Archaeology, Cultural Property, and the Military, Hardback - ***

Timely essays from experienced contributors examine the damage recent conflict has caused to cultural heritage, and how it may best be safeguarded ...

The role of the Hague Convention in today's world revisited.Publisher: Boydell & Brewer LtdIllustration(s): 22 b/w, 3 colour illus.Number of pages:...

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This book focuses on the fraught relationship between cultural heritage and intellectual property, in their common concern with the creative arts. ...

In an era when knowledge can travel with astonishing speed, the need for analysis of intellectual property (IP) law--and its focus on patents, trad...

This lively anthology explores the impact of the art, images and ideas associated with Maoism on artistic practices around the world from 1945 to t...

Publisher: Thames & Hudson LtdAuthor(s): Diana DarkeIllustration(s): 149 Illustrations, colorNumber of pages: 288Publication date: 2022Dimensions: ...

How the military used sleep as a weapon-and how soldiers fought back

This interdisciplinary volume analyzes previously understudied sources from nineteenth- and twentieth- century France and the Francophone world and...

Explores a tragic and little-known aspect of the Home Front in wartime Britain.Publisher: Pen & Sword Books LtdAuthor(s): Johnson, PaulIllustration...

This book traces the development of military cycling from first experiments, including early (often flawed) designs for armed and multi-passenger v...

Examines the untold history of approximately one hundred 'Madagascar Youths', young people who British authorities accepted for training abroad fol...

In Italy and the Cultural Politics of World War I, well-known scholars of history, political science, film, literature, and cultural studies explor...

The story of The Military Knights of Windsor, founded by King Edward III in the 14th century.Publisher: ZuleikaAuthor(s): Simon DurnfordIllustratio...

Incomplete rural property rights are endemic throughout most of the developing world. This book explores the political origins of this lack of righ...

This book reassesses the earliest evidence afresh from the perspective of a military historian.

Study of the Cold War all too often shows us the war that wasn't fought. The reality, of course, is that many 'hot' conflicts did occur, some with ...

Publisher: Schiffer Publishing LtdAuthor(s): Jean EganIllustration(s): 230+ b/w photos, drawings & mapsNumber of pages: 616Publication date: 2022Di...

My Friends, The Enemy is the only first-hand account of the Falklands War written by somebody involved in the military intelligence operation. It t...

Yang Jisheng's The World Turned Upside Down is the definitive history of the Cultural Revolution, in withering and heartbreaking detail.Publisher: ...

A book devoted to the critical decisions, key events, and breakthrough inventions and discoveries that shaped warfare throughout history and the wo...

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This edited collection is the product of a National Research Working Group (NRWG) established by Said Adejumobi and supported by the Open Society I...

Culture and the Soldier offers a long-overdue examination of how culture - defined as reproduced identities, values, and norms - both shapes the mi...

An examination of spectacles and those who wore them through history, art, literature and technology.Publisher: Reaktion BooksAuthor(s): Stefana Sa...

New ways of approaching the study of writing in the past.Illustrations: b/wEditor(s): Natalia Elvira Astoreca

This is a new history of Britain's imperial wars during the nineteenth century. Covering wars waged in Asia, New Zealand, and Africa, it traces the...

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Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Sam LebovicNumber of pages: 272Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 161 x 236 x 26Cover type: Har...

Dead Men Telling Tales is an original account of the lasting cultural impact made by the autobiographies of Napoleonic soldiers over the course of ...

An in-depth biography of Mary Seacole that unveils the truth about her remarkable achievements and debunks the many myths about her lifePublisher: ...

DescriptionWhat was it like to be a military combat photographer in the most photographed war in history -- the Vietnam War? Shooting Vietnam takes...

This book is a much-needed, fresh examination of the unique strategies and technological achievements made by General Longstreet during the Civil W...

A comprehensive, accurate, and academically-supported reference of all of the major military and paramilitary camouflage patterns that have been in...

An entertaining and informative voyage through cultural fantasies of the North, from sea monsters and a mountain-sized magnet to racist mythmakingP...

A century of South African military history in a single volume, the first of its kind. Includes the Second Anglo-Boer War, the two world wars, and ...

Explore every major tank from World War I to the present day. From the crude, unreliable tanks that first appeared on the Western Front during Worl...