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Voices in the Legal Archives in the French Colonial World: "The King is Listening" offers, through the contribution of thirteen original chapters, a sustained analysis of judicial practices and litigation during the first era of French overseas...

This book showcases the wide variety of commercial cosmopolitan practices that arose from the global economic entanglements of the early modern period. Cosmopolitanism is not only a philosophical ideal: for many centuries it has also been an everyday...

How the history of racism without visible differences between people challenges our understanding of the history of racial thinkingRacial divisions have returned to the forefront of politics in the United States and European societies, making it more...

What is the character of secularism in countries that were not pervaded by Christianity, such as China, India, and the nations of the Middle East? To what extent is the secular an imposition of colonial rule? How does secularism comport with local...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789353976491Author E H DavenportFormat PaperbackPage Count 138Imprint Alpha EditionPublisher Alpha EditionWeight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781989743089Author R H TawneyFormat PaperbackPage Count 148Imprint Binker NorthPublisher Binker NorthWeight(grams) 209g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781241599522Author AnonymousFormat PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint British Library, Historical Print EditionsPublisher British Library, Historical Print...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781241038694Author William NuttallFormat PaperbackPage Count 114Imprint British Library, Historical Print EditionsPublisher British Library, Historical...

The first three editions of this bestselling book have established A Social History of the Media as a classic, providing a masterful overview of communication media and of the social and cultural contexts within which they emerged and evolved over time. ...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781241222017Author Benjamin Ward RichardsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 68Imprint British Library, Historical Print EditionsPublisher British Library,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781240920990Author Frederick William HackwoodFormat PaperbackPage Count 102Imprint British Library, Historical Print EditionsPublisher British Library,...

This brilliantly conceived biography is the very American tale of a quiet man, raised by religious zealots, who became a gifted and prolific painter (more than three hundred portraits and historical canvases), became the first Professor of Fine Arts at...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780981513133Author Rosemarie M EsberFormat PaperbackPage Count 439Imprint Arabicus Books & Media, LLCPublisher Arabicus Books & Media, LLCWeight(grams)...

"...a highly readable and structured discussion about utopian thinking at the beginning of the 21st century ...It is indeed fortunate that political scientists, historians, philosophers, art critics, and literary theorists have come together to...

Nature, money, work, care, food, energy, and lives: these are the seven things that have made our world and will shape its future. In making these things cheap, modern commerce has transformed, governed, and devastated Earth. In A History of the World in...

Learn about the origins of our species and all things revolution in The History Book.Part of the fascinating Big Ideas series, this book tackles tricky topics and themes in a simple and easy to follow format. Learn about History in this overview guide to...

A World History of Rubber helps readers understand and gain new insights into the social and cultural contexts of global production and consumption, from the nineteenth century to today, through the fascinating story of one commodity. Divides the...

This book breaks new ground by bringing together multidisciplinary approaches to examine contemporary Indian Ocean worlds. It reconfigures the Indian Ocean as a space for conceptual and theoretical relationality based on social science and humanities...

Through the ages, libraries have not only accumulated and preserved but also shaped, inspired, and obliterated knowledge. Now they are in crisis. Former rare books librarian and Harvard metaLAB visionary Matthew Battles takes us from Boston to Baghdad,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781387301171Author Henry FordFormat PaperbackPage Count 174Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.comWeight(grams) 417g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781241446659Author Thomas Kelly CheyneFormat PaperbackPage Count 40Imprint British Library, Historical Print EditionsPublisher British Library, Historical...

In addition to a clear, engaging survey of the Christian crusades to the Holy Lands, this book offers an overview of the many contemporary campaigns against non-Christians throughout Europe and the Middle East. Seventeen biographical sketches of key...

The object of this book is explain the relation between the Jews and the nations around them in Europe at the beginning of the 20th century. The author addresses problems and challenges of mutual life in mixed communities as well as cultural differences...

There is a myth-easily shattered-that Western societies since the Enlightenment have been dedicated to the ideal of protecting the differences between individuals and groups, and another-too readily accepted-that before the rise of secularism in the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781541603646Author Roderick BeatonFormat PaperbackPage Count 624Imprint Basic BooksPublisher Basic Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781335936639Author Tom PhillipsFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Hanover Square PressPublisher Hanover Square PressWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781541617902Author Lewis DartnellFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint Basic BooksPublisher Basic BooksWeight(grams) 544gDimensions(mm) 241mm * 160mm * 28mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781541758476Author Moshik TemkinFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint PublicAffairsPublisher PublicAffairsWeight(grams) 513g

A work of extraordinary range and striking originality, The Gun, the Ship, and the Pen traces the global history of written constitutions from the 1750s to the twentieth century, modifying accepted narratives and uncovering the close connections between...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781541603721Author Andrew PettegreeFormat PaperbackPage Count 544Imprint Basic BooksPublisher Basic Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780465097845Author Jared FarmerFormat HardbackPage Count 448Imprint Basic BooksPublisher Basic BooksWeight(grams) 152g

This lavishly illustrated visual encyclopedia tells the story of our world in depth and detail from the dawn of civilization to the present day.Charting human endeavor from every angle, SI History chronicles the significant events, ground-breaking ideas,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316418522Author Rutger BregmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Little Brown and CompanyPublisher Little Brown and Company

Explore the history of the world in unprecedented detail with this ultimate guide to history throughout the ages. Maps don't just show us where to go, but also where we've been. If you're interested in finding out more about the biggest events in world...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780190693916Author Stephanie DornschneiderFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Oxford University Press, USAPublisher Oxford University Press, USA

Sport is everything, but never solely sport. The commodification of human pleasure in or about many sports led to an increased political interest and dimension with regard to the major leagues and their stars. Corruption and scandals increased, while the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783161614170Author Maike HausenFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Mohr SiebeckPublisher Mohr SiebeckWeight(grams) 621g

This book imagines the ocean as central to understanding the world and its connections in history, literature and the social sciences. Introducing the central conceptual category of ocean as method, it analyzes the histories of movement and traversing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789395767323Author Vishwas PatilFormat PaperbackPage Count 650Imprint EkaPublisher Westland Publications Limited

Brings together three key concepts - race, nation and capitalism, to analyse the inequalities caused by the confluence of all three, which allows the reader to really grasp the key relationship between them across history. Useful for those studying...