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The upheavals, terror, and drama of the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic period restructured politics and society on a grand scale, making this the defining moment for modern European history.This volume collects together a wide selection of primary...

The Syrian philosopher Iamblichus is famous for his accounts of ancient religious traditions: this book contains Thomas Taylor's translations of his commentaries regarding Egypt, Assyria and Chaldea. Containing many references to the mystical...

'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...

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...

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)...

Imperial Germany focuses on the domestic political developments of the period, putting them into context through a balanced guide to the economic and social background, culture and foreign policy.This important study explores the tensions caused within...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780982710197Author Susie FedererFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Amerisearch, Inc.Publisher Amerisearch, Inc.Weight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 150mm *...

Warfare at Sea, 1500-1650 is the first truly international study of warfare at sea in this period. Commencing in the late fifteenth century with the introduction of gunpowder in naval warfare and the rapid transformation of maritime trade, Warfare at...

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...