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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060932534Author Richard ShultzFormat PaperbackPage Count 412Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 360gDimensions(mm)...

A critical analysis of Centuries of Childhood, in which the French historian Philippe Aries offers a fundamentally fresh interpretation of what childhood is and what the institution means for society at large. Aries's core idea is that 'childhood,' as we...

The act of translation, Tejaswini Niranjana maintains, is a political action. Niranjana draws on Benjamin, Derrida, and de Man to show that translation has long been a site for perpetuating the unequal power relations among people, races, and languages...

Tracking the changing representation of female gender-crossing in the press, this text breaks new ground to reveal findings where both desire between women and cross-gender identification are understood. Her Husband was a Woman! exposes real-life case...

What has between the `radical' and the `conservative' right in twentieth-century Europe? In Fascists and Conservatives thirteen distinguished authorities on the European right explore this major theme within Italy, Germany, Spain, Portugal, France,...

Perth in Old Photographs is the most comprehensive title on its subject ever published. Through a lively and intimate mixture of rare photographs gleaned from private and public sources, this book presents a fascinating and wide-ranging record of life in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781840331981Author John HannaFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Stenlake PublishingPublisher Stenlake Publishing

Cutting through over half a century of historical build-up, this new and convincing account of World War II uses a global perspective to explain the complicated course in military terms. Black, a distinguished military historian , bucks the current trend...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781840339437Author Patricia NewmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Stenlake PublishingPublisher Stenlake Publishing

The chronicle of Arnold, Abbot of the monastery of St John of Lubeck, is one of the most important sources for the history of Germany in the central Middle Ages, and is also probably the major source for German involvement in the Crusades. The work was...

A collection of images and captions.Book InformationISBN 9780752434506Author Ray PrestonFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint The History Press LtdPublisher The History Press LtdWeight(grams) 300gDimensions(mm) 235mm * 165mm * 8mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781639881710Author Chris FozzardFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Atmosphere PressPublisher Atmosphere PressWeight(grams) 240gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780957241398Author Henry HawkesFormat PaperbackPage Count 206Imprint Life is AmazingPublisher Life is Amazing

In 1938 the British Government's Code and Cypher School moved to Bletchley Park and laid the foundation for Britain's best kept secret: an organisation that would be instrumental to shortening the war and turning it in the Allies' favour. From this quiet...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781847840646Author Gilbert Torrance BellImprint Alan Godfrey MapsPublisher Alan Godfrey Maps

Most people don't give a second thought to the stuff on their head, but hair has played a crucial role in in fashion, the arts, sports, commerce, forensics, and industry. In Hair, Kurt Stenn - one of the world's foremost hair follicle experts - takes...

Introduction to Global Military History provides a lucid and comprehensive account of military developments around the modern world from the eighteenth century up to the present day.Beginning with the background to the American War of Independence and...

Today we take it for granted that history is much more than the story of great men and the elites from which they spring. Other forms of history - the histories of gender, class, rebellion and nonconformity - add much-needed context and color to our...

Some people make photo albums, collect antiques, or visit historic battlefields. Others keep diaries, plan annual family gatherings, or stitch together patchwork quilts in a tradition learned from grandparents. Each of us has ways of communing with the...

Including both attention to strategic policies in Britain and France and personal accounts of colonial soldiers, The War for American Independence provides an unprecedented view of America's struggle for independence in its world context. With wit,...

Imperial Germany focuses on the domestic political developments of the period, putting them into context through a balanced guide to the economic and social background, culture and foreign policy.This important study explores the tensions caused within...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780244632816Author George AyresFormat PaperbackImprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.comWeight(grams) 630g

Time is no barrier to dreams. Two Saxon boy soldiers become unlikely friends. One is fighting alongside his father protecting King Harold in 1066. The other is in a school re-enactment. Together at the horrific conclusion of the Battle of...

An ideal volume for lovers of Venice and architecture aficionados, combining in-depth history of this singular city with more than 100 color photographs and maps. Of Venice's many majestic spaces, none is as evocative and significant as the Piazza San...

The civil war in 1989 promised freedom from ten years of vicious dictatorship; instead the seeds of Liberia's devastation were sown. Mark Huband's account of the conflict is a portrayal of the war as it unfolded, drawing on the author's experience of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907154065Author Patrick TaylorFormat PaperbackPage Count 84Imprint Polystar PressPublisher Polystar PressDimensions(mm) 234mm * 154mm * 6mm

Thomas Hobbes is a towering figure in the history of modern thought and political philosophy. He remains best remembered for his 1651 treatise on government, Leviathan, a work that shows at the very best the reasoning skills of a deeply original and...

The typical town springs up around a natural resource-a river, an ocean, an exceptionally deep harbor-or in proximity to a larger, already thriving town. Not so with "new towns," which are created by decree rather than out of necessity and are often...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781935408994Author Peter SahlinsFormat HardbackPage Count 492Imprint Zone BooksPublisher Zone Books

In contrast to its brutal seizure of the Balkans, the Italian Army's 1940-1943 relatively mild occupation of the French Riviera and nearby alpine regions bred the myth of the Italian brava gente, or good fellow, an agreeable occupier who abstained from...

This is a delightful collection of memories from the golden age of cinema in Manchester. Filled with archive images, it recalls courting days and war-time air raids, the stars, the staff and all the magic of the silver screen.Book InformationISBN...

Medicine in Modern Britain 1780-1950 provides an introduction to the development of medicine - scientific and heterodox, domestic and professional - in Britain from the end of the early modern period and through modern times. Divided thematically, each...

The Glasgow Enlightenment is widely regarded as the first book to explore the nature and accomplishments of the Enlightenment in eighteenth-century Glasgow in a comprehensive manner. In addition to a general introduction by the editors, there are seven...

Crosses are a quintessential part of the English countryside. Whether standing proud in the village market place or hidden beneath ivy in a forgotten corner of the churchyard, each has its own story to tell. Many of these crosses have ancient origins,...

On the nights of November 9 and 10, 1938, rampaging mobs throughout Germany and the newly acquired territories of Austria and Sudetenland freely attacked Jews in the street, in their homes and at their places of work and worship. At least 96 Jews were...

Between May and October 1940, following Hitler's invasion of western Europe and the evacuation of the Expeditionary Force from Dunkirk, it was feared that the Germans would invade Britain. Over a million men volunteered for the Home Guard, beaches were...

Despite reigning for only a relatively short period of time, Richard III is one of England's most controversial monarchs. His life and rule has inspired a huge amount of literature, not least Shakespeare's great play, and controversy still surrounds his...

The emperor Theodosius I (AD 379-395) was one of the most remarkable figures of the late antique period. In the face of religious schism, political turmoil, and barbarian threats he managed to maintain imperial power and forge a political dynasty that...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781789870350Author John G PatonFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint Pantianos ClassicsPublisher Pantianos ClassicsWeight(grams) 231gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781789870350Author John G PatonFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint Pantianos ClassicsPublisher Pantianos ClassicsWeight(grams) 231gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...