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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781898937272Author Philip RidenFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Merton Priory Press LtdPublisher Merton Priory Press Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780955162107Author Alan DaviesFormat HardbackPage Count 600Imprint Alan J DaviesPublisher Alan J Davies

Gilda O'Neill's Our Street focuses on the lives of Londoners in the East End during the Second World War. Showing the concerns, hopes and fears of these so-called 'ordinary people' Our Street illustrates these times by looking at the every day rituals...

The first comprehensive study in English of the earliest and largest 'Third-World' migration into pre-war Europe. Full attention is given to the relationship between the society of emigration, undermined by colonialism, and processes of ethnic...

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A collection of new, scholarly articles on the Jewish Workers' Bund - the first modern Jewish political party in Eastern Europe - written by prominent academics from eight countries. This work represents a broad range of perspectives, Jewish and...

A collection of new, scholarly articles on the Jewish Workers' Bund - the first modern Jewish political party in Eastern Europe - written by prominent academics from eight countries. This work represents a broad range of perspectives, Jewish and...

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There is a great deal of interest in the history of Armenia since its renewed independence in the 1990s and the ongoing debate about the genocide - an interest that informs the strong desire of a new generation of Armenian Americans to learn more about...

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When the third global plague pandemic reached Sydney in 1900, theories regarding the ecology and biology of disease transmission were transforming. Changing understandings led to conflicts over the appropriate response. Medical and government authorities...

'This is an impressive piece of sustained research that brings much to the field. It offers real depth in rethinking the post-war boom and there can be little doubt that this will have a real impact across modern British history, consumer history and...

'Swimming with Dr Johnson and Mrs Thrale' challenges the popular image of Samuel Johnson as a man who favoured energetic discussion over physical exercise, enthroned in an armchair peering short-sightedly at a book. Thanks to the diarist and author...

Central to the Enlightenment is the ideal of the Secular City, in militant reply to the Civitas Dei of St Augustine. The essays in this volume, all by distinguished eighteenth century specialists, illustrate the elaboration of that vision, both in the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781546236429Author Joseph M OraziFormat PaperbackPage Count 212Imprint AuthorhousePublisher AuthorhouseWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780451499370Author Adam NagourneyFormat PaperbackPage Count 592Imprint Crown ForumPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 437g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781571682352Author Patrick DearenFormat PaperbackPage Count 132Imprint Eakin PressPublisher Eakin PressWeight(grams) 227g

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Gringo Justice is a comprehensive analysis and interpretation of the experiences of the Chicano people with the legal and judicial system in the United States. Beginning in 1848 and working to the present, a theory of Gringo justice is developed and...

Who reads academic histories? Should historians reach out more beyond academia to the general public? Why do Hollywood films, historical novels and television histories prove more successful in presenting the past to a wider audience? What can historians...

Anchored in the oral traditions of Native Peoples, Frey--professor emeritus and hospital lay chaplain--intertwines the stories of elders and his own to offer personal and professional insights into the power and value of storytelling. His experiences...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995487499Author Rose-Marie CrossanFormat HardbackPage Count 276Imprint Mor Media LimitedPublisher Mor Media LimitedWeight(grams) 229g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781525563416Author Jozef BorovskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint FriesenPressPublisher FriesenPressWeight(grams) 771g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781525552885Author David Charles HartFormat HardbackPage Count 150Imprint FriesenPressPublisher FriesenPressWeight(grams) 390g

After the publication of T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land, a complex series of debates occurred over the traditions of English poetry. Analyzing these diverse discussions in a wide range of well-known periodicals during the late modernist period, Chambers...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780648771630Author Ron WilliamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 186Imprint Boom BooksPublisher Boom BooksWeight(grams) 156g

Arguing on recent cognitive evidence that reading a Bible is much more difficult for human brains than seeing images, this book exposes the depth and breadth of Protestant theologians' misunderstandings about how people could reform their spiritual lives...

This book explores the decision of the British Empire to import Chinese labour to southern Africa despite the already tense racial situation in the region. It enables a clearer understanding of racial and political developments in southern Africa during...

Southgate draws on ideas within history, philosophy, literature, psychology, and theology to explore two traditions: contentment with our situation as it is, and the aspiration to transcend it. He discusses the possibility of escape from intellectual...

Capital has dominated the imagination of Western society from the Industrial Revolution. Means and Ends offers the first comprehensive interpretation of the rise, evolution and crisis of this concept from the sixteenth century to the modern day. Based on...

Leading sexuality scholars explore queer lives and cultures in the first full post-war decade through an array of sources and a range of perspectives. Drawing out the particularities of queer cultures from the Finland and New Zealand to the UK and the...

Early Modern Europe was teeming with impostors. Identity theft was only one form of misrepresentation: royal pretenders, envoys from imaginary lands, religious dissimulators, cross-dressers, false Gypsies - all these caused deep anxiety, leading...

The Sculpture Machine portrays the dramatic revolution in bodily representation, ideas and pleasures that characterized the century encompassing the twilight of Romanticism and the dawn of Totalitarianism. It explains how character, environment and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781013272035Author Jennifer CraneFormat HardbackPage Count 216Imprint Saint Philip Street PressPublisher Saint Philip Street PressWeight(grams) 216g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780369361608Author Juliet BarnesFormat PaperbackPage Count 694Imprint ReadHowYouWantPublisher ReadHowYouWantWeight(grams) 156g

Exploring aspects of Irish medical history, from the nature and proposed remedies for various illnesses in eighteenth century Ireland, to the treatment of influenza in twentieth-century Ireland, this book shows how the cultures of medical care evolved...

A collection of essays by leading historians of early modern Europe and the U.S., this books explores how merchants, entrepreneurs, and other early modern capitalists viewed themselves.Book InformationISBN 9780230604476Author Margaret C. JacobFormat...

An acclaimed poet and critic presents an affectionate examination of Cuba in America's cultural imagination. "This short, breezy, and often amusing examination of American perceptions of Cuba is both timely and informative. . . . Perez Firmat has...

Sidney and Beatrice Webb are the most important British contributors to the socialist tradition. They had a hand in founding many of the institutions that form the fabric of British society; notably the Fabian society, the Labour Party, the London School...