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This volume brings together environmental and human perspectives, engages with both historians and scientists, and, being mindful that environments and disease recognize no boundaries, includes studies that touch on Europe, the wider Mediterranean world,...

A wide-ranging and original history of globalization, examining how it has developed and what it means for the future Since humans migrated from Africa and dispersed throughout the world, they have found countless ways and reasons to reconnect with each...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781547600212Author Peter FrankopanFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing PLCPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLCWeight(grams)...

Back in PrintWorld Fire is the story of how fire and humans have coevolved. The two are inseparable, and together they have repeatedly remade the planet."Pyne considers the evolution of fire in such diverse regions as Australia, Africa, Brazil, Sweden,...

In a world where we take for granted the ability to communicate instantly across vast distances and time, world history has come of age. We increasingly reflect on history from a position which no longer privileges Europe or the West, and from a global...

Knowledge about the roles of women in ancient civilizations has been limited to traditionally held notions, but recent discoveries and research have led to exciting insights into the great variety of ways in which women contributed to ancient cultures...

Migration is at the heart of Asian history. For centuries migrants have tracked the routes and seas of their ancestors - merchants, pilgrims, soldiers and sailors - along the Silk Road and across the Indian Ocean and the China Sea. Over the last 150...

Whereas many textbooks treat the subject of world religions in an apolitical way, as if each religion were a path for individuals seeking wisdom and not a discourse intimately connected with the exercise of power, James W. Laine treats religion and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629147734Author Phil MasonFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Skyhorse PublishingPublisher Skyhorse PublishingWeight(grams) 440gDimensions(mm) 228mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805208986Author Amin MaaloufFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Schocken BooksPublisher Schocken BooksWeight(grams) 301gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 131mm *...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780851248028Author Bertrand RussellFormat PaperbackPage Count 156Imprint Spokesman BooksPublisher Spokesman BooksDimensions(mm) 210mm * 148mm * 10mm

This book is a groundbreaking study of the historical reasons for the divergence in public health policies adopted in Britain, France, Germany and Sweden, and the spectrum of responses to the threat of contagious diseases such as cholera, smallpox and...

Vincent Cannato takes us back to the time when John Lindsay stunned New York with his liberal Republican agenda, WASP sensibility, and movie-star good looks. With peerless authority, Cannato explores how Lindsay Liberalism failed to save New York, and,...

Kris Manjapra weaves together the study of colonialism over the past 500 years, across the globe's continents and seas. This captivating work vividly evokes living human histories, introducing the reader to manifestations of colonialism as expressed...

Leonard Garment was a successful Wall Street attorney when, in 1965, he found himself arguing a Supreme Court case alongside his new law partner,former Vice President Richard Nixon. It was the start of a friendship that lasted more than thirty years. In...

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THE BRIGADE brings to life a fascinating chapter of holocaust history in which three Jewish men rise above bitterness and hatred to transform the lives of hundreds of thousands. 'We came as an angel of life to the Jewish people...Soldiers are supposed to...

Demonstrates the relationship between money, people and power in both Western and Eastern culture over the centuries. The author reiterates that many of the trends that have been regarded as distinctively new in the past decades have parallels in earlier...

A comprehensive history of Hitler's last offensive in the West. In 1944 the Germans attempted to thrust through Ardennes to seize Antwerp in order to split the allied forces. A bitter struggle ensued for the key town of Bastogne, but the German offensive...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780197517024Author Peter Von SiversFormat PaperbackPage Count 720Imprint Oxford University Press, USAPublisher Oxford University Press, USAWeight(grams) 251g

Focusing on Japan, France, and the United States, Christopher L. Hill reveals how the writing of national history in the late nineteenth century made the reshaping of the world by capitalism and the nation-state seem natural and inevitable. The three...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307389596Author David CannadineFormat PaperbackPage Count 340Imprint VintagePublisher VintageWeight(grams) 272g

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War is a compelling subject. It is common to almost all known societies and periods of history. The Cambridge History of Warfare, first published in 2005, provides a detailed account of war in the West from antiquity to the present day, and is unique...

'I have long been a fan of David Christian. In Origin Story, he elegantly weaves evidence and insights from many scientific and historical disciplines into a single, accessible historical narrative' Bill Gates This is the epic story of the universe and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909421264Author Oliver ThomsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 376Imprint Arena BooksPublisher Arena BooksWeight(grams) 527g

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The Battle of Alamein in 1942 was of enormous political and military significance. It brought a sense of victory to Britain grown weary from defeat. And it was a decisive victory. It ended forever the see-saw desert campaign between the Eighth Army and...

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Trevor Fishlock puts the reader before the mast, on the dusty road, on the sledge, in the stagecoach and the howdah and aboard the clanking pioneer steamer. It is a thrilling journey. Here are the men of the Arctic ice, the desert fire, the jungles and...

The fifth edition of this bestselling book is for school and college students taking courses in Modern World History and for undergraduates in History and International Relations. It is a complete, self-contained, lively and highly readable course,...

Which US presidents were born on the fourth of July? When did Alexander Graham Bell make the first telephone call? Which two famous battles in English history took place on 25 October? Catherine the Great, Jerome K. Jerome, Baron von Richthofen, Bing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780778729938Author Cooke TimFormat HardbackPage Count 32Imprint Crabtree Publishing Co,CanadaPublisher Crabtree Publishing Co,CanadaWeight(grams) 408g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780300023688Author Aubrey BurlFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Yale University PressPublisher Yale University PressWeight(grams) 1100g