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Burton Lazars is a small village just outside Melton Mowbray in Leicestershire. When Gladys lived there, which she did for several years, she found the village has a rich history. Using her talents as a researcher and author she has brought alive, in...

"Conceptually well organized, stylistically clear, intellectually thoughtful, and pedagogically useful." - Thomas Head, Speculum"For its humane and learned approach to its enormous canvas, as well as for the cogency with which it penetrates at speed to...

Lakes and Empires in Macedonian History: Contesting the Waters tells the story of Psarades, a lakeside village in Macedonian Greece on the shores of the Prespa lake. This village, which is in many ways a completely typical Greek settlement and yet...

The word-wide impact of evangelicalism has long been recognized as a vital force. Providing both a clear and accessible guide to the recent literature, this introduction examines the revival in the British Isles during the 18th and 19th-century within a...

Illustrated with a wide range of old and new photographs, drawings and paintings, posters and other ephemera, Black Country Chapels will bring back memories for anyone who was born and brought up in the Black Country.About the AuthorNed Williams is an...

This book examines the causes, course and consequences of warfare in twentieth century Africa, a period which spanned colonial rebellions, both World Wars, and the decolonization process. Timothy Stapleton contextualizes the essential debates and...

"Westeros is probably closer to medieval Britain than anything else." George R.R. Martin, creator of Game of Thrones Kings who were insane, infant or imprisoned; feuding families, disputed successions and monarchs executing their brothers; exiled nobles,...

First published in 1983. This book combines a case study of class relations, politics and voting in Sweden with a comparative analysis of distributive conflicts and politics in eighteen OECD countries. Its underlying theoretical theme is the development...

The Ming World draws together scholars from all over the world to bring China's Ming Dynasty (1368-1662) to life, exploring recent scholarly trends and academic debates that highlight the dynamism of the Ming and its key place in the early modern world...

David R. Roediger has been in the vanguard of the study of race and labor in American history for decades. He first came to prominence as the author of The Wages of Whiteness, a classic study of racism in the development of a white working class in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061558337Author Ronald ReaganFormat PaperbackPage Count 767Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 972g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060009830Author Stanley P HirshsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 864Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 874g

The Devil's (1971) Ken Russell's harsh, horrifying film of the possession and exorcism of a group of medieval French nuns, and the death by burning of Father Urbain Grandier in 1632, scorched the eyes and disturbed the souls of viewers of the early...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993467035Author Geoffrey AldermanFormat PaperbackPage Count 212Imprint Federation of SynagoguesPublisher Federation of Synagogues

From the earliest times, people have striven to turn their houses into homes through the use of decoration and furnishings, stimulating in turn a major commercial sector dedicated to offering the products and services essential to feed the ever-changing...

The essays in this volume explore different aspects of the relation between Greek myth and Greek thought between the Archaic period (Homer and Hesiod) and the Hellenistic period, highlighting both the continuities and the contrasts in the Greek...

In her brilliant new opening essay, Banerjee says of Berdyaev "he was never more than a curious but unwelcome guest in history. He fearlessly engaged it on the level of ideas while remaining alien to its means and ends, gifted with an incurable longing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780793515479Author Claude DebussyPage Count 56Imprint G Schirmer, IncorporatedPublisher Hal Leonard Corporation

It is the early Cold War. The Soviet Union appears to be in irresistible ascendance and moves to exploit the Olympic Games as a vehicle for promoting international communism. In response, the United States conceives a subtle, far-reaching psychological...

The 1941 Axis invasion of Yugoslavia initially left the German occupiers with a pacified Serbian heartland willing to cooperate in return for relatively mild treatment. Soon, however, the outbreak of resistance shattered Serbia's seeming tranquility,...

This book, first in a series of three, examines the social elites in Denmark, Sweden, Norway, and Iceland, and which social, political, and cultural resources went into their creation. The elite controlled enormous economic resources and exercised power...

Death in Medieval Europe: Death Scripted and Death Choreographed explores new cultural research into death and funeral practices in medieval Europe and demonstrates the important relationship between death and the world of the living in the Middle Ages...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781627079853Author Oswald ChambersFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Our Daily Bread PublishingPublisher Our Daily Bread PublishingWeight(grams)...

The Apache Indians and the white settlers came face to face after the Mexican War, when the migrations across the continent reached the Southwest. In depicting the long, bitter resistance of the Apaches, Death in the Desert reveals incidents that...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780244619718Author Kosaka WadoFormat PaperbackPage Count 292Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.comWeight(grams) 349g

This study explores the 'ecology of knowledge' of urban Britain in the Victorian period and seeks to examine the way in which Victorians comprehended the nature of their urban society, through an exploration of the history of Victorian Manchester, and...

This unique collection of over 90 pairs of images, many previously unpublished, include fascinating street scenes in the densely-populated area which was demolished to make way for the Victoria Railway Station. This volume also covers many districts of...

Imperialism, Race and Resistance marks an important new development in the study of British and imperial interwar history.Focusing on Britain, West Africa and South Africa, Imperialism, Race and Resistance charts the growth of anti-colonial resistance...

First published in 1981, this book examines the life of Arthur Harding, a well-known figure in the East End underworld during the first half of the twentieth century. The first five chapters survey his life in the 'Jago' slum between 1887 and 1896,...

Russia has long been a major player in the international relations arena, but only by examining the whole century can Russian foreign policy be properly understood, and the key questions as to the impact of war, of revolution, of collapse, the emergence...

It is widely acknowledged that the hit franchise Game of Thrones is based on the Wars of the Roses, a bloody fifteenth-century civil war between feuding English families. In this book, Jeffrey R. Wilson shows how that connection was mediated by...

Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title Digital History: A Guide to Gathering, Preserving, and Presenting the Past on the Web provides for the first time a plainspoken and thorough introduction to the web for historians-teachers and...

Peter Dickson's important study of the origins and development of the system of public borrowing which enabled Great Britain to emerge as a world power in the eighteenth century has long been out of print. The present print-on-demand volume reprints the...

An up-to-date and concise account of WWI for teachers and students looking for a balanced introduction. It details both the military operations as well as the development of war aims, alliance diplomacy and the war on the home front.Reviews'Tucker is...

A tight-knit group closely linked by intermarriage as well as class and old school ties, the "Arabists" were men and women who spent much of their lives living and working in the Arab world as diplomats, military attaches, intelligence agents,...

The vast majority of studies on rulership in medieval Europe focus on one kingdom; one type of rule; or one type of ruler. This volume attempts to break that mold and demonstrate the breadth of medieval Europe and the various kinds of rulership within it...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781291406757Author William Robert WildeFormat PaperbackPage Count 195Imprint Lulu Press IncPublisher Lulu Press Inc

The most influential account of the career of Alexander the Great was penned by Cleitarchus the son of Deinon, a Greek writing in Alexandria in the decades after Alexander's death. Most of the surviving ancient texts on Alexander were more or less based...

The Routledge Guide to Interviewing sets out a well-tested and practical approach and methodology: what works, difficulties and dangers to avoid and key questions which must be answered before you set out. Background methodological issues and arguments...

The term "Weimar culture," while generally accepted, is in some respects unsatisfactory, if only because political and cultural history seldom coincides in time. Expressionism was not born with the defeat of the Imperial German army, nor is there any...