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This book explores how, far from being limited to deviation from known pathways or desirable plans of action, wandering is an abundant source of meaning, as intimately involved in the history of our universe as it will be in the future of our planet. In...

This is the definitive history of the Cheltenham Festival, covering the last forty years. Featuring the Gold Cup, the Queen Mother Championship Chase, the Championship Hurdle and other important races from each year, this is a great read for anyone with...

Early Modern Ireland: New Sources, Methods, and Perspectives offers fresh approaches and case studies that push the field of early modern Ireland, and of British and European history more generally, into unexplored directions.The centuries between 1500...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780955465789Author Gordon WardFormat PaperbackPage Count 172Imprint Chiddingstone Churches PccPublisher Chiddingstone Churches PccWeight(grams) 426g

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Christopher Lawrence's critical overview of medicine's place in the development of modern Britain examines the significance of the clinical encounter in contemporary society. * first short synoptic study of its kind * breaks new ground by bringing...

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

This is the first major re-assessment of Ivan the Terrible to be published in the West in the post-Soviet period. It breaks away from older stereotypes of the tsar - whether as 'crazed tyrant' and 'evil genius', on the one hand, or as a 'great and wise...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060929176Author Enrique KrauzeFormat PaperbackPage Count 896Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 837gDimensions(mm)...

King Jaja was one of the most remarkable African leaders of the nineteenth century. Sold at an early age into domestic slavery, he rose to become a chief and eventually to found his own state, Opobo. As an African statesman, he sought to preserve the...

Israel's Wars is a fascinating and essential insight into the turbulent history of this troubled country which, since its foundation, has endured almost constant violence. Bringing its coverage up to date with recent conflicts, this fourth edition...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911238188Author Victor HugoFormat HardbackPage Count 52Imprint Classic Comic Store LtdPublisher Classic Comic Store Ltd

Eros: The Myth of Ancient Greek Sexuality is a controversial book that lays bare the meanings Greeks gave to sex. Contrary to the romantic idealization of sex dominating our culture, the Greeks saw eros as a powerful force of nature, potentially...

In Uniting the Kingdom? a group of the most distinguished historians from Britain and Ireland assemble to consider the question of British identity spanning the period from the Middle Ages to the present. Traditional chronological and regional frontiers...

This book provides the first major analysis of the covenanted interest from an integrated three kingdoms perspective. It examines the reaction of the covenanted interest to the actions and policies of the Commonwealth and Protectorate, drawing particular...

Since the civil rights era of the 1960s, revisionist historians have been sympathetic to the racial justice motivations of the Radical Republican Reconstruction policies that followed the Civil War. But this emphasis on positive goals and accomplishments...

Professor Woolrych surveys the establishment and history if the Commonwealth and Protectorate, first explaining how the country lost its king, and how Oliver Cromwell became Lord Protector. Professor Woolrych challenges accepted views on the nature of...

Professor Woolrych surveys the establishment and history if the Commonwealth and Protectorate, first explaining how the country lost its king, and how Oliver Cromwell became Lord Protector. Professor Woolrych challenges accepted views on the nature of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781569026649Author Edgar J. RidleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 140Imprint Red Sea Press,U.S.Publisher Red Sea Press,U.S.

This welcome second edition of A History of Eastern Europe provides a thematic historical survey of the formative processes of political, social and economic change which have played paramount roles in shaping the evolution and development of the region...

Few countries provoke as much passion and controversy as Israel. What is Modern Israel? convincingly demonstrates that its founding ideology - Zionism - is anything but a simple reaction to antisemitism. Dispelling the notion that every Jew is a Zionist...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781669824046Author Tom BorcherFormat PaperbackPage Count 366Imprint Xlibris UsPublisher Xlibris UsWeight(grams) 535gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 21mm

The year 2016 marked the twenty-fifth anniversary of statutory teaching and learning about the Holocaust in English state-maintained schools, which was introduced with the first English National Curriculum in 1991. The year 2016 also saw the publication...

In The Night Battles, Carlo Ginzburg does more than introduce his readers to a novel group of supposed witches - the Benandanti, from the northern Italian province of Friulia. He also invents and deploys new and creative ways of tackling his source...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911043195Author Dane LoveFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Carn Publishing ltdPublisher Carn Publishing ltd

How peace has been made and maintained, experienced and imagined is not only a matter of historical interest, but also of pressing concern. Peace: A World History is the first study to explore the full spectrum of peace and peacemaking from prehistoric...

Centuries of Meditations is a devotional manual from the English literary Thomas Traherne; undiscovered for over 200 years, this manuscript was first published in the early 20th century. During his lifetime Thomas Traherne was primarily famed for his...

The Iberian World: 1450-1820 brings together, for the first time in English, the latest research in Iberian studies, providing in-depth analysis of fifteenth- to early nineteenth-century Portugal and Spain, their European possessions, and the African,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912676750Author Elaine ThorntonFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdPublisher Vallentine Mitchell & Co Ltd

This is a compelling account of the First World War. It offers clear analysis of the war on land, sea, and air, and considers the impact of the war on Europe's civilian population. Issues addressed include the relationship between war and...

In this fascinating, timely and engaging study, Lucy Noakes examines women's role in the army and female military organizations during the First and Second World Wars, during peacetime, in the interwar era and in the post-war period. Providing a unique...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910089453Author Michael MansonFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Tangent BooksPublisher Tangent BooksWeight(grams) 200gDimensions(mm) 215mm * 140mm *...

In this second edition of The Israel/Palestine Question, Ilan Pappe showcases some of the most recent areas of scholarly interest in the history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Including only works which challenge previous conceptions and paradigms,...

Ireland's Great Famine of 1845-52 was among the most devastating food crises in modern history. A country of some eight-and-a-half-million people lost one million to hunger and disease and another million to emigration. According to land activist Michael...

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Bethlem Hospital, popularly known as "Bedlam", is a unique institution. Now seven hundred and fifty years old, it has been continuously involved in the care of the mentally ill in London since at least the 1400s. As such it has a strong claim to be the...

This book is about a couple, not a single, dominant ruler. Thus it raises issues of gender, and the dynamics of a marriage over thirty-five years, as well as the practice of monarchical power. The reader sees Ferdinand and Isabella struggle to establish...

Covers both the expansion and the decline of the British Empire and the reasons behind this sudden eclipse in power.Reviews'A concise, balanced account of the past hundred years of British history, and as such bids fair to become a standard work.' Times...

Covers both the expansion and the decline of the British Empire and the reasons behind this sudden eclipse in power.Reviews'A concise, balanced account of the past hundred years of British history, and as such bids fair to become a standard work.' Times...

In the tradition of the best writing on human behaviour and moral choices in the face of disaster, physician and reporter Sheri Fink reconstructs five days at New Orleans' Memorial Medical Center during Hurricane Katrina and draws the reader into the...