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Paperback. Contains a collection of letters that include correspondence between civilian family members on both sides of the Atlantic during World War II. This book is filled with unguarded reflections on the events, fashion, food, travel, domestic life, leisure, and the upheaval of war. Editor(s): Potter, Angela. Series: Southern Texts Society. Num Pages: 412 pages, 26 b&w photos, 4 genealogical charts. BIC Classification: 1DB; 1KBB; 3JJ; BGA; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 160 x 26. Weight in Grams: 588.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
Number of pages
412
Condition
New
SKU
V9780820328027
ISBN
9780820328027
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 47.59

Hardcover. Offers insights into the rise of the nature essay as a genre, the role of popular magazines as shapers and conveyors of public values, and the dynamism of place in terms of such opposed concepts as retreat and engagement, nature and culture, and wilderness and civilization. Num Pages: 320 pages, 28 b&w photos. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BGH; WN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 24. Weight in Grams: 553.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780820327884
ISBN
9780820327884
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 60.57

Paperback. The story of Junius Irving Scales - the only American ever to be convicted solely for being a member of the Communist Party - following Scales from his privileged southern upbringing through the awakening of his social conscience, his civil- and labor-rights work, his arrest and trials, his disillusionment with the Party, and his time in prison. Num Pages: 480 pages, 13 b&w photos. BIC Classification: BGH; JPFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 33. Weight in Grams: 630.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780820327853
ISBN
9780820327853
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 47.88

Hardcover. The private and public writings in this volume reveal the early relationship between renowned Civil War diarist Sarah Morgan (1842-1909) and her future husband, Francis Warrington Dawson (1840-1889). This is a selection of their letters along with articles that Morgan wrote for the "Charleston News and Courier". Editor(s): Roberts, Giselle. Series: Southern Texts Society. Num Pages: 344 pages, 11 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BGHA; HBJK; HBLL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 24. Weight in Grams: 599.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
Edition
annotated edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780820325910
ISBN
9780820325910
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 63.07

Paperback. In 1845, black abolitionist Frederick Douglass travelled to Britain on a lecture and fund-raising tour. This is an examination of how that visit affected transatlantic reform movements and Douglass's own thinking. It features the essays of scholars from both sides of the Atlantic. Editor(s): Rice, Alan J.; Crawford, Martin. Num Pages: 240 pages, 6 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; 1KBB; BGH; HBJD; HBJK; HBLL; HBTB; HBTS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 318.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
University of Georgia Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780820321295
ISBN
9780820321295
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.95

Hardcover. This memoir begins in 1834, when Cornelia James Pond was born to one of the Old South's wealthiest plantation families, and it ends in 1875, when she was a 41-year-old wife and mother trying to cope in the post-Civil War south. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; BGHA; HBTB; HBW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 210 x 133 x 20. Weight in Grams: 318.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
Edition
0th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780820320441
ISBN
9780820320441
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 43.65

Hardcover. This volume completes a three-volume documentary history of the work of John Franklin Jameson. Composed principally of Jameson's public and private correspondence, this volume highlights some of his contributions as Director of the Carnegie Institution in Washington. Num Pages: 440 pages, 1 b&w photograph, 1 figure. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJC; 3JJF; 3JJG; BG; DNF; HBAH; HBJK; HBLW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 33. Weight in Grams: 826.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780820320397
ISBN
9780820320397
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 70.03

Hardcover. Clay Lewis crosses seven generations of his family to illuminate a heritage of romantic hope and abject defeat, seeking freedom through understanding. It is an exploration of how his family was changed by history - from the Civil War to the Great Depression. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 139 x 23. Weight in Grams: 458.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
Edition
First
Condition
New
SKU
V9780820320090
ISBN
9780820320090
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 32.10

Paperback. This work presents a mixture of anecdotes, memories, interviews and observations from a minister's son whose father performed missionary work in the deeply religious communities of the Bible Belt in America. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; BGA; HRCC9; HRCX7. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 139 x 20. Weight in Grams: 395.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780820317168
ISBN
9780820317168
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 25.46

Hardcover. John Franklin Jameson (1859-1937) was instrumental in the development of history as an academic discipline in the United States. This volume includes diary entries covering nearly all of Jameson's collegiate and graduate education and his early teaching career. It also includes letters and reports. Editor(s): Chase, John Terry; Millikan, Frank Rives. Num Pages: 392 pages, 15 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; 3JJ; BG; HBAH; HBG; JNKC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 28. Weight in Grams: 748.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780820317137
ISBN
9780820317137
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 69.54

Paperback. Offers a literary and philosophical analysis of Flannery O'Connor's life and literature. It draws upon Robert Coles's personal experiences in the South during the civil rights movement of the late 1950s and early 1960s, his brief acquaintance with the writer herself, and readings of her works. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; BG; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 358.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
Edition
2nd Revised ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780820315362
ISBN
9780820315362
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.22

Hardcover. Num Pages: 576 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ABM; BG; BJ; DSBF; DSK; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 159 x 42. Weight in Grams: 953.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
Edition
annotated edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780820314808
ISBN
9780820314808
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 73.26

Hardcover. A rare first-person account of life in the twentieth-century South, "He Included Me" weaves together the story of a black family eight children reared in rural Alabama, their mother a schoolteacher, their father a minister and the emerging self-portrait of a woman determined, like her parents, to look ahead." Num Pages: 208 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: BGH; HBTB; JFSL3; JHBD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 241 x 165 x 20. Weight in Grams: 522.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1989
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780820311418
ISBN
9780820311418
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 40.69

Hardcover. Series: Modern Intellectual and Political History of the Middle East. Num Pages: 432 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FB; BGH; HBJF1; JFCX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 160 x 236 x 29. Weight in Grams: 774.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Syracuse University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780815633587
ISBN
9780815633587
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 63.06

Hardcover. Series: Judaic Traditions in Literature, Music and Art. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: AN; APB; BGF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 26. Weight in Grams: 694.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Syracuse University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780815610502
ISBN
9780815610502
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.60

Hardcover. The year 1919 in Jerusalem marked the conclusion of hundreds of years of Ottoman rule and the beginning of British occupation, a period of great change that would transform the city. This memoir presents a portrait of life in post-WWI Jerusalem as seen through the eyes of a spirited young English girl. Num Pages: 176 pages, 45 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FBH; 3JJG; BGA; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 237 x 159 x 18. Weight in Grams: 406.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Syracuse University Press United States
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
SKU
V9780815608721
ISBN
9780815608721
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 20.40

Hardcover. In her autobiography, Alice Salomon describes how she became involved in social work and devoted her life to social activism and education, became a prolific author and leading feminist of her time. Her account ends with her expulsion from Germany and emigration to America in 1937. Series: Social History, Popular Culture and Politics in Germany. Num Pages: 280 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JH; BGH; HBJD; HBLL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 157 x 27. Weight in Grams: 590.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
University of Michigan Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780472113675
ISBN
9780472113675
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 105.96

Paperback. How did Billy Durant come to exercise so broad an influence in the emerging auto industry? And why has he been virtually forgotten for decades? This title provides material in the form of autobiographical notes, letters, and Durant's personal papers. Num Pages: 304 pages, 88 b&w photographs, 4 line drawings. BIC Classification: BGB; KJH; KNDR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 458.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
The University of Michigan Press United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9780472033027
ISBN
9780472033027
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.01

Paperback. Num Pages: 130 pages, b/w illus & maps. BIC Classification: 1KBBN; 3JF; BGH; HBJK; HBLL; JFSL9. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 153 x 9. Weight in Grams: 376.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
McDonald & Woodward Publishing Company, US United States
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
130
Condition
New
SKU
V9780939923779
ISBN
9780939923779
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.00
€ 15.75

hardcover. Based on an major recent discovery-the Civil War as seen from the front ranks of a legendary fighting unit Num Pages: 464 pages, Illustrations, maps, ports. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; BGH; BJ; HBJK; HBLL; HBWJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 43. Weight in Grams: 742.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Da Capo Press United States
Number of pages
464
Condition
New
SKU
V9780306811197
ISBN
9780306811197
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 33.01

Paperback. Hogarth Press exhibition catalogue highlights its international scope, genres, and diverse range of published titles. Series: Bruce Peel Special Collections Library. Num Pages: 142 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: BG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 153 x 229 x 13. Weight in Grams: 364.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of Alberta Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781551952406
ISBN
9781551952406
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 29.91

paperback. The sixty-year reign of George III (1760-1820) witnessed and participated in some of the most critical events of modern world history. This biography deals comprehensively with the politics, the wars, and the domestic issues, and harnesses the richest range of unpublished sources in Britain, Germany, and the United States. Series: The Yale English Monarchs Series. Num Pages: 448 pages, 16 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DB; 3JF; 3JH; BGH; HBJD1; HBLL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 156 x 38. Weight in Grams: 808.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Yale University Press
Condition
New
SKU
9780300136210
ISBN
9780300136210
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 22.47

Paperback. In this electrifying autobiography, Rik stands naked in front of his vast legions of fans and disciples and invites them to take communion with the blood he has spilled for them during his thirty year war on show business. Num Pages: 352 pages, 50 col plates (24pp). BIC Classification: APT; BGFA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 24. Weight in Grams: 268.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Edition
Illustrated
Condition
New
SKU
9780007207282
ISBN
9780007207282
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 11.35

Paperback. Num Pages: 108 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: BGA; JFSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 178 x 12. Weight in Grams: 148.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Walrus Publishing, Incorporated
Edition
2nd Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781940442082
ISBN
9781940442082
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 12.45

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