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Black Country MuseumBook InformationISBN 9780853724995Author Geraldine ChristyFormat PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint Pitkin PublishingPublisher Pavilion BooksWeight(grams) 130g

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The nineteenth century saw Weston-super-Mare grow from a tiny village of about 100 inhabitants to a thriving Victorian seaside resort of 20,000 people. Today it has a population of over 80,000. Despite changing fortunes during the twentieth century, as...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780750913003Author David J. EveleighFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Sutton Publishing LtdPublisher The History Press LtdWeight(grams) 326g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780750910378Author C CottonFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Sutton Publishing LtdPublisher The History Press LtdWeight(grams) 154g

First published in 1931, this account covers both the history and ethnography of Zanzibar.Book InformationISBN 9780714611020Author W.H. IngramsFormat HardbackPage Count 556Imprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor & Francis LtdWeight(grams) 1021g

These stories from the Star Chamber papers, first published in 1958, reveal the real, and sometimes comic, side of the functioning of the Star Chamber - an English court of Law from the Middle Ages, which was set up to ensure the fair enforcement of law...

This is a wide-ranging study of the Protestant Reformation. Starting with an analysis of the late-medieval church, the book charts the progress of reform and concludes with an important assessment of the impact of the Reformation.Book InformationISBN...

First Published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Book InformationISBN 9780815309291Author Marilyn Bailey OgilvieFormat HardbackPage Count 568Imprint CRC Press IncPublisher Taylor & Francis IncWeight(grams)...

This fascinating book tells the story of modern Hungarian society through the interconnected lives of several families in a small town on the Great Hungarian Plain. It opens in 1989 - on the eve of communism's collapse - with the suicide of the town's...

This title, first published in 1989, explores the population change in America during the 1800s by closely examining frontier settlement, urbanisation, and depopulation and emigration from rural areas of the north-eastern United States. Population...

First published in 1986. This study examines both labor's and management's political activities in the state of Massachusetts. The book, while historical in character, provides an interpretation of change, and identifies, describes and interprets...

It will therefore, I think be admitted that the present volumes, in which I have endeavoured to give a full and unprejudiced history of the Women Bonapartes, call for no apology; and I may even venture to believe that, whatever their shortcomings, they...

The Small Wars of the United States, 1899-2009 is the complete bibliography of works on US military intervention and irregular warfare around the world, as well as efforts to quell insurgencies on behalf of American allies. The text covers conflicts from...

Contemporary Britain is the latest book from the bestselling author of British Civilization and American Civilization. It is a wide-ranging collection of sources concerning every important aspect of life in Britain today, from national identity to moral...

First published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Book InformationISBN 9780815313540Author Marie MamanFormat HardbackPage Count 308Imprint CRC Press IncPublisher Taylor & Francis IncWeight(grams) 476g

An anthology of five of the best autobiographical narratives detailing black life in New England in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The volume is accompanied by Cottrol's introduction, which discusses their significance and the window that...

Now in its sixth edition, Colonial America is the most respected and well-known anthology of readings by top scholars in the field of early American history. The collection offers an insightful and critical view of the colonial period, and exposes...

This book analyses the impact computerization has had on contemporary science and explains the origins, technical nature and epistemological consequences of the current decisive interplay between technology and science: an intertwining of formalism,...

First published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Book InformationISBN 9780415968492Author Geoffrey JukesFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor & Francis LtdWeight(grams) 454g

Examining the lives and work of historical and contemporary feminist intellectuals, Feminist Thinkers and the Demands of Femininity explores the feminist struggle to "have it all." This fascinating interdisciplinary study focuses on how...

Written by WJEC examiners and endorsed by the Board, this new Student Book is the ideal support for teaching WJEC Specification A effectively.Book InformationISBN 9780435308025Author R. Paul EvansFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint HeinemannPublisher...

African-Americans have had an ambivalent relationship with the Constitution for more than two hundred years. Throughout most of American history, racist interpretations of the Constitution have sanctioned a legal system supportive of slavery, marked...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905900190Author David RobertsFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Bryngold Books LtdPublisher Bryngold Books Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781852171063Author A.H. MillerFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint Lang Syne Publishers LtdPublisher Lang Syne Publishers Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780947782504Author Cameron McNeishFormat PaperbackPage Count 228Imprint Lomond BooksPublisher Lomond Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781853066481Author David SellmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Countryside BooksPublisher Countryside BooksWeight(grams) 252g

Chris Pascoe is fascinated by the English Civil War. He also likes beer. So when the thought came to him to set out on a pub crawl around the sites of the English Civil War, it was an idea too good to ignore. Helped (or should that be hindered) by his...

Interest in constitutionalism and in the relationship among constitutions, national identity, and ethnic, religious, and cultural diversity has soared since the collapse of socialist regimes in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. Since World War...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780752403878Author Tim WardFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint NPI Media GroupPublisher The History Press Ltd

Released to coincide with a major BBC TV documentary series on the crusades presented by the author. In the eleventh century, a vast Christian army, summoned to holy war by the pope, rampaged through the Muslim world of the eastern Mediterranean, seizing...

Marx held that the progression of society from capitalism to communism was 'historically inevitable'. In Russia in 1917, it seemed that Marx's theory was being born out in reality. But was the Russian Revolution really inevitable? This collection of...

Departing radically from traditional histories, A WAR IN WORDS tells the story of the First World War on a compelling, human scale through the letters and diaries of its participants -- whether combatants, eyewitnesses or victims. Powerful individual...

One of the largest internal migrations in U.S. history, the great white migration left its mark on virtually every family in every southern upland and flatland town. In this extraordinary record of ordinary lives, dozens of white southern migrants...

First published in 1937 in honor of the Galesburg and Knox College Centenary, the book contains a wealth of lively details and amusing anecdotes. Calkins traces the progress of the community and the college through the arrival of the railroad, slave...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780252013911Author Pete R. DanielFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint University of Illinois PressPublisher University of Illinois Press

Good Housekeeping was one of very few publications that was printed throughout the war, despite paper shortages and rations. Lovingly selected from Good Housekeeping's archive, this nostalgic facsimile reproduction of the food, fashion, fiction and...

The publication of "Robinson Crusoe" in London in 1719 marked the arrival of a revolutionary art form: the novel. British writers were prominent in shaping the new type of storytelling - one which reflected the experiences of ordinary people,...

Presents a collection of tales from the East Anglia of yesteryear.Book InformationISBN 9781853061912Author Harold Mills WestFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Countryside BooksPublisher Countryside Books

A Guardian best history book of 2016 Eccentric, shy aristocrat ... or mad, bad and dangerous to know? Neighbour Jane Austen found the 3rd earl of Portsmouth a model gentleman and Lord Byron maintained that, while the man was a fool, he was certainly no...