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Hanoi's Road to the Vietnam War opens in 1954 with the signing of the Geneva accords that ended the eight-year-long Franco-Indochinese War and created two Vietnams. In agreeing to the accords, Ho Chi Minh and other leaders of the Democratic Republic of...

A vital work for its exploration of the way the very idea of home became white in Britain in the postwar periodAhead of its time when first published and reviewed in the Guardian Highly relevant in light of the Windrush scandal and recent debates...

Ranging from Connacht to Constantinople and from Tynemouth to Timbuktu, the forty-four contributors to The Medieval World seek to bring the Middle Ages to life, offering definitive appraisals of the distinctive features of the period. This second edition...

The first major study of party conflict in England over the later Stuart period from the reign of Charles II to its culmination under Anne. Tim Harris shows how the party configuration of subsequent British politics emerged in these crucial years. He...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910089927Author Paul BreedenFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint Tangent BooksPublisher Tangent Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910089927Author Paul BreedenFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint Tangent BooksPublisher Tangent Books

Challenging the standard narrative of Interwar International History, this account establishes the causal relationship between the global political and economic crises of the period, and offers a radically new look at the role of ideology, racism and the...

This famous book was the first up-to-date survey of its field for a generation; even today, when work on early modern social history proliferates, it remains the only general economic history of the age. This second edition, substantially revised and...

This clear and thought-provoking examination of the years from Queen Victoria's accession to the close of the century, pays particular attention to the post-1875 period.Reviews`... compulsive reading ... providing a balanced appraisal of changing values...

This clear and thought-provoking examination of the years from Queen Victoria's accession to the close of the century, pays particular attention to the post-1875 period.Reviews`... compulsive reading ... providing a balanced appraisal of changing values...

One of the most admired poets of Roman antiquity, Horace (65-8 B.C.E.) had a major influence on later poets and writers. Even for those unfamiliar with his writings, the poet's admonitions to 'seize the day' or follow the 'golden mean' remain an eternal...

Maria I of Portugal was a monarch with absolute power. William Stephens was the illegitimate son of a Cornish servant girl; he sailed for Lisbon at the age of fifteen to become one of the richest industrialists in Europe. The contrast between these two...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781614981268Author Park BarnitzFormat PaperbackPage Count 330Imprint Hippocampus PressPublisher Hippocampus PressWeight(grams) 440g

This is a collection of the late E J L Cole's articles on Radnorshire History published between the mid-1930s and the 1980s. The first section consists of his abstracts of 382 sixteenth century wills proved in the ecclesiastical courts of Canterbury,...

How was the Soviet Union like a soup kitchen? In this important and highly revisionist work, historian Sheila Fitzpatrick explains that a reimagining of the Communist state as a provider of goods for the 'deserving poor' can be seen as a powerful...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781784350604Author Beth EllisFormat PaperbackPage Count 106Imprint Jiahu BooksPublisher Jiahu BooksWeight(grams) 145gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 6mm

This comprehensive and beautifully illustrated collection of essays conveys a vivid picture of a fascinating and hugely significant period in history, the Fin de Siecle. Featuring contributions from over forty international scholars, this book takes a...

Neville Chamberlain, the Conservative Prime Minister who pursued the doomed policy of appeasing Hitler, is one of the most reinterpreted of modern British Prime Ministers.Infamous on account of his declaration of having achieved 'peace for our time',...

Dedicating objects to the divine was a central component of both Greek and Roman religion. Some of the most conspicuous offerings were shaped like parts of the internal or external human body: so-called 'anatomical votives'. These archaeological...

Patrick Wormald was a brilliant interpreter of the Early Middle Ages, whose teaching, writings and generous friendship inspired a generation of historians and students of politics, law, language, literature and religion to focus their attention upon the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781947766358Author Merja PyykkonenFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Pacific Atrocities EducationPublisher Pacific Atrocities EducationWeight(grams)...

The outbreaks and collective violence arising from the tensions existing within society have long been themes in the study of British social history. This book, first published in 1983, attempts to survey the whole range of these rural riots, to compare...

V.G. Kiernan is recognized as one of the most remarkable historians of the twentieth century. Eric Hobsbawm says of Kiernan that his knowledge is "encyclopedic" and Edward Said refers to his writings on imperialism as "milestones." In Imperialism and Its...

Originally published in 1966, The Church in Early Irish Society traces the history of the church right up until the twelfth century. It gives an account of the problems which arose when the organization of the Christian church, imported from the urban...

The Dutch revolt against Spanish rule in the sixteenth century was a formative event in European history. The Origins and Development of the Dutch Revolt brings together in one volume the latest scholarship from leading experts in the field, to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781451656497Author Peter PringleFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & Schuster

Telling America's Story to the World argues that state and state-affiliated cultural diplomacy contributed to the making of postwar US literature. Highlighting the role of liberal internationalism in US cultural outreach, Harilaos Stecopoulos contends...

1925. In South Africa Professor Perold is crossing grape varieties, striving for the perfect wine. Did he succeed? The quest to unravel the truth of Pinotage's parentage spans decades and continents, with myths and legends appearing at every turn. Wine...

This title focuses on the "Risorgimento", the movement that led to the unification of Italy as a single kingdom. The Italian Wars of Independence were a sequence of three separate conflicts, taking place in 1848-49, 1859 and 1866. This volume examines...

In an expansion of his 2012 Robson Classical Lectures, Clifford Ando examines the connection between the nature of the Latin language and Roman thinking about law, society, and empire. Drawing on innovative work in cognitive linguistics and anthropology,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781780913469Author Peter WashbourneFormat PaperbackPage Count 204Imprint DB PublishingPublisher DB Publishing

This panoramic book tells the story of how revolutionary ideas from the Enlightenment about freedom, equality, evolution, and democracy have reverberated through modern history and shaped the world as we know it today. A testament to the enduring power...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781937847036Author Peter SipesFormat PaperbackPage Count 146Imprint Pluteo PlenoPublisher Pluteo PlenoWeight(grams) 222gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 9mm

For the many children torn from their families, taken miles from home and placed with strangers, the evacuation at the outbreak of the Second World War was a life-changing experience. In Goodnight Children, Everywhere, men and women who were children at...

For the many children torn from their families, taken miles from home and placed with strangers, the evacuation at the outbreak of the Second World War was a life-changing experience. In Goodnight Children, Everywhere, men and women who were children at...

Much has been written about the Knights Templar; their code of conduct, their way of life, the battles and political machinations that took place, the trials which ended their order, and the 9 men who founded their order, and the one who commanded them...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780977465705Author Ian GriggsFormat PaperbackPage Count 404Imprint JFK Lancer Productions & PublicationsPublisher JFK Lancer Productions &...

Communism in Eastern Europe is a groundbreaking new survey of the history of Eastern Europe since 1945. It examines how Communist governments came to Eastern Europe, how they changed their societies and the legacies that persisted after their fall...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781857703511Author Christopher HorlockFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint SB PublicationsPublisher SB Publications

Baldwin of Boulogne was born the youngest of three sons and marked out for a clerical career, yet in turn he became a First Crusader, first Latin count of Edessa and the founder of the Latin kingdom of Jerusalem. Nevertheless, remarkably, he has never...