Biography: historical, political & military
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Biography: historical, political & military
Hardcover. Num Pages: 200 pages, black & white illustrations, figures. BIC Classification: 1KBBSX; 3JH; AMB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 237 x 154 x 23. Weight in Grams: 498.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Beaufort Books United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780825307300
- ISBN
- 9780825307300
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 24.70
€ 25.99
€ 24.70
Paperback. Caferro has mined more than twenty archives in Britain and Italy, creating an authoritative portrait of Hawkwood as an extraordinary military leader, if not always an admirable human being. Num Pages: 480 pages, 16, 8 black & white halftones, 8 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: 1DST; 3H; BGH; HBJD; HBLC; JWXN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 279 x 234 x 35. Weight in Grams: 690.
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421418414
- ISBN
- 9781421418414
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 34.69
€ 40.99
€ 34.69
Hardcover. Num Pages: 96 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: BGH; JNB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 191 x 250 x 13. Weight in Grams: 368.
- Publisher
- Oxford Brookes University
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780992929930
- ISBN
- 9780992929930
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 19.49
€ 26.99
€ 19.49
Hardcover. One of the most controversial religious figures of the 19th century, John Henry Newman began his career as a priest in the Church of England but converted to Roman Catholicism in 1845. This study portrays him as a disruptive and confused schismatic conducting a radical religious experiment. Num Pages: 752 pages, 14 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JH; BGH; HRCC2; HRCC7; HRCC91. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 54. Weight in Grams: 1226.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Yale University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Printing
- Number of pages
- 752
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300092516
- ISBN
- 9780300092516
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 29.42
€ 40.99
€ 29.42
Paperback. A South Carolinian's attempts to secure freedom for America and itsslaves Num Pages: 354 pages, 2 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JF; BGH; HBJK; HBLL; HBWF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 517.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- University of South Carolina Press United States
- Number of pages
- 354
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781611176124
- ISBN
- 9781611176124
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.79
€ 35.79
Paperback. Biography of John MacBride, husband of Maude Gonne, who was executed as part of the 1916 Rising. Series: 16Lives. Num Pages: 320 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 3JJF; BGH; HBTV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 197 x 27. Weight in Grams: 326.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- The O'Brien Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781847172709
- ISBN
- 9781847172709
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 10.85
€ 15.99
€ 10.85
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780006530749
- ISBN
- 9780006530749
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 20.33
€ 26.99
€ 20.33
Hardback. This volume explores the life of John Randolph Haynes (1853-1937) who, for four decades, was at the forefront of social-reform crusades and political action in Los Angeles and California with his legacies in the fields of direct leglisation and public ownership of utilities. Num Pages: 348 pages, notes, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BGH; HBJK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 160 x 41. Weight in Grams: 675.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 348
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804720670
- ISBN
- 9780804720670
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 76.95
€ 76.95
Paperback. Num Pages: 594 pages, chronology, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JF; 3JH; BGH; HBJK; HBLL; JPFM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 155 x 35. Weight in Grams: 932.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Liberty Fund Inc United States
- Edition
- Fourth Edition
- Number of pages
- 594
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780865971509
- ISBN
- 9780865971509
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 12.73
€ 14.99
€ 12.73
Hardcover. Num Pages: 594 pages, chronology, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JF; 3JH; BGH; HBJK; HBLL; JPFM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 237 x 156 x 40. Weight in Grams: 1070.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Liberty Fund Inc United States
- Edition
- Fourth Edition
- Number of pages
- 594
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780865971493
- ISBN
- 9780865971493
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 20.61
€ 26.99
€ 20.61
Donald Moon's John Rawls: Liberalism and the Challenges of Late Modernity is an accessible biography that explores how Rawls' life helped establish the fundamental commitment of classical liberalism through the understanding that the individual has always stood in an ambiguous relationship to the central object of the study of politics-the state. Series: Modernity and Political Thought. Num Pages: 152 pages. BIC Classification: BGH; JPFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 160 x 232 x 17. Weight in Grams: 386.
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 152
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781442238275
- ISBN
- 9781442238275
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 130.70
€ 130.70
hardcover. Engaging in style and substantive in analysis, Barbour's John Selden will add considerably to the limited body of work on this important seventeenth-century savant. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; BGH; HPCD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 237 x 162 x 36. Weight in Grams: 776. Good clean copy with minor shelfwear. DJ has some minor nicks and tears, remains very good
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KSG0034242
- ISBN
- 9780802087768
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 5.65
€ 5.65
Hardcover. Studying John Strachey, an important 20th-century British Left intellectual, this book provides a detailed exposition of his intellectual evolution set in its historical context, thus highlighting the options, pressures, dilemmas and pitfalls of British socialists during the mid-century. Num Pages: 304 pages, index. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJG; 3JJH; 3JJP; BGH; HBJD1; HBLW; JPFF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 138 x 30. Weight in Grams: 487. Keywords: "Subjects - Biography - General,Subjects - Biography - War & Espionage - World War II,Subjects - Biography - Historical - 1901 Onwards,Subjects - Biography - Historical - Britain - 1901 Onwards,Subject"
- Condition
- Used, Like New
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 304
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Edition
- 1993rd Edition
- SKU
- KHS0048370
- ISBN
- 9780333511541
Hardback
Condition: Used, Like New
€ 98.82
€ 98.82
paperback. Demythologizing Sutter while giving him a more secure place in western history, this collective portrait exemplifies revisionist scholarship at its best. Editor(s): Owens, Kenneth N. Num Pages: 138 pages, 1 photograph, 1 illustration, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BGH; HBJK; HBLL; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 11. Weight in Grams: 227.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press United States
- Number of pages
- 138
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Revised ed.
- SKU
- V9780803286184
- ISBN
- 9780803286184
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.56
€ 32.99
€ 29.56
Paperback. Num Pages: 56 pages, b/w photos. BIC Classification: BGH; JPHL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 153 x 5. Weight in Grams: 110.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- McDonald & Woodward Publishing Company, US United States
- Number of pages
- 56
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780939923816
- ISBN
- 9780939923816
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 15.87
€ 20.99
€ 15.87
Hardcover. Num Pages: 190 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; BGH; HBJK; HBLL; JPHL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 18. Weight in Grams: 448.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Nova Science Publishers Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 190
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781600219610
- ISBN
- 9781600219610
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 45.99€ 33.81
€ 45.99
€ 33.81
Paperback. In this first new biography for over 60 years, Roy Hattersley looks back over the remarkable life and enduring influence of John Wesley, leader of the second English reformation and the founder of the Methodist church. Num Pages: 464 pages, Section: 8, b&w. BIC Classification: BGH; HRCC95. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 126 x 31. Weight in Grams: 336.
- Publisher
- Abacus
- Number of pages
- 464
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Edition
- New
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780349116570
- ISBN
- 9780349116570
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.49
€ 17.99
€ 13.49
Hardcover. Num Pages: 432 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1MBF; 3JJP; BGH; HBJM; HBLW3; JPHL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 240 x 158 x 30. Weight in Grams: 865.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Melbourne University Publishing
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780522853346
- ISBN
- 9780522853346
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 56.95
€ 56.95
Hardback. Drawing on the diaries of contemporaries, personal correspondence, the minutes of Quaker meetings, business and probate records, pamphlets, and other sources, this book shows that Woolman and his neighbors were far more engaged with the problems of inequality, trade, and warfare than previously understood. Series: Early American Studies. Num Pages: 304 pages, 15 illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JF; BGH; HBJK; HRCC97. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 162 x 235 x 26. Weight in Grams: 598.
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812244052
- ISBN
- 9780812244052
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.47
€ 64.47
Hardback. This reissued edition brings this compelling portrait to a new generation of readers. Num Pages: 184 pages, 17, 15 black & white halftones, 2 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BGH; JKSN1; KFFK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 184
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801890987
- ISBN
- 9780801890987
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 44.18
€ 44.18
Hardcover. Examines the life of Jonathan Fisher (1768-1847), a native of Braintree, Massachusetts, and graduate of Harvard College who moved in his late twenties to Blue Hill, Maine, where he embarked on a multifaceted career as a pioneer minister, farmer, entrepreneur, and artist. Num Pages: 336 pages, 85 illustrations. BIC Classification: BGH; HBJK; HBLL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 240 x 185 x 30. Weight in Grams: 807.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- University of Massachusetts Press
- Edition
- 1St Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781558497436
- ISBN
- 9781558497436
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.82
€ 63.82
Paperback. An insightful new biography of Joseph Goebbels, Propaganda Minister of the 'Third Reich' and one of the most important and troubling figures of the twentieth century. The first account to use all of Goebbels' surviving diaries, it sheds new light on his personality, private life and political convictions, as well as his relationship with Hitler. Num Pages: 424 pages, 46, 41 black & white illustrations, 5 maps. BIC Classification: BGH; HBJD; HBWQ; JPFQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 155 x 24. Weight in Grams: 650.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 420
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230278660
- ISBN
- 9780230278660
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 58.52€ 58.11
€ 58.52
€ 58.11
Paperback. Joseph Mary Plunkett (1887-1916) from Dublin was one of the leaders of the 1916 Rising, the designer of the military plan and the youngest signatory of the Proclamation. A recognised poet, he was already dying of TB when, aged 28, he married Grace Gifford in Kilmainham Gaol, just hours before he was exectuted on May 4th, 1916. Series: 16Lives. Num Pages: 448 pages, Illustrations, ports. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 3JJF; BGH; HBJD1; HBLW; HBTV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 139 x 204 x 33. Weight in Grams: 444.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- The O'Brien Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781847172693
- ISBN
- 9781847172693
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 7.99€ 6.02
€ 7.99
€ 6.02
Paperback. Abandoned in Paris by her aristocratic husband, Josephine's future did not look promising. But while her friends and contemporaries were sent to the guillotine during the Terror that followed the Revolution, she survived prison and emerged as the doyenne of a wildly debauched party scene. Num Pages: 368 pages, Illustrations (colour). BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JF; 3JH; BGH; HBJD; HBLL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 139 x 201 x 24. Weight in Grams: 288.
- Publisher
- Arrow
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099551423
- ISBN
- 9780099551423
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 15.29
€ 20.99
€ 15.29