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The second volume in the OUP/National History Center series, Reinterpreting History, this book offers an incisive look at how interpretations of the Atlantic world have changed over time and from a variety of national perspectives. Atlantic history,...

In this third edition of Migration in World History, Patrick Manning presents an expanded and newly coherent view of migratory processes, conveying new research and interpretation. The engaging narrative shows the continuity of migratory processes from...

'A welcome ally in the fight against fake history' Eleanor Janega, author of The Middle AgesFrom the fall of Rome to the rise of the Wild West, David Mountain brings colour and perspective to historical mythmaking.The stories we tell about our past...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780976468387Author Joseph R GibsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Kitabu PublishingPublisher Kitabu PublishingWeight(grams) 381gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

How do things change? The question is critical to the historical study of any era but it is also a profoundly important issue today as western democracies find the fundamental tenets of their implicit social contract facing extreme challenges from forces...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780147509802Author Thomas F. MaddenFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint The Penguin PressPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 431gDimensions(mm) 213mm...

Land, Sea and Home: Proceedings of a Conference on Viking-Period SettlementAbout the AuthorJohn HinesBook InformationISBN 9780367605674Author John HinesFormat PaperbackPage Count 488Imprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor & Francis LtdWeight(grams) 453g

A Complete History Curriculum for One Year Don't just read about history--experience it! Color a picture of Captain Cook in Botany Bay, design a Persian rug, play the Battle of Bunker Hill board game, and pan for gold. Designed to turn the accompanying...

Immanuel Wallerstein's highly influential, multi-volume opus, The Modern World-System, is one of this century's greatest works of social science. An innovative, panoramic reinterpretation of global history, it traces the emergence and development of the...

A collection of the wildest conspiracies to ever exist, from mind control experiments to lizard people, this book explores, debunks-and sometimes proves-the secret stories that don't quite make it into the history books.What's fact and what's fiction?...

In the years 1916-1918, the Wolf, an ordinary freighter fitted-out with a hidden arsenal of weapons, was sent by Germany on one of the most daring clandestine naval missions of modern times. Under the command of Kapitan Karl Nerger, the ship undertook a...

How have major civilizations of the last two millennia treated people who were attracted to their own sex? In a narrative tour de force, Louis Crompton chronicles the lives and achievements of homosexual men and women alongside a darker history of...

From the early 1990s, allegations that servicemen had been duped into taking part in trials with toxic agents at top-secret Allied research facilities throughout the twentieth century featured with ever greater frequency in the media. In Britain, a whole...

Bridging the gap between migration studies and the anthropological tradition, Ghassan Hage illustrates that transnationality and its attendant cultural consequences are not necessarily at odds with classic theory. In The Diasporic Condition, Ghassan Hage...

In The Better Angels of Our Nature Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker argued that modern history has witnessed a dramatic decline in human violence of every kind, and that in the present we are experiencing the most peaceful time in human history. But...

The ancient Mabinogi is a great world literature, and fascinating Celtic mythology. Centuries of oral storytelling worked up its intricate art, delighting every generation of all ages. The Guest translation from Middle Welsh is the most well-loved, in...

A reporter's vivid account of Central Asia's wild recent history-violent in the extreme and rife with characters both heroic and corrup It sounds like the stuff of a fiction thriller: two revolutions, a massacre of unarmed civilians, a civil war, a...

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,...

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,...

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)...

Combining insights from imperial studies and transnational book history, this provocative collection opens new vistas on both fields through ten accessible essays, each devoted to a single book. Contributors revisit well-known works associated with the...

The first in-depth study of the collaborative intellectual exchange between the European and the Arabic Republics of Letters. Beyond Orientalism reformulates our understanding of the early modern Mediterranean through the remarkable life and career of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061236204Author William R PolkFormat PaperbackImprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 231g

The middle ages remain a prize to be fought for and a territory to control. From early modern times rulers and politicians have sought to ground their legitimacy in ancient tradition - which they have often invented or rewritten for their own purposes...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525561774Author James SuzmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 425gDimensions(mm) 211mm * 140mm *...

In October 1973 two crises - one economic, one political - intersected, with dramatic and long term consequences for international relations. On 6 October, Egypt and Syria launched an attack on Israel, and within a few days the major Arab oil producers...

From the vantage point of the United States or Western Europe, the 1970s was a time of troubles: economic "stagflation," political scandal, and global turmoil. Yet from an international perspective it was a seminal decade, one that brought the...

A sweeping overview of world affairs and, especially having come across the name of William Yandell Elliott, Professor of Politics at Harvard through the first half of the 20th century. Sean found that Elliott had created a kindergarten of Anglo-American...

A bold new biography of the thinker who demolished accepted economic theories in order to expose how people of economic and social privilege plunder their wealth from society's productive men and women.Thorstein Veblen was one of America's most...

A sweeping account of how small wars shaped global order in the age of empiresImperial conquest and colonization depended on pervasive raiding, slaving, and plunder. European empires amassed global power by asserting a right to use unilateral force at...

Throughout history, human societies have been organized preeminently as territories-politically bounded regions whose borders define the jurisdiction of laws and the movement of peoples. At a time when the technologies of globalization are eroding...

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...

In 1770 a handful of European nations ruled the Americas, drawing from them a stream of products, both everyday and exotic. Some two and a half million black slaves, imprisoned in plantation colonies, toiled to produce the sugar, coffee, cotton, ginger...

From the Ides of March to the 40-minute war and the Great Molasses Flood, discover what extraordinary events took place from January 1 to December 31 with This Day in History.Have you ever wondered what happened on your birthday hundreds of years ago?...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781583672310Author John TullyFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Monthly Review Press,U.S.Publisher Monthly Review Press,U.S.

"There is no better book on fascism's complex and vexed relationship with truth."--Jason Stanley, author of How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them In this short companion to his book From Fascism to Populism in History, world-renowned historian...

Throughout history, and all over the world, seemingly intelligent people have made foolish decisions based on delusions. This has affected love affairs, politics, finance, science, warfare, showbusiness and even sport. It has also wrecked marriages,...

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...

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...