World

Expert contributors write on the experiences of civilians who lived through occupation and bloodshed in the First World War; the Russians who lived or died during the the devastating civil war in 1917-1922, leading eventually to the terrors of Stalinism;...

In the early twentieth century, Chinese immigration became the focal point for racial panic in Britain. Fears about its moral and economic impact - amplified by press sensationalism and lurid fictional portrayals of London's original 'Chinatown' as a den...

This book, the first to study women's historical involvement in postwar reconciliation, examines how patriarchy and the international relations system operated simultaneously to ensure postwar male privilege.Book InformationISBN 9780230602816Author Erika...

This book chronicles the evolution of the Manuscript Society, a fifty-year-old organization of collectors and archivists, in the context of autograph collecting in general. The author presents a comprehensive account of the growing problems posed by...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780974493428Author Anna LawtonFormat HardbackPage Count 360Imprint New Academia Publishing, LLCPublisher New Academia Publishing, LLCWeight(grams) 683g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780860546474Author Peter E. SiegelFormat PaperbackPage Count 418Imprint BAR PublishingPublisher BAR Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781241466626Author AnonymousFormat 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 9780988211056Author James Todd CochraneFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Dark Moon Publishing Inc.Publisher Dark Moon Publishing Inc.Weight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780974493435Author Anna LawtonFormat PaperbackPage Count 360Imprint New Academia Publishing, LLCPublisher New Academia Publishing, LLCWeight(grams) 529g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781241231644Author Edward George Earle Lytton Baron BulwerFormat PaperbackPage Count 148Imprint British Library, Historical Print EditionsPublisher British...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780955624810Author Eliza EarsmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint Eliza EarsmanPublisher Eliza EarsmanWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674336100Author Albertvs Andrew HowardFormat HardbackPage Count 284Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 576g

Marrying two exceptionally popular topics-needlework and women's history-this book provides an authoritative yet entertaining discussion of the diversity and importance of needlework in Victorian women's lives. Victorian Needlework explores these...

Sexual exploitation was and is a critical feature of enslavement. Across many different societies, slaves were considered to own neither their bodies nor their children, even if many struggled to resist. At the same time, paradoxes abound: for example,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781241329433Author AnonymousFormat PaperbackPage Count 150Imprint British Library, Historical Print EditionsPublisher British Library, Historical Print...

How Fear Mongering Politicians, Hate Mongering Theologians, and Irresponsible Press Are Guiding Us to an Age of Horrors. Americans do not understand our real peril. There are over 100 million young men between 15 and 23 in the Muslim World. In some...

The result of a lifetime of research and contemplation on global phenomena, this book explores the idea of humanity in the modern age of globalization. Tracking the idea in the historical, philosophical, legal, and political realms, this is a concise and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674421912Author William R PolkFormat HardbackPage Count 480Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 980g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780837173498Author Sigurd Wesley ChristiansenFormat HardbackPage Count 319Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781241355142Author AnonymousFormat PaperbackPage Count 148Imprint 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 9781241345877Author Thomas CatherallFormat PaperbackPage Count 150Imprint British Library, Historical Print EditionsPublisher British Library, Historical...

A concise reference for researchers on the protest movements of the 1960s and 1970s, this book covers the history of the various national protest movements, the transnational aspects of these movements, and the common narratives and cultures of memory...

This volume gathers essays that focus on the worldliness of science, its inseparable engagement in the major institutional bases of social life: law, market, church, school, and nation. With a chronological span reaching from the Renaissance to Big...

Christopher Columbus' discovery of the new world launched a process of economic and cultural integration that continues to this day. In the wake of Columbus's voyages, the major powers of Western Europe established imperial systems that shaped global...

Today, we are bombarded with calls for change, as if all change was an improvement over the status quo. Dr. Gastil challenges this view in a thorough examination of concepts of change and progress. He asserts that our cultural world is divided between...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780837181684Author Ghita IonescuFormat HardbackPage Count 378Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

Successfully integrating history, political psychology, and psychoanalysis, Fantasy and Reality in History studies individual and social anxiety, crisis management, racism and nationalism. By blending clinical and historico-political methods, Loewenberg...

Why did modern states and economies develop first in the peripheral and late-coming culture of Europe? This historical puzzle looms behind every study of industrialization and economic development. In this analytical and comparative work Eric Jones sees...

This 2003 book offered the first in-depth international survey of contemporary research and debates in business history. Over the two decades leading to its publication, enormous advances had been made in writing the history of business enterprise and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781241336936Author Professor Thomas MorrisFormat PaperbackImprint 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 9780837163758Author Jean Trepp McKelveyFormat HardbackPage Count 148Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

Jane Alexander had never been involved in mainstream politics and was happily engaged in her acting career when she was asked to consider becoming head of the embattled National Endowment for the Arts in the early 1990s. When, during her first visit to...

A wide-ranging series of essays on military leaders, ancient and modern, whose actions and personalities provide insights into the interplay of time, circumstance, and individual character and ability that makes for success or failure. The authors cover...

In The World from 1450 to 1700, historian John Wills takes a fresh look at one of the most fascinating and tumultuous periods in world history. Assuming a global perspective, rather than the traditional Eurocentric view, Wills traces the interwoven...

An exploration of the little-known yet historically important emigration of British army officers to the Australian colonies in the aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars. The book looks at the significant impact they made at a time of great colonial...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857063694Author James AllanFormat HardbackPage Count 112Imprint Leonaur LtdPublisher Leonaur LtdWeight(grams) 281g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780982445419Author Anne BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Beacon HillPublisher Beacon HillWeight(grams) 290g

This historical research guide provides students and their teachers with 600 term paper ideas and cites more than a thousand print and nonprint sources on the 100 most important events that have shaped 20th-century world history. Organized in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780313247354Author Shepard B. CloughFormat HardbackPage Count 132Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

In the late 1930s and early 1940s, European Jews traveled east to seek refuge in the West. Three thousand refugees transited Japan and China, and more than 21,000 spent the war in Japanese-occupied Shanghai. Japanese diplomats in Europe were caught off...