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Hardback. Num Pages: 376 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJF; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 32. Weight in Grams: 631.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Palgrave USA United States
Number of pages
376
Condition
New
SKU
V9780312238520
ISBN
9780312238520
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 98.80
€ 83.36

Hardcover. 8vo.good copy in original cloth
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Doubleday Books
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
SKU
KEX0253938
ISBN
9780385515702
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Private military contractors, especially those in Iraq, have taken on far more than their original mandates required. Initially intended for combat support, they have become full-fledged warriors, many with little experience, scant oversight, and no accountability to the rules of engagement that constrain the U.S. military and coalition forces. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: HBW; JWT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 522.
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Potomac Books Inc United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9781597972383
ISBN
9781597972383
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.99

Paperback. In the late 1960s an Amish community considered state education detrimental to its own values. When the state claimed truancy and took Jonas Yoder to court, a legal battle of landmark proportions followed. This volume is a complete and compelling account of the Yoder case. Series: Landmark Law Cases and American Society. Num Pages: 216 pages, bibliographical references, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJP; HBT; HRCC99; LA; LND; LNT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 139 x 13. Weight in Grams: 272.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Univ Pr of Kansas
Condition
New
SKU
V9780700612734
ISBN
9780700612734
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.04

Paperback. While millions of Americans fought the Nazis, liberty was under attack at home with the persecution of Jehovah's Witnesses who were intimidated and even imprisoned for refusing to salute the flag or serve in the armed forces. This study explores their defence of their First Amendment rights. Num Pages: 352 pages, 24 photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJH; HBJK; HBTB; HBWQ; HRCC99; JFSR; JPVH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 153 x 18. Weight in Grams: 470.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Univ Pr of Kansas
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780700611829
ISBN
9780700611829
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 42.34

Hardback. This work challenges the assumption that the rhetorical presidency refers to presidential messages delivered from the bully pulpit only. By examining the Cold War discourse, it shows how Presidents Truman and Eisenhower transformed the US propaganda programme into an executive tool. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 1KBB; HBG; HBLW3; JPHL; JPS; JPVN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 159 x 236 x 21. Weight in Grams: 508.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc United States
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
SKU
V9780275974633
ISBN
9780275974633
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 87.62
€ 77.31

Paperback. Num Pages: 214 pages, maps. BIC Classification: HBTV; JPWQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 153 x 16. Weight in Grams: 312.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
New York University Press United States
Number of pages
214
Condition
New
SKU
V9780814751022
ISBN
9780814751022
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 29.27

Paperback. In 1890, a delegation of African American activists formed the Afro-American League, the nation's first national civil rights organization. Over the course of nearly two decades, these activists fought to end disfranchisement and segregation, and to contest racial violence, creating the foundation for the NAACP and the modern civil rights movement. Series: Politics & Culture in Modern America. Num Pages: 408 pages, 22 illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; JPVH1. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 635.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press United States
Number of pages
408
Condition
New
SKU
V9780812222449
ISBN
9780812222449
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 42.35

Paperback. Shawn Levy, author of 'Rat Pack Confidential' brings alive London in the swinging Sixties with a gripping, groovy story of those who created the scene that changed the world. Num Pages: 400 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; 3JJPK; HBTB; JFCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 25. Weight in Grams: 312.
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers United Kingdom
Number of pages
400
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Condition
New
SKU
V9781841152264
ISBN
9781841152264
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 14.17

Paperback. Visual texts demonstrate the contested terms of American identity. This book offers an account of how photography and the sciences of biological racialism joined forces in the nineteenth century to offer an idea of what Americans look like - or 'should' look like. Num Pages: 302 pages, 60 b&w illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; AJ; HBTB; JFC; JFSJ; JFSL1; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 227 x 154 x 20. Weight in Grams: 492.
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
302
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691004785
ISBN
9780691004785
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 52.99
€ 37.33

Hardback. 278 pages, 3, 3 line drawing. Overturns existing thinking to show that the Royal Navy engaged professionally in war planning in the years before the First World War. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JH; 3JJC; 3JJF; HBJD1; HBW; JWF; JWK. Dimension: 161 x 242 x 22. Weight: 588.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Number of pages
278
Condition
New
SKU
V9781843836988
ISBN
9781843836988
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 96.00

Paperback. Over the last twenty years the Journal of Historical Sociology has redefined what historical sociology can be. These essays by internationally distinguished historians, sociologists, anthropologists and geographers bring together the very best of the JHS. Editor(s): Wong, Yoke-Sum; Sayer, Derek. Num Pages: 320 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: HBTB; JH. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 230 x 164 x 15. Weight in Grams: 522.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9781405179331
ISBN
9781405179331
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.06

Paperback. Over the last twenty years the Journal of Historical Sociology has redefined what historical sociology can be. These essays by internationally distinguished historians, sociologists, anthropologists and geographers bring together the very best of the JHS. Editor(s): Wong, Yoke-Sum; Sayer, Derek. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: HBTB; JH. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 231 x 165 x 14. Weight in Grams: 486.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
SKU
V9781405179348
ISBN
9781405179348
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.06

Paperback. During the Second World War, Chinese Americans contributed to the war effort by joining the armed forces and working in the defense industries. This title traces the history of the 14th Air Service Group, a segregated outfit of Chinese Americans sent to China in support of the American Army Air Corps and the Chinese Air Force. Series: Asian American History and Culture Series. Num Pages: 272 pages, 2 tables. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 1KBB; HBJK; HBTB; HBWQ; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 209 x 139 x 16. Weight in Grams: 310.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Temple University Press,U.S. United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9781592138401
ISBN
9781592138401
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.05

Paperback. Beginning with the intriguing case of Herod the Great's Jewishness, this title discusses what made or did not make Jewish identity during the period, the question of conversion, the prohibition of intermarriage, matrilineal descent, and the place of the convert in the Jewish and non-Jewish worlds. Series: Hellenistic Culture and Society. Num Pages: 441 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBB; HBG; HBLA; HRJ; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 155 x 27. Weight in Grams: 604.
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
441
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520226937
ISBN
9780520226937
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.99
€ 26.36

Hardcover. Gute Ausgabe in Schutzumschlag mit leichten Gebrauchsspuren.
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Berlin : Verlag Volk u. Welt,
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1986
SKU
KTG0008787
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 10.00

paperback. Tells the story of the series of campaigns the Union conducted on land and water to conquer Vicksburg and of the many efforts by the Confederates to break the siege of the fortress. Series: Great Campaigns of the Civil War. Num Pages: 242 pages, Illus., maps. BIC Classification: HBJK; HBLL; HBW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 14. Weight in Grams: 341.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Number of pages
242
Condition
New
SKU
V9780803293441
ISBN
9780803293441
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.82

Paperback. Beginning with an account of the historical antecedents to the war, this book traces the history of the Second Republic, which culminated in the electoral victory of the Popular Front in 1936. It goes on to chart and analyze the dramatic chain of events of the Civil War itself. Num Pages: 112 pages, 1M. BIC Classification: 1DSE; 3JJG; HBJD; HBLW; HBW. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 221 x 142 x 9. Weight in Grams: 198.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1991
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Condition
New
SKU
V9780631166177
ISBN
9780631166177
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 53.99
€ 53.85

Paperback. An excellent introduction to Franco's rise to power and his four decades as autocratic head of state in Spain. Series: Profiles in Power. Num Pages: 272 pages, maps. BIC Classification: 1DSE; BGH; HBJD; HBLW; JPHL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 145 x 15. Weight in Grams: 316.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
2nd Edition
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780582437531
ISBN
9780582437531
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 58.30

Paperback. Num Pages: 231 pages, 14 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: DSB; DSBF; DSBH5; HBJF; HBTQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 350.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
231
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349295951
ISBN
9781349295951
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 62.54

Hardcover. The command and control of military operations is a difficult art. "The Challenges of High Command" explores British ideas of how this should be done and, with the guidance of leading military historians, looks at the practicalities of British experience in World Wars I and II and later wars. Editor(s): Sheffield, G. D.; Till, Geoffrey. Series: Cormorant Security Studies Series. Num Pages: 227 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJ; HBJD1; HBLW; JWL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 217 x 144 x 18. Weight in Grams: 400.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333804384
ISBN
9780333804384
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 118.93

paperback. Editor(s): Hilton, Mary. Series: Studies in Childhood, 1700 to the Present. Num Pages: 254 pages. BIC Classification: DSBD; DSBF; DSY; GTC; HBLH; HBLL; HBTB; HPQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 156. Weight in Grams: 471.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Routledge United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
254
Condition
New
SKU
V9781138250666
ISBN
9781138250666
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.62

Hardback. Series: A Council on Foreign Relations Book. Num Pages: 384 pages, 18 figures. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 1FPJ; HBJF; HBLX; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 165 x 30. Weight in Grams: 666.
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231167888
ISBN
9780231167888
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 54.99
€ 38.85

Hardback. Editor(s): Kamerman, Sheila B. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 296 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HBTB; JKS; JPQB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 571.
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691630557
ISBN
9780691630557
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 129.06
€ 96.39

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