×


 x 

Shopping cart

History

Results 24433 - 24456 of 32456

History

Paperback. In 1776, the U.S. owed huge sums to foreign creditors and its own citizens but, lacking the power to tax, had no means to repay them. This is the first book to tell the story of how foreign-born financial specialists solved the fiscal crisis and set the nation on a path to long-term economic prosperity. Num Pages: 496 pages, Illustrations (black and white). BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JF; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; KCZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 157 x 234 x 31. Weight in Grams: 762.
Publisher
Belknap Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674284104
ISBN
9780674284104
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 31.06

Hardcover. Why the American Revolution, of all the great revolutions, was the only enduring success. Num Pages: 480 pages, 32 pages of color illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JF; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 243 x 169 x 37. Weight in Grams: 896.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
WW Norton & Co United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
480
Condition
New
SKU
V9780393240214
ISBN
9780393240214
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 34.36

Paperback. .
Publisher
Liberty Fund Inc United States
Number of pages
681
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Condition
New
SKU
V9780865973039
ISBN
9780865973039
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 12.75

Paperback. Num Pages: 513 pages, tables, indexes. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JD; 3JF; 3JH; HBJK; HBLH; HBLL; JPHC; LND. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 278 x 215 x 36. Weight in Grams: 1352.
Publisher
Liberty Fund Inc United States
Number of pages
513
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Condition
New
SKU
V9780865973060
ISBN
9780865973060
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 12.75

Paperback. Num Pages: 711 pages, tables, indexes. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JD; 3JF; 3JH; HBJK; HBLH; HBLL; JPHC; LND. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 278 x 216 x 52. Weight in Grams: 1826.
Publisher
Liberty Fund Inc United States
Number of pages
711
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Condition
New
SKU
V9780865973053
ISBN
9780865973053
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 12.75

Paperback. Num Pages: 731 pages, tables, indexes. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JD; 3JF; 3JH; HBJK; HBLH; HBLL; JPHC; LND. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 280 x 215 x 47. Weight in Grams: 2028.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Liberty Fund Inc United States
Number of pages
731
Condition
New
SKU
V9780865973022
ISBN
9780865973022
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 15.58

Paperback. Examines four attempts to answer the question of national identity that Americans faced in the wake of the American Revolution. This work explores a complicated political world in which boundaries between the personal and the political were fluid and ill-defined. Num Pages: 232 pages, 16 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBLH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 342.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691122366
ISBN
9780691122366
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 33.92

Paperback. This concise and elegant contribution to the Very Short Introduction series reintroduces the history that shaped the founding fathers, the history that they made, and what history has made of them. Series: Very Short Introductions. Num Pages: 184 pages, 10 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JF; BGH; HBJK; HBLL; HBWF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 176 x 112 x 12. Weight in Grams: 142.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc
Condition
New
SKU
9780190273514
ISBN
9780190273514
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 12.99
€ 11.61

Paperback. A story of how George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams and James Madison's passion for nature, plants, agriculture and gardens shaped the birth of America. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JF; HBJK; HBTB; WM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 175 x 28. Weight in Grams: 378.
Publisher
Cornerstone United Kingdom
Number of pages
384
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099525622
ISBN
9780099525622
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 12.61

Paperback. Advances an interpretation of the founding of modern Israel. This book demonstrates how socialist principles were subverted in practice by the nationalist goals to which socialist Zionism was committed. It provides a historical background to Israel's struggle to mobilize its citizenry to support a shared vision of nationhood. Translator(s): Maisel, David. Num Pages: 464 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FBH; 3JJ; HBJF1; HBLW; JFSR1; JPFF; JPFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 151 x 27. Weight in Grams: 662.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
436
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691009674
ISBN
9780691009674
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 53.81
€ 42.58

Paperback. .
Publisher
Hackett Publishing Co, Inc United States
Number of pages
735
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Condition
New
SKU
V9780872207059
ISBN
9780872207059
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.99
€ 25.93

Num Pages: 752 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBLH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 238 x 162 x 37. Weight in Grams: 1112.
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Hackett Publishing Co, Inc United States
Number of pages
735
Condition
New
SKU
V9780872207066
ISBN
9780872207066
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 68.15
€ 53.08

Hardback. Told by a colonial governor, a Creek military leader, Native Americans, and British colonists, each account of Acorn Whistler's execution for killing five Cherokees speaks to the collision of European and Indian cultures, the struggle to preserve traditional ways of life, and tensions within the British Empire on the eve of the American Revolution. Num Pages: 280 pages, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1KBBF; 3JF; HBJK; HBLL; HBTB; JFSL9. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 240 x 158 x 25. Weight in Grams: 614.
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Number of pages
280
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674046863
ISBN
9780674046863
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 44.99
€ 37.27

Paperback. Series: Studies in 20th and 21st European History. Num Pages: 172 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVG; 3JJH; HBJD; HBLW; KCP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 249 x 177 x 12. Weight in Grams: 380.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Museum Tusculanum Press Denmark
Number of pages
172
Condition
New
SKU
V9788772895826
ISBN
9788772895826
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.99
€ 28.55

paperback. For more than a century, the Northern Arapaho people lived on the Wind River Reservation in Wyoming - the fourth largest reservation in the country. This book draws together aspects of the Northern Arapahos' world - myth, language, art, ritual, identity, and history - to offer a vivid picture of a culture that has endured and changed over time. Series: Studies in the Anthropology of North American Indians. Num Pages: 376 pages, 7 figures, map, 3 tables, index. BIC Classification: 1KBBWY; HBTB; JFSL9. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 19. Weight in Grams: 499.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Number of pages
376
Condition
New
SKU
V9780803260214
ISBN
9780803260214
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 34.36

Paperback. Explores the events in Byzantium and the Byzantine response to the actions of the Crusaders. This book includes a chapter on the sack of Constantinople and the election of its Latin emperor. Series: The Middle Ages Series. Num Pages: 368 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QDAP; 1QDAZ; HBJF; HBLC. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 534.
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press United States
Number of pages
368
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Edition
2nd Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780812217131
ISBN
9780812217131
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 34.45

Paperback. In his most ambitious book since "Time on the Cross, " the Nobel Prize-winning economist looks to the nation's past to discover the strong link between technologically induced cycles of religiousness--or "awakenings"--in American history and attitudes toward poverty, education, and social equality. Line drawings. Tables. Num Pages: 383 pages, 11 line drawings, 18 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; KCZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 152 x 228 x 30. Weight in Grams: 598.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
New ed
Number of pages
383
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226256634
ISBN
9780226256634
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 28.96

Paperback. Even as America asserts itself globally, it lacks a grand strategy to replace "containment of communism." This book outlines a strategy, directing America's powers to the achievement of its large purposes. Central to this strategy is the power of American ideals, what the author calls "the fourth power". Num Pages: 200 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HB; JPS; JWK; JWL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 200 x 131 x 16. Weight in Grams: 234. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
SKU
KRA0004922
ISBN
9780195300857
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. .
Publisher
Jollies Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780995466005
ISBN
9780995466005
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 14.03

Paperback. Num Pages: 382 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; JFC; JFFR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 157 x 26. Weight in Grams: 318.
Publisher
Random House USA Inc
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780767900461
ISBN
9780767900461
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 19.48

Paperback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 268 pages. BIC Classification: HBJF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155. .
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691610603
ISBN
9780691610603
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 52.99
€ 38.20

Hardback. Amid the national shame and subjugation following World War I in France, journalists, novelists, doctors, and legislators worked to rehabilitate what was perceived as an unhealthy social body. This title shows how they attempted to reconstruct the 'bodily integrity' of the nation by pointing to the dangers of homosexuality and pornography. Series: Studies on the History of Society & Culture. Num Pages: 275 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JH; 3JJ; DSBH; HBTB; JFSJ; JMU. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 467.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
University of California Press Berkeley
Number of pages
275
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520219953
ISBN
9780520219953
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 58.60
€ 46.21

hardcover. The Framers' Coup is a a concise yet sharply argued narrative account of how the Framers persuaded the country to adopt a constitution drafted based on their preferences. Num Pages: 880 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; JPHC; LAZ; LND. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 239 x 163 x 54. Weight in Grams: 1378.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc United States
Number of pages
880
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780199942039
ISBN
9780199942039
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 48.30

Hardcover. "Includes index. Commissioning organisation: by H.G. Daniels. 267 p., [8] leaves of plates ill. 23 cm. Original cloth. Near fine copy in soiled d.w." Keywords: "National characteristics, French."
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Nisbet
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1937
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
KEX0051107
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 44.99
€ 4.99

Subscribe to our newsletter

News on special offers, signed editions & more!