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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...

In her new book, well-known Africanist Suzanne Miers places modern slavery in its historical context, tracing the phenomenal development of the international anti-slavery movement over the last hundred years. She demonstrates how the problems of...

Originally published in 1962, The Long-Haired Kings is split into two parts. The first is concerned with the history of France in the period of gestation, between the end of Roman imperial room in Gaul, and the emergence of medieval France in the tenth...

A focus on memory has come to prominence across a wide range of disciplines. History, literature, philosophy, anthropology, and cultural studies have placed memory at the heart of their interrogations of subjectivity, narrative, time and imagination. At...

This panoramic book tells the story of how revolutionary ideas from the Enlightenment about freedom, equality, evolution, and democracy have reverberated through modern history and shaped the world as we know it today. A testament to the enduring power...

Experiencing the Last Judgement opens up new ways of understanding a Byzantine image type that has hitherto been considered largely uniform in its manifestations and to a great extent frightening, coercive and paralysing. It moves beyond a purely...

Often portrayed by past historians as the greatest guide and Indian fighter in the West, Kit Carson (1809-68) has become in recent years a historical pariah-a brutal murderer who betrayed the Navajos, an unwitting dupe of American expansion, and a racist...

This is a full and authoritative account of the history of private banking, beginning with its development in conjunction with the world markets served by and centred on a few European cities, notably Amsterdam and London. These banks were usually...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788772889474Author Peter LythFormat PaperbackPage Count 255Imprint Aarhus University PressPublisher Aarhus University Press

For the many children torn from their families, taken miles from home and placed with strangers, the evacuation at the outbreak of the Second World War was a life-changing experience. In Goodnight Children, Everywhere, men and women who were children at...

For the many children torn from their families, taken miles from home and placed with strangers, the evacuation at the outbreak of the Second World War was a life-changing experience. In Goodnight Children, Everywhere, men and women who were children at...

In this volume, first published in 1945, Mr Wilkinson writes primarily for students of the classics who are not Horatian specialists. His book falls easily within the scope of those who can read any Latin at all - and even of those who cannot, for most...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781625649973Author Stephen CowleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 316Imprint Wipf & Stock PublishersPublisher Wipf & Stock PublishersWeight(grams)...

Attitudes towards divorce have changed considerably over the past two centuries. As society has moved away from a Biblical definition of marriage as an indissoluble union, to that of an individual and personal relationship, secular laws have evolved as...

This book brings together two of the most powerful and relevant philosophical critiques of human rights: the post-colonialist and the post-Althusserian, its balanced internal structure not just throwing these two critiques together, but actually forcing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780244338190Author George AyresFormat PaperbackImprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.comWeight(grams) 358g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788124606230Author Debashish BanerjiFormat HardbackPage Count 460Imprint D.K. Print World LtdPublisher D.K. Print World Ltd

First published in 1934, Artists in Uniform confronts what the author describes as 'two of the worst features of the Soviet experiment' following Lenin's death - bigotry and bureaucratism - and shows how they have functioned in the sphere of arts and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398808164Author Al CiminoFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Arcturus Publishing LtdPublisher Arcturus Publishing Ltd

This volume tells the story of the Helsinki Process from the immediate post-war period through the signing of the Helsinki Final Act in 1975 to the collapse of the Soviet empire and up to the present day. Treating it as a single narrative in the search...

For nearly four decades, Maryse Cond, best known for her novels Segu and Windward Heights, has been at the forefront of French Caribbean literature. In this collection of essays and lectures, written over many years and in response to the challenges...

Offering a comprehensive narrative of the early history of stereochemistry, Dr Ramberg explores the reasons for and the consequences of the fundamental change in the meaning of chemical formulas with the emergence of stereochemistry during the last...

First published in 1994. This study sets out to investigate English opera from 1834 to 1864. The author attempts to understand the circumstances influencing the development of English nineteenth-century opera, its characteristic features, and the reasons...

The Symbolism of Medieval Churches: An Introduction explores the ways in which the medieval church building and key features of it were used as symbols, particularly to represent different relationships within the Church and the virtues of the Christian...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781034645528Author St John ChrysostomFormat PaperbackPage Count 164Imprint BlurbPublisher BlurbWeight(grams) 336gDimensions(mm) 254mm * 203mm * 9mm

The historic long-term economic interconnections of the world are now universally accepted. The idea of the 'world system' advanced by Immanuel Wallerstein has set the period of linkage in the early modern period. But some academics think this date is...

The History of the Devil (1900) is a philosophical study by Paul Carus. A lifelong Monist, Carus sought to apply a scientific analysis to the principles of humanity's religions. Credited with bridging the gap between Eastern and Western beliefs, Carus...

This book covers one of the more obscure periods of Italian history. What we know of it is presented almost always pejoratively: an unrelieved tale of political absolution, rural refeudalisation, economic crisis, religious repression and cultural decline...

Motherland tells the dramatic story of the rise and fall of the Soviet Union. From Lenin's virtual coup in November 1917 to Boris Yeltsin's ruthless takeover of power in 1991, the book culminates with a new view of the Yeltsin years.David Marples focuses...

The Greeks have long been regarded as innovators across a wide range of fields in literature, culture, philosophy, politics and science. However, little attention has been paid to how they thought and felt about novelty and innovation itself, and to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789390961085Author Sahana SinghFormat HardbackPage Count 308Imprint Vitasta Publishing Pvt.LtdPublisher Vitasta Publishing Pvt.LtdDimensions(mm) 220mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782366593624Author History and Civilization CollectionFormat PaperbackPage Count 110Imprint LM PublishersPublisher LM PublishersWeight(grams)...

In the first quarter of the thirteenth century, an anonymous Flemish writer set in writing, in Old French, a chronicle of Normandy, England, Flanders and northern France. It ranged from the arrival of the Vikings in Normandy to the early years of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781784551537Author Gerhard SchnehenFormat PaperbackPage Count 274Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

Nineteenth-century Paris attracted foreign musicians like a magnet. The city boasted a range of theatres and of genres represented there, a wealth of libretti and source material for them, vocal, orchestral and choral resources, to say nothing of the set...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789602260852Author David Arthur ThomasFormat PaperbackPage Count 234Imprint Efstathiadis GroupPublisher Efstathiadis GroupWeight(grams) 225g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780957402140Author Denise M. DowdallFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint historyeyePublisher historyeyeWeight(grams) 189g

Bureaucracy At War U.S. Performance In The Vietnam Conflict is an encyclopaedic analysis of many issues raised in the course of the Vietnam War. Komer questions the presence of the U.S in South-east Asia as well as tackling technical, strategic,...

This remarkable true story recounts one of the great discoveries of the century: finding a 2000-year-old boat from the Sea of Galilee. Shelley Wachsmann, a respected nautical archaeologist, shares the joy and drama he felt in discovering and excavating...

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...