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The period between the illegal overthrow of the Hawaiian monarchy and US annexation (1893-98) is often framed as an inevitable step of American expansion-but it was never a forgone conclusion. By pairing the intimate and epic together in critical...

Eric Hobsbawm's AGE OF EXTREMES was a remarkable phenomenon, a book of serious and challenging historical analysis that became a worldwide bestseller. Now, THE NEW CENTURY continues Hobsbawm's analysis of our twentieth century, asking crucial questions...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400049516Author Graham HancockFormat PaperbackPage Count 784Imprint Crown Publishing Group (NY)Publisher Crown Publishing Group (NY)Weight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780449909331Author David HalberstamFormat PaperbackPage Count 848Imprint FawcettPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 618gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 139mm...

"Cartoon History of the Modern World" is a wickedly funny take on modern history. In two volumes of engaging and witty graphics, Larry Gonick covers the history, personalities, and big topics that have shaped our universe over the past five centuries...

T. E. Shaw, better known as Lawrence of Arabia, was one of the most romantic, heroic, and enigmatic figures of his day. The subject of myth and hagiography, he was equally accomplished in several fields,as archaeologist, diplomat, writer, and soldier,and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780991821129Author Henry MakowFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Silas GreenPublisher Silas GreenWeight(grams) 500g

Growing directly out of the experiences of a team of historians at Washington State University who designed a new foundational course for WSU's common requirements, the Roots of Contemporary Issues series is built on the premise that students will be...

"A comprehensive and entertaining historical and botanical review, providing an enjoyable and cognitive read."-Nature The foods we eat have a deep and often surprising past. From almonds and apples to tea and rice, many foods that we consume today have...

Over the past five centuries, advances in Western understanding of and control over the material world have strongly influenced European responses to non-Western peoples and cultures. In Machines as the Measure of Men, Michael Adas explores the ways in...

The closest friend of Lee Harvey Oswald and his Soviet wife Marina upon the couple's arrival in Texas breaks a sixty-year silence with a riveting story of his time with JFK's assassin and his candid assessment of the murder that marked a turning point in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780804119405Author Gary LindererFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Ballantine Books Inc.Publisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 221gDimensions(mm)...

This is an important, revisionist account of the origins of the British Empire in Asia in the early modern period. David Veevers uncovers a hidden world of transcultural interactions between servants of the English East India Company and the Asian...

The Peninsular War in Spain and Portugal was the most bitterly fought contest of nineteenth-century Europe. From 1808 to 1814, Spanish regulars and guerrillas, along with British forces led by Sir John Moore and the duke of Wellington, battled Napoleon's...

In the vein of Mark Kurlansky's bestselling Salt and Cod, a gripping chronicle of the myth, mystery, and uncertain fate of the world's most popular fruit In this fascinating and surprising exploration of the banana's history, cultural significance, and...

This wide-ranging study of the Pacific Islands provides a dynamic and provocative account of the peopling of the Pacific, and its broad impact on world history. Spanning over 50,000 years of human presence in an area which comprises one-third of our...

Is the history of the modern world the history of Europe writ large? Or is it possible to situate the history of modernity as a world historical process apart from its origins in Western Europe? In this posthumous collection of essays, Marshall G. S...

The last year in the life of Bristish general James Wolfe.Book InformationISBN 9780815410164Author Christopher HibbertFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Cooper Square Publishers Inc.,U.S.Publisher Cooper Square Publishers Inc.,U.S.Weight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780670093779Author Anabel LoydFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House, IndiaDimensions(mm) 220mm * 140mm * 30mm

The Sea in the Middle presents an original and revisionist narrative of the development of the medieval west from late antiquity to the dawn of modernity. This textbook is uniquely centered on the Mediterranean and emphasizes the role played by peoples...

In this insightful social commentary, David Weinberger goes beyond misdirected hype to reveal what is truly revolutionary about the Web. Just as Marshall McLuhan forever altered our view of broadcast media, Weinberger shows that the Web is transforming...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385483360Author James RestonFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing GroupPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group...

The author of this classic work took a "campaign" approach to Edward I's methodical reduction of Welsh independence, achieved through many years of building strategic castles, conducting "scorched earth" sweeps, and establishing loyal...

This is a pioneering survey of the rise of internationalism as a mainstream political idea mobilised in support of the ambitions of indigenous populations, feminists and anti-colonialists, as well as politicians, economists and central bankers. Leading...

In his Enquiry-which has been described as "certainly one of the most important aesthetic documents that eighteenth -century England produced"-the young Burke provided a systematic analysis of the 'sublime' and the 'beautiful,' together with a...

Pepper was once worth its weight in gold. Onions have been used to cure everything from sore throats to foot fungus. White bread was once considered too nutritious. From hunting water buffalo to farming salmon, A Movable Feast chronicles the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385420938Author Larry GonickFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Doubleday & Co Inc.Publisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 567gDimensions(mm) 277mm...

The raid on the great dams of western Germany by Lancaster bombers of 617 Squadron in May 1943 is one of the best known, most widely told stories of the Second World War. Led by Wing Commander Guy Gibson, each Lancaster in the nineteen-strong force was...

Why is it easy to hate and difficult to love? When societies fracture into warring tribes, we demonise those who oppose us. We tear down our statues, forgetting that what begins with the destruction of statues, often leads to the killing of people...

At what time was Guy Fawkes discovered underneath the Palace of Westminster? Just when was Einstein's Theory of Relativity proved? What time was on the clock when Titanic sunk? When was President John F. Kennedy assassinated? All these questions and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781645178170Author Robert ArpFormat PaperbackPage Count 960Imprint Thunder Bay PressPublisher Thunder Bay PressWeight(grams) 1996gDimensions(mm) 212mm *...

This epic history compares the empires built by Spain and Britain in the Americas, from Columbus's arrival in the New World to the end of Spanish colonial rule in the early nineteenth century. J. H. Elliott, one of the most distinguished and versatile...

The author compares slave societies with the ir relatively modern counterparts in the New World to show a new perspective on the history of slavery. He sheds light o n the complex ways in which ideological interests affect his torical interpretation...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780300248296Author Andrew. ChristopherFormat PaperbackPage Count 960Imprint Yale University PressPublisher Yale University Press

In the year 216 B.C., Hannibal of Carthage, faced with an opposing Roman army twice the size of his own, outwitted the enemy at Cannae by means of a strategy which has become a classic of its kind. As a result of his famous "double pincer" maneuver,...

From Sheri Fink, author of Five Days at Memorial, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for NonfictionIn April 1992, a handful of young physicians, not one of them a surgeon, was trapped along with 50,000 men, women, and children in the...

In 1871 Japan sent a high-ranking delegation to the USA and Europe, to negotiate treaties and trading agreements and to investigate how it might modernise its political and economic institutions. Led by the Foreign Minister Prince Tomomi Iwakura, the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995680920Author Scott AllsopFormat PaperbackPage Count 428Imprint L & E BooksPublisher L & E BooksWeight(grams) 626g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Ambassador Book Award 2003.Book InformationISBN 9780375706905Author Mary Beth NortonFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780226723563Author Maxime RodinsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 204Imprint University of Chicago PressPublisher The University of Chicago PressWeight(grams)...