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The A to Z of the Progressive Era by Catherine Cocks 9780810871564
$116.93The Progressive Era, the period in the United States between 1898 and 1917, was a time of great social, political, and industrial change. Following the Spanish-American War of 1898, an event that signaled the emergence of the United States as a great... -
Historical Dictionary of Revolutionary America by Terry M. Mays 9780810853898
RRP: $214.20$186.54The American Revolution was perhaps the most significant event in modern history. It forever demonstrated the ability of a significantly smaller group of people to rebel against their oppressors. On top of that it also gave birth to what would become the... -
Historical Dictionary of Cyprus by Farid Mirbagheri 9780810855267
RRP: $224.70$196.25Rich with a history stretching back thousands of years and endowed with an Eastern heart and a Western mind, the Mediterranean island of Cyprus is a tourist destination for millions of visitors from around the world every year. However, this beauty of... -
Historical Dictionary of the International Food Agencies: FAO, WFP, WFC, IFAD by Ross B. Talbot 9780810828476
RRP: $193.20$168.61Four world food organizations are based in Rome: FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization); WFP (World Food Programme- British spelling is used in Rome); WFC (World Food Council); and IFAD (International Fund for Agricultural Development). For obvious... -
Europe's Indians, Indians in Europe: European Perceptions and Appropriations of Native American Cultures from Pocahontas to the Present by Dagmar Wernitznig 9780761836896
RRP: $163.80$142.65Europe's Indians, Indians in Europe is an accessible and multidisciplinary synopsis of European iconographies and cultural narratives related to Native Americans. In this pioneering work, European fascination with and phantasmagorias of 'Indianness' are... -
St. John of Damascene on Holy Images, Followed by Three Sermons on the Assumption by Mary H Allies 9789354182228
$20.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789354182228Author Mary H AlliesFormat PaperbackPage Count 228Imprint Alpha EditionPublisher Alpha EditionWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *... -
A book of mystery and vision by Arthur Edward Waite 9789353951900
$22.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789353951900Author Arthur Edward WaiteFormat PaperbackPage Count 266Imprint Alpha EditionPublisher Alpha EditionWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 216mm *... -
The Greatest Flying Stories Ever Told: Nineteen Amazing Tales From The Sky by Lamar Underwood 9781493019694
RRP: $31.48$24.21At 10:35 in the morning of Thursday, December 17, 1903, man got his wings. On the sand dunes of Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, Orville Wright flew the motorized aircraft he and his brother Wilbur had constructed to a distance less than the length of the... -
Historical Dictionary of the Gilded Age by T. Adams Upchurch 9780810858299
$126.65The Gilded Age was an important three-decade period in American history. It was a time of transition, when the United States began to recover from its Civil War and post-war rebuilding phase. It was as a time of progress in technology and industry, of... -
Native American Justice by Laurence Armand French 9780830415755
$87.53Tracing the history of U.S. Indian policy from the eighteenth century to the present, this book explores how the Euro-American ethos of Manifest Destiny fueled a devastating campaign of ethnic cleansing against Native Americans. After decimating the... -
Ancient Mesoamerican Warfare by Kathryn M. Brown 9780759102835
$134.65The understanding of warfare in ancient Mesoamerica has blossomed in recent years. In this volume, the authors use recent empirical studies to help us understand the patterns and nature of Mesoamerican warfare. Using evidence from ceramics, settlement... -
Italy and the Bourgeoisie: The Re-Thinking of a Class by Stefania Lucamante 9781611474084
$199.61Italian bourgeoisie appears to have lived through a period of intense rethinking of its own role in society. This collection of essays examines what has been, and will remain, essentially Italian in the development of the Italian bourgeoisie from 1870... -
The Integrity of Ireland: Home Rule, Nationalism, and Partition, 1912–1922 by Stephen M. Duffy 9781611473964
$214.68Circumstances placed John Redmond and the Irish Parliamentary Party at the center of British politics in 1912. After more than a century of struggle, Irish nationalists looked likely to return a parliament to Dublin that would allow the Irish people, as... -
The Dark Enlightenment: Jung, Romanticism, and the Repressed Other by D. J. Moores 9781611474305
$214.54Enlightenment discourse is generally characterized by an over-identification with favorable aspects of the human psyche and the repression and projection of energies not circumscribed by its sense of selfhood. This psychic split is found in the... -
Bathsua Makin: Woman of Learning by Frances Teague 9781611480900
$183.50Bathsua Reginald Makin is an important figure in women's history. A child prodigy, she was thoroughly educated in classical and modern languages at a time when most women were illiterate. She was a middle-class Englishwoman who published her own poetry,... -
Playhouse Law in Shakespeare's World by Brian Jay Corrigan 9781611472790
$206.18This book explores the legal landscape of early modern London, its legal institutions and court cases that influenced the building of the first London theaters and the creation of the early modern drama. Beginning with an overview of the Inns of Court,... -
Notes and Remembrances, 1871-1872 by Ludovic Halevy 9781611491418
$187.91This is an eyewitness account of the brutal ending of the civil war in France in 1871; the military destruction of the Commune of Paris by the national government in Versailles; and the subsequent legal judgments rendered against the insurgents. Ludovic... -
The Seduction of Modern Spain: The Female Body and the Francoist Body Politic by Aurora G. Morcillo 9781611483437
$251.33This book examines how sexual politics, specifically those surrounding the modernization of a consumer economy, are key to understanding the transformation of Spain from isolated dictatorship to modern state. It focuses on issues concerning modernity and... -
More Precious than Gold: The Story of the Peruvian Guano Trade by DAVID HOLLETT 9781611473575
RRP: $205.80$168.15A few short years after Peru had declared its independence from Spain, the attention of some people in Lima began to focus on a potential source of untold wealth that was to prove more precious than gold. This was guano, which, in its greatest... -
The Romance of Libraries by Madeleine Lefebvre 9780810853522
$99.79In the halls of knowledge, amidst the towering stacks of books, more than just facts and fiction await. The Romance of Libraries is a collection of true accounts of emotional attachments formed in and with libraries and the library field. Madeleine J... -
The A to Z of Washington, D.C. by Robert Benedetto 9780810855090
$107.06In 1791, Pierre Charles L'Enfant was hired as city planner of what would become Washington, D.C. However, after little more than a year, L'Enfant was dismissed after a dispute erupted involving the destruction of a mansion on Capitol Hill belonging to... -
Who Wants Yesterday's Papers?: Essays on the Research Value of Printed Materials in the Digital Age by Yvonne Carignan 9780810851191
$178.31Should librarians try to save everything that is published? If so, in what formats? How can the records of human experience be best preserved in a time of limited resources? These are just a few of the controversial questions addressed in this volume,... -
Trains and Technology: The American Railroad in the Nineteenth Century by Anthony J. Bianculli 9781611492217
$210.53This work presents a view of the history of American railroads in the nineteenth century from a somewhat different perspective. The maturation of the railroad is traced through an exposition of the railroad technology that was developed and applied... -
Search for a New Eden: James Pierrepont Greaves (1777-1842) by Jackie Latham 9781611471762
$223.99This is the first book-length study of James Pierrepont Greaves, the mystic, idealist, and sacred socialist. It explores the effects of his teaching on his very disparate followers and particularly on the community, Alcott House, he established. The... -
Apostle to the Wilderness by Barry L. Craig 9781611473216
$192.86Bishop John Medley was associated with a revolutionary group, the Oxford Movement (also called the Tractarians), in the Church of England that sought to return the church to its primitive and Catholic heritage. Part of this revolution was a rejection of... -
In Corpore by Loredana Polezzi 9781611473797
$229.24In Corpore collects essays devoted to the critical exploration of the presence and impact of bodies in recent and contemporary Italian cultural production, in light of current developments in thinking about bodies and their locations within cultures. The... -
Beyond Books and Borders: Garcilaso de la Vega and La Florida del Inca by Raquel Chang-Rodríguez 9781611482591
$187.49La Florida del Inca is a central text in the history and culture of the Americas. Its author, Inca Garcilaso de la Vega, the son of an Inca princess and a Spanish conquistador, was born in Cuzco, Peru. In his chronicle Garcilaso offers a unique rendition... -
Heroic Mode and Political Crisis, 1660-1745 by Elaine McGirr 9781611491067
RRP: $182.70$148.85This book explores a cultural language, the heroic, that remained consistently powerful through the social, political, and dynastic turbulence of the long eighteenth century. The heroic provided an accessible and vivid shorthand for the ongoing... -
Anatomy of Perjury: Field Marshal Albert Kesselring, Via Rasella, and the GINNY Mission by Richard Raiber, M.D. 9781611493306
$229.24Careful review of microfilmed German operational records led the author to solve a World War II mystery involving Field Marshall Albert Kesselring and the Italian campaign he directed. Facts about two events in March 1944_the Ardeatine Cave Massacre and... -
The Imagined Immigrant: The Images of Italian Emigration to the United States Between 1890 and 1924 by Ilaria Serra 9781611474053
$246.10Using original sources - such as newspaper articles, silent movies, letters, autobiographies, and interviews - Ilaria Serra depicts a large tapestry of images that accompanied mass Italian migration to the U.S. at the turn of the twentieth century. She... -
Trains and Technology: The American Railroad in the 19th Century : Cars by Anthony J. Bianculli 9781611491944
$210.53This series of four lavishly illustrated volumes provides a thorough grounding in the maturation of the American railroad through an exposition of railroad technology in an age of unprecedented technological expansion. Vol. 1: Locomotives details... -
Herbert Putnam: A 1903 Trip to Europe by John D. Knowlton 9780810851726
$100.95Born in New York City just as the Civil War was starting, Herbert Putnam was a Harvard graduate and a lawyer who had held two highly responsible top library posts, first at the Minneapolis Public Library and then at the Boston Public Library before he... -
Traitors: The Secession Period November 1860- July 1861 by Edward S. Cooper 9781611473650
$229.40A myth has grown that there were no traitors during the period leading up to the American Civil War. Edward S. Cooper debunks that myth in this book. He provides documentation that officers on active duty in the army and navy of the United States... -
American Defence Annual, 1994 by Charles F. Hermann 9780029176764
$105.48To find more information about Rowman and Littlefield titles, please visit www.rowmanlittlefield.com.Book InformationISBN 9780029176764Author Charles F. HermannFormat PaperbackPage Count 351Imprint Lexington BooksPublisher Lexington BooksWeight(grams)... -
Folklore in the United States and Canada: An Institutional History by Patricia Sawin 9780253052872
RRP: $147.00$127.49To ensure continuity and foster innovation within the discipline of folklore, we must know what came before. Folklore in the United States and Canada is an essential guide to the history and development of graduate folklore programs throughout the United... -
Bettymania and the Birth of Celebrity Culture by Jeffrey Kahan 9781611460698
$214.54In 1804, a kind of madness descended upon Britain. A thirteen-year-old boy, William-Henry West Betty, arrived and, in a seeming instant, took Ireland, Scotland, and England by storm. Crowds were so intent upon securing tickets for Betty's performances... -
Lockwood de Forest: Furnishing the Gilded Age with a Passion for India by Roberta A. Mayer 9781611493139
$222.12Born and raised in New York City, Lockwood de Forest (1850-1932) has long been recognized as an early business partner of Louis Comfort Tiffany (1848-1933). He began his career as a painter trained by Frederic E. Church with connections to the Tenth... -
Huston, We Have a Problem: A Kaleidoscope of Filmmaking Memories by Oswald Morris 9780810857063
$145.36In this captivating memoir, Oscar (R)-winning cinematographer Oswald ("Ossie") Morris looks back over his 58-film career as Director of Photography for such front rank directors as John Huston, Carol Reed, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Stanley Kubrick, Ronald... -
Law of the Sea in East Asia: Issues and Prospects by Keyuan Zou 9780415350747
RRP: $283.50$246.29Law of the Sea in East Asia selects the most prominent maritime legal issues that have emerged since the post-LOS Convention era for a detailed discussion and assessment. The current marine legal order in East Asia is based on the 1982 United Nations... -
The Rise of the Federal Colossus: The Growth of Federal Power from Lincoln to F.D.R. by Peter Zavodnyik 9780313392931
$138.45This challenging book explores the debates over the scope of the enumerated powers of Congress and the Fourteenth Amendment that accompanied the expansion of federal authority during the period between the beginning of the Civil War and the inauguration...