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Beyond Memory: Silence and the Aesthetics of Remembrance analyses the intricate connections between silence, acts of remembrance and acts of forgetting, and relates the topic of silence to the international research field of Cultural Memory Studies. It...

For nearly four decades, Maryse Cond, best known for her novels Segu and Windward Heights, has been at the forefront of French Caribbean literature. In this collection of essays and lectures, written over many years and in response to the challenges...

From Roman times until this century the business of government has been largely carried out by the writing of letters, either in the form of instructions or of authorisations to deliver information orally. These documents were addressed to the recipient...

The twentieth century was dominated by war and by preparations for war in a way that is unparalleled in history. Originally published in 1988, this textbook highlights key themes of warfare throughout the world and emphasizes the gulf between the theory...

Ludlow is a fine old town with over 900 years of history. We can still see much of its historic character today in the magnificent castle and church and in the wide variety of architecture of its beautiful buildings. This book looks at the town as it was...

Influential sexologist and activist Magnus Hirschfeld founded Berlin's Institute of Sexual Sciences in 1919 as a home and workplace to study homosexual rights activism and support transgender people. It was destroyed by the Nazis in 1933. This episode in...

'Life and Fate' by Vasily Grossman is an epic story of Russia's involvement in the Second World War and has been ranked alongside Tolstoy's 'War and Peace'. At over 800 pages it is also a very long novel and the present work, 'Kindness and the...

Marshalling 129 maps, numerous diagrams and incisive textual commentary, the Atlas of Eastern Europe in the Twentieth Century draws a definitive picture of the changing shape of Eastern and some of central Europe from the beginning of the twentieth...

A new and major contribution to the field, Women in European Culture and Society is a transnational history of women in Europe from the beginning of the eighteenth century that pushes women's history beyond national studies to create an integrated view...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781680922592Author Thomas Robert MalthusFormat HardbackPage Count 100Imprint 12th Media ServicesPublisher 12th Media ServicesWeight(grams)...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913425845Author Barry McLoughlinFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint YouCaxton PublicationsPublisher YouCaxton Publications

A dictionary of all things lavatorial, from the Abbot of St Albans (allegedly the first Englishman to have a W.C., c. 1115) to the zero-gravity loo (as featured in the film 2001: a Space Odyssey), by way of the dog toilet, the night-soil men who took...

On January 30, 1968 approximately 84,000 North Vietnamese Army and National Liberation Front forces launched nearly simultaneous attacks against over 100 cities and military installations in South Vietnam. The well-coordinated urban attacks came during...

The course of recent German history has been volatile. Events in Eastern Europe, the collapse of European Communism and German Re-Unification has brought issues of Germany's status into the arena of world politics. The Question of German Unification...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780743244848Author Angelo CodevillaFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint The Free PressPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 544g

For more than fifty years, Phineas T. Barnum embodied all that was grand and fraudulent in American mass culture. Over the course of a life that spanned the nineteenth century (1810-91), he inflicted himself upon a surprisingly willing public in a...

First Published in 2004. In this major textbook, leading international scholars provide clear, concise summaries of many of the most important controversies and developments in German history from 1870-1945. Twelve contributors, distinguished for their...

First Published in 2004. In this major textbook, leading international scholars provide clear, concise summaries of many of the most important controversies and developments in German history from 1870-1945. Twelve contributors, distinguished for their...

Fire had always been one of the greatest threats to an early modern British society that relied on the naked flame as the prime source of heating, lighting and cooking. Yet whilst the danger of fire had always been taken seriously, it was not until the...

Demolishing the myth that British rule was on the whole advantageous to India, Andrew Hyde shows how Britain's pursuit of profit brought about the deindustrialisation and impoverishment of the country over centuries and how its celebrated feats of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908326638Author Eugene ByrneFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Redcliffe Press LtdPublisher Redcliffe Press LtdDimensions(mm) 240mm * 210mm * 10mm

These 93 stories provide a unique insight into the lives of mostly ordinary colonial people who lived in extraordinary times. Read the first description of the New World in the exploring ship captain's logbook, a letter from the first indentured servant,...

Alexander's Lovers reveals the personality of Alexander the Great through the mirror of the lives of those with whom he pursued romantic relationships, including his friend Hephaistion, his queen Roxane, his mistress Barsine & Bagoas the Eunuch. Did...

The nineteenth volume in the acclaimed paperback series . . . the only county series that can legitimately claim to represent the past and present of a nation. 'Cornish Studies' has consistently - and successfully - sought to investigate and understand...

Dr. C. Keith Wilbur takes you on a detailed and fascinating tour through the medical history of this bloody and devastating war.Book InformationISBN 9780762703418Author C. Keith WilburFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Globe Pequot PressPublisher...

On the eve of the 2007 general elections in Morocco, writer, academic, and former cabinet minister Abdallah Saaf embarked on several road trips across the country to get a feel for how its citizens had fared since Mohammed VI's accession to the throne. ...

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...

Attwood examines Victorian attitudes to prostitution across a number of sources: medical, literary, pornographic.Book InformationISBN 9781138661189Author Nina AttwoodFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor & Francis...

In the two decades before World War One, Great Britain witnessed the largest revival of anti-slavery protest since the legendary age of emancipation in the mid-nineteenth century. Rather than campaigning against the trans-Atlantic slave trade, these...

The Franklin Conspiracy is an absorbing account of the single most enigmatic event in Canadian history. In 1845, two British Royal Navy ships, the Erebus and the Terror, commanded by Sir John Franklin, entered the Canadian Arctic in search of the...

Traces the rise and fall of rural England from the Middle Ages to the Second World War and the nature of the changes which have occurred.Reviews`In all, this is another entertaining and informative book from Gorgon Mingay. His skill as narrator gives...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781840339178Author David PettigrewFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Stenlake PublishingPublisher Stenlake PublishingDimensions(mm) 176mm * 240mm * 3mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781774645093Author Maurice Merleau-PontyFormat PaperbackPage Count 570Imprint RoutledgePublisher RoutledgeWeight(grams) 826gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

A history of Catholics in Cardiff.Book InformationISBN 9781845884055Author John O'SullivanFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Nonsuch PublishingPublisher Nonsuch PublishingWeight(grams) 160gDimensions(mm) 168mm * 124mm * 10mm

This book is now firmly established as the standard treatment of its subject. The history of comparative religion is traced in detail from its beginnings in the nineteenth century, in the work of scholars such as Max Muller and anthropologists - such as...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908684387Author Geoffrey AldermanFormat PaperbackPage Count 500Imprint The University of Buckingham PressPublisher Legend Press LtdWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909446113Author Shirley HodgsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Bristol Books CICPublisher Bristol Books CICWeight(grams) 300gDimensions(mm) 234mm *...

Renaissance occultist and doctor Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa presents his system, whereby supernatural sorceries and magical are explained - this edition includes thirteen pertinent sketches and charts. Across seventy-four chapters, Agrippa describes what...

*Selected as one of openDemocracy's Best Political Books of 2017* This is the history of the black radicals who organised as Communists between the two imperialist wars of the twentieth century. It explores the political roots of a dozen organisations...