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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780313200984Author Evelyn G. HutchinsonFormat HardbackPage Count 163Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780976704201Author Arthur GrenkeFormat PaperbackImprint New Academia Publishing/ The SpringPublisher New Academia Publishing/ The SpringWeight(grams) 481g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674418363Author Mason HammondFormat HardbackPage Count 636Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 1202g

This book provides an analysis of changes in the level and structure of wages in China from the 1920s to 1972. In the first part of the study Dr Howe uses this analysis as a starting point to evaluate the degree to which wage policy objectives have been...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674424722Author Professor of Psychology Dean Keith SimontonFormat HardbackPage Count 244Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University...

Traditionally the ethic of care has been associated with women while the ethic of justice has been associated with men. In recent years some feminist philosophers have turned their energies to developing theories of care and to exploring the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780313210679Author Esme Wingfield-StratfordFormat HardbackPage Count 248Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

The author discusses the social, economic, and political problems of British Honduras as they are affected by the variety of racial, religious, and linguistic components in its small population. These problems are looked at in their historical context as...

Professor Von Grunebaum's essays deal with three fundamental problems in Islamic civilization: the growth among Muslims of a consciousness of political thought, attitude toward science, and urban structure; and the interaction of Islam with other...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780313251849Author Ilene. V. O'MalleyFormat HardbackPage Count 211Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

These are the memoirs of Nicholas Karlovich Giers written between 1873 and 1875. They provide a sample of the thinking of a Russian foreign minister and a description of life in Russia and the Danubian principalities at the time.Book InformationISBN...

In 1968 the Czechoslovak Communist Party undertook an experiment which might well have rejuvenated and inspired the prospects for Communism at least in the Western world. This `Prague Spring' was but the climax of a long, intensive struggle waged within...

Professor Jack Goody builds on his own previous work to extend further his highly influential critique of what he sees as the pervasive eurocentric or occidentalist biases of so much western historical writing. Goody also examines the consequent 'theft'...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674436022Author Philip a StadterFormat HardbackPage Count 167Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 417g

A historical atlas must depict complex issues in a manner immediately accessible to the reader. The Cold War has long needed such an atlas. With easily understood maps and text, this atlas meets this demand. Not only are the obvious issues addressed,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780837165615Author Clara UrquhartFormat HardbackPage Count 255Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

This is a paperback of a one-volume introduction to the history of Russian art and architecture from medieval times to the 1970s. Robin Millner-Gulland focuses on Old Russia down to the mid-nineteenth century, stressing some of the important discoveries...

Before Rwanda and Bosnia, and before the Holocaust, the first genocide of the twentieth century happened in Turkish Armenia in 1915, when approximately one million people were killed. This volume is an account of the American response to this atrocity...

Originally published in 2003, this book addresses the rarely explored subject of the reciprocal relationships between nationalism, nation and state-building, and economic change. Analysis of the economic element in the building of nations and states...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780878084777Author Alan R TippettFormat PaperbackPage Count 377Imprint William Carey Library PublishersPublisher William Carey Library...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780837187259Author Florence JonasFormat HardbackPage Count 351Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780837179995Author Arthur Henry JohnsonFormat HardbackPage Count 246Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780837179063Author Earle L. ReynoldsFormat HardbackPage Count 284Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780837161525Author Stringfellow BarrFormat HardbackPage Count 369Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780837147611Author Hilaire BellocFormat HardbackPage Count 245Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780837181417Author Robert BroomFormat HardbackPage Count 106Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

With Hard Bargain , Robert Shogan offers an account of one of World War II's most dramatic chapters,the story of how Franklin D. Roosevelt secretly brokered a deal to provide the destroyers Winston Churchill needed to save Britain from destruction. At...

A classic classroom reference since its 1964 publication, this indispensable volume offers the full text of Magna Carta in English, as well as a chapter-by-chapter discussion of its history and provisions. In his newly revised commentary on this founding...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780759649729Author Henry T. ConservaFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint AuthorHousePublisher AuthorHouseWeight(grams) 672g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692501955Author Ryan J LeaverFormat PaperbackPage Count 52Imprint Ryan J. LeaverPublisher Ryan J. LeaverWeight(grams) 163g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780639777795Author Neville John HerringtonFormat PaperbackPage Count 188Imprint National Library of South Africa - Nlsa - PretoriaPublisher National Library...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578901473Author Anthony B GronowiczFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Koba BooksPublisher Koba BooksWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780837182179Author Vladimir MaksimovFormat HardbackPage Count 106Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

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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...

In recent times Islamic martyrdom has become associated with suicide missions conducted by extremists. However, as David Cook demonstrates, this type of martyrdom is very different from the classical definition which condemned suicide and stipulated that...

People of European descent form the bulk of the population in most of the temperate zones of the world - North America, Australia and New Zealand. The military successes of European imperialism are easy to explain; in many cases they were a matter of...

The Cambridge World History of Human Disease (CWHHD) was first published by Cambridge University Press in 1993 and reprinted in 2001. Part VIII, the last section of the work, comprises a history and description of the world's major diseases of yesterday...

The Making of Peace represents a fascinating contribution to the study of war: namely, the difficulties that statesmen have confronted in attempting to put back together the pieces after a major conflict. These essays examine how Western belligerents...

Advances an interesting perspective in world history, arguing that institutions and culture - and not just the global economy - serve as important elements of international order. Focusing on colonial legal politics and the interrelation of local and...