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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781546239741Author Agnes C Meeker MbeFormat HardbackPage Count 356Imprint AuthorhousePublisher AuthorhouseWeight(grams) 1397gDimensions(mm) 279mm * 216mm *...

The World and a Very Small Place in Africa is a fascinating look at how contacts with the wider world have affected how people have lived in Niumi, a small and little-known region at the mouth of West Africa's Gambia River, for over a thousand years...

"The Letters of Samuel Johnson" contains 52 previously unknown letters or parts of letters which have come to light since R.W. Chapman's work on the subject, published in 1952. For the first time, substantive deletions are recorded, yielding intimate...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781739660109Author Mohamed KenawiFormat PaperbackPage Count 40Imprint Manar al-AtharPublisher Manar al-Athar

Myth and the Greatest Generation calls into question the glowing paradigm of the World War II generation set up by such books as The Greatest Generation by Tom Brokaw. Including analysis of news reports, memoirs, novels, films and other cultural...

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,...

North Korea is the country with the highest number of military and paramilitary personnel in the world (nine and a half million). International organisations have declared that human rights violations there have no parallel in the modern world. It is...

What have been the most significant developments-political, social, economic-in South Africa since 1994? How much has changed since the demise of apartheid, and how much remains stubbornly the same? Should one celebrate a robust democracy now two decades...

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...

Relations between Western nations and their colonial subjects changed dramatically in the second half of the twentieth century. As nearly all of the West's colonies gained their independence by 1975, attitudes toward colonialism in the West also changed,...

Collecting is a key function of museums. Its apparent simplicity belies a complexity of questions and issues which make all collecting imprecise and unrepresentative. This book exposes the many meanings of collections, the different perspectives taken by...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780955679063Author Andrew ChuggFormat PaperbackPage Count 332Imprint AMC PublicationsPublisher AMC PublicationsWeight(grams) 489g

"A pioneering effort to trace the evolution of military power and military strategy of tsarist Russia during the rule of the Romanov dynasty."--Richard Pipes, Baird Professor of History, Harvard University.Book InformationISBN...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780368642517Author Jose CaracenaFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint BlurbPublisher BlurbWeight(grams) 345g

This fascinating work is the first overview of its subject to be published in over half a century. The issues it deals with are key to early modern political, religious and cultural history.The seventeenth century is traditionally regarded as a period of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789353426552Author Bertha UptonFormat PaperbackPage Count 40Imprint Lector HousePublisher Lector HouseWeight(grams) 77gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 156mm * 3mm

The church of the eighteenth century was still reeling in the wake of the huge religious upheavals of the two previous centuries. Though this was a comparatively quiet period, this book shows that for the whole period, religion was a major factor in the...

Traditionally, in general studies of the First World War, the Middle East is an arena of combat that has been portrayed in romanticised terms, in stark contrast to the mud, blood, and presumed futility of the Western Front. Battles fought in Egypt,...

Britain in the Twentieth Century is a new approach to teaching and learning twentieth century British history at A level. It meets the needs of teachers and students studying for today's revised AS and A2 exams.In a unique style, Britain in the Twentieth...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780955620461Author Peter ThomasFormat PaperbackPage Count 92Imprint Royd PressPublisher Royd Press

Immigration is not only a modern-day debate. Major change in Europe in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries led to a surge of political and religious refugees moving across the continent. Estimates suggest that from 1550 to 1585 around 50,000 Dutch...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486411255Author Montague SummersFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)...

The First World War appears as a fault line in Britain's twentieth-century history. Between August 1914 and November 1918 the titanic struggle against Imperial Germany and her allies consumed more people, more money and more resources than any other...

This comprehensive and authoritative history of the War of 1812, thoroughly revised for the 200th anniversary of the historic conflict, is a myth-shattering study that will inform and entertain students, historians, and general readers alike. Donald R...

Based on extensive range of Polish, British, German, Jewish and Ukranian primary and secondary sources, this work provides an objective appraisal of the inter-war period.Peter Stachura demonstrates how the Republic overcame giant obstacles at home and...

Based on extensive range of Polish, British, German, Jewish and Ukranian primary and secondary sources, this work provides an objective appraisal of the inter-war period.Peter Stachura demonstrates how the Republic overcame giant obstacles at home and...

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,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781787211391Author Kay ParrottImprint Alan Godfrey MapsPublisher Alan Godfrey Maps

The third edition of Europe 1783-1914 provides a comprehensive overview of Europe from the outbreak of the French Revolution to the origins of the First World War. William Simpson and Martin Jones combine accounts of the most important countries, notably...

This groundbreaking work brings together an important collection of essays from an international range of contributors to set globalization in its historical context.Through these thematically focused essays, the history of the world is examined in key...

This book is about the objects people owned and how they used them. Twenty-three specially written essays investigate the type of things that might have been considered 'everyday objects' in the medieval and early modern periods, and how they help us to...

When Queen Victoria died, two gentlemen embarked on a monumental task: sorting through and making sense of her vast written legacy. For the first time, a British monarch's letters - carefully edited of course - were going to be published. The men...

Mary Celeste is an iconic mystery - a perfectly seaworthy ship found wandering aimlessly at sea, her crew strangely and inexplicably missing.Paul Begg tells the story of the discovery of Mary Celeste and the people who vanished, and investigates over a...

The World of Rome is an introduction to the history and culture of Rome for students at university and at school as well as for anyone seriously interested in the ancient world. Drawing on the latest scholarship, it covers all aspects of the city - its...

The essays that comprise this collection examine the development and influence of the British General Staff from the late Victorian period until the eve of World War II. They trace the changes in the staff that influenced British military strategy and...

Byzantium's Balkan Frontier is the first narrative history in English of the northern Balkans in the tenth to twelfth centuries. Where previous histories have been concerned principally with the medieval history of distinct and autonomous Balkan nations,...

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The proliferation of 'new wars' since the end of the Cold War has forced scholars to re-open the debate about 'what is war?' For most commentators, 'new war' is 'mindless' mass action. It has become a behavioural problem. Like a disease, the risk of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788172344481Author Tarun ChopraFormat HardbackPage Count 296Imprint Prakash BooksPublisher Prakash BooksDimensions(mm) 200mm * 140mm * 40mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780988250543Author Matt KuhnsFormat PaperbackImprint Lyon Hall PressPublisher Lyon Hall PressWeight(grams) 417g