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The Industrial Revolution is a central concept in conventional understandings of the modern world, and as such is a core topic on many history courses. It is therefore difficult for students to see it as anything other than an objective description of a...

Clues to T.C. Lethbridge's books lie in their subtitles. Witches: Investigating an Ancient Religion is no exception. In his study of the old pagan gods of Britain, Lethbridge believed that witch cults had their roots in prehistory and eventually became a...

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

The Emperor John II Komnenos (1118-1143) has been overshadowed by both his father Alexios I and his son Manuel I. Written sources have not left us much evidence regarding his reign, although authors agree that he was an excellent emperor. However, the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781847849076Author Kay ParrottImprint Alan Godfrey MapsPublisher Alan Godfrey Maps

When she died in 2016, Dr Jennifer O'Reilly left behind a body of published and unpublished work in three areas of medieval studies: the iconography of the Gospel Books produced in early medieval Ireland and Anglo-Saxon England; the writings of Bede and...

This book is a comparative study of military practice in Sui-Tang China and the Byzantine Empire between approximately 600 and 700 CE. It covers all aspects of the military art from weapons and battlefield tactics to logistics, campaign organization,...

From the author of Letters from a Stoic (Epistulae Morales), comes another brilliant, timeless guide to living well.This new edition of Seneca's On the Shortness of Life (De Brevitate Vitae) from The Augustine Press has been revised with footnotes by...

This unique Atlas traces the history of Jerusalem from biblical times to the present day. Each map is illustrated by a facing page of prints or photographs, to give a complete pictorial and cartographic overview of this fascinating city of the Middle...

This book takes a new approach to teaching and learning early US history from 1763 to 2001 at A level. It meets the needs of teachers and students studying for today's revised AS and A2 exams.In a unique style, The United States, 1763-2001 focuses on the...

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...

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

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781940997865Author Ian JohnstonFormat PaperbackPage Count 124Imprint Faenum Publishing, Ltd.Publisher Faenum Publishing, Ltd.Weight(grams)...

This volume provides translations of texts on the Mamluk Sultan Qalawun (1279-90) and his son al-Malik al-Ashraf (1290-93), which cover the end of the Crusader interlude in the Syrian Levant. Translated from the original Arabic, these chronicles detail...

The Routledge Companion to Animal-Human History provides an up-to-date guide for the historian working within the growing field of animal-human history. Giving a sense of the diversity and interdisciplinary nature of the field, cutting-edge contributions...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674183186Author Lord David OwenFormat HardbackPage Count 622Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 1188g

Imagining the Pagan Past explores stories of Britain's pagan history. These tales have been characterised by gods and fairies, folklore and magic. They have had an uncomfortable relationship with the scholarly world; often being seen as historically...

The twentieth century was dominated by war and by preparations for war in a way that is unparalleled in history. Originally published in 1988, this textbook highlights key themes of warfare throughout the world and emphasizes the gulf between the theory...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781990048357Author Daphne LeeFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Otago University PressPublisher Otago University Press

From the invasion of Ethiopia in 1935 through to the waning months of the World War II in 1945, Fascist Italy was at war. This Fascist decade of war comprised an uninterrupted stretch of military and political engagements in which Italian military forces...

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...

Here is a study, by a recognized master in the field of intellectual history, of the challenge put by Machiavelli to the idea that there is a universal moral law governing human behavior. Should the political leader act according to the maxim of "my...

The Cold War, the Space Race, and the Law of Outer Space: Space for Peace tells the story of one of the United Nations' most enduring and least known achievements: the adoption of five multilateral treaties that compose the international law of outer...

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

Genocide is commonly understood to be a terrible aberration in human behaviour, performed by evil, murderous regimes such as the Nazis and dictators like Suharto and Pinochet. John Docker argues that the roots of genocide go far deeper into human nature...

This ground-breaking book provides the first study of naval ideology, defined as the mass of cultural ideas and shared perspectives that, for early modern states and belief systems, justified the creation and use of naval forces. Sixteen scholars examine...

Dr. C. Keith Wilbur takes you on a detailed and fascinating tour through the medical history of this bloody and devastating war.Book InformationISBN 9780762703418Author C. Keith WilburFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Globe Pequot PressPublisher...

One nineteenth-century commentator noted the 'public' character of Quaker women as signalling a new era in female history. This study examines such claims through the story of middle-class women Friends from among the kinship circle created by the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780646876900Author Pieter LaningFormat PaperbackPage Count 78Imprint Laning Holding Pty LtdPublisher Laning Holding Pty LtdWeight(grams) 118g

A seminal analysis of the election that reshaped Britain.Book InformationISBN 9780714615660Author R.B. McCallumFormat PaperbackPage Count 332Imprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor & Francis LtdWeight(grams) 453g

Mobile Saints examines the central medieval (ca. 950-1150 CE) practice of removing saints' relics from rural monasteries in order to take them on out-and-back journeys, particularly within northern France and the Low Countries. Though the permanent...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781789874488Author William EvansFormat PaperbackPage Count 178Imprint Pantianos ClassicsPublisher Pantianos ClassicsWeight(grams) 268g

"During a substantial stay in some East Bengal villages in the summer of 1971, when East Pakistan was in the traumatic process of being transformed into Bangladesh, it first dawned upon me that peasants were not stupid, devoid of political consciousness...

Britain in the Wider World traces the remarkable transformation of Britain between 1603 and 1800 as it developed into a world power. At the accession of James VI and I to the throne of England in 1603, the kingdoms of England/Wales, Scotland and Ireland...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781999600709Author Tom BlissFormat PaperbackPage Count 130Imprint BlissworksPublisher BlissworksWeight(grams) 186gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 7mm

Between 1977 and 1985, some 20,000 Ethiopian Jews left their homes in Ethiopia and embarked on a secret and highly traumatic exodus to Israel. Due to various political circumstances they had to leave their homes in haste, go a long way on foot through...