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One of the greatest historians of the twentieth century, Arnaldo Momigliano (1908-1987) is known for his path-breaking studies of ancient Greek and Roman history. The encyclopedic knowledge of the ancient world that Momigliano brought to his work,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780994240927Author Sayed Hadi Al-ModarresiFormat PaperbackPage Count 446Imprint Enlight PressPublisher Enlight PressWeight(grams) 649gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorGareth Williams is a professor at the Centre for Modern and Contemporary Wales at the University of South Wales. Gerald Morgan is the editor of This World of...

This is an introduction to the history of the Muslim East from the rise of Islam to the Mongol conquests. It explains and indicates the main trends of Islamic historical evolution during the Middle Ages, and will help the non-Orientalist to understand...

Using a combination of original sources and sharp analysis, this book is sheds new light on a crucial period in England's development. From Norman Conquest to Magna Carta is a wide-ranging history of England from 1066 to 1215 ideal for students and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789768125194Author Hilary BecklesFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint Canoe PressPublisher Canoe PressWeight(grams) 273g

r s1mily Ties provides a vivid and accessible introduction to the dynamics of life in English families of all ranks from the mid-sixteenth century to the end of World War I. Sections on methods, approaches and sources allow readers new to the study of...

r s1mily Ties provides a vivid and accessible introduction to the dynamics of life in English families of all ranks from the mid-sixteenth century to the end of World War I. Sections on methods, approaches and sources allow readers new to the study of...

Doing History bridges the gap between the way history is studied in school or as represented in the media and the way it is studied at university level.History as an academic discipline has dramatically changed in recent decades and has been enhanced by...

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

A sweeping survey of sexuality in Europe from the Greeks to the present, Desire: A History of European Sexuality follows changing attitudes to two major concepts of sexual desire - desire as dangerous, polluting, and disorderly, and desire as creative,...

First Published in 1967. The method or system of government in the United Kingdom and the self-governing Dominions may be described with sufficient accuracy as that of a political democracy under the Crown. This study is published because the author is...

This book contributes to the growing literature on the role of the British non-settler empire in the Great War by exploring the service of the Cypriot Mule Corps on the Salonica Front, and after the war in Constantinople. Varnava encompasses all aspects...

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...

This book reconstructs the late Anglo-Saxon history of the church of Worcester, covering the period between Bishops Waerferth and Wulfstan II. Starting with an examination of the episcopal succession and the relations between bishops and cathedral...

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...

"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...

Collecting is a key function of museums. Its apparent simplicity belies a complexity of questions and issues which make all collecting imprecise and unrepresentative. This book exposes the many meanings of collections, the different perspectives taken by...

This famous book was the first up-to-date survey of its field for a generation; even today, when work on early modern social history proliferates, it remains the only general economic history of the age. This second edition, substantially revised and...

This new study explores the history of the northern borders of Britain - including the historic counties of Northumberland, Cumberland, Durham, Westmorland and the Furness areas of Lancashire.About the AuthorRichard Thompson, Norman MccordBook...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780985658434Author Rob MelroseFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Exit PressPublisher Exit PressWeight(grams) 141g

In Sex in the World of Myth, David Leeming argues that sex is as important in myths as it is in our lives. Myths are our cultural dreams, and sex is pervasive in all mythologies because it has obsessed and confused us like nothing else - what's more,...

In Far-Right Revisionism and the End of History: Alt/Histories, historians, sociologists, neuroscientists, lawyers, cultural critics, and literary and media scholars come together to offer an interconnected and comparative collection for understanding...

In the 1950s and 1960s, the CIA undertook a series of research and operational programs aimed at gaining control of human behavior, commonly known as mind control. The most famous and notable of these was MKULTRA, which from 1953 to 1964 spawned 149...

A classic since its original publication, Women Have Always Worked brought much-needed insight into the ways work has shaped female lives and sensibilities. Beginning in the colonial era, Alice Kessler-Harris looks at the public and private work spheres...

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...

Originally published in hardback only in 1987, Michael Freeman's valuable guide to the history of Nazi Germany now returns to print in a substantially revised Second Edition. Dealing with all aspects of the Nazi regime, it is far more than just an atlas:...

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

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060957551Author Walter A. McDougallFormat PaperbackPage Count 656Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 542g

A History of the Pyrrhic War explores the multi-polar nature of a conflict that involved the Romans, peoples of Italy, western Greeks, and Carthaginians during Pyrrhus' western campaign in the early third century BCE.The war occurred nearly a century...

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

Chartism, the British mass movement for democratic and social rights in the 1830s and 1840s, was profoundly shaped by the radical tradition from which it emerged. Yet, little attention has been paid to how Chartists saw themselves in relation to this...

Child Welfare 1872-1989 is the first comprehensive book on the history of social policy and child welfare from the 1870s to the present. It offers a full narrative of the development of social services for children, covering a range of topics including...

1925. In South Africa Professor Perold is crossing grape varieties, striving for the perfect wine. Did he succeed? The quest to unravel the truth of Pinotage's parentage spans decades and continents, with myths and legends appearing at every turn. Wine...

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 9780993597732Author Martin HollinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint Crest PublicationsPublisher Crest Publications

Neville Chamberlain, the Conservative Prime Minister who pursued the doomed policy of appeasing Hitler, is one of the most reinterpreted of modern British Prime Ministers.Infamous on account of his declaration of having achieved 'peace for our time',...

"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,...

At the end of the Second World War, Germany lay at the mercy of its occupiers, all of whom launched programmes of scientific and technological exploitation. Each occupying nation sought to bolster their own armouries and industries with the spoils of...