a second fact of physical geography that distinguished it (from the... -
Hitler by Michael Lynch
RRP: $252.00$215.86Adolf Hitler is the most notorious political figure of the twentieth century. The story of his life, how he became a dictator, and how he managed to convince so many to follow his cause is a subject of perennial fascination. Balancing narrative and... -
Eastern Europe 1740-1985: Feudalism to Communism Robin Okey 9780415084895
RRP: $77.68$68.31`A fascinating book, readable and illuminating.' Times Literary SupplementReviews`A fascinating book, readable and illuminating.' - Times Literary Supplement`Succeeds in a task that many would have thought impossible, namely, to write a lucid and... -
From Concentration Camp to Campus: Japanese American Students and World War II by Allan W. Austin
RRP: $46.18$40.30In the aftermath of Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor and the systematic exile and incarceration of thousands of Japanese Americans, the National Japanese American Student Relocation Council was born. Created to facilitate the movement of Japanese American... -
War and Diplomacy by Oleg A. Rzheshevsky
RRP: $283.50$247.13First Published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Book InformationISBN 9783718657902Author Oleg A. RzheshevskyFormat HardbackPage Count 333Imprint Harwood-Academic PublishersPublisher Harwood-Academic... -
The Collector's Voice: Critical Readings in the Practice of Collecting: Volume 4: Contemporary Voices by Paul Martin
RRP: $182.68$159.47The Collector's Voice is a major four-volume project which brings together in accessible form material relevant to the history and practice of collecting in the European tradition from c. 1500 BC to the present day. The series demonstrates how attitudes... -
The Collector's Voice: Critical Readings in the Practice of Collecting: Volume 1: Ancient Voices by Dr Alexandra Bounia
RRP: $182.68$158.63The Collector's Voice is a major four-volume project which brings together in accessible form material relevant to the history and practice of collecting in the European tradition from c. 1500 BC to the present day. The series demonstrates how attitudes... -
Nation and Word, 1770-1850: Religious and Metaphysical Language in European National Consciousness Mary Anne Perkins 9781859282861
RRP: $182.68$159.47The emergence of the modern nation state in Europe and the accompanying rise in national consciousness led to a heightened awareness of the close relationship between language and national identity. In this book the author shows that this relationship... -
Journeys in Ireland: Literary Travellers, Rural Landscapes, Cultural Relations by Martin Ryle
RRP: $75.58$66.55This volume offers a reasoned critical account of a wide range of travel writing about rural Ireland. The focus is on work by English travellers who visited Ireland for pleasure, from the 'scenic tourists' of the post-Romantic period to Eric Newby in the... -
The Apocalypse in Ireland: Prophecy and Politics in the 1820s by Thomas P. Power
RRP: $126.00$110.67«Power reconstructs the extraordinary popular agitation that took hold in the Irish countryside in the decade after Waterloo when «Pastorini's prophecies» foretold the imminent collapse of Protestantism. The electrifying effects of this agitation...