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Hardcover. For many years, histories of the Holocaust focused on its perpetrators, & only recently have more scholars begun to consider in detail the experiences of victims & survivors, as well as the documents they left behind. This title provides an introduction and overview of Jewish narratives of the Holocaust. Editor(s): Goda, Norman J. W. Series: Making Sense of History. Num Pages: 314 pages, 9 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JJH; HBJD; HBLW; HBTZ1; JFSR1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 238 x 154 x 25. Weight in Grams: 636.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Condition
New
SKU
V9781782384410
ISBN
9781782384410
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 155.75

Hardcover. John Quincy Adams warned Americans not to search abroad for monsters to destroy, yet such figures have frequently habituated the discourses of U.S. foreign policy. This collection of essays focuses on counter-identities in American consciousness to explain how foreign policies and the discourse surrounding them develop. Editor(s): Cullinane, Michael Patrick; Ryan, David. Series: Transatlantic Perspectives. Num Pages: 276 pages, 3 illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3J; HBJK; JPS. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 237 x 153 x 20. Weight in Grams: 522.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Condition
New
SKU
V9781782384397
ISBN
9781782384397
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 155.23

Hardcover. Rivers figure prominently in a nation's historical memory, and the Volga and Mississippi have special importance in Russian and American cultures. Beginning in the pre-modern world, both rivers served as critical trade routes connecting cultures in an extensive exchange network, while also sustaining populations through their surrounding wetlands. Series: Environment in History: International Perspectives. Num Pages: 224 pages, 20 illus. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 1KBB; HBTB; HBTP. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 238 x 162 x 12. Weight in Grams: 400.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781782384311
ISBN
9781782384311
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 154.82

Hardcover. This book contributes to our understanding of modern European history through the lens of sound by examining diverse subjects such as performed and recorded music, auditory technologies like the telephone and stethoscope, and the ambient noise of the city. Editor(s): Morat, Daniel. Num Pages: 320 pages, 17 ills. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJD; HBLL; HBLW; HBTB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 237 x 155 x 27. Weight in Grams: 716.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Condition
New
SKU
V9781782384212
ISBN
9781782384212
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 167.12

Hardcover. Based on archival materials and featuring memoirs of Holocaust survivors, this volume offers a rich array of both tragic and inspiring studies of the sanctification of life as practiced by Jewish medical professionals. Editor(s): Grodin, Michael A. Num Pages: 316 pages, 15 ills. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JJH; HBJD; HBTZ1; MBN. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 237 x 156 x 26. Weight in Grams: 708.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781782384175
ISBN
9781782384175
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 155.88

Hardcover. Exploring the effects the protest movement of 1968 had on the political, social, and symbolic order of the societies they called into question, this volume focuses on the consequences and echoes of 1968 from different perspectives, including history, sociology, and linguistics. Editor(s): Gilcher-Holtey, Ingrid. Series: New German Historical Perspectives. Num Pages: 232 pages, 16 ills, 1 table. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JJPK; HBJD; HBLW3. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 158 x 231 x 19. Weight in Grams: 482.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Condition
New
SKU
V9781782383796
ISBN
9781782383796
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 154.94

Hardcover. Offering a sweeping transatlantic perspective, this book explains the current obsession with automobiles by delving deep into the motives of early car users. It provides a synthesis of our knowledge about the emergence and persistence of the car, using a broad range of material including novels, poems, films, and songs.. Series: Explorations in Mobility. Num Pages: 820 pages, 37 ills, 3 tables. BIC Classification: 1D; 1KB; 3JJ; HBG; HBLW; HBTB; PDR. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 160 x 263 x 51. Weight in Grams: 1370.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Condition
New
SKU
V9781782383772
ISBN
9781782383772
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 230.09

Hardcover. This deliberate reinterpretation of the American idea of the national park was innovative and radical, but its consequences were not limited to Switzerland. The Swiss park became the prime example of a "scientific national park," thereby influencing the course of national parks worldwide. Translator(s): Weiss, Giselle. Num Pages: 272 pages, 20 ills, 2 tables. BIC Classification: 1DFH; 3JJ; 3JM; HBJD; HBLW; HBLX; RNK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 158 x 232 x 23. Weight in Grams: 586.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Condition
New
SKU
V9781782383734
ISBN
9781782383734
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 155.45

Hardcover. This collection of essays examines German-language cultural production pertaining to modern China and Japan, and explicitly challenges orientalist notions by proposing a conception of East and West not as opposites, but as complementary elements of global culture, thereby urging a move beyond national paradigms in cultural studies. Editor(s): Shen, Qinna; Rosenstock, Martin. Series: Spektrum: Publications of the German Studies Association. Num Pages: 316 pages, 32 illus. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 1F; 3JJ; 3JM; HBG; HBLW; JFC; JFFS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 160 x 231 x 22. Weight in Grams: 544.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Condition
New
SKU
V9781782383604
ISBN
9781782383604
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 155.45

Hardcover. Significant recent research on the German Right between 1918 and 1933 calls into question received narratives of Weimar political history. The German Right in the Weimar Republic examines the role that the German Right played in the destabilization and overthrow of the Weimar Republic. Num Pages: 316 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJG; HBJD; HBLW; JPFM; JPFN. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 157 x 232 x 27. Weight in Grams: 680.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Condition
New
SKU
V9781782383529
ISBN
9781782383529
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 167.00

Hardcover. Why was there such a far-reaching consensus concerning the utopian goal of national homogeneity in the first half of the twentieth century? Ethnic cleansing is analyzed here as a result of the formation of democratic nation-states, the international order based on them, and European modernity in general. Translator(s): Kreutzmuller, Charlotte. Series: War and Genocide. Num Pages: 276 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JJP; 3JM; HBJD; HBLW3; HBLX; HBTZ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 240 x 163 x 23. Weight in Grams: 596.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Condition
New
SKU
V9781782383024
ISBN
9781782383024
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 155.55

Hardcover. Bohemia and Moravia, today part of the Czech Republic, was the first territory with a majority of non-German speakers occupied by Hitler's Third Reich on the eve of the World War II. Tens of thousands of Jewish inhabitants in the so called Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia soon felt the tragic consequences of Nazi racial politics. Series: Making Sense of History. Num Pages: 264 pages, 14 ills. BIC Classification: 1DVK; 3JJH; HBJD; HBLW; HBTZ1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 240 x 151 x 18. Weight in Grams: 476.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Condition
New
SKU
V9781782382942
ISBN
9781782382942
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 155.20

Hardcover. The authors emphasize how local actors constructed their own adaptation of colonialism, identity, and autonomy, creating a multi-centric and entangled history of modern education. In both formal as well as informal aspects, they demonstrate that transnational and cross-cultural exchanges in education have been characterized by appropriation.. Editor(s): Bagchi, Barnita; Fuchs, Eckhardt; Rousmaniere, Kate. Num Pages: 200 pages, 1 ill. BIC Classification: HBTQ; JNB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 237 x 157 x 22. Weight in Grams: 564.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Berghahn Books United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
SKU
V9781782382669
ISBN
9781782382669
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 155.32

Hardcover. Jens Gieseke tells the story of the Stasi, a feared secret-police force and a highly professional intelligence service. He inquires into the mechanisms of dictatorship and the day-to-day effects of surveillance and suspicion. Masterful and thorough at once, he takes the reader through this dark chapter of German postwar history.. Translator(s): Burnett, David. Num Pages: 278 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DFGE; 3JJP; HBJD; HBLW3; JPVR. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 235 x 153 x 22. Weight in Grams: 552.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Berghahn Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
SKU
V9781782382546
ISBN
9781782382546
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 155.45

Hardcover. Information is crucial when it comes to the management of resources. But what if knowledge is incomplete, or biased, or otherwise deficient? How did people define patterns of proper use in the absence of cognitive certainty? Editor(s): Uekotter, Frank; Lubken, Uwe. Series: The Environment in History: International Perspectives. Num Pages: 212 pages, 1 ill. BIC Classification: HBG; RNF. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 159 x 232 x 19. Weight in Grams: 474.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Berghahn Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
212
Condition
New
SKU
V9781782382522
ISBN
9781782382522
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 154.88

Hardcover. Everyday life in the Crown colony of Ceylon (Sri Lanka) was characterized by a direct encounter of people with modernity through the consumption and use of foreign machines - in particular, the Singer sewing machine, but also the gramophone, tramway, bicycle and varieties of industrial equipment. Num Pages: 176 pages, 20 ills. BIC Classification: 1FKS; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJF; HBLL; HBTQ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 230 x 158 x 16. Weight in Grams: 416.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Berghahn Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
SKU
V9781782382423
ISBN
9781782382423
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 154.74

Hardcover. In 1915, the Armenians were exiled from their land, and in the process of deportation 1.5 million of them were killed. The 1915-1916 annihilation of the Armenians was the archetype of modern genocide, in which a state adopts a specific scheme geared to the destruction of an identifiable group of its own citizens. Num Pages: 856 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVUR; 3JJF; HBJD; HBJF; HBLW; HBTZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 165 x 226 x 46. Weight in Grams: 1288.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Condition
New
SKU
V9781782381433
ISBN
9781782381433
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 208.44

Hardcover. The Communist Party dictatorships in Hungary and East Germany sought to win over the "masses" with promises of providing for ever-increasing levels of consumption. This policy - successful at the outset - in the long-term proved to be detrimental for the regimes because it shifted working class political consciousness to the right.. Num Pages: 376 pages, 5 ills, 10 tables. BIC Classification: 1DFGE; 1DVH; 3JJP; HBJD; HBLW; KCZ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 236 x 158 x 26. Weight in Grams: 648.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Condition
New
SKU
V9781782380252
ISBN
9781782380252
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 167.29

Hardcover. As the first historical study of East Germany's sepulchral culture, this book explores the complex cultural responses to death since the Second World War. Topics include the interrelated areas of the organization and municipalization of the undertaking industry; the steps taken towards a socialist cemetery culture such as issues of design.. Series: Monographs in German History. Num Pages: 288 pages, 33 tables & figs, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1DFGE; HBJD; HBLW3; HBTB; JHBZ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 231 x 159 x 17. Weight in Grams: 458.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Berghahn Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9781782380139
ISBN
9781782380139
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 155.20

Paperback. John de Courcy was a Knight of noble birth but bleak prospects. He fought his way to the notice of Henry II who laughingly granted him Ulster "provided he could conquer it by force". John won his chance at the Battle of Downpatrick in 1177 and ruled his Norman lordship from Carrickfergus Castle until his demise at the hands of King John. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKN; 1DBR; 3H; BGH; HBJD1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 198 x 12. Weight in Grams: 180.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Colourpoint Books
Condition
New
SKU
V9781780730691
ISBN
9781780730691
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.50

Paperback. The moving and extraordinary story of an unheralded and virtually unknown Anzac action that occurred during the period of the landing at Gallipoli and how the truth of what happened was corrupted by a noted historian. Num Pages: 400 pages, black & white illustrations, maps, black & white plates, colour plates. BIC Classification: 1MBF; 3JJF; HBWN; JWLF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 156 x 232 x 29. Weight in Grams: 541.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Allen & Unwin
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9781743317709
ISBN
9781743317709
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 27.56

Paperback. Full of intrigue and swashbuckling adventure, this is the story of an Australian journalist who was at the heart of the most turbulent period in Chinese history. Num Pages: 384 pages, black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JJ; HBJF; HBLW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 158 x 30. Weight in Grams: 537.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Allen & Unwin Australia
Edition
Main
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9781742377971
ISBN
9781742377971
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 24.06

Paperback. "First published 1944"--Title page verso. Num Pages: 416 pages, 28 B&W illustrations. BIC Classification: HBT; WBV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 30. Weight in Grams: 442.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Skyhorse Publishing
Edition
Anniversary Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781629145143
ISBN
9781629145143
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.73

Paperback. Num Pages: 384 pages, B&W photos throughout. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; ASZH; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 158 x 228 x 31. Weight in Grams: 484.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Skyhorse Publishing
Condition
New
SKU
V9781629144962
ISBN
9781629144962
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 17.47

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