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How did empires rule different peoples across vast expanses of space and time? And how did small numbers of imperial bureaucrats govern large numbers of subordinated peoples? Empires and Bureaucracy in World History seeks answers to these fundamental...

From the Foundations in Global Studies series, this text offers students a fresh, comprehensive, multidisciplinary entry point to the study of the social and cultural aspects of global studies. After a brief introduction to global studies, the early...

The editors and contributors to this volume focus on the inherent political nature of archaeology and its impact on the practice of the discipline. Pointing to the discipline's history of advancing imperialist, colonialist, and racist objectives, they...

A History of Communications advances a theory of media that explains the origins and impact of different forms of communication - speech, writing, print, electronic devices and the Internet - on human history in the long term. New media are 'pulled' into...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375754210Author Omar N. BradleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 688Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 743gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060933913Author Associate Professor Eric MarcusFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)...

This book presents an insightful and thoroughly entertaining exploration of the political context of the Bond books and films. Jeremy Black offers a historian's interpretation from the perspective of the late 2010s, assessing James Bond in terms of the...

The state, which since the middle of the seventeenth century has been the most important and most characteristic of all modern institutions, is in decline. From Western Europe to Africa, many existing states are either combining into larger communities...

The Luftwaffe War Diaries is the definitive history of the German air force in World War II, from the blitzkrieg on Poland to the last desperate stand over Germany,the only account ever to come from a German source. Its masterfully organized chapters...

The most influential story in Western cultural history, the biblical account of Adam and Eve is now treated either as the sacred possession of the faithful or as the butt of secular jokes. Here, acclaimed scholar Stephen Greenblatt explores it with...

Published for the first time, the history of the CIA's clandestine short-wave radio broadcasts to Eastern Europe and the USSR during the early Cold War is covered in-depth. Chapters describe the "gray" broadcasting of Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty...

By the 1920s, psychoanalysis was a technology of both the late-colonial state and anti-imperialism. Insights from psychoanalysis shaped European and North American ideas about the colonial world and the character and potential of native cultures...

Focusing on the Crusades, this is one of a history series, modular in structure, which offers teachers the flexibility to design their own scheme of work at Key Stage 3 of the National Curriculum. Each book covers all the core study units and also a wide...

Focusing on the Crusades, this is one of a history series, modular in structure, which offers teachers the flexibility to design their own scheme of work at Key Stage 3 of the National Curriculum. Each book covers all the core study units and also a wide...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781451628265Author Michael ErardFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 211mm *...

Established over a century ago, Fauna & Flora International (FFI) was the world's first international conservation organisation. The pioneering work of its founders in Africa led to the creation of numerous protected areas, including Kruger...

In the last thirty years, there have been fierce debates over how civilizations develop and why the West became so powerful. The Measure of Civilization presents a brand-new way of investigating these questions and provides new tools for assessing the...

This book explores the Eurasian borderlands as contested 'shatter zones' which have generated some of the world's most significant conflicts. Analyzing the struggles of Habsburg, Russian, Ottoman, Iranian and Qing empires, Alfred J. Rieber surveys the...

Few ideas in the past century have had wider financial, political, and governmental impact than that of economic growth. The common belief that endless economic growth, as measured by Gross Domestic Product, is not only possible but actually essential...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780735222199Author Dominic LievenFormat HardbackPage Count 528Imprint VikingPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 799gDimensions(mm) 236mm * 160mm * 43mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692622650Author Cara St LouisFormat PaperbackPage Count 58Imprint White LionPublisher White LionWeight(grams) 91gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 3mm

How constructions of time shape political beliefs about what is possible-and what is inevitable To secure power in a crisis, leaders must sell deep change as a means to future good. But how could we know the future? Nomi Claire Lazar draws on stories...

In this new book, Janusz Piekalkiewicz chronicles the British Secret Inteligence Service (SIS) and the "Ultra" secret, and its effect on the campaign in North Africa during the Secon World War. On the German side, Rommel also knew the use of intercepted...

This is a life raft for anyone who finds themselves floundering amidst a sea of ten-second soundbites, wishing they had a better grasp of complexities of world politics and global issues. Clear, concise language sets the record straight on a diverse...

In recent years, imperial history has experienced a newfound vigour, dynamism and diversity. There has been an explosion of new work in the field, which has been driven into even greater prominence by contemporary world events. However, this resurgence...

This book is a scholarly study of a virtually unknown aspect of the history of horology (timekeeping), compiled from Chinese and Japanese historical and literary records, some of which are translated and published here for the first time. Incense...

From 1984 to 1991, Israel conducted a series of dramatic rescues, bringing thousands of Ethiopian Jews to the state of Israel. Codenamed Operation Sheba, this effort involved various covert means, including large-scale airlifts and exchanges for arms, to...

Most writing about strategy has focused on individual strategic theorists or great military leaders. This book focuses instead on the messy processes by which rulers and states have framed strategy in the past - a subject of vital practical importance to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for Ned Kelly Awards, Best True Crime 2014 (Australia).Book InformationISBN 9781922147240Author Eleanor LearmonthFormat PaperbackPage Count 332Imprint The Text...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857043702Author Michael FergusonFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint HalsgrovePublisher Halsgrove

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250078773Author Giles MiltonFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Picador USAPublisher Picador USAWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 137mm * 20mm

This book provides a comprehensive course for GCSE students of average ability and supplies the chronological framework necessary for a study period. Book InformationISBN 9780582222991Author L SnellgroveFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint...

Here at last is the exciting, detailed story of the U.S. Eighth Air Force's only Radar Countermeasure squadron that flew from England duing World War II. This book tells of the men of the elite 36th Bomb Squadron and the special operations they flew in...

Too Hot to Handle is the first truly international history of sex education. As Jonathan Zimmerman shows, the controversial subject began in the West and spread steadily around the world over the past century. As people crossed borders, however, they...

Drawn from the award-winning 5-volume Encyclopedia of War, this valuable, one-volume reference provides readers with essential information on the conflicts and concepts that shaped global warfare in the twentieth-century and up to the present day. *...

The turn of the 20th century was a time of great change in Britain. The empire saw its global influence waning and its traditional social structures challenged. There was a growing weariness of industrialism and a desire to rediscover tradition and...

New insights into the microbiome, epigenetics, and cognition are radically challenging our very idea of what it means to be 'human', while an explosion of neo-materialist thinking in the humanities has fostered a renewed appreciation of the formative...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915544032Author Robert Hugh BensonFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Cenacle Press at Silverstream PrioryPublisher Cenacle Press at Silverstream...

Who founded China? Are Chinese people religious? What is Chinese culture and how has it changed over time? The Understanding China Through Comics series answers these questions and more.Division to Unification in Imperial China is series volume two. It...

In the past sixty years, oral history has moved from the periphery to the mainstream of academic studies and is now employed as a research tool by historians, anthropologists, sociologists, medical therapists, documentary film makers, and educators at...