Social History

British women were deeply invested in foreign policy between the wars. This study casts new light on the turn to international affairs in feminist politics, the gendered representation and experience of the Munich Crisis, and the profound impression made...

East Germans had passed their threshold of frustration about the gloom, restraint, and shortages in their country, and they had tired of looking at the television pictures of the thriving countryside and material plenty beyond their borders. East Germans...

Marching to the beat of punk rock and reggae, Rock Against Racism was a mass movement built in opposition to racism and fascism in 1970s Britain. At a time of severe economic and social crises, RAR, alongside the Anti-Nazi League, organised one of the...

An engaging study of a great national institution. Essays explore the changing roles of museums and the perceived public role of a museum of science and technology. Illuminates the ways in which we think about the collecting and display of objects and...

This volume explores the history of reading in the British Isles during a period in which the printed word became all pervasive. From wealthy readers of 'amatory fiction', through to men and women reading surreptitiously at the Victorian railway...

Informal empire is a key mechanism of control that explains much of the configuration of the modern world. This book traces the broad outline of westernization through elite formations around the world in the modern era. It explains why the world is...

Who has decided how Europeans have dressed and dwelled? Traveled and dined? Worked and played? Who, in fact, can be credited with the shaping of Europe? Certainly inventors, engineers, and politicians played their parts. But in the making of Europe,...

This book broadly frames the scholarly conversation about southern radicalism, putting essays covering a range of historical periods and topics in dialogue with each other so as to get a sense of the range of southern politics and history.Book...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780738839790Author Patrick E KennonFormat HardbackPage Count 276Imprint Xlibris CorporationPublisher Xlibris CorporationWeight(grams) 485g

The authors in this volume analyze spiritual kinship in Europe from the end of the Middle Ages to the Industrial Age. Uniquely comparing Catholic, Protestant and Orthodox views and practices, the chapters look at changes in theological thought over time...

This book brings together experts on national history writing from all five continents to discuss the role of history in the making of national identities in a transnational and comparative way. The institutionalization and professionalisation of history...

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The book examines the transformation of European football in recent years by focusing on the impact of Europe in general and the EU in particular on the way that the game has evolved in a broad cross section of European states. The book brings together...

Authors describe the characteristics and traditions of each tribe and also the plants and animals native to each ecozone and essential components of the Indians' habitat and diet, demonstrating how these geographical and ecological differences shaped...

This collection of papers was written for a NATO Advanced Research Workshop held at Harvard University in March 1990. The title, "The Changing University and the Education of Scientists and Engineers: An International Workshop," broad as it is,...

The story of the prefabs at Stewards Green, Epping, has been compiled from local newspapers, Council minutes, and most importantly, the memories of the residents themselves, in their own words. They have also contributed over 30 wonderfully evocative...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780738839806Author Patrick E KennonFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Xlibris CorporationPublisher Xlibris CorporationWeight(grams) 395g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780648324409Author Ron WilliamsFormat HardbackPage Count 178Imprint Boom BooksPublisher Boom BooksWeight(grams) 363g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780648312116Author James a CalderwoodFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Calderwood Extreme WearpartsPublisher Calderwood Extreme WearpartsWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578867533Author Michael OstrogorskyFormat HardbackPage Count 184Imprint Blue Parrot BooksPublisher Blue Parrot BooksWeight(grams) 216g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578660301Author J M WalshFormat PaperbackPage Count 292Imprint R. R. BowkerPublisher R. R. BowkerWeight(grams) 431g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578576558Author Jeremy StoneFormat HardbackPage Count 194Imprint Jeremy Stone Publishing LLCPublisher Jeremy Stone Publishing LLCWeight(grams) 417g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578277431Author Phil PolizattoFormat PaperbackPage Count 620Imprint Hunga Dunga PressPublisher Hunga Dunga PressWeight(grams) 1057g

The years immediately following the Second World War witnessed a dramatic transformation of America's working-class suburbs, driven by an unprecedented post-war prosperity and a burgeoning consumer culture. Chrome and neon were the new currency in this...

What did it mean to live through the French Revolution? This volume provides a coherent and expansive portrait of revolutionary life by exploring the lived experience of the people of France's villages and country towns, revealing how The Revolution had...

This book offers a comprehensive analysis of Defoe's oeuvre from the perspective of the historian. Clark presents Defoe by recovering the theological basis of his intellectual commitments, establishing him as a crucial figure in the evolution of theories...

By 1931, the time of the huge Colonial Exhibition in Paris, France had the second largest empire in the world extending to the four corners of the globe. Yet, intriguingly the multi-various impact of the empire upon French culture and society has been...

These essays explore some of the most significant current issues concerning the terrain of the Gothic perspective, offering a variety of possible answers to the crucial question: What is Gothic? The collection begins by addressing general issues about...

Over the last twenty years more and more historians of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries have turned their eyes away from the records of central administration, towards local archives, and the lives of the poor. What they have found is a...

This book analyses English social and occupational behavioural ideals from the courtesy book's demise in 1774 to the Medical Act's passage in 1858. Ideals from conduct and etiquette books mix gracefully with those displayed by professional groups,...

Why do the earliest representations of cowboy-figures symbolizing the highest ideals of manhood in American culture exclude male-female desire while promoting homosocial and homoerotic bonds? Evidence from the best-known Western writers and artists of...

These essays explore some of the most significant current issues concerning the terrain of the Gothic perspective, offering a variety of possible answers to the crucial question: What is Gothic? The collection begins by addressing general issues about...

For many years Nazi cultural policy has been a taboo subject among historians, but the success of several recent books and exhibitions has opened up an extremely interesting area of research. This collection of essays by German and American scholars...

This book conveys Thackeray's development as a book reviewer, journalist, art exhibition critic, short-story writer, satirical essayist and novelist a development that culminates in the creation of his masterpiece, Vanity Fair one of the glories of...

An analysis of the Irish community of city of Worcester, Massachusetts around the turn of the 20th century. The author reveals how an ethnic group can endure and yet change when its first American-born generation takes control of its destiny.Book...

The history of a long-running environmental catastrophe chronicles the harmful effects of lead pipes and their continued use despite evidence that they pose a significant health risk. In The Great Lead Water Pipe Disaster, Werner Troesken looks at a...

From the Model T to today's "lean manufacturing": the assembly line as crucial, yet controversial, agent of social and economic transformation. The mechanized assembly line was invented in 1913 and has been in continuous operation ever since...

The story of the flower shop, and the men and women who have worked in them since Victorian days.Book InformationISBN 9780747274056Author Jennifer DaviesFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Headline Book PublishingPublisher Headline Publishing...

Leading authors in the field of early modern studies explore a range of bad behaviours - like binge drinking, dicing, and procuring prostitutes at barbershops - in order to challenge the notion that early modern London was a corrupt city that ruined...

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 9780230617810Author Margaret C. JacobFormat...