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A Stanford University Press classic.Book InformationISBN 9780804706292Author Allen S. WhitingFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Stanford University PressPublisher Stanford University PressWeight(grams) 272g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780982692851Author Seeds / McMoneagleFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint Logistics News Network, LLC.Publisher Logistics News Network, LLC.Weight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780913966419Author Auberon HerbertFormat HardbackPage Count 426Imprint Liberty Fund IncPublisher Liberty Fund IncWeight(grams) 835g

The regular Mounted Infantry was one of the most important innovations of the late Victorian and Edwardian British Army. Rather than fight on horseback in the traditional manner of cavalry, they used horses primarily to move swiftly about the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781614274582Author Thorstein VeblenFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Martino Fine BooksPublisher Martino Fine BooksWeight(grams) 336g

The first general survey of the history of women in early modern Ireland. Based on an impressive range of source material, it presents the results of original research into women's lives and experiences in Ireland from 1500 to 1800. This was a time of...

Gascoyne's membership of the Surrealist movement and his association with its leading members - among them Andre Breton, Paul Eluard, Max Ernst and Salvador Dali - placed him in an ideal position to witness and record the development and significance of...

In this volume, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Michael Kammen explores the U.S. Constitution's place in the public consciousness and its role as a symbol in American life, from ratification in 1788 to our own time. As he examines what the Constitution...

'The United States is a country of machines. Without the use of these machines through Lend-Lease, we would lose this war.' -Josef Stalin (1943), quoted in W. Averell Harriman and Elie Abel, Special Envoy to Churchill and Stalin, 1941-1946, Random House,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789518581560Author Kirsti Salmi-NiklanderFormat PaperbackPage Count 228Imprint Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden SeuraPublisher Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781999326326Author Paul MylesFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint The Thomas Paine Society UKPublisher The Thomas Paine Society UKWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780738532080Author Paul M. SomersFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 300gDimensions(mm) 235mm...

*Shortlisted for the JQ Wingate Literary Prize, 2018* Drawing on a decade of courageous and pioneering reporting, Mya Guarnieri Jaradat brings us an unprecedented and compelling look at the lives of asylum seekers and migrant workers in Israel, who...

The 1930s were one of the most important decades in defining the history of the 20th century. It saw the rise of right-wing nationalism, the challenge to established democracies and the full force of imperialist aggression. Cultural Encounters makes an...

This important book provides a comparative study of the growth and impact of mass literacy across Europe between 1750 and 1950. The volume outlines the main features of the comparative growth of literacy, and relates them to the later growth of...

"BERGBUCHLEIN, The Little Book On Ores" is an English translation of the first mining text printed, published between 1505 and 1518 in Germany. This historic text with its original woodcut illustrations and references to alchemy and astrology...

Miss Dale was one of the most distinguished classical scholars of her generation. her published papers - of the greatest interest and importance - are widely dispersed through a number of journals, some not easily accessible. She left a number of papers...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780859655286Author Rosa BaughanFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Plexus Publishing LtdPublisher Plexus Publishing Ltd

The Routledge Handbook of Medieval Rural Life brings together the latest research on peasantry in medieval Europe.The aim is to place peasants - as small-scale agricultural producers - firmly at the centre of this volume, as people with agency, immense...

First published in 1982. This book, makes sense of Lugard's administration in Egbaland, by to devoting space to the history, religion, and political structure created by the African peoples of western Nigeria. Only by looking at the Egba traditional...

In addition to their famous gods and goddesses, the ancient Greeks also worshiped deceased human beings, including child and baby heroes. Although these heroes played an essential role in Greek religion, Corinne Ondine Pache's Baby and Child Heroes in...

Dorset, a county of outstanding natural beauty, can rightly lay claim to another exceptional feature - its aeronautical heritage. Some purists would say that such a claim owes much to the county boundary changes that, in 1974, brought significant parts...

The First Crusade was arguably one of the most significant events of the Middle Ages. It was the only event to generate its own epic cycle, the Old French Crusade Cycle. The central trilogy at the heart of the Cycle describes the Crusade from its...

The Wild Bunch, the confederation of western outlaws headed by Butch Cassidy, found sanctuary on the rugged Outlaw Trail. Stretching across Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, Nevada, Arizona, and New Mexico, this trail offered desert and mountain...

This book is a reprint of work that originally appeared in 1984. It gives excellent and thorough treatment of major demographic aspects of British Caribbean slavery from abolition of slave trade to slave emancipation. Draws heavily on extensive date...

Madness: A History is a thorough and accessible account of madness from antiquity to modern times, offering a large-scale yet nuanced picture of mental illness and its varieties in western civilization. The book opens by considering perceptions and...

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 *...

In 1834, a young Chinese woman named Afong Moy arrived in America, her bound feet stepping ashore in New York City. She was both a prized guest and advertisement for a merchant firm--a promotional curiosity used to peddle exotic wares from the East. Over...

Shortly before the launch of the reconstructed Greek warship, Olympias, the first edition of The Athenian Trireme was published, providing historical and technical background to the reconstruction of the ship. Since then, five seasons of experimental...

This collection of essays constitutes a magnificent monument to recent scholarship on the Second Republic and the Civil War. It is indispensable for a full understanding of the period.' - Raymond Carr Reviews'This collection of essays constitutes a...

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...

American photographers documented and defined the twentieth century in a remarkable array of images, the style and content of which evolved dramatically over the course of the century. In Disappearing Witness, photographer and art historian Gretchen...

Exploring the role of museums, galleries and curators during the upheaval of the Second World War, this book challenges the accepted view of a hiatus in museum services during the conflict and its immediate aftermath. Instead it argues that new thinking...

Roman Tales: A Reader's Guide to the Art of Microhistory explores both the social and cultural life of Renaissance Rome and the mind-set and methods of microhistory.This book draws the reader deep into eight stories: a Christian-Jewish picnic plus an...

Spanning from the inauguration of James I in 1603 to the execution of Charles I in 1649, the Stuart court saw the emergence of a full expression of Renaissance culture in Britain. Hart examines the influence of magic on Renaissance art and how in its...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789888769360Author E W PetersFormat PaperbackPage Count 270Imprint Earnshaw Books LtdPublisher Earnshaw Books LtdWeight(grams) 286gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

The significance of the Corinthians Football Club, founded in 1882, has been widely acknowledged by historians of football and by sports historians generally. As a 'super club' comprising the best amateur talent available they were an important formative...

The story of A V Roe and Company Ltd (Avro) begins in the very earliest years of aviation, only three years after man's first powered flight. Alliot Verdon Roe was one of Britain's pioneer aviators and in 1910 he founded the company that bears his name...

Immigration in American History is a concise examination of the experiences of immigrants from the founding of the British colonies through the present day.The most recent scholarship on immigration is integrated into an accessible narrative that...

This book offers a unique view of the Natter and other German rocket jet projects.Book InformationISBN 9780887406829Author Joaquim DresselFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Schiffer Publishing LtdPublisher Schiffer Publishing LtdWeight(grams) 272g