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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789354898945Author Tushar GandhiFormat HardbackPage Count 312Imprint HarperCollins IndiaPublisher HarperCollins IndiaWeight(grams) 500gDimensions(mm) 250mm...

The Revolutions of 1989 is a collection of both classic and recent articles examining the causes and consequences of the collapse of communism in East and Central Europe, the most important event in recent world history. It includes discussion of:* the...

This volume contains the first broad selection of essays made available in English by Ber Borochov, one of the leading intellectuals of the early Zionist movement. Borochov founded the Labor Zionist party in 1906, and was the pillar of the Israeli Labor...

PMH Bell's famous book is a comprehensive study of the period and debates surrounding the European origins of the Second World War. He approaches the subject from three different angles: describing the various explanations that have been offered for the...

Charting the first six hundred years of the Christian movement, THE EARLY CHRISTIAN CENTURIES carries the reader from the world of second-temple Judaism to the Byzantine age, the rise of Islam, and the beginnings of medieval European polities.With a...

Do South Africans Exist? addresses a gap in contemporary studies of nationalism and the nation, providing a critical study of South African nationalism, against a broader context of African nationalism in general. Narratives of resistance, telling of...

The Aetna is something of a curiosity: a didactic poem on the nature and causes of volcanic activity. In antiquity it was ascribed by some to Virgil; modern scholars reject this and, although unable to agree upon a date, favour the first century A.D. The...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312420949Author Alexander StilleFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's Press

The eastern frontier of Byzantium and the interaction of the peoples that lived along it are the themes of this book. With a focus on the ninth to thirteenth centuries and dealing with both art history and history, the essays provide reconsiderations of...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788495359926Author Stefan ZweigFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint BatiscafoPublisher BatiscafoWeight(grams) 358gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 130mm * 20mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780464055327Author Daniel HuntFormat PaperbackPage Count 350Imprint BlurbPublisher BlurbWeight(grams) 381gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm * 20mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781873797419Author Keith FlettFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint New Clarion PressPublisher New Clarion Press

A History of the Alans in the West was first published in 1973. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions...

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

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,...

Leila Farsakh provides the first comprehensive analysis of the rise and fall of Palestinian labour flows to Israel. Highlighting the interdependence between Israel's confiscation of Palestinian land and the use of Palestinian labour, she shows how...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956735751Author Laurence GardnerFormat HardbackPage Count 440Imprint Dash HousePublisher Dash HouseWeight(grams) 815g

Throughout the early modern period, scientific debate and governmental action became increasingly preoccupied with the environment, generating discussion across Europe and the wider world as to how to improve land and climate for human benefit. This...

This original and thought-provoking study looks at the context of postmodernist thought in general cultural terms as well as in relation to history. Postmodernism in History traces philosophical precursors of postmodernism and identifies the roots of...

This study explores the 'ecology of knowledge' of urban Britain in the Victorian period and seeks to examine the way in which Victorians comprehended the nature of their urban society, through an exploration of the history of Victorian Manchester, and...

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...

Designed to encourage critical thinking about history, the Major Problems in American History series introduces students to both primary sources and analytical essays on important topics in U.S. history. This collection serves as the primary anthology...

This vibrant new collection edited by Viviane Gosselin and Phaedra Livingstone explores the central role of museums as memory keepers and makers.The idea of historical consciousness - how our conception of the past informs our sense of the present and of...

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...

Above all else, the county of Cheshire has been shaped by its people. These fascinating archive photographs combine views of the county - from urban Macclesfield to the rustic fields of Barrow - with reminders of some of the people who have criss-crossed...

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 ...

Mestizo: a person of mixed blood; specifically, a personof mixed European and American Indianancestry.Serge Gruzinski, the renowned historian of Latin America, offers a brilliant, original critique of colonization and globalization in The Mestizo Mind...

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)...

Richard Greenham was one of the most important and respected figures among the Elizabethan clergy. His contemporaries described him as the founder of a previously unknown pastoral art: the cure of cases of conscience. Despite his fame in the Elizabethan...

Bulliet/Crossley/Headrick/Hirsch/Johnson/Northrup's THE EARTH AND ITS PEOPLES: A GLOBAL HISTORY, 8th EDITION, presents world history in a balanced, global framework, shifting the focus away from political centers of power and toward the living conditions...

On a frosty day in November 1831, Rebecca Burlend and her husband, John, and their five children debarked at New Orleans after a long voyage from England. They took a steamboat up the Mississippi to St. Louis and from there went to the wilds of western...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781569026649Author Edgar J. RidleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 140Imprint Red Sea Press,U.S.Publisher Red Sea Press,U.S.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781874336600Author Jude JamesFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint The Dovecote PressPublisher The Dovecote Press

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...

Colonialist Photography is an absorbing collection of essays and photographs exploring the relationship between photography and European and American colonialism. The book is packed with well over a hundred captivating images, ranging from the first...

First glorified as the Saviour of Christendom and then vilified as an enemy of the Church, Charles Martel's career has been written and rewritten from the time of his descendents. This important new study draws on strictly contemporary sources to assess...