×


 x 

Shopping cart

History

Results 23741 - 23760 of 41278

History

Hardcover. First edition - 4to. Very good copy - From the Library of lorna and Walter Lippman with their bookplate - KAW0128 - 193pp. - Oxford, Oxford
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Oxford Oxford
Number of pages
193
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1977
SKU
KCK0002062
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 45.00

Hardcover. Looks at the origins of the iconic cheongsam dress, and its social and cultural importance in Singapore. This book examines the origins and development of the cheongsam in the social context of Singapore since its introduction from Shanghai, China, in the 1920s onwards. Num Pages: 160 pages, photographs & illustrations throughout. BIC Classification: 1FMS; AKTH; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 247 x 180 x 27. Weight in Grams: 740.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Editions Didier Millet Pty Ltd Singapore
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
SKU
V9789814260923
ISBN
9789814260923
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 18.60

paperback. An insight into the life and world of Civil War-time Washington from the woman's perspective, this collection of letters is a perspective on life in the nation's capital during an important period in American history. Editor(s): Laas, Virginia Jeans. Num Pages: 592 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BGHA; BJ; HBJK; HBLL; HBWJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 32. Weight in Grams: 787.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
592
Condition
New
Edition
First Edition
SKU
V9780252068591
ISBN
9780252068591
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 34.41

Paperback. From 1910 to 1940, the Angel Island immigration station in San Francisco served as the processing and detention center for over one million people from around the world. The full history of these immigrants and their experiences on Angel Island is told for the first time in this landmark book. Num Pages: 432 pages, 121 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; HBJK; HBLW; JFFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 154 x 234 x 28. Weight in Grams: 574.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc United States
Number of pages
432
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199896158
ISBN
9780199896158
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.95

Paperback. Num Pages: 240 pages, 19 halftones, 18 line illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBSL; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 210 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 289.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780195393088
ISBN
9780195393088
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.15

Hardcover. With sections on "England at the Margins," "Researching the Renaissance," "The Human Figure on the Stage," and "Artificial Persons," this collection makes interventions in historiography as well as history, literary interpretation, and also literary criticism. Editor(s): Orlin, Lena Cowen. Num Pages: 318 pages, 17 black-&-whites, 6 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; DSBD; HBJD1; HBLH; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 236 x 155 x 23. Weight in Grams: 599.
Publisher
Susquehanna University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781575910987
ISBN
9781575910987
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 145.95

Hardback. This cultural biography rescues Queen Anna from the shadow of King James I, arguing that she sponsored many of the artistic endeavors at court in the innovative Jacobean period (e.g., the extravagant drama known as the masque) in her role as early modern queen consort. Leeds Barroll also delves into her relationship with Catholicism. Series: New Cultural Studies. Num Pages: 232 pages, 15 illus. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JD; BGH; HBJD1; HBLH. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 163 x 236 x 30. Weight in Grams: 552.
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Condition
New
SKU
V9780812235746
ISBN
9780812235746
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 68.60

paperback. Europeans and Americans tend to hold the opinion that democracy is a uniquely Western inheritance. In this book, the authors recover stories of an alternate version, describing a transnational history of democracy in the first half of the twentieth century through the lens of ethics in the broad sense of disciplined self-fashioning. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: HBTR; HPS; JPF; JPHV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 345.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Condition
New
SKU
9780226019901
ISBN
9780226019901
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 28.99
€ 26.22

Hardcover. Illuminates an ethic of moral imperfectionism, a set of anticolonial, antifascist practices devoted to ordinariness and abnegation that ranged from doomed mutinies in the Indian military to Mahatma Gandhi's spiritual discipline. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 3JJ; HBTR; HPS; JPF; JPHV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 476.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226019871
ISBN
9780226019871
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 121.00

Hardback. Num Pages: 424 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBNT; 3JJP; HBT; JNMN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 159 x 32. Weight in Grams: 765.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
424
Condition
New
SKU
V9780816632558
ISBN
9780816632558
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 32.64

Paperback. Covers the proceedings of the Seventeenth International Symposium organised by the Centre for the Study of Vernacular Literature in the Middle Ages held at the Odense University on 16-18 November 1992. Editor(s): Pettitt, Thomas; Sondergaard, Leif. Num Pages: 126 pages, b/w illus. BIC Classification: HB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 219 x 149 x 12. Weight in Grams: 204.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
University Press of Southern Denmark Denmark
Number of pages
126
Condition
New
SKU
V9788778380210
ISBN
9788778380210
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 15.40

Hardback. Num Pages: 360 pages, 60 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HRAM2; HRAX; HRQA5. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 167 x 245 x 31. Weight in Grams: 646.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691168647
ISBN
9780691168647
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 29.12

Paperback. Offers a reassessment of the 'consumer rites' that social critics have decried. This book discusses how holiday celebrations were almost banished by Puritans and religious reformers but went on to be romanticized and reinvented in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It offers a cultural history of the commercialization of American holidays. Num Pages: 384 pages, 101 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBTB; HRA; HRLF; JFC; JHBS; JHBT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 514.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
Edition
Revised ed.
SKU
V9780691017211
ISBN
9780691017211
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 52.99
€ 42.06

Hardback. .
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199782376
ISBN
9780199782376
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 35.99
€ 33.49

Paperback. Series: Photographic Memories. Num Pages: 128 pages, Historical photographs. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; AJCP; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 246 x 191 x 12. Weight in Grams: 320.
Publisher
Frith Book Company Ltd. United Kingdom
Number of pages
128
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Edition
Pbk. ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9781859372630
ISBN
9781859372630
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 16.02

Paperback. Fighting an elusive and dangerous enemy far from home, the British army in Afghanistan has been involved in asymmetric warfare for the best part of a decade. This book provides a detailed analysis of those specifics within a clear, connected account of the course of the war in Helmand, operation by operation. Illustrator(s): Dennis, Peter. Series: Elite. Num Pages: 64 pages. BIC Classification: 1FCA; 3JM; HBJF; HBLX; HBWS4; JW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 186 x 248 x 7. Weight in Grams: 214.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
First Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781472806758
ISBN
9781472806758
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 14.82

Paperback. Illustrator(s): Hook, Adam. Series: Elite. Num Pages: 64 pages, Will illustrate a wide range of uniforms, specialist weapons and personal equipment, and r. BIC Classification: HBW; JW; JWH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 248 x 184. .
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781472825278
ISBN
9781472825278
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 18.66

Paperback. Highly-trained and immensely skilled, the SAS are widely regarded as one of the best Special Forces units in the world. This book sheds light on the SAS's involvement in the Troubles of Northern Ireland, their operations in Iraq, Afghanistan and the widespread use of the SAS in counter terrorism and counterinsurgency operations since 9/11. Illustrator(s): Dennis, Peter. Series: Elite. Num Pages: 64 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJPN; 3JJPR; 3JM; HBJD1; HBWS; JWH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 248 x 184 x 7. Weight in Grams: 257.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781472814036
ISBN
9781472814036
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 14.66

Paperback. Editor(s): Raiford, Leigh; Raphael-Hernandez, Heike. Num Pages: 392 pages, 64 black & white illustrations, 21 colour plates, 64 b&w illus., 21 color plates. BIC Classification: ACV; ACX; AGH; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
University of Washington Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780295999579
ISBN
9780295999579
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.48

hardcover. Editor(s): Raiford, Leigh; Raphael-Hernandez, Heike. Num Pages: 392 pages, 64 black & white illustrations, 21 colour plates, 64 b&w illus., 21 color plates. BIC Classification: ACV; ACX; AGH; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
University of Washington Press United States
Number of pages
392
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780295999562
ISBN
9780295999562
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 142.52

Subscribe to our newsletter

News on special offers, signed editions & more!