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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906385651Author Mel ThompsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Brimstone PressPublisher Brimstone Press

A random collection of tales of human tragedy, eccentrics, crime and punishment, hanging and rioting on 'The Green'. 'The Green' for several hundred years was effectively the killing fields of Dublin, where the city's criminals were taken to be...

Baltinglass is the very heart of West Wicklow. It is a charming country town on the banks of the River Slaney and is a designated Heritage Town. By building upon the base of street directories garnered from census returns and news articles, Paul Gorry...

This vivid and pioneering study illuminates the different roles played in late medieval society by noblewomen - the most substantial group of women to survive as individuals in medieval documents. They emerge (despite limited political opportunities) as...

Relations between Western nations and their colonial subjects changed dramatically in the second half of the twentieth century. As nearly all of the West's colonies gained their independence by 1975, attitudes toward colonialism in the West also changed,...

Among the criminal celebrities of Prohibition-era Chicago, not even Al Capone was more notorious than two well-educated and highly intelligent Jewish boys from wealthy South Side families. In a meticulously planned murder scheme disguised as a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780991251223Author John L HancockFormat PaperbackPage Count 322Imprint Liberty Lane MediaPublisher Liberty Lane MediaWeight(grams) 472gDimensions(mm) 229mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781627079853Author Oswald ChambersFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Our Daily Bread PublishingPublisher Our Daily Bread PublishingWeight(grams)...

A collection of images linked with pubs in the region of Norwood.About the AuthorJohn Coulter is the archivist at the Lewisham Local Studies Library, and also has a large collection of his own images. His previous books include Sydenham and Forest Hill...

This is the first survey of British immigration policy to include both its pre-World War Two origins and its development after the crucial 1962 Commonwealth Immigrants Act. It is an accessible introduction to a subject of increasing popularity with...

Britain's defeat of Napoleon is one the great accomplishments in our history. And yet it was by no means certain that Britain itself would survive the revolutionary fervour of the age, let alone emerge victorious from such a vast conflict. From the late...

Nephew to Sitting Bull, chief of the Sioux, Pte San Hunka (White Bull) was a famous warrior in his own right. He had been on the warpath against whites and other Indians for more than a decade when he fought the greatest battle of his life. On the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911043232Author David S. BartholomewFormat PaperbackPage Count 210Imprint Carn Publishing ltdPublisher Carn Publishing ltd

A landmark history of the war that firmly places the First World War in the context of imperialism and gives due weight to the role of non-Europeans in the conflict.About the AuthorMarc Ferro (1924-). President of the Association of Research at the Ecole...

A new collection of essays which challenges many existing assumptions, particularly the conventional models of separate spheres and economic change. All the essays are specifically written for a student market, making detailed research accessible to a...

This new biography provides a full account of Leon Trotsky's political life, based upon a wealth of primary sources, including previously unpublished material.Ian D. Thatcher paints a new picture of Trotsky's standing in Russian and world history. Key...

Alphabetical Africa, Walter Abish's delightful first novel, is an extraordinary linguistic tour de force, high comedy set in an imaginary dark continent that expands and contracts with ineluctable precision, as one by one the author adds the letters of...

Stephen Trombley's A History of Western Thought, outlines the 2,500-year history of European ideas from the philosophers of Classical Antiquity to the thinkers of today.No major representative of any significant strand of Western thought escapes...

Stephen Trombley's A History of Western Thought, outlines the 2,500-year history of European ideas from the philosophers of Classical Antiquity to the thinkers of today.No major representative of any significant strand of Western thought escapes...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906814625Author Victor HugoFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Classic Comic Store LtdPublisher Classic Comic Store LtdWeight(grams) 150gDimensions(mm)...

The author offers a reassessment of how women's experience of work in 18th- century England was affected by industrialization and other elements of economic, social and technological change.; This study focuses on the household, the most important unit...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143441335Author Mridula BehariFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint PenguinPublisher Penguin Random House India

A character in an Evelyn Waugh novel once remarked that ?There's nothing wrong with war?except the fighting.? In Champions of Charity, John Hutchinson argues that while they set out with a vision to make war more humane, the world's Red Cross...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780913966150Author Henry MaineFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Liberty Fund IncPublisher Liberty Fund IncWeight(grams) 426g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781796017007Author Robert O'ByrneFormat HardbackPage Count 168Imprint XlibrisPublisher XlibrisWeight(grams) 816gDimensions(mm) 287mm * 213mm * 13mm

Voices of Stanley is a remarkable compilation of oral history extracts drawn from the extensive Beamish Museum Audio Archive, recalling life in the area between 1880 and 1950. Vivid memories are recounted, including childhood and schooldays, work and...

From the PREFACE TO ORIGINAL EDITION. The present book has for its object the presentation of the lectures which I delivered as foreign lecturer at Columbia University in the spring of the present year under the title: ""The Present System of...

During the second half of the nineteenth century the enormous increase in agricultural production, unmatched by technical advance in harvesting, drew vast numbers of rural and migrant workers into the harvest that lasted from June to October. This...

Discover the rich and colourful history of Bristol with this collection of tales from across the city. Featuring a story for every day of the year, it includes famous historical events, such as the storming of the city during the Civil War, the maiden...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781845278137Author Cyril JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 244Imprint Gwasg Carreg GwalchPublisher Gwasg Carreg GwalchDimensions(mm) 198mm * 128mm * 10mm

Marie-Antoinette is one of the most fascinating and controversial figures in all of French history. This volume explores the many struggles by various individuals and groups to put right Marie's identity, and it simultaneously links these struggles to...

The term "Weimar culture," while generally accepted, is in some respects unsatisfactory, if only because political and cultural history seldom coincides in time. Expressionism was not born with the defeat of the Imperial German army, nor is there any...

One of the most important developments of Western civilization has been the growth of historical consciousness. Consciously or not, history has become a form of thought applied to every facet of human experience; every field of human action can be...

Few historians trace grand themes across many centuries and places, but Ernst Kantorowicz's great work on the symbolic powers of kingship is a fine example of what can happen when they do. The King's Two Bodies is at once a superb example of the critical...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781840338683Author Ian LyellFormat PaperbackPage Count 56Imprint Stenlake PublishingPublisher Stenlake PublishingDimensions(mm) 176mm * 235mm * 4mm

Coronations are very public occasions, typically seen as meticulously planned formal ceremonies where everything runs smoothly. But behind the scenes at Westminster Abbey lie extraordinary but true stories of mayhem, confusion and merriment. In this book...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781780913735Author Pat CunninghamFormat PaperbackPage Count 292Imprint DB PublishingPublisher DB Publishing

First published in 1994. This book is an outstanding product of St Helens, as remarkable in its way as sheetglass and Beechams pills. It is the first full scale nineteenth century history of a small industrial town as distinct from the bigger and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781840330878Author David JamiesonFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Stenlake PublishingPublisher Stenlake Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780990581345Author Rebecca Ruter SpringerFormat PaperbackPage Count 122Imprint Square Circles PublishingPublisher Square Circles PublishingWeight(grams)...