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As an historical figure Mary Queen of Scots has been perpetually represented on canvas, page and stage, and has captured the British imagination since the time of her death in 1587. The 'real' Mary Stuart however has remained an enigma.Mary Queen of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908332035Author Vanessa HabibFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Society of Antiquaries of ScotlandPublisher Society of Antiquaries of...

When the movie business adopted some of the ways of other big industries in 1920s America, women--who had been essential to the industry's early development--were systematically squeezed out of key behind-the-camera roles. Yet, as female producers and...

This new, updated edition of the influential Development Against Democracy is a critical guide to postwar studies of modernisation and development. In the mid-twentieth century, models of development studies were products of postwar American policy. They...

Gladstone is one of the most important political figures in modern British history. He held the office of Prime Minister four times during a turbulent and changing time in Britain's history.Michael Partridge provides a new survey of Gladstone's life and...

Henry V of England, the princely hero of Shakespeare's play, who successfully defeated the French at the Battle of Agincourt and came close to becoming crowned King of France, is one of the best known and most compelling monarchs in English history. This...

Facing the Nazi Past examines how the communist East viewed the events of these years very differently from West Germany during the Cold War. Following the unification of Germany, these contrasting memories of the Third Reich have contributed to a new...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781786771155Author William Thomas SteadFormat PaperbackPage Count 116Imprint White Crow ProductionsPublisher White Crow ProductionsWeight(grams)...

Remembering the Jagiellonians is the first study of international memories of the Jagiellonians (1386-1596), one of the most powerful but lesser known royal dynasties of Renaissance Europe. It explores how the Jagiellonian dynasty has been remembered...

This study of "The Stern Gang" attempts to demythologize the image of this extremist, Zionist underground group. The book analyzes the party's split from the Irgun Zvai Leumi (National Military Organization) and its attempts to synthesize the politics...

'Not only one of the best but also the most comprehensive treatment of Stoicism written this century.' -""Times Literary Supplement "" Stoic philosophy had a profound effect on thought and conduct in the ancient world, and has...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781617203077Author Laura Lee HopeFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint SMK BooksPublisher SMK BooksWeight(grams) 159gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 6mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780996345521Author John M ArcherFormat PaperbackPage Count 150Imprint MaurybooksPublisher MaurybooksWeight(grams) 209gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 8mm

The New Deal and American Society, 1933-1941 explores what some have labeled the third American revolution, in one concise and accessible volume. This book examines the emergence of modern America, beginning with the 100 Days legislation in 1933 through...

Derry~Londonderry has a distinctive cultural history which reflects its unique position in the history of Ireland. This ground-breaking book examines three centuries of music and theatre in the city highlighting the key figures and turning points in its...

This book is a collection of milestone articles of a leading scholar in the study of the Norman Kingdom of Sicily, a crossroads of Latin-Christian, Greek-Byzantine, and Arab-Islamic cultures and one of the most fascinating but also one of the most...

The Great War is a landmark history that firmly places the First World War in the context of imperialism. Set to overturn conventional accounts of what happened during this, the first truly international conflict, it extends the study of the First World...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781580376341Author Don BlattnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Mark Twain MediaPublisher Mark Twain MediaWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 272mm * 211mm...

The Navy of World War II, 1922-1946 comprehensively covers the vessels that defined this momentous 24-year period in U.S. naval history. Beginning with the lean, pared-down navy created by the treaty at the Washington Naval Conference, and ending with...

Originally published in 1973, Semi-Detached London looks at the great suburban expansion of London between the two world wars. The book covers all aspects of urban history, presenting an authoritative and balanced account of the Great Suburban Age, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781845895501Author Julia SkinnerFormat HardbackPage Count 64Imprint The Francis Frith CollectionPublisher The Francis Frith Collection

Oral history is inherently about memory, and when oral history interviews are used "in public," they invariably both reflect and shape public memories of the past. Oral History and Public Memories is the only book that explores this relationship, in...

Written for undergradaute courses on postwar American foreign policy, Southeast Asian history, the Cold War, the Vietnam war, international relations, decolonization, and third world communism, this introduction uses the wealth of recent research to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692070406Author Julie WhippleFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint Yamhill Canyon PressPublisher Yamhill Canyon PressWeight(grams) 399gDimensions(mm)...

Art, politics and dissent provides a counter history to conventional accounts of American art.. Close historical examinations of particular events in Los Angeles and New York in the 1960s are interwoven with discussion of the location of these events,...

Dorothea Lange, Documentary Photography, and Twentieth-Century America charts the life of Dorothea Lange (1895-1965), whose life was radically altered by the Depression, and whose photography helped transform the nation. The book begins with her...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780946143153Author Christine Morton RaymontFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Lodenek PressPublisher Lodenek Press

Women's Activism brings together twelve innovative contributions from feminist historians from around the world to look at how women have always found ways to challenge or fight inequalities and hierarchies as individuals, in international women's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780244026257Author Roberto ZanollaFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.comWeight(grams) 318g

Offering a dynamic and wide-ranging examination of the key issues at the heart of the study of German Fascism, Nazism as Fascism brings together a selection of Geoff Eley's most important writings on Nazism and the Third Reich.Featuring a wealth of...

Interest in the American Civil War and the role of Abraham Lincoln has grown dramatically in the last decade. Leader of the anti-slavery Republican coalition and the wartime Union, he has become a model of a particular kind of democratic politician who...

Mathematics is as much a part of our humanity as music and art. And it is our mathematics that might be understandable, even familiar, to a distant race and might provide the basis for mutual communication. This book discusses, in a conversational way,...

The fighting bishop or abbot is a familiar figure to medievalists and much of what is known of the military organization of England in this period is based on ecclesiastical evidence. Unfortunately the fighting cleric has generally been regarded as...

The modern professions have a long history that predates the development of formal institutions and examinations in the nineteenth century. Long before the Victorian era the emergent professions wielded power through their specialist knowledge and set up...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615475813Author Hugh HagiusFormat PaperbackImprint Bibliogay PublicationsPublisher Bibliogay PublicationsWeight(grams) 245g

Motorized Bicycles traces the history of the motorized bicycle from the pioneers of motorized cycles to the modern electric bicycle.Book InformationISBN 9780557643691Author Tom BartlettFormat PaperbackPage Count 99Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780861529230Author John Munro MackenzieFormat PaperbackPage Count 167Imprint AcairPublisher AcairDimensions(mm) 215mm * 137mm * 25mm

Available for the first time in paperback, this volume includes twenty-two chapters by international experts covering the entire history of technology from humankind's earliest use of stone tools to the exploration of space. Written clearly and without...

In this timely collection, key pieces of writing by leading historians are reproduced and evaluated, with an explanation and critique of their character and assumptions, and how they reflect upon the nature of the history project. The authors respond to...

Lucian Opera Tomus III (Books XLIV-LXVIII)Book InformationISBN 9780198145929Author M. D. MacleodPage Count 406Imprint Oxford University PressPublisher Oxford University PressWeight(grams) 467gDimensions(mm) 194mm * 130mm * 29mm