History
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History
Hardback. Focusing on the notion of representation and on the necessity of distinguishing between representation and description, this book argues that the traditional semantic apparatus of meaning, truth, and reference that we use for description must be redefined if we are to understand properly the nature of historical writing. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present Series. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: HBAH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 25. Weight in Grams: 558.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804739795
- ISBN
- 9780804739795
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 150.96
€ 150.96
Paperback. The writing of history aims to satisfy the demands of rational and scientific inquiry, but also has a literary and aesthetic aspect. This book aims to identify and to explore the juste milieu between the literary approach to historical writing and the narrowmindedness of empiricists. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present Series. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: HBAH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 155 x 19. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804739801
- ISBN
- 9780804739801
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 34.36
€ 37.99
€ 34.36
Hardcover. Since the late 1700s new forms of visual entertainment have tried to simulate the details of nature: reenactment has now become the most widely-consumed form of popular history. This book engages with the quest for definition and appropriate delimitation of reenactment as well as questions about the relationship between realism and affect. Series: Re-Enactment History. Num Pages: 240 pages, 12 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: ASZ; HBAH; HBG. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 226 x 146 x 19. Weight in Grams: 406.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230576124
- ISBN
- 9780230576124
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 160.92
€ 160.92
Hardback. Written by Ouyang Xiu, an intellectual giant of the eleventh century, this is a history of the preceding century (907 - 979), a period known as the Five Dynasties. This book emphasises on the art of historical writing in the eleventh century. It includes sections that are helpful to understand the politics and personalities of the time. Translator(s): Davis, Richard L. Num Pages: 736 pages, 5 maps. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3F; HBAH; HBJF; HBLC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 241 x 168 x 44. Weight in Grams: 1271.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 736
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231128261
- ISBN
- 9780231128261
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 169.60
€ 169.60
Hardcover. Deals with the letters and documents of Tasmania in the year 1830. This title shows the development of educational and religious institutions, the maturation of Governor Arthur's convict system, issues of trial by jury, and original dispatches of the period between the Governor and London. It offers an account of the early growth of Australia. Editor(s): Chapman, Peter. Num Pages: 1488 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1MBF; HBJM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 215 x 145 x 51. Weight in Grams: 1146.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Melbourne University Publishing
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780522851885
- ISBN
- 9780522851885
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 163.21
€ 163.21
Num Pages: 736 pages, 33 duotone photographs, 16 color uniform plates, 12 maps. BIC Classification: HBTB; JWD; JWTR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 261 x 187 x 52. Weight in Grams: 1822.
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Schiffer Publishing Ltd United States
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 736
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780764303517
- ISBN
- 9780764303517
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 65.42€ 46.87
€ 65.42
€ 46.87
Hardback. Num Pages: 104 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; G; HB; KJ; RGCM; YQV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 160 x 14. Weight in Grams: 313.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- University Press of America United States
- Number of pages
- 104
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780761817079
- ISBN
- 9780761817079
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 102.44
€ 102.44
Paperback. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: HBA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 18. Weight in Grams: 320.
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674016071
- ISBN
- 9780674016071
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 31.85
€ 36.99
€ 31.85
Hardcover. Num Pages: 281 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DVU; HBA; HBJD; HBLW; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 510.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781403974501
- ISBN
- 9781403974501
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.31
€ 67.31
Paperback. Hawaiian culture as it met foreign traders and settlers is the context for Sahlins's structuralist methodology of historical interpretation Num Pages: 96 pages, 1 figure, 2 photographs. BIC Classification: 1QSP; HBA; HBJM; HBLC; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 8. Weight in Grams: 150.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1981
- Publisher
- The University of Michigan Press United States
- Number of pages
- 96
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780472027217
- ISBN
- 9780472027217
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.96
€ 25.96
Hardback. This book explores how the politics of memory and history affected representations of the internment of 120,000 Japanese Americans during World War II and the passage of redress legislation in 1988. Series: Asian America. Num Pages: 608 pages, 2 figures, 22 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBWQ; JFFJ; JFSL; JWXR. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 992. Weight in Grams: 948.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 608
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804745345
- ISBN
- 9780804745345
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 87.25
€ 87.25
Historical Memoir of the War in West Florida and Louisiana in 1814-15 ...
Latour, Arsene Lacarriere. Ed(S): Smith, Gene...
Paperback. Editor(s): Smith, Gene Allen. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBBFL; 1KBBSL; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- University Press of Florida United States
- Edition
- Rev ed
- Number of pages
- 400
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813033358
- ISBN
- 9780813033358
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.63
€ 35.63
Paperback. Historians have chronicled language, madness, gender, and sexuality and have experimented with fresh forms of presentation. This work suggests that there is confusion among historians about what counts as a justified account of the past. It dispels some of the confusion, and also discusses issues of narrative, objectivity, and memory. Num Pages: 304 pages, 3 tables. BIC Classification: HBA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 152 x 233 x 19. Weight in Grams: 488.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226518305
- ISBN
- 9780226518305
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 29.91
€ 37.99
€ 29.91
Paperback. This volume provides selections from the most influential primary works in philosophy, from the Presocratics through to the 20th century, integrating them with substantial commentary and study questions. Editor(s): Fieser, James; Lillegard, Norman. Num Pages: 736 pages, glossary, index. BIC Classification: HBT; HP. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 240 x 165 x 28. Weight in Grams: 1084.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 736
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780195139846
- ISBN
- 9780195139846
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 202.95
€ 202.95
Hardcover. Num Pages: 556 pages, illus. BIC Classification: 1QDAA; HBLA; HBTP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 302 x 216 x 47. Weight in Grams: 2230.
- Publisher
- Museum Tusculanum Press Denmark
- Number of pages
- 556
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9788763536455
- ISBN
- 9788763536455
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 170.10€ 134.16
€ 170.10
€ 134.16
Hardcover. This miscellany of articles and essays, written over a stretch of 60 years, is being published on the occasion of the author's 90th birthday. Broadly bounded by Dublin and Trinity College, this gathering illuminates a wide range of human experience. Num Pages: 256 pages, Illustrations, ports. BIC Classification: 1DBR; DN; HBJD1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 215 x 136. . Very good copy in good dustwrappers. DW has light shelf wear, remains very good
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- The Lilliput Press Ltd
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KCW0019222
- ISBN
- 9781843510284
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 16.00
€ 16.00
Hardcover. 8vo. Good copy with dustwrapper . Early Ireland.
- Publisher
- Irish Genealogical Foundation
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KEX0280246
- ISBN
- 9780940134294
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 45.00
€ 45.00
Hardback. Taking up the problem of territorial dynamics - why some polities at certain times expand and at other times contract - this book shows that a similar research program can advance our understanding of dynamical processes in history. It investigates the dynamics predicted by the models, and contrasts model predictions with empirical patterns. Series: Princeton Studies in Complexity. Num Pages: 264 pages, 7 tables. 36 line illus. BIC Classification: HBAH; PBT; PBWH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 237 x 163 x 24. Weight in Grams: 538.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 260
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691116693
- ISBN
- 9780691116693
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 85.55€ 68.86
€ 85.55
€ 68.86
Hardback. Zimbabwe, one of Africa's longer, more promising countries, has been in the news a lot recently-for all the wrong reasons. This more than justifies a third edition. Hundreds of fresh entries cover new political leaders, changing governmental, cultural, and economic developments, and scores of place name changes. Series: Historical Dictionaries of Africa. Num Pages: 488 pages, map; bibliography. BIC Classification: 1HFMW; GBC; HBJH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 221 x 146 x 31. Weight in Grams: 658.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Scarecrow Press United States
- Edition
- 3 Rev ed
- Number of pages
- 488
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780810834712
- ISBN
- 9780810834712
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 214.57
€ 214.57
Historical Dictionary of Zambia (Historical Dictionaries of Africa)
Simon, David J., Pletcher, James R., Siegel, ...
Hardcover. Series: Historical Dictionaries of Africa. Num Pages: 680 pages, maps. BIC Classification: 1HFMZ; HBJH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 163 x 42. Weight in Grams: 1122.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Scarecrow Press
- Edition
- Third Edition
- Number of pages
- 680
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780810853058
- ISBN
- 9780810853058
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 262.46
€ 262.46