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Works of Man is a chronicle of man's attempts from prehistoric times to the space age to exploit for his own purposes the slowly discerned laws of nature. Exciting, instructive, and eminently readable, this mine of information covers the broad sweep of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781088030493Author J a PatrinaFormat PaperbackPage Count 98Imprint Littlehouse PublishingPublisher Littlehouse PublishingWeight(grams) 154g

Authored by historians, sociologists, and anthropologists, the essays collected here first cover American immigration history and law as they have developed since the late eighteenth century and then turn to consider some of the most prominent immigrant...

War was a central theme in the world history of the late fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, with military capability and activity central to its states, societies, economies and cultures. War in the World 1450-1600 provides an account of warfare in the...

Fidel Castro has ruled Cuba for over 40 years, yet he remains one of the world's most complex leaders. Rebellious at an early age, he attemped to organize a strike of sugar workers against his father as a teenager. By his early twenties, he made it clear...

Impressive, enlightening, and fascinating to read, this easy-to-use narrative chronology records the triumphs, obstacles, and conditions of women's lives from prehistory to the present and profiles the achievements of nearly 5,000 women from practically...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679755180Author Daniel J. BoorstinFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 187g

In 1649 a Code of Laws was issued in Moscow completing, at least in law, the process of enserfment of the Russian peasantry. This book illustrates this process with fifty-six documents of the twelfth to seventeenth centuries. They relate mainly to the...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780313241352Author Meyer WeinbergFormat HardbackPage Count 662Imprint Greenwood PressPublisher ABC-CLIO

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780313200212Author Marquis of LorneFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

Drawing on a wide range of studies of Europe, the United States, Asia, and Africa, the contributions gathered here consider how political history, business history, the history of science, cultural history, gender history, intellectual history,...

This book traces the progression of cosmopolitanism from the private experience of a group of artists and intellectuals who lived and worked in Boston between 1865 and 1915 to finished works of monumental art that shaped public space.Book InformationISBN...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780820450100Author Frank J. CoppaFormat HardbackPage Count 344Imprint Peter Lang Publishing IncPublisher Peter Lang Publishing IncWeight(grams) 620g

The War on Terror Narrative analyzes three types of data-presidential speeches, U.S. media discourse, and focus group interviews-to provide a longitudinal and holistic study of the formation, circulation, and contestation of the Bush administration's...

September 11 marked the beginning of a new era- an age of terror in which counter-terrorism will be one of the highest priorities of national governments and international institutions. How we proceed in this new war depends in large measure on the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780313222436Author Morgan H. BaumannFormat HardbackPage Count 356Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

This work selectively covers in an A-to-Z format utopian thought and movements globally from 1450 to the present. Emphasizing western utopian thought, this volume also covers utopian thought in eastern cultures such as China where western ideas have...

A ground-breaking collection by thirteen distinguished international scholars; this volume presents fresh perspectives on the exchange of culture and ideas between isolated communities through books and correspondence, and offers pioneering comparisons...

With the events of Ruby Ridge, Waco, and Oklahoma City, the American militia movement emerged from the obscurity of secluded cabins and survivalist meetings into the national media spotlight.Yet how much do we really know about these radical groups...

Originally published in 1970, this volume consists of essays by twelve leading scholars from the United States and Britain, all of whom concentrated their studies on the problems of China. Their papers were originally written for a conference on the...

The Mongol Empire comes to life in this vivid account of the lives of ordinary people who lived under the rule of Ghengis Khan. The book allows the reader to enjoy traditional Mongol folktales and experience life in a yurt, the tent in which the nomadic...

This reference book provides concise definitions of the contemporary meaning of each eponym or allusion, followed by a detailed explanation of the events that gave rise to it. More than 600 entries encompass allusions and eponyms from all eras of history...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781840137231Author John DavisonFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Grange Books LtdPublisher Grange Books Ltd

Battles, as Winston Churchill once famously remarked, 'are the punctuation marks of history' and getting out and walking the ground is an increasingly popular pastime. For four years Battlefields Review magazine brought many of those battlefields to life...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780313229947Author Dennis AustinFormat HardbackPage Count 191Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780313241635Author Randi BirnFormat HardbackPage Count 150Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781241214128Author John Strange WinterFormat PaperbackPage Count 148Imprint British Library, Historical Print EditionsPublisher British Library, Historical...

This book, originally published in 1975, presents a theory of behaviour in coalitions and presents an application of the theory to Indian political party coalitions. The major findings of the study are (a) the size of political parties is unimportant...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780333331613Author Nicholas ManserghFormat PaperbackPage Count 299Imprint Palgrave MacmillanPublisher Palgrave MacmillanWeight(grams) 480g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674593206Author Martin L KilsonFormat HardbackPage Count 494Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 912g

Product information not available.Book InformationISBN 9780313236877Author David F. TraskFormat HardbackPage Count 481Imprint Greenwood PressPublisher ABC-CLIO

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780837165820Author Hamilton HadleyFormat HardbackPage Count 528Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780837176819Author Herbert Victor WisemanFormat HardbackPage Count 364Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780874367508Author Neil A. HamiltonFormat HardbackPage Count 505Imprint ABC-CLIOPublisher ABC-CLIO

Fully annotated and completely updated-the most comprehensive guide to reference books in the field of history. Reference Sources in History catalogs atlases, encyclopedias, dictionaries, handbooks, sourcebooks, bibliographies, and chronologies and makes...

Reprint of the ed. published by Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, New York.Book InformationISBN 9780313202940Author Nelson AlgrenFormat HardbackPage Count 346Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

This source book in translation gathers together extensive extracts from Cicero's works in which he discusses the Roman state ('res publica'). All the extracts are given in English translation and grouped into eight thematic chapters, enabling the...

Ever since the guns of Gettysburg fell silent, and Lincoln delivered his famous two-minute speech four months after the battle, the story of this three-day conflict has become an American legend. We remember Gettysburg as, perhaps, the biggest,...