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Famous poet and novelist John M. Synge recounts his travels to the Aran Islands in 1906 - a group of small yet culturally significant isles off the west coast of Ireland. Notable for their history, which stretches back thousands of years, it was with...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780786710881Author Frank McLynnFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint Basic BooksPublisher Basic BooksWeight(grams) 617gDimensions(mm) 232mm * 156mm * 35mm

Gary Cross publishes the findings of this largely forgotten study by the Mass-Observers who followed the annual pilgrimage of labourers to Blackpool, hoping to discover what attracted workers to this centre of Victorian culture.Reviews` ... helps to...

German and Italian fascist armies treated the Jews quite differently during the Second World War. Jonathan Steinberg unravels the motives and force underpinning Nazism and Fascism and discusses the roots of atrocity during war.Reviews`... a fine book...

Association football, as it developed rapidly in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, both reflected British society and helped to reshape it. In this newly released edition of Tony Mason's essential account of the game's rise, focusing on...

The close relationship between religion, medicine and natural philosophy in the post-Reformation period has been documented and explored in a body of research since the 1990s; however, the direct and continued impact of Melanchthonian natural philosophy...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781780914961Author John StedmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 162Imprint DB PublishingPublisher DB Publishing

In the seventh and eighth centuries, the Muslim Arabs conquered large areas of North Africa and then, with the help of their former adversaries in North Africa, the Berbers, gained a decisive victory over the Visigoths in Spain. This book, first...

The family of Earl Godwin of Wessex stands among the most famous in English history, whose most famous son was King Harold.Frank Barlow charts the family through to Harold - the last Anglo-Saxon king - and finally the crowning of William the Conqueror...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312293130Author Peter HennessyFormat HardbackPage Count 688Imprint St. Martins Press-3PLPublisher St. Martins Press-3PLWeight(grams) 1152gDimensions(mm)...

Few people can claim to have had minds as fertile and creative as the French philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau. One of the most influential political theorists of the modern age, he was also a composer and writer of opera, a novelist, and a memoirist...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781291629750Author Marsali TaylorFormat PaperbackPage Count 244Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.comWeight(grams) 440gDimensions(mm) 246mm * 189mm * 13mm

Popular Politics in an Aristocratic Republic explores the different aspects of political actions and experiences in late medieval and early modern Venice.The book challenges the idea that the city of Venice knew no political conflict and social...

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...

500,000 Years in the Life of a River. The longest river in England, the Thames, has witnessed the entire history of a country and its capital. The Story of the Thames looks at history from the river's perspective, investigating how the life of the...

This book examines British naval policy during the mid-Victorian period, with an emphasis on the political, economic, and foreign relations contexts within which naval policy was formulated. This period has sometimes been characterized as the "dark age"...

First published in 2004. Marcus Garvey founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association in 1914. He was one of the first black leaders to encourage black people to discover their cultural traditions and history, and to seek common cause in the...

Conflict is central to human history. It is often the cause, course and consequence of social, cultural and political change. Military history therefore has to be more than a technical analysis of armed conflict. War in the Modern World since 1815...

A history of Yeovil.Book InformationISBN 9780752431215Author Brian GittosFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint The History Press LtdPublisher The History Press LtdWeight(grams) 430gDimensions(mm) 235mm * 165mm * 10mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060083144Author Jay WinikFormat PaperbackPage Count 720Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 598gDimensions(mm) 203mm...

First published in 1998, this book describes the surviving medieval remains there and the far more numerous manor houses and castles owned by the bishops, as well as their London houses. Apart from royal residences these are far the largest group of...

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

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781296502676Author Frederic Appleby HoltFormat HardbackPage Count 364Imprint Andesite PressPublisher Andesite PressWeight(grams) 685gDimensions(mm) 234mm *...

Ibn al-Furat (d. 1405) is an understudied Mamluk historian, whose materials for the period of the later Crusades is unique. While sections of his history for the period prior to 1277 have been translated, later sections have not. His text provides both...

Indusrialisation and Society provides an essential introduction to the effects of industrialisation on British society, from Queen Victoria's reign to the birth of the welfare state in the 1940s.This book deals with the remarkable social consequences of...

Colonial social policy in the British West Indies from the nineteenth century onward assumed that black families lacked morals, structure, and men, a void that explained poverty and lack of citizenship. African-Caribbean families appeared as the mirror...

Featuring a beautiful new design, THE EARTH AND ITS PEOPLES, 7th Edition, presents world history in a balanced, global framework, shifting the focus away from political centers of power and toward the living conditions and activities of ordinary people...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780996345545Author John M ArcherFormat PaperbackPage Count 78Imprint MaurybooksPublisher MaurybooksWeight(grams) 118g

Bryan Kelly was born in Liverpool in 1931, one of eight children. His family lived in a small terraced house in Anfield, and his father was a docker. Bryan has worked as a labourer, a nightclub bouncer, a pipe-fitter's mate and a heating engineer. He now...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780743237789Author Bruce D. PorterFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint The Free PressPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 419g

The philosophy of Plato embraces much more than metaphysics; his primary concern was with the question of how man should conduct himself as he ought, and metaphysics was studied for the sake of this. Yet for most readers 'Plato' suggests the Theory of...

In this pioneering study, David Emmons tells the story of Butte's large and assertive population of Irish immigrants. He traces their backgrounds in Ireland, the building of an ethnic community in Butte, the nature and hazards of their work in the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780244091873Author Lawrence ParkerFormat PaperbackPage Count 102Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.comWeight(grams) 159g

What is history - a question historians have been asking themselves time and again. Does "history" as an academic discipline, as it has evolved in the West over the centuries, represent a specific mode of historical thinking that can bedefined...

Thomas O. Mills befriended author Frank Waters, who in 1963 had written The Book of the Hopi with his Hopi informant Oswald White Bear Fredericks. Their book included the Hopi Creation Story. Mills listened, read and began to draw his own original and...

How reference librarians, once revered shamans and warriors of the tribe, declined and disappeared under the onslaught of new technologies.Book InformationISBN 9780244833596Author Alan DuckworthFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu...

William Crookes' long life was one of unbroken scientific and business activity, culminating in his appointment as President of the Royal Society in 1913. Throughout his career he was an important science journalist, the discoverer of thallium, the...

This extraordinary account of a struggling midwestern coal town profiles small-time bootlegger Kelly Wagle, whose mysterious career--and suspected involvement with two unsolved murder cases--had a profound and lasting impact on his community. In...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781780913049Author Daniel CoddFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint DB PublishingPublisher DB Publishing

For thousands of years, humans coped with heat by harvesting and storing natural ice and devising natural cooling systems that utilized ventilation and evaporation. By the mid 1800s, people began developing huge refrigeration machines to manufacture...