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Racisms is the first comprehensive history of racism, from the Crusades to the twentieth century. Demonstrating that there is not one continuous tradition of racism, Francisco Bethencourt shows that racism preceded any theories of race and must be viewed...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060505776Author Roger DanielsFormat HardbackPage Count 576Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 508gDimensions(mm)...

The importance of gender as a category of analysis is now very widely accepted, but there has been a slowness to bring it to bear in general interpretative surveys of Nazi Germany. This new study aims to remedy the omission, to reintroduce as actors on...

A Companion to the History of the Middle East offers a fresh account of the multifaceted and multi-layered history of this region. A fresh account of the multifaceted and multi-layered history of the Middle EastComprises 26 newly-commissioned essays by...

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Shortly after graduating from the University of Glasgow in 1934, Elizabeth "Bessie" Williamson began working as a temporary secretary at the Laphroaig Distillery on the Scottish island Islay. Williamson quickly found herself joining the boys in the...

AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR AND HISTORIAN STEPHEN DANDO-COLLINS PROVIDES UNPARALLELED NEW INSIGHT INTO THE FIRST JEWISH REVOLT Dando-Collins details the conflict from both sides of the 7-year campaign. His examination of the revolt draws upon numerous...

Plague was a key factor in the waning of Antiquity and the beginning of the Middle Ages. In this volume, the first on the subject, twelve scholars from a variety of disciplines - history, archaeology, epidemiology, and molecular biology - have produced...

In this authoritative and accessible book, one of the world's most renowned historians provides a concise and comprehensive history of capitalism within a global perspective from its medieval origins to the 2008 financial crisis and beyond. From early...

Nineteenth-century historians have described how science became secular and how scientific theories such as evolution justified colonialism. This book explores the relationship between nineteenth-century science and Christianity outside the Western world...

Europe's place in history is re-assessed in this first comprehensive history of the ancient world, centering on the Indian Ocean and its role in pre-modern globalization. Philippe Beaujard presents an ambitious and comprehensive global history of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143124405Author Jared DiamondFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 459gDimensions(mm) 193mm * 119mm...

As a new generation discovers socialism, this important text by American Marxist Hal Draper makes the case that genuine liberation can only come from the self-activity of workers. Draper outlines the important distinction in the socialist movement...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802138019Author Mark CockerFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly PressPublisher Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press

Fatal Misconception is the disturbing story of our quest to remake humanity by policing national borders and breeding better people. As the population of the world doubled once, and then again, well-meaning people concluded that only population control...

In Big Ideas: A Guide to the History of Everything, Cameron Gibelyou and Doug Northrop create a novel framework for thinking about the history and future of everything. Throughout the book, they grapple with issues at the intersection of the natural...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995484405Author Sandra DelfFormat PaperbackPage Count 166Imprint East Anglian PressPublisher East Anglian PressWeight(grams) 168gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org.Widely studied and hotly debated, the Silk Road is often viewed as a precursor to contemporary globalization, the merchants who traversed it as early agents of...

This book is the moving story of nine American soldiers and pilots who were captured and held prisoner for five years. It could only be told in their own words so author Zalin Grant interviewed each of the men and wove their accounts together to form a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802144164Author William J BernsteinFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly PressPublisher Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly...

For the same reasons that explorers of the early twentieth century strove to reach the poles, and their modern counterparts journey to outer space, most people want to visualize the contours of the human experience - the peaks of adaptive success that...

A thriller set in Cyprus is unusual. In 1974 Turkey invaded the island and seized over a third of it, causing innumerable Greek civilians to flee for their lives. A Berlin Wall-like monstrosity called the Green Line was built across the country to...

In April 2020, the United States will embark on what has been called "the largest peacetime mobilization in American history": the decennial population census. It is part of a long, if uneven, tradition of counting people that extends back at least three...

THE COLD WAR IN THE THIRD WORLD explores the complex interrelationships between the Soviet-American struggle for global preeminence and the rise of the Third World. Those two distinct but overlapping phenomena placed a powerful stamp on world history...

In this revelatory new account, national security expert Timothy Naftali relates the full story of America's decades-long attempt to fight terrorism. On September 11, 2001, a long history of failures and missteps came to a head, with tragic results. But,...

Great Captains Unveiled incisively examines the brilliant military careers and intriguing personalities of six masters of the battlefield: Jenghiz Khan (1167?-1227) and Sabutai (1172?-1245), who led their Mongol cavalry into the heart of medieval Europe...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781667205151Author Peter DarmanFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint Thunder Bay PressPublisher Thunder Bay PressWeight(grams) 794gDimensions(mm) 221mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780520314207Author Janet L NelsonFormat HardbackPage Count 704Imprint University of California PressPublisher University of California PressWeight(grams)...

This is the history of the world, from the origins of the Cosmos to the present day, seen through three major narratives: work, sex and power - the forces that have done more than any other to shape the world as we see it now. It expertly explores...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375704758Author Daniel J. BoorstinFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 282gDimensions(mm) 203mm...

The Field and the Forge offers a new approach to the pre-industrial past in Europe and the Mediterranean basin from the Roman Republic to the fall of Napoleon. Based on an original synthesis of 'structural' economic and demographic history with...

Nobilities in Transition explores the transformation of the nobility in the late 16th and 17th centuries. This book looks at political and social changes, examines the impact princely courts had on noblemen and women and their way of life and analyses...

All serious historical inquiry constantly encounters these major questions: what are the forces of historical change? and are there any general patterns shaping historical development? Theories of revolution have figured large in historians'...

The first textbook to present world history via social history, drawing on social science methods and research. This interdisciplinary, comprehensive and comparative textbook is authored by distinguished scholars and experienced teachers, and offers...

For as long as they have existed, cities have been destroyed-sacked, shaken, burnt, bombed, flooded, starved, irradiated, and pillaged-in almost every case they have risen again. Rarely in modern times has a city not been rebuilt following destruction,...

At the beginning of World War II, Prince Junio Valerio Borghese, dashing Italian nobleman, assembled the famous Decima MAS naval unit-the first modern naval commando squad. Borghese's "frogmen" were trained to fight undercover and underwater with small...

From brilliant young polymath Andrew Rader - an MIT-credentialled scientist, popular podcast host and SpaceX mission manager - an illuminating chronicle of exploration that spotlights humans' insatiable desire to continually push into new and uncharted...

Mort Rosenblum, a celebrated foreign correspondent, invites us aboard his fifty-four-foot launch tied up in the centre of Paris and introduces us to the characters who share his life along the river, ranging from eccentric movie stars and reclusive...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789087283414Author Carolien StolteFormat PaperbackPage Count 412Imprint Leiden University PressPublisher Leiden University Press

In these four volumes, published in paperback in 2000, twenty-two scholars of international reputation consider the whole of mainland and island Southeast Asia from Burma to Indonesia. Each volume has a new preface which points to the relationships with...