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Cocaine examines the rise and fall of this notorious substance from its legitimate use by scientists and medics in the nineteenth century to the international prohibitionist regimes and drug gangs of today. Themes explored include: * Amsterdam's complex...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781937236540Author David L ChalkleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 130Imprint Havergal TrustPublisher Havergal TrustWeight(grams) 181g

Based on extensive historical, literary and political research, this text examines the relationship between ideas and political and social reality. It explains why the aspirations of Irish nationalism have failed to modify the facts of Irish political...

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Marlene LeGates has written a thorough, lively and accessible overview of Western feminist movements from the Middle Ages through the latter twentieth century. With each chapter containing a timeline and brief excerpts from primary source documents, the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907154034Author Tim JenkinsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 124Imprint Polystar PressPublisher Polystar Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780989813747Author Looking Outward LLCFormat PaperbackPage Count 286Imprint Recipe PublishersPublisher Recipe PublishersWeight(grams) 386gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781780914442Author Austin J. RuddyFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint DB PublishingPublisher DB Publishing

The study of past society in terms of what it consumes rather than what it produces is - relatively speaking - a new development. The focus on consumption changes the whole emphasis and structure of historical enquiry. While human beings usually work...

***Winner of an English PEN Award 2021*** During the 1948 war more than 750,000 Palestinian Arabs fled or were violently expelled from their homes by Zionist militias. The legacy of the Nakba - which translates to 'disaster' or 'catastrophe' - lays...

World History has rapidly grown to become one of the most popular and talked about approaches to the study of history. World History: The Basics introduces this fast-growing field and addresses key questions such as: What is world history? How do we...

This book was the first broad expose of the social and environmental damage inflicted by the growth of corporate agriculture in California. Factories in the Field--together with the work of Dorothea Lange, Paul Taylor, and John Steinbeck--dramatizes the...

The core of the book focuses on tragic costume in its original performance context of fifth-century Athens, but the implications of subsequent uses in Roman and more recent performances are also taken into consideration.Most importantly, the reader is...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788195839414Author Rahul GovindFormat HardbackPage Count 376Imprint Tulika BooksPublisher Tulika BooksWeight(grams) 666g

Money, power, and celebrity - the stuff of Hollywood is also substance of politics. While Hollywood celebrities such as Susan Sarandon, George Clooney, and Ed Begley Jr. currently attract attention from the media for their involvement in politics,...

"Someday" Big Fred Hewett used to say in his Humboldt Saloon in Aberdeen, Washington, "these pictures will show how the boys used to do it." He knew the day would come when the Pacific Northwest's "Big Woods" would be only a fog-blurred memory and the...

Albert and Jennie Barnitz "were both perceptive, articulate individuals who fully realized that they were involved in fascinating historically important events. They have left a record of frontier military life that can scarcely be matched elsewhere.....

Stuart England is an invaluable introduction to the political, religious and social history of seventeenth-century England. It provides a wide-ranging and lively account of core events, drawing on both contemporary sources and the latest interpretations...

Fran Randle, Bill Shankly, Violet Carson, Les Dawson, Gracie Fields, as well as tacklers, overlookers, weavers and other mill workers, were interviewed for this gem of a book. A tackler comes to Oldham, in the pouring rain, and knocks on a door. Landlady...

The Industrial Revolution remains a defining moment in the economic history of the modern world. But what kind and how much of a revolution was it? And what kind of ?moment? could it have been? These are just some of the larger questions among the many...

A wide-ranging and fact-filled compendium of influential women, all with a connection to the Reading area. Some are well known international names, others deserve to be. They are pioneers, familiar faces, recognisable voices, unsung heroes, campaigners,...

"India by Design: Colonial History and Cultural Display" maps for the first time a series of historical events - from the Raj in the mid-nineteenth century up to the present day - through which India was made fashionable to Western audiences within the...

A third selection of photographs of the Hampshire town of Fleet from the archives of local author Percy Vickery. Chapters include work, people, street scenes, sport and pastimes and wartime and provide a comprehensive history of the town and its...

What Time is it There? is a history of worlds that encounter each other without ever meeting. The title comes from a film by Tsai Ming-liang which explores the desire to conquer the barriers of space and time by abolishing time differences and inventing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780244346386Author Kieran JamesFormat PaperbackPage Count 58Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.comWeight(grams) 100g

This is the first English translation of Robert the Monk's Historia Iherosolimitana, a Latin prose chronicle describing the First Crusade. In addition to providing new and unique information on the Crusade (Robert claims to have been an eyewitness of the...

This celebrated account of the decline of the ancient world describes the fall of the Roman Empire and the beginning of the emergence of the new medieval European order.Book InformationISBN 9780582483095Author A.H.M. JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count...

This celebrated account of the decline of the ancient world describes the fall of the Roman Empire and the beginning of the emergence of the new medieval European order.Book InformationISBN 9780582483095Author A.H.M. JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780953230587Author Sean T BeagFormat PaperbackPage Count 182Imprint Compositions by CarnPublisher Compositions by CarnWeight(grams) 195g

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...

A superb text for teaching the philosophy of Descartes, this volume includes all his major works in their entirety, important selections from his lesser known writings, and key selections from his philosophical correspondence. The result is an anthology...

Field Marshal Alexander Leslie was the highest ranking commander from the British Isles to serve in the Thirty Years' War. Though Leslie's life provides the thread that runs through this work, the authors use his story to explore the impacts of the...

A selection of images of Windsor and Eton around the turn of the 20th century. Featuring daily lives of Windsorians and Etonians, military parades, Windsor Castle, parties and social gatherings, regattas and many royal reviews, the book gives an...

In the summer of 2014, and later again in spring 2017, a scandal arose in relation to the Tuam Children's Home in Galway in Ireland. It was alleged that the nuns who looked after children there from 1925-61 had maltreated them. This third edition book...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780952465317Author David StephensonFormat PaperbackPage Count 117Imprint Great Oak BookshopPublisher Great Oak BookshopWeight(grams) 230gDimensions(mm)...

In this concise introduction to the history of cartography, Norman J. W. Thrower charts the intimate links between maps and history from antiquity to the present day. A wealth of illustrations, including the oldest known map and contemporary examples...

Some studies of ancient Roman masculinities have concentrated on the private aspects of the subject, particularly sexuality, and have drawn conclusions from a narrow field of reference, usually rhetorical practice. In contrast, this 2006 book examines...

Geoffrey Parker has remarked that the Spanish Armada, though a disastrous defeat, was a considerable psychological success. Deep into the seventeenth century the specter of a returning armada haunted England. Twice in the middle of James I's reign alarms...

With an interdisciplinary approach that encompasses political history, the history of ideas, cultural history and art history, The Victorian World offers a sweeping survey of the world in the nineteenth century.This volume offers a fresh evaluation of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789389821826Author Albert John NunnamakerFormat PaperbackPage Count 254Imprint Lector HousePublisher Lector HouseWeight(grams) 395gDimensions(mm) 234mm *...