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This practical but inspiring book considers what local history is, why researching it is valuable and rewarding, and how we should go about it. Issues addressed include: getting oral and documentary evidence; keeping records; the nature of data,...

The Making of Ireland by James Lydon provides an accessible history of Ireland from the earliest times. James Lydon recounts, in colourful detail, the waves of settlers, missionaries and invaders which have come to Ireland since pre-history and offers a...

Originally published in 1982 Obstetrics and Gynaecology in Tudor and Stuart England traces the development of obstetrics and gynaecology over the past two centuries. Between the 16th and 18th century midwifery passed from a female mystery, employing...

A vital work for its exploration of the way the very idea of home became white in Britain in the postwar periodAhead of its time when first published and reviewed in the Guardian Highly relevant in light of the Windrush scandal and recent debates...

It's an unfortunate fact that many do not remember the calamitous years of previous Labour governments and the incompetence of the main players in the Party that eventually `Broke the Party', and probably lost the Party control of government for decades...

When Lenin and the Bolsheviks shut down the Constituent Assembly after only one session, it was said to mark the end of Russia's one-day experiment with democracy. However, with the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, a true period of democracy was ushered...

Just as we generally pay scant attention to the potential dangers of nuclear power and nuclear war, until quite recently, scholars have made limited critical attempts to understand the cultural manifestations of the nuclear status quo. Films that feature...

Tourist art production is a global phenomenon and is increasingly recognized as an important and authentic expression of indigenous visual traditions. These thoughtful, engaging essays provide a comparative perspective on the history, character, and...

Sultan Suleyman the Magnificent (r.1520-1566) dominated the eastern Mediterranean and Ottoman worlds - and the imagination of his contemporaries - very much as his fellow sovereigns Charles V, Francis I and Henry VIII in the west. He greatly expanded the...

By drawing equally on the work of historians and archaeologists, Colin Platt puts forward a view of English medieval society in which there is much that is new and unexpected. Medieval England brings together a wide range of themes, from castle and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062049155Author Peter EisnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint HarperOnePublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 238gDimensions(mm) 202mm *...

Ranging from Connacht to Constantinople and from Tynemouth to Timbuktu, the forty-four contributors to The Medieval World seek to bring the Middle Ages to life, offering definitive appraisals of the distinctive features of the period. This second edition...

The inspiration behind Robert Louis Stevenson's classic pirate tale Treasure Island, this is the long lost and almost forgotten true story of how two murderous pirates ended their days swinging in a gibbet on a small island off the coast of Dublin. From...

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Forced out of power in the"Glorious Revolution" of 1688, and defeated in the subsequent battle of the Boyne by William of Orange, the short reign of James II has an importance that reaches far beyond his three years in power. An ardent Roman Catholic,...

Who, exactly, was responsible for the preservation of knowledge about the past? How did people preserve their recollections and pass them on to the next generation? Did they write them down or did they hand then on orally? The book is concerned with the...

This book identifies the main factors by which the Nazi movement rose to power and measures their relative importance. It discusses Hitler's leadership, the strategy of party tacticians, and the favorable circumstances of popular economic and social...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816636266Author Arturo AriasFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint University of Minnesota PressPublisher University of Minnesota PressDimensions(mm)...

A detailed and moving account of the indignities and cruelties Jews have undergone at the hands of Christians and others in the West, from St John Chrysostom in the 4th century to Hitler in the 20th. Using Hitler's concentration camps as a point of...

Since the late nineteenth century, medicine has sought to foster the birth of healthy children by attending to the bodies of pregnant women, through what we have come to call prenatal care. Women, and not their unborn children, were the initial focus of...

Susan Paterson Glover here presents, in modern type, a critical edition of the first printed work by an English woman writer, Sarah Chapone, on the inequity of the common law regime for married women. Glover's extended, original introduction provides an...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781840335637Author David PettigrewFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Stenlake PublishingPublisher Stenlake Publishing

Reconstructing modernity assesses the character of approaches to rebuilding British cities during the decades after the Second World War. It explores the strategies of spatial governance that sought to restructure society and looks at the cast of...

Jill Dudley travels to the early Greek dramatists of fifth century B.C. Athens lived and worked. She introduces the reader to their world and brings their tragedies and comedies to life as she journeys from Athens to the Peloponnese, Thebes and...

Adam of Bremen's Gesta Hammaburgensis Ecclesiae Pontificum is one of the most important accounts documenting the history, geography and ethnology of Northern and Central-Eastern Europe in the period between the ninth and eleventh centuries. Its author, a...

Jean Barbot, who served as a commercial agent on French slave-trading voyages to West Africa in 1678-9 and 1681-2, in 1683 began an account of the Guinea coast, based partly on his voyage journals (only one of which is extant) and partly on previous...

In 125 years Chelmsford has changed from a small county town dependent on the local agricultural economy into, firstly, a renowned centre for industry and now a rapidly expanding industrialised city. At their peak during the second war Chelmsford's big...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374517632Author Richard LourieFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plPublisher Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788027343362Author William EvansFormat PaperbackPage Count 380Imprint E-ArtnowPublisher E-ArtnowWeight(grams) 508gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 20mm

Hellenomania, the second volume in the MANIA series, presents a wide-ranging, multi-disciplinary exploration of the modern reception of ancient Greek material culture in cultural practices ranging from literature to architecture, stage and costume...

The foremost religious festival of ancient Athens-the city dedicated to Athena, goddess of war, fertility, arts, and wisdom-was the Panathenaia. Challenging old assumptions and refuting new theories, Worshipping Athena addresses the many problems of...

The history of medieval Germany is still rarely studied in the English-speaking world. This collection of essays by distinguished German historians examines one of most important themes of German medieval history, the development of the local...

This book reflects the complex fabric of history of Russian involvement in psychoanalysis. It focuses on the life and work of individuals and presents more general explorations of particular eras in the perception, development, and transformation of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781999333782Author Peter OsborneFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Radical Philosophy Archive LtdPublisher Radical Philosophy Archive LtdDimensions(mm)...

A new and major contribution to the field, Women in European Culture and Society is a transnational history of women in Europe from the beginning of the eighteenth century that pushes women's history beyond national studies to create an integrated view...

During the 1640s, the kingdoms ruled by Charles I - England and Wales, Scotland and Ireland - were gripped by a series of civil wars and conflicts which were, in part, distinct to each kingdom, but which also overlapped and inter-related, leading some...

The eleventh and twelfth centuries witnessed a thoroughgoing transformation of European culture, as new ways of thinking revitalized every aspect of man's endeavor, from architecture and the visual arts to history, philosophy, theology, and even law. In...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062092908Author Karen AbbottFormat PaperbackPage Count 544Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 395g

This volume covers a wide range of topics in Athenian intellectual history, drawing on the methods of various other disciplines to provoke a reconsideration of outstanding problems and controversies in classical studies. The papers have been organised by...

It has long been argued that the Allies did little or nothing to rescue Europe's Jews. Arguing that this has been consistently misinterpreted, The Myth of Rescue states that few Jews who perished could have been saved by any action of the Allies. In his...