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Now in its second edition, Agriculture in World History presents a unique exploration of farmers and farming, and their relationships to non-farmers and urban societies from the ancient world to the 21st century.From its origins, civilization has...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781780913889Author Phil HewittFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint DB PublishingPublisher DB Publishing

This fascinating volume of old images traces some of the development in Woking during the 1920s and early 1930s. Drawn from the archive of Woking photographer Sidney Francis, this collection of over 200 photographs, many never before published,...

Elizabeth I was Queen of England for almost forty-five years. The daughter of Henry VIII and Ann Boleyn, as an infant she was briefly accepted as her father's heir. After her mother was executed at her father's command she was declared illegitimate and...

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...

Lt. William Diebold served in the Army's Air Transport Command in the China-Burma-India theater of World War II and never fired a weapon in battle. Like many men who flew the Hump, he never saw on-the-ground combat, but he fought bravely by saving lives...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780890965726Author James K. GreerFormat PaperbackPage Count 237Imprint Texas A & M University PressPublisher Texas A & M University PressWeight(grams) 660g

Shortly after 300 AD, barbarian invaders from Inner Asia toppled China's Western Jin dynasty, leaving the country divided and at war for several centuries. Despite this, the empire gradually formed a unified imperial order. Medieval Chinese Warfare,...

In the 1930s Spain underwent a period of intense and bloody upheaval that culminated in three years of civil war and the triumph of the Nationalist rebels under General Franco. Hundreds of thousands of Spanish - and non-Spanish - people died in their...

In addition to shouldering the blame for the increasing incidence of venereal disease among sailors and soldiers, prostitutes throughout the British Empire also bore the burden of the contagious diseases ordinances that the British government passed. By...

Under chapter headings such as 'Sources of Africa's cultural fragility', 'Thinking differently about African institutions', and 'Liberating human capital', Hlumelo Biko shows how, twenty years in, this century could yet become Africa's century, as many...

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...

The Waffen SS were Hitler's elite forces during WWII. They were the forces that were feared by the enemy and praised by their allies. During the Nuremberg Trials, the Waffen SS was condemned as part of a criminal organization, however, the Nuremberg...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906814687Author H. G. WellsFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Classic Comic Store LtdPublisher Classic Comic Store LtdWeight(grams) 150gDimensions(mm)...

Professor Terence CopleyAEs new biography of Thomas Arnold combines a study of his life with an examination of ArnoldAEs influence as an educator, a theologian and a churchman. Arnold was only a Victorian for five years (he died in 1842) but he has been...

Covering the development of the Cold War from the mid-twentieth century to the present day, The Cold War 1949-2016 explores the struggle for world domination that took place between the United States and the Soviet Union following the Second World War...

In this reissue of the second edition of The Royalist War Effort, 1642-1646 Ronald Hutton places his vivid account of the Royalist War effort in modern historical context, bringing the reader up to date with recent developments in the study of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780244931575Author Sue PassmoreFormat PaperbackPage Count 520Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.comWeight(grams) 148g

Few stories are more captivating than the one told by Natalie Zemon Davis in The Return of Martin Guerre. Basing her research on records of a bizarre court case that occurred in 16th-century France, she uses the tale of a missing soldier - whose...

This paperback edition has now been reissued, alongside Alan Milward's new book The European Rescue of the Nation State.Reviews`Alan S. Milward is widely - and justly - regarded as one of the half-dozen leading economic historians of our time. To the...

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,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781619490239Author James JoyceFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint Empire BooksPublisher Empire BooksWeight(grams) 336gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 13mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781647489472Author Captivating HistoryFormat HardbackPage Count 222Imprint Captivating HistoryPublisher Captivating HistoryWeight(grams) 494gDimensions(mm)...

Decolonization brings together the most cutting-edge thinking by major historians of decolonization, including previously unpublished essays and writings by leaders of decolonizing countries including Ho Chi-Minh and Jawaharlal Nehru.The chapters in this...

Journalist Ken Anderson analyzes claims made by historian Trevor Ravenscroft and others that the Holy Lance, which is said to have pierced the side of Jesus Christ, took center stage in Hitler's life and was the focal point of Hitler's ambitions to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781614274124Author Arthur Stanley EddingtonFormat PaperbackPage Count 230Imprint Martino Fine BooksPublisher Martino Fine BooksWeight(grams)...

First Published in 1976. Sir Alec Kirkbride was born in Nottinghamshire in 1897, but grew up in Egypt. He was an army officer from 1916 to 1920 and then Deputy Resident in Transjodran from 1927 to 37. This book is a collection of his Amman Memoirs...

Gladstone and Disraeli surveys and compares the careers of these two influential Prime Ministers. Stephen J. Lee examines how Gladstone and Disraeli emerged as leaders of the two leading parties and goes on to consider their time in power, analyzing many...

This volume will appeal to all those who know and love this beautiful part of north Cornwall.Book InformationISBN 9780752411200Author Bude, Stratton & District Old Cornwall SocietyFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint The History Press LtdPublisher The...

A professional historian, author, editor, and translator, Marc Simmons has published numerous books and monographs on the Southwest as well as articles in more than twenty scholarly and popular journals.About the AuthorA professional historian, author,...

'The year has, indeed, begun in gloom. The King ill, and Kipling dead . . .' so wrote the diarist Chips Channon in 1936 as George V lay on his deathbed at Buckingham Palace. The passing of two such pillars of the establishment sent tremors through the...

The renowned historian Jenny Wormald was a ground-breaking expert on early modern Scottish history, especially Stewart kingship, noble power and wider society. She was most controversial in her book-length critique of Mary, Queen of Scots. Unfortunately,...

Underlying the current dynamics of technological developments, their divergence or convergence and the abundance of options, promises and risks they contain, is the quest for innovation, the contributors to this volume argue. The seemingly insatiable...

Originally published in 1999, Cathedrals of Consumption examines the history of the department store. After many decades in which it was almost exclusively historians of retailing and company biographers who were interested in the phenomenon, the...

Mysticism, Myth and Celtic Identity explores how the mythical and mystical past informs national imaginations. Building on notions of invented tradition and myths of the nation, it looks at the power of narrative and fiction to shape identity, with...

Sanwiched between Us-supported Thailand and Communist North Vietnam, the tranquil Buddhist kingdom of Laos - the original Shangri-La - became the centre of a major Cold War crisis in the earlyt sixties, when Mervyn Brown served there as deputy to the...

The American Civil War (1861-65) remains a searing event in the collective consciousness of the United States. It was one of the bloodiest conflicts in modern history, claiming the lives of at least 600,000 soldiers and an unknown number of civilians and...

The Routledge History of Childhood in the Western World provides an important overview of the main themes surrounding the history of childhood in the West from antiquity to the present day. By broadly incorporating the research in the field of Childhood...

US Foreign Policy since 1945 is an essential introduction to postwar US foreign policy. It combines chronologic and thematic chapters to provide an historical account of US policy and to explore key questions about its design, control and effects. New...

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