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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

This stimulating volume explores how the memory of the Reformation has been remembered, forgotten, contested, and reinvented between the sixteenth and twenty-first centuries.Remembering the Reformation traces how a complex, protracted, and unpredictable...

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...

A stimulating new inquiry into the fundamental truth of strategy - its purpose, place, utility, and value. This new study is animated by a startling realization: the concept of strategic victory must be summarily discarded. This is not to say that...

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...

In contrast to its brutal seizure of the Balkans, the Italian Army's 1940-1943 relatively mild occupation of the French Riviera and nearby alpine regions bred the myth of the Italian brava gente, or good fellow, an agreeable occupier who abstained from...

Coming to terms with a troubled past is the mark of the modern condition. But how does memory operate? This powerful collection of original essays probes this question by focusing on Germany, where historical trauma and political turbulence over the...

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...

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

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

A history of TringBook InformationISBN 9781845883270Author Michael BassFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Nonsuch PublishingPublisher The History Press LtdWeight(grams) 160g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781902279374Author Martin GreenwoodFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Wychwood Press an imprint of Jon Carpenter PublishingPublisher Jon...

The act of translation, Tejaswini Niranjana maintains, is a political action. Niranjana draws on Benjamin, Derrida, and de Man to show that translation has long been a site for perpetuating the unequal power relations among people, races, and languages...

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

Richard Carr's Charlie Chaplin places politics at the centre of the filmmaker's life as it looks beyond Chaplin's role as a comedic figure to his constant political engagement both on and off the screen. Drawing from a wealth of archival sources from...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781840339406Author Alex F. YoungFormat PaperbackPage Count 52Imprint Stenlake PublishingPublisher Stenlake Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781416580522Author Doug StantonFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Scribner Book CompanyPublisher Scribner Book CompanyWeight(grams) 372gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788474322569Author Jean-Pierre VernantFormat PaperbackPage Count 106Imprint Gedisa EditorialPublisher Gedisa EditorialWeight(grams) 113gDimensions(mm) 198mm...

This impressive volume presents a thorough examination of all aspects of physical impairment and disability in medieval Europe. Examining a popular era that is of great interest to many historians and researchers, Irene Metzler presents a theoretical...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789388292245Author Valay SinghFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint Rupa Publications India Pvt Ltd.Publisher Rupa Publications India Pvt Ltd.

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...

Compelling stories of shipwreck, adventure, and death on the high seas, now back in print.The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries were a time of great colonial expansion, marked by a mercantile frenzy of ships carrying merchants, aristocrats,...

Short chapters, great stories, and study tools! Adler and Pouwels's WORLD CIVILIZATIONS is a vibrant introduction to world history structured to meet the demands of your study schedule. It's clearly written, packed with charts and illustrations, and...

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 *...

Despite reigning for only a relatively short period of time, Richard III is one of England's most controversial monarchs. His life and rule has inspired a huge amount of literature, not least Shakespeare's great play, and controversy still surrounds his...

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...

John Caius (1510-1573), second founder of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, was an English scholar with an international reputation in his lifetime as a naturalist, historian and medical writer. His Autobibliography is a major contribution to the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781639231133Author Martin Luther Jr KingFormat PaperbackPage Count 42Imprint Lushena BooksPublisher Lushena BooksWeight(grams) 59gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

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

How do gender and power relationships affect the expression of family, House and dynastic identities? The present study explores this question using a case study of the House of Orange-Nassau, whose extensive visual, material and archival sources from...

"Identity" has become a core concept of the social and cultural sciences. Bringing together perspectives from sociology, anthropology, psychology, history, and literary criticism, this book offers a comprehensive and critical overview on how...

First published in 2006. A private madhouse can be defined as a privately owned establishment for the reception and care of insane persons, conducted as a business proposition for the personal profit of the proprietor or proprietors. The history of such...

This essential collection of key articles offers a re-evaluation of the practice of history in light of current debates. Critical thinkers and practicing historians present their writings, along with clear and thorough editorial material, to examine the...

A wide ranging new history of a key period in the history of the church in England, from the 'Glorious Revolution' of 1688-89 to the Great Reform Act of 1832. This was a tumultuous time for both church and state, when the relationship between religion...

In his prologue to The Mongol Empire, Michael Prawdin sets the stage for the last and mightiest onslaught of the nomads upon the civilized world. He tells of the many rejoicings in Europe over the successes of the Crusaders in A.D. 1221. But little did...

First published in 1984. Indentured labour migration in the nineteenth century intersects many of the most serious issues of our own time - racism, Third World poverty, and the arrogance of a great world powers. Indenture suggests lack of freedom and the...

A collection of first hand accounts and photographs from members of the 12th SS-Panzer Division "Hitlerjugend", mixed with the personal collection of the author. 124 photos the majority of which are unpublished.Book InformationISBN...

This is the first English translation of the 'Chronicle of Prussia', which was written by Nicolaus von Jeroschin, in middle German verse, during the period from 1330 to 1341. It is a history of the Teutonic Knights, encompassing the period between the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781727859263Author Alistair J. SinclairFormat PaperbackPage Count 260Imprint Almostic PublicationsPublisher Almostic Publications