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History
Hardback. A Tender Voyage is the first full-length study of the history of childhood and children's lives in late imperial China. Num Pages: 378 pages, 47 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HBT; JFSP1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 25. Weight in Grams: 635.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 378
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804741644
- ISBN
- 9780804741644
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 201.73
€ 201.73
Hardback. Wilbur H. Ping Ferry (1910-1995) was a self-styled town crank, an influential and iconoclastic figure who seemingly knew everyone worth knowing in the mid-20th century. Thi text is an account of his career. Num Pages: 264 pages, 15 half-tones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; HBJK; HBLW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 21. Weight in Grams: 494.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804741576
- ISBN
- 9780804741576
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 81.91
€ 81.91
Hardback. What has the land of Israel meant for the Jewish imagination> This work provides an answer, covering Biblical times up to the present. Its aim is to pierce the mystery of the images of Israel, to grasp their meaning and function, and to trace their origins and history. Translator(s): Emanuel, Susan. Series: Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 1FBH; HBJF1; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 24. Weight in Grams: 517.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804741125
- ISBN
- 9780804741125
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 146.94
€ 146.94
Hardback. What changes occurred and what remained the same in Chinese civil justice from the Qing to the Republic? Drawing on archival records of actual cases, this study provides a new understanding of late imperial and Republican Chinese law. It also casts a new light on Chinese law by emphasizing rural areas and by comparing the old and the new. Series: Law, Society & Culture in China. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJF; HBLW; L. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 474.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804741101
- ISBN
- 9780804741101
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 157.78
€ 157.78
Hardback. This book explains how the United States Constitution made the transition from a very divisive proposal to a consensually legitimate framework for governing. The Federalists' proposal had been bitterly opposed, and constitutional legitimation required a major transformation. The story of that transformation is the substance of this book. Num Pages: 312 pages, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; JPHC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 553.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804741064
- ISBN
- 9780804741064
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 157.98
€ 157.98
Hardback. This is the first complete story, long hidden by the Soviet Union, of the attack by government forces on striking workers in 1962, resulting in 21 dead and hundreds of others wounded or imprisoned. Only with the advent of glasnost in the 1980s did the tight lid of secrecy placed on the entire episode by the Soviets begin slowly to lift. Num Pages: 264 pages, 32 illustrations, 3 maps, 2 tables. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 3JJPK; HBJD; HBLW3; KNXB2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 21. Weight in Grams: 485.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804740937
- ISBN
- 9780804740937
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 146.74
€ 146.74
Hardback. This is the classic account of one of the most dramatic episodes in Mexican history-the revolt of the Maya Indians of Yucatan against their white and mestizo oppressors that began in 1847. Num Pages: 448 pages, Illustrations, maps, ports. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; 3JH; HBG; HBJK; HBLL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 153 x 31. Weight in Grams: 750.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Edition
- Rev ed
- Number of pages
- 448
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804740005
- ISBN
- 9780804740005
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 159.46
€ 159.46
Hardback. Astronomy was a popular part of Victorian science, and British atronomers travelled to remote areas to watch the sun eclipsed by the moon. This book shows how the organization of science, advances in photography, and new printing technology remade the character of scientific observation. Series: Writing Science. Num Pages: 224 pages, 20 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JH; HBJD1; HBLL; PDX; PGG; PGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804739252
- ISBN
- 9780804739252
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 135.81
€ 135.81
Hardback. This work situates the patrimonial rights of illegitimate offspring in Brazil within a system of Luso-Brazilian heirship that operated in the final half century of Portugese colonial rule. The book offers an explanation of how the rules of inheritance applied to people born outside of wedlock. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; 3JF; 3JH; HBTB; JHBK; LNSP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 22. Weight in Grams: 490.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804738811
- ISBN
- 9780804738811
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 81.88
€ 81.88
Hardback. This book studies the transition from local to national timekeeping, inthe USA, aprocess that led to Standard Time the world-wide system of timekeeping by which everyone lives. Num Pages: 328 pages, 26 half-tones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; PGZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 255 x 186 x 28. Weight in Grams: 834.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804738743
- ISBN
- 9780804738743
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 86.88
€ 86.88
Hardback. At the outset of the Reformation, England was an agrarian society; by the Civil war it was on the way to becoming an urban one as well. The complexity of those developments become especially vivid when we experience them through the lives of ordinary townspeople, which Tittler allows us to do. Num Pages: 272 pages, 2 line diagrams 1 half-tone 4 tables. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JB; 3JD; HBJD1; HBLH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 20. Weight in Grams: 422.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804738682
- ISBN
- 9780804738682
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 179.05
€ 179.05
Hardback. On Demand shows that consumers in early modern England were a powerful force in transforming the economy of the time and that their "demand" was a powerful, though contradictory, force in shaping its literature. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JB; DSBD; HBJD1; HBLH; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 238 x 161 x 20. Weight in Grams: 432.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804738569
- ISBN
- 9780804738569
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 86.88
€ 86.88
hardcover. This volume offers an illuminating overview of the work of a pioneering and highly distinguished scholar of Latin American social and cultural history and philology. The "old and new" of the subtitle is meant literally; the first piece was written in 1968, the last in 1998. Four of the twelve essays are published here for the first time. Num Pages: 416 pages, 2 line diagrams 1 table 1 map. BIC Classification: 1KLS; 3J; HBJK; HBLC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 30. Weight in Grams: 695.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 416
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804738095
- ISBN
- 9780804738095
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 170.05
€ 170.05
hardcover. The book offers a vast panorama of Communism from the perspective of its collapse, and inspects the world beyond the fall in the distorting mirror of its imagined prehistory-providing in the process a perceptive analysis of a number of the fundamental issues of history writing. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present. Num Pages: 360 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: HBA; JPFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 18. Weight in Grams: 581.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 360
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804736428
- ISBN
- 9780804736428
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 147.33
€ 147.33
hardcover. This book explores everyday life of the Greek gods, including what their bodies were made of and how they were nourished, the organization of their society, and the sort of life they led in Olympus and the human world. It also shows how citizens carried on everyday relations with the gods. Translator(s): Lloyd, Janet. Series: Mestizo Spaces/Espaces Metisses. Num Pages: 312 pages, 1 half-tone 1 map. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; HBG; HBLA; HRKP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 25. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804736138
- ISBN
- 9780804736138
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 146.97
€ 146.97
Hardback. This study of politics in early modern England uses the relations between provincial towns, the landed elite, and the crown to argue that the growth of connections, as much as of conflict, explains the development of early modern government. Num Pages: 352 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JB; 3JD; HBJD1; HBLC; HBLH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 27. Weight in Grams: 655.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804735872
- ISBN
- 9780804735872
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 99.14
€ 99.14
Hardback. The Technical Imagination explores how technology entered the popular imagination in the Argentina of the 1920s and 1930s and how its products helped to shape modern thinking at all levels of Argentine society. Translator(s): Callahan, Xavier. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 1KLSA; 3JJG; HBJK; HBLW; JFC; TBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 218 x 150 x 23. Weight in Grams: 381.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804735421
- ISBN
- 9780804735421
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 81.21
€ 81.21
Hardback. By examining the unusual course of religious change in Tudor Norwich, this work revises the study of both the Reformation and the history of religious toleration in England. Num Pages: 360 pages, maps. BIC Classification: 1DBKEAN; HBJD1; HBLH; HRC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 31. Weight in Grams: 588.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 360
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804735131
- ISBN
- 9780804735131
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 104.04
€ 104.04
The Story of Guadalupe. Luis Laso de la Vega's "Huei Tlamahuicoltica" ...
Sousa, Lisa; Poole, Stafford; Lockhart, James...
Hardback. The devotion to Our Lady of Guadalupe has been an important element in the development of a specifically Mexican tradition of religion and nationality over the centuries. This volume presents an English translation of the original Nahuatl on which the legend is based. Num Pages: 160 pages, bibliography, tables. BIC Classification: 1KLC; 1KLS; 2ADS; HBJK; HBLH; HRC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 15. Weight in Grams: 415.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 160
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804734820
- ISBN
- 9780804734820
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 119.26
€ 119.26
hardcover. By exploring in detail land reform movements in Britain and the United States, this book transcends traditional labor history and conceptions of class to deepen our understanding of the social, political, and economic history of both countries in the 19th century. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1KBB; 3JH; HBTB; KCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 31. Weight in Grams: 715.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804734516
- ISBN
- 9780804734516
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 99.40
€ 99.40
hardcover. Unprecedented in the historiography of post-independence Mexico for its combination of rich archival detail and chronological scope, this book focuses on the wealthy men and women of the state of Michoacan from the last decades of colonial rule to the 1930 Revolution. Num Pages: 496 pages, Illustrationsmaps,ports. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; HBJK; HBLL; JFSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 33. Weight in Grams: 810.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 496
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804734288
- ISBN
- 9780804734288
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 105.47
€ 105.47
Hardback. Drawing on intellectual and social history as well as the work of Michel Foucault, the author investigates the intersection of scientific, political, and professional interests that informed perceptions and understandings of contagion in 19th-century France. Num Pages: 252 pages. BIC Classification: 3JH; HBTB; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 21. Weight in Grams: 465.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 252
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804733953
- ISBN
- 9780804733953
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 87.16
€ 87.16
Hardback. Building on ethnographic research in a rural village in Sichuan, this book examines changing relationships between social organization, politics, and economy during the 20th century. Num Pages: 256 pages, 12 half-tones 3 tables 6 figures 5 maps. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JJG; 3JJH; 3JJP; HBJF; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 22. Weight in Grams: 510.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804733779
- ISBN
- 9780804733779
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 136.07
€ 136.07
Hardback. This is the first detailed study in English of the city of Canton (Guangzhou), the cradle of the Chinese revolution, in the first quarter of the twentieth century. Num Pages: 288 pages, 14 half-tones 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JJ; GTB; HBJF; JFC; JPFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 237 x 165 x 24. Weight in Grams: 535.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804733618
- ISBN
- 9780804733618
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 157.86
€ 157.86