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Hardcover. Matthew Fraleigh examines the life and works of Narushima Ryuhoku (1837-1884): Confucian scholar, world traveler, pioneering journalist, and irrepressible satirist. This is the first book-length study of Ryuhoku in a Western language and one of the first Western-language monographs to examine Sinitic poetry and prose composition in modern Japan. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 500 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 2GJ; 3JH; DSBF; DSK; HBJF; HBLL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 190 x 263 x 41. Weight in Grams: 1070.
- Publisher
- Harvard University Asia Center
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674425224
- ISBN
- 9780674425224
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.74€ 59.06
€ 64.74
€ 59.06
Paperback. Looking at the field of "whiteness studies" and linking it to traditional historical inquiry, Matthew Frye Jacobson shows that in the USA, nation of immigrants, "race" has been at the core of civic assimilation: ethnic minorities in becoming American were reracialized to become Caucasian. Num Pages: 368 pages, 14 halftones, 2 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; JFFN; JFSL1; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 24. Weight in Grams: 404.
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674951914
- ISBN
- 9780674951914
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 31.74
€ 36.99
€ 31.74
Hardcover. Examines several types of data relevant to ancient Maya dance, including hieroglyphic texts, pictorial images in diverse media, and architecture. This title illustrates the application of various analytical methodologies and offers interpretations of the form, meaning, and social significance of dance performance. Series: The Linda Schele Series in Maya and Pre-Columbian Studies. Num Pages: 280 pages, 16 color photographs, 160 line drawings, 2 maps, 2 tables. BIC Classification: 1KLC; AC; HBJK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 288 x 223 x 25. Weight in Grams: 1096.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- University of Texas Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780292709881
- ISBN
- 9780292709881
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 65.77
€ 65.77
Paperback. Presents the comprehensive history of the meteoric rise and precipitous decline of the United Farm Workers, the most successful farm labor union in United States history. Based on little-known sources and one-of-a-kind oral histories with many veterans of the farm worker movement, this book revises much of what we know about the UFW. Num Pages: 368 pages, 18 b/w photographs, 1 map, 1 table. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJPK; 3JJPL; HBTK; JPWQ; KNXB2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 220 x 144 x 22. Weight in Grams: 460.
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520283855
- ISBN
- 9780520283855
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 24.68
€ 33.99
€ 24.68
Paperback. Provides the analysis of the political, religious and social rationale which underlay Huguenot support for William of Orange in 1688. This book serves as a source of biographical information about hundreds of Huguenot soldiers in British, Dutch and Brandenburg service in the period 1670 to 1700. Num Pages: 228 pages. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JD; HBJD1; HBLH; HBW; JWL. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 154 x 14. Weight in Grams: 354.
- Publisher
- Sussex Academic Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 228
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845191450
- ISBN
- 9781845191450
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 33.67
€ 36.99
€ 33.67
Paperback. Schomberg held high command in British, Portuguese, and French armies. But it is as second-in-command to William of Orange during the Glorious Revolution that he is chiefly remembered. He died at the famous battle of the Boyne, a fitting end to a very pub Num Pages: 249 pages, illus. BIC Classification: 1D; HBJD; HBLH; JW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 154 x 17. Weight in Grams: 430.
- Publisher
- Sussex Academic Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 249
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781903900611
- ISBN
- 9781903900611
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 33.67
€ 36.99
€ 33.67
Hardcover. Provides an analysis of the political, religious, and social rationale, which underlay Huguenot support for William of Orange in 1688. In the context of the Huguenot exodus from France and the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes, the role of the Huguenot soldiers within an international Protestant political context is also explained. Num Pages: 230 pages, genealogy table. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JD; HBJD1; HBLH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 162 x 22. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Publisher
- Sussex Academic Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 230
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781902210827
- ISBN
- 9781902210827
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.85
€ 127.85
Hardcover. Schomberg held high command in British, Portuguese, and French armies. But it is as second-in-command to William of Orange during the Glorious Revolution that he is chiefly remembered. He died at the famous battle of the Boyne, a fitting end to a very pub Num Pages: 249 pages, illus. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBLH; JW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 239 x 161 x 20. Weight in Grams: 554.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Sussex Academic Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 249
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781903900604
- ISBN
- 9781903900604
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 50.49
€ 50.49
Hardback. Presents a comparative overview of the cultural imaginations of nuclear weapons and the anticipation of nuclear destruction. It considers representations of elements of the Cold War in popular culture and thought across Europe, Japan, USSR and the USA, providing a significant addition to Cold War historiography. Editor(s): Grant, Matthew; Ziemann, Benjamin. Series Editor(s): Jones, Max. Series: Cultural History of Modern War. Num Pages: 320 pages, 5 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JJP; HBG; HBLW3; HBTW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 146 x 223 x 29. Weight in Grams: 528.
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781784994402
- ISBN
- 9781784994402
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 170.04
€ 170.04
Paperback. Num Pages: 528 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; HBJD1; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 196 x 35. Weight in Grams: 420.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405919142
- ISBN
- 9781405919142
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.37
€ 17.99
€ 13.37
Paperback. Somewhere in the jungles of Uganda, there hides a rebel-leader: he is said to take his orders direct from the spirit world and, together with his ragged army of brutalised child soldiers, he has left a bloody trail of devastation across his country. Intrigued by the myths, Matthew green heads off into the war zone. Num Pages: 352 pages, 30 b&w integrated half-tones. BIC Classification: 1HFGU; HBJH; HBLW3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 23. Weight in Grams: 256.
- Publisher
- Portobello
- Number of pages
- 352
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Edition
- Revised ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781846270314
- ISBN
- 9781846270314
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 9.95
€ 11.99
€ 9.95
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Portobello Books Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781846273315
- ISBN
- 9781846273315
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 12.93
€ 17.99
€ 12.93
Paperback. Latin America is home to emerging global powers such as Brazil and Mexico and has important links to other titans including China, India, and Africa. This book examines a range of historical events and cultural forms in Latin America that continue to influence peoples' lives far outside the region. Editor(s): Gutmann, Matthew C.; Lesser, Jeffrey. Series: Global Square. Num Pages: 376 pages, 4 maps, 30 b/w. BIC Classification: 1KL; 3JM; HBJK; JFFN; JHMC; JPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 153 x 229 x 23. Weight in Grams: 516.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780520277731
- ISBN
- 9780520277731
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 32.82
€ 37.99
€ 32.82
Paperback. In this history of the British surveys of India, the author relates how imperial Britain employed modern scientific survey techniques to create and define the spacial image of its Indian empire, and to legitimize its colonialist activities as triumphs of liberal, rational science. Num Pages: 474 pages, 31 halftones, 5 maps, 1 line drawing. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 3JF; 3JH; HBTP; PDX; RGV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 150 x 27. Weight in Grams: 750.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 474
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226184883
- ISBN
- 9780226184883
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 43.99€ 34.08
€ 43.99
€ 34.08
Hardback. Offers a study of polyandry, wife-selling, and a variety of related practices in China during the Qing dynasty. This book explores the functions played by marriage, sex, and reproduction in the survival strategies of the rural poor under conditions of overpopulation, worsening sex ratios, and shrinking farm sizes. Num Pages: 499 pages, 7 tables. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JD; 3JF; 3JH; HBJF; HBTB; JFSL3; LAZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 162 x 238 x 37. Weight in Grams: 806.
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520287037
- ISBN
- 9780520287037
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 78.93€ 60.61
€ 78.93
€ 60.61
Paperback. This study of the regulation of sexuality in the Qing dynasty explores the social context for sexual behavior criminalized by the state, showing how regulation shifted away from status to a new regime of gender that mandated a uniform standard of sexual morality and criminal liability for all people, regardless of their social status. Series: Law, Society & Culture in China. Num Pages: 440 pages, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JH; HBJF; HBLL; HBTB; JFSJ; LNT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 27. Weight in Grams: 594.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 440
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804745598
- ISBN
- 9780804745598
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 30.53
€ 33.99
€ 30.53
Hardback. Essays consider the changes and development of Scotland at a time of considerable flux in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. Editor(s): Hammond, Matthew. Series: Studies in Celtic History. Num Pages: 272 pages, 10, 8 black & white illustrations, 2 black & white line drawings, 8 black and white, 2 li. BIC Classification: 1DBKS; 3H; HBJD1; HBLC1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 238 x 157 x 21. Weight in Grams: 596.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Boydell & Brewer Ltd
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781843838531
- ISBN
- 9781843838531
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 97.07
€ 97.07
Hardback. Num Pages: 728 pages, 12 illustrations, 2 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBC; HBTB; JFSL4; JPQB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 238 x 165 x 27. Weight in Grams: 656.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- University of British Columbia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780774830041
- ISBN
- 9780774830041
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 106.41
€ 106.41
Paperback. Num Pages: 328 pages, 17. BIC Classification: HBG; JFFT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 18. Weight in Grams: 514.
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801475078
- ISBN
- 9780801475078
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 37.13
€ 41.99
€ 37.13
Paperback. Editor(s): Hughes, Matthew; Philpott, William. Series: Palgrave Advances. Num Pages: 304 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 3J; HBW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 141 x 218 x 17. Weight in Grams: 386.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 2006th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781403917683
- ISBN
- 9781403917683
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 117.80€ 112.45
€ 117.80
€ 112.45
Paperback. This book examines how competing narratives about the Haitian Revolution influenced American public culture during the Civil War. It argues that both antislavery and proslavery groups appropriated the symbols of Toussaint Louverture and the Haitian Revolution in their attempts to determine the fate of slavery in the United States. Num Pages: 248 pages, 10 illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780812221848
- ISBN
- 9780812221848
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.43
€ 32.99
€ 29.43
Hardcover. 223pp. Keywords: Irish Abroad. These essays examine diverse elements of the Irish American Experience in the fifteen years after World War II. It emphasises the transition through which the diaspora were moving with focus on social and political developments
- Publisher
- Irish Academic Press Ltd Dublin
- Number of pages
- 276
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780716529873
- ISBN
- 9780716529873
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 60.00€ 42.11
€ 60.00
€ 42.11
Hardcover. Using the story of cinchona bark, and drawing on extensive archival research, Matthew Crawford shows how indigenous healers, labourers, merchants, colonial officials, and creole elites contested European science and thwarted imperial reform by asserting their authority to speak for the natural world. Num Pages: 336 pages, 7 Illusrations. BIC Classification: 1KLSX; 3JD; 3JF; HBLL; MBX; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Publisher
- University of Pittsburgh Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822944522
- ISBN
- 9780822944522
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 77.03
€ 77.03
Paperback. Num Pages: 256 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 2ACG; DSB; HBTB; WTM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 374.
- Publisher
- Non Basic Stock Line
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781904955757
- ISBN
- 9781904955757
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 19.68
€ 19.99
€ 19.68