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Paperback. An analysis of the Portuguese royal court in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, first published in 2003. Translator(s): Aiken, Alison. Num Pages: 516 pages, 5 maps. BIC Classification: 1DSP; HBJD; HBLC; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 153 x 30. Weight in Grams: 760.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
516
Condition
New
SKU
V9780521036955
ISBN
9780521036955
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 67.56

hardcover. This book uses the life of one man-Walter Lenoir of North Carolina-to explore the origins of southern white identity and the ambiguities and complexities embedded in that history with devotion to the Confederate cause. Lenoirs intention to divest himself of his inherited slaves changed with the war's outbreak and he joined the Confederate army. Series: New Narratives in American History. Num Pages: 272 pages, 25 b/w halftones, 5 line illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; BGH; HBJK; HBLL; HBWJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 178 x 130 x 20. Weight in Grams: 329.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc United States
Edition
Illustrated
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780195314359
ISBN
9780195314359
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 35.91

Hardback. Second revised edition - 8vo. Very good copy - KAW0282 - 136pp. - Victorian Historical Association, Melbourne
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Victorian Historical Association Melbourne
Number of pages
136
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1975
SKU
KCK0002216
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 45.00

Hardback. Powerful memoir of the personal and political journey of a leading figure in the UK's Jewish community, from idealistic Zionist to critic of Israel. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1FBH; 3JJP; 3JM; HBJF1; HBLW3; JFSR1; JPFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 174 x 24. Weight in Grams: 496.
Publisher
Pluto Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
240
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745332765
ISBN
9780745332765
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 21.42

Paperback. Drawing upon an archive of manuscript materials, this book illustrates how two generations of a colorful and influential family adapted to social upheaval. It reveals the process by which the world of Washington and Jefferson evolved into the antebellum society of Edmund Ruffin and Thomas Dew. Series: Jeffersonian America. Num Pages: 272 pages, 13 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBFV; 3JF; 3JH; HBTB; WQY. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 399.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of Virginia Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813927442
ISBN
9780813927442
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.02

Paperback. A history of the social and political changes over the course of the first millenieum AD, charting the leadership of tribal chiefs and Roman Generals, and how the initiative was seized after their departure by the dynamic warrior kings of the Picts, Scots, Vikings, Britons, and Anglo-Saxons. Num Pages: 272 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKS; HBJD1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 128 x 20. Weight in Grams: 268.
Publisher
Birlinn General
Number of pages
272
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781780271736
ISBN
9781780271736
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 13.47

Paperback. Presents nine biographies that illuminate the careers, personalities and military campaigns of some of Rome's greatest statesmen, whose lives span the earliest days of the Republic to the establishment of the Empire. This title includes prominent figures who achieved fame for their pivotal roles in Roman history. Translator(s): Scott-Kilvert, Ian. Num Pages: 368 pages, maps. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; BGH; DNF; HBJD; HBLA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 16. Weight in Grams: 258.
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780140441581
ISBN
9780140441581
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.47

Paperback. Looks at the Turkish territory of Northern Cyprus, a self-defined state, which is actually imaginary (because it is only recognized by Turkey). This title examines the sense of haunted property and objects lost and gained in the partition, along with people's relation to the fictive remapping of places and history by this new state. Num Pages: 296 pages, 12 photographs. BIC Classification: 1DVP; HBJF1; JPSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 159 x 17. Weight in Grams: 420.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822352044
ISBN
9780822352044
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.53

paperback. Editor(s): Gorodetsky, Gabriel. Num Pages: 632 pages, 72 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1DVUA; 3JJG; 3JJH; BJ; HBJD; HBLW; JPSD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 186 x 274 x 49. Weight in Grams: 812.
Publisher
Yale University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300221701
ISBN
9780300221701
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 16.14

Hardcover. Most of the book was written before the development of the 1932 political campaign. Parts of several chapters were rewritten and chapter VII added in July, 1933."--Pref. "Selected reading list": p. 263-264. Commissioning organisation: by Cassius M. C". Keywords: Subjects
Condition
Used, Good
Publisher
The Macmillan Co
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1905
SKU
KEX0054431
Hardback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 52.99
€ 10.00

Paperback. An exceptionally dramatic life of Joan of Arc and her previously unchronicled mentor, Yolande of Aragon. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3H; HBJD; HBLC1; HBT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 131 x 24. Weight in Grams: 308.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Orion Publishing Co United Kingdom
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9781780220291
ISBN
9781780220291
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.88

Hardcover. 8vo. A good copy in original dustwrapper slightly worn at edges.History of India in the twentieth century.The Commomwealth.Indian Literature
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
PEOPLES PUBLISHING HOUSE
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1969
Edition
0th Edition
SKU
KEX0269715
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 26.00

Hardcover. The story of the Indian soldiery in the Great War needs a new telling and one important chapter of it will be about the Maharajah of Bikaner: Dashing, autocratic and a formidable public speaker, commander his own camel corps, he fought on the Western Front and in Egypt, became the first Indian general in the British Indian army. Series Editor(s): Sharp, Alan. Series: Makers of the Modern World. Num Pages: 224 pages, maps, black and white photographs. BIC Classification: 1FKA; HBJF; HBLW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 208 x 137 x 21. Weight in Grams: 418.
Publisher
Haus Publishing Limited United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
SKU
V9781905791804
ISBN
9781905791804
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.44

Paperback. A fascinating history of seven Victorian London cemeteries - 'works of art', created as much for the living as they were for the dead. Num Pages: 160 pages, 195 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; HBTB; RNP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 232 x 164 x 11. Weight in Grams: 454. London's First Landscaped Cemeteries. 160 pages, 195 b&w illustrations. A fascinating history of seven Victorian London cemeteries - 'works of art', created as much for the living as they were for the dead. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; HBTB; RNP. Dimension: 232 x 164 x 11. Weight: 376.
Publisher
Amberley Publishing
Number of pages
160
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9781445600383
ISBN
9781445600383
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 17.73

Paperback. Gertrude Tennant's life was remarkable for its length (1819-1918), but even more so for the influence she achieved as an unsurpassed London hostess. This title presents her life, placing her not only at the heart of a multi-generational, matriarchal family epic but also at centre of European social and literary life for the best part of a century. Num Pages: 308 pages, 40 black-&-white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; 3JH; HBTB; JFS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 150 x 24. Weight in Grams: 512.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Yale University Press United States
Number of pages
308
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300168976
ISBN
9780300168976
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 17.06

Paperback. Since the Pikes Peak gold rush in the mid-nineteenth century, women have gone into the mountains of Colorado to hike, climb, ski, homestead, botanize, act as guides, practice medicine, and meet a variety of other challenges, whether for sport or for livelihood. This book recounts their exploits. Num Pages: 276 pages, 2 maps, 65 photographs, chronology, glossary, index. BIC Classification: 1KBBWC; HBJK; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 18. Weight in Grams: 418.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Number of pages
276
Condition
New
SKU
V9780803289956
ISBN
9780803289956
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 17.54

Paperback. Culzean Castle on the Ayrshire coast is the most visited property of the National Trust for Scotland. This lavishly illustrated book tells the whole history of the castle. Num Pages: 288 pages, 124 color photos, 24 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 1DBKSC; AMKL; HBJD1; HBTB; HBTG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 244 x 184 x 21. Weight in Grams: 946.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748617234
ISBN
9780748617234
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 37.34

Paperback. Focuses on the state of liberty and shows how longstanding restraints against tyranny - and the rights of habeas corpus, trial by jury, and due process of law, and the prohibition of torture - are abridged. This book demonstrates how these ancient rights are laid aside when the greed of privatization and the ambition of empire seize a state. Num Pages: 376 pages, 13 b/w photographs, 1 line illustration, 1 table. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3H; HBJD1; HBLC; LND. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 201 x 131 x 23. Weight in Grams: 400. Liberties and Commons for All. 376 pages, Illustrations. Focuses on the state of liberty and shows how longstanding restraints against tyranny - and the rights of habeas corpus, trial by jury, and due process of law, and the prohibition of torture - are abridged. This book demonstrates how these ancient rights are laid aside when the greed of privatization and the ambition of empire seize a state. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3H; HBJD1; HBLC; LND. Dimension: 201 x 131 x 23. Weight: 384.
Publisher
University of California Press
Number of pages
376
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Edition
Abridged edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520260009
ISBN
9780520260009
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 24.82

Paperback. History of the conception, design, construction of the line, lavishly illustrated with photographs and plans. Num Pages: 320 pages, Illustrated. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JJH; AMKL; HBWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 170. .
Publisher
Pen & Sword Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781526711519
ISBN
9781526711519
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 28.66

Hardback. Rebecca E. Karl interrogates the concept and practice of "the economic" as it was understood in China in the 1930s and the 1980s and 90s, showing how the use of Eurocentric philosophies, narratives, and conceptions of the economic that exist outside lived experiences fail to capture modern China's complex history. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HBAH; HBJF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887. Weight in Grams: 454.
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
232
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822363101
ISBN
9780822363101
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 110.75

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