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This book examines the debate which has long raged in Britain about the meaning of the Falklands War. Using literary critical methods, Monaghan examines how the Thatcherite reading of the war as a myth of British greatness reborn was developed through...

Journalist's report of a conference on the problems of industry as they affect the individual and the community.Book InformationISBN 9780837169989Author Laurence V. ThompsonFormat HardbackPage Count 127Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

This book provides an insight to the cultural work involved in violence at sea in this period of maritime history. It is the first to consider how 'piracy' and representations of 'pirates' both shape and were shaped by political, social and religious...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781240923212Author Henry C BeloeFormat PaperbackPage Count 150Imprint British Library, Historical Print EditionsPublisher British Library, Historical Print...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780313241222Author Sir Charles Joseph JeffriesFormat HardbackPage Count 222Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780313230424Author Marshall William FishwickFormat HardbackPage Count 230Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780313250569Author Francis Paul WaltersFormat HardbackPage Count 848Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

As this edited collection makes clear, inquiry is a social system and knowledge is socially constructed. To understand the nature of inquiry in a particular discourse community, one must look at its social dimensions, that is, the qualities of personal...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780313234118Author Geoffrey BibbyFormat HardbackPage Count 398Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780994579812Author Michael WinklerFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Michael WinklerPublisher Michael WinklerWeight(grams) 259g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780648714927Author David KentishFormat PaperbackPage Count 132Imprint David/KentishPublisher David/KentishWeight(grams) 159g

This bibliography includes English-language first-person accounts of individuals who survived or witnessed, as bystanders, journalists, diplomats, or liberators, genocidal acts in this century. The primary focus is on diaries, letters, memoirs,...

The most comprehensive bibliography available on historical sources for popular women's magazines, this work fills a niche among existing annotated bibliographies on journalism history. Compiler Mary Ellen Zuckerman focuses on a wide range of topics,...

Tuck's work is an attempt at the rehabilitation of Karl Radek, a sidekick of Lenin's who fell victim to Stalin's vengeance in the 1930s. Though not a full-scale academic biography, it is satisfying and fast-moving without being superficial, and offers an...

First published in 1999, this book is a comparative history of the development of ideas about nature, particularly of the importance of native nature as a part of the culture in the Anglo settler countries of the United States, Canada, Australia, and New...

Winston S. Churchill often used proverbs in his many speeches, correspondence, and other writings. This book is a detailed index to proverbs in his works. An introductory essay explores the importance of proverbs in Churchill's writings. The essay is...

The sixth volume in Greenwood's ongoing series, this book is the first of three fine volumes to cover the twentieth century and the last stages in decolonization of the British Empire. It is concerned with the original five Dominions, the apparently...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780313240829Author Carlton Joseph Huntley HayesFormat HardbackPage Count 390Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780313227721Author Frederick J. SimoonsFormat HardbackPage Count 241Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

Originally published in 1960, this was the first of three volumes on 'Party Politics'. The whole work was the conclusion of Sir Ivor Jenning's standard survey of English constitutional and political practice begun with Cabinet Government (3rd edition,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060922559Author Richard ShenkmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint William Morrow & CompanyPublisher William Morrow & CompanyWeight(grams) 236g

The Industrial Revolution that began in Great Britain in the mid-seventeenth century transformed the British economy-and later the economies of Western Europ and the U.S.-from a rural, agricultral system into an industrial society, centered around the...

Originally published in 1969, this book presents a historical geography of Ghana from the earliest times onwards. It describes the people and their social organization, migrations, agriculture, artefacts, manufacturing and history. Numerous illustrative...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780313204470Author William K. HancockFormat HardbackPage Count 246Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780837169613Author Martin A. BurstenFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780982710166Author William J. FedererFormat HardbackPage Count 300Imprint Amerisearch IncPublisher Amerisearch IncWeight(grams) 495g

In this careful historical analysis, Edward Rice-Maximin documents the reactions of the French Left to the First Indochina War, 1944-1954. Unlike previous works, which dealt exclusively with the politics of the French Communists, this book is among the...

The author reviews history from Sumerian days to the present time to show that throughout its course, East and West have alternately been dominant, the periodic decline of one civilization creating a cultural vacuum that was filled by the adjacent rising...

This is a study of the manner in which certain mythical notions of the world become accepted as fact. Dathorne shows how particular European concepts such as El Dorado, the Fountain of Youth, a race of Amazons, and monster (including cannibal) images...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780788414091Author William Henry FarquharFormat PaperbackPage Count 374Imprint Heritage BooksPublisher Heritage BooksWeight(grams) 431g

In this detailed account of civilian lives during wartime in Asia, high school students, undergrads, and general readers alike can get a glimpse into the often dismal, but surprisingly resilient, lives led by ordinary people-those who did not go off to...

This major work trancends the conventional sub-cultures of academic history by bringing economic, social, military, and diplomatic history back together, where they belong. Allies at War represents a collaborative effort among British, American, and...

This book offers a guided tour of the current state scholarship on daily life, including the knowledge that generated and suggestions for further research. Edited by Peter N. Stearns, the eminent social historian and Chair of the Advanced Placement World...

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...

Chronology of World Slavery combines multiple chronologies, sidebars on specialized topics, primary source documents, and gripping illustrations into a compelling portrayal of slavery from the dawn of civilization to the present. Organized by geographic...

Thirty years ago, Alfred Crosby published a small work that illuminated a simple point, that the most important changes brought on by the voyages of Columbus were not social or political, but biological in nature. The book told the story of how 1492...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781241201326Author Richard HortFormat PaperbackPage Count 150Imprint British Library, Historical Print EditionsPublisher British Library, Historical Print...

This is a narrative study of British diplomatic perceptions of Woodrow Wilson during his presidential campaign and presidency. Using archival material not previously explored for this purpose, George Conyne is able to challenge the conventional view of...

This study explores two categories-empire and citizenship-that historians usually study separately. It does so with a unifying focus on racialization in the lives of outstanding women whose careers crossed national borders between 1880 and 1965. It puts...

Europeanization is a term at the centre of contemporary political debate. In this innovative study, a team of British and German historians present the findings of their research project into how the concept and content of Europeanization needs to be...