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Five Parishes in Late Medieval and Tudor London presents linked microhistorical studies of five London parishes, using their own parish records to reconstruct their individual operations, religious practices, and societies. The parish was a foundational...

Mummies, Cannibals and Vampires charts in vivid detail the largely forgotten history of European corpse medicine, which saw kings, ladies, gentlemen, priests and scientists prescribe, swallow or wear human blood, flesh, bone, fat, brains and skin in an...

Praise for the first edition:'It is difficult to imagine another book in which one could find all this diverse material, and no doubt Amt's collection, in its richness, and in its genuine clarity and simplicity will takes prominent place in our expanded,...

This work shows the extent to which the shipping of Africans to the Americas continued after the Abolition Act of 1807.Book InformationISBN 9781138976849Author Christopher LloydFormat PaperbackPage Count 344Imprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor & Francis...

The United Kingdom faces with two major federal constitutional debates. The first is about the nations which comprise the British state and hence the division of power between Westminster and regional parliaments of Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060744816Author Sean WilentzFormat PaperbackPage Count 564Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 700g

The notorious concentration camp system was a central pillar of the Third Reich, supporting the Nazi war against political, racial and social outsiders whilst also intimidating the population at large. Established during the first months of the Nazi...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908332042Author E. Patricia DennisonFormat HardbackPage Count 507Imprint Society of Antiquaries of ScotlandPublisher Society of Antiquaries of Scotland

This introduction to Suez covers the background to the crisis, the invasion, and its aftermath. The Suez-Crisis provides:* key documents, as primary sources, incorporated in the text* an extensive range of other source material, including images*...

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...

1940 was the most significant year in European history this century. For Britain it was 'the finest hour', the beginning of the People's War. Britain and 1940 explores what the year meant for the people of Britain then and now.Covering the pre-history of...

Collecting together essays written by an international set of contributors, this book provides an important contribution to the emerging field of disability history. It explores changes in understandings of deformity and disability between the sixteenth...

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

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...

Donations to the Knights Hospitaller in Britain and Ireland, 1291-1400 is the first study of donations to the Knights Hospitaller throughout England and Ireland during the late-thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. The book demonstrates that patrons...

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)...

What was medicine like in the time of Shakespeare and Oliver Cromwell? How did Charles I cure a headache, or Samuel Pepys get rid of kidney stones? Katherine Knight opens up the delights of the Stuart medicine cabinet in this fascinating romp through...

First Published in 1991. Reshaping Rural England covers the crucial period of English rural history from the high point of Britain's agricultural power in the 1850s and 1860s through to the grim years of the inter-war period. Uncovering many of the myths...

Barbara Cherish's upbringing in Nazi-occupied Poland was one of relative wealth and comfort. But her father's senior position in the Nazi Party meant that she and her brothers and sisters lived on a knife edge. In 1943 he became commandant of perhaps the...

Barbara Cherish's upbringing in Nazi-occupied Poland was one of relative wealth and comfort. But her father's senior position in the Nazi Party meant that she and her brothers and sisters lived on a knife edge. In 1943 he became commandant of perhaps the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911043102Author Dane LoveFormat HardbackPage Count 360Imprint Carn Publishing ltdPublisher Carn Publishing ltd

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...

The county borough of Wrexham is rich in folklore, with an abundance of tales to capture the wonders of the Welsh landscape and all its denizens, both real and imaginary: animal, human and even superhuman. This collection, which includes both traditional...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857043689Author David ParkerFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint HalsgrovePublisher Halsgrove

This invaluable account provides an excellent introduction to the nature and mechanics of Napoleon's power, and how he used it. It explores Napoleon's rise to fame as a soldier of the French Revolution and his aims and achievements as first consul and...

This invaluable account provides an excellent introduction to the nature and mechanics of Napoleon's power, and how he used it. It explores Napoleon's rise to fame as a soldier of the French Revolution and his aims and achievements as first consul and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780851246338Author Tony BennFormat PaperbackPage Count 24Imprint Spokesman BooksPublisher Spokesman Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062370860Author Eric FonerFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 265gDimensions(mm) 203mm...

Through the medium of old photographs, programmes and advertisements, this book provides a fascinating look at the history of cinema-going in the city of Bristol and its suburbs during the last century. From mobile cinemas to penny gaffs, this A-Z of...

Through the medium of old photographs, programmes and advertisements, this book provides a fascinating look at the history of cinema-going in the city of Bristol and its suburbs during the last century. From mobile cinemas to penny gaffs, this A-Z of...

Medieval Scandinavia went through momentous changes. Regional power centres merged and gave birth to the three strong kingdoms of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden. At the end of the Middle Ages, they together formed the enormous Kalmar Union comprising almost...

In deference to the wishes of innumerable readers and at fantastic trouble and expense, we are able to here present a collection of extracts from that learned work, long in preparation but still unpublished, treating upon the fascinating but difficult...

The Russo-Japanese war of 1904-5 has been seen as the turning point of the development of the modern world. Written by a specialist in Japanese diplomacy, this book has been described by the Times Higher Education Supplement as 'diplomatic history at its...

Damascus, first published in 2005, was the first account in English of the history of the city, bringing out the crucial role it has played at many points in the region's past. It traces the story of this colourful, significant and complex city through...

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...

The Turkic Peoples in World History is a thorough and rare introduction to the Turkic world and its role in world history, providing a concise history of the Turkic peoples as well as a critical discussion of their identities and origins.The "Turks"...

Modern historians of the Normans have tended to treat their enterprises andachievements as a series of separate and discrete histories. Such treatments arevalid and valuable, but historical understanding of the Normans also dependsas much on broader...

Can animals be persons? To this question, scientific and philosophical consensus has taken the form of a resounding, 'No!' In this book, Mark Rowlands disagrees. Not only can animals be persons, many of them probably are. Taking, as his starting point,...

During the Second World War photographic film was rationed and photography was strictly controlled. Despite these limitations it is surprising how many pictures of the war years have survived, often hidden away in photograph albums or school and company...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Edgar Allan Poe Awards (Fact Crime) 1965.Book InformationISBN 9780679723127Author Anthony LewisFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random...