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Neutrality in International Law: From the Sixteenth Century to 1945 Kentaro Wani 9781138366039
RRP: $95.53Booksplease Price: $85.68Neutrality is a legal relationship between a belligerent State and a State not participating in a war, namely a neutral State. The law of neutrality is a body of rules and principles that regulates... -
Medicine, Science, and Making Race in Civil War America by Leslie A. Schwalm
RRP: $38.98Booksplease Price: $34.05Black Union soldiers and refugees fleeing enslavement during the Civil War faced dire circumstances when they fell ill or were injured. During the war, white Northerners routinely promoted ideas... -
Medicine, Science, and Making Race in Civil War America by Leslie A. Schwalm 9781469672687
RRP: $154.05Booksplease Price: $125.03Black Union soldiers and refugees fleeing enslavement during the Civil War faced dire circumstances when they fell ill or were injured. During the war, white Northerners routinely promoted ideas... -
British Economic and Strategic Planning: 1905-1915 David French 9781138879799
RRP: $95.53Booksplease Price: $85.68The political manoeuvres which brought about the collapse of Britain's last Liberal government in May 1915 have already been the subject of much scholarly debate. This book will attempt to go beyond... -
Forensic Investigation of Clandestine Laboratories Donnell R. Christian, Jr. (Professional Business Solutions, O'Fallon, Missouri, USA) 9781032272849
RRP: $154.03Booksplease Price: $135.39Forensic Investigation of Clandestine Laboratories, Second Edition is fully updated to address all aspects of the forensic investigation of clandestine laboratories. While, the first edition focused... -
Approval John D. Rutter 9781913393120
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $12.48Approval follows would-be parents David and Cici through a series of forays into the past as they go through the motions of applying to adopt a child. Their story builds a picture of hope,... -
Russian Business Power: The Role of Russian Business in Foreign and Security Relations by Andreas Wenger 9780415374781
RRP: $194.98Booksplease Price: $171.74Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia has developed a powerful business community and a potent network of transnational organized groups. Russian Business Power explores the powerful impact... -
Police and Military Dogs: Criminal Detection, Forensic Evidence, and Judicial Admissibility John Ensminger 9780367866556
RRP: $70.18Booksplease Price: $64.80It is essential that those in the criminal justice system understand the tasks that police dogs perform and the evidence that their work produces. Police and Military Dogs: Criminal Detection,... -
Britain, Japan and Pearl Harbour: Avoiding War in East Asia, 1936-1941 Antony Best 9780415867795
RRP: $103.33Booksplease Price: $93.21Recent controversies about Pearl Harbour have highlighted the need for a new assessment of British policy towards Japan during the period leading up to the Pacific War. Britain, Japan and Pearl... -
Liberalism and Naval Strategy: Ideology, Interest and Sea Power During the Pax Britannica Bernard Semmel 9781032549293
RRP: $58.48Booksplease Price: $54.19Liberalism and Naval Strategy (1986) examines the role that liberalism played in shaping the naval strategy of the Pax Britannia. Liberalism was linked to commercial interest, and the devotion of the... -
Russian Business Power: The Role of Russian Business in Foreign and Security Relations by Andreas Wenger
RRP: $62.38Booksplease Price: $58.13Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia has developed a powerful business community and a potent network of transnational organized groups. Russian Business Power explores the powerful impact... -
Reconstruction in Mississippi, 1862-1877 Jere Nash 9781496858535
RRP: $54.58Booksplease Price: $46.78Throughout the ten-year period following the end of the Civil War, Mississippians responded to broader movements in the country, to changes in the national and international economy, and to... -
The Smugglers' World: Illicit Trade and Atlantic Communities in Eighteenth-Century Venezuela by Jesse Cromwell 9781469636887
RRP: $66.30Booksplease Price: $56.45The Smugglers' World examines a critical part of Atlantic trade for a neglected corner of the Spanish Empire. Testimonies of smugglers, buyers, and royal officials found in Venezuelan prize court... -
The Fort Pillow Massacre: North, South, and the Status of African Americans in the Civil War Era by Bruce Tap
RRP: $79.93Booksplease Price: $73.16On April 12, 1864, a small Union force occupying Fort Pillow, Tennessee, a fortress located on the Mississippi River just north of Memphis, was overwhelmed by a larger Confederate force under the... -
Colorblind Racial Profiling: A History, 1974 to the Present Guy Padula 9781138630789
RRP: $79.93Booksplease Price: $72.42Colorblind Racial Profiling outlines the history of racial profiling practices and policies in the United States from 1974 to the present day. Drawing on a wide variety of sources including case law,... -
Mary Lincoln: Southern Girl, Northern Woman by Stacy Pratt McDermott
RRP: $79.93Booksplease Price: $72.42One of America's most compelling First Ladies, Mary Lincoln possessed a unique vantage point on the events of her time, even as her experiences of the constraints of gender roles and the upheaval of... -
Situational Prevention of Organised Crimes by Ronald V. Clarke 9780415628037
RRP: $95.53Booksplease Price: $86.52Situational crime prevention is the art and science of reducing opportunities for crime. Despite accumulating evidence of its value in reducing many different kinds of crime - such as burglary,... -
Vigorous Reforms: Women Writers and the Politics of Health in the Nineteenth-Century United States Jess Libow 9781469689036
RRP: $48.73Booksplease Price: $42.74Nineteenth-century America saw profound changes in the ways people viewed their bodies, their health, and their corporeal connection to their environments. Though much of the writing about bodies was... -
Watchman, Tell Us: John J. Bird and Black Politics in Post-Civil War Illinois Wayne T. Pitard 9780809339464
RRP: $38.98Booksplease Price: $33.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780809339464Author Wayne T. PitardFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Southern Illinois University... -
Embattled Freedom: Journeys through the Civil War's Slave Refugee Camps by Amy Murrell Taylor
RRP: $52.63Booksplease Price: $45.79The Civil War was just days old when the first enslaved men, women, and children began fleeing their plantations to seek refuge inside the lines of the Union army as it moved deep into the heart of... -
The Occupation of Havana: War, Trade, and Slavery in the Atlantic World by Elena A Schneider 9781469672526
RRP: $48.73Booksplease Price: $42.74In 1762, British forces mobilized more than 230 ships and 26,000 soldiers, sailors, and enslaved Africans to attack Havana, one of the wealthiest and most populous ports in the Americas. They met... -
The Occupation of Havana: War, Trade, and Slavery in the Atlantic World by Elena A. Schneider 9781469645353
RRP: $66.30Booksplease Price: $57.06In 1762, British forces mobilized more than 230 ships and 26,000 soldiers, sailors, and enslaved Africans to attack Havana, one of the wealthiest and most populous ports in the Americas. They met... -
The Golden Age Shtetl: A New History of Jewish Life in East Europe by Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern 9780691168517
RRP: $48.75Booksplease Price: $42.32The shtetl was home to two-thirds of East Europe's Jews in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, yet it has long been one of the most neglected and misunderstood chapters of the Jewish experience... -
Gangsters and Other Statesmen: Mafias, Separatists, and Torn States in a Globalized World by Danilo Mandić 9780691187877
RRP: $214.50Booksplease Price: $167.95How global organized crime shapes the politics of borders in modern conflictsSeparatism has been on the rise across the world since the end of the Cold War, dividing countries through political... -
Christian Citizens: Reading the Bible in Black and White in the Postemancipation South by Elizabeth L. Jemison 9781469659695
RRP: $52.63Booksplease Price: $45.79With emancipation, a long battle for equal citizenship began. Bringing together the histories of religion, race, and the South, Elizabeth L. Jemison shows how southerners, black and white, drew on... -
The Golden Age Shtetl: A New History of Jewish Life in East Europe by Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern 9780691160740
RRP: $48.75Booksplease Price: $47.74The shtetl was home to two-thirds of East Europe's Jews in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, yet it has long been one of the most neglected and misunderstood chapters of the Jewish experience... -
Sovereignty and Revolution in the Iberian Atlantic by Jeremy Adelman
RRP: $78.00Booksplease Price: $64.58This book takes a bold new look at both Spain's and Portugal's New World empires in a trans-Atlantic context. It argues that modern notions of sovereignty in the Atlantic world have been unstable,... -
Metis and the Medicine Line: Creating a Border and Dividing a People by Michel Hogue 9781469621050
Booksplease Price: $72.60Born of encounters between Indigenous women and Euro-American men in the first decades of the nineteenth century, the Plains Metis people occupied contentious geographic and cultural spaces. Living... -
A Site of Struggle: American Art against Anti-Black Violence by Janet Dees
RRP: $74.10Booksplease Price: $61.62An important examination of how artists have grappled with anti-Black violence and its representations from the late nineteenth century to the presentFrom the horrors of slavery and lynching to the... -
My Golden Trades Ivan Klima 9781862071032
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $15.31One of the last artistic expressions of life under communism, this novel captures the atmosphere in Prague between 1983 and 1987, where a dance could be broken up by the secret police, a traffic... -
General History of the Caribbean UNESCO Vol 2: New Societies: The Caribbean in the Long Sixteenth Century by Na Na 9781403975904
RRP: $253.48Booksplease Price: $190.96Volume 2 of the General History of the Caribbeancovers the evolution of Caribbean societies between 1492 and 1650 through the intrusion of Europeans and Africans. This volume examines the early... -
Latin America's Global Border System: An Introduction by Beatriz Zepeda 9781032068848
RRP: $87.73Booksplease Price: $80.42Latin America's Global Border System is the opening volume in the first collection of academic works devoted exclusively to borders and illegal markets in Latin America.This volume features expert... -
Gangsters and Other Statesmen: Mafias, Separatists, and Torn States in a Globalized World by Danilo Mandić
RRP: $58.50Booksplease Price: $49.16How global organized crime shapes the politics of borders in modern conflictsSeparatism has been on the rise across the world since the end of the Cold War, dividing countries through political... -
Beyond the Steppe Frontier: A History of the Sino-Russian Border by Soeren Urbansky 9780691181684
RRP: $81.90Booksplease Price: $67.57A comprehensive history of the Sino-Russian border, one of the longest and most important land borders in the worldThe Sino-Russian border, once the world's longest land border, has received scant... -
Polperro's Smuggling Story by Jeremy Rowett Johns 9780953001200
RRP: $13.55Booksplease Price: $13.36This tale of smuggling is told through extracts from the letter-books of Zephaniah Job, the schoolteacher who became known as "Smugglers' Banker" for his role in the highly-organized contraband trade... -
The Story Smuggler by Georgi Gospodinov 9781399623117
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $20.49'Some smuggle cigarettes, others alcohol - or weapons.Our contraband, being invisible, is more dangerous.Our contraband is undetectable by scanners.What we carry as concealed excess baggage is... -
Legal Order in a Violent World by Richard A. Falk 9780691622514
RRP: $204.75Booksplease Price: $160.52Professor Myres S. McDougal of the Yale Law School calls this examination of the relation of law and violence in contemporary international society "...a profound, perceptive, and eloquent... -
Limits of Hitler's Power by Edward Norman Peterson 9780691621494
RRP: $126.75Booksplease Price: $101.73Professor Peterson examines these questions in relation to Hitler's government with its reputedly unlimited internal power; he traces the flow of power throughout the Nazi state from 1933 to 1945,... -
Textiles and Capitalism in Mexico: An Economic History of the Obrajes, 1539-1840 by Richard J. Salvucci 9780691603032
RRP: $81.90Booksplease Price: $76.15The obrajes, or native textile manufactories, were primary agents of developing capitalism in colonial Mexico. Drawing on previously unknown or unexplored archival sources, Richard Salvucci uses... -
Beyond the Steppe Frontier: A History of the Sino-Russian Border by Soeren Urbansky
RRP: $54.60Booksplease Price: $52.26A comprehensive history of the Sino-Russian border, one of the longest and most important land borders in the worldThe Sino-Russian border, once the world's longest land border, has received scant...