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Paperback. Empire of Law shows how seventeenth-century Indian claimants, by litigating and petitioning before Mexico City tribunals, became full participants in an early modern cosmopolitan legality that gave rise to a colonial politics of justice that struggled, with some success, against the utter degradation of subject peoples. Num Pages: 392 pages, maps. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; HBJK; HBLH; HBLL; HBTQ; LAZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804776622
- ISBN
- 9780804776622
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 36.00
€ 40.99
€ 36.00
Shows how Indian litigants and petitioners made sense of Spanish legal principles and processes when the dust of conquest had begun to settle after 1600. This work reveals how Indians saw the law as a practical and moral resource that allowed them to gain a measure of control over their lives and to forge a relationship to a distant king. Num Pages: 392 pages, 6 maps. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; HBJK; HBLH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 155 x 30. Weight in Grams: 680.
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 392
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804758635
- ISBN
- 9780804758635
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 161.16
€ 161.16
Paperback. A magnificent new volume in the acclaimed Oxford History of the United States, written by the bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author, Gordon S. Wood. Series: Oxford History of the United States. Num Pages: 800 pages, 40 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JF; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 159 x 234 x 53. Weight in Grams: 1102.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 800
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199832460
- ISBN
- 9780199832460
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 16.87
€ 20.99
€ 16.87
Hardcover. Integrating all aspects of life, from politics and law to the economy and culture, "Empire of Liberty" offers a marvelous account of this pivotal era when America took its first unsteady steps as a new and rapidly expanding nation. Series: Oxford History of the United States. Num Pages: 800 pages, Illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JF; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 172 x 244 x 61. Weight in Grams: 1218.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, USA
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780195039146
- ISBN
- 9780195039146
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 48.99€ 46.83
€ 48.99
€ 46.83
Paperback. Series: Culture and Society After Socialism. Num Pages: 392 pages, 27. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 3JJF; HBJD; HBLW; HBTV; JPWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 155 x 24. Weight in Grams: 540.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 392
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801489082
- ISBN
- 9780801489082
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 30.47
€ 33.99
€ 30.47
Hardback. Series: Culture and Society After Socialism. Num Pages: 392 pages, 27. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 3JJF; HBJD; HBLW; HBTV; JPWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 29. Weight in Grams: 742.
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801442735
- ISBN
- 9780801442735
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 139.10
€ 139.10
Hardcover. Provides a counterhistory of the academic study of religion, an alternative to standard accounts that have failed to link the field of comparative religion with either the power relations or the historical contingencies of the imperial project. Num Pages: 400 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1H; HBJH; HRAC; HRAX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 60 x 90 x 28. Weight in Grams: 658.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 400
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226117263
- ISBN
- 9780226117263
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 109.57€ 90.50
€ 109.57
€ 90.50
Paperback. How is knowledge about religion and religions produced, and how is that knowledge authenticated and circulated? The author aims to answer these questions. He shows that race, rather than theology, was formative in the emerging study of religion in Europe and North America. Num Pages: 400 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1H; HBJH; HRAC; HRAX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 155 x 228 x 22. Weight in Grams: 540.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 400
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226117430
- ISBN
- 9780226117430
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 32.28
€ 41.99
€ 32.28
Paperback. Explains how both distinctive features of American culture - being exceptionally religious and exceptionally violent - work together Num Pages: 274 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HRCX6; JFFE. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 15. Weight in Grams: 363.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- New York University Press
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780814768952
- ISBN
- 9780814768952
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.58
€ 32.99
€ 29.58
Paperback. Examines the networks that linked academics across the British settler world in the age of 'Victorian' globalization. Drawing on extensive archival research, remaps the intellectual geographies of Britain and its empire in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Series: Studies in Imperialism. Num Pages: 256 pages, 2 black & white tables. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1QDB; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJD1; HBLL; HBTQ; JNM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 157 x 23. Weight in Grams: 420.
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780719099304
- ISBN
- 9780719099304
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 50.17
€ 50.17
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- St. Martin's Griffin
- Number of pages
- 560
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781250023209
- ISBN
- 9781250023209
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 26.25
€ 29.99
€ 26.25
Paperback. A sensational history of love, politics and corruption in the Jazz Age Num Pages: 416 pages, 6. BIC Classification: 1KBBSL; 3JJG; AVGJ; HBJK; HBLW; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 124. .
- Publisher
- Amberley Publishing United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 416
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781445651231
- ISBN
- 9781445651231
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.88
€ 18.88
Hardback. By the turn of the twentieth century, Japan's military and economic successes made it the dominant power in East Asia. This book explores how colonial and semicolonial writers discussed, adapted, translated, and recast thousands of Japanese creative works, both affirming and challenging Japan's cultural authority. Series: Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series. Num Pages: 550 pages, 1 halftone. BIC Classification: 1F; 2GJ; DSB; HBJF; JFFN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 38. Weight in Grams: 1048.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Harvard University, Asia Center United States
- Number of pages
- 550
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780674036253
- ISBN
- 9780674036253
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 58.85€ 53.97
€ 58.85
€ 53.97
Paperback. How did Britain so lose the plot that today there is not a single aircraft manufacturer of any significance in the country? The author captures that season of glory in a book that fuses his own memories of being a schoolboy plane spotter with a ruefully realistic history of British decline. It is the story of machines and men who flew them. Num Pages: 416 pages, Illustrations, ports. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJPN; 3JMC; HBJD1; HBTK; KNDV; WGM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 34. Weight in Grams: 326.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780571247950
- ISBN
- 9780571247950
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 12.99€ 4.99
€ 12.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. The bestselling complete history of the British Navy - our national story through a different prism. Num Pages: 720 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; HBJD1; HBW; JWF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 143 x 43. Weight in Grams: 568.
- Publisher
- Phoenix
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780753829202
- ISBN
- 9780753829202
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 16.53
€ 23.99
€ 16.53
Hardback. Leading writer Boris Kagarlitsky offers an ambitious account of 1000 years of Russian history. Translator(s): Clarke, Renfrey. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 3H; 3J; HBJD; JPFC. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 238 x 162 x 27. Weight in Grams: 660.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Pluto Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745326825
- ISBN
- 9780745326825
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 52.99€ 40.81
€ 52.99
€ 40.81
Paperback. Num Pages: 372 pages. BIC Classification: HB; JFSJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2021
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 372
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9781444334586
- ISBN
- 9781444334586
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 56.94
€ 56.94
Paperback. The New York Times bestselling history of the Comanches in the tradition of Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee. Num Pages: 496 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBW; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBTB; JFSL9. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 129 x 197 x 33. Weight in Grams: 420.
- Edition
- Reprint
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781849017039
- ISBN
- 9781849017039
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.31
€ 17.99
€ 13.31
Paperback. Num Pages: 880 pages. BIC Classification: HBTB; JFFT; KCZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 268 x 53. Weight in Grams: 634.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780141028743
- ISBN
- 9780141028743
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 16.68
€ 25.99
€ 16.68
Paperback. Presents an approach to late antiquity that shows how, from the second-century peak of Rome's prosperity to the ninth-century onset of the Islamic Empire's decline, powerful beliefs in One God were used to justify and strengthen 'world empires'. Num Pages: 232 pages, 10 plates. BIC Classification: 1D; 1FB; 3D; 3F; HBJD; HBJF1; HBLA; HBLC; HRCC1; HRH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 153 x 235 x 14. Weight in Grams: 334.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 226
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691015453
- ISBN
- 9780691015453
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 42.99€ 30.85
€ 42.99
€ 30.85