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Hardback. Making a significant contribution to the large debate over the transition from "scriptural" to "scientific" culture in Europe, this book also sheds light on the centrality of Jews to medieval and Enlightenment history. Num Pages: 160 pages, 16 illus. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBLC; HRAX; HRC; HRJ. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 150 x 223 x 21. Weight in Grams: 330.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 160
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812237405
- ISBN
- 9780812237405
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.86
€ 66.86
Hardback. A provocative and historical reading of the relations between Victorian liberalism and aestheticism that challenges critical assumptions concerning liberal agency and aesthetic experience more generally. Num Pages: 248 pages, 30 illus. BIC Classification: 1DB; 2AB; 3JH; DSBF; HBTB; JFC. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 165 x 238 x 25. Weight in Grams: 538.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812237542
- ISBN
- 9780812237542
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 77.06
€ 77.06
Hardback. Expectations of Justice in the Age of Augustine examines the complex and varying roles Christian bishops played during late antiquity and how their experiences fundamentally affected Christian ideals of divine justice. Num Pages: 248 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; HBJD; HBLA1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 238 x 161 x 23. Weight in Grams: 492.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812239874
- ISBN
- 9780812239874
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 87.25
€ 87.25
Hardback. "The Pilgrim and the Bee makes a broad claim about a reading-centered history, reclaiming for this purpose a distinctive body of texts. Brown's analysis marks an important step toward a better history of reading."-David D. Hall, Harvard University Series: Material Texts. Num Pages: 288 pages, 20 illus. BIC Classification: 1KBBE; 3JB; CFC; DSBD; HBTB; JFCX. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 608.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812240153
- ISBN
- 9780812240153
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 82.16
€ 82.16
Hardback. Building on the eighteenth-century commonplace that the theater could be a school for public virtue, this book illustrates the connections between the popularity of theatrical performances in eighteenth-century British North America and the British and American national identities that colonial and Revolutionary Americans espoused. Series: Early American Studies. Num Pages: 240 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JF; AN; HBTB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 508.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812240245
- ISBN
- 9780812240245
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 77.06
€ 77.06
Hardback. No Place of Rest pursues the literary traces of the traumatic expulsion of Jews from France in 1306. Through careful readings of liturgical, philosophical, memorial, and medical texts, Susan Einbinder reveals how medieval Jews asserted their identity in exile. Series: The Middle Ages Series. Num Pages: 280 pages, 2 illus. BIC Classification: HBG; HBJD; JFSR1. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 567.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812241150
- ISBN
- 9780812241150
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 77.06
€ 77.06
Hardback. Renowned scholar of Ancient Greek Martin Ostwald explains, for a modern audience, the terms by which the ancient Greeks saw and lived their lives-and influenced ours. Num Pages: 336 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; HBLA. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 239 x 161 x 33. Weight in Grams: 652.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812241495
- ISBN
- 9780812241495
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 92.36
€ 92.36
Hardback. As much historiography as reception history, Past Convictions analyzes and explicates the production of historical narratives, the subsequent contestation and appropriation of these narratives, and the insight such activities allows us into how people understand change and its remembrance. Series: The Middle Ages Series. Num Pages: 432 pages, 11 illus. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3F; HBAH; HBJD; HBLC1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 243 x 162 x 36. Weight in Grams: 868.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812241686
- ISBN
- 9780812241686
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 97.45
€ 97.45
Hardback. This book offers a new history of a major medieval genre, affective meditations on the Passion. It argues that women were instrumental in the creation of this genre, and it illuminates how these scripts for the performance of prayer served to construct compassion itself as an intimate and feminine emotion. Series: The Middle Ages Series. Num Pages: 320 pages, 10 illus. BIC Classification: HBLC1. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 236 x 160 x 28. Weight in Grams: 620.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812242119
- ISBN
- 9780812242119
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 82.16
€ 82.16
Hardback. Drawing on hundreds of unpublished court records, Marie Kelleher examines how women in the fourteenth-century Crown of Aragon engaged with patriarchal assumptions to shape their own legal identities, thus playing a crucial role in the formation of a gendered legal culture that shaped women's lives throughout Europe for centuries afterwards. Series: The Middle Ages Series. Num Pages: 232 pages, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1DSE; 3H; HBJD; HBLC1; HBTB; JFSJ1; LAZ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 239 x 163 x 24. Weight in Grams: 490.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812242560
- ISBN
- 9780812242560
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 77.06
€ 77.06
Hardback.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812243918
- ISBN
- 9780812243918
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 60.49
€ 60.49
Hardcover. Examining seventeenth-century crises of evidence and genres of evidence on which both literary critics and historians now depend, True Relations explores the notion that we apprehend truth through other people's relations of it and that those relations, and our own relation to them, are a function of social relationships in conflict. Num Pages: 344 pages, 10 illus. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JD; DSBD; HBJD1. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 231 x 163 x 30. Weight in Grams: 714.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812244854
- ISBN
- 9780812244854
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 82.16
€ 82.16
Hardcover. In this volume, scholars from three continents trace the role of dreams in the cultural transitions of the early modern Atlantic world, illustrating how both indigenous and European methods of understanding dream phenomena became central to contests over religious and political power. Editor(s): Plane, Ann Marie; Tuttle, Leslie. Num Pages: 336 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; 1K; HBJD; HBJK; HBLC; HBLH; HRQ. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 236 x 162 x 26. Weight in Grams: 592.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812245042
- ISBN
- 9780812245042
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 82.16
€ 82.16
Hardcover. A compelling history of nineteenth-century economic, social, and cultural life, Capitalism by Gaslight explores the blurred boundary between legitimate and illegitimate economic activity, describing the dealings of prostitutes, dealers in dirty books and used goods, mock auctioneers, illegal slavers, and other entrepreneurs. Editor(s): Luskey, Brian P.; Woloson, Wendy A. Series: Early American Studies. Num Pages: 328 pages, 19 illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; KCZ. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 164 x 237 x 32. Weight in Grams: 668.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812246896
- ISBN
- 9780812246896
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 71.97
€ 71.97
Hardcover. Among the many contentious frontier zones in nineteenth-century North America, Florida was an early and important borderland where the United States worked out how it would colonize new territories. Series: Early American Studies. Num Pages: 288 pages, 8 illus. BIC Classification: 1KBBFL; HBJK; JFSJ1; JFSL. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812248364
- ISBN
- 9780812248364
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.86
€ 66.86
Hardcover. Following the stories of families who built their lives and fortunes across the Atlantic Ocean, Intimate Bonds shows how households anchored the French empire and shaped the meanings of race, slavery, and gender in the early modern period. Series: The Early Modern Americas. Num Pages: 280 pages, 6 illus. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 1QSA; HBTQ; HBTS; JFFN; LAZ. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812248401
- ISBN
- 9780812248401
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 108.92
€ 108.92
Hardcover. Tea Sets and Tyranny offers a political history of politeness in early America, from its origins in the late seventeenth century to its remaking in the age of the Revolution. Series: Early American Studies. Num Pages: 304 pages, 19 illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JF; HBJK; HBLL; HBTB. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 635.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812248609
- ISBN
- 9780812248609
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 60.49
€ 60.49
Hardcover. Raphael Lemkin was one of the twentieth century's most influential human rights figures, coining the word "genocide" in 1942 and working to enshrine the idea into international law. This book sheds new light on the concept of genocide, exploring the connection between Lemkin's philosophical writings, juridical works, and politics. Series: Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights. Num Pages: 320 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HBG; HBTZ; JPVH. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812248647
- ISBN
- 9780812248647
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 82.40
€ 82.40
Hardcover. War Is Coming is an ethnographic study that sheds light on the everyday conversations, practices, and experiences of people in Lebanon who live in between moments of political violence, remember past wars, and anticipate future turmoil. Series: The Ethnography of Political Violence Series. Num Pages: 280 pages, 20 illus. BIC Classification: 1FBL; 3JJ; 3JM; HBJF1; HBLW; HBLX. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 163 x 239 x 29. Weight in Grams: 598.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812248869
- ISBN
- 9780812248869
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 108.92
€ 108.92
Paperback. This is an examination of the lives of black people in Victorian England. Contributors to the book look at the ways blacks were represented in popular culture of the time and also at their lives as they experienced them - as workers, travellers, lecturers, performers and professionals. Num Pages: 252 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JH; HBJD1; HBLL; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 151 x 16. Weight in Grams: 388.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Rutgers University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 252
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813532158
- ISBN
- 9780813532158
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 43.99€ 38.84
€ 43.99
€ 38.84
Hardcover. As thousands of wives and children joined American servicemen stationed at overseas bases in the years following World War II, the military family represented a friendlier, more humane side of the United States' campaign for dominance in the Cold War. This title tells the story of Cold War diplomacy. Num Pages: 291 pages, illustrations, 2 tables. BIC Classification: 3JJPG; 3JJPK; HBJK; HBLW3; HBW; JPSD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 161 x 30. Weight in Grams: 608.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- NYU Press
- Edition
- annotated edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780814705018
- ISBN
- 9780814705018
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 82.16
€ 82.16
Hardcover. Argues that the prison systems of California and Texas during the Depression set the tone for the identity roles of the 30s Series: American History and Culture Series. Num Pages: 335 pages, 16 b&w illustrations, 17 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBBSX; 1KBBWF; 3JJG; HBJK; HBTB; JKVP1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 28. Weight in Grams: 499.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- NYU Press
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780814709405
- ISBN
- 9780814709405
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 72.18
€ 72.18
Paperback. Examines the participation of New Yorkers in the political struggles and armed conflict that many historians consider a critical precursor to World War II. This book also describes the involvement of students in the war, the key role of writers and the media, and the contributions made by members of New York's art and theater communities. Editor(s): Carroll, Peter N.; Fernandez, James D. Num Pages: 223 pages, b&w. BIC Classification: 1DSE; 1KBBEY; 3JJG; HBJK; HBLW; HBW; JPFQ; JPW. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 256 x 180 x 19. Weight in Grams: 868.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- NYU Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780814716816
- ISBN
- 9780814716816
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 43.99€ 38.84
€ 43.99
€ 38.84
Paperback. Provides a portrait of East European and American Jewish life in the immigrant generation at the turn of the twentieth century. Editor(s): Cohen, Jocelyn; Soyer, Daniel. Num Pages: 329 pages, 21 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DV; 1KBB; 3JJC; HBTB; JFFN; JFSR1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 18. Weight in Grams: 458.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- New York University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 329
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780814716953
- ISBN
- 9780814716953
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 31.02
€ 33.99
€ 31.02