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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780275912048Author M. V. KellyFormat HardbackPage Count 321Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

History is an important, dangerous, and fragile subject. Historical thought can be censored in widely diverging political and historiographical contexts, as historians are well aware. Yet the problems of censorship, often thought to be obvious, are...

The Ring and the Book, Browning's 21,000 line epic, is widely regarded as his masterpiece. This is the third, and final, volume of the Oxford edition covering this work, comprising the monologue of Johannes-Baptista Bottinius, and then the glowing...

This is a history of Europe unlike any other: a theory-informed history of its language use. The 'rise' and 'fall' of languages are recounted, along with an analysis of why periods of linguistic diversity are followed by hegemony. How did the...

Lenin's death at the beginning of 1924 coincided with an exhaustive search by the USSR for a modus vivendi with the capitalist world. In laying the foundations of peaceful co-existence, priority was given to the cultivation of relations with Britain...

Few figures in the twentieth century have been as inspirational as Mohandas Mahatma Gandhi. Interest in this extraordinary man has produced a massive amount of printed material, making Ananda M. Pandiri's comprehensive bibliography an invaluable...

In one form or another, slavery has existed throughout the world for millennia. It helped to change the world, and the world transformed the institution. In the 1450s, when Europeans from the small corner of the globe least enmeshed in the institution...

City Politics is a detailed study of the city of Kinshasa (formerly Leopoldville), capital of the Congo, in the years immediately following independence. The book is a study of political leadership in an urban African movement undergoing extremely rapid...

Many of the foremost experts in the study of European fascism unite to provide a contemporary analysis of the theories and historiography of fascism. Essays discuss the most recent debates on the subject and how changes in the social sciences over the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780898759839Author Oswald SpenglerFormat PaperbackPage Count 116Imprint University Press of the PacificPublisher University Press of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781241194352Author Max PembertonFormat 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 9781241151898Author 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 9781241200787Author Marion Clifford Baroness Dunboyn ButlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 150Imprint British Library, Historical Print EditionsPublisher British...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998504421Author Robert LoweFormat HardbackPage Count 242Imprint Robert Lowe, Jr.Publisher Robert Lowe, Jr.Weight(grams) 635g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780837175782Author Louis Joseph HalleFormat HardbackPage Count 147Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780837193724Author Frederick L. SchumanFormat HardbackPage Count 518Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781241800093Author Ernst BorkowskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint British Library, Historical Print EditionsPublisher British Library, Historical...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781241472207Author Robert Maxwell MacbrairFormat PaperbackPage Count 150Imprint British Library, Historical Print EditionsPublisher British Library,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781241558871Author Richard MacsherryFormat PaperbackPage Count 148Imprint British Library, Historical Print EditionsPublisher British Library, Historical...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781241379056Author Hermann Alexander MuellerFormat PaperbackPage Count 150Imprint British Library, Historical Print EditionsPublisher British Library,...

The International Polar Years and the International Geophysical Year represented a remarkable international collaborative scientific effort that has been largely neglected by historians. This groundbreaking collection seeks to redress that neglect and...

This book, an international collaboration sponsored by the Commission on the History of Historiography, is devoted to historians of the 19th and 20th centuries. Offering dictionary entries for historians from more than 35 countries, the editors have...

This collection of original historical essays sheds new light on the French colonial experience and the African reaction to it and breaks new ground by looking at both sides of the colonial equation. Editor G. Wesley Johnson believes that a double impact...

A biographical dictionary in the field of historiography, this volume consists of brief articles on the life and work of 600 historians from all over the world. The introduction by Boia traces the evolution of the field. Entries are arranged...

Russians are suppressing the Chechen; Ibo nationalism may yet tear Nigeria apart. With the end of the Cold War, any of the world's stateless peoples could be in tomorrow's headlines. This book provides an essential guide to the stateless nations...

It was the age of empire and the dawn of political and scientific revolution. The seventeenth century brought about enormous changes in the global political landscape and in the understanding of the principles of science. From this dynamic century, often...

The Vietnam War: An Encyclopedia of Quotations presents the story of this seminal conflict as told through the words of the famous, infamous, and anonymous. All sides of the controversy are presented in chronological resource that starts with a look at...

The Fate of Nations, published in 1989, identifies and illustrates the basic varieties of security policy, as well as reinterpreting six well-documented historical episodes: Great Britain and the nineteenth-century balance of power system; France between...

For the same reasons that explorers of the early twentieth century strove to reach the poles, and their modern counterparts journey to outer space, most people want to visualize the contours of the human experience - the peaks of adaptive success that...

Global in scope and a practical tool for students and teachers of history, Filmography of World History: A Select, Critical Guide To Feature Films That Engage The Past includes description and analysis of over 300 historical films. A companion to Grant...

The Wicked City is an account of Chicago's vice, crime, capitalism, and corruption from Pierre the Mole, who sold whiskey to the Indians, through Jonny Torrio and Al Capone, who bootlegged a Great Lake's worth of booze during the Roaring Twenties...

This is the first major study of the convict in the Atlantic world of the eighteenth century. It concentrates on the diverse characters of the transported men, women and children, and their fate in the colonies, exploring at the local level the contrasts...

Shavit's historical dictionary addresses the critical need in academic libraries for reference sources that provide undergraduate and beginning graduate students of American foreign policy with introductory information on the persons, events, and...

Mosler and Catley show Australia as migrant Americans see it, warts and all! They begin with an examination of the evolution of the United States as a major dominant power in the international system, emphasizing the duality of its external power coupled...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780773407831Author Jacques G RuellandFormat PaperbackPage Count 132Imprint Em TextsPublisher Em TextsWeight(grams) 152g

The gendered nature of the relationship between the press and emergence of cultural citizenship from the 1860s to the 1930s is explored through original data and insightful comparisons between India, Britain and France in this integrated approach to...

This volume offers a new cultural and political history of the idea of the nation. Situating the history of international politics and the idea of the nation in the history of psychology, it reveals the popularity and political importance of a...

This book explores how the cultural process of making any disease a "plague" results in discrimination against certain groups, as it has for those with AIDS in America. Gina M. Bright here captures the discrimination produced by plague-making...

The balance of power is one of the most influential ideas in international relations, yet it has never been comprehensively examined in pre-modern or non-European contexts. This book redresses this imbalance. The authors present eight new case studies of...

Napoleon was forced to divert badly needed troops to deal with a slave army in Haiti led by Jean Jacques Dessalines.Book InformationISBN 9780962761379Author Martin RosFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Spellmount Publishers LtdPublisher The History...