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A profound reinterpretation of the Dust Bowl on the U.S. southern plains and its relevance for today The 1930s witnessed a harrowing social and ecological disaster, defined by the severe nexus of drought, erosion, and economic depression that ravaged the...

In this closely integrated collection of essays on colonialism in world history, Frederick Cooper raises crucial questions about concepts relevant to a wide range of issues in the social sciences and humanities, including identity, globalization, and...

According to the doctrine of original sin, all humans are born bad and only God's grace can bring salvation. James Boyce shows how these ideas have shaped the Western view of human nature, and how the belief that we are all innately sinful retains a firm...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312333294Author Beatrice HoheneggerFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint St. Martins Press-3PLPublisher St. Martins Press-3PLWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Bancroft Prize 2015. Short-listed for Pulitzer Prize (History) 2015.Book InformationISBN 9780375713965Author Sven BeckertFormat PaperbackPage Count 640Imprint...

The agave plant was never destined to become tasteless, cheap tequila. Follow Gary Nabhan and David Suro Pinera on the trail with archaeologists and botanists to caves where 9,000-year-old remains of agaves have been found, and then fast track to the...

'Every generalisation that we settled forty years ago, is abandoned' As a journalist, historian and novelist born into a family that included two past presidents of the United States, Henry Adams was constantly focused on the American experiment. An...

Originally published in 1999, this A-to-Z guidebook of wartime atrocities has received worldwide acclaim and has been translated into eleven languages. Now substantially updated, with sixteen new entries, this concise guide to the broken rules of war...

No Free Speech for Fascists explores the choice of anti-fascist protesters to demand that the opportunities for fascists to speak in public places are rescinded, as a question of history, law, and politics. It explains how the demand to no platform...

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...

Winston Churchill, indispensable when liberty was in peril, died in 1965. Yet he is still accused of numerous sins, from alcoholism and racism to misogyny and warmongering. On the Internet, he simmers in a stew of imagined misdeeds--using poison gas,...

`The Empire Strikes Back' will inject the empire back into the domestic history of modern Britain. In the nineteenth century and for much of the twentieth century, Britain's empire was so large that it was truly the global superpower. Much of Africa,...

A Broken Hallelujah traces a young man's path through the Christian Brothers' regime from Juniorate through the Leaving Certificate year to Teacher Training, and from there to work 'on the mission'. The author describes in intimate detail the experiences...

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...

Despite all the thousands of studies of the Holocaust and the rise of Nazi Germany, we still have no satisfactory explanation of why this tragedy occurred in one of the most "civilized" of Western nations. John Weiss's Ideology of Death is the first book...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781594038990Author Jay NordlingerFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Encounter Books,USAPublisher Encounter Books,USAWeight(grams) 425gDimensions(mm)...

In the late nineteenth century, the Ottoman government sought to fill landscapes they legally defined as "empty." Both land and people were incorporated into territorially bounded grids of administrative law. Bedouin Bureaucrats examines how...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781476718965Author John Ralston SaulFormat PaperbackPage Count 656Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 567gDimensions(mm) 206mm *...

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)...

Even 100 years on from the First World War it haunts us still. No other conflict has revealed so dramatically the senselessness of war, and none has shaped the modern world to the same extent, from its impact on the Russian Revolution and the rise of...

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)...

The SS,short for the German Schutzstaffeln ,was a far-flung organization, of which the Gestapo was only one branch, that served as the tyrannical expression of Nazi bureaucracy, a politics of terror. Germans in high places still use the SS as a standard...

On February 21, 1803, Colonel Edward (Ned) Marcus Despard was publicly hanged and decapitated in London before a crowd of 20,000 for organizing a revolutionary conspiracy to overthrow King George III. His black Caribbean wife, Catherine (Kate), helped to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780199746538Author Patrick O'BrienFormat HardbackPage Count 312Imprint Oxford University Press IncPublisher Oxford University Press IncWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781592404643Author Iain GatelyFormat PaperbackPage Count 546Imprint Gotham BooksPublisher Gotham BooksWeight(grams) 562g

In the history of Western thought, men have persistently asked three questions concerning the habitable earth and their relationships to it. Is the earth, which is obviously a fit environment for man and other organic life, a purposefully made creation?...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789887554615Author John SaekiFormat PaperbackPage Count 212Imprint Blacksmith BooksPublisher Blacksmith BooksWeight(grams) 284g

The miners of the North-East, working in the most dangerous of conditions, supplied the coal which fuelled the engines of the Industrial Revolution and provided heating and lighting to millions of homes. Throughout much of County Durham and...

An accessible exploration of how diverse cultures have explained humanity's origins through narratives about the natural environment Drawing from a vast array of creation myths-Babylonian, Greek, Aztec, Maya, Inca, Chinese, Hindu, Navajo, Polynesian,...

Author Kati Marton follows these nine over the decades as they flee fascism and anti-Semitism, seek sanctuary in England and America, and set out to make their mark. The scientists Leo Szilard, Edward Teller, and Eugene Wigner enlist Albert Einstein to...

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...

1989 ushered in a new age of freedom and prosperity. Thirty years later, the golden era is over. What went wrong? How did the age of globalization – of growing connectivity, affluence, and growth – give way? Jonathan Holslag navigates through the calm...

Written by a team of leading scholars, this fascinating book presents an authoritative and comprehensive history of the Crusades, from the preaching of the First Crusade in 1095 to the legacy of crusading ideas and imagery today. Reflecting the recent...

In dramatic stories and sweeping panoramas, distinguished historian John T. McGreevy tells the mesmerising story of a Church torn between the forces of reform and reaction for the past 250 years. Anti-monarchist French clerics celebrated the Revolution,...

Analyzes who fights wars and why, and examines the inevitability of man's need to "play" at war.Book InformationISBN 9780029331552Author Martin L. van CreveldFormat HardbackPage Count 254Imprint The Free PressPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 1g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781574885385Author S MercadoFormat PaperbackPage Count 1Imprint Brassey's USPublisher Potomac Books IncWeight(grams) 666gDimensions(mm) 250mm * 150mm * 15mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781667200491Author Steve FallonFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint Thunder Bay PressPublisher Thunder Bay PressWeight(grams) 1157gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...