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This volume is the first comprehensive overview of women, gender and religious change in modern Britain spanning from the evangelical revival of the early 1800s to interwar debates over women's roles and ministry. This collection of pieces by key...

What is the difference between a stabbing in a tavern in London and one in a hostelry in the South of France? What happens when a spinster living in Paris finds knight in her bedroom wanting to marry her? Why was there a crime wave following the Black...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781513667553Author Davan Yahya KhalilFormat PaperbackPage Count 234Imprint Movement PublishingPublisher Movement PublishingWeight(grams) 349gDimensions(mm)...

This second edition of Consumerism in World History draws on recent research of the consumer experience in the West and Japan, while also examining societies less renowned for consumerism, such as those in Africa.By relating consumerism to other issues...

With Italy at its centre, but encompassing the whole of Renaissance Europe, this evocative history challenges some of the popularly-held views on the Renaissance period. In particular, whilst always acknowledging the brilliance and exhuberance of...

A survey of the historical and international aspects of colonial rule in Africa.About the AuthorLord Frederick John Dealtry Lugard (Author)Book InformationISBN 9780415760706Author Lord Frederick J.D. LugardFormat PaperbackPage Count 670Imprint...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781780915432Author John Sharrock TaylorFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint DB PublishingPublisher DB Publishing

The Routledge Companion to Fascism and the Far Right is an engaging and accessible guide to the origins of fascism, the main facets of the ideology and the reality of fascist government around the world. In a clear and simple manner, this book...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780624089865Author David SmutsFormat PaperbackPage Count 376Imprint TafelbergPublisher TafelbergWeight(grams) 576gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 156mm * 21mm

The story of the gypsies including their journeys from the east to their arrival in the UK.Tells of their lives,customs.The slavery and the prejudices they encountered and their life in the New Forest region of southern England. With tales and poetry...

A journey into the history of the Pettican family in Essex and beyond through the ages, the places they lived, occupations they carried out, military careers and background to places and events witnessed by the family members.Book InformationISBN...

First published in 1979. In this text the Adamthwaite aims at leading students through the maze of documentation surrounding the Second World War. His book combines a critical assessment of recent research and writing with a painstaking selection of the...

During the twentieth century, medicine has been radically transformed and powerfully transformative. In 1900, western medicine was important to philanthropy and public health, but it was marginal to the state, the industrial economy and the welfare of...

This book presents the first English translation of one of the most important twelfth-century narratives. The text describes the difficult task King Louis VI of France faced in bringing order and justice to his violent and militaristic principality and...

First published in 1998, this book describes the surviving medieval remains there and the far more numerous manor houses and castles owned by the bishops, as well as their London houses. Apart from royal residences these are far the largest group of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781780913452Author Alan W. FoxallFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint DB PublishingPublisher DB Publishing

While cultural historians and media scholars have been looking at television for decades, they have only recently turned their eyes (and ears) to radio. Studies of television rarely acknowledge that many of its forms-soap operas, situation comedies,...

Kinds of Literature An Introduction to the Theory of Genres and ModesBook InformationISBN 9780198128571Author Alastair FowlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Oxford University PressPublisher Oxford University PressWeight(grams) 1gDimensions(mm)...

This prestigious collection of essays by leading scholars provides a thorough reassessment of the medieval era which questions how, when and why the Middle Ages began, and how abruptly the shift from the Roman Empire to Barbarian Europe happened...

Can films be used as historical evidence? Do historical films make good or bad history? Are documentaries more useful to historians than historical drama?Written from an international perspective, this book offers a lucid introduction to the ways films...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781857942804Author Barry McLoughlinFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Silver Link BooksPublisher Mortons Media Group

Combining her experience of living in a mining village for two decades with her training in social studies, Carr describe how women were an integral part of the mining industry from 1900 to the nationalization of the mines in 1947. Her original goal was...

The French invasion of Italy under Charles VIII in 1494-95 has long been seen as inaugurating a new and wretched era in Italian history. The present volume, the work of an international team of contributors, seeks to question that assumption by focusing...

Previous scholarship has presented a static picture of property inheritance in China, mainly because it has focused primarily on men, whose rights changed little throughout the Imperial and Republican periods. However, when our focus shifts to women, a...

This is an introduction to the history of the Muslim East from the rise of Islam to the Mongol conquests. It explains and indicates the main trends of Islamic historical evolution during the Middle Ages, and will help the non-Orientalist to understand...

Much more than a recitation of well-known highlights from contemporary Polish history, this invaluable reference work provides a balanced and comprehensive year-by-year treatment of cumulatively powerful events. Jakub Karpinski, a prominent Polish...

The discovery and treatment of insanity remains one of the most debated and discussed issues in social history.Focusing on the second half of the nineteenth century, The Politics of Madness provides a new perspective on this important topic, based on...

From the time of the Roman Empire onwards, fifth- and fourth-century Greece have been held to be the period and place in which civilization as the West knows it developed. Classical scholars have sought to justify these claims in detail by describing...

Featuring a beautiful new design, THE EARTH AND ITS PEOPLES, 7th Edition, presents world history in a balanced, global framework, shifting the focus away from political centers of power and toward the living conditions and activities of ordinary people...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780906294512Author John P. StengelhofenFormat PaperbackPage Count 51Imprint Twelveheads PressPublisher Twelveheads Press

This volume makes a significant contribution to the 'history of ecclesiastical histories', with a fresh analysis of historians of evangelicalism from the eighteenth century to the present. It explores the ways in which their scholarly methods and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956355461Author Alex LangstoneFormat PaperbackPage Count 56Imprint Spirit of Albion BooksPublisher Spirit of Albion BooksWeight(grams) 77g

At the beginning of the twentieth century Britain was amongst the world leaders in the production of machine tools, yet by the 1980s the industry was in terminal decline. Focusing on the example of Britain's largest machine tool maker, Alfred Herbert Ltd...

Race Traitor brings together voices ranging from tenured university professors to skinheads and prison inmates to discuss the "white question" in America. Working from the premise that the white race has been socially constructed, Race Traitor is a call...

Defenders of the Union is a concise and readable overview of the history and contentious politics of Unionism and the affect it has had on Anglo-Irish relations over the last two hundred years. It is an essential guide to this confusing topic and covers...

The Routledge History of Poverty, c.1450-1800 is a pioneering exploration of both the lives of the very poorest during the early modern period, and of the vast edifices of compassion and coercion erected around them by individuals, institutions, and...

Jill Dudley travels to the early Greek dramatists of fifth century B.C. Athens lived and worked. She introduces the reader to their world and brings their tragedies and comedies to life as she journeys from Athens to the Peloponnese, Thebes and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780244019631Author Nicholas GriffithsFormat PaperbackImprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.comWeight(grams) 148g

Written by David Nathan-Maister, the book surveys the history of absinthe from earliest days right up to the present, with a particular focus on its glittering heyday in Belle Epoque France. Hundreds of full colour illustrations document every aspect of...

The 2012 smash "Gangnam Style" by the Seoul-based rapper Psy capped the triumph of Hallyu , the Korean Wave of music, film, and other cultural forms that have become a worldwide sensation. Dal Yong Jin analyzes the social and technological trends that...