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First published in 1975. Using estate records, local newspapers and parliamentary papers, this book focuses upon two central and interrelated subjects - the rural economy and the land question - from the perspective of Cork, Ireland's southernmost...

This book is the first of its kind to engage explicitly with the practice of conceptual history as it relates to the study of the Middle Ages, exploring the pay-offs and pitfalls of using concepts in medieval history. Concepts are indispensable to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780244777401Author Lucy La ZoucheFormat PaperbackPage Count 210Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.comWeight(grams) 517g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781840339314Author Frank BeattieFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Stenlake PublishingPublisher Stenlake PublishingDimensions(mm) 174mm * 240mm * 4mm

Europe on Trial explores the history of collaboration, retribution, and resistance during World War II. These three themes are examined through the experiences of people and countries under German occupation, as well as Soviet, Italian, and other...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781780915661Author Michael RichardsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 263Imprint JMD MediaPublisher JMD Media

Nearly twenty years after it ceased to exist as a multinational federation, Yugoslavia still has the power to provoke controversy and debate. Bringing together contributions from twelve of the leading scholars of modern and contemporary South East...

In this unconventional and accessible history, Italian best-seller Alberto Angela literally follows the money to map the reach and power of the Roman Empire. To see a map of the Roman Empire at the height of its territorial expansion is to be struck by...

Professor David Taylor has established a fine reputation for his books and articles on the history of policing in England. This book on Huddersfield policing looks at the mid-nineteenth century and issues facing the local area in relation to policing a...

Bernard Alford reviews the changing role, and diminishing influence, of Britain within the international economy across the century that saw the apogee and loss of Britain's empire, and her transformation from globe-straddling superpower to off-shore and...

Originally published in 1993, Modalities in Medieval Philosophy looks at the idea of modality as multiplicity of reference with respect to alternative domains. The book examines how this emerged in early medieval discussions and addresses how it was...

"A rich historical pastiche of 17th- and 18th-century philosophy, science, and religion."-G. Y. Craig, New Scientist "This book, by a distinguished Italian historian of philosophy, is a worthy successor to the author's important works on Francis Bacon...

In this newly revised and updated 2nd edition of Voices of Early Modern Japan, Constantine Nomikos Vaporis offers an accessible collection of annotated historical documents of an extraordinary period in Japanese history, ranging from the unification of...

The Great Fire of 1666 was one of the greatest catastrophes to befall London in its long history. While its impact on London and its built environment has been studied and documented, its impact on Londoners has been overlooked. This book makes full and...

Dreams and Lives in Ottoman Istanbul explores biography writing and dream narratives in seventeenth-century Istanbul. It focuses on the prominent biographer 'Ata'i (d. 1637) and with his help shows how learned circles narrated dreams to assess their...

The period between 1830 and 1880 was one of immense activity, radical political change, and striking economic and social growth in Europe. The major themes of the struggles between individuals, parties and classes within the state, and between the states...

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

Merriam Press Military History. Lika is a region of Croatia known for its soldiers and poverty. This history of Lika has been divided into four epochs: the first, ancient Lika, when Lika was part of the Roman Empire; the second, Slav-Croatian Lika, that...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780670092246Author Gautam SenFormat HardbackPage Count 270Imprint PenguinPublisher Penguin Random House IndiaDimensions(mm) 240mm * 160mm * 30mm

Representing a new wave of research and analysis on Nazi human experiments and coerced research, the chapters in this volume deliberately break from a top-down history limited to concentration camp experiments under the control of Himmler and the SS...

Through an explanation of forty figures in European culture, ^The Seduction of the Mediterranean> argues that the Mediterranean, classical and contemporary, was the central theme in homoerotic writing and art from the 1750s to the 1950s. Episodes of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780989396288Author G Vale OwenFormat PaperbackPage Count 724Imprint Square Circles PublishingPublisher Square Circles PublishingWeight(grams)...

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 *...

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

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)...

Since at least the Reformation, English men and women have been engaged in visiting, exploring and portraying, in words and images, the landscape of their nation. The Invention of the English Landscape examines these journeys and investigations to...

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...

The Routledge Companion to Nazi Germany combines a concise narrative overview with chronological, bibliographical and tabular information to cover all major aspects of Nazi Germany. This user-friendly guide provides a comprehensive survey of key topics...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781874336617Author Jo ThomasFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint The Dovecote PressPublisher The Dovecote Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781874336617Author Jo ThomasFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint The Dovecote PressPublisher The Dovecote Press

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...

This pioneering study tells the story of the emergence of rural workers' gardens during a period of unprecedented economic and social change in the most dynamic and prosperous region of Scotland. Much criticised as weed-infested, badly cultivated and...

Why are our environmental problems still growing despite a huge increase in global conservation efforts? Peterson del Mar untangles this paradox by showing how prosperity is essential to environmentalism. Industrialization drove people to look for...

The Sunderland Empire is one of the grand old provincial theatres. This collection of more than 150 archive photographs is a comprehensive history of the building. It charts the evolution of the Empire from the days of Victorian music hall to the Girl...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789189425897Author Mattias HesserusFormat HardbackPage Count 300Imprint Stolpe PublishingPublisher Stolpe PublishingWeight(grams) 740g

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...

In order to truly understand the emergence, endurance, and legacy of autocracy, this volume of engaging essays explores how autocratic power is acquired, exercised, and transferred or abruptly ended through the careers and politics of influential figures...

The history of the early Slavs is a subject of renewed interest and one which is highly controversial both politically and historically. This pioneering text reviews the latest archaelogical (and other) evidence concerning the first settlers, their...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312420451Author Paul SteinbergFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint St. Martins Press-3PLPublisher St. Martins Press-3PLWeight(grams) 232g