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Hardback. Editor(s): Smith, Andrew; Barton, Anna. Series: Interventions: Rethinking the Nineteenth Century. Num Pages: 224 pages, 2 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JM; DSBF; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 138. .
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781784995102
- ISBN
- 9781784995102
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 166.87
€ 166.87
Hardback. In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries the court was the crucial site where expanding Eurasian states and empires met and made sense of one another. Richly illustrated, Courtly Encounters provides a fresh cross-cultural perspective on early modern Islam, Counter-Reformation Catholicism, Protestantism, and a newly emergent Hindu sphere. Series: Mary Flexner Lecture Series of Bryn Mawr College. Num Pages: 336 pages, 18 halftones, 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1D; 1F; 3JB; 3JD; HBJD; HBJF; HBLH; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 220 x 178 x 27. Weight in Grams: 504.
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Number of pages
- 336
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674067059
- ISBN
- 9780674067059
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 47.99€ 40.29
€ 47.99
€ 40.29
Paperback. The United Arab Emirates have had their share of criminals, accidents, natural disasters and downright weird incidents. Most of these events merit a few pages in the papers before disappearing from history. This book brings the tragic, strange and illuminating stories from the 1970s in a compilation of 168 of the best, from past UAE newspapers. Editor(s): Yates, Dr Athol. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 1FBXU; 3JJPL; HBJF; HBLW3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 253 x 212 x 16. Weight in Grams: 582.
- Publisher
- Medina Publishers
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781909339903
- ISBN
- 9781909339903
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 13.37
€ 13.99
€ 13.37
Struggling Upward: Worldly Success and the Japanese Novel (Harvard Eas...
Timothy J. Van Compernolle
Hardcover. Timothy J. Van Compernolle reconsiders the rise of the modern novel in Japan by connecting the genre to new discourses on ambition and social mobility, arguing that social mobility is the privileged lens through which Meiji novelists explored abstract concepts of national belonging, social hierarchy, and the new space of an industrializing nation. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; DS; HBJF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Publisher
- Harvard University Asia Center
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674659797
- ISBN
- 9780674659797
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 44.99€ 38.26
€ 44.99
€ 38.26
Paperback. Num Pages: 192 pages, black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBTB; JKV; JPVH1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 144 x 216 x 9. Weight in Grams: 213.
- Publisher
- Dover Publications Inc.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780486779997
- ISBN
- 9780486779997
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 12.58
€ 14.99
€ 12.58
Hardcover. Maoists at the Hearth details the ways that inhabitants of a hill village in central Nepal managed their everyday activities following the arrival of Maoist insurgents in the late 1990s, exploring their changing social relationships with fellow villagers and the parties to the conflict both during and after the civil war. Series: The Ethnography of Political Violence Series. Num Pages: 200 pages, 6 illus. BIC Classification: 1FKN; HBJF; HBW; JFFE; JHMC. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 236 x 153 x 20. Weight in Grams: 458.
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press
- Number of pages
- 200
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812244922
- ISBN
- 9780812244922
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 81.07
€ 81.07
Hardcover. Hand-illuminated scrolls by Cora Healy-Tobin commemorate members of The Alberta Order of Excellence--Alberta's highest honour. Illustrator(s): Healy-Tobin, Cora. Editor(s): Sivak, Allison. Series: Northern Reference Series. Num Pages: 188 pages, colour plates. BIC Classification: 1KBCL; HBTG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 285 x 312 x 24. Weight in Grams: 1634.
- Publisher
- University of Alberta Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 168
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780888644855
- ISBN
- 9780888644855
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 99.48€ 77.50
€ 99.48
€ 77.50
Hardback. Editor(s): Bannet, Eve Tavor; Wheeler, Roxann. Num Pages: 304 pages, 12, 12 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JF; HBJD; HBLL; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421422145
- ISBN
- 9781421422145
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 50.99€ 42.83
€ 50.99
€ 42.83
Hardcover. .
- Publisher
- Hoover Institution Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780817919849
- ISBN
- 9780817919849
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 24.51
€ 25.99
€ 24.51
Hardback. This fascinating study explores the emergence of a significant Sunni community on the margins of Shia Iran and delineates a 'Sunni arc' stretching from Central Asia southwards through the Iranian provinces of Khorasan and Baluchistan Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: 1FBN; 3JM; HBJF1; HBLX; JFSR2. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Weight in Grams: 512.
- Publisher
- C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781849047081
- ISBN
- 9781849047081
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 70.23€ 70.18
€ 70.23
€ 70.18
Paperback. Gender and the City before Modernity presents a series of multi-disciplinary readings that explore issues relating to the role of gender in a variety of cities of the ancient, medieval, and early modern worlds. Editor(s): Foxhall, Lin; Neher, Gabriele. Series: Gender and History Special Issues. Num Pages: 266 pages, Illustrations, maps, plans. BIC Classification: HBTB; JFSJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 245 x 172 x 13. Weight in Grams: 538.
- Publisher
- John Wiley & Sons Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 266
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781118234433
- ISBN
- 9781118234433
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 43.11
€ 43.11
Paperback. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: 1D; 1FPC; 3H; HBG; HBJD; HBJF; HBLC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 250 x 150 x 15. Weight in Grams: 666.
- Publisher
- John Wiley & Sons Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781118880074
- ISBN
- 9781118880074
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.27
€ 41.27
Paperback. Paris is the most personal of cities. There is a Paris for the medievalist, and another for the modernist - a Paris for expatriates, philosophers, artists, romantics, and revolutionaries of every stripe. The author brings these multiple perspectives into focus throughout this history of the City of Light. Series: From the Ground Up. Num Pages: 352 pages, 105 color illustrations, 30 halftones, 10 maps. BIC Classification: 1DDF; AM; HBJD; WTH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 146 x 18. Weight in Grams: 630.
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Number of pages
- 352
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674057388
- ISBN
- 9780674057388
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 59.64€ 55.84
€ 59.64
€ 55.84
Paperback. In May 1937, seventy thousand workers walked off their jobs at four large steel companies known collectively as "Little Steel." The strikers sought to make the companies retreat from decades of antiunion repression, abide by the newly enacted federal labor law, and recognize their union. This book tells a different story about the conflict. Num Pages: 416 pages, 31 b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJG; HBJK; HBLW; KNXB1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. .
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 416
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520285613
- ISBN
- 9780520285613
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 24.86
€ 33.99
€ 24.86
Paperback. Num Pages: 384 pages, 25 illus. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBJK; HBLL; HBTQ; JFSL4. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 25. Weight in Grams: 562.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780190638733
- ISBN
- 9780190638733
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 74.25
€ 74.25
Hardcover. Num Pages: 452 pages. BIC Classification: 1HF; HBJH; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 267 x 216 x 15. Weight in Grams: 666.
- Publisher
- Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780884024101
- ISBN
- 9780884024101
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 59.64€ 55.83
€ 59.64
€ 55.83
Hardback. As readers of Russian literature know, the nineteenth century was a time of pervasive financial anxiety. Russians of all classes were enmeshed in networks of credit and debt, and borrowing and lending shaped perceptions of material and moral worth. Sergei Antonov recreates this imperial world of borrowers, bankrupts, lenders, and loan sharks. Series: Harvard Historical Studies. Num Pages: 350 pages, 6 halftones, 14 tables. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; HBTB; LAB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 166 x 243 x 35. Weight in Grams: 718.
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674971486
- ISBN
- 9780674971486
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 56.13€ 52.66
€ 56.13
€ 52.66
Hardback. Explores the changing aspirations, attitudes and identities of English Catholics in the late eighteenth century Num Pages: 288 pages, 4 black & white illustrations, 3 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JF; HBJD1; HBLL; HRCC7. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 164 x 292 x 23. Weight in Grams: 638.
- Publisher
- Boydell & Brewer Ltd
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781783271320
- ISBN
- 9781783271320
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 132.91
€ 132.91
Hardback. How African writers reconstructed the biblical narrative to form a new identity Num Pages: 208 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1H; 2AB; DSBF; HBTB; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 162 x 21. Weight in Grams: 508.
- Publisher
- Baylor University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 208
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781602585317
- ISBN
- 9781602585317
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 58.11
€ 58.11
Hardback. Hugh Casey was one of the most colorful members of the iconic Brooklyn Dodgers of the 1940s. He played with the likes of Jackie Robinson, Dixie Walker, Joe Medwick, and Pete Reiser, and along the way he helped redefine the role of the relief pitcher. This book covers Casey's life and career in great detail, the first to truly do so. Num Pages: 288 pages, 6 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJH; BGS; HBTB; WSJT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781442277595
- ISBN
- 9781442277595
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 68.21
€ 68.21
Hardback. George Ciccariello-Maher brings the work of Georges Sorel, Frantz Fanon, and Enrique Dussel together with contemporary Venezuelan politics to formulate a decolonized dialectics that is suited to the struggle against the legacies of slavery and colonialism while also breaking the impasse between dialectics and postcolonial theory. Series: Radical Americas. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1KLSV; 3JM; HBTQ; HBTS; HPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 161 x 238 x 20. Weight in Grams: 500.
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822362234
- ISBN
- 9780822362234
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 150.86
€ 150.86
Hardback. From humble beginnings, Bartolomeo Scala (1430-1497) trained in the law and rose to prominence as a leading citizen of Florence, serving as secretary and treasurer to the Medicis and chancellor of the Guelf party before becoming first chancellor of Florence, a post he held for fifteen years. This volume collects works from throughout his career. Translator(s): Watkins, Renee Neu. Series: The I Tatti Renaissance Library. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBLC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 203 x 133 x 22. Weight in Grams: 431.
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674028265
- ISBN
- 9780674028265
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 35.04
€ 40.99
€ 35.04
Paperback. Clean copy with minor shelf wear
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- Ulster Historical Foundation
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- SKU
- KOC0024881
- ISBN
- 9781903688908
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 10.00
€ 10.00
Paperback. Num Pages: 256 pages, 10 B&W drawings. BIC Classification: HBT; WBXD3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 142 x 215 x 319. Weight in Grams: 346.
- Publisher
- Greystone Books,Canada
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781771641197
- ISBN
- 9781771641197
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 19.42
€ 19.99
€ 19.42