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First published in 1998Book InformationISBN 9780415761017Author Sir Robert SchomburgFormat PaperbackPage Count 768Imprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor & Francis LtdWeight(grams) 1420g

John Gooch's book is a concise introduction to the unification of the Italian states and the legacy of this union. Starting in 1815 at the end of the Napoleonic Wars, the book goes on to explain how, despite the causes of disunity, these Italian states...

This work presents a composite view of medieval English university life. The author offers detailed insights into the social and economic conditions of the lives of students, their teaching masters and fellows. The experiences of college benefactors,...

Focusing on the impact of Continental religious warfare on the society, politics and culture of English, Scottish and Irish Protestantism, this study is concerned with the way in which British identity developed in the early Stuart period.Book...

Guildford still retains much of its 'Olde Worlde' charm into the twenty-first century; it is what makes it such a popular place for tourists from all over the world who come and take photographs of the Guildhall, the Castle and the picturesque River Wey...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781528928458Author David BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

Enormously rich and wide-ranging, The Routledge Companion to Britain in the Eighteenth Century brings together, in one handy reference, a wide range of essential information on the major aspects of eighteenth century British history.The information...

This is a unique, eye-witness account of everyday life right at the heart of the Nazi extermination machine. Slomo Venezia was born into a poor Jewish-Italian community living in Thessaloniki, Greece. At first, the occupying Italians protected his...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781391808Author Sir Frederick TrevesFormat PaperbackPage Count 106Imprint Benediction ClassicsPublisher Benediction ClassicsWeight(grams)...

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...

From church establishment figure to revolutionary, supporter of Napoleon Bonaparte to promoter of the Bourbon Restoration, the twists and turns of Charles Maurice Prince de Talleyrand's remarkable career through one of the most turbulent periods of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780369386878Author Harry SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 684Imprint ReadHowYouWantPublisher ReadHowYouWantWeight(grams) 848g

In this interpretation of the seven extant tragedies of Sophocles, Professor Winnington-Ingram provides not so much a straightforward account of Sophocles as an exploration of his tragic vision of the world. The Sophoclean 'hero' lies at the centre of...

This Sourcebook tells the momentous history of China since 1919 from the viewpoints of participants. Over 150 extracts from political statements, telegrams, speeches, memoirs, letters and poems illuminate the historical development of China from the May...

Beyond Women's Words unites feminist scholars, artists, and community activists working with the stories of women and other historically marginalized subjects to address the contributions and challenges of doing feminist oral history. Feminists who work...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857042828Author Steve SilkFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint HalsgrovePublisher Halsgrove

This book argues that the striking resemblances in Spanish and Puritan discourses of colonization as "exorcism" and as spiritual gardening point to a common Atlantic history. These resemblances suggest that we are better off if we simply consider the...

A highly original and critical introduction to the revolutionary and napoleonic conflicts. It illuminates the less well-known areas of the subject, such as the changing atttitude of the French people towards Napoleon, as well as providing a balanced...

Join the more than 1 million students who have used Spielvogel's texts to succeed in their Western civilization course. There's a reason why WESTERN CIVILIZATION is a bestseller: It makes history come alive. Updated with the most current scholarship, the...

Stalin was a master of deception, disinformation, and camouflage, by means of which he gained supremacy over China and defeated imperialism on Chinese soil. This book examines Stalin's covert operations in his hunt for supremacy.By the late 1920s Britain...

Association football, as it developed rapidly in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, both reflected British society and helped to reshape it. In this newly released edition of Tony Mason's essential account of the game's rise, focusing on...

The Spanish Civil War was one of the bloodiest conflicts of the modern era. This book covers:* its background with the fall of the monarchy and the Second Republic* Franco and Fascism* the conflict itself* the role of foreign powers* the legacy of the...

The Spanish Civil War was one of the bloodiest conflicts of the modern era. This book covers:* its background with the fall of the monarchy and the Second Republic* Franco and Fascism* the conflict itself* the role of foreign powers* the legacy of the...

The bounteous pleasures of married life have been endured by stoical, ingenious men and women for millennia. 'How to be Happy Though Married' is a compendium of their hard-won wisdom, offering advice for any conceivable conjugal conundrum, from the...

The intensely political cultural production that erupted during Hungary's short-lived Soviet Republic of 1919 encompassed music, art, literature, film and theatre. Painting the Town Red is the little-known history of these developments. The book...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060009779Author John MosierFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint HarperPerennialPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 308gDimensions(mm)...

Rome engulfed first her near neighbours, then Italy and finally much of the known world. Her expansion was so successful that the history and culture of her main rivals, the Samnites, is too often overlooked. The author describes Samnium and the language...

Local history of Balsall Heath and HighgateBook InformationISBN 9780750929172Author Alan HemmingFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint The History Press LtdPublisher The History Press LtdWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 244mm * 172mm * 10mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909054080Author Bryan DunleavyFormat PaperbackPage Count 254Imprint Magic Flute PublicationsPublisher Magic Flute Publishing LtdDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Originally published in 1964, this book holds the story of Italian Fascism and its leader up to the light. Gallo explains how Fascism triumphed in Italy, what it did to and for that country, and what its heritage is for present-day Italy. The character...

Did you know about the church in Ethiopia that claims to have the Lost Ark? How about the time it rained for two million years? Or the engineer working with the US Navy who developed the Slinky toy? We've all been taught about Tutankhamun and Henry...

Uses manifesto analysis to measure political nationalism in Scotland. Murray Stewart Leith and Daniel P. J. Soule explore the importance of groups, concepts and events such as the SNP and devolution, unionism, the political elite, political and public...

This is the story of those villages now engulfed by Milton Keynes. A time when all the cows were real. Compiled in the late 1970s the content was serialised in the local press, and the contemporary descriptions refer to that period. A time when Milton...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781841143309Author Kenneth RickardFormat HardbackPage Count 152Imprint HalsgrovePublisher Halsgrove

Written by an experienced author and expert in the field, Wars of the French Revolution and Napoleon, 1792-1815 provides a thorough re-examination of the crucial period in the history of France for students of history and military studies.Based on...

A History of the Islamic World, 600-1800 supplies a fresh and unique survey of the formation of the Islamic world and the key developments that characterize this broad region's history from late antiquity up to the beginning of the modern era.Containing...

This volume offers a new translation of Plutarch's three treatises on animals-On the Cleverness of Animals, Whether Beasts Are Rational, and On Eating Meat-accompanied by introductions and explanatory commentaries. The accompanying commentaries are...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060084332Author John MosierFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncDimensions(mm) 204mm * 133mm * 23mm

Lorenzo Valla (1407-1457) was the most important theorist of the humanist movement. He wrote a major work on Latin style, On Elegance in the Latin Language, which became a battle-standard in the struggle for the reform of Latin across Europe, and...

The goal of this project is to locate the origins and development of modern thought in the United States and East Asia in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. While a strong literature on post-war modernization exists, there is a gap in the...