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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781780911830Author Andrew Murray ScottFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint DB PublishingPublisher DB Publishing

England has influenced the modern world more than any other country, yet the English national identity is being rapidly eroded by an academic and media sponsored Anglophobia. Politicians and those in the public arena promote other cultures, but the...

American PT Boats in World War II is an illustrated study of the development, construction, tactics, and combat actions, of U.S. PT Boats.Book InformationISBN 9780764302565Author Victor ChunFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Schiffer Publishing...

All museums are sex museums. In Sex Museums, Jennifer Tyburczy takes a hard look at the formation of Western sexuality-particularly how categories of sexual normalcy and perversity are formed-and asks what role museums have played in using display as a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910551325Author Linda FernleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Bradwell BooksPublisher Bradwell Books

From the late 1920s onwards, forced collectivisation, state-directed industrialisation, mass purging and the party's control of culture, refashioned Russia and gave birth to a new type of society. The 'second revolution' and its aftermath remodelled the...

A Stanford University Press classic.Book InformationISBN 9780804705141Author Carroll BarkFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Stanford University PressPublisher Stanford University PressWeight(grams) 213g

Collecting together essays written by an international set of contributors, this book provides an important contribution to the emerging field of disability history. It explores changes in understandings of deformity and disability between the sixteenth...

Richard Bosworth's overview of Italy's role in European and world politics from 1860 to 1960 is lively and iconclastic. Based on a combination of primary research and secondary material he examines Italian diplomacy, military power, commerce, culture,...

Modern European History brings together a unique selection of documents covering the period from 1871 to 2000. The collection is organised by topic, and a clear historical context and chronological chart provide background for each section. This second...

The Syrian philosopher Iamblichus is famous for his accounts of ancient religious traditions: this book contains Thomas Taylor's translations of his commentaries regarding Egypt, Assyria and Chaldea. Containing many references to the mystical...

Investigating think tanks on both sides of the political divide, the author defines these groups in the context of British politics, explores their impact on the climate of opinion, and calculates how effective they have been in influencing government in...

First Published in 1995, the main emphasis of this book is on the political history of the Jews in Palestine, where "political" is to be understood not as the mere succession of rulers and battles but as the interaction between political activity and...

Pocket Images BarryBook InformationISBN 9781845881290Author Geoffrey A NorthFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Nonsuch PublishingPublisher Nonsuch PublishingWeight(grams) 160gDimensions(mm) 168mm * 124mm * 10mm

Bestselling author Malachy McCourt recounts the story of Ireland's timeless symbol of loyalty, friendship, and love, a ring design of two clasped hands that is worn by millions worldwide. Following the success of his Running Press titles Danny Boy and ...

Historians have long realized the US civil rights movement pre-dated Martin Luther King Jr., but they disagree on where, when and why it started. Laboured Protest offers new answers in a study of black political protest during the New Deal and Second...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780522872514Author Patricia O'BrienFormat PaperbackPage Count 266Imprint Melbourne University PressPublisher Melbourne University PressWeight(grams)...

Owing to its mass appeal, revolutionary and violent nature, strong political impact, and multiple reverberations in contemporary politics, fascism was one of the most complex, and hotly debated movements of the twentieth century. Comparative Fascist...

Early nineteenth-century Ireland witnessed widespread and prolonged rural unrest, as groups of labourers and smallholders formed secret societies demanding land reform, fair rents, the protection of wages and an end to tithes. One of the most active of...

Superlatives tend to fail in describing Joan Blaeu's Atlas Maior-that being said, it stands as one of the most extravagant feats in the history of mapmaking. The original Latin edition, completed in 1665, was the largest and most expensive book to be...

In this collection of over 200 postcards and family snapshots, author Geoffrey North taps a rich vein of nostalgia for the past of Barry and the surrounding area. The book examines all those settings which have provided the background or stimulus for the...

Plague and the City uncovers discourses of plague and anti-plague measures in the city during the medieval, early modern and modern periods, and explores the connection between plague and urban environments including attempts by professional bodies to...

Cocaine examines the rise and fall of this notorious substance from its legitimate use by scientists and medics in the nineteenth century to the international prohibitionist regimes and drug gangs of today. Themes explored include: * Amsterdam's complex...

For the past ten years, Nancy MacKay's Curating Oral Histories (2006) has been the one-stop shop for librarians, curators, program administrators, and project managers who are involved in turning an oral history interview into a primary research...

Scholars have long been interested in the extent to which the Anglo-Saxon past can be understood using material written, and produced, in the twelfth century; and simultaneously in the continued importance (or otherwise) of the Anglo-Saxon past in the...

This anthology represents important and original directions in the study of Caribbean migration. It takes a comparative perspective on the Caribbean people's migratory experiences to North America, Europe, and within the Caribbean. Using a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780986802140Author Maximilian ForteFormat PaperbackPage Count 302Imprint Alert PressPublisher Alert PressWeight(grams) 445g

This volume, first published in 1977, brings together eleven studies of crime and the administration of the criminal law in England during the early modern period. They represent a variety of approaches - legal, historical and sociological - to the study...

This book embraces the political, intellectual, social and cultural history of Soviet Russia. Providing a useful perspective of Putin's Russia, and with a strong historical and religious background, the book: looks at the changing features of the Soviet...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781780005423Author Robert BurnsFormat PaperbackPage Count 34Imprint Portable PoetryPublisher Portable PoetryWeight(grams) 59gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

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 *...

First published in 1952, this is a full-scale and definitive account of the life and work of Sir Edwin Chadwick. Among the sources used are the Chadwick Papers, the Peel, Place, Russell and Gladstone Papers, the Home Office, Treasury and Ministry of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780244330897Author Erik PilawskiiFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.comWeight(grams) 254g

Gandhi's is an extraordinary and compelling story. Few individuals in history have made so great a mark upon their times. And yet Gandhi never held high political office, commanded no armies and was not even a compelling orator. His 'power' therefore...

The Philosophy and Science of Roger Bacon offers new insights and research perspectives on one of the most intriguing characters of the Middle Ages, Roger Bacon. At the intersections between science and philosophy, the volume analyses central aspects of...

Merriam Press World War II Memoir. As school children, most Americans learned about World War II and the attack on Pearl Harbor, the D-Day invasion of Normandy, the raising of the flag on Iwo Jima. But few people know much about the Italian Campaign...

The changing face of the female smoker, from the lady smokers of the late nineteenth century to the lone mother of the late twentieth century, suggests that the history of smoking among women is not just about the assimilation of women into a male...

US Foreign Policy in World History is a survey of US foreign relations and its perceived crusade to spread liberty and democracy in the two hundred years since the American Revolution. David Ryan undertakes a systematic and material analysis of US...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780464880240Author Jannah Firdaus MediaproFormat PaperbackPage Count 418Imprint BlurbPublisher BlurbWeight(grams) 558gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 22mm

A history of Sutton.Book InformationISBN 9781845883249Author Jane E.M. JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Nonsuch PublishingPublisher Nonsuch PublishingWeight(grams) 160gDimensions(mm) 168mm * 124mm * 10mm