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The history of relations between Jews and Christians has been a long, complex and often unsettled one; yet histories of medieval Christendom have traditionally paid only passing attention to the role played by Jews in a predominantly Christian society...

What Time is it There? is a history of worlds that encounter each other without ever meeting. The title comes from a film by Tsai Ming-liang which explores the desire to conquer the barriers of space and time by abolishing time differences and inventing...

First published in 1971, this collection of short stories, set in the East End of London in the 1890s, offers a corrective to the view of nineties' literature as dominated by aestheticism, and shows how many late Victorian writers tried to break with...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780299330347Author George L MosseFormat PaperbackImprint University of Wisconsin PressPublisher University of Wisconsin Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780985410049Author Joe ConnorFormat PaperbackPage Count 424Imprint Jeffrey IngberPublisher Jeffrey IngberWeight(grams) 490gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *...

For the Gaels it is I Chaluim Chille. From here, Colum Cille -- or St Columba -- and his successors spread their Christian mission throughout Scotland and beyond. An early king of Dal Riata was consecrated here, and later the mighty Lords of the Isles...

Originally published in 1962, The Long-Haired Kings is split into two parts. The first is concerned with the history of France in the period of gestation, between the end of Roman imperial room in Gaul, and the emergence of medieval France in the tenth...

Based on rigorous analysis of the propaganda of five Western European separatist parties, this book provides in-depth examination of the 'nationalism of the rich', defined as a type of nationalist discourse that seeks to end the economic 'exploitation'...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781498283557Author Emily Wade WillFormat PaperbackPage Count 226Imprint Wipf & Stock PublishersPublisher Wipf & Stock PublishersWeight(grams)...

Long before Calcutta was 'discovered' by Job Charnock, it thrived by the Hugli since times immemorial. This book, and its companion Colonial Calcutta, is a biographical account of the when, the how and the what of a global city and its emergence under...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781840332063Author Alan E. ReadFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Stenlake PublishingPublisher Stenlake Publishing

This is the first complete story, long hidden by the Soviet Union, of the attack by government forces on striking workers in 1962, resulting in 21 dead and hundreds of others wounded or imprisoned. Only with the advent of glasnost in the 1980s did the...

The history of the Conservative Party during the first half of the twentieth century was marked by crisis and controversy, from Joseph Chamberlain's tariff reform campaign through the Lloyd George coalition and the National Government between the wars to...

The voyages of Captain Cook are endlessly fascinating to a wide audience, and no aspect of them has been more controversial than Cook's death. This book reprints one of the classic accounts of this episode, the vivid and lively narrative by one of the...

The subject of the emperor in the Byzantine world may seem likely to be a well-studied topic but there is no book devoted to the emperor in general covering the span of the Byzantine empire. Of course there are studies on individual emperors, dynasties...

Kaiser Wilhelm II is one of the key figures in the history of twentieth-century Europe: King of Prussia and German Emperor from 1888 to the collapse of Germany in 1918 and a crucial player in the events that led to the outbreak of World War I. Following...

The historic long-term economic interconnections of the world are now universally accepted. The idea of the 'world system' advanced by Immanuel Wallerstein has set the period of linkage in the early modern period. But some academics think this date is...

This monograph focuses on the challenges that interwar regimes faced and how they coped with them in the aftermath of World War One, focusing especially on the failure to establish and stabilize democratic regimes, as well as on the fate of ethnic and...

Seventeen-year-old Henry VIII was 'a youngling, he cares for nothing but girls and hunting.' Over the years, this didn't change much. Henry was considered a demi-god by his subjects, so each woman he chose was someone who had managed to stand out in a...

From its founding in the aftermath of World War II, the Central Intelligence Agency has been discovered in the midst of some of the most crucial-and most embarrassing--episodes in United States relations with the world. Richard Nixon's 1969 presidential...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781847848512Author Alan GodfreyImprint Alan Godfrey MapsPublisher Alan Godfrey Maps

In the first quarter of the thirteenth century, an anonymous Flemish writer set in writing, in Old French, a chronicle of Normandy, England, Flanders and northern France. It ranged from the arrival of the Vikings in Normandy to the early years of the...

Cinema and science fiction were made for each other. Science fiction has been at the cutting edge of film technology and the genre has produced some of the most ambitious, imaginative and visually spectacular films ever made. Yet science fiction cinema...

Over 20,000 ethnic Russians migrated to Australia after World War II - yet we know very little about their experiences. Some came via China, others from refugee camps in Europe.Many preferred to keep a low profile in Australia, and some attempted to...

This study broadens the conventional focus of the Great Depression to include its impact on the countries of Africa, Asia and Latin America. It covers the economic background and causes, from the international gold standard to agricultural...

In the seventh and eighth centuries, the Muslim Arabs conquered large areas of North Africa and then, with the help of their former adversaries in North Africa, the Berbers, gained a decisive victory over the Visigoths in Spain. This book, first...

Using a postcard collection, this book includes locations such as the church where Agatha Christie married one Christmas Eve, a street of eighteenth-century houses, the railway through the rocks of Avon Gorge, Royal York Crescent and more. This work aims...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956879806Author John DenneyFormat PaperbackPage Count 544Imprint Radiance PressPublisher Radiance PressWeight(grams) 152g

This compelling never-before-published account takes the reader into Red Guard and Red Army units, Moscow factories, workers' homes, and to the unfamiliar world of feudal Dagestan. Worker-revolutionary Eduard Dune was seventeen when the Russian...

Jojo Siwa is simply unstoppable! Whether dancing, singing, acting, or making hilarious YouTube videos, JoJo has proven-at only 15-that she can do it all. JoJo Siwa: The Sweetest Dream has everything you need to know about this young star's rise to...

This book argues that American Exceptionalism and Eurasianism engendered the ideological principles that propelled the geostrategic interests of the United States and the Soviet Union in the post-World War Two period. The correlation between ideology and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916137516Author Pat DarganFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Eastwood BooksPublisher Wordwell

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781890951207Author Jean StarobinskiFormat HardbackPage Count 480Imprint Zone BooksPublisher Zone BooksWeight(grams) 880gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 38mm

Focusing on the institutions and players of central and local government during an era of great transformation, Peter Jupp examines the cohesive nature of the British state, and how Britain was governed between 1688 and 1848.Divided into two parts,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780786710881Author Frank McLynnFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint Basic BooksPublisher Basic BooksWeight(grams) 617gDimensions(mm) 232mm * 156mm * 35mm

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This book traces across the millennium of the Middle Ages the gradual crystallisation of a new and distinctive European identity. Koenigsberger covers the Islamic, Byzantine and central Asian worlds in his account which explains Europe's progression from...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909486041Author David SimpsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint My WorldPublisher New Writing NorthWeight(grams) 101g

The focus of Security Awareness in Close Protection should be to instill a sense of alertness and awareness in the mind of the Close Protection Specialist, as well as all other employees who are involved in the security program. Security Awareness is the...

In this tenth anniversary edition of his award-winning memoir, New York Times bestselling author Peter Balakian has expanded his compelling story about growing up in the baby-boom suburbs of the '50s and '60s and coming to understand what happened to...