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Why is postmodernist discourse so biased against the Enlightenment? Indeed, postmodern theory challenges the validity of the rational basis of modern historical scholarship and the Enlightenment itself. Rather than avoiding this conflict, the...

Mathematics is as much a part of our humanity as music and art. And it is our mathematics that might be understandable, even familiar, to a distant race and might provide the basis for mutual communication. This book discusses, in a conversational way,...

The seaside has always held a special position in British history as a place of rest, relaxation and recuperation. Over the last 200 years many have made their way to the coast, attracted by the long sunshine hours, the clean ozone-charged air and the...

Theatre and empire explores the genesis of British national identity in the reign of King James VI and I. While devolution is currently decentralising Britain, this book examines how the idea of a 'united kingdom' was created in the first place. It does...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143425205Author Bibek DebroyFormat PaperbackPage Count 600Imprint PenguinPublisher Penguin Random House IndiaDimensions(mm) 220mm * 130mm * 40mm

Sir Robert Moray (1608-1673) was one of the most active of the twelve founding members of the Royal Society, and as a close friend of King Charles, was a key figure in obtaining the royal patronage that was crucial to its status and growth. Whilst not an...

Humanism and Religion in Early Modern Spain brings together twenty-five essays by renowned historian Terence O'Reilly. The essays examine the interplay of religion and humanism in a series of writings composed in sixteenth-century Spain. It begins by...

Now in its fourth edition, Childhood in World History covers the major developments in the history of childhood from the classical civilizations to the present and explores how agricultural and industrial economies have shaped the experiences of children...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781420946338Author Albert EinsteinFormat PaperbackPage Count 78Imprint Digireads.comPublisher Digireads.comWeight(grams) 109gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *...

In this pamphlet Margaret Shennan surveys the rise of Prussia from the early seventeenth century to 1740, highlighting and evaluating the role of its rulers, in particular of Frederick William I, the Great Elector, and his two successors. The author...

This controversial study takes the provocative line that the French monarchy was a complete success. James turns the idea of royal 'absolutism' on its head by redefining the French monarchy's success from 1598 - 1661. The Origins of French Absolutism,...

Ethnic Nationalism and the Fall of Empires is a wide-ranging comparative study of the origins of today's ethnic politics in East Central Europe, the former Russian empire and the Middle East. Centred on the First World War Era, Ethnic Nationalism...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781291987249Author Hugh Llewelyn DaviesFormat PaperbackPage Count 220Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.comWeight(grams) 313gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 156mm * 12mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781291987249Author Hugh Llewelyn DaviesFormat PaperbackPage Count 220Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.comWeight(grams) 313gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 156mm * 12mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781891903243Author Dr Thomas W PetriskoFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint Saint Andrew's ProductionsPublisher Saint Andrew's ProductionsWeight(grams)...

These pioneering essays provide a unique study of the development of political ideas in Ireland from the seventeenth to the twentieth century. The book breaks away from the traditional emphasis in Irish historiography on the nationalism/unionism debate...

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...

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...

Today environmental issues are part of daily life, a feature of the modern world almost everyone now recognises. Contemporary environmentalism has promoted a way of speaking and thinking about the environment that was not possible or imaginable decades...

This book presents a uniquely broad and pioneering history of premodern toxicology by exploring how late medieval and early modern (c. 1200-1600) physicians discussed the relationship between poison, medicine, and disease. Drawing from a wide range of...

Many recent studies of French politics have tended to concentrate on the French political system in isolation. Contemporary France aims to set the working of the French political system into its historical, social and economic context. The first section...

Many recent studies of French politics have tended to concentrate on the French political system in isolation. Contemporary France aims to set the working of the French political system into its historical, social and economic context. The first section...

Artefacts, Archives, and Documentation in the Relational Museum provides the first interdisciplinary study of the digital documentation of artefacts and archives in contemporary museums, while also exploring the implications of polyphonic, relational...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781847848512Author Alan GodfreyImprint Alan Godfrey MapsPublisher Alan Godfrey Maps

Winner of the DHA 2014 Outstanding Publication Award. Since the end of the 20th century, «disability» has become a new and effective research instrument. One of the most important fields that currently make use of «disability» as an analytical tool is...

Ranging from math to literature to philosophy, Uncountable explains how numbers triumphed as the basis of knowledge—and compromise our sense of humanity. Our knowledge of mathematics has structured much of what we think we know about ourselves as...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615363530Author Andi HarmonFormat PaperbackPage Count 254Imprint Maverick BooksPublisher Maverick BooksWeight(grams) 594g

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...

In the summer of 1940, with much of Europe under German domination, British authorities instigated a harsh programme of internment or deportation of those who had fled Nazi oppression. This volume, written the same year, is a critique of government...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780864864192Author Andrew SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint David Philip PublishersPublisher New Africa Books (Pty) Ltd

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...

Beyond the ocean mist is an area rich in history and lore. Explore the fascinating past of 16th through 20th Century Brunswick County, North Carolina. Visit these historic times through the eyes of its early residents, historical documents, ghosts,...

In 1241/4 the theology masters at the university at Paris with their chancellor, Odo of Chateauroux, mandated by their bishop, William of Auvergne, met to condemn ten propositions against theological truth. This book represents the first comprehensive...

A revised and updated new edition of Professor Mundy's lively introduction to Europe 1150xxx;1300. It provides a portrait of the social, economic, political and intellectual life of Latin Christendom in the period. Wherever possible the men and women of...

After Napoleon was defeated at the Battle of Waterloo, he was sent into exile on St Helena, arriving in October 1815. For the six years until his death, he was an 'eagle in a cage', reduced from the most powerful figure in Europe to a prisoner on a rock...

The story of how a few Chinese immigrants found their way to the Mississippi River Delta in the late 1870s and earned their liVietnameseng with small family operated grocery stores in neighborhoods where mostly black cotton plantation workers lived. What...

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...

Intellectual history and early modern history have always occupied an important place in Past and Present. First published in 1974, this volume is a collection of original articles and debates, published in the journal between 1953 and May 1973, dealing...