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Paperback. Cut These Words into My Stone provides an engaging introduction to this corner of classical literature that continues to speak eloquently in our time. Translator(s): Wolfe, Michael. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVG; DSC; HBLA1; HBTG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 139 x 14. Weight in Grams: 254.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9781421408040
ISBN
9781421408040
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.35

Marshall retired at the beginning of 1949, but his respite from public service would be short-lived. Editor(s): Bland, Larry I.; Stevens, Sharon Ritenour; Holt, Daniel D.; Stoler, Mark A. Series: The Papers of George Catlett Marshall. Num Pages: 880 pages, 50, 46 black & white illustrations, 4 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJPG; HBJK; HBLW3; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 160 x 53. Weight in Grams: 1308.
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
880
Condition
New
SKU
V9781421407920
ISBN
9781421407920
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 110.19

Hardback. In dark skirts and bloodied boots, Clara Barton fearlessly ventured on to Civil War battlefields to tend to wounded soldiers. She later founded and ran the American Red Cross. This book tells the story of this charitable organization from its start in 1881, through its humanitarian aid during wars, to its relief efforts of the 1930s. Num Pages: 404 pages, 19, 19 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; MBN; MBX; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 242 x 166 x 33. Weight in Grams: 752.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
404
Condition
New
SKU
V9781421407388
ISBN
9781421407388
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 56.72

Monstrous Motherhood will compel scholars in eighteenth-century studies, women's studies, family history, and cultural studies to reevaluate a foundational assumption that has driven much of the discourse in their fields. Num Pages: 312 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; HBTB; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 161 x 24. Weight in Grams: 540.
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
SKU
V9781421407371
ISBN
9781421407371
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 71.81

Weaving together the stories of the Old World apple in America and the life and myth of John Chapman, Johnny Appleseed and the American Orchard casts new light on both. Num Pages: 248 pages, 11, 7 black & white illustrations, 4 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBTB; TVS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 454.
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
SKU
V9781421407289
ISBN
9781421407289
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 65.73

Courtney Weikle-Mills discusses such characters as Goody Two-Shoes, Ichabod Crane, and Tom Sawyer in terms of how they reflect these conflicting ideals. Num Pages: 280 pages, 9, 9 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSY; HBJK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 499.
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
SKU
V9781421407210
ISBN
9781421407210
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 68.21

He demonstrates a significant point of contact between two writers generally thought to be antagonists-the idea that imperial speech structures reveal the self. Num Pages: 312 pages. BIC Classification: DSBB; HBLA1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 161 x 235 x 25. Weight in Grams: 558.
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
SKU
V9781421406749
ISBN
9781421406749
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 82.84

Paperback. At once academic and cheeky, the experience of this book is like reading Herodotus while simultaneously consulting a history of Greece and a scholarly commentary on the text. Num Pages: 360 pages, 14, 5 black & white halftones, 9 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; HBJD; HBLA1. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 228 x 151 x 22. Weight in Grams: 492.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
360
Condition
New
SKU
V9781421406565
ISBN
9781421406565
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 43.11

No other book offers such a comprehensive brief history of the Maryland and Virginia colonies and their place within the emerging British Empire. Series: Regional Perspectives on Early America. Num Pages: 256 pages, 16, 13 black & white halftones, 3 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: 1KBBFV; 3JD; HBJF; HBLH. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 22. Weight in Grams: 408.
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9781421405551
ISBN
9781421405551
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 62.58

Hardback. Devoted to the whole of Hamilton's political writing, this accessible and teachable analysis makes clear the enormous influence Hamilton had on the development of American political and economic institutions and policies. Series: The Political Philosophy of the American Founders. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBLL; HPS; JPA. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 25. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9781421405384
ISBN
9781421405384
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 65.68

Featuring fifty-eight newly translated documents, meticulous annotations, and trenchant contextual analysis, this documentary history is an indispensable resource for anyone seeking to understand the Inquisition in general and its nearly three-hundred-year reign in the New World in particular. Editor(s): Chuchiak, John F., IV. Translator(s): Chuchiak, John F., IV. Num Pages: 464 pages, 17, 15 black & white halftones, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1KLC; 3JB; 3JD; 3JF; 3JH; HBJK; HBLH; HBLL; HRAM9. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 36. Weight in Grams: 998.
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
464
Condition
New
SKU
V9781421403854
ISBN
9781421403854
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 89.60

In studying this phenomenon, Deslippe deepens our understanding of American democracy and neoconservatism in the late twentieth century and shows how the liberals' often contradictory positions of the 1960s and 1970s reflect the conflicted views about affirmative action many Americans still hold today. Series: Reconfiguring American Political History. Num Pages: 296 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; JPVH1; JPWF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 161 x 236 x 25. Weight in Grams: 540.
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
SKU
V9781421403588
ISBN
9781421403588
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 71.69

SeemanKing Philip's War: Colonial Expansion, Native Resistance, and the End of Indian Sovereignty by Daniel R. MandellThe Caning of Charles Sumner: Honor, Idealism, and the Origins of the Civil War by Williamjames Hull HofferBloodshed at Little Bighorn: Sitting Bull, Custer, and the Destinies of Nations by Tim Lehman Series: Witness to History. Num Pages: 168 pages, 10, 10 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JF; HBJK; HBLL; HBTB; JFCX; PDX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 340.
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
168
Condition
New
SKU
V9781421403113
ISBN
9781421403113
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 72.33

Combining economic theory with the history of technology, Making Tobacco Bright revises several narratives in American history, from colonial staple-crop agriculture to the origins of the tobacco industry to the rise of identity politics in the twentieth century. Series: Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology. Num Pages: 248 pages, 21, 21 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3J; HBTK; KNDF1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 160 x 231 x 21. Weight in Grams: 444.
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
SKU
V9781421402864
ISBN
9781421402864
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 76.44

This collection continues the conversation Warren began fifty years ago, although taking it in unorthodox and challenging directions, to offer fresh and stimulating perspectives on the war's presence in the collective imagination of the nation. Editor(s): Brown, Thomas J. Num Pages: 256 pages, 17, 17 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBWJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 454.
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9781421402505
ISBN
9781421402505
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 65.82

Written by three prominent historians of the period, Slavery's Ghost forces readers to think critically about the way we study the past, the depth of racial prejudice, and how African Americans won and lost their freedom in nineteenth-century America. Series: The Marcus Cunliffe Lecture Series. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBTS; JFSL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 147 x 14. Weight in Grams: 268.
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
128
Condition
New
SKU
V9781421402352
ISBN
9781421402352
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 60.39

User Unfriendly will be valuable to historians of technology, students of American culture, and anyone interested in our modern dependence on machines and gadgets. Num Pages: 296 pages, 13, 13 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; 3JM; HBJK; JFFT; PDX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 161 x 234 x 24. Weight in Grams: 540.
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
SKU
V9781421401928
ISBN
9781421401928
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 71.45

The first study on Renaissance theories of weather in five decades, Renaissance Meteorology offers a novel understanding of traditional natural philosophy and its impact on the development of modern science. Num Pages: 224 pages, 3, 3 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JB; 3JD; HBJD; HBLH; PDX; RBP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 162 x 232 x 19. Weight in Grams: 416.
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9781421401874
ISBN
9781421401874
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.09

Paperback. Slaves focused their energy and attention, however, not on making money, as slaveholders increasingly did, but on keeping their kin out of the human coffles of the slave trade. Series: Studies in Early American Economy and Society from the Library Company of Philadelphia. Num Pages: 296 pages, 2, 2 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: 1KBBFV; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBTS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 154 x 18. Weight in Grams: 418.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
SKU
V9781421400365
ISBN
9781421400365
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 44.10

Hardback. Exhuming the stories of the notable and not-so-famous figures who distilled the American spirit, the founders of Kings County Distillery now offer a rich history of whiskey, moonshine and other spirits. Num Pages: 224 pages, 70 black-and-white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBTB; TDCT1; WBXD3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 161 x 237 x 22. Weight in Grams: 570.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Abrams
Condition
New
SKU
V9781419720215
ISBN
9781419720215
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 25.14

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