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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780244566050Author David SnowdenFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Lulu PressPublisher Lulu PressWeight(grams) 189g

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...

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,...

No written source is entirely without literary artifice, but the letters sent from Asia Minor, Syria and Palestine in the high middle ages come closest to recording the real feelings of those who lived in and visited the crusader states. They are not, of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781326194819Author Jerome BlanesFormat PaperbackPage Count 544Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.comWeight(grams) 640gDimensions(mm) 210mm * 148mm * 28mm

Develops understanding of Shakespeare's plays and their language with extensive notes and activities. Encourages students to read and enjoy Shakespeare's plays with photographs and actors' interpretations. Contains supportive exam-style questions and...

The British Isles is a multi-national arena, but its history has traditionally been studied from a distinctively English -- often, indeed, London -- perspective. Now, however, the interweaving of the distinct but mutually-dependent histories of the four...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906814755Author of Rhodius ApolloniusFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Classic Comic Store LtdPublisher Classic Comic Store LtdWeight(grams)...

British Foreign and Imperial Policy explores Britains role in International Affairs from the age of Gladstone and Disraeli to the end of the First World War, exploring such themes as Britain's involvement in the Scramble for Africa, the Anglo-Boer War,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780952343141Author Gerald CoddFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Heliotrope PublishingPublisher Heliotrope PublishingWeight(grams) 394gDimensions(mm)...

This is a timely exploration of national identity in Great Britain over nine hundred years of history. Our attitudes to the nation state are changing - national assemblies in Scotland and Wales and growing pressures for regional assemblies. In his...

America's many presidents, both famous and obscure, have been as varied as the history of the country they have ruled. Over two centuries the presidential seat has been occupied by soldiers and school teachers, judges and journalists, haberdashers,...

Colas draws on interdisciplinary debates surrounding the notion of empire, and offers a survey of different imperial experiences across time and place. Successive chapters consider the imperial organisation of political space, the role of markets in...

In late medieval and early modern Europe, definitions of blood in medical writing were slippery and changeable: blood was at once the red fluid in human veins, a humor, a substance governing crucial Galenic models of bodily change, a waste product, a...

This collection sets out to analyze the influence of women's movements on the emergence of Europe's welfare state from the 1880s to the 1950s, and the limits of that influence. It compares the women's movements - and social policies concerning women - in...

Standing alone at the bottom tip of England and despite the enormous influx of tourists it receives each year, Cornwall boasts many unique traditions. This volume touches on the wide variety of legends, songs and stories and their relationship with the...

This path--breaking book examines our attitudes to the senses from antiquity through to the present day. Robert Jutte explores a wealth of different traditions, images, metaphors and ideas that have survived through time and describes how sensual...

On the evening of 18th March 1925, a devastating fire ripped through the Marylebone premises of Madame Tussaud's. By the time the fire was extinguished the following morning, little was left of the world-famous waxworks beyond a few grotesquely distorted...

Through crusades and expulsions, Muslim communities survived for over 500 years, thriving in medieval Europe. This comprehensive study explores how the presence of Islamic minorities transformed Europe in everything from architecture to cooking,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780786886746Author Sian ReesFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint HyperionPublisher HyperionWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 213mm * 140mm * 20mm

The Routledge Atlas of American History presents a series of 163 clear and detailed maps, accompanied by informative captions, facts and figures. The complete history of America is unravelled through vivid representations of all the significant...

This book traces the diplomatic, cultural and commercial links between Constantinople and Venice from the foundation of the Venetian republic to the fall of the Byzantine Empire. It aims to show how, especially after the Fourth Crusade in 1204, the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780854951611Author Jack FishmanFormat PaperbackImprint Sapere BooksPublisher Sapere Books

This accessible guide through audience studies' histories outlines a contemporary Cultural Studies approach to audiences for the digital age. This book is not a survey of all existing audience research. Instead, its chapters survey parts of the field in...

Post-mortems may have become a staple of our TV viewing, but the long history of this practice is still little known. This book provides a fresh account of the dissections that took place across early modern Europe on those who had died of a disease or...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781789070101Author Isobel MacdonaldFormat PaperbackPage Count 276Imprint AcairPublisher Acair

Sexuality and Subordination uses the insights of a range of disciplines to examine the construction of gender in nineteenth-century Britain and France. With contributions from history, literature, sociology and philosophy, its interdisciplinary approach...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781006310546Author May SinclairFormat PaperbackPage Count 188Imprint BlurbPublisher BlurbWeight(grams) 281gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 11mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781970066166Author Robert B WhittleseyFormat PaperbackPage Count 364Imprint Toplink Publishing, LLCPublisher Toplink Publishing, LLCWeight(grams)...

The Medieval Church: A Brief History argues for the pervasiveness of the Church in every aspect of life in medieval Europe. It shows how the institution of the Church attempted to control the lives and behaviour of medieval people, for example, through...

The 1820 Scottish Rising has been increasingly studied in recent decades. This collection of essays looks especially at local players on the ground across multiple regional centres in the west of Scotland, as well as the wider political circumstances...

The P-85 Goblin was the only airplane that ever flew which was designed from scratch to be operated entirely from another airplane. The development of the B-36 by the Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corporation of Fort Worth, Texas resulted in a requirement...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781780914022Author John Ashdown-HillFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint DB PublishingPublisher DB Publishing

When Jim Lewis met the directors of the RSA Trust, the charity responsible for the concept and the running of Enfield Island Village, in January 2015, it was to discuss the commissioning of a book that would tell the story of the former government...

Pan-African History brings together Pan-Africanist thinkers and activists from the Anglophone and Francophone worlds of the past two-hundred years. Included are well-known figures such as Malcolm X, W.E.B. Du Bois, Kwame Nkrumah, and Martin Delany, and...

First published in 2006. This book contributes towards a more just appreciation of the relative importance of the different major social groups in the life of the country. It deals in the main with the economic history of the landed interest, and with...

European Navies and the Conduct of War considers the different contexts within which European navies operated over a period of 500 years culminating in World War Two, the greatest war ever fought at sea.Taking a predominantly continental point of view,...

Wakefield was an important market town in the Middle Ages, as well as an inland port on the River Calder. It prospered through trade and industry in textiles, coal mining, tanning and grain, becoming the county town of West Yorkshire in the Industrial...

During the Second World War, the British government established the Special Operations Executive (SOE) for the purpose of coordinating 'all action, by way of subversion and sabotage, against the enemy overseas'. Although the overseas operations of this...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780752411644Author Patrick DenneyFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint NPI Media GroupPublisher The History Press Ltd